001Good evening. I will now call the meeting to order at 6 pm. We have a a pro quorum. All faces are present. Well, welcome. This meeting is being webcast live and recorded. The recording of webcast may capture images and sounds of those attending the meeting. At this time, I would like to remind everyone of the procedures of public participation in tonight's meeting. Members of the public are encouraged to attend and address a board of any agenda item or topic within the board's jurisdiction. Public comments would be allowed a minimum a maximum of five minutes per speaker with a total of 20 minutes allocated for each item. If necessary, the president may adjust these times to limit to ensure everyone has the opportunity to speak. Non-English speakers will be giving double the time if a translator
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003meeting process. Disruptive behavior will not be tolerated and may result in removal from the meeting. Thank you for your cooperation. If I can please have a big stand for the pledge of allegiance [Music] to the stand with all like to have a motion to approve October 8, 2025 agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> Roll call. Sandra >> I. >> Sammy. >> I. >> Patty. >> Hi. >> Valerie. >> I. >> And I. Presentations. Teaching assignment moderating outcomes is update. Miss Elizabeth Mendoza. Good evening, board. I um gave you um the page that I'm going to report on. Um the top page is the actual um updated version of priority one and the second page is what um was provided to you in the original document on June 11th and
004then approved on June 24th. That way you can see the comparisons on um the information that has changed. So, the California Department of Education recently re um released the 2324 teaching assignment monitoring outcomes or what it's known as TAMO um on data quest. This was done um midepptember. The CDE will report the 23 24 TAMO data in um priority one local indicators on the 25 school dashboards. Um since the 2324 TAMO data was not available on June 11th or June 24th when this original document came to you. um we are required by CDE to update it to the 2324. The one that was presented was 2223 which was the most recent TAMO data at the time. Now that CDE has finished um producing 2324 which is the most updated teacher monitoring information. we have to
005now um present that and put that on our dashboard on the dashboard that's going to come out in November of 20125 so which is next month um and we are required to uh let you know that that update is occurring um but it's just as anformational item. Are there any questions? You don't want to know the definitions of all that a whole document from everybody. >> I look at number >> that's what I look at. >> All right. Awesome. Well, thank you very much. >> We'll go to reports. We have middle high middle and high school. Garcia Carolina Garcia has changed. >> What is your name? >> Welcome. >> Good evening board members and district administrators, parents members. My name is Good evening board members, district administrators, parents, and community members. My name is Ralph
006Bon Gonzalez and I'm this year's John School class president. Tonight, I'd like to share what's been happening on campus for the last few weeks. The end of first quarter is quickly approaching and students are working hard to finish the quarter strong. The John Middle School marching band led by Mr. Gina performed at the Cotton Parade last weekend and were fantastic. The end of our first sports seasons is quickly approaching with two sports already finishing and cross country will participate in their league championships on next Monday. The John Mir Middle School volleyball team finished their season strong by qualifying for the playoffs by before losing to a strong Kings River Harvey team. The John Middle School flag football team finished off its season by defeating Pioneer in the championship game, winning their third B championship in
007the last four years. After cross country finishes their season, next Monday will be on soccer and wrestling seasons. Good luck to all of our Wildcat teams. And in conclusion, Miss Apple Baker and Mr. Jansen will take John Middle School leadership and ASB classes to the annual trunk or treat event on October 24th for the participate in the event as well as being in charge of the pumpkin decorating contest. Thank you for letting me share all of the great things about JMS and I look forward to coming back and sharing again. >> Thank you. Looks like we have Jay, Jason, and Ashley. Good evening, governing board. My name is Ashley Coron. >> My name is Jason Le. Okay. Um, and my name is James Alfox and we are here to give you the Corkin High School
008U report. We are excited to share that um, some of the wonderful things happening at Corkran High School. It's been another exciting and eventful few weeks at our school. Um, our health occupations classes held a highly successful blood drive um, with 94 students who signed up and 69 successful donors. um and an incredible show of compassion from our Panthers. Um CHS students also supported our community at the Cotton Festival. Um helping the health fair and our FFA shine with their float entry. >> Our band continues to impress performing in last Saturday's con parade and future competitions with this weekend in Viceelia and gearing up for their next one at Fresno State. On campus, homecoming festivities are in full swing. Float building, lip sync rehearsals, and tomorrow's ASB hosted powderpuff game, all leading up to our
009big rally and homecoming candidate reveal at Friday's game. We're also proud that our PBIS incentives are working. No interpersonal conflicts and plenty of positive energy, earning our students a special taco vendor tomorrow with an extended lunch on campus. Coming up, ASB will host Buffball where our mouse students take the volleyball court. And our fall sports teams are joining Bret Hart School to to greet elementary students during morning drop off this Wednesday. And just around the corner, ASB is planning a haunted hallway and movie night to keep the fun and spirit going strong. Corkran High is thriving. Our students are active, positive, and making Panther Pride shine everywhere we go. >> Thank you. clear. >> Yes. First off, it just looks great to see our students in here reporting, right? So, good evening, board president uh
010since Merl, do the board, staff, and uh public. I wanted to give you just a quick update. Uh we'll be doing a a longer uh quarterly report at the end of uh this month, the next four week. But I want to highlight some things I think are important for everyone to know and really to give out some uh shout outs to to our team. And when I say our team, it's everyone in the district that's doing an amazing job. So first, when I first came on board, this is a slide that I shared with everybody. And it's uh you know something that that uh I picked up from previous work and it's every system is perfectly designed to get the results it does. And when we asked uh in one of my listening learning sessions
011back when I first came on board, many of the things that I reported to the board, if you remember, was that there was a misalignment in in uh curriculum. There were a lot of tests that were happening. We're using too much technology. There's a lot of uh comments like that, right? Teachers, uh students, parents, and we did see uh individual pockets of excellence like what we saw on the left, but we didn't see necessary true alignment yet, right? And so our goal is that we'd actually move to the right that that all the arrows are pointing in the same direction. And we're getting there and I'm going to show you just a few examples of how that's happening. So we're going to go to the next one. So the first one was I want to
012thank the board because these three priorities on the left is what you worked on if you remember when I first came on board. Now these are important because they are the board priorities but there are priorities as a district and these are the what what do we focus on right? So you're you told us this is what we need to work on and that was so important because it gave us the northstar that actually shaped where we needed to go. The stuff on the right the strategies are what the team began to to uncover as the how how we're going to get there. And so that's so important. So one thing is we haven't deviated or moved from those items that are on the right. We've actually began to really focus on those. So almost
013for the last almost two years that's really our focus. It's been that right. Are we where we want to be? No. Are there is there still a lot of work to do? Yes. But the thing is that folks know that that's where we're going. So, we're go to the next slide. One of the first things um that I definitely heard loud and clear from the board was, you know, um this need and also not only the board but the community. So, you're very aligned with your constituents was uh the need for accountability. But the thing is, how do you hold uh a system accountable if there's not a framework to do so? Right? It's like if folks don't know what to do and it's not clearly spelled out, then it's hard to like really, you
014know, achieve those expectations. So, one of the first things I was so proud of our our leaders and some of them in the room tonight is we developed these leadership commitments and expectations. And so, it was aligned to your priorities, right? Or our parties as a whole, the district now, uh, which the board said, and those are expected actions. So, the the principles and leaders know exactly where what they're expected to do, right? it makes their their job come to life. And this was not something that was done uh in isolation, but we worked on it together as a whole. And um we will revisit this at the end of the year again just like we did this past year and see what are things that need to change so we can make sure that
015that we're all living this so it's not just a document. Okay. So this is the first level of accountability. This is um some exciting information that I want to share with everyone is these uh these scores that you see on the bottom are actually going to be posted uh tomorrow morning on the on the state website. Okay. And I want to just note note that in 20145 that was the first year of the CASP. Okay. The the state test that we take now it's on computer and the students take it in grades 3 through 8 and 11. That's where we where we scored back in 20145 which was not um not unusual because it was a brand new test for students. But if you look at the bottom in 2425 we've grown substantially from where
016we started. Now I'll also show you another slide that has some other data because 201819 was actually our highest year. So I don't want to be misleading, but if you look at the entire span of the time that I'm testing, we've had growth, right? And so let's go to the next slide. So this slide is actually a deeper dive and I'm not going to go into the all this, right? And I and I love the, you know, we do as well look at, you know, for a majority of these things like on this table, we want to have less negative, right? We want to have more more positive, less red, more green. And if you look up at the top, that's from 2018-19. And the reason why we put that that year there is that
017that's the year that we had prior to the pandemic. Okay. And so that's the year that we look at to see how were we doing. Well, we were higher in 201819. That was our highest year ever. Okay. So I want to make sure that I identify that. Then we had the pandemic and then you know kind of everything like every pretty much every school district in the nation went down. Okay. They went backwards. So um but when you look at 2425 and 22 23 24 we actually began to see growth right so if you look at English language arts which is up on top we were kind of the same 30 31% but then we began to grow and in 2425 we actually jumped 3% right so it's a that's a pretty big significant jump
018in in this in this testing world in math we went from pretty much a good score of 23% in 2018 and then we dropped significantly and then we began to move back up but we begin to see change really happened at 23 24 25 and that's you see that that information there the the celebration and and I'll I'll kind of end with this slide is that with how we're how we're averaging right now in our growth the last sl the last cells the the pre pre- pandemic the 3.35% % and that 2.88% we can achieve that this year if we continue to focus on what we're doing and we will actually score higher than any other year. So this coming year we have the opportunity to actually have our most growth overall and we will
019we will uh go ahead of pre- pandemic levels which is pretty amazing and that's because the teachers are focused they're looking at their work they're working together um you know we our district office supporting the principles are doing amazing job of of just it's it's a team effort everybody and so I want to thank them for that and then you see you can see by grade level where where we're at uh both in ELA and math. Um we have some great uh movement like in grade three and ELA they jumped 8% in one year. That's pretty amazing. Uh seventh grade John Mir jumped up 8%. And then uh the high school continued to grow 4%. So they're at 72%. And in math we have a lot of red so that's an area that we know
020we need to focus on. Right. So that's and that's why we're doing the work that we're doing now. And there's a a a trip that's actually on the con the the the the agenda today, consent agenda, and that's visit Nashville that's actually being uh 100% paid for by the by the core and the Gates Foundation, right? And what that work is allowing us to do is bring a group of teachers to see how we can make sure that we pick the right curriculum for the future because it's a big investment, right? When we do an adoption, you're talking about at least a million dollars, if not more. And so we want to make sure we pick the right one, but we're bringing teachers to the table. So they're actually there working with us alongside of
021us to to to decide what that what that's going to be. And so we also have the and the board, you guys have done a tremendous job in this and supporting us in the mathmies. You guys remember the mathmies on Saturdays as well as um you know just the work in math overall that we're doing. So with that, the high school in one year grew 17% in math and in two years from 23 24 to 2425, they've grown almost 30%. Okay, that's that's amazing. And so those teachers when when we talk to them, it's just they're just really working together. They're they're focused. And so it's a really great thing. And uh you know um hats off to the teachers, to Mr. Larkin and all the work that they're doing there to really focus and
022get our kids going. I shared this at the lunchon if you remember, but those scores 72% and 44% in ELA and math for high school. I'm pretty sure that we've beat out every school in Kings County, pretty much every school in Teriy. And we're right up there with the clo with clo neck andneck with Clovis High School. So we're pretty much there with Clovis Unified Schools, which is pretty amazing. And so again, as you see the teachers, please thank them. You know, the the students are doing an amazing job. We saw three amazing students today. And so, uh, we still got a lot of work to do. Don't get me wrong. There's a lot of work to do, but the more we focus and stay consistent, that's where we're going to see the growth, right?
023The next level. So, another one, tier system supports. This is one of the actions that we had, and I wanted to share this with you because a lot of times we hear um, and it's not just us, it's districts all over. Today I was with a group of superintendents from across four counties to Larry um Kings uh Superintendent Barlo was there with me uh as well um there were um superintendents from Freso County Madera and Mercedes so five counties and we're all struggling as as districts in areas like universal preschool like that's an area that everybody's struggling with and every superintendent talked about that as we shared our stories with a legislator from LA. He was there to hear us out. Um, but one of the things that I know that our teams have been
024really focused on, and this is a team that consists at the schoolside level of teachers, our support staff like our psychologists, our therapists, our counselors, and our administrators. They're meeting on a bi-weekly basis looking at students who need support. That's part of that behavior behavior support plan that you guys have been asking for, right? And so they're meeting on a on a consistent basis. This is the number of students with suspensions. One or more suspensions. And now it's apples and oranges. And I want to say this and I'm almost done. 23 2425 is the annual total. Okay. So that's I can't pull it year to date, but that's the annual total. And 2526 is up to up to now, right? But if you look, we we've dropped from 2324 to 2425. we dropped 6%. But
025if you look at schools like Kings Lake, they went from 46% of the students at least being suspended once down to 9.3%. Right? And although it's a small population, that's significant, right? If you look at um you know like John Mir 13% to 9.6, but look at now in 25 26 we're at 1.7% overall. So that means that if we continue continue to stay the course, right? We know that we're trying to not um we're trying to help students and not just have them out of school, but if there's consequence, we want to follow that. So we do get that, right? If some if a student's misbehaving, we're going to provide the the adequate consequence. But we see here already that we're trending well below what we were doing last year. And so that's really
026again a testament to our site teams that are really focused on making sure that they're meeting the needs of each and every student, right? And so they're that's their their focus has been amazing this year. And so the the last thing I want to say is I wanted to give you some current action. So go to the next slide. So some of the things that we've been doing and it's not just myself, it's you know Dr. Vargas, it's it's the team overall as we've been conducting listening and learning sessions. These don't go away because this helps to kind of see where we're at. Uh student advisories, advisories with teachers, with classified, all those are happening. And we already know students are saying in my student advisories challenge us. They want to be challenged in class.
027They want to make sure that they're just not sitting there, but they want to be challenged. The other thing that um you know that staff are asking for are things like um like training. So, one of the things that the Paris asked for was actually CPR um and first aid training. So, right away, uh Dr. Vargas worked with um Heather, our nurse, and we actually put out a survey, and they're they're going to have access to those trainings. So, it's pretty immediate, right, for from when they said that we need this to when they're getting it. So, I want to thank Dr. Vargas and Heather and uh Helen Copeland for getting that together. Um in addition, development of our accountability framework. Again, we do want to have that accountability, but that accountability needs to be
028clear. And so, uh, developing the leadership collective commitments, expectations that I showed you earlier, the new evaluation management process that we're going to bring back to the board, but you had a copy of that, that's aligned to the state expectations, the councils. So, no longer is it vague on how a leader is supposed to be evaluated because very, very subjective, very vague. Now it's very objective and it's very clear what what they're what they're being evaluated on. Um the development of department key performance indicators. So that means that when we come back to you as a board, you're going to see specific goals for each department. I'll give you an example for um for uh Mr. um for James's area for uh would be the ticket. So the technology ticket, right? So how many uh
029how long does it take for a technology ticket to be you know um answered right result um and then we have like development of intent uh intentional site goals the principal really working on those with both Dr. Vargas and myself and then quarterly cycles of continuous improvement. So, next week we're going to have all the leaders come together in here and they're going to look at their goals and they're going to pick one thing that they're struggling with, but it's not to sit there and and hammer them on why they're struggling. It's to help them. What we're going to do is we're a consultancy. So, we're going to sit here and be thought partners together so they can get ideas from their peers and walk away with solutions. And so, that's happening on a quarterly
030basis. We haven't had that in some time. And so that again is accountability but not accountability in the sense of where they're you know where it's the opposite right it's a negative um and so the last thing I'll say is uh Dr. Vargas has done an amazing job uh as she's come in um and she's really focusing us on five key areas of learning and so we have five teams and on these five teams the principles are the leads. Okay. So we we have a team that's around professor learning professional learning structures one that's around instructional learning practices um instructional practice one that's around interventions one that's around PBIS and one that's around data and assessment and the principles are leading this work because we're also building capacity in them so they can themselves say
031hey we help build a district initiative right so that's the last thing so with that I just want to just say thank you so much I know it's a little bit longer than normal my report but But I did want to share this with you and because we do all those things, these are the outcomes that we get right when we're focused that that's what that those are the results. So with that again I just want to thank our our staff from from our classified to our certificate to our management doing amazing job. We got a lot of work to do. So I'm not going to say that we don't we got behaviors we need to address and whatnot but we're on the right track. So with that I go back to president. >> Thank
032you. order trustees and reports. I didn't go ahead. >> I'm sorry. >> Uh I also attended the u the parade and I only have one word about John B and it was amazing. They just shocked me like I step back and the the amount of kids that are participating and the quality is amazing. Thank you. I spoke to Mr. W and I spoke to that was amazing and I now I plan on going to a concert. Yeah. >> Well, that is exactly what I was going to say. And the high school band was really good, too. But, uh, I remember a day not too long ago when, you know, I I don't think they could play harmony, you know, and they're just simply great. I just appreciate all of them. >> And I didn't want
033to take anything away from the high school band. They were great, too. >> Yeah. >> But it just that age, it really surprised me. and thank you. >> Very good. Thank you. I just wanted to add one thing to Mr. Bina in your report that when you were at the lunch and you share those numbers, the gentleman that was sitting next to me from I believe is the gentleman that is doing the academy for math. He was very impressed and he said, "You guys need to show this. You guys, how are you guys doing this? This is something that you need to share with everybody." So, I I do uh I felt um you know, very appreciative that that he saw that and he uploaded the number. Just want to thank everybody for getting us
034to that point where they're looking at us staff. What is it that you guys are doing here at Corfright? Thank you. >> If I could say one thing to that, I forgot my uh report. We actually because of this work, we have in March uh been have been asked to have districts come to the to our district to learn about what's going on. So, we're going to have uh several probably a dozen rural school districts that are going to come from uh at least three counties that are come to come visit to see what's happening in our schools. >> Thank you. >> Hey, Corp Faculty Association there. And how about the school employees association? Very good. All right. We are here for public comment. I believe uh we do have one Edna. I'm gonna apologize
035and go on. >> Yes, please. You can come up to the podium. >> Yeah, there you go. such as >> Hi, my name is Ed. My first time speaking in front, but something I think I should say that my well I've been here for three four years I went to school back I graduated Kings Lake as an high school diploma in that school my kids are three of them for attending John here eight seven and six and then the fourth grader and the TK and preschool and I'm so comfortable on everything until last month on the 23rd. I had an incident with my daughter getting personal part touched and I didn't get notified that day until the next day. I was the last one to know from the principal, vice principal, when I he calls
036me in the morning and that he told me and I was like, "Why didn't you guys tell me right away?" So, I guess they told the other parents, but not me. And I was upset. I did tell him, "You did the wrong thing. You left. Leave it to me. Because you guys have kids, you guys should know the pain as a mother or father how this feels. I'm trying to be strong, but I just can't. She's been through a lot. And just her I see a lot of things that she has changed. Her personality. She's more different. Changing little by little. the I went to the district. I did everything that I was supposed to do. Everything's coming out well. Just the fact that I had moved my kids away from the district. I moved
037because my daughter, they started asking her questions. my older son, he said that person comes back um just and I said no I don't they have straight A's and B's I didn't want their grades to go down and start being bad in school my seventh graders like mom they're starting to ask me is your sister the one that and I was like you know what I think it's just time for us to move out I didn't want to but I didn't want my kids to go down on their grades when they were actually doing good. And I just hope you guys do the right things that supposed to be taken because that's nothing serious to me. Like I just I went through it young and like I told her, I'mma fight for you so the
038right things were done. And I just hope you guys understand and I just wanted to let it out to you guys. He's been helping Mr. the superintendent. He's been helping me. He's been um like whenever I want to talk to him, he's been there for me. First of all, the vice principal. Just the fact that they let me know last other parents knew but me. It's just the only thing where I'm like I'm upset with because it's some that was something serious to me. So yeah, that's all I wanted to let you guys know. Okay. Thank you. Action items consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda items? >> Motion. >> I'll second. >> Second. >> All right. Roll call. >> Go ahead. >> Mr. Christina, thank you for the response
039on my uh inquiry. Although I kind of agree with what was responded, but I I'd like to see the 21, 22, and 23 um registers for that that business. And I'd like to see the originals printed up by this and not a computerenerated spreadsheet. Please, if I need a paper, I'll be more than glad to do that. Thank you. Thank you. >> I also have a question on that. Do you have another code besides materials and supplies for that item? I don't think that falls under materials and supplies. >> That is the code that we would have for >> you guys don't have a code for meetings for those type of expenses. >> There's travel and conference, but that would be for expenses outside. Sammy. >> Hi. >> Patty. >> Hi. >> Valerie. >> Hi.
040>> And administration. We'll now move into the first reading of the following board policies. These are being presented for initial review. No actions required at this time. We'll be reviewing dismissal, suspension, disciplinary actions, and um dismissions, suspicion, disciplinary action, merit system, preschool, early childhood education, teaching and learning, JDT Consultants, Inc. therapeutic behavior services contract, Miss Lisa Hartness. >> Okay. Um so I did I was able to provide you some update on the cost from last year which amounted to roughly about 160k and the primary um allocation was to direct student services. So just as a reminder this year the investment albeit a little bit higher is towards building capacity so that in the future we have to rely less and less on this company to provide the direct service. I will also note that 50,000
041will be covered by the CBHI grant and another portion all of the coaching can be covered under educator effectiveness fund which has to be spent by this year. Um, and so then there would only be a small portion remaining um, that would be covered by the special services budget. So if we have any questions, I'm happy to field any more of those today as well. Um, so I do have a question because you're going to be have it's going to go towards the staff implementing more. Um, will you guys be reviewing their job classifications to ensure that those items are targeted on there? So there are currently two job classifications. They're the behavior support aids and they are getting a higher level of coaching and training and support what the other group is receiving. So
042yard parah they would be getting some of the things that our teachers might be getting in some of their early course work about just child developmental like some basic things that are just going to help them be able to do their jobs more efficiently. So it wouldn't necessarily be additional work. It's just broadening their capacity. If they see an incident happening at recess, what kind of language can they use to help deescalate? So, it's just giving them more tools to be able to continue to do the job that they're doing. >> Do I have a motion to approve? >> Second. I will second. Roll call. Sandra >> I. >> Sammy. Hi, >> Patty. >> Hi, >> Valerie. >> Hi. >> And I future for agenda items. >> Okay. Fine. >> I have something. I would
043like a report on our electric buses. I haven't heard anything about this for a while and I'm just really interested how that's >> also um I know I brought it up last time and I was still there is no schedule but u the use of the facilities for other athletic groups in the in the city. I think that need to come up for discussion please. Okay, close session items. The following close sessions uh topic has been identified. Conference relate negotiator. Any public comment on the close section item? Okay, we'll go ahead and return um to close session at 6:39. Thank you.