001You know what? >> Just let you know that I wear glasses, baby. Okay. And there's times you want to go shopping. >> Right. >> Yeah. That's all. Check. Check. Check. One, two. No feedback. >> Check one, two. One, two. Check. One, two. >> Is broadcast open or closed? >> Check one, two. Everything's open. Are we getting feedback? Check one, two. >> Test. Test. Are speakers muted or unmuted? >> Check. Check. >> Test one, two. Check. Check. >> Turn down your monitor. >> Check. Check. Test one, two. Turn up the speakers in here. >> What's our What's our value on the speakers? >> The number. >> Check. Check. >> What's the What's the meter at? Is it like a six, a five? >> It should be around six. >> Check. One, two. Check. Check. Test test.
002Check. Check. Check. Mic one. Check. Mic one. >> Check. Check. One, two. Check one, two. Check. Mic four. Check mic four. >> Check mic five. Check mic five. >> Check mic six. >> Wyatt, no feedback. >> Just a few extra minutes. That would be >> Oh, yeah. She started session. [laughter] You guys know that a lot of them come in here. >> I think you guys get the same courtesy. back. It's lively actually. Nobody got uh Okay. Check. One, two. Mic 14. Check. Check. Check mic 12. Check mic 11. Check mic 10. Check mic nine. >> Wyatt, balance out. balance out the mics. Maybe around minus 6. >> This is mic 9. >> It's already at six. >> Check my gate. Mic six. Mic five. >> Check mic four. >> Check m check mic three.
003Check mic three. Check. Check. >> Check mic two. Mic one. today next year. Wait, what do you mean? >> They're not. >> It's just public about nonaggenda. So on an agenda and you want to talk about can't talk about agenda. So what am I talking about? Good evening everybody. I'd like to welcome you to our board meeting this evening. Um we've got uh Jeremy, is there anything we need to report out of from close session? No, nothing to report. All right. Nothing to report. Thank you. Um let's see. Roll call. Jen. Oh, here before we get started, um on the way up uh trustee uh Malin Ali, she had a a um >> personal thing that came up out of the blue and uh she might be not here, but she might try to make
004it as if she could take care of the issue. So, anyhow, just want to let us everybody know that uh sorry I can't make it, but uh she might be here a little bit late. So, anyhow, that was it. Roll call. Rich Carnation >> here. >> Paul Gagorno >> here. >> Stephanie Amard >> here. Bill Adams >> here. >> Rebecca Herman >> here. >> Natalie Valdez >> here. >> And as Rich said, um, Trustee Lopez is absent. >> Thank you. Um, and I guess I skipped ahead, Jeremy. Yeah, there's nothing to report out of close session. Uh, we're going to have the flag loop by Paul. To the flag of the United States to the one nation under God, indivisible and justice. >> All right. Uh, thank you. Uh, 3.4 adjustments to the agenda. Jen,
005are we going to >> add those unit those? Yes, we have twous. You've got them in front of you. Um the first, let me see where is it. The first one is consideration of approval of an addendum to a memorandum of understanding between WUSD and readon Soma. And the second one is consideration of approval of memorandum of understanding between WUSD and Windsor High School and Northern California Center for Well-being. And unfortunately, the reason we're asking for these to be added tonight is because they had been added to the agenda before it was published and then, as you know, we're having issues with the platform. They just disappeared and it didn't get caught. So, >> I'm going to ask you if you can vote to add it. >> Okay. So, do these need to be separate
006uh >> Yes. >> item numbers? Yes. >> Okay. and they'll go to the bottom of con um action discussion action. >> Yeah. So um I would like to make a motion that we include the memorandum of understanding for read on Sonoma and make that 5.12 and then make the memorandum of understanding with the Northern California center of well-being 5.13 and then take 5.12 the update on Windsor Creek and move that to 5.14. Okay, >> I'll second that motion. >> All right. Um, all any any discussion? All righty. Uh, all those in favor? >> I >> Okay, those are all those are all added. Thank you, Jen. >> Okay. Um, any other adjustments? Anybody? >> All righty. Um, celebrating success 3.5 principal Shannon Viamer introducing this item. It's a spelling B board presentation. Good evening. I
007would like to introduce you to our 2526 spelling bee winner, Dallas. And Dallas is going to talk you through the process of the spelling be Brooks. The rules of the spelling BR. The announcer will say the word, then use that word in a sentence. Spellers can use the provided scratch paper to write down the word before spelling the word out loud. The speller can ask for the word to be repeated one time in one time only. Once a speller begins spelling word, they can't go back and change the spelling of a word. Example, bell, ba, I mean be e. However, the speller can repeat the same letters like P A B A B A L L. If word starts with a capital letter, then the speller has to say capital. For example, Vireer capital V
008E H M E Y E R. >> Correct. >> If the judges deem the speller's answer to be incorrect, you are disqualified and may join the audience. >> The biggest rule of this time, >> please have fun. >> Yay. The rules continue until we are down to two spellers and then the rules change. To be champion, spellers must spell two consecutive words correctly. For example, let's say Mrs. V misspells khaki, like c a c k y. >> Then it would be my turn. If I say k h a k i, then I have to spell another word. Can you spell my winning word? Equestrian. I'll spell his winning word. Equestrian >> something. [laughter] Go ahead. >> Qualify. >> E Q U E S T R I A N. >> Y. >> Here are the Here
009are the judges. The bottom one is Mr. K's mom. The middle one is Mrs. V's mom. And the top one is Miss Browning's mom. >> It's always like that the judges are parents of teachers at the school. >> Our spelling be lasted five rounds. And here is a student writing down his word on a piece of paper before he says it out loud. So each of these students who are in the spelling bee and they're each representing their own class and the runners up. Wait, wait. Go back to that picture. >> All those kids were in the spelling bee. >> Yeah. >> Wait. Or >> Well, half of them weren't. They were like if the main person had to go. Also, >> there was a winner from each class and a runner up. >> Close
010enough. >> Yeah. >> We had our regional competition on February 17th. It was online on the school computers. We >> don't know the results of that yet. >> Yeah. Here are some more examples of students writing down their word before they say it out loud. In the second one, that's our runner-up, Kaden. And I am like, please do not spell the word correctly. [laughter] >> Please don't spell it right. [laughter] >> After the final round, here is me, the runnerup, Kaden, and Mrs. tail, the pronouncer of the word. Here is each of our parents in the audience. And here's the plaque inside of the office, which with each of the winners and the runner-ups in the year that it was in. Also, I know that the word plaque is French because it ends in quue.
011>> Very cool. >> Uh, do you guys have any questions? >> Go ahead, Bill. What was the best part about it, Dallas? >> Probably when I was about to say the last letter. [laughter] >> Touche. Well done. A relief. So, I I got a question, but go ahead. So, [snorts] Dallas, besides being known as the spelling be champion, what else do you get? What do you get? You ever heard the old whiffam principle? What's in it for me? So what's in it for you to work hard, study hard, take the guts to actually go out there and be in front of everybody to spell because I I wouldn't do it, right? Not now or not ever. So what what was it that motivated you to show your excellence? Uh, probably to just keep progressing onto
012new spelling bees and also meeting some new people in the spelling bee. >> That's That's pretty cool. I I think that there should be more. So, I'm thinking that you and your family have won being the champion. You've won dinner at one of our restaurants here in the town of Windsor. And I think our runner up and their family also should get a nice dinner with their family at one of our restaurants here in town. I think this is cool stuff. And I've always thought that students who take the STAR test, take all the different tests that there are, when they kick it out of the ballpark, there should be something in them. Now, me being a little old guy, I always like food rewards. But if there's other rewards out there that you guys
013would like, I'm I'm I like to start this off with a a dinner for you and your family and a dinner for the runner up in their family, you guys pick the restaurant. And I think the board we're we're going to make that happen. So you go talk to your family and say, "Hey, where do we want to eat here in Windsor?" The school board's going to take care of us. And I think Chan, if you can let the runner up know that, he can let their family know as well that uh we need to do this. I think this would be a great um >> incentive >> thing to do annually so that way we get everybody >> rich for since 1995. The spelling be just so you know >> has been since 1995.
014>> We should have been >> that's one of two plaques. The other one's already filled. >> We we should be starting a tradition of eats. [laughter] It stimulates the economy downtown and you and your family get to go out and you get to take your family out to dinner. I think that's pretty cool. What do you think? >> I think that that's really cool and I like eating. >> You do? [laughter] Then then we're going to get along great. So anyhow, um we'll figure that out later. You I'll talk to Miss V and we'll get that all squared away later. And and so anyhow, I think that there needs to be some more uh reward [clears throat] because I look I I know you do it just for the sheer just because you can and
015and I'm in awe of of people that can spell fantastic. So, um anyhow, congratulations. I I think this is just awesome. So, anyhow, >> thank you. >> I want to also offer my congratulations and it brought to mind um my wife and I went to see Mary Poppins and in Mary Poppins the play they have to spell supercalifragilistic xpalidocious. I can't even hardly say it and they and they have to spell it so it just brought to my Luckily you didn't get that word. I don't think it's a real word but anyway um congratulations and and that's a really good play by the way to see Mary Poppins u it's the Sixth Street Playhouse is doing it right now. It's a good good play to see. Congratulations. >> Congratulations from me too. >> Thank you.
016Supercalifragilistic >> supercalifragilistic xpelidocious is 34 letters by the way. >> Wait, do you know how to spell it? >> Okay. How do you know how do you know this? I'm >> just learned it in my free time. [laughter] >> You're you're you're amazing. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Thank you, Shannon. >> That was a good one. All righty. Um moving on to 3.6 Six, public comment for non-aggenda items. If there's anybody who would like to get up and speak about a non-aggendaized item, um, this is your time. Oh, look at Dallas. Your parents were here. They saw Oh, they're already picking out the restaurant. [laughter] Fun fact, I was actually in that show and I do know how to spell that word, but I'm not going to overshadow him. Anyway, so I'm Malachi
017Johnson and this is Brianna House and we are here from Noeva >> and we are doing William Shakespeare's The Tempest. And there's a little bit of taboo when it comes to high school theater and Shakespeare, but we have an amazing director who has really put a lot of time and effort into the show. I know Rebecca's in it and she's playing one of the best characters in the whole show. And um it's it's not a comedy. It's not like something fun that we do. Um like it wasn't like The Princess Bride or the Phantom Toll booth. Um but I just it's going to be a great show. We've all worked really really hard and we would love if all of you would come see it. Um Bri has some posters for you if you would
018like one. Um one of our fellow Noea students, Abigail Stevens, um she designed the poster and Richards did the typography I think and it was and it's just an amazing poster. We're really proud of what we have to put on. I'm also up here because of the psychology 2 class not being offered next year. Um I sent an email to um Jeremy Decker and um Jenny Cox and also the principal Danielle Buckman. Um, I am in that class currently and um, I know that it's not always a it's not an asacle of a class as other classes, but I really think that this psychology 2 is a class where you learn a lot about yourself. And I think that's one of the most important things that's not always in the curriculum at school. You don't
019always learn a lot about who you are as a person. You learn about the world, you learn math, you learn English, you learn all of those things. And I think that um you know it's a little too um psychology 2 having that class as an option for students is a really great way to open their minds to different things. um you know whether it be um the mental um the way the state of the mental um institutions and those like and mental health awareness um especially in schools is really important and we talk a lot about that and how important it is to understand that what happened to you is more important than what's wrong with you. So thank you. That's all. >> Thank you very much. >> Okay. Oh, >> here we go. [laughter]
020>> Hey guys, it's nice to see all the familiar faces here tonight. I'm also here to talk about psych 2 and I have a little bit something written up. >> But but you can't. >> Oh, I can't. >> No. So, the way it works just so that way this there's a good time to review. So, it's public comment for non-aggendaized items. So since that is a >> it's not on the agenda. It's not on the agenda. >> 5.1 >> not >> Oh, I'm sorry. I'm >> It's a class, not a book. >> I misunderstand. [laughter] I >> No, no, no, no, no. I just was my ears deceived me. Anyhow, >> well, go ahead. [laughter] >> Go ahead. Yeah, got me. Very good. But can you tell everybody else? We know who you are, but
021can you tell everybody who you are? Um, my name is Kylie Hernandez. So, I took psychology 2 my junior year. And it's one of my favorite classes still to this day. And I'm a senior now, so I'm leaving Windsor High. But it's really unfortunate that this class is not going to be offered next year just because I think it's amazing. So, I'll just read the little thing that I have written up. So, throughout my academic career, I have taken many AP classes ranging from science, math, language, history, and even art. All of these classes have taught me something cardinal, inspiring me to become the student, worker, and person I am today. Among these classes, I took AP psychology, where I was not only introduced to one of the most interesting subjects in advanced placement class
022offered, but also presented me with a profound, engaging, and dedicated teacher, Mrs. Kenzie Hulcom Sherman. Her commitment to her curriculum and zeal to both the content and students inspired me to take psychology, too. I'm currently a senior at Windsor High going into political science to pursue a career as a lawyer. Psychology is a necess isn't a necessary tool in my field of study, but it's not a prerequisite, meaning that my interest in this class wasn't a demonstration of academic curiosity, but commentary on Mrs. Sherman's impact as a teacher. Psychology 2 isn't just an opportunity to pursue a more in-depth course of study concerning psychology, but contains a community of close-knit individuals that encourages diversity, inspires identity, and allows students a safe place to discuss the difficult and arduous topics other classes may discourage, fail to
023welcome, or simply don't incorporate. During my time working on the school board, we utilized a tool known as the youth truth survey, and I take that as a student. And one of these questions intreated the student to reveal if there is an adult that supports you on campus. If you can truly confide in the authority figures at our school. Mrs. Sherman is that adult for hundreds of students on campus, speaking volumes of our impact on Windsor High's campus. I have utilized the content from Mrs. Sherman's classes in essays and debates. I have weaponized the information in so many different areas of my life. This class isn't just something you take out of mere obligation. It teaches you about the individual. There is currently an educational crisis where students are at an all-time low, feeling discouraged
024and disconnected from their school work. Do you want student engagement? Then don't remove a class that so many students enthusiastically pursue. To remove this class would be a devastating disservice to the community Mrs. Sherman has dedicated her career to build alongside a significant harm from the many students that could benefit from this class. To remove this class is displacing a community that so many students have viewed as a safe haven. I beg you to consider this decision as it not only harms the academic engagement of so many but perpetuates this idea that psychology is something that can be dismissed deemed as unimportant. For years it was not credited for being the revered area of study that it is today. And to that I ask our board superintendent and everyone here to progress with the ideology
025that psychology is a necessity or at the very least be an option where when where future students pick their classes. Thank you so much. Is there Thank you. Is there anybody else? >> All righty, we're going to Oh, go ahead. Hello, board. I am Jefferson Nicks, a sophomore at Windsor High School. I am here to talk about psychology 2 as well. I have not taken the course psychology too, but right now I'm in AP psychology with Miss Sherman and I joined AP psychology just because it was a health credit and it gave me a GPA boost. I had no interest in learning psychology at all. But as the units progressed and as I learned more and more of psychology, I realized how important it is. It's one of the classes that I can apply to
026every single aspect of my life. And I was devastated to look at the course selection sheet and see that psychology 2 was not on it because I am using what I learn in AP psych so much that I will use what I learn in psych 2 so much. And it's it was just very heartbreaking for me as a student to not be able to take this class. So thank you. >> Thank you. Hi, my name is Shiden Whiting. I'm a senior at Windsor High School as well. And I was also very upset to hear the news that psychology 2 isn't going to be offered as a class next year. Last year, I as a junior, I took APsych and I was very, it was very interesting. I got to learn about all the vocab and
027the interesting parts of the brain from psychology. And so this year, I thought, let me take psych too. I wasn't really sure what I was getting into when I took it, but once I did, I am so grateful that I did because it showed me so much that I ever thought I could learn about. I genuinely believe that psych 2 is this class I've is the most educating class that I've ever been in. I've like learned normal subjects like math and history, but in psych 2, I learn about myself. And I've never like thought about it in this way before, but I just psychology is such an important subject and it's what I personally want to go into in my future because it's just life. You learn about life and how to treat people and
028why people do the things they do. And I just think it's so important and would be really upsetting to a lot of students if this class wasn't offered in the future. Good evening. Um, my name is Lisa Ward. I am the parent of a junior at Windsor High School. And I want to add on to the theme coming up about the psych 2 class, which is that my daughter changed her um dreams about what she wants to do when she grows up and she now wants to be a pediatric psychiatrist. and it's because of what she learned in the class and how inspired she was by the information. So, I think it's an example of how classes like this really help us create the community and the um how our children learn about what they
029can do when they grow up. And so, I think she's going to be a great pediatric psychiatrist and it was this class that helped her decide that. >> Thank you. Is there anybody else that would like to talk? Thank you all very much. >> Mention. >> Yeah. So, thanks. The um just so you know, when it's a non-aggendaized item that you bring up that we can't um address that topic uh directly. Um and so those are just the rules that somebody else wrote a long time ago before we ever got on the board. Anyhow, that's just the way it is. But we heard you and uh we're going to take into consideration what you've offered and we'll see where that goes. All right. But thank you for coming. Honestly, it's great to have you guys
030talk. It just no filters. I love people with no filters and it's just refreshing. So anyhow, but thank you all. All righty. Excuse me. Moving. Moving on to superintendent report. The site moving on to superintendent report. Site scorecard presentation. >> What did I say? >> Members. >> Student board members first. >> Wow. I was so mesmerized I skipped it. 3.7. Well, Natalie, see that's what happens when you don't give me that cookie. [laughter] >> She had a big old thing of cookies up here and she didn't share. >> Hey, you never know. I still have it. So, >> okay. Well, then 3.7 then. So, report from student board members Rebecca and Natalie. >> Okay. Hello you guys. Happy February. Okay. We can move on. First is Brooks Elementary. You can see right there their spirit
031week flyer. They just had a little Valentine's spirit week. I'll read off the days too cuz I know it's a little tiny. Um on Tuesday was crazy hair day. Wednesday was colors of love day. Thursday was stuffy snuggle day. Oh, that sounds fun. and Friday was pajama day. And currently their fifth graders are at science camp until the 20th. March 2nd through the 6th will be read across America week. And then March 11th through the 13th will be parent teacher conferences. Next up, we have Maddie Washburn. They had the first day of the Margie Mahia preschool on January 12th. There's a few photos from that. Uh, and also the TK class visited fire station 1 and that's the lower left photo. Upcoming they have the preschool opening event which is on March 9th at 400
032p.m. Um, and yeah, [snorts] also the entire preschool classroom, I think almost every classroom at Maddie, it has a different animal theme. And so the preschool classroom is fox themed. Um, and they're really well set up. I took um, child development and so we learned about like how to set up a preschool. And so I'm seeing that here like the different learning centers and it just seems like a really great place. So we're excited to have that. >> Yes, I know. Furniture's My sister is one of the teachers assistants at the at the Maddie preschool and so our house is accumulating furniture every day as she finds things on Facebook Marketplace for her classroom. So it's exciting though. Okay. Um, so this these photos up on the right are from the Posola night at Cali.
033And then um moving forward, they'll have coffee with the admin in the MPR on the 20th from 8:45 to 9:45 a.m. Their middle school dance will take place on also on February 20th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Readon Sonoma assemblies will take place on March 1st and they will have a bingo night on March 5th from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. Next up, we have Windsor Middle School. They've had their open house showcase and Miss Katie Corsy was awarded um the Sonoma County Teacher of the Month, which came with a $500 classroom gift card and a six-month YMCA membership. And she's also going to be featured in radio advertisements. I wanted to mention that when we visited the uh middle school for uh back to school night, we asked the students who were there like which
034teachers classrooms and like which teachers should we see like which are your favorite teachers? And the first classroom we were directed to was her classroom. So, even as someone who has visited Windsor Middle School less than the students definitely have, like I have come into contact with her and she seems just amazing. Um, they had their band performance on January 28th and they also had Valentine's Day flower grams uh in that week of February. >> Okay, moving on. Windsor High School, February is always like such a crazy month. So much going on. So, I'll briefly recap some of the awesome things we've been able to put on this past month. First thing, starting off that top left photo in the corner, we just had 8th grade orientation. So, our first day was with Windsor Middle
035School, hundreds of students and middle schoolers and a dozen handful of high schoolers leading them, which is pretty fantastic. And then on um the second day, we hosted Cali as well as interd district transfer students who are curious about Windsor High School. So that was really awesome. They got to um get an awesome little presentation and go into some of the classes. Really unique thing that we put on. We also had our leadership some of our leadership elections. So, we have a new ASB president and vice president as well as Jackie spirit adviser for the following year. Um, the people versus mother goose. Do you want to >> There's photos on the next slide. I'll talk about it. >> And then, um, okay. Coming up, the winter sports rally on February 20th, which is tomorrow.
036Um, and then senior activities February 26th at lunch. So, this will take place every month on the 26th until graduation. we'll do something really fun to celebrate all the seniors. Um, project grad tickets will be are officially on sale. Um, intramurals will continue now until March 16th. And so the next round will be basketball. So that's a really fun way for students that don't necessarily um are that aren't necessarily able to play a school sport to be able to have some fun during lunch. Um, and we just finished up pickle ball and um, obviously you guys heard the Nova production. The Tempest will take place on March 5th, 6th, and 7th for at 7:00 p.m. Um, we'll have a club carnival on March 13th. And then we will have our next Senate forum on March
03711th. And I also formally invite all of you guys to join us. Um, we do these every month for the student bodies, core senators, nth grade seminar students, representatives. we include oaks and this specific month um Maddie Troll who is our ASB vice president and also one of the co-presidents of committee for change has invited um two people from the district I'm forgetting their names but they'll come and discuss >> Khloe and Sarah who will come and discuss recycling and the importance of um teaching students about the environment. So that'll [clears throat] be really awesome. And then >> next slide I wanted to mention up in the upper leftand corner we can see Mr. Bill Adams right there with Mrs. Shiden Whiting who's right there. It's like a reunion. [laughter] >> Um so uh so
038that was really fun and exciting. That was something that was completely studentled. Um and I'm really proud of that. Uh in next to that we have the Valentine's Day singing grams and then we have the band show. Uh and then we have some election photos. Uh starting on the bottom left, we have something from the showcase 26, which is um a teacher and a student talking about their program to parents who are interested. Uh what's in the middle? That is also eighth grade orientation. And then the one on the end is eighth grade orientation. And I totally forgot to shout out showcase. Um super awesome. It was so fun. I also got to speak with Maddie and then we saw Mr. Adams there. But that was the first year of us doing it. We got
039inspo from Miss Wley got info from the middle school and there was such a big turnout. It was so awesome. Um and I got to stand at the leadership booth but just seeing so many people especially people from out of the district learning more about the high school and seeing all of these awesome programs. I know myself um being in the Arte media academy we brought out all of our big cameras too so it was like big and flashy and STEM had their 3D printer out. I was like, "Oh my gosh, this is awesome." So, yes. So, next up, Big Picture Learning. They recently went to a circuit sole show at the Oracle Park and they have their warm springs hatchery project going on. So, Shannon Johnson got salmon eggs for her classroom and they're
040going to release the hatchlings into the Mark West or Mark West Creek. Moving on, Windsor Oaks in the bottom right corner. They just recently had their fiesta Friday. And then also some photos from their Soma Clean Power field trip that took place. Upcoming, they have another bowling trip on the on February 24th and a health workshop on March 12th. Finally, we have Bridges. They had a basketball special Olympics at Santa Rosa High School. The Best Buddies Clubs has meeting every single Wednesday, and they're preparing for the track Special Olympics, which are going to be in the spring and at Windsor High School. >> Do you know what day that is? Uh, no, not yet. I don't think there is a date yet. >> Yes. Yes. And then last but not least, our spotlight of the
041month. Something really fun we both got to participate in yesterday was um the leadership Windsor's youth education day that's hosted by the Chamber of Commerce. um leadership director Amy Whitley and I got to coordinate and facilitate a really awesome diverse student panel um that not only showcased leadership the program but also that leadership can be found in every part of our campus. So I did a I worked really hard to try and find students from each core that represent a different club that represent um a different aspect of what Windsor has to offer. There was some awesome conversations and some awesome questions and um good networking too for the students as well to get to meet these awesome business leaders and community members. And then on the right corner there's all of our panelists. I
042could read them off, but I have a not a very good um Spanish accent. But [laughter] we have Maline Troll, Diego Loyola Vlegas, um Zit Lali Lopez Velasco, Alex Sandival, Yasmin Gutierrez, Garcia, Aron Ria, Soraniano, Rebecca Herman, Raul Vil Figereroa, and Tegan McCoy. So that was awesome and a really awesome time. a busy month. >> Yes, busy month. >> You guys were uh doing it. >> All right. Thank you very much. Um now to our superintendent's report on the site scorecards, >> which is really not a superintendent report so much as it's a principal report uh today. So Brian, take us away. Good evening board and I'll take this opportunity to invite all of our principles sitting way in the back to come on up front. So I get the privilege and honor of talking
043about Maddie Washburn and this is also my opportunity to kind of talk a little bit about what we're measuring uh from kind of a district perspective. And so, um, what I have for you is a chart that you can see that center line where it says growth expectation. And then there's kind of a band where it says typical growth between 35 and 65. And anything kind of within that band is what we would expect to see from when they took the uh the baseline test in the fall to the secondary test in the winter. Every single one of those bubbles represents a class at Mattie Washburn. And so, um, what you can see is what we're monitoring is is that you have a number of classes, um, that are, you know, showing that typical growth.
044There's, uh, quite a few classes that we're going to continue to work with. But what we're very excited to see, uh, this year was the a number of classes that are now showing more than typical growth. the line that goes well imagine that there's a line through the middle and that's the achievement level. And so what you would hope to see is if we were doing everything perfect and better than than average, we would be going uh up and to the right because that would be showing more than typical growth and having higher levels of achievement. And so, um, what we want to start seeing is is that even though as we're continuing to make that, um, growth levels that we're also kind of moving towards the direction of achievement. And so that's what you're
045seeing with your reading. Now, keep in mind, uh, that the way that we that we do the difference between star lit, early literacy, and reading is that they have to hit a particular score uh, before we switch them over to the star reading assessment. And so your the students who are taking the reading assessment um have already uh demonstrated proficiency in early literacy. Um and you can see that the classes that are taking the the reading tests mostly in second grade um are showing that typical growth and we're also seeing very high levels of achievement. And so that's encouraging. Um it's not uh this is looking quite a bit different than it looks um last year. And so it shows that all the hard work that the teachers are putting in is starting to pay
046off. And I know we're ready for this rich math. Um so uh you'll see in the bottom leftand corner those two of our special day classes. Um you know that's we we would want to continue to work on improving that. We don't want to see that we're not making any growth. Um I would be happy to see high levels of growth in SEC and then we can focus on improving that achievement. But we are very happy to see the um large number of dots in the middle there. Kindergarten does not take the math assessment. So that's just first and second grade. Um so we're happy to see that not only are we showing the majority of the classes making that typical growth, we're starting to see some classes are moving into um that higher level
047or appropriate levels of achievement. So that's kind of just the quick down and dirty explanation of how we kind of monitor growth and achievement across the classes. This is something that works uh in elementary secondary because they have so many different sections. Each one of those is considered a class. Um they're going to be looking at the data a bit differently. So where's she at? [laughter] >> Thank you. >> Brian. Brian. Brian. >> N. Maybe next year when we have this you'd mentioned it was different than how it looked last year. Maybe if we could get the years and just toggle through them real quick. >> Sure. >> So that it almost looks like it's animated just to show where the bubbles are going. That that kind of chart seems to be very >> either
048overlay it or just toggle between slides and we can see where they go because that would be very illustrative. I mean I'm I'm I'm I'm glad to hear that it's going but I think it's also helpful us to be able to see those trends. >> All right. Definitely. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> [laughter] >> Good evening. Buenardes. So this time for Cali we are going through Spanish, English and uh math and we put together the data for you by grade level as we talked during our last uh meeting uh to have ready for you. So overall you are observing there all the data all across for Spanish. I use some symbols for you to see the growth all across in literacy. Uh we are observing uh the strength of our dual language program uh
049all across in Spanish. Um huge gains in second grade even with the change from early literacy to start reading. uh from a 46% to a 65%. That's a big jump um from our kiddos. Looking at the latest winter data vertically, uh it completely mirrors uh the data in CASP that we dissected um some weeks ago with you all. H growth over time but with inconsistent dips in between those grace third to fifth This is ELA all across third grade to 8th. Um sixth grade uh CASP show a dip in student progress but in Renistar fall to winter shows growth from 34 to 39. Third grade shift in model from 70 to 30 to 50/50 model English and Spanish shows positive impact on a student achievement in both languages from 40% to 48%. That's a big
050jump too. >> Lydia explain what that means please. 7030 to 50/50. It's the model on um the dual language model as you know it progresses the Spanish um diminishes as the English keeps growing. So up to all these past years we had 7030 in the third grade level. This past year, because of the results and data we had, we decided to move to a 50/50 model where both languages are being taught the same amount of minutes and uh we are actually observing it shows really big impacts on our data already. Um focus on SIPS training for third grade teachers. Um the sips training it's a phological awaren fun phological awareness phonics and site words systematic instruction in the class. We started doing that at third grade and also together with the change uh to 50/50
051and that is showing also results already as we are seeing and uh in eighth grade uh the growth mirrors completely what CASP was telling us to some weeks ago and [snorts] continue the growth as we see in um ELA and SLA in Renaar and CASP as well. And in math we have some great levels as you see that math is being taught in Spanish and some others where it jumps to English. So what we do see overall that math as you see the arrows is the area where we have to be focusing our efforts uh more and we are already seeing as you see in first grade and second grade those are the two grades where my uh leaders are part of the group of P3C math uh team at the district level and they
052are already bringing some of those new practices that we are seeing at the new math framework and um we are seeing that those two um grade levels are highest in those uh data points as well. and um sixth grade team uh presents the highest I would say if you look at the whole um chart the highest data in uh the math across the school. So we have to also we are working with the teacher on different instructional practices that he is bringing into his class. uh eighth grade scores continue improving ma mirroring CASP and preparing students for high school math as well as you see 46% moving up to 51%. And it's it is noticeable too at the middle school the changes that we made with the intervention in the math class with math shadow
053uh that's showing uh the growth as well as well as introducing the math integrated uh one class into the school. Um we are going to continue as we talked about in our last session the work with PLTS is uh the the focus completely and uh we are putting all our energy into that alignment creation of formative assessments and um getting that data greater and greater. Thank you. Sorry, just truth. We don't have any uh data. >> It just came out today, so just now. >> Thank you. >> All right. Hello again. All right. I always feel like so inadequate after um all of Lydia's data because she's got all those grade spans and then I'm like, "Okay, here's my little my little thing of data." All right. So, good news. >> But you've got the
054spelling be champ though. >> But I have the spelling be champ. That is true. Um, good news is we saw both uh gains in both language arts and math um across both grade levels or all three grade levels, sorry. So um you can see our ELA scores um up to 42% and math um up to 37%. Um as Lydia just said, youth truth just came out today, so we don't have that data. However, um I did go into it really quickly today and found those three uh main questions and all three of those um increased um as well. I can't remember the um uh the exact numbers off the top of my head. Um we made uh great growth um as well with our subgroups. So, our ELLs um 0% uh were um uh mating
055um uh oh my gosh, what is the word I'm looking for? Uh benchmark accuracy um and 11% now. Um so really great gains um there. Um, again, gains in our um, Hispanic students as well um as our uh, math um, ELLL students all all u made gains. Uh, this is Brook's version of what Brian showed you. Um and you can see that all of our classes are um trending towards typical if not um uh exceeding um growth expectations in language um arts. And again, same thing um math, everybody within the typical growth. Uh like Brian pointed out, the the low one down there on the left is a special education um class, but still, you know, hanging right in there with the other um classes. And uh you can see the um the ones cruising
056on over to the um exceeding what we would expect range. >> So just because I can't help but talk. So what I see here is if we got these students at a higher rate entering Brooks and then they made typical growth or expanded then our data would look very good because they're moving them in both ELA and math. We're starting so low and that's what those blue dots down towards the bottom are showing to me. So if we could get them higher earlier coming from Maddie then we could really be making some good good growth. I I'd like to see each grade level's bubbles like >> third, fourth, fifth to see if there's there's some kind of trends there or >> and one of the things I I'm very familiar with this report. If you
057hover your mouse over it, you can see >> which teachers. So, which we don't want to show publicly, but you can use that to go to the teachers. What are you doing in your class? That's >> I did. I actually sent it out and I said, you know, check this out. This is great. Look where we are. This is awesome. Love to see it. if you want to know what bubble is yours, come see me. >> Yeah. >> Um and several did and then also several reached out and said, I want to know who that bubble is. Can you tell me? >> Yeah. There you go. >> And so, um they let me and so I was able to say, "Hey, that's your colleague down the street and yeah, go check out what they're doing."
058So, it did lead to some really good conversations. >> I think it's a great great idea. One thing Brian just reminded me to point out too is that um in the exceeded expectations is actually one of our SDC classes. She's killing it. Yeah. So kudos to her and I won't say her name but her name. >> Lauren Cornwell's doing amazing. [laughter] >> Oh, I don't know who's next. >> Yes, >> I am. Thanks. Hi guys. It's been fun seeing you. I saw you last night at the band concert. Thank you, Rich, Stephanie. I saw you guys at coffee yesterday. It's really fun when I get to show off the middle school. I mean, how good was your food and coffee yesterday? Is Isn't it amazing for a middle school? >> It was amazing. They have
059a barista training program. It's incredible. >> They really And I'm sure they had baked goods and breakfast sandwiches and everything. And then Bill the band concert. >> Cookies. >> Yes. And cookies. Back to the food. Um, so thank you for being out and about. Appreciate it. Uh, oh, I have the button. All right. So, I don't have fancy bubbles, but I did break it down um by our grades. The other cool thing about that report, Paul, that you were talking about with the bubbles, if you break that down for teachers, they can hover over the students. So, you can look at and then I never tell them who it is. Okay, guess who that is and guess who these and so that's another fun way to to look at that report. Um you guys super
060proud of the progress we're making. Um with ELA as site um we were up 5% we went from 47 to 52. Breaking it down by grade um in sixth grade they made 10% growth. Our seventh grade 4% and eighth grade um 4%. Um I think a big part of that 10% was um we took uh program read 180 um and we implement that in the sixth grade um where they really are working on the kids reading and I think that's where we saw the big growth there. Um in math look at us 7% um sixth grade um jumped sixth um seventh grade jumped ninth and then our eighth grade class um jumped 10% but sitewide we were up 7%. super excited about that. Um, so I did look at Youth Truth. I couldn't help myself.
061Um, so our kids took a baseline pulse check in their science class with two questions. I enjoy coming to school most of the time. And when I'm feeling upset, I have um adult I can go to. And with 50 questions, that big long survey they had to take 48%. So we improved from a two question to where they had to take 50 questions. 48% of the kids um said that they enjoy coming to school. So super proud of that because I looked back at the data from two years ago and that number was only 34%. So the culture right now is it's it's trending up. Um it it feels really good and that with the adults that they have um 43% in the fall and when we pull or when they took the youth truth
062it was 46% and two years ago ago only 38% of the kids felt like they had um somebody that they could go to. So um and that's just a credit to our teachers and staff on campus. Um they work so hard every day and to engage the kids and push them and it's showing up there. Our parents did show up 63% in the fall. Um when they took the youth three ser survey, 80% of the parents said they'd recommend our school um for somebody looking for a school. So um hats off to the staff at Windsor Middle School. They're they're really rocking it. >> Questions? >> I that that's great. I I I look at that 80% on the green one that I think when four-fifths of your That's the students, right? The student >>
063that's staff. >> So the teachers teachers in my school teachers feel like they work together. >> Oh, that's okay. I was going to describe that. If that was the view of the students, that may show why your Renstar scores are going up. Um, what one point I wanted to capture, I know both Miss Buckman at the high school, but you you at the middle school have had an influx in the last year or so of folks coming in at sixth and seventh grade from down south. >> And [clears throat] I don't want to segregate or necessarily highlight, but would like to follow, if we can, how are those students who went to a different district's K through5 program compared as we can go just because it's an interesting environmental Yeah. And I don't know if
064we know that yet, >> Bill. I was like, is that influencing our scores? But what I go back to, we we had we have a baseline score of all the kids that came in at those grades. >> Okay. >> So, in sixth grade 10, there was 10% growth. I mean, at the end of the day, our 52% is sitewide. So, they're learning, you know, they're growing no matter where they came from. It's hard with Renstar, unless one of these guys to pull subgroups. Okay. Um I I haven't been real successful at pulling subgroups. Um I think it's kind of a lack in the program because I'd like to pull like we do in CASP. Um but yeah, I was thinking about that. >> And I don't know if it's a distinction without a difference, but
065your your laboratory there has that interesting thing where you've had, >> you know, a 10% growth in your campus by people who have come north, right? Because they needed a place to land and they, you know, you were a school of choice for them. just as a thought that we may want to look at that to see it gives us another snapshot >> compared to a fifth grader from here than a fifth grader that came up from, you know, Ranken Valley Union or somewhere. >> Yeah. Okay, cool. Thank you. >> Actually, actually, uh, Bill, I was looking at the same thing. >> All staff connected and thriving 80%. Um, I'm not going to go through all the numbers, but that reminds me of the story of the Clydesales where one Clydesdale pulls a lot >>
066and two Clydesales pulling in the same direction pull more than both of them together and three and four pull so much more. And when we've got 80% of our teachers feeling like they're working together, that is some incredible synergy. And I don't know how many more times we're going to be able to do this because everyone knows you're retiring now. I would like to thank you because I know that you are part of that group that helps get all those Clydesales going in the same direction, pulling an incredible amount of responsibility and helping our kids. And uh so thank you. Uh having uh having that is is >> my pleasure. Yeah, definitely. I'm you know I'm just along for the ride. They're doing all the work. I just hang back and watch and >> Well,
067thank you. >> All right. Thanks. >> I don't know if it was said, but just just Oh, yeah. Good job, Angela. >> Just so we remember the um if you look at what was taken in the fall, it's not the same test in the winter, right? they have to make progress to stay on track. So if you're outpacing that, that that's significant, right? If you just stay the same percentage, that means the same number of kids are still on track. >> Hello there. So, as a reminder, we look at competencies overall and that teachers are evaluating their students regularly um using a framework from the big picture learning um international credential. And I want to start out by saying, you know, my teachers are doing an incredibly wonderful job considering all of the challenges that
068we're facing right now. considering obviously that our school is closing but everyone at our campus continues to be so dedicated to making sure the students have experiences have caring adults who are supporting them and making sure that they are learning through their interests. So when you look at our numbers we have had a little bit of a drop in some areas from our baseline. Um that can be attributed really to the fact that we have small numbers and when you have um we had a couple early graduates then who were not in there and we have a couple students who weren't doing so great. So that really does like affect the numbers [clears throat] but overall we're still looking at 89% of our grade 12 at a three or above which is prepared for college
069and 67% of grade 12 or three or above for quantitative reasoning prepared for college. Um, under the college and career indicator, we right now have 75% of our students out on internships working with mentors getting real world experience. And we also have 25% of our students dual enrolled at Santa Rosa Junior College. Um, Elliot Washer is one of the founders of Big Picture Learning Windsor and he is he is retired from that role. uh but he is still very active in progressive education in California and across the country and he has actually um hired a lobbyist to do some work with the legislature in Sacramento and I put forward a proposal to include internships under the college and career indicator because right now that is not one of the college and career indicators. So, not
070only would that be beneficial for big picture learning students across the state, but it would also benefit any other Windsor students that are participating in internships. And our um [clears throat] obviously didn't include any of the youth truth data because that came out today, but I looked at it and it in the aggregate and overall we did show improvement across all areas except belonging. And I think that can be attributed to two factors which is the fact that the school is closing. that's hard to feel like you belong and also just going to that one day a week, it it makes it a little bit hard. But um the kids that do come, they're definitely feeling included and have created a really a really great um cohort. All right, I don't have any fancy bubbles
071either. Um but let's jump in. Um, so if we're looking at um, ELA and math, as a reminder, um, we're just looking at 9th, 10th, and 11th grade. Um, especially because it's our 11th graders that take CASP. So, we really want to focus in on monitoring those 9th and 10th graders and then seeing how they perform in 11th grade. Um, comparing our RESSAR scores to the CASP scores that just came out, Renstar is is very predictive at the high school. They were almost spoton. So I think um at the secondary level for us, Renstar has been a good predictor and we'll we'll keep diving into that. Um something that came out of the the conversation that we had, I think that was two weeks ago maybe that we had that that special board meeting. Um
072Paul, I wish you could have been there. It was a good convo. Um was this idea of looking at growth, right, versus just looking at this percent. And so we spent some time diving into those, you know, those growth bubbles and really looking at those. Um, and what I found interesting was, you know, you've got your low, your typical, and your high. Um, when I was looking at math, for example, a lot of our kids were sitting in that typical growth area. And so, if you look at where our scores are, they only went up by 1%, you know, in both of those categories, which makes sense because our kids are sitting at typical to high growth, right? If if they were all super low all of a sudden or all super high, we could
073see, you know, a little bit different of a a percentage up here. So, um I'm excited to dive into those those bubble charts a little bit more. They have some interesting information. Um you know, for example, we were looking at one math teacher who he teaches all of the same level and five of his seven or five of his six classes um were high achieving and one of them was in the the typical kind of on the lower achievement side. Um which I thought was really interesting because after observing him, he's a very consistent teacher. So, it highlights um different things that we maybe need to look at at the high school, right? Like if we have all of our honors core on one day, are we tracking our students on the other day or
074is there something specific that's happening in that one class compared to the other, right? That's that's impacting, you know, those scores. So, um I think it's a it's an awesome way to look at it. I my goal is that all of our students continue to grow every test, right? And if a student's low achieving, they're not going to go all the way to high achieving in in one testing cycle. But if they can go from low achieving and progress, then then we're doing something right because we're supporting them and growing in the right direction. Um, and then jumping down, I don't have youth truth either. We were in interviews all day today, so I don't even have a sneak peek of that. Um, but if we look at how our ninth graders are are doing
075compared to to earning those D's or Fs. We're continuing to decrease that number. Um, I'm a huge shout out to freshman seminar teachers. They're doing an amazing job of supporting our ninth graders and ensuring that they have that support that they need to be successful for the, you know, the remainder of their high school career. Um, and another big one is our our college and career readiness. Right. We were at 45% last year and that jumped up to 55% and with everything that we're putting in place moving forward, I can only see that going up. So, we've got good stuff on the horizon. >> Danielle, can you remind everybody what that percentage was for 9th graders? I think it was two or three years ago that we started looking at >> Yeah, it's it's it
076was 44%. Oh, you put it in there. I'm sorry. >> No, that's okay. >> Yeah. So, lots of good stuff. Thank you. >> So, I will make them all stand up here awkwardly if any of you have any other questions or comments. [laughter] >> I think you're just >> Okay, now I'm standing up here awkwardly as they're staring at the back of my head. So, thank you all. Um, they did a fantastic job. Um and and uh we really appreciated the work we were able to do with you a couple weeks ago and kind of talk about what happened last year and so we were excited to come here tonight and show you what we're doing this year. So thank you all. >> Thank you. >> Can I add on to something Miss Buckman said?
077I had one of the students who came and did the panel yesterday. She was totally f Okay, not fanning cuz she was in it, but she was totally a testament to how great the ninth grade freshman seminar is. And she even mentioned herself how much it prepared her for sophomore year and Cornell notes and all those great things. So, yeah. >> All righty. Moving on to uh 3.9 board of trustees reports. I'm actually I was going to start this off. Uh Danielle knows, but the night before they had the big presentation over at the high school, Danielle said, "Hey, make sure you're there." And I said, "I wouldn't miss it for the world." And then the next day I find myself in the hospital and I'm having a stent put in. And if any of
078you, well, you probably don't, but I I just wanted to share a really funny was funny to me, but um so when you get a stent put in, you're awake. You're laying on a little bed there and the doctors are doing all the thing and they put a little stent in your heart that makes everything open up. And I remember thinking to myself because the doctors are talking to you and they're asking you questions and all this stuff. And I'm thinking to myself, hm, [clears throat] I wonder if I could get the high school to change their premed core. You know, we have the STEM core. And I was thinking maybe we could change that to the stent core. And just wanted I don't know if it was the drugs they were giving me or
079whatever or if it was a great idea. I just wanted to kind of put it out there that, you know, maybe we Jeremy's going it's definitely the drugs. Okay. [laughter] Anyhow, so Danielle, that's why I have permission. I missed it and and uh I have a big old bill to to as a permission slip. Anyhow, wanted to give an update. the bell, the Windsor Bell that's been at a bunch of different campuses since 1907, I think it was, um, has been refurbished, rebuilt, painted, and it has now been mounted, and it's sitting at the new preschool, the Margie Mahia preschool. It's sitting right out there in front. It's all been uh done. A lot of people helped to make that happen. Um the you know Frank was out there the owner of the construction company
080that's building it. He's out there with his drill and we've got our excavators and stuff and anyhow it's there. It should be there for a long long time. Um there's been uh some people in our town, Edna for sure, who's been constantly making sure that not a month goes by without making sure that if any progress wasn't made that she was waiting for the progress to be made. So it is done. I'm going to miss getting those messages from Edna, but the bell is been installed. Uh lastly, um uh three of Windsor's I didn't see it in the paper, but three of WSOR super sophomores, Joey Guinella, Laso Sanchez, and Cole uh Schmidt. They won the uh wrestling championships, the divisionals this last week. It's a new tournament that they've never done. It's a whole
081new thing in the uh the world of sports. And uh they're the first three champions from Windsor. one of our freshman, Roman Fry, he uh took second and a bunch of other kids place as well. So, anyhow, really good representation from uh Windsor, we got a banner. We uh so anyhow, it was a it was a good weekend and then we're leaving uh we're going to be down there in Union City tomorrow and Saturday and trying to see who can qualify to go to the state meet. So, anyhow, uh the things are going really really well. So, anyhow, that's it for me. Rich, can I just say that I had a conversation with Edna this week. She called me >> and she is >> when she called me. >> Well, she's Oh, no. She's thrilled.
082She's thrilled with where it is. She thinks that is absolutely a great place for it to be. >> Awesome. >> And so, she's going to come and have a look at it one day. See where it is. >> Yeah. When we have the dedication, everybody will be able to of the school. Everybody will be able to see it and stuff. And so, >> yeah. No, she's really happy. >> You should make sure she gets an invite. >> I Well, I did invite her. Oh, >> perfect. >> Oh, good. Thank you. >> I have an item. >> Oh, Stephie. >> I just have one item. Um, I have I'm the representative to Brooks Elementary School this year and their librarian who's a former longtime board member reached out and wanted me to make an announcement. And
083that is that on Monday, March 2nd from 11 to 2:30, it is ReadAcross America Day at Brooks. Um, any and all reading volunteers are warmly invited. So, you can contact her. I'm going to read her email and give her phone number so that if you want to volunteer at Brooks for ReadAcross America Day, March 2nd, Monday, 11 to 2:30. You can do that. It's s Dobbins sb i ns at wusd.org or or call the school 707837-77717 extension26006. Thank you. >> Yeah, I um it's been a long time since our last meeting on January 15th. Um I would be remiss my colleague to my left was was not here as she indicated trustee Ahmad and I were able to go to her show. I was talking and they don't have announcements yet about where they're going
084to college, but directing and writing your own play um goes a long way if you want to be a professional theater person. So, thank you very much for that, Rebecca. Um the biggest thing I wanted to to share is I went to both the showcase of the middle school the third week of January and the one at the high school the following week. Um they were they were amazing. The teachers and the programs were amazing. the students and how they mobilized to show their best light were amazing. But two things really stood out. And I don't know if it's because we had good rain, but the uh campuses were immaculate. And I know Austin is off on honeymoon, I think. Yeah. But uh to RC and the gang of maintenance, they look tremendous. And what's
085always telling is I'm walking around those campuses watching hundreds of parents and students who don't go to our schools or maybe at at the middle school they they they go to Brooks or some other elementary program and repeatedly they say what a beautiful school this is an amazing school they get one one parent said at the middle school this is like a junior college campus and I hear that all the time at the high school. So I I think sometimes our unsung heroes that are behind in our classified things, but you know, we have students and teachers and staff who pick up papers and don't throw papers on the ground. And it was just a great foot forward to see how outsiders view our facilities and our programs and how how the wow factor goes.
086So thank you to everybody at those. I know that was hundreds and hundreds of people were involved in that. Um, and if we can, I just love sort of like a spelling bee person or some students who spoke today. I love when our students can be the face and voice of our district because we'll do great when that happens. And those were two occasions where I saw that. So, thank you very much to those the the the communities, students, staff, faculty, families, everybody uh at that those two campuses because it was a massive undertaking and both of them were stupendous. Thank you everybody. Moving to 3.11 approval of minutes for January 15th, 26, and the February. >> Skip one, Rich. >> Did I miss something? >> Shoot. I'm sorry. I wrote something down and jumped
087it. Thank you everybody. We're going to go to 310 staff association reports. Sorry. >> You tried, Rich. Okay. So, it's that time of year, not the same time of year as last year, but um swim season starts tomorrow. They have their first event. It's um pre-League. I wanted to let you know about this. Um Windsor High School and Cardinal Newman are doing a joint dual pentathlon at the JC tomorrow at SRJC. Um what that is is that all the swimmers are going to swim in all five events. That's backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle, and a 200 IM. Um, the single strokes are going to be 50 yards. Um, and so for those of you that have an overlapping interest in athletics in general, Windsor High School athletes in particular, that healthy neighborly rivalry with Newman um,
088and or just swimming pools in general, you should come check it out. 2:30 at the San Rosa JC Swim Center. [clears throat] Is this a is this something that's new? >> So, um the Cardinal Newman coach um floated the idea of the two teams getting together before the league start and running through all of the strokes together in a competition setting. Particularly for the ninth grade swimmers and the new swimmers, so they could see what a swim competition was actually like. At Windsor High School, we have a lot of um students that join the swim team their freshman year and they have never done swimming before. So, they're actually learning how to swim in the first few weeks of the season. That's what that's about. But that's not WDEA. I'm just slipping in that. >>
089No, that's good. >> Swim team plug. Um I have no personal vested interest in any results whatsoever. Okay. So, WDEA um these last few weeks we've been focusing on um joint communication with Director Sullivan and our members that are being affected by the dramatic PKS. Um we are advising and supporting our members who will find themselves in new or different assignments. We understand that it's not an actual reduction in force. We're just switching some things around. And then the temporary teachers always um receive layoff notices and any of the teachers that are teaching extra classes, they just always are removed from those assignments um to see what the need is for the following year. So we just we've been supporting them and working together and making sure that the message is consistent and um clear
090that the teachers have jobs, they don't lose seniority, they don't lose pay, they don't lose their permanent status and become probationary again. It's um some have taken it way better than others. Others are still very upset um as they try to maneuver this, but change is challenging and for some of them their assignments are going to be very different. So, we've been working together on that to send out a joint message. It's been a lot of work. That that's it for tonight. Thank you very much. All righty. Now to 311. approval of minutes from the January 15th and the February 3rd meeting. Uh that was the special board meeting with the CASP scores and then also a regular meeting. I' I'd like to make a motion that we approve this uh these minutes. >> I'll
091second that motion. >> Okay. Thanks. Um thank you. I I also I just want to say I know that most everybody missed the meeting on the CASP stuff. It's one of the I just got to say it's one of the best meetings um that I've been in in seven years. Um, I I I am more uh hopeful that the direction that we're going with our um all of our principles came and spoke and and talked about what we're doing, not only what we're going to do, but what we're doing and that how we're going to see some things going forward. I'm very hopeful that uh we're going to have some we're going to continue to improve and whatever. It was one of the better meetings I've been at in a long time. And um I
092and so anyhow, I just want to let a lot of people know that they if you missed it, it was it was really really good. Very very hopeful. Anyhow, do we have uh >> Jen it made a >> you I think you >> I made a motion to approve. I >> think I seconded. >> Right. And so then but we need to >> just a regular vote. >> Well, then we have to have the the It's not a roll call by >> Oh, got it. Got it. Got it. >> Okay. Students, >> yes. >> All right. All in favor? >> Yes. I >> Yes. >> All righty. Thank you very much. All righty. And then let's move to 312. Uh staff recognition. Uh Pete, >> you're supposed to >> Good evening. So, I have the
093privilege of uh of congratulating a couple of our staff members who doing an exceptional job. And I really like when we have uh new admin because we have Ed over at Mattie Washburn and that's what we're recognizing uh this evening come in and see the same excellence that I see. Uh both of these people are fantastic. Uh I've worked with both of them extensively as I've been over there. So, I'm excited to announce the classified staff member and the certificated staff member and to let you know that um we missed the well that's me. I missed the Brooks recognition. And so that reboot is going to be on 3:2526 at 1:30 and we will send out an invite. And I have yet to determine when the first Maddie Washburn uh staff member meeting is going
094to be and I'll get that to you as soon as I can in hopes that you will be there to celebrate Britney Harrington as the classified staff member. And this I'm just going to read in Ed's voice. When it comes to being a key player in a school setting, Britney checks all the boxes. She comes to work every day with a smile and great attitude. She has a warm, smiling face that greets many of our students at morning dropoff. Kids are excited to see her. She starts her day making our students feel special. Going to editorialize a little bit here. She's awesome. They play music out there. She knows all the kids by name. The parents know her. Like if I'm out there, >> then what her job is at the school? She's a um
095she's an IIA. So she's she's there in the morning at drop off doing yard duty. Yes. At the circle. So if I'm out there or if Brian's out there, parents will drive past us because they don't want us to open the door cuz they want her to open the door. I'm not kidding. It's great. And and it's and then the kids get out. It's a whole special greeting thing. It's beautiful. Uh, so when out on the playground, she's kind, fair, consistent, gaining the respect of students and staff alike. Uh, Britney has proven to me that she is an advocate for children even when it's difficult situation. She's strong, brave, and willing to give us her all. And for that, I'm thankful to have her on our staff and I agree with all of that. And
096for our certificated staff member, one of my absolute favorite people in the district, Miss Karen Winter. Although I don't know Karen Winter well, I do. Again, this is Ed. Uh, in the short time I've been at Mattie Washburn, she has gone out of her way to welcome me. I've seen her interact with students in a caring and respectful manner. Her students love her and are making academic growth in her class. If you don't know, uh, Miss Winter teaches an SDC class over at Mattie Washburn. Uh, I believe she is in room 14. If you want to visit, you're always welcome. She's fantastic. She only supports her student. She not only supports her students, but also some of her students that are hers who have moved on. uh she checks in with them regularly regularly and
097encourages them to do their best and be their best selves and she rewards their achievement. It is evident to me that Karen Winter is a strong asset to Maddie Washburn and she absolutely is and she makes great jam. So if you get on a good side, Raspberry Jam is coming to you. >> There you go. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Pete. Have to make sure to get on that good side. >> You got it. >> All righty. Um, moving to uh consent items. Paul, if you would like to take these over. >> All right. Do we have any consent items that need to be pulled for discussion? >> Seeing none. Okay. Um, >> do I need public comment? >> No, we do. So we you make a uh a motion and then
098go out and everybody. >> So then I'll make a motion that we uh approve consent items 4.1 through 4.9. >> Second the motion. >> Do we have any public comment on any of these items? >> Seeing none, we'll um our student board members Yes. Yes. >> Okay. All in favor? >> Yes. >> All righty. Thank you. So then moving. All righty. Now we're moving to uh let's see what's this say discussion action item 5.1 consideration of approval of the novel um site by anyhow this is going to be presented by Annette Zakonei director of curriculum instruction and assessment and actually if >> yeah I was just going to say so [clears throat] what I changed >> yeah so what what I was hoping to do is give me one second here real the a lot
099has been done with this issue. Hold on a second because I just so everybody at home knows our program that we have that does all our agendas and everything. Uh they're working through a lot of different technical stuff. So sometimes we have it printed out and we have it printed out and then we have other stuff on the board. But anyhow, the the difference, not the difference, the thing that's changed, and I'm going to change do stuff a little bit different than we normally do, is that um when we had this initially, there was a great amount of discussion about it and it was all good and then the question was asked, you know, what's the alternative book that people can consider? We didn't have it uh at the time and so it didn't get
100voted uh to go forward. It's been brought back to reconsider. Uh the staff has gone through got that I want to say application a little bit more complete. The opt out book has been identified uh at least one there might be others. Um, but anyhow, so that's taken care of and I know that that was a concern at the time. And so anyhow, before we go too far into the weeds, I just wanted to do kind of like a little straw pull amongst the the trustees, the way things are now presented with the alternative book. I'm I'm prepared to go forward and and approve 5.1. Is there anybody else that's got any other issues or, you know, how are we doing on this? It's a very minor issue in the recommendation that they strike the
101word approved off of that and then I'm I'm good to go. It's still on there. >> Uh where at, Paul? >> Uh where it says recommendation. Uh if a family submits a request for their student to opt out of reading this novel and the request is approved, they shouldn't have to have an approval. >> Yeah. >> So, no, that's what I'm saying. >> It's not on mine. >> Yeah, it's on mine. >> It is. >> Yeah. So, >> is it on yours? I've I've seen it both ways to where and this is I think is a byproduct of the >> it's our system >> the system again >> in the public view that I'm looking at >> it says if a family submits a request for their student to opt out of reading this novel
102and alternative text will be provided Brave New World by Aldos Huxley >> correct if that's the then I have no problem yeah we had one of the issues with the system because I did see that our agenda was out of sync which is not it's a company issue. It's not a district issue. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Or a platform issue. Okay. >> Yeah. >> So, with the language, it's all good. So, the >> I'm sorry. >> No, I think >> everybody good. >> All right. So, with that in mind that everybody I have no objections. Is there anybody for public comment? Is there any This is going to be passed and I'm just trying to save a bunch of time. Is there anybody in the audience that has this burning desire to come up
103and talk about this? Seeing none, um, I'd like to make a motion that we adopt 5.1 and go forward. Is there a second? >> I'd like to second it. >> Oh, got a second. All right. Preferential students. >> Yes. >> All right. All those in favor? >> Yes. >> I. >> All righty. Motion passes. >> Thank you, Mr. President. >> All righty. Now, moving on to 5.2. to consideration. And by the way, tonight folks, there's a lot of resolutions. It's that time of the year where we've got to do all kinds of stuff and so it's a little bit uh might sound repetitive, but it's what we have to do. Any consideration of approval of resolution 202612 authorizing the superintendent designate to execute an agreement with the office of administrative hearing. I'm just going to
104skip right there and let Pete go for it. >> Thank you. Uh yes. So we are seeking approval for this resolution which authorizes our district to enter an agreement with the office of administrative hearings uh in preparation for the possibility of a layoff hearing as a result of layoffs. Um if it doesn't come, we won't use it. Um the process looks something like we approve uh this resolution tonight. Um we do our notices which will officially go out sometime next week and probably maybe the week after. Uh and then if we have somebody who requests a hearing within seven days, we will send this resolution to the office of administrative hearings and then we would be administered at an administrative law judge who would then hear um the concerns regarding our process. It's all about
105process. It's not whether or not the this um the staff performed or didn't perform. It's about did we follow our process to the tea um for layoffs. [clears throat] Very good. Any questions? All righty. Um, so I think we need to make a motion to pass it and then we have to have an individual vote. So I make a motion that we approve this resolution. Can I have a second? >> Second. >> All righty. Um, and student >> public com before we go. Yeah. So can I open this up to uh public comment if there's any public comment on this issue? All right. No public comments. Let's bring it back for the actual individual roll call. >> And I'll do the student board members first. Rebecca Herman, >> yes. >> Natalie Valdez, >> yes. >>
106Rich Carnation, >> yes. >> Paul Kagorno, >> yes. >> Stephanie Amard, >> yes. >> Bill Adams, >> yes. [clears throat] All right. Thank you, Pete. All right, moving on to 53. Pete, yeah, you might as well just pull up a stool. >> Here I am again. Uh consideration of approval resolution 2026-14 to release temporary certificated employees. The Windsor Unified School District Administration is seeking approval of 26-14 which uh authorizes the release of the temporary employees for 20 for 2526. >> All righty. Can I have a motion? >> Also move. >> All righty. Second. >> I'll second. >> All righty. Thank you very much. And then do we need to go uh anybody from the public would like to speak on this matter? 5.3. All righty. Bringing it back. Um student trustees. >> If it's a
107it's a roll call. >> I'm sorry. Roll call. That's right. >> Rebecca [clears throat] Herman. >> Yes. >> Natalie Valdez. >> Yes. >> Rich Carnation. >> Yes. >> Paul Kagorno. >> Yes. >> Stephanie Amard. >> Yes. >> Bill Adams. >> Yes. All righty. Moving to 5.4. consideration of approval and possible action for on resolution 2615 on certificated reduction in force. Uh Pete, >> thank you. So before I start uh this this item, I want to point out to uh the board and those who are listening and watching this evening that the as a result of this action, only one certificated staff member has not yet been offered back a commensurate position for 2627. uh that person still may be offered if if we have the right position but only one person has not been offered
108um as a result of this action. We do have real reductions. We have about seven FTE uh in this section that are not coming back. Uh that would be a quick summary would be two resignations, two retirements and three uh resulting from a program reduction which we've previously discussed. um and they are not coming back, but only one staff member is currently does not have a position with us. And I I really want everybody to focus on as we go through these items if there are questions that this is about positions and not people. Um we're we are losing seven positions. Uh at this point, we're only losing one person and we hope to retain that person. Um, moving on from that section, I I do want to highlight I know one of the concerns
109in this uh resolution is that it appears that we are removing 19 special education teachers. And I want to be really specific about this as well. 16 of those 19 FTE are a result from a a programmatic restructuring of special education. Um, which is effectively moving our RSP teachers into news new designations either case managers or learning specialists, which is something we decided on last year um, in these chambers. And it should be noted as my colleague from WDEA has pointed out that none of these teachers will have any change in status or salary or benefits. Um all of the teachers or 16 of of those teachers were offered a position with the district in conjunction with the layoff notice. So as I slid the notice across which was not awesome, I was able to
110include a letter from Mr. Decker that offered them a position as either a case manager or a learning specialist in our district. We do have those the the other three FTE in there to make up the 19 are real reductions. So we have one resignation, one retirement, and one program reduction. >> Very good. Um the is there any any um any >> I have a comment once we public comment. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Pete. I'd like to open up 5.4 to public comment if there anybody that would like to address this issue. All right. Not seeing anybody. I'll bring it back. And Bill. >> Yeah. I have a concern that that [clears throat] I just like to state. Um I really appreciate President Feffer in her in your comments on behalf of the union
111saying the teachers have jobs. um reading when it's my word a salacious headline that says 37 layoffs happening in Windsor sounds like a third of a hundred which is a number that had come up from a sister district to the south and I thought the article did well to try and explain and parse that and I don't know how only one person still has not yet get hired back maybe that's not a headline that sells papers but um it's a little troublesome because we try so hard to do a good job and be a leader and be the district of choice, which we've proven to be, but people need a place to come. Um, and that was a hard thing to read. And I appreciate that again knowing how papers are written, where those headlines
112come from or don't come from, but um I I want to thank the district office, our union leadership. There's also classified employees that were in some other resolutions um that we work very very diligently here. we do not have our labor negotiations play out in the press because it's so contentious. Um, and I just wanted to make that point because we generally have a uh a good open transparent relations not only with the press but when a headline like that is seen that the the folks who maybe didn't get past the headline I do not do social media for my mental health but um you know the chattering class who saw that headline and stopped there said see that district isn't telling us the truth and nothing could be further than the truth. So, I
113just wanted to share that and and uh again, nothing against the fourth estate, but it's a challenge. These are challenging times and um you know, we bent over backwards to get trust and open and and and have hard decisions, right? And we did make some reprogramming to have I think a more effective application of a of a special education system of which our district has a disproportionately higher percentage and higher success rate than some other districts do. So, I just wanted to say that that that this is always a hard time of the year and we do have one person who we are looking to find a landing spot for and we still have time in the next four months to do that. So, I just wanted to to share that um that's my own
114personal view. That's not the the voice of the board. But um these are some of the hardest things probably least favorite only after student expulsions is having to look at what we have to do under the education code prior to March 15th. And um wanted to thank all parties concerned from the individual staff members, you the unions um about how we how how we've gotten a a successful resolution for today. So thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanks Bill. Thank you. >> If I may, I would be remiss if I didn't add that in item six of that same resolution, it appears that we're reducing by 10.33 FTE. And I want to remind people that we do this every year. Um we have extra sections which we fly when we have staffing needs um if
115we have uh you know more kids coming to school than than we had planned for. And this happens frequently and so we reduce every year by those extra FTE. So what appears to be maybe 10 people is 10 mini sections. So I think we did the math. What was it? 56 >> 56 separate slightly additional >> teachers who want to work >> extra. They work more. They take on an additional thing. And those are not 10 teachers being cut. Those are correct 10.3 sets of additional things which will be I think our plan is to reoffer those opportunities and those services as soon as we get over this statutory requirement to say you you you don't get to retire at a 1.1 >> correct we offer as needed um in the following year as well.
116>> So thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. So, I'd make a motion that we approve uh resolution 202615. >> I'll second. >> Ready? >> Rebecca Herman, >> yes. >> Natalie Valdez, >> yes. >> Rich Carnation, >> yes. >> Paul Kagorno, >> yes. >> Stephanie, >> yes. >> Adam, >> yes. >> All righty. Thank you, Pete. to our next one. 55 consideration of approval resolution 2026-16 notify of possible non-reelect probationary certificated employees. We do not have any non-reelects uh to mention in this item. >> Right? So, just for those who at home are wondering why that's on the agenda, just because statutoily we have to even if there's nobody there. It's kind of like the Williams report sometimes. We just get to say Brian's name over and over again and yet there's nothing to do.
117So anyhow, um, so since there's nothing to do, we still have to have a resolution that there's nothing to do, right? Okay. So >> motion. >> I'm not going to make a motion to do >> I'll make a motion. >> All right, there you go. >> I'll second. >> All right, so we have a motion. Anybody in the public would like to talk about the motion to do nothing? All righty. Bringing it back to the board. Um, >> do it the other way around. Natalie Valdez, >> yes. >> Rebecca Herman, >> yes. >> Bill Adams, >> yes. >> Rich Garnation, >> I. >> Stephanie Amard, >> yes. >> Gordon, >> yes. >> Thank you. All righty. And then 5.6 consideration approval resolution 202617 for reduction in force classified layoffs. Uh, this is for Pete again.
118>> It is indeed. Uh, thanks again. So um I do want to point out that we have a total reduction of 5.117 FTE in the classified ranks. Uh that is eight that is affecting eight of our staff members. Um we have met with all of them at this point and we have um our we'll have additional meetings with them and um members from their union um next week. Uh I do want to mention that we have 31 open classified positions. So none of these folks will if they would like a job in our district they are welcome to have a job in our district. We have lots of open positions and many of them retain bumping rights. So there may be uh additional folks who I will be reporting next uh month at this at
119the next meeting um in if they were bumped as a result of this movement. >> And just so we're clear, Pete, that the classified union employees do not have the same September 15th hard deadline that a certificated >> teacher does. March I'm sorry March 15th. That's >> They do. Oh, they do. That's why we're meeting on the 12th. Okay. All right. Okay. Um, any questions? Uh, taking out the public on 5.6. Is there any comment public comment on this item? >> All right. Seeing none, we'll bring that back to the >> I'll make a motion that we approve resolution 20 2020 2026-17. >> I'll second the motion. Natalie Valdez, >> yes. >> Rebecca Herman, >> yes. >> Bill Adams, yes. Rich Carnation, yes. >> Stephanie Amard, yes. Paul Kagono, >> yes. >> All righty. Moving
120to five. >> Thank you, everyone. Thanks, Pete. >> Thank you, Pete. Take a drink of water. [laughter] >> The U. >> Hey, Pete. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Good news. >> Welcome back. >> Thank you. Good to [laughter] see you all. 57 consideration of approval of tenant agreement between Windsor District Educator Association and Windsor Unified School District presented by >> How could I forget this? >> Uh Pete, I've skipped two things twice. So it's tonight. >> I appreciate the cover. Thank you. >> Just the night. >> So this is a celebration. Um this is a this is a fantastic agreement. Um I'd like to thank our our WDEA partners for helping us form form this agreement. Um, and uh, it it is it illustrates that we can work together. This is a three-year agreement, which is
121fantastic. You know, we also did that with CSEA, which is also a huge achievement, and we're really happy to work with our partners, and we hope the board approves this tenative agreement. >> Thank you. Any board members? >> Yeah, I I just would like to say I don't think, and I've been on the board, I don't think we have had a three-year agreement before. And if we have, I don't remember it. And the legacy was maybe not three years. you may know differently, Susanna. Um, again, as a comparison, not well, we we we we have prudent finances and a partnership and communication that allows us to make a commitment for three solid years that are funded and um stable. And I think it is so helpful for both unions and the district to do that
122so we don't have to turn around and start negotiating again in June or July for you know a rolling set of one year or have one imposed because of difficulties. And so I think that's also something to celebrate. It's an indication kind of what I was referring to before on the the collaboration the communication this bears fruit from a business model that you know the organization you know our children come first and right after them are the staff to be able to do it. And now we have stability for three years. And so thanks for all concern for for for that. That's a big deal. >> Y um same. The only thing I like to throw that is if California has some good times >> Mhm. >> we get to come back and spread around
123some more of that good sugar >> and it's stipulated in year three comes in high we will go back under wages. >> Right. And and I like that because that that's >> it's a it's a fair thing to do. >> Absolutely. So, uh, anyhow, the, uh, I appreciate everybody that, uh, worked very hard to make this agreement work for everybody. And so, thanks. Um, if there's no comments, um, if I can go out to public comment on 5.7 if there's any public comment. All righty. Not seeing any, we'll bring it back. Um, can we get a motion to approve this? >> I'll move to approve the contract. >> All righty. in a second. >> I'll second. >> Stephanie seconds. All righty. And is this um this is not a resolution, so we just All righty.
124Student trustees. >> Yes. Yes. >> And trustees. >> Yes. >> And yeah. >> Yes. >> I There we go. >> All righty. Unanimous right. >> There we go. Thank you very much. Thanks, Pete. >> Thank you. >> All righty. Uh now we're going to 5.8 public hearing naming of new preschool facility. A public hearing uh will be held to proceed to receive public input regarding the proposed naming of the district's new preschool facility. The Margie Mahia preschool uh policy 7310 naming facility is the PDF in there. So who is >> I'll present. >> Okay. >> I mean I'm not going to do a major presentation. >> Who's the presenter here? So you guys granted me authority to already name the preschool but to do this properly uh we should go through this board policy and
125make it official within the minutes. So without reading through the entire policy that's why it's being brought forward. >> Okay. So is there any questions from trustees? >> Yeah we have >> we have to wait a minute or >> we have to open a hearing. It's got to be a different amount of time in the minutes. So at least a minute. So, I'm going to open the hearing and somebody's going to keep track of that. >> Just note the time. >> The time is 7:50 p.m. >> I hate these things cuz there's It's just >> I do. >> I know. It's You know, when you get older, you find out that time's precious. Jeremy, so many good jokes. Where is Union City? >> Uh, it's two hours south. >> It's 7:51 on my computer. >>
126There we go. All right. One minute. So, I'd like to close the public hearing. Is there any public comment on this public hearing? >> Nope. All righty. So, we bring it back and then this is not a resolution, just a vote, right? The >> motion. >> All righty. Um, I'd like to make the motion that we approve 5.8, the policy, the naming policy 7310, the naming of the facility. >> I'll second. >> Are we taking action or are we just holding the hearing? >> I think we need to take the action to approve. >> We're supposed to take the action. There were a number of different ways to do this. This seemed the simplest way based on kind of your direction. >> And yeah, I know Stephanie's head the liaison for our indigenous community. And
127this this thanks and acknowledges the support of the Litten band Pomos to help us get across the finish line to finish all phases of this preschool which we would not have otherwise been able to do. >> Correct. >> Um for the recognizing the long long time tribal chairwoman of the [clears throat] >> of our of our neighbors down Windsor River Road. So >> been great partners >> every step of the way. [snorts] >> All righty. So uh >> we had first motion carried Jen. >> Oh it's not a resolution. So we just all those in student trustees. >> Yes. >> All right. All those in favor? >> Yes. >> I thank you. >> All right. 5B that do. >> Okay. Um 5.9 consideration approval member understanding between WSOR Unified School District and the California Service
128Employees uh Association CSE 636 673. This is by Pete. You thought you were done with me, but you aren't. >> We wanted We wanted to give your legs a break. >> I I was doing some I like the squats. It's good, you know, get my workout in. So, uh this is an effort to support our Spanish speaking community. Um year overyear, we have families who come in for those early days of of school right before school starts and registration and checking in. and we haven't had bilingual support on our campuses for those early sessions. And we were trying to patch things together with people on time cards and we were using services at one point. And somebody just said, "Can we extend the calendar for these really hardworking bilingual leaison in our district that already
129know all of our all of our families and people are comfortable with?" And we said, "Great idea." So, we would like to ask permission to extend their calendar five extra days to support those families. >> It is a great idea. >> Thanks. Yeah. >> Why we didn't think of it earlier, I have no idea. >> Great idea. >> Right. Uh, any comments? All righty. I'd like to open 5.9 to public comment if there is any. All righty. Seeing none, I'll bring it back. And can I get a motion to approve 59? >> I'll make a motion to approve 5.9. >> Second. >> All right. We have a first and a second. and student trustees. >> Yes. Yes. >> Board. >> Yes. Righty. That passes. All righty. Thank you, Pete. And don't go. >> Oh, I'm
130not. >> 510 considerate. We just This is a Pete Sullivan night. >> I tell you what. >> Um 510 consideration of approval to change to non-member salary schedule. >> Thank you. I may call Jessica up here if you have any detailed questions, but the the gist of it is um we would like to change the non-member salary so we can increase the uh summer uh summer worker um from I think the current was $20 an hour to $25 an hour in order to remain competitive. Um we we see a lot of competition in and among the area with highpaying jobs even in daycare um which is what we're offering and we want the best people and we want to be able to pay our people more than or at least the same as they're currently
131making and the old member salary number which was $20 an hour is less than what they're making doing a very similar job during the school year. So, not only do we want to be competitive with our neighbors, McDonald's and Target and other daycarees, but we also want to honor the work that they do all year long in the summer. So, they would get a little boost over summer, hopefully attract other talent as well that we can then hire to do jobs during the regular school year. Um, but also to uh ensure that we are um honoring the work that our people already do. >> And keep in mind, this is a restricted fund. So Jessica's this is Jessica's budget which is not part of our unrestricted funding and she can't afford it. We've gone through
132and run through the numbers to make sure and if she couldn't then she'd have to look at what she you know ask families to pay during the summer. So this is it's a very it's a restricted area of money for us. I don't have any questions. I'm going to as a as a person who is actively paying for babysitters and child care and know what those costs are, this is a good move. Um, and I'd like to make a motion that we approve 5.10. And anybody give me a second? >> I will second. >> All righty. Is there any discussion? >> No. >> Like to go out to the public on 510 if there's any public comment. Nope. I'll bring it back. Jessica, thank you for being here in case there was. All righty. Uh,
133student trustees, >> yes. >> Uh, board members. >> Yes. >> All righty. Thank you. 510 passes. >> Two. >> Oh, yeah. Thank you. So, we got 511 >> and then Okay. >> Yep. So, uh 511, we've got consideration of proposed CSBA recommended updates, first reading. Uh this is presented by Brian Williams. >> So uh board, I think we have our our pattern down. So as when the CSBA releases their updates, I bring them to the board for uh first reading and for public comment. You're taking no action tonight. Um as you review them over the next month, if there's any policies uh that you would like discussed further or a separate presentation, of course, we would prepare that for you. If there's any further discussion about the policies, it can be referred to board policy
134subcommittee. uh for further discussion. And if there's no discussion, because much of this is boilerplate written by lawyers and it just goes in as we receive it, um then we will bring it back to you um at the following board meeting for a second reading and for a vote. >> Correct. >> Any any questions? >> It's pretty self-explanatory. >> Yeah. Um, I like to go to the public comment. See if there's anybody that would like to speak on 511 5.11. All right. See, we'll bring it back. Um, there's really nothing to do. Just we've just made it. All right. Thank you everybody. Thank you, Brian. Brian. >> All righty. Moving on to uh in case somebody came in late, we added two um items 512 and 513. Bump 514 down just a couple. Uh it's
135a me 512 is a memorandum of understanding between Reedon Sonoma and Windsor Unified School District. And this was Jen, you introduced it. Is there somebody that wants to um actually here the um the purpose of the agreement is it's just a member of memorandum of understanding between read on Sonoma Windsor Unified School District regarding the implementation of read on Sonoma literacy program at the following elementary schools in the Windsor Unified School District Cali Calmeck Mattie Washburn and Brooks Elementary School. Read on Sonoma is a literary literacy program dedicated to improving reading skills in Sonoma County elementary schools. Research shows that a strong reading proficiency by third grade is a crucial predictor of high school graduation and future success. There's some more in there as well, but >> very familiar with this program uh President Carnation
136um bringing it to our attention. So, it's just the memorandum of understanding with that organization so we can continue the great work that they've been doing. >> Right. I I saw uh the stipens in there. Have those changed or I was pleased that those are pretty significant stipens that are offered um to the means at the schools. >> So, we're we're offering the stipens. Uh we're going to be negotiating with our CSA partners because some some of our classified employees are participating as well and they're paid in a different structure. Um so, we'll continue to to make sure that people are being compensated for the great work that they're doing. >> Yeah. Great. the um it's a little shout out to Guyier, my neighbor, who has been very much uh and and some other really
137um uh blessed individuals who are sharing their blessings uh in a way that really is going to help a lot of our our kids. Uh incentivizes them to to read and work on those kind of things. Uh shout out also to Stephanie Clawson. Honestly, um she's one of our town's little or school district town and school district, one of our little warriors that uh you know, she's like a dog on a bone boy. She sees something that's good and she will chase it down and she will she can give Edna lessons. Um and uh uh just, you know, she was just dogged to make sure that we didn't miss out on this opportunity and and really chased it down. And so, uh, you know, we got a town with a lot of great people in
138it with big hearts and a lot of strong backs that work really hard to make sure things happen well for kids. And, uh, so, and this is one of those kind of things. And so, any I'd like to make a motion that we approve this memorandum of understanding on Rita on Sonoma and our school district. And if I can get a second, that'd be great. >> I'll make a second. And I'll just shout since we're shouting out, I'll shout out Michelle Leon, who is the executive director of Readon Sonoma and a good friend of mine. and just works tirelessly to run this program and loves every second of it. So, we're so lucky to have her doing this work on early literacy. >> Excellent. Thank you. Um, did I go to public comment or not?
139Um, I'd like to go out to public comment on this memorandum 512. Is anybody out there? All righty. Seeing that, I'll bring it back and ask for a vote. Student trustees. >> Yes. Yes. >> All righty. Board. >> Yes. Thank you very much. All righty. And then do we need to sign something on this, Jenner? >> Um I think it's probably it's probably you do have to sign this before you leave. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Now jumping to 5.13. Member of Anderson between High School and the Northern California Center for Well-being. Brian, >> um this is just a kind of boilerplate as we're doing exchange of information and some of the services that they're providing. This is at no cost uh to Windsor Unified and it helps us expand the services we provide
140for our students. >> Very good. Thank you. Uh this is this is through student wellness and mental health initiatives generally. >> Yes. So um we have many organizations right now as we're as everyone in the county is trying to figure out um how to provide the me the desperately needed mental health services uh with the new building structures and everything. Um, so we're kind of throwing everything at the wall right now and seeing what sticks. Um, and so, uh, cuz we want to be able to find, uh, consistent services for our students. >> Yeah. Thank you for that initiative. That's >> all righty. Thank you. Um, there's no other questions. Um, anybody in the public like to address 5.13. All right. Seeing not seeing anybody. I'll bring it back. Uh, student trustees. >> Yes. Yes.
141>> All right. Wait a minute. I think I skipped a skip. [laughter] >> Do we have a motion? >> Yes, I'll make a motion. >> All righty. >> I'll second. >> All right. There we go. Now, >> teleport it back to before you spoke and >> Yes. Yes. >> All righty. All those in favor? >> Yeah. Hi. [clears throat] >> All right. Thank you. All righty. You got those taken care of. All right. Now, we're going to go to 5.14. And I'm going to turn this over to Paul uh to take care. I'm going to recuse myself still because we're still waiting back from FPPC. And I >> 5.14 now. >> Oh, well, we moved it down. It's the old >> Oh, it's the old 512. >> Yep. And so I'm going to just give
142me a second here to pack it up and get on my way to Union City. Excuse me. >> Good luck to you. >> Thank you. >> Very safely. >> Thanks. Sharp job. Got it. Got it. And I don't need to sign that stuff. Yeah, you that good. All right. You can watch it. You can talk. Thank you. You can tell what's going on. That cookie. [laughter] So guys, this is just it's going to be a standing item so we can have any conversations as things come up. Uh I I don't have any updates. We're still in our 60-day waiting period. The 60 days ends March 29th. So uh that's that's that's really the update. It's just a standing item so I can give you an update as we're working through this each month. >> And
143we don't have to take any action on this item. >> You do not. Okay. >> I I think probably there may be some public comment. Yes. Just to be clear for today, when when is the end? I know there was a question. >> March 29th, >> which >> March 29th is the end of the 60-day waiting period. >> Okay. >> And that that would have been earlier, but it's been a confusing process. And so, we had contacted Housing of Community Development 2 weeks before ultimately our time frame started. But I won't go through all of that. March 29th is the official day. We had hoped it would have been March 14th, but >> and as I understand it, because we've declared excess property, that allows a window of public entities, >> particular entities to express
144an interest who we then have to negotiate in good faith with >> 90 days. And as we sit here now, a month into that, we haven't heard from anybody. >> No. >> Okay. and you and Austin did speak a week or so ago at a special meeting >> of the town and I think they're considering but as far as we know that we haven't heard from them. >> We have not heard from the town up to this point. >> Okay. And All right. Thank you. >> Okay. Any more comments from the board? I'll open it up for public comment. >> [clears throat] >> Did I hear the right good evening board? My name is Kevin Scanland. currently a 28-year resident of the town of Windsor, Windsor Creek uh residential and elementary school neighborhood. I've been
145in the government realm for over 40 years and an educator for 27 years. I was a volunteer for 16 years at Windsor High School as a public address sports announcer. Um, so nearly year and a half in the making, uh, uh, Windsor Creek Elementary, uh, gained some light in open session with this body December 2025, but, uh, he put put it at the end of the agenda. That wasn't cool at all, which is unfortunate. And then he did it again tonight. Um, Superintendent Decker, thank you for finally communicating with the town of Windsor. crazy that it took an application of law to promote this action. >> So, thank you. >> That's it. >> Okay. So, I guess we'll move on to routine information. Do we have any >> I don't have anything. >> I don't
146just one future. I think it was on one of the slides, but we have the dedication both with the bell and at the preschool March 9th. I know we looked at at 4:00 >> over there and I imagine we'll have representatives and certainly uh I would suggest we reach out to the Windsor Historical Society and Museum as well. I know >> uh their staff were were interested in and Edna's on the board there, but it to get those community partners over for that event. That would be good. >> Understood. >> Yeah. Cool. >> Thank you. Good meeting. >> Um let's see. U moved that we adjourn. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Thank you. Look at the time. >> That was a big meeting to get done this fast. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Thank you everyone.
147>> Thank you.