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002our February 20th 2025 regularly scheduled school board meeting at 6:04 p.m. we will start off with a roll call Stephanie Mo here Bill Adams here Rich Carnation here Paul here M Lopez here Kylie Hernandez here and Zoe fman cage here and the flag salute will be led by Rich Carnation I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all item 2.3 is report out of closed session and we don't have anything to report so I'll move on to item 3.1 which is adjustments to the agenda we do have a few adjustments so I'm going to just read the order of section three which is the area that we're adjusting so 3.2 will be student
003board member reports 3.3 will be the superintendent report 3.4 is the assistant superintendent report 3.5 is Staff Association reports 3.6 is public common and 3.7 is Board of Trustees report so we'll start off with our student board member reports [Music] and while they get that going I just want to check to make sure we don't have any other adjustments to the agenda okay great all right so we'll begin with Brooks Elementary so some recent events was the award assembly um a another award assembly for third grade a field trip to tooy Lake and for fourth grade and then some upcoming events is the Buddy bench donated by wior high inter and find a friend MADD Washburn Elementary some recent events was the 100th day school of school and dressed like a 100-year-old uh TK field
004trip to the fire station and jaggy pride assemblies and some upcoming events include read Across America week and spring break for Kik me Language Academy we have from for some recent events the first core day T to fourth grade literacy night free dress day PT association meeting Zumba coffee with admin and Walk and Roll to school so for W middle school some recent events have been open house showcase um fun Bingo a Valentine's Day Spirit Week a Valentine's Day dance and recently instead of the typical popularity based Court such as kings and queens they had a kindness court so you can elect students who you thought showed exemplary kindness and some upcoming events we have a Color Run big picture learning they for some recent events they've had two leaving to learn field trips at
005the Pacific coast museum at and at the pecking acrobats as well as an informational night and some upcoming events the youth through survey has closed which means our student trusty empathy interviews will begin and they're continuing their ltis excuse me so for some recent events we've had eighth grade orientation and then some winter sports we've had Prince King of the mat which is a wrestling tournament and our Varsity Sports Teams such as soccer golf have had their qualifying Sports matches we're having officer elections so first the elected appoint um elected positions will go and then the appointed positions and then we've also been working on our campus beautification which includes the repainting of the senior steps the steps and railings in the front of the school and the deing in front of the school we'll
006also be planting flowers around that and then for some upcoming events we have our Spring Fling so this is the first time we've had a Spring Fling at witer high school we'll be rotating every year between the Spring Fling and the winter formal so for a club update we have a Club carnival on February 21st the interact has donated a buddy bench to Brooks Elementary which means that if a student is feeling lonely they can sit at the bench and have another student accompany them best buddies hosted a Special Olympics S Club has put up human trafficking awareness signs in the town green just to raise awareness and also donated Valentine's Day cards to an elderly shelter um there's also an upcoming sexual violence awareness week and the black student union has a black history
007Winn week in honor Black History Month and also a bake sale to raisey money for their next projects and then NOA is going to have a play The Phantom toll booth on March 6th um to March 8th and the following week it'll be opened up for younger students to come and enjoy okay thank you all right next is our superintendent's report all right let's dive in uh start with some fall sports highlights so Windsor High School boys basketball won an upset victory in overtime to move to the quarterfinals our girls basketball finished fifth in the NBL oak league excuse me boys soccer ended the season with a 137 to2 overall record and a third place finish in the NBL Oak our girl soccer ended their season with a 94 and5 overall record in first place
008in the NBL Oak at 81-1 and unfortunately we lost last night in playoffs but we played them tough uh and our boys wrestling are the North Bay League team champion uh male and female wrestlers are headed the NCS this weekend and we had what Rich you probably say is better than me but the Jaguars had nine Champions out of the 14 weight classes yeah there there's 14 weight classes we had 10 in the finals so it was basically Windsor versus the rest of the entire league and of those nine of them uh were Champions and the one that didn't quite make it um actually slipped and a kid anyhow could have had 10 out of 10 got lucky uh yeah the other kid was fortunate so anyhow they're heading all down but I'll bring that
009up later in my report uh also this was already kind of mentioned but mattye wasman celebrated the 100th day of school by dressing up as 100y olds pretty cute and then preschool so we've open preschool enrollment for next year and we have a lot of interest in fact we opened registration on Tuesday and after the first day we had 57 families fill out an application uh and as of right now today we're up to 68 applicants so on the right is kind of the the nights where you can come and get information so for Matty wasburn March 4th 6 to7 C March 6 6-7 uh then again March 25th 6 to 7 at Cali and another one March 27th from 6 to 7 those are information nights in the bottom left that is the preschool
010uh that is being built at Matty wasburn well kind of next door to Matty wasburn at the park we own half of the park uh and so that's where we're hoping to house a lot of these preschoolers not right away because it won't be done until um a little bit after the start of school okay and I thought I'd take this time to go through uh my update so in February based on our governance calendar I usually give an update on my scorecard and my scorecard is built upon the board goals which are all up here we call our board goals our wind UniFi pillars for organizational excellence and we have four areas that we focused on all students connected and thriving all staff connected and thriving strong family community and school relationships and sound
011financial planning and decision-making I'm going to focus on the first three and not the sound financial planning at this time uh because that's the easiest one to update mid year so why is such a focus on Dat of the board meetings well so I I'm going to give you a quote because I think it it struck home for me it's our Collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live so for school what does that mean it means we all have a collective responsibility for the success of our children uh me included and and really the buck stops with me so when we look at our data uh I have goals that are districtwide goals that we review at the beginning of the year uh that you guys
012approve for me and then we try to monitor throughout the year to see if we're hitting the Mark or not and so why do we do this because data can highlight patterns and student performance it can highlight areas that need Improvement uh and for the board specifically one of your roles is to allocate resources and this allows us to allocate resources based on whether we're doing well in certain areas or not in certain areas by using data versus assumptions opinions past experiences whatever it may be instead we look at data and try to make good decisions that are evidence space so one of the first uh areas for all staff connected and thriving there are two different measures that you guys have approved as um what matter we call them our measures the matter and
013the employee engagement survey got screwed up because we tried to transition to a different platform and it didn't work so I don't have data for the employee engagement survey I do have data for youth truth and one of the areas that we've chosen is my school creates a positive work environment and here's our so our goal is 80% and we hit that at the middle in high school which is fantastic we've shown positive friends we've actually shown positive trends at all of our levels elementary middle and high and then if you go down to school specific you can see that call's at 73 Brooks is at 95% uh in terms of positive feedback Matty's at 43 Windor middle 85 Windsor I 80 and big picture learning wins there's 100 so obviously you look at this
014data and there are certain things that stand out mat Washburn is at 43% there are a million different reasons that that could be right so our duty is to make sure that we do a deep dive into why staff are responding with I receive um my school creates a positive environment that's the wrong one it should say my school creates a positive environment at the bottom not I receive regular feedback uh so we have a duty to do a deep dive into that and figure out what's going on there we also have this area strong family community school relationships so here here we look at the number of interdistrict transfers in versus out we look at youth Truth uh for parents feeling that their child's in a safe learning environment and then we also look
015at parents responses centered around I receive regular feedback about my child's progress we want to have plus 200 with regard to inter districts coming in versus out and we want to make sure we're H 80% on the other two marks and historically for in well I'll just go to the next slide so historically if you look at our inner districts uh we have run a NE net negative in terms of in versus out uh we are Inus 131 and 2223 and this is an estimated number because we have a lot of competition with private schools private schools don't have to share their data with us so we have to estimate based on their enrollment and then last year we were at minus 66 but much closer we had a lot more interd District transfers in
016and this year is the first year that I know of that we've been in the positive this does not include Cali this does not include big picture Ling Windsor or snowman County Virtual Academy those are mag schools designed to bring students in this is really just our traditional pathway so we're up to 122 in the positive uh and that this was at the beginning of the year this hasn't been updated since the beginning of the year if you want to break that down the majority of the students coming to us are in grades 6 through 12 in fact 424 are in the secondary area which is good for us because we have capacity in the secondary uh we don't have a lot of capacity at TK through grade five we're running out of room if
017you see the inter District transfer is going out the majority for tk5 go to Windsor Christian and Mark West and Westside westside's about 25 kids Mark West is 1 160 and then you have Windor Christian that makes up the difference and we're completely guessing at Cardinal Newman that it's around 70 we used to have an Insider there that would tell us how many and it used to be around 80 or 85 we no longer have that person so we're we're estimating because we have gotten quite a few kids back uh and then my child's learning environment safe uh so if you're looking we're hoping to be at 80% response positive from parents we're not there yet we are kind of going up and down there's no real trends that are showing but one thing that
018we did highlight is Cali this is TK through grade eight we had some weird data with youth truth and that usually you break C up into Elementary and uh middle but we couldn't do that so C I had to pull out separately and Windsor middle I had to pull out separately um but if you go down and look at Cali you can see we thought maybe there was a trend maybe there's certain grade levels where parents aren't feeling safe for their kids but it was a random second grade level at Cali and so there could be any number of reasons why we may have had very few parents respond and maybe it was just the parents who were upset it could have been that some event happened in second grade that I'm not aware of
019that caused families to feel this way I don't know what the answer is but what I would tell you is we have a duty to figure out that answer our youth truth data is fairly new we just got it so we haven't had a chance to look deep into a lot of these parts but that's stands out if you look at the data right that is 44% so we've got to do uh some research there and again I come back to this is just data these are just numbers we just have a duty to go and research and try to figure out what the issue was and attempt to solve that issue because that's our Collective responsibility if you look at youth truth feedback and I receive regular feedback about my child's progress we're we
020have no Trends we're not trending positively negatively we're pretty stagnant so this is an area that if this is going to be an important data point for the board that I have to do a better job of finding a way to improve our data because I haven't figured it out yet so I've got to own this one and then you get on to the other pillar which is all students connected and thriving and for this one we look at youth truth results that has to do with feeling safe at school and the questions change a little bit from our original but I I'll I'll show you the language and then we have our Casp results for language and math which really when we're monitoring throughout the year we look at our renstar results because that's
021predictive of Casp and it gives us information throughout the year and then finally we have our College and Career Readiness which we're finding a really hard finding really hard to track because there are so many different ways to be deemed college career already so we're looking at grades we're looking at pathway completion I have data for the first three I don't have an updated slide for college in career Readiness but principal Buckman did go over some of the things in her scorecard presentation I think it was last month yeah so when you're looking at middle school we want less than 10% of our students to say that they're not feeling safe at school and unfortunately that's not the case we're at 26% and it's increasing 20 24 to 26 over the past 3 years so
022I did a little bit of a deeper dive into that and broke it up by demographic ethnicity I should say and what was interesting and something we definitely need to spend more time on is the largest percentage was our African-American population 39% of our African-American population who responded to this survey um are stating that they don't feel safe at school what makes that even more interesting is at the high school it's the same results so at the high school we we stay at 8% not feeling save our goal is five and it raised to 11% this year this test this uh survey was given in January and again 177% the highest percentage of students not feeling safe at school our African-American students so once again this is a trend this is something that we definitely
023need to look into and figure out what's going on here and come up with a plan to solve it if you look at our Ela uh results so this is star it's what we use it's it's a it's a national test I think Brian's going to talk a little bit more about it so when you look at star this kind of shows um the progress that we're making in each grade level minus one is kindergarten they just call it minus one for the report and then one is first grade two is second grade so on and so forth so the blue is fall and the red is winter and so we're monitoring our students making growth uh and we're trying to see our students making growth over time that's what we want right because we
024want our goal is 70% of our students are at grade level or meeting the standards meaning where the state has deemed they should be we're not there interestingly enough I don't often look at the 12th grade data because we test for the state in 11th grade but our 12th graders for ELA have hit that 70% based on renstar which I had never seen until recently um and we're pretty close once you get to 11th grade we're you know we're over 60 what 63% roughly it was 59% in the fall and then may growth 63% so we we can do this now what this shows is in kindergarten first and second grade it gets progressively harder in every grade right but there are big jumps at the early levels in terms of first you're just saying
025is that an a right and then you're saying can you sound out a word that has three letters in it then you're going on to passages and doing reading comprehension so what this is showing to me is as the test gets progressively harder our students aren't able to keep up so this becomes an area of focus for us as a district and me and I'm going to share some some ideas after this slide for what we could do but we have to focus on the fact that as this test gets progressively harder our students are not keeping up they're not tracking and we've got to provide some support to look at our program delivery and again I'm going to go back I know why everybody's here right we all do this is a collective responsibility
026this this this Falls to me it's my responsibility to solve things like this and to work with my staff to make sure that we're providing the right resources um and the right systems so that we can support our kids to be successful math is all over the place we don't have a trend so I mean it's a I mean you can see a trend in this one you can't see a trend in math where some grade levels are doing well some are not uh some made a lot of growth some did not we've got a lot of work to do here in math students are struggling so once again we need to look at our entire program TK well I should say K with this data K through 11 and figure out we're not hitting
027the Mark here and nobody in the state is really hitting the mark but that doesn't matter because we're not going to accept that we've got to hit the mark So looking at this data uh we've been working on a concept for for some time now and trying to figure out how to pull it off uh and we're going to evolve our approach to student support by building a comprehensive inclusive model that ensures all students and keyword all receive the services they need while optimizing our resources and board you're in charge of resources right so we're going to try to optimize our resources and improve our efficiency so our students can be more successful because we're not seeing the success that we want specifically and it looks like our students at mattye wasburn need some more
028support so we started with this core beliefs I'm going to read them because I think they're important our current practices are not serving the needs of our students as evidenced by some of our scores in math and Ela based on renstar and our Cas learning gaps happen when students are pulled out of their classroom during core instruction all struggling students regardless of whether or not they have an IEP which is special education designation can benefit from receiving targeted differentiated intervention in the regular classroom small group instruction centers which is smaller groups within one classroom allows for more targeted intervention to occur more adults in a classroom help to manage student behavior and all students can learn at high levels when given the proper instru for their learning style and support when they struggle this is
029important because everything that I'm going to follow up with was built upon these core beliefs oh my picture got messed up of course and successville population everyone uh so here's the unified support model we want all students to spend as much time in the regular classroom as possible so especially for first instruction meaning we often would pull students out to get first instruction with with certain teachers or they may get pulled out to receive intervention we want that intervention to happen inside of the classroom because we believe that all students benefit from individualized support in the classroom without the stigma of being pulled out for services also we think that all students regardless of their needs should have access to the same high quality instruction and we know that our classroom teachers are the best
030of delivering high quality instruction so what are we going to do well here's what it looks like uh this is we're formalizing this plan we're sharing it tonight in that we want to change our classroom support structure we want to hire a site specific instructional coach at mattye wasburn who provides ongoing training for teachers and instructional AIDS none of which that we have for first and second grade right now but if you remember the trend we're struggling in some of those great those those areas to support our students this would ensure consistent high quality support furthermore we're going to add AIDS for all classrooms we already have them for TK and K we are also proposing to add them to first and second grade uh 5 and 1/2 hours daily instructural Aid support um so
031that we can do a number of things we can reduce the adult the student ratio from right now it's 24:1 we can reduce that to 12:1 which allows us to provide more targeted intervention and allows us to to run centers which is very difficult when you don't have another adult in the room to help you teach DK we're already at 1 to 10 ratio we have two adults to to 20 children that's required by law uh and in kindergarten we have AIDS but they're only in there for a shorter amount of time than 5 and a half hours because they're shared for other duties and we're going to modify that to make sure that we shift their time so that 5 and 1 half hours of their time is spent in kindergarten on top of
032that we're proposing that we not proposing we're going to provide Prof professional development to our instructional assistance 8 to 12 hours at the beginning of the year uh this will be a joint effort between the instructional coach and our director of curriculum and instruction and assessment uh in year one we've tried to start scaffolding this out year one would be Child Development classroom management introduction to differentiated instruction and supporting students with disabilities year two would be Advanced topics in classroom management trauma and for practices and cultural competency but beyond that uh with this model and being 5 and 1/2 hours there can be times throughout the year or the week where we can pull these instructional aids for let's say an hour and they get some targeted professional development uh from the instructional coach because
033that instructional coach lives at the site so all of this to say uh is you know your job board is to look at data and to target areas that we're not performing uh and my job is to own those areas and to make sure that if we're not performing in certain areas that we have a plan to address those those shortcom if you will and so this is an attempt at trying to provide more support and resources so that we can improve some of the outcomes uh that we were seeing are there any questions I don't see any questions okay thank you thank you okay next is our assistant superintendence report good evening board so we wanted to provide some a little bit of context um about the purpose of the universal screeners um where
034they came from and why we do them so uh when we met with our elcap core committee this year and created our um our goals um we went with the pillars and goal number one all students are connected and thriving and specifically uh we set a goal that through PR uh prek through third grade that we would focus on literacy and math support with that goal of 70% meeting or exceeding and at that point we made the decision to put the stake in the ground and say is we have to start at the beginning uh the only way that we're going to see success throughout all of the grades moving through is that if they have a strong foundation so uh years and years and years and years ago we started with I ready um
035that had a lot of issues in particular it uh took way too long to get the assessment done um and it didn't have it in Spanish so Cali was using uh Renaissance which is what we use now um so we pivoted the whole District uh to so everyone is using renstar it's still a rocky start last year uh it was the ww west we let every school pick their own screening Windows each School chose how many windows they wanted to have different schools gave different assessments there was no consistency between early literacy and reading with the first and second grade students and then ultimately the data we got last year from rstar did not uh produce meaningful results hopefully this year we fixed it so what are we screening for well it's very specific when
036we're talking about early literacy skills and kindergarden we're looking for that pheic awareness letter recognition fluency phonics vocabulary comprehension similar in first grade with phic awareness phonics fluency uh vocabulary and basic GRE comprehension and then moving into second grade uh we have phonics fluency vocabulary reading comprehension and then a huge shift uh we started looking at informational texts and the third grade and Beyond it is fluency vocabulary reading comprehension text analysis and then and then a heavy emphasis on critical thinking so to give you an idea of what students would be expected with an early literacy passage compared to an actual third grade Casp release question so that could be described as something that might be expected at the end of the first grade year uh to the end of the third grade year so
037as you can see these teachers have a major lift uh between moving a kid from being a six-year-old to an 8-year-old and so um I do have a statement that I I want to read and I want to address my comment from the last board meeting I know it affected many of you some of you felt disrespected unheard and unappreciated others felt sadness anger and humiliation for that I sincerely apologize I know that in just a few minutes many of you will come up to this Podium and express those feelings and tell me and everyone here exactly how you feel and that's okay if my words gave that impression I take responsibility for that that was never my intent and I regret that my comment derailed the conversation because instead of focusing on our students
038and the reading ability we're now debating whether or not I support teachers no matter what is here and said what is uh no matter what is said here tonight the most important thing hasn't changed we are here to ensure that every student in this District learns how to read wsor Unified District administration shares the responsibility for our Student Success especially when it comes to something as critical as literacy our teachers share our belief that every child deserves the opportunity to develop essential reading skills administrators and teachers must come together reflect and take action to ensure that we provide the necessary curriculum coaching and feedback to to give every student TK through 12 the best possible education when it's all said and done I hope we can ship the conversation back to where it belongs to
039our students and I want to finish by talking about in terms of what we are calling our shared responsibility and that is uh the professional development that we've done so far this year and to let everyone know uh what the professional development that we have planned for the remaining of the year so we started off the year on September 6th uh we brought in uh Dr Lis Cruz and he did a major kickoff um explaining for the whole District the purpose of the professional Learning Community work and building off the work of our guiding Coalition from last year uh then on November 1st uh Annette zuccone came in and gave us a great um professional development on curriculum mapping and then she has been working with grade level teams uh since then to move the
040work along and then on April 11th we have a professional development geared towards common formative assessments uh so secondary teachers will receive a three-hour training in the morning and primary teachers will receive a similar training in the afternoon thank you thanks Brian next we have staff Association reports we start with wda if you have a report Susanna Feer wdea president um at this time wdea does not have an association report however we would like to accept Brian's apology thank you we appreciate it very much and I'm sure my colleagues would agree with me on a personal level that we um do share this important responsibility it's an awesome humbling responsibility to educate the children of Windsor in literacy and numeracy thank you thank you uh CA hi there good evening board I'm Sheila wac chapter
041673 for CCA I do have a report actually um I'm vice president of csca but I am standing here today um for Ross actually he uh suffered pretty big cardiac event uh last Monday February 10th uh playing video games with his son and he doesn't remember anything after that but his 27-year-old son uh gave him CPR uh for a good 20 minutes and he was without a pulse for 20 minutes and during that CPR uh his lung was punctured and three broken ribs but he did it right and he saved his life and so he is doing well it's a miracle he is actually uh doing well he went home uh yesterday he has a def defibrillator um but while he is out at least for the next six months I'll be stepping up as
042president or de facto president uh so I'll be coming here and speaking on behalf so that is my report for csca and uh we're pretty excited about the jobs that uh superintendent Decker brought up uh for the instructional AIDS are our people are I just pushed it through the today to CSA to six t it so we can bring it back to our members for vote thank you very much please pass our best wishes to Ross yes thank you okay now we're moving on to public comment on non-agenda items I'm going to read some things so that there are many of us here and I want to make sure we all know what we need to do so any person may address the board on any consent AC an item or item not listed on
043the agenda pursuant to the brown act during this period the board is not allowed to consider these issues or take action on any item not listed on the agenda we ask that public comment be spoken into the microphone from the podium um and in accordance with our one of our board policies individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda or non-agenda item we have these timers that we're going to try to use and uh we'll try to keep track of time that way so that we don't have to interrupt um if anyone reaches the three minute Mark um and and then the board shall limit the total time for public input on each topic on each item to 20 minutes so on the Maddie wasburn topic there will be
044a total of 20 minutes per comment on that item um okay what we like to you can't do that you can't just say 20 minutes is 20 minutes that's a violation if there are more parents are willing to speak or any staff member that are willing to see speak on the issue you have to hear let me read the rest with board consent the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for Public Presentation depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to be heard the president may take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional person speak only if they have something new to add so we'll we'll why don't we start with public comment on non-agenda items that are not related to MADD wasburn
045so that we can address those first and then we'll turn it over to the other [Music] topic hello everyone my name is Erica Garcia and I will read uh first in Spanish and later on English I may take a little bit more of three minutes ER WI High School [Music] am ET [Music] p excuse me ma'am that they this been blinking red for a few little bit I know this is kind of new the Town Council does it so green is good yellow me you got 30 seconds and then red means your 3 minutes is expired yeah but maybe it will take if you want to hit it on English yes we want to hear English English can somebody else in the group read it in English I can do it I know you can't
046can so it basically everybody's supposed to be 3 minutes is what it is I'll read it for you in English Okay thank you that' be great thank you okay so I will take my remain minutes so [Applause] spe WI [Music] okay I'm Kelly liser I'm going to read the translation my name is Erica Garcia I have two sons who were born in Windsor and spent their entirety of their school careers in Windsor Unified School District my oldest is a windsor high school graduate class of 2019 my youngest graduate class of 2024 today I'm here once again to advocate for our Latino students not only to show support but because we need to ensure they are supported and protected as they are vulnerable in light of the recent anti-immigrant policies however we all know these policies
047are not new in the past I also rallied alongside other parents for safe spaces in Windsor Schools during Trump's last presidential campaign the build the wall this same rhetoric fueled this hatred toward our immigrant communities and incited his followers to report immigrants and persecute those who supported us I remember the protests where high school students walked out to stand against these dangerous hateful policies including students from Windsor High School I recall the numerous board meetings we attended to urge our board to declare our school safe havens this issue affects not only our families but also our friends our community ities and the over well overall well-being of our society when did the alarm Bells first ring for the Latino families in the school district the initial letter was sent to families on J January 27th
048it begins with the statement dear families we know many people are concerned nothing is more important to us than the safety and education of our children however what troubled most people was the part that states while there are some legal actions we can later take for now we may not be able to stop ice Agents from entering our our schools that provides explanation of what schools can do for now the lack of more information on available resources only created chaos and fear among our Latino families this reflects a notable lack of empathy why do I say that the letter seems aimed at families who comprehend the legal terms mentioned in the statement many of us the parents of those students work in fields restaurants cleaning other jobs that the vast majority Overlook these jobs have
049continued throughout wildfires pandemics raids and more let's remember that during the pandemic while privileged individuals or those with more resources worked from home access State assistance we had to keep working in the fields so everyone could have food on the table or in the wineries so that you could only enjoy that so that you could enjoy the wines and in restaurants in grocery stores so that food could be delivered to our homes we cleaned your houses and bathrooms with face masks on so that you could have been clean and disinfected spaces what about the hospitals where normal and covid patients arrived we managed all that waste uh then returned home cleaned ourselves prepared meals and ensured our children could participate in distance learning and then everyone realized that we were essential workers but now we
050are just disposable families I'm going to just get to the very end here um just as we are in the streets fighting for the rights of everyone for diversity for our Latino community and vulnerable groups you should fight too share and organize various workshops on rights for immigrants for students what to do how to organize ourselves as a community for the good of all and a healthy and strong Community united we can thank you thank you thank you all right next up hello so we are students with Windsor High School NOA School for the Arts come a little closer and also introduce yourself hello so we are students with the NOA School for the Arts and we are here to invite you to our production of the Phantom pole Booth uh yes so we are
051put on this production it we're opening on March 6th we have shows um March 6th March 7th March 8th at 6:00 p.m. and then Sunday March 9th at um 2: p.m. um we're this for all ages so feel free to um invite children and invite um families to come and we are very excited and we have some posters here if anyone would like to hang them up in places of work or such if you remember can you name the um the name of the production I wasn't able to hear the Phantom toll booth the Phantom toll booth B on the children's book Thank you are those posters for us yes if you yeah please bring them over could one of you share with the group I think our student trustees mentioned the following week after
052you open you're going to have student performances at the high school where our Littles will come over what days are those planned for uh yes we have I'm I'm not sure the exact dates that we're doing them currently we have one day schedule uh if anyone wants to come on Wednesday around 10:30 send me an email thank you thank you on the it only has four days I thought you send more but is it just four there's four there's four for public and then we are you can Mr John Richards if you are a teacher and you would like to bring your class to see the performance on a school day okay perfect thank you very much good evening president Ahmad members of the board and district office staff and fellow community members my name
053is Rebecca roacha I am a resident of Windsor I have a daughter who attends Windsor high school I have another daughter with a disability who's no longer attending Windsor Schools I'm here again representing the group of parents who came to the last board meetings in November and December to request that you consider discussing the discipline including suspensions of students with disabilities on a board agenda at the last meeting we were told that there would be a meeting scheduled in the spring we eagerly await the date of the special study session or board meeting rather than provide us with a presentation of current supports offered to students I'm asking that you develop a special protocol to ensure that the civil rights of students with disabilities are not being violated ated we have shared with you stories
054who are suspended for up to 5 days at a time sent home with no instructional program then weit at home up for weeks up to 5 months to await a non-public school or a sco placement we want a protocol that outlines that you will stop this practice and you will exhaust all options of support before sending our children to a non-public school in order to keep the board apprised of how many students this is happening to I would like to request that you develop a special dashboard that outlines your suspension of stud students with this moderate severe disabilities and or intense behavioral issues like ADHD so that someone is monitoring the situation the board has no idea how many students this is happening to because it's not being treated as an expulsion even though it
055essentially is Mr Carnation Miss Ahmad and Mr Adams you all expressed deep concern about the drop in test scores of a particular grade level at the last board meeting while I didn't agree with the manner in which you communicated your disappointment I am requesting the same level of concerns for students with disabilities you were clearly outraged that typical second grade students did not show improvements on one computerized standardized test yet you had no response when we shared emotional stories of what has happened to students with disabilities and Windsor we look forward to returning for a special study session to create change in how you will promise to treat students with disabilities and behavioral challenges in Windsor wusd is spending $140,000 per month to send students to in winds or to non-public schools and that doesn't
056include scope placements imagine the money you would be saving if you could keep some of those students in Windsor you have to see the connection between how you are treating our children and how much it is costing you in the long run that impacts all the general education students please care about our kids because it takes away services like reading Intervention which could be helping the second graders thank you for your time we look forward to a scheduled time to discuss this important topic with you thank you Rebecca hello good evening my name is Megan Knight I stand before you again today I was also here in November not just as a parent but as an advocate for all of the neurod Divergent children and families who have suffered under the leadership of the Windsor
057Unified School District special education department and in my case specifically Patricia Chadwick at M wasburn Elementary and Crystal High I want to speak directly to this board about a great issue that continues to affect our community the systemic failures and profound trauma cause to our children and their families let me remind you of your mission statement as stated on the district's website The Windsor Unified School District Board of Trustees is dedicated to fostering an environment where every student can achieve academic excellence and personal growth in a safe and supportive setting the term every student also includes children with disabilities yet far too many F families are finding their children neglected and mistreated Within in this district and it's not okay back in November we asked for a special study session to address these issues specifically
058to look Beyond presentations about services and to examine the injustices that so many families face let's examine the outside contracts which I presume are board approved and why are they not working let's look at the leadership in place why are parents having to advocate so hard to keep the school district in compliance I'm asking this board to stop and truly consider the trauma caused by the system do you know what it's like to walk in the shoes of a parent with a child who's neurode Divergent do you feel the weight of the struggles every day if you did the issue would resonate with you as much as test scores or any other metric the failures my family has endured are not isolated I've spoken to countless families in similar positions and there's a clear pattern
059of dismissive and insensitive behavior from your chosen leadership our children are not just names in a file they're individuals and they deserve compassion professionalism and respect I urge you to understand the gravity of this issue I stand here today because I want Future Families to have a better experience than we did I don't want to continue hearing about children Lost In A system that is unreasonably difficult to navigate our children deserve a system that works for them not against them the district is sending spending substantial resources to relocate these students to specialized programs I ask you to take this issue seriously to investigate and to listen to the families effective and make necessary changes it's it's time for the district to fulfill its legal obligation and ensure that every student receives the education and support
060they deserve I would like to end with Adriana the social emotional counselor is an absolutely amazing employee and I hope that you guys keep her for the long term she is the only person that I would trust with my child at Matty wasburn Elementary and I would like to also report that my child is thriving and having literally almost none of the issues that we had at Windsor in his new placement thank you thank you Megan do we have any other public comments on non-agenda items not related to Maddie wasburn okay then we'll start this section we'll set a 20 minute timer the board will take a poll at the end of 20 minutes and if there's still more to say and the we'll take a poll and decide whether we're going to extend past
061that um so you can go ahead good evening members of the Schoolboard parents teachers and community members my name is Christy Selby I've been a parent in this District since my oldest daughter started TK at matd Washburn in 2017 I'm also the current president of the Maddie Brooks PTA and I stand here as a voice for our Educators our students and the values that bind us together as a school Community I want to begin by acknowledging the Deep frustration and disappointment that many parents and teachers have expressed in response to the recent remarks made by members of this board these comments which have been widely perceived as disparaging toward our teachers have not only caused hurt but have also undermined the trust and respect that are essential for a thriving educational environment our teachers are
062the backbone of this District they are the ones who show up every day often early in the morning and long after the final Bell Rings to nurture Inspire and educate our children they do this not for recognition or accolades but because they are deeply committed to shaping the future of our students they take on countless roles Educators mentors counselors and cheer cheerleaders and sometimes even second parents to disparage their dedication is not just unfair it's harmful to the very fabric of our schools when negative remarks about teachers are made by those in leadership positions it sends a message that their hard work and sacrifices are not valued it discourages morale among education Ed Educators makes it hard to attract and retain high quality teachers and creates unnecessary div Vision between parents and staff these remarks
063distract from our shared Mission providing the best possible education for every child in this District tonight I urge this board to reflect on its role as leaders in this community leadership is not just about making decisions it's about setting an example it's about fostering collaboration showing respect for all stakeholders and Building Bridges where there may be divides I ask this board and the assistant superintendent to acknowledge their behavior towards our teachers last month and move forward with a renewed commitment to supporting our teachers that means recognizing their contributions publicly listening to their concerns thoughtfully and ensuring they have the resources they need to succeed in their classrooms when we uplift our teachers we uplift our students and that benefits everyone to my fellow parents I know how much we all care about our children's education
064I hope we can Channel our frustration into action by advocating for policies that Empower both students and teachers to the school board I ask you to remember why you chose to serve in this capacity let's work together to heal these divisions and create an environment where respect is mutual and progress as possible thank you thank you Christie all right oh no okay hello for those of you that don't know me but probably have heard of me my name is call lardy and I'm a second grade teacher at mty wasman I've been teaching at mie for 13 years it is the only School I've ever taught at my husband was born and raised in Windsor and we went through the Windor School sorry he went through the winster schools we also have two daughters who are
065flourishing in the district a huge part of that being because of the teachers they have had they've all been amazing they have challenged them helped them grow and love them as their own these teachers are the heart of the district and it is very hard not to take it personal when we hear comments coming from a group of people about a job that several of you have never done teaching 24 or more kids with different academic social and behavioral needs is the job that we all signed up for we understand that in the last meeting as board you spoke down upon a specific grade level but your judgment sarcasm and unprofessionalism is being directed at the entire teaching Community which is an interesting strategy coming from administrators and a school board that have far less
066experience in a classroom than most of the teachers you're currently passing judgment on this is not the way to support and promote a district as I said I've been teaching in this district for 13 years and in that time not once has any board member been in my classroom so to be totally honest the judgments from a board that has no experience in the area is hard to swallow it's the opinions of these parents here tonight that have come to support us and the colleagues that are here that's whose opinion means a lot I understand that you all have a job to do and that that job is to direct the district as a whole in the right direction not point fingers at a small group of hard working professionals that are doing everything in
067their power to educate and better the lives of every student that passes through their doors and doing so with limited support or guidance from anyone above us it's become very clear to many of us that a majority of you on the board have already made up your minds about us teachers the unfortunate truth is that you form this decision from only half truths and misinformation this is largely in part to the people passing along that information it has been driven by Egos and grudges held against Any teacher that is willing to stand up for themselves or others some facts that have been overlooked are that two years ago second grade saw the highest rise and ren star scores across our district 12th sorry 2nd through 12th grade the last two teachers of the Year from
068mie were both second grade teachers last our team serves on multiple committees at Maddie such as leadership Union site Council and PTA all of which are positions we are asked for our opinion and advice and we are now being ridiculed for it what's truly fascinating about all of this is the district's plan to solve this problem has nothing to do with improving student scores or addressing the performance of the teachers they view as subpar instead there's been a rumor circulating about breaking up the second grade team well last Friday that rumor became a reality when I personally was informed that I was being moved not just to a different grade at Maddie but to another school within the district while the district has the right to move teachers in my 13 years here it has
069been incredibly rare for someone to be uprooted without requesting it the reason I was given is that I'm a strong teacher and that I need to work under a stronger administrator however the timing of all this seems coincident it seems convenient that after a certain administrator at the last meeting spoke about or spoke about our principal covering for us along with a board member referring to us as the fly and the punch and another member resorting to social media to make comments along the same line the rumor now is that more of us will be moved and it's starting to feel like the administration's goal is to break up a team because they fight for a present in supportive admin and who stand up for the teachers they work with every day whether it's in
070their own grade level or not as a teacher and a parent in this District I feel the focus of the district has shifted away from what really matters the kids I'm here I'm up here speaking for myself and my team and I can assure you that we will be all be sorry that we will all be in our classrooms tomorrow and every day thereafter working our butts off for the betterment of every student as to the members of the board and anyone that's in front of me our doors are always open for you to come in see the work that we're putting in but I have a feeling that you probably won't be there but I sincerely hope so thank you to all that have come to support us we really appreciate everyone thank you
071cie my name is Jenna Schmidt and I have two children at Matty wasburn I'd like to address the blatant attack on our second grade teachers at the last board meeting these accusations are not only inaccurate and cruel but do not represent the true dedication of these Stellar individuals here are the facts these are covid kids they didn't get the experience of preschool and many social interactions before they entered School while these eager students should have been given basic fundamental knowledge instead they experienced multiple extreme challenges for for example one kindergarten class had upwards of 10 various substitute teachers who quit because of toxic Administration and finally dis dispersed into the remaining six classes due to the lack of teacher stability and school leadership the students with educational challenges were passed over or neglected principal gone
072before the end of school year first grade parents had high hopes that that this grade would be a vast improvement over what had happened in kindergarten while the majority of first grade teachers were excellent and prepared my son's teacher was severely lacking parents raised major red flags to Administration while the new principal remained completely unresponsive and would not meet or communicate with s in any manner this teacher left her position midyear parents and students were thrilled when highly qualified individual whom was competent and well-liked was placed in the position however after 30 days she was replaced without communication from Administration with a long-term sub who was Ill prepared and the students were taught weren't taught critical grade level skills for basic success the students were Ed with educational challenges were again passed over and did
073not get the testing or services that they needed this year I wasn't concerned of who my child would get as a teacher since all displayed stability professionalism and Excellence the second grade team has been the only group to stay with our students in the entire of a school year all students with learning challenges are finally getting addressed and being helped please keep our second grade staff whole a transfer of any of the Stellar group of teachers would undo the stability and strength that has been the Hallmark of this grade level for many years however the lack of leadership Outreach and communication from the Administration has been the continued of this outstanding lackluster during our three short years at Maddie when when we parents have voiced our concerns we are stonewalled and ignored it's not the
074open door policy that we were promised I look to you our school board to address not our teacher problem but our leadership problem our principal is not engaged in the daily workings of the school and is rarely seen on campus however our Dean has proven her Hands-On resourceful proactive Services of our staff student and Community alike while her position is being dissolved next school year do better do better by our kids please thank you Jenna hi my name is lanao and this is my first grade team and husband um I have worked in the district for 20 years writing these words has been a serious challenge I retribution as that is already happening here on our campus teachers are being moved and our highly rated Dean has been let go for next year however it
075is important to speak up for what I believe is right and to support my hardworking co-workers against misinformation being fed to the board I intend No Malice towards individuals but rather honesty and openness the district has spent years trying to talk teachers into being open and friendly with data it is here to help guide us it isn't to be used against Educators to embarrass us at a previous board meeting those spreading that word weaponized data against a team of people they are mad at and want to embarrass they did the exact opposite of what they have been preaching and the data was not even valid the fact that our principal stood there and said nothing to defend the second grade teachers and their scores was extremely disappointing allow me to share some insights a great
076many of those second grade teachers had brand new teachers in kindergarten if they were lucky many had no teachers multiple teachers long-term substitute teachers Maddie was having a hard time getting teachers to stay in kindergarten which greatly affected student academic and behavioral progress the staff reached out over and over for Behavioral support as our principal is often off- campus finally mid year the school was allowed to hire a real student adviser the following year we were authorized to have if not a vice principal at least a dean and she's been fabulous those kindergarteners went to first grade last year Brian had our Stars reading scores Set uh from the end of kindergarten sent to us so we could see we could start tracking progress it showed only one of my students at grade level that
077year I felt I was failing my students in families especially my many language Learners besides the academics there were serious behavior issues if I was the administrator and I saw a class like that and an experienced and enthusiastic teacher calling for help I would get involved and start asking questions are the classes balanced how many of the kindergarteners were affected by all of the teacher changes and substitutes the previous years what do the new teachers need isn't that what data should be used for the administration should have already predicted that these students would face extra challenges at at the end of last year the decision was made to cut the reading intervention teaching position and reduce English language learner Services they could see us failing so how could cutting services make things better for the
078students there are wonderful things here at Maddie but if the priority is academic achievement then the board members need to start visiting the classrooms get involved and talk to a variety of teachers instead of judging scores those in decision-making positions should be trying to help figure out how to help our teachers help our students not trying to defeat teachers who are ringing alarm Bells academic Excellence at Matty wasburn should be a priority for everyone in this District as all will benefit there is ample research linking reading by the end of first grade towards later success imagine how much less money would be needed on Remediation in higher grades if students left Maddie at grade level and in math too we need our families to lift their voices as theirs are most often the only only
079ones heard your children deserve a school with an on-site administrator who can be more involved and visible and to receive the attention that they need I encourage people to ask questions seek answers from a variety of sources and find out how you can help thank you than good evening my name is Donna my son Rowan is a second grader in Washburn I want to start by reminding this board and administration that this second grade class was your last I ready kinderart cohort in these six years of that data collection this cohort was the least prepared cohort entering kindergarten in 2022 an average of 22 students were found to be ready to go at kindergarten entry when you disaggregate that data and look at Spanish-speaking families that data plummets to only 13% of children ready to
080go and entry to kindergarten you had robust data over 2 years ago regarding the unique needs of this cohort and yet to date no one has been able to tell me how this board this District or this school provided additional resources to these children who you knew needed more our family's experience in this the first two years in this District to put it kindly was a complete disaster my son had six different teachers in the first two years along with four different principles in those two years I heard acknowledgement of what wasn't working but little by the way of what the school or District could do to improve his experience his incredible second teacher Carrie West and his entire second grade teaching team has redeemed our family's experience in this district and has given him
081what I had always hoped for when he entered the public education system if you are using data to drive decision-making you have ethical responsibilities regarding how that data is gathered organized and used as you look at the data presented to you in January of this year I would caution that data gathered in methods and manners that are contraindicated by the tools being used is at best useless at worst it is causing harm to our children and damaging them we have entrusted our children's lives and Futures in this District as our leadership body you have the responsibility to ensure our children are not harmed in the institutions you are charged to lead you seem to have abandoned these responsibilities and what appears to be an effort to Target a team or make a point the goal
082purpose of which remains entirely unclear to me and likely many others presenting data to this body without preparation for the team being targeted in that presentation was unethical no one on this board approached the presentation with a level of curiosity or interest and better understanding what was actually happening for our children instead there was visible and audible anger frustration and blaming our children and their teachers were described as and I quote a fly and a big old pot of wonderfulness a booger that never gets fixed and everyone is doing the group project but somebody's not doing the group project your statements speak volumes about your lack of respect and appreciation for the teachers in your District the children they teach and the families who are trying desperately to support our children through I implore this
083board and this Administration to do better be better you owe that to our children to our teachers and to this entire community thank you Donna I was hoping I could um see over this Podium because I'm kind of short so I was hoping I can get up here um good evening to the board administrators teachers and parents that are here this evening my name is Karen winter and I'm a sped teacher at mattye wasburn but not only that I'm a parent of two kids that have gone through this district and a Community member for the past 30 years I have supported my kids as well as many of your children either academically or through Sports I'm here to speak on a few things I want to address my deep sadness at the way teachers in
084our district were treated at the last board meeting the comments that were made were hurtful and extremely unprofessional as a teacher parent and Community member I expect from the people who are put in this position to represent and support our students and staff in this District to do better than that it's so easy to sit and cast blame on something that is not working without trying to figure out why why in order for teachers to do their jobs we need to be supported and given materials needed to do our jobs every year many teachers news and season start out the school year waiting for supplies and materials I would like to look at this from the lens of a sped teacher we as sped teachers are asked to teach students the same curriculum that is
085offered to gened students excuse me but modified in the seven years that I have taught special students with special needs I have had to hodg Podge curriculum from many different places because I have never seen a full set of curriculum for sped students um fast forward a few years and now Jenna teachers are getting a new updated curriculum but yet again sped was not given a full set of curriculum because of the fact that I'm a strong advocate for my students and team we did finally after a year get a full set of curriculum I don't mind fighting and advocating for sped students and teachers but it should not have to be that way um sorry students with disabilities um and teachers sorry sorry sorry sorry students with disabilities should be supported and included as
086just as gened students are the last thing I want to address is the fact that Maddie is an amazing school with exceptional teachers and staff that care deeply about the education of our students but we do so much more these students are here at the beginning of their academic career and not only do they need academic support they are learning to be students how to sit in the classroom how to be independent how to share and play with others and most importantly how to learn how to manage their feelings the teachers at Maddie from TK to 2 grade including our sped team as well as our amazing support team are doing everything we can to help these students create a solid foundation but we can't do it alone we need to have the support from
087all of you we need to all work together as a team some systems in this District seem to be broken so we need to stop throwing flame figure out what is not working and find Solutions thank you thank you Karen so we're at 20 minutes raise your hand if you're planning to make a comment on this item just so I know how many we have we've got four okay so vote from the board who is in favor of continuing on for the last four comments I'd suggest through 7:30 that will give us or just finish these last four who've already lined up okay then we'll continue good evening my name is Rachel Lee and I'm a new parent at Maddie wasburn I grew up in Windsor and went to the Windsor Schools from fifth grade
088through high school I decided to come today and speak about my concerns and frustrations I have with the current politics between the district admin and M Washburn staff and how it's affecting the school after listening to the January board meeting I was concerned about the scores but more concerned about the board's position on what needs to happen to make a change I agree with many things said that we as a community and school need to do whatever it takes to make the necessary changes for students to succeed and improve during the last meeting the board publicly expressed that they support whatever needs to happen get the job done but that does not seem to be the case the dysfunctional relationship between the school district admin and the teachers is unacceptable it seems that any staff
089member teacher that has any constructive criticism to finding a solution or requesting resources to succeed at their job are told to sit down and stay in their place as a parent before test scores were even a topic I was asking myself why there is why is there no on-site reading specialist available to the students why is there no PE program for the children is this a funding issue how is this benefiting our children by not having these resources available to them it is disheartening as a parent that the teachers that dedicate their life to bettering my child's future are being punished for requesting basic tools to do their job and receive no support from the union and board as a community member and parent that voted for some of you sitting up there I feel
090like I have made a wrong choice and feel like I'm being let down the board's position should be to support the staff and faculty and the members of the community and come up with a positive solution that helps everyone especially your children I'm confused by the motives of the board and wonder what you are trying to achieve by silencing staff that speak out are you trying to push out teachers that stand up for Change and defy what the board thinks is best what good comes from losing staff and teachers that have created a relationship with our children and made a positive imprint on our children's life why wouldn't we try to work with current staff and come up with a collective solution that helps teachers it's unacceptable that a group of educated established adults in
091your position can't work together to come up with a solution that is agreed on by all it may currently be a battle between the board and faculty but the children are the ones paying the price and it shows in their test scores I'm going to be 100% honest after discovering the treatment of the teachers and staff and the non-supportive attitude of the union and board behind the scenes I'm unsure if I'm going to keep my child at Maddie or in the Windsor School District I know you can't respond to my comments but the community and parents deserve answers to these questions excuse me ma'am thank you Rachel oh I was going to ask you I missed your I didn't get right now I was going to ask if you could say your name again Rachel
092e great thank you my name is Cassandra Alano and I am a teacher at Maddie wasburn I appreciate the opportunity to speak about an issue that directly affects our students public school funding has always been a challenge but the real concern is how the money is being spent over the years more administrative positions have been added at our district office while schools continue to struggle with fewer resources roles that were once managed by a single person have now been split into multiple positions meanwhile at the school level essential student services are being cut our district is not prioritizing the students needs we don't have a PE teacher we don't have a music teacher there are absolutely no extracurricular programs to enrich students education other districts around us continue to offer these opportunities ensuring that their
093students receive a well-rounded education while ours go without and now despite these existing gaps we are now losing the dean position at Maddie Washburn a role essential for daily students support and success my next concern will there be a reading intervention teacher next year or will that ALS be eliminated earlier this year we were repeatedly told that there was no money for this position after months of advocating and being told funds were unavailable the district finally hired a reading intervention teacher while this is a step in the right direction it raises an important question will this support remain in place next year or will we once again be forced to fight for a resource that directly impacts Student Success to be CLE this is not about questioning the importance of admin support and their roles
094but how do we justify cutting essential student services while expanding District level positions if our budget is tight why is the first solution to take away from the students rather than re-evaluating the need for district level admin growth we are not the only District facing Financial struggles but what sets our situation apart is the choice is being made expanding District admin while reducing direct student support this is not just a financial Financial issue it's a matter of priorities I urge the board board to reconsider how resources are being distributed can we find a way to put students first and ensure that we are meeting the fundamental needs of the students in our classroom our students deserve more not less thank you thank you Cassandra hello and thank you board members for listening to me this
095evening my name is Stephanie Olen and my stepdaughter is a second grader at mattye wasburn elementary I'm here today to advocate for our second grade teachers who are being unfairly blamed for student assess M scores to hold one factor solely responsible ignores the significant barriers this group of students face the pandemic's early the pandemic's impact on their Early Learning and Social Development the unique needs of dual language Learners in classrooms with mostly monolingual instructors insufficient support from administrators High rates of turnover with both leadership and teachers and deficiencies in both special education and needs based programming the these assessment scores should not be seen as a fly in the punch but rather as a canary in the mine warning us of the need for corrective action before the whole system falls apart systematic issues not
096teacher performance alone heavily influence student outcomes instead of scapegoating Educators or trying to coach from the sidelines let's focus on addressing these challenges to create an environment where all students can Thrive and teachers can effectively support them we must invest in Solutions not blame each of us here are stakeholders and need to collaborate to address the concern that so many students across all grade levels are not scoring at grade level in reading or math as a parent I take my role in my child's education very seriously and expect the same level of commitment throughout the various levels of the Windsor education system one of the stated responsibilities of the Board of Trustees according to the district website is encouraging active participation from students teachers and community members to foster a collaborative educational Community the comments
097made by administrators and board members in reaction to the second grade assessment results did not show a spirit of collaboration but instead displayed a desire to pass the book and throw hardworking dedicated teachers under under the bus assessment data of any kind should never be looked at in a vacuum like this or have one data set picked out from the rest to try to prove a point results must be looked at within the proper context and consider how diverse factors can influence the results of the group yes the second grade assessment scores overall were not the results we wanted to see but to make bold assumptions and accusations an attempt to prompt Swift action off a single data set is not only ignorant but threatens the goals of the District board administrators teachers and parents
098we are all on the same team working together for the success of our students so let's act like it thank you for your time thank you [Music] Stephanie good evening board my name is Adam I'm speaking as a parent of a preschooler at Madie after hearing some of the comments from the board members and assistant superintendent I'm having second thoughts of putting my son in TK here let it be clear data matters it could help improve education but data does not define a teacher what I heard in the last meeting in the way data was used to criticize teachers was disrespectful inappropriate and unproductive teaching is a hard job from what I heard it seems that the board members that were talking have never been in front of a classroom yet they were quick to
099judge the people who do this hard work every day teachers deserve respect and support from their Administration the board and the district and anything less hurts not only our teachers but also our kids after hearing that meeting I wonder what happens when the public isn't watching if teachers are spoken this way in public what were they being said behind closed doors I'll end with this the assistant superintendent and the board members who criticize these teachers owe them an apology honestly I'm shocked at the lack of kindness and understanding if that did not happen before today our teachers and importantly our children deserve better thank you thank you Adam okay thank you for all of the comments we'll now move on to the Board of Trustees report does anyone have a report well thank you um
100I I will share and again the public comment I get is heartfelt um a couple of my colleagues were mentioned I was actually the first one who started the questions to the m principal and I don't recall seeing most if not any of you there maybe you watch it on video um but um I will tell you I have seen seen a total of three pieces of written correspondence before today this is a very inefficient way to get feedback back and forth you talk at us now we have to talk at you because we can't interact in Clos session and we got a media a letter dated January 29th from the second grade team um a letter dated February 15th from a first grade teacher and a letter dated yesterday from a classroom Aid this
101is a very important issue we have received more letters about the dog policy in the district than we have communication so I just would ask you to send you letter no this is not an interactive time ma' I'm sorry but what I'd like to do is have real communication this is not it but anyway um just you know this is not helping I got it so we would like to talk to you not rather than talking past each other and I'll just leave it at that um there's good things I wanted to report um I was pleased to see in our wior connection Magazine on positive things our Windsor Middle School girls basketball team one we sometimes don't talk about high schools but more importantly Germaine to some of the things that we're talking about
102today and later on in the in the agenda we went to a Sona County Office of Education trustee training that's held every two years and had a very good presentation and then debrief afterwards by Professor Joseph Bishop from UCLA and a book that is our children can't wait and the I hope we can get past talking past each other because this is I agree with you ma'am this is not helping and we get to deliberate together in person that's when we get to talk about things when we're sitting up here we we do not deliberate in closed session do not talk to each other about District business except when we're up here and to do that we need to be more engaged I think with you and I would ask that we do that we
103leave it at that so uh that's all that I have good evening um thanks for everybody coming the um actually I'm glad everybody's here the for 30 years well first off let me dispel a few things one I've spent about three hours a day for 30 years with Windsor kids teaching them and yet people don't think that we teach the kids or we're not involved and then we spend all day Saturday for about 12 hours teaching the kids um matter of fact this last Saturday I taught our team the word vicissitude we had a bad thing happen to one of our kids and we were driving back and the kids were pretty disappointed that we didn't win the section Championship we took second and it there was an unfortunate accident in a match and and
104we lost we took second place and so we were driving back and I just told the kids I'm going to teach you the $25 word the subtitute and I said guys sometimes bad things happen to good people there's no Rhyme or Reason it just happens the only choice you have is what you do with what happened you can be upset about it you can be mad about it you can mope about it you can do a variety of different things or you can just take it as a lesson in life and then try to do better I've tried to do that with our kids forever why I bring that up is this since I started coaching I knew that our kids in our district were bright they were smart they were ambitious and they were
105hardworking across the board all of them and yet every time I would see the test scores for these bright smart ambitious hardworking kids the scores would be like super low and being kind of competitive by Nature anyway I would have people in other towns and districts and stuff say wisor their test scores or education sucks there it's not good and blah blah blah you know Community is kind of trying to say how they're better than the others and whatever and it would bother me because I'm with the kids every day and I knew how bright they were and how educated they were but it wasn't showing up on the tests so I started diving into finding out why the test scores weren't very representative of the kids and I would get a lot of different
106answers from a lot of different Educators the teachers and this some didn't focus on it I mean the old whiff principle what's in it for me why should a kid work super super hard to do really well on a test that made no difference to their grade no difference to anything I understand that I've tried to work on how can we get our community and our businesses to start to focus on that and if there's a measurable difference for a kid maybe they get recognized at a at a business maybe they get an ice cream col something I don't know whatever it is so i' I've always wanted the test scores to be reflective of our kids and where their really skill sets and abilities are so that's bothered me for many many years so
107when we hear on the board and we hear through the community that we need to do more and need to do better when the board allocates funds for people to get professional development so that way they can be better teachers they can learn new techniques you know in my business I have to do continue education 20 hours every year a lot most professions do when we hear that and then people don't take advantage of that opportunity and so the money that we invest and the time isn't taken care of it it bothers me that we're not taking advantage of those things I I understand completely that my frustration 30 years of it of not seeing improvements in stuff uh is there then to my delight I see that we have these test results and almost
108across the board the kids are doing much much better so I'm like wow this is really really good but yet there's an anomaly that's not I I I run a couple companies I look at data all the time I have to try and figure out what why is there an outlier here what was the difference so on so for and I remember that my direction to our admin was you guys get in there and figure out what the anomaly is find out what the problem is and fix it I said if you can't I said and I said something the effective I know I can go in and try and figure out and I can figure it out what it is and fix it whatever it is now I know people shake their head and
109say no you couldn't but I have a 30-year business history of showing that result the bottom line is this Stephanie olon I think that were Stephanie Stephanie you made a com you said Canary and a coal mine I wish I was as articulate you I probably should that would have been a better uh uh example to use maybe then a the punch bowl and a fly or whatever could have said a leaf whatever it was but I think you guys understand what I was trying to get across and that is all the results that we got in were an were wonderful except for we were missing some things and so I I want I know our board I'm not speaking for our board we all want the same thing we want our kids to do
110better it only comes down to one thing what's best for our kids how do we get there I really don't care what the means and methods are to get there but I do want us to get there and how long should I have to wait for us to get there that that's that's kind of thing so I'm kind of at the end of my I don't want to wait any longer I want us to get there I want us to I want our kids to get the things that they deserve which is that education um so anyhow if if some if my uh I don't even know what you would call them if I said something or use an example that wasn't received well for that I apologize but I don't apologize for wanting to
111keep the standards high for wanting the kids to do as best as they can and for everybody to be a team member to make that happen whatever we have to do to do it within the constriction that we have you know financially we can't we only have so much funds to do certain things but to do those things are important and um and and that's a goal to make it better for our kids and um so that is with that um the on with regard to that for our last meeting on the positive not the positive side but on the additional side of things um our kids are doing great the wrestling team I mean actually we're doing really really good in a lot of our extracurricular stuff the the wrestling team they're heading down
112to Union City tonight they're young we have a lot of freshmen and sophomores on the team um right now a lot of people think that we should be placing the top three we could even possibly win it it's kind of ironic 10 years ago this weekend we won the the section championship and uh and our chief count was ailio Perez it was Perez ailio Perez the whole family they're all perz pezes and 10 years later we have Perez Leo Perez who's one of our senior captains he's the number one seat in the whole section tournament and that's just kind of I'm kind of waiting to see how things kind of play out and it could be kind of deja vu to have the Windsor team win the whole section again and have another Perez leading
113the whole group so anyhow as soon as this meeting is over I'm driving down to Union City and hopefully um watching the kids make history again for our community so anyhow thank you for your time good evening um so the first thing that I want to say tonight is uh I'm so um happy to see all of you here you know just because I feel like uh many of these comments U needed to be aired out and that we needed to have this conversation and I don't want to also discount some of the other topics that we heard about tonight so I'm just going to take them one by one so the first one um that we heard about tonight was uh immigration um so I I do want to say that I understood the
114whole speech that was shared in Spanish uh because I'm also a bilingual speaker and I do want to honor the fact that it's important for people in difficult times to be able to have the freedom of speech and to be able to share how they're feeling right and then um the second thing is I think that also one thing that I feel connects everything that we've listened to tonight is also the power of listening the power of listening is so critically important because for example if I was going to make a policy about immigration I would make sure that a significant part of the people in the room were actual immigrants right because you you need to be able to listen to the stories from people that have had those experiences and because of that
115I feel that our response you know to immigration initially uh was not good right so I I you know made some comments about that and I'm hoping that this you know we'll be able to find more solutions about how to have conversations going forward with people who are affected by current policies um so that that's the first comment I wanted to make the second comment I wanted to make is that also last year when I was still president um I made a suggestion that we have a study session about looking at our policies for students with disabilities and I also look forward to um still having that because I think it is critically important to have something that represents students with disabilities on our dashboard so that we can continue to look at data and
116continue to look at what is important for you know parents uh with students with disabilities and what is important for them right so I do want to say that I hope that that will be on a future uh board reading you know to look at what the what does that look like you know our our dashboard uh in terms of aggregating data but also looking at what are the resources for students in our district it's so important to when you are in an environment to look at what are the resources in that environment and to be very aware of what those are because clearly if something goes wrong you want to be aware of all of your resources um the third thing that I want to say is that in terms of this full conversation
117uh that we've been having tonight um about Maddie Washburn it's so important also to listen you know to have Solutions and I I really like this idea from the teachers in terms of you know inviting us to go you know visit and um you know look at you know what is happening in the classroom um I I do believe I I think what I learned in the previous meeting when all of the data was being shared is I made a comment about how sometimes learning is not a Straight Arrow right you don't just get from point A to point B you know I'm also a teacher Paul is also a teacher I just wanted to share that we do have teachers on this board and I know that learning could look like it's all over
118the place right it can look like you know this crazy abstract painting it's not a Straight Arrow so I do believe that the pandemic has had an effect on our children still um but again we need to listen to each other to find Solutions and then also look at what are our resources right so I I do think that at this board we need more conversations about how we can interact you know with staff teachers but also the public in a way where we can have more of a dialogue you know because it is very difficult to sit up here and not be able to have have a dialogue you know um back and forth but I do want to just remind everybody to listen to each other when you're making decisions when all of
119us are making decisions because all of us have the power of making decisions in our lives you know please be sure to reach out to the people that those decisions affect you know we just don't always do that we really need to do that especially in this you know new political reality that we're living in we really do need to listen to each other thank you that's all okay I know Paul wants to go last and okay you want to go I was GNA go really quickly because I don't really have much other than to say thank you so much for coming for everyone who took the time to be here it means a lot um and I appreciate your comments rich and Bill I think each have one small thing left to say and
120then and then Paul will go thank you um Rebecca and Megan I I did hear what you said and I heard it last time I can com I can commit to you that we are going to have that special session the [Music] um my older brother was hit by a drunk driver when he's 8 years old he was in a coma for N9 months he's had challenges his whole life he had he would go to school and walk at school he would have people pick on him bully him spit on them treat him terribly um that's just my experience with my brother and with others um we are very sensitive to the same concerns that you have unfortunately the way government works it works slow but it does work and we 100% I I I
121can commit to you that we are going to have a special session where we're going to talk about it I want to do it on weekend so we have time get everybody that wants to be there and start the process it I I know you know it's a process of where we can put policies in place figure out what policies work figure out what policies don't work figure out what things need to be done and get input by not only us and not only you folks but by people in the industry that that this is what they focus on and you know they're the experts in the industry on how we can do things so um I I wanted to just make sure I wrote that down and I was going through it and and
122I'm sorry when I which gears but anyhow so uh we we've heard you many the multiple times that you've been here we have heard you and and we are going to uh have that session we're going to calendar it I I believe that it's going to be in the early spring I think um yeah yeah it's it's a we got to figure out the schedule stuff but I can commit to you we are going to have it and we'll make sure that you hear about it yeah um with the passions of the last hour and a half I wanted to go back thank you mie for mentioning it our first Speaker Erica Garcia um we had two occasions in the last week or so we had a joint meeting in here with the Town Council
123where there was discussion and presentations by U Chief Panini about immigration um talking and before that we had a uh a meeting with the board about immigration policy our options our lack of options but I also wanted to recognize and thank you mie for the leadership on Saturday on the 15th some of you may have seen it we had an immigration resource Community fair at Windor High School it was started by uh well mie was a a helper with it but one of our high school students in a in a club called MAA you may have seen the Santa Rosa Junior College M chapter being the Press Democrat maybe two or three days ago um and we were one of the few places where in our student leadership our students said we need to do
124something for the community about this we're all on pins and needles trying to figure out what this is going to look but on February 15th your Windsor high school students helped sponsor uh this community immigration event that happened peacefully it was calm it was well attended from Santa Rosen all over the North Bay Area and I just wanted to recognize that thank you again mie for that and and our student leaders at MAA um for having that event that I didn't want to have that not go mentioned today that was a a big deal we had some concerns about what visitors we're going to have from outside the community I will tell you what seamlessly and I think that is our student leadership and our Our Town P Partners who helped that happen so that's
125right so I I just want to make a correction because I don't want to take credit for the people that put on that event uh but it's actually a group from the Santa Rosa junor um College who put that event on that's called Le um you know I actually helped to organize a workshop that was online on Zoom with an immigration attorney to inform people about their rights which was different they're two separate events um but I'm pleased to say that they both went really really well um but you know once again I I think as we have these conversations that we just need to include people that you know actually represent the proper Community you know that we are um talking about having a forum about or making a policy about it's really important
126to have that engagement so um that that is all thank you well thank you all for coming um I listened to all the comments and I appreciate everybody stepping forward and and giving your heartfelt comments I just wanted to start by saying that I am a teacher I taught for 24 years in Cloverdale I taught second grade for 11 years so I do know what it takes to be in a classroom and I only say that to I guess all this this focus on on data is taken away from the CH from the children and and and I'm going to back up when I first got on the board I was one of the first ones who started highlighting data and test scores and then I was told well wait a minute it's not about
127the test scores it's about the kids and so I started taking a step back and I said okay that's true it is about the the children but but what concerns me is this Back in Forth it it's just it's not productive it's not productive for there to be this Administration versus the the teachers it's not productive I as an educator I I would invite you to invite me into your classrooms I do know what goes on in classrooms and I I have expressed to the board on many occasions what things maybe I thought we could do a little bit differently and you may not you may not feel it right now but our superintendent does listen he listens when I talk to him about certain issues so so I feel like I'm just one person
128on the board out of out of five they look to me sometimes for for these for for these kinds of of issues and I think I think I I I was very lucky not to be at the last board meeting um but I got to see the board meeting on video from a different perspective and there were some missteps definitely but I think that all of us in this room want to do what's best for the children so again I invite any any one of you the principles the teachers in the room the parents in the room if you're having issues my my board email is on the it's on the website email me talk to me because I I want to be there for you I want to be a resource for you going
129forward and that's really all I want to say on that um because there there is a lot of great things that are going on in in the district and I want to switch gears I could talk more on that but I think you know where I'm coming from okay um I was able to to attend a training because see I'm I'm I'm a learner like you guys I know I know teachers are lifelong Learners I retired from the classroom five years ago but I still have that Curiosity and want to learn so I went to a training from for this red Redbud Resource Group and and Stephanie went as well to learn more about our Native American um community and learn how how our district and the Native American Community can can learn from each
130other and grow and how our curriculum can be be developed around them around that so I I feel like I I I want to end on a positive note we had a really it was a positive training and I'm looking forward to learning more about how we how we and our Native American Community can can work together but let's every be all just take a deep breath because I'm very I can tell I'm very nervous but um because there's this tension in the room that's palpable and I just want us all to just take a deep breath and we can get through this we can work together that's my hope thank you Paul um want to take a break okay we're gonna take a few minutes so 5 minute break maybe 3 minute break and
131uh we'll reconvene at item 3.8 so be ready Pete always like to stret [Laughter] [Music] f time yeah yeah I was like I've seen you on there for sure [Laughter] Happ [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] I got [Laughter] not [Music] I know appr [Laughter] is [Laughter] okay so so one [Laughter] educator [Laughter] [Music] than you you [Laughter] long Bo [Laughter] yeah you should yeah do how are [Music] you all I can do sorry [Laughter] okay we'll reconvene the meeting gather our board Pete and I are ready ready okay so we'll bring it back to item 3.8 staff um appreciation Pete go ahead and take it away we have one board member who wasn't feeling well and had to leave and uh we will reconvene with the four of us plus our two wonderful student trustees go ahead
132good evening and thank you all right I'll I'll try to bring a little Sparkle uh to to the meeting uh do some celebration of some of the Fantastic things that are happening and the people that bring them to us so tonight for our staff recognitions uh these are staff members from Brooks Elementary School and I'm going to go ahead and let the board know I will be sending you all an invitation uh for the March 5th staff meeting which will be held at 1:30 in Room 205 no need to write it down it will come to you so tonight we are going to celebrate two phenomenal staff members and if you've been to Brooks and you've gone through the front doors you have met Mary Fletcher uh Mary Fletcher is an amazing human being she
133comes in and she brings energy to the district office when she visits and she certainly brings energy to her own site Mary sets the tone of positivity and kindness on campus she's warm to everybody parents students and staff alike she has an innate ability to see the big picture of student and staff needs while also taking care of the small details if anyone needs anything we all know Mary is the go-to it's always with a smile and a can do attitude Mary puts the welcome in welcome to Brooks we'll be celebrating Mary on March 5th for our certificated recognition we're going to recognize Ali Hartley uh again if you get to go to Brooks and you uh are Witness to the Garden you have seen her work if you get to visit uh fifth grade
134she does a job share you also get to see her work she balances the two expertly Mary does a lot for Brooks she effectively balances the garden teaching fifth grade and single-handedly has planned fifth grade science camp and they're at science camp right now right they are there all right she gives up her lunch to I shouldn't say that as HR she never gives up for lunch she do not does not she balances is it yes she does not give up her lunch and goes beyond every day Ally thinks outside the box and brings solutions to the table Ally you are so appreciated so thank you and we'll bring you up thanks be we're moving on to consent normally my vice president would do that but I don't know that he is oh he is
135ready to do that so um first I'll ask if we have any items that we'd like to discuss or any recusals NOP doesn't look like it and I don't think we're pulling any items for discussion okay and take it away thank you president I would like to uh make a motion that we accept consent items 4.1 to 4.9 inclusive do I have a second second is there any discussion I have a couple comments okay and then um on 4.1 um it's our Personnel assignment order and there's a lot of folks that we'll celebrate upon retiring um when they go I just wanted to note that our friend and long time interactor Pete stefanco from the wdaa um is is retiring um but on 4.2 um I noticed in our certificates of seniority we have 31
136teachers it was a little harder on the classified list but 31 teachers Susanna who have taught since the last millennium uh Laura Gonzalez at the middle school has taught for 33 years in the district and I was stunned and amazed that L curiel at KY Kelch is the senior classified she has been with us since 1985 for 39 years and so thanks to them and every single one of the nearly 600 people who are on those lists now so I was pleased to see that that's it good okay then preferential student board member vote you can vote however you want I'll write I I okay and then the rest of the board I I I so you can two 41 okay and now we'll move on to item 5.1 um which is our audit report
137and this item is going to be presented I think I Believe by Michael Ash um of Christy white thank you for being here thank you for waiting we appreciate it well good evening thank you very much thank you for having me it's no problem um Michael Ash partner with Christy white um I've been the partner um on Windsor since I think 2014 2015 um I live in San Diego though and I have a colleague that lives in Santa Rosa so she's been coming to the board meetings lately and presenting so I haven't been here in quite a while so it's great to be back great to see you guys thank you for inviting me um here to present the 2024 audit so every um every school district County Office charter school has to have an
138independent audit each year and that's due to the state by December 15 so I'm going to give you just a quick rundown of what's in here and then I'll answer any questions that you might have so um I always tell boards if you're only going to look at one page in the audit report uh it's this one right here the summary of auditor results towards the end um I'll just briefly explain what it all means so you'll see the first section financial statements uh you'll see an unmodified opinion so that's the best opinion that you can get that's um in our independent Auditor's opinion the financial statements as presented fairly stated in all material respect so um that's all the information that Austin presents to you um in the UN audit actuals plus long-term things
139such as capital assets long-term debt so very good there um because you're a school district we have to do your audit on what's called government auditing standards uh we look at your internal controls over financial reporting uh we don't give an opinion that's for more um public companies governments have gby decided that that's not cost beneficial for governments but if we do come across anything we have to report in what's called an audit finding um no material weaknesses which is good we did notice a significant deficiency and it's it's pretty minor it's just financial reporting there were a couple audit adjustments that had to be made very common ones um fair fair value of cash and County Treasury ASB those are common across some of our school districts so not a huge deal there um
140and then no non-compliance material to the financial statements so very good um next section Federal Awards because the district spends over $750,000 in federal monies you have to get what's called a single audit and there are certain things that certain programs that we have to test spas on their dollar value and certain things within those programs that we have to look at and this year we looked at your education stabilization fund all your Esser and gear money as well as your Child Nutrition cluster uh unmodified opinion no findings there which is great last section State Awards so the state audit guide and this state audit guide gets bigger and bigger I wish it were getting smaller but it gets bigger anytime there's a new funding source uh that they added in there um so it's
141huge I think it was 25 Pages now it's 56 so um unmodified opinion we did have two findings again it's very compliant very technical um one related to the instructionals materials hearing it was done it was just late has to be done before the 8th week of school one educator at Effectiveness the reports were submitted they were just submitted after October 1st um so that's it just three what I would consider pretty minor findings I want to thank Austin and team um for all their assistance they're great to work with um are there any questions that I can help answer any questions no thank you okay thank you so much appreciate it thank you yep any comments from the public okay seeing none then we'll take a vote um and thank you again um student
142board members I I and this is to accept the report and rest of the board I all right thank you oh we didn't motion we going to retroactively motion I'd like to make a motion that we accept the report yeah yes second and we'll have thank you very much for taking care of that part of the action item okay next is consideration of requests to recognize provisional intern permit PP for general education teachers at Brooks he I think you have a few items so we'll me for the next five yes lucky you here we go uh so yes 5.2 we are seeking approval of a provisional intern permit for Daniel Flores Daniel is a district sub uh he is a long-term substitution at Brooks uh Elementary School uh for Katherine mirali who shifted to Dean
143uh Daniel is a highly qualified substitute and he's done this uh transitional um subbing for uh four or five of our teachers in the district he's he's great at it and recognized as one of our best subs uh in fact I was somebody's already trying to get him for the the beginning of the year next year he is so qualified um so anyway the district is asking that the uh that the board approve his provisional intern permit so he can complete this year in that classroom any questions or discussion from the board okay a motion to approve the provisional provisional permit do I have a second I'll second okay any public comment okay student board members I I other board members hi hi hi hi and kind of move quickly through the Section I think
144because there's not really much presentation right it's just we're doing going through the items correct uh 5.3 for through 5.6 uh we are basically asking for the uh we're seeking board approval for the resolutions uh and they do require votes although there's not much to vote on on 5.5 because it's uh you'll see that the attachment ey is empty uh I have not had an opportunity to speak to all of those folks and I want to make sure that I am not surprising anybody uh by presenting their name at a board meeting before I have an opportunity to speak to them so uh I don't know if we need to vote on 5.5 because I haven't had an opportunity to present to that if the attachment because I know the attachments under executive content if
145it's not public then you shouldn't vote we should wait until next month we still have time so we'll table the vote on 5.5 very good so for 5.3 uh W unified uh school district is seeking board approval for resol solution to implement a reduction in force uh for certain certified positions certificated positions with accordance of educ Education Code 44955 Pete can you just clarify that a number of those positions are 2s1 67 they they individuals who might be working beyond the 1.0 status certainly so the bottom section of the resolution uh where it breaks down uh into 2s And1 67s those um although they total a um I think it's nine just over nine FTE those positions largely are extra they're extra Duty uh and they're added to that person and um all but we
146I think we did the math all but three uh FTE of those will probably return in some in some form or another the following year we'll fly them again but I can't carry forward uh somebody over 1.0 uh we don't we don't keep any body over 1.0 so every year we have to retire that extra Duty so that's what that section is and and just so you're clear if there's a way to put for the in at the high school if we have1 67s and we have enough of them that make sense to create a position that makes sense mean you'll have the teacher who needs to teach math one section English one section social studies one section whatever all different courses if we have some sections available where we can put together a realistic
147job then we do that but sometimes we have students come in we have too many we need to add a section and it doesn't make sense to go out for an entire position so much as ask if anybody would like an extra section to teach just so you understand why these exist which I think you do already Paul you look like you have a question yeah I do have a question just for clarification these are showing reduction in force but actually aren't some of these being moveed to other other position are we really reducing our staff by these numbers the the the total reduction so the are you talking about the bottom section or all of it all some of them are actually leaving yes some of them are the the majority of the that
148top section that's a reduction in force those so we're getting ripped well yeah can you clarify like how many total FTE we reducing uh right now it's at 16. 289 I believe so that's that's total for the entire page and this is an incomplete list so there'll be more again I haven't had an opportunity I like I want to make sure that I have spoken with the people so their positions don't end up on a resolution and they have no idea about it so um there are other things to add but as I as I mentioned before that bottom section with the the the extra sections many of those are coming back many of those are going to be Reflow next year so elective positions can be filled or as Jeremy indicated if we have
149an extra math section or an extra English section those will come back so if you subtract out what is coming back I think we did the math it was 10 oh 13489 or something like that are you asking if people or positions is that your ask yeah I'm wondering what's the total amount that we're really saving in the budget by doing the reduction that's a good question uh I think and I can't give you an exact straight answer but I can go through some of the positions a lot of the positions that are truly being PKS are grant-funded positions so when you look at the Deans those are both Grant funded positions learning recovery block grant uh the intervention teacher that was the position that we added Midway through the year that was temporary uh
150the the wellness center that's another uh position that was funded externally and we're actually trying to find the funding through skull they're telling us we have funding but we don't want to commit to something that we haven't received funding for uh I'm unsure the the story on the secretary counselor um I can go down to an elementary teacher at mty wasburn we had an extra teacher to reduce class size at kindergarten down to 20 versus 24 uh and then we I'm not sure cie that's probably due to enrollment I would imagine that's an enrollment reduction so was a grade five was uh over just so that's so the only one I can't explain is the secondary counsel I'm sure somebody here can I can so that's uh that's migrant Ed and that was also funded
151with specific funds and that those are those FS we're not and we're not sure we may have them but we don't want to have a position if we don't have them and there's some unclear you know information that we have so does that help no thanks for Clear okay and I I'd be happy to I've done a little something like this for Jeremy and I'd be happy to comeb through it when everything falls on it and and really dig down deep and give you an exact number of like really what's coming back cuz Jeremy wants to know the same thing so I'll I'll I'll get that to you great okay thank you I I'd like to ask a question a slightly different way taking out the nine FTE that are the 0. ons and the
1520.16 is the additionals that have to be reown how many filled positions now do we have on this particular resolution that are not having jobs next year like people in jobs and those jobs are going away they're not going into a different assignment of some other you know teaching or or or or other hey my rough estimate based on our guessing of funding is between 10 and 13 okay that's the 10 to 13 no no no that's I don't think that's your question you're asking about people how many people are going to have a job one one that's the only we have one okay the one you were just talking about okay correct following up on that then because Susanna was Raising her head when we said 10 or 13 we've coordinated the same question
153for I guess all three of these items we've coordinated this with the respective Union leadership and they're aware of this and there's no issues that we're aware of not that I'm aware of okay okay good thank you thank yes I shared this information with wdaa likewise I shared um the 5.6 with CA so everybody I know you you commonly do that I just wanted to ask for the record for all of our people playing at home copy that thank you thanks any other discussion public comment I'm seeing none do I have a motion I'll move approval of resolution 20253 and do I have a second second okay Paul and then we'll need a roll call vote Claudia it's your moment to shine and you're going to get a few more moments yes Bill Adams yes
154Rich Carnation yes Paul Gordo yes malali Lopez absent AB Kylie her here yes yes and Zoe with you Zoe for cage yes all right that was just our warm up okay thank you all all right so we'll move on to 5.4 5.4 is a release of temporary staff uh resolution 20254 the district requests the board approved to release temporary certificated sta in accordance with Ed code 44954 any discussion on this item no questions okay any public comment do I have a motion I'll make I'll make the motion to accept this I'll second okay and then we'll need a roll call V and we'll start with our student trustees herand sorry Kylie Hernandez yes so wait for man kich yes Stephanie Amad yes Bill Adams yes Rich Carnation yes Paul korno yes Malin Al Lopez absent
155absent okay thank you very much and then we'll move to item so table 5.5 table 5.5 okay which I think I might be logged into a different version of the agenda and can everyone see it okay um and then we'll move on to 5.6 we'll table that one 5.6 is uh resolution 20256 this is also an item that will be different in uh the March meeting um again because I have not had an opportunity to speak to all the individuals and I want to make sure that I honor and respect their uh contributions to the district personally before we put them on a um a resolution and the district is seeking board approval to eliminate or reduce specific classified positions in accordance with Ed code 45308 okay so it's okay to move forward with this
156even though we don't have the specific individuals that are impacted so can we vote on this one and I would yes I think what you're voting on is the public facing document you're taking action on that one and then remember we're ahead of the game right so we have to do this in March and we'll bring all the names in March all the other the other names that are not this one position okay I should say not names the other positions I mean what I'm looking at is a list of positions yeah you're yes you're an executive content um but there is one in public cont no I'm publicly I'm looking at the list of positions names yeah okay um any discussion questions public comments no okay then um I think we need a motion
157I will make the motion do we have a second all second okay and then roll call vote starting with our student board members please Kylie Hernandez yes soe Zoe pankovich yes Stephanie ammad yes Bill Adams yes Rich Carnation yes Paul korno yes Malin Al Lopez absent okay thank you and then do we have one more or two more that's it for me right that's it for you thank you okay thanks Pete appreciate it okay 5.7 um this is another resolution but we're talking about classroom capacity limits and for purposes of interdistrict transfers yes so we just approved one for this year a couple months ago and as we we're talking about Claudia's time to shine if you ever need to find her in her office she is the one buried underneath that stack of interdistrict
158transfers uh so super attendent Decker showed that we are way up this year in inter District transfers and we have so many requests for next year so we are already needing to pass our resolution for capacity for next year um to make sure that we will fill every single seat in the classroom um but at some point if we run out of rooms or our particular programs run out of space we do need to be able to um tell people that at this time we don't we don't have the space um we certainly won't do that if we can hire more teachers if we can you know bring on more staff but because we we will at some point hit a physical limit to how many we can we can fit in our in our
159classrooms okay any questions no sounds good public comment I'll make a motion to approve resolution D 17 mhm okay we have a second I'll second it okay and then we'll start I don't wait is this a resol this is a resolution okay so we'll start with our student trustees and then the rest of us will go after Kylie Hernandez yes soy uh for manovich yes Stephanie Amad yes Bill Adams yes Rich Carnation yes Paul korno yes malali Lopez absent okay we are flying through these items um we have are now on 5.8 which is another resolution for the commitment of funds um this is presented by Austin oh board so right now in fund 17 we have uh about a million dollar uh just over a million890 of it that we had committed the backstory
160on why we had committed that a couple years ago was there was a reserve cap at the state so the state had reached a certain amount of revenues and it triggered uh to local government agencies not just school districts but other government agencies that they could not keep a fund balance of 10% uh or they would have to commit those funds for specific reasons I was uh transparent I would say with Diane Green when I told her that we were going to commit them you know because we're not just going to spend them nilly Willy uh that's a professional term but uh I you guys would like that um yeah so I told Diane I said I'm going to commit these for pension obligations so that in the future if pensions were to increase the
161pension cost were to increase we would have funds available to pay for that iMed immediately um but that those were not hard set in stone for that reason until we found a reason that we needed to spend it with that being said pension costs never did increase so those that money is still sitting there uh another need that has come up this year that is a significant need um in my opinion is the is a need for technology um we had such an influx with Co money during those four years and we had all students go on to um devices we had staff that we refresh their devices but now we've hit this kind of four-year mark postco four five year mark postco where we're starting to need to refresh those devices um so I
162would like to commit these uh the million dollars for the purposes of Technology ongoing um and see fit that those are used I think that the discussion of student devices is going to be a larger conversation but for now we have a lot of Staff devices that need immediate attention in those areas so um it would be my wish that we would commit these funds for fund 17 okay discussion questions go ahead Austin the a couple different things yes sir one is do we have kind of a rough idea of how much we would need to invest if we did on a yearly basis if we like what's the useful life now of a a computer is it is it three years two years yeah four years and then there's a hardware and then there's
163the software part right yeah and so that's kind of one question then the other is so how do we do you have any idea what that is yeah so uh this actually this becomes simpler because a lot of times we will piggyback with other districts right because if we all buy them together so like in the past we've piggyback with herbine unified um so that way we get all of the Orange County buying power uh and Los Angeles buying power when we buy our devices so we can try to get them on the cheaper uh on the flip side though we don't really have as much flexibility on choosing the term they kind of choose what term they would like which they've decided is a four-year term which seems reasonable to me every four years
164you get you refresh these devices for staff devices that cost is roughly about $150,000 a year um we have about uh 450 positions that would require higher end computers um I you know take this one for example this was what we' classify as higher end um and that would be the same with uh you know secretarial staff in the office that'd be the same with um Administration uh teachers we give you know higher end devices MacBooks too so it' be about 150,000 each year for a 4-year period um student devices is much more it's that's cost is roughly about 600,000 a a device if we were to go for all student devices and can I give a little color on that one please uh we we've talked a lot about this because we had hoped
165to be able to do student devices the same as we're trying to do staff but I think with our restraint with our budget restra constraints uh we've kind of talked about different Alternatives we've talked about bring your own device BYOD and really we need to have a larger conversation with stakeholders and so that's being planned uh to create a technology strategic plan frankly uh and Anette is developing her team right now to help inform um Brad Brian who will all participate in this strategic plan for technology because we need to have a lot more conversation around what we should be doing moving forward it's very easy to say we're going to get a computer for everybody we don't have the funds for it and frankly some kids may not want it so we need to
166have a long better conversation so that was part of what I wanted to dtail into so but just I want to go on the numberers so 150 a year for staff so or 600,000 every four roughly and then was that 600,000 for the students each year or 600,000 each year each year yes so it's basically it's one to four um staff to the so which gets to that the question I know that when I was in business school they had these old you know it was a 286 processor yeah before you were born Austin anyhow the I know they had computers back then but but a lot of kids did you have your buggy whip when you were using that computer I just want you guys to know that I was there when Auto ad
1671.0 started it was a high-end version of pong don't admit that I've earned this yeah so anyhow but the question is the programs that our our kids are using on our our Pro our computers let's say a kid wants to bring his iPad right do we have a way to where the software part of what's on those computers can go on somebody's person you know like my grandson he goes to school he gets an iPad for Christmas he wants to have his stuff on it so he have one what's that it's called clever it's called clever is a I mean Austin you may do you know enough about this to talk through yeah there's a lot of um there's a lot of this is why the technology sub not subcommittee but the technology committee is
168being created because there's also you know there's a lot of things around privacy within schools right you have the uh it's blanking on me right now but you have the child's internet use act um and so not being able to necessarily control what they're looking up in the classrooms if they were on their own device uh and then also downloading different um apps and programs from us to their own devices could be an issue so all of that stuff we would need to look into and that's why we kind of decided the best way to do this is create a committee because we want to make sure those funds are being used appropriately and then also making sure that we're following all related laws but there's a way so through clever think of clever as
169like a holding tank for a lot of different things that we can upload for a student they log into it with whatever log we give them and then they can access the stuff that we purchased you use it to pball yeah so there's ways to do it but neither none of us are experts on it so we probably are going to be really great at answering your questions but that's why we need strategic plan created and I want to make sure that this is clear this commitment of funds we're not committing it for you know um student devices this is mainly right now for staff we're going to we're going to most likely use this for so we're we're going then with the 150 a year over the next four years or we're going to
170600,000 total and that's it at this point what I would like to commit to tonight so what I would like to commit to tonight is committing that million dollars for the purposes of Technology cuz we clearly have a need but moving forward the only commitment I want to make right now is the 150,000 for this year for staff devices cuz I know we have a significant amount of staff devices that need to be upgraded but I also want to see where we're at when it comes to the larger scale of picky backing because there could be other options in terms of different devices that might be more suitable for our staff so so just my last part of this yeah goad the computers that you get so for example you're doing a lot of financial
171calculations and stuff on your computer your speed of your processor has to be greater because of the the requirements of your software the only thing that I would say is that as time goes on and you might need your software changes so you need to have a new processor that's even faster that we wouldn't take that computer that you've had let's say for four years that computer at four years old still could probably go to somebody else who doesn't need the process procing speed and it would work just fine for them so I know a lot of times we'll Surplus things out based on its age yeah some of these things we may not want to Surplus based on its age as much as based on its capacity so um uh like I know art
172and those kind of things they are really heavy process driven right so the financial stuff but there's other programs that aren't that we so anyhow just as we're looking to Surplus things out that we don't just uh go because in our company we rotate the computers our our Engineers always get the newest stuff which every makes everybody else mad but they need it because the software just won't function on on stuff that's even two years old sometimes so that that's it it's just more of a policy of just making sure that we're be because we can get a lot of second and third lives out of out of a a desktop yeah I mean a laptop um depending on what sector it's going to be in just a thought so and then the technology committee
173they're going to come up with a strategic plan for student devices correct okay yes so one follow up on that so I would support the million repurposed for technology replacement the commitment of the 150 do you imagine the technology commitment will have some sorts of concrete Suggestions by the time we get to budget time in May or June so the extent that we need to to look a little longer term is that yes I think that's I think it's reasonable I don't know to be honest I think that we have I don't know is about what I know about technology so that makes perfect sense to me I I would say honestly May probably not if we do if we have a really robust conversation and actually get input from stakeholders I think it's going
174to be tough to hit that day okay and the 150 covers rolling into next school year in any event right yeah yes the the 150 would cover going into the next school year correct I support this the 850 that's left over are we going to invest that so that way we're getting some interest income on that along the way you know what's tough about that rich is that falls back to the type of funds we can invest and this fund is not one of them and we wouldn't we could potentially transfer it to a fund that we could invest but I don't know if we'd be able to get it out I'd have to do more research on that could you could you is this something that we need to do tonight no you don't
175so we could approve the 150 to get that going could you do a little research on that that's 50,000 bucks of interest at just you know 5% in the banks um or and half something that range that if we would as a policy we're earmarking that for that but it maybe we put it in a fund that can receive the interest versus it's just sitting there you could commit all million and then you could decommit a certain portion if we have a space for it to go because then it's clean and then if Austin comes back and says oh we cannot invest these funds then you've already committed the the million however you want to do it yeah I think that's the cleanest way it's a it's one less step potentially yeah yeah so we
176take action today take action today if he finds a way you guys always have the power to commit funds he just has to bring it back okay are we going to hear more about the committee you know what I don't have any more information than I've had I've asked for the development of the committee and I think Annette might be the best person to talk about the committee but I don't know if she's ready I won't put her on the spot unless she wants to be put on the spot the spot oh come come to the spot really she's putting together another committee that's going to help inform who's on and Austin I won't forget to vote once we hear the committee so um in the next probably two days or so we'll be posting
177a uh extra time position I'll be recruiting uh one to three teachers um from every School site to sit on the teaching and learning advisory committee we'll be meeting five times a year and from that committee on the first time we meet we'll be developing our edte committee and then that committee will get to work on what's what's needed so will the edtech committee be a subcommittee yes okay exactly got it okay thank you okay appreciate that okay any other questions or discussion on this item so can someone reformulate what our motion is now our motion is to approve the resolution for the exactly what you requested no not I know oh [Music] bill go with okay any public comment oh we do have public comment so why we always ask the the microphone's not
178working on air no Austin turned it off when he saw me coming I have a comment from um our vice president it's Hardy Diane Hardy that's the first thing and the second thing I do have a question um fund 17 is what we're talking about here the last I recall it was um committed for preschool not pension no 17 was pension we had preschool and uh the general fund fun1 okay go ahead hi U my name is Emma I'm a math teacher at the high school and I just want to say we've been asking for new technology in the math department for a long time two and a half years two years um so I'm excited and there are at least four or five probably about half the math department who really needs new devices
179so I hope you vote yes thanks all right do I have a motion for this resolution I'll move to approve which one is it 20258 as sub presented I second the motion okay and then we'll need a roll call vote Kylie Hernandez yes so Forman kich yes uh Stephanie OT yes Bill Adams yes Rich Carnation yes Paul Koro yes malali Lopez absent okay great and then we're on to our last item of the evening get to end with Brian we are going to discuss an update to the district graduation requirements to adopt ethnic studies I think and the transition transition the health course requirement to freshman seminar or Abid 9 yes so um most of the graduation requirements are coming straight out of Ed code uh we approved the course for ethic studies last time
180and now this will um make it a graduation requirement which is part of Ed code but that will not go into effect until 29:30 we will start offering the course next year but it won't be a requirement until the graduating class of 29:30 um the part where I'm sure a lot of people are going to want to think about and talk about is for years we've had a health requirement as part of the graduation um prior to uh fires and covid it was uh five credits um they add added a um more of a social emotional component to it and so we moved it from five credits to 10 credits um and then brought in a lot of content um and then last year um principal Buckman had this idea of creating this freshman seminar
181program which is 10 credits um and it's making that unique experience for their ninth graders and so the the idea is is that we Fade Out or fade away from the traditional Health course move the sexual education portion of it which is not taught um necessarily by our teachers we we contract with Alliance Health um move that into the Freshman seminar piece and then what the what we're asking the board to do is to make a statement under additional requirements that says all freshmen must be enrolled in freshman seminar or Avid 9 and so when the parent says I don't want my student to be in that course um we'll say sorry that is a board policy if you're choosing wins or high you're choosing um to be in a freshman seminar because it's that
182important would ran would they I agree that it's important I think it it's a really and we're getting all kinds of feedback that it's been super positive are you saying that some people wouldn't want their kids in because of the sex end component or they just don't want them to take that class wouldn't it's the 10 credit piece it's it takes a spot on the schedule and so some parents have expressed a desire to not have that on their schedule um and so if but but they're still required to take Health at that portion but once we move it the sex sexual education you can opt out of a portion of sexual education you cannot opt out of all of sexual education and so and that is a requirement that we have to offer sexual
183education so if we if we do this suggested and we move the sexed to the Freshman seminar would the parents still have the option to be able to opt out of the portion that they're able to opt out now yes and that's part of that code that they have that right okay that's I'm good with it yeah go ahead I would just like to ask a question like what is freshman seminar I feel like I've heard of it but I don't know the specifics of it we're be super jealous that you didn't have an opportunity to take it um so what we did was is we looking at the um kind of that bridge between the eth and the nth grade year and then moving in to um the 10th grade year if you guys
184remember you have your probably nth and 10th graders were together and the idea was the 10th graders were going to envelop the nth graders and raise them up and and make them you know ready for high school um nth graders have a lot of needs um and they really have a unique experience when they get to high school and so the idea is is that freshman seminar um teaches students how to be good high school students um prepares them for um thinking about what cores they want to participate in it provides them with organ organizational skills um one of our our best teachers is Diane Hardy which I'm sure she'll be te testing texting Austin very soon to say what a great program she she does as well um so we we're able to put
185super engaging teachers in those programs uh it's not limited to any credential so any teacher that has a passion for it can teach it and then also I don't want to skip that if for for parents who want a different pathway we do offer Avid n um as an alternate Kylie a lot of it was born out of our failure rate as for our freshman we had a high failure rate and so this was one of one of the different strategies to combat that I also have a question I'm wondering does it replace any other classes my sister's taking it right now and she says that she's not taking a history class did it I guess replace history so it replaced a spot that was called Global Studies Global Studies was not a requirement it
186was 10 credits of elective and so when we un uh unconnected the 910 cores we didn't need to have that Global Studies course and so I mean it's if anyone's doing the math by reducing the health requirement by reducing the Global Studies requirement we shaved 20 credits off we have students that are graduating with well over 220 credits and so that often can drive up costs and so what we're trying to do is is is make it so we're not putting um roadblocks in the way to make it so students have to take um like a course that's not necessarily required for graduation like Global Studies they can choose to take another elective it was really interfering with our abilities to take foreign language Fine Arts too um so we're it's definitely was time for
187that change and then I have one more question I um sophomore year was when you were required to take Health when like I was a sophomore and instead of taking health I took apsy is and that covered my health credits are students aware that that's an option they can do as well so say a freshman doesn't want to take freshman oner they take a Avid and then they can seek out those Health credits through AP pych well then after this vote they'll no longer need those Health credits for graduation that we still encourage you to take apsy it's a fantastic course I agree okay that's all my questions I first I want to thank you for your grace and character tonight appreciate that um the the sexual education an element of the health class is
188in both Abid n and freshman seminar correct Alliance Medical will come in into every classroom for what you're aware of are any of our other sister high schools in the county doing anything like a freshman seminar Hillsburg are they okay and and heels and and in Hillsburg it is a graduation requirement um we're not asking that it is a graduation requirement just because what happens if you're not a nth grader and you come in and transfer into our school um then it's like well how do you make up freshman seminar if you're 11th grader transferring well we're just asking that the requirement is that you have to be enrolled if you're a nth grader at Windsor High School okay um any other questions public comment good evening Colleen hunt U my son will be a
189freshman at the high school next year he's at Windsor middle I'm very much in favor of this change although I think how health is important um my son really struggles with like executive function and needs the kind of support that the Freshman seminar would provide for his long-term success um to be a high school graduate thank you thanks thank you I also have a ninth grader this year and I found that freshman seminar is a really great class for him and just helping him adjust it's a big adjustment going from middle school to high school so I've really enjoyed the program myself um okay we have public comments do we have motions for this action item goad you can okay um I'll make a motion to pass this resolution this is not a resolution but
190this is like the only one that's not a resol great great but it's an action item thank you Kylie do we have a second I'll second okay and then um student trustees first all in favor I hi rest of the board hi hi and we have one absent okay um we have item 6.1 future board meeting items if anyone wants to comment I don't there's one there's one that uh we're going to have to retroactively approve there's field trip wrestling and it's overnight and it needed to happen now but the requests came in a little bit late so I don't know who their coaches but they didn't get their stuff done on time so I approved them to go and said we would retroactively approve this at the next board meeting you need to pass
191it because they're they're at the bonisha Martinez bridge right now we instead of asking for you to add it I just said we would bring it back retroactively next okay so we'll bring it back retroactive in March I'm in favor of that so so on that topic if we can on the future if we can fix this issue and the issue is this every sports team every extracurricular program has a schedule and on the schedule is the postseason events if if they're going to do it there isn't a parent that doesn't have a kid in in one of those programs that's going like you know I don't know if I want them to go to the playoffs um so if we could fix our board policy to have even if it's just one form that
192the coach at the beginning of the season would say here's our schedule here's where it's going because the the problem is like in wrestling for example the the current one for like field trips and all that stuff it ask you all kinds of questions about money this that and the rest and everything else but then it asks you well how many kids are going well if we have to submit this technically a month in advance we have no idea how many kids I mean like literally during this meeting our heavyweight got added in so now we have 13 that are in the in the event and so things are very very fluid and and I know that's just an our Sport and I'm sure every other sport that's a individual SL te type it's very
193fluid so if we could do that sometime between now and the next start of school have a just a a one-page deal that the parents would sign or it's align in the parents permission form that the kids are alled to go it you guys know um that way the coaches then can say hey a perfect example how many hotel rooms do we need to have in Union City we have to guess of how many people are maybe going to make it and then you're you're playing games back and forth with your reservation it's it's it's a lot harder than than you would think that a field trip you can gauge more or less uh with these sporting things I mean all of a sudden wow we made the football playoffs we got to go to
194Stockton right or something like that so if we could do that and work on it and I'll try and talk to our athletic director and and our and our vice principal at the high school in charge of Athletics and Brian Brian's overseeing policies and I think he knows the athletic director um so I I think that we'll look at the board policy see how to simplify it knows how to simplify things yes so you're only approving the distance or you're approving the overnight so for I don't know that you need to approve the people um so it just it just asks yeah maybe we can just look at that just really uh simplify it on the extracurricular stuff that's Sports oriented um because if you're going on a field trip and those kind of things
195there are questions and things in that permission slip or whatever that we as board people are going to want to know um but they don't really apply so we could just make one that's more simplified for that specific purpose and if there's one more thing bill just because it's it was brought up about the special education special meeting exactly um what's difficult about what's being requested is the right to privacy of students and our special education students have such unique situations that to have discussions in public would be very difficult to not out the student that we're talking about especially with the students that have very significant needs and have been placed in nonpublic schools so I have talked to president Amad about this and I am struggling with how we have the conversation that's
196being requested because it's very individualized to each person so I don't know how to satisfy that request without compromising the the confidentiality of our kids I've given this a bit of thought actually I think we could have a general meeting talking about General policy general concepts but couldn't we have a close session meeting with parent guardian or whatever about particular student that might take let's say we would you know allocate half an hour an hour with parent a about student a parent B it might take us a little bit long time we may have to do something kind of sequentially but even though they're individual they're still going to have a lot of common they will not have common threads I promise you these are very individual decisions there's no commonality with the decision it
197it's specific to the child every single time well I've also been thinking I know we both been thinking about how do we structure this um and how do we make it something that's valuable and not just you know we we have to be here for this amount of time like how do we add value and make sure that it's you know we're doing good work during that time I think we do have to do we have a we have to do something um so I think we just to keep noodling on this a little bit and try to bring the parents in question yeah I think going over general policies and maybe talking a little bit about some of the changes that are being made for the coming year although that's not really we're talking
198about here we can talk about how decisions get made generally but again I don't know if that's what's been requested but that's what we could provide you know the processes that we go through to make decisions um I just don't know if we're going to really scratch the itch that is is is being requested and I'm I don't know how to do it so first meeting is going to do it's going to Bar out those issues where the parents have a concern let's let's meet let's start and and and figure out and then say hey that's something we can't talk about publicly because that's we you know we got to keep the confidentiality so we got to figure out how to work around that issue and I'm sure there'll be others that will discover that
199we have to be sensitive to and it's just the beginning of how we the process of of how to work it out but but uh I I don't want us to worry about that or other issues and and keep going well how do we deal with that let's have a meeting and start at least I start identifying what our challenges are we just start working our way through the process and we might have some some dead ends that we just can't get through where laws or certain things that that's something we can't do at this particular time so some parents might wave that confidentiality to have progress made in that regard I don't know but I mean like in our family we we just kind of let it out so we don't so um but
200I know other people might want to keep things certain confidential so I think we have the meeting initially with the stakeholders the parents and then we bring these things up and we start talking about how are we going to navigate those things I think a lot of the answers that you're looking for might come from the parents I me okay well I'm just telling you I am usually very open to having these types of meetings I think you all know that I'm very hesitant to have this meeting because I think it puts us in a very awkward position talking about children who have a right to privacy so I will I will try to put something together and I very rarely push back on these types of things I think you guys all know that
201I'm pretty concerned about this one but we will try to put something together that that I'm comfortable with and I know that de is comfortable with okay we'll we'll be really thoughtful about how we do it I'm sure we'll figure out something thank you okay so I want don't want to drop this one yet so when are we looking to do this we going to do it before spring break we're running out of time are we going to do it after spring break my only point is I get that there's an got to be careful what we say now there's there's requests that are beyond the scope of what we can and frankly I think should hear as a board I'm looking at Deborah who's like crawling out of her seat but some of this
202almost sounds like well we'll get the parents in and close session and we'll have a group renegotiation of the IEP or something like that that stuff we we we can't do we're the adjudicated body if the parents have a grievance or a claim or something so I'd like to get the meeting set while we're working on it I'd like to like before this month is out let's figure out a date that works get with two or three of the main stakeholders who've been here and pick some date in April or whenever so we have that and then we can at least start and see what we got understanding that their ask and our ability to respond will intersect on some areas and they're not in some others and we're just going to have to figure
203out I think some starting would be good though understood um at that we for me I I I want to know what the ask is I I want to know what the the challeng is from the parents point of view I mean the the three minute discussion doesn't work in this situation so if we took a half an hour an hour two hours to have that discussion find out what their concerns are then we because I don't know exactly what the concerns are I I mean I have a general idea but I want to hear specifically from all those folks so then that way we know I mean are we are we even heading down the right direction so we have that initial meeting find out what all those concerns are and the different things
204and strategies and solutions that people have thought about um and then figure out what our next steps can go from there I think you know the first May would be more of a scoping type of a discussion of why we even you know you guys wanted to have a meeting we're here we want to hear and listen and learn and and I hear what you're saying that that we shouldn't assume that we know right that can be the first meeting or the meeting just out I think I have my Direction that's that's what I need yeah any other um thoughts on 6.1 okay then I'm going to adjourn the meeting do I have a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion second all Second Great all in favor thank you so much for being here
205have a great night oh