001good evening everyone I'd like to call this meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. and announce that the board will meet in close session to address items 1 through three on the agenda Mr super attendant do we have any uh public comment on items 1 through three we do not thank you very much then I will close the public comment and recess us into the Clos session e e e kid should never walk into a class the fifth largest school district in C e e e all right everybody welcome and good evening I'd like to call this meeting back to order there we go see it's like I know it's like magic anyway good evening and welcome to the Elkgrove Unified School District board meeting live streaming of full in-person board meetings will be available to
002the public via the zoom platform today's meeting is being video recorded and will be available on the district's YouTube channel we encourage you to attend the meetings and share your feedback with the board your active participation is valued and contributes to the decision-making process during regular board meetings the public may make public comment on items on the agenda or items not on the agenda request to make public comment will be accepted for an item up until the board president introduces the item generally members of the public will be given three minutes to address the board if there are 15 or more comments on a specific item the board will reduce individual comment time to 2 minutes each if there are 30 or more comments on a specific item the board will reduce individual comments to
003one minute each individuals may not defer their time to another individual speaker to increase their total speaking time please be mindful that District students may be watching you are encouraged to address the board and the public in a respectful manner such that all those observing from children to adults are made to feel welcome safe and valued the board shall not permit any disturbance or willful Interruption of board meetings persistent disruption by an individual or group will be grounds for the board president to provide a warning and then terminate the individual's privilege of addressing the board next up uh Miss ballerini with the land acknowledgement all right we acknowledge that the elro Unified School District Administrative facilities and schools occupy the unseated territory of the Miwok the original people of the skies land and Waters where
004we work and learn the Miwok have cared for these lands since time immemorial they continue to teach their tradition knowledge that comes from and responds to the needs of the land and the people who serve it who share it whoops uh May our daily lives and work teaching learning leadership and Community engagement support the evolving vision of the Miwok for their community and these lands may we strive to acknowledge the past for the betterment of our future Generations may we look to our tribal Partners the Wilton Rancheria the descendants of the original people of this land to assist with the successful education of our community thank you very much uh next up is the Pledge of Allegiance unfortunately uh our special guest was unable to join us but we do have principal Samantha moer here
005uh and I will hand it off to Mr Yang to say some words thank you thank you good evening Charles Mack Elementary School is honor to recognize Miss Yolanda mza ceras as our education partner Miss Mendoza is the proud mother of two boys in attends first grade and Juan attends the Head Start prek program Miss Mendoza was anonymously voted to represent Charles Mack parents on the Head Start policy committee along with parents from 18 different pre School sites this committee collaborates to determine how Head Start funds are spent Miss Mendoza has volunteered in many capacities over the last two years at Charles ma Elementary she helps with snow cone days on Wednesdays after school offers her time to prep activities for the prek class and you can often find her helping with Spanish translation for
006families in need according to her son's first grade teacher Miss melza goes above and beyond to not only advocate for her children's education but also for our school she creates a positive safe and loving environment at home and supports our learning environment at school Yolanda's positive attitude briens up out day from her hobby good mornings to her see you tomorrows she is a amazing mom and her children are lucky to have her we are honored to recognize Miss Miss Yolanda as a dedicated Charles Mack Elementary parent thank [Applause] you and Miss Mo please take it away I'm honored to represent Yolanda Mendoza so friends you're already standing that's wonderful salute pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God
007indivisible with liberty and justice for all are we going to take pictures CU she's not okay so but I'm going to go hand this to her all right thank you everyone uh next up is our student presentations our student Regional report from the Monterey Trail region student [Applause] Representatives want to do aptive GES or want to do it okay members of the board superintendent Hoffman and Miss Avalos welcome to the Monteray Trail region my name is Morgan Brown and we are members of the We Video Club at iron B West Miss via is our club adviser and has taught us how to take pictures and videos and how to edit them we are involved in many events that happen I West it's a really cool experience for us because it is so fun good evening
008my name is a Singh In addition to creating videos of school events we also created our own videos me and sahib have created four how-to videos to submit to the SAA contest even we created step-by-step video on how to make delicious recipes that are easy to [Music] follow good evening my name is sah rava the Wii video Club has challenged us to be creative and feel like an important part of our school we love sharing our videos with the family and love being a wild cat here is a short video featuring some of our wild cats hello I'm Juliana I'm H I'm and I'm and here TV today we're going to be showing us some of our friends who wore the R&B with um spirit wear you [Music] [Applause] and now we will be turning
009it over to the students from Monteray Trail [Applause] thank you to our future mustangs from Irene B West good evening my name is Bianca buo and my name is tring Tron and we're both seniors from monter Trail High School and also your monter tril region representatives for tonight we absolutely love hosting our annual Multicultural assembly in November with a variety of cultural clubs on campus not only do they participate in this assembly and night show but they do host a lot of their own cultural nights throughout the year they all share a pride in their culture a desire to share their culture in and out of school how it breaks down walls and how it brings groups together we also have our link crew programs and unity days to unite student from all grades together
010the student Equity Council SEC has grown as well which we will talk about further in the presentation we just had our second annual community Carnival trying to build our Feer community and we also wanted to Showcase one of our biggest community events open house in Mustang Derby now we will have calvine high school Representatives continue tonight's theme of [Applause] unity good evening my name is r i do a senior at calvine high school and I am Crystal Yang a junior at calvine high school and we are pleased to present highlights about the calvine community at calvine student leadership is the heart of our school Community our leaders take initiative to create a positive and supportive environment both on and off the campus one example is our peer-to-peer program where students visited three local elementary schools
011to educate younger students about the dangers of substance abuse on campus we partner with Friday Night Live to organize a successful Red Raven week raising awareness and encouraging healthy Cho among our peers this year we were excited to launch our student Equity Council which rece which received a grant for the California Museum this grant helped us develop a youth-led project that sparked important conversations empowered students and inspired action on issues that matter to us our biggest achievement was organizing Calvin's first Multicultural day a celebration of the diverse cultures and backgrounds to make up our school this event brought students together fostering pride and appreciation for our differences we also want to take a moment to recognize our dedicated teachers who work hard to create warm engaging and inclusive classrooms this support allows students to refocus
012and succeed in a learning environment that truly feels like a second chance their efforts along with the leadership of our students help shape calvine into a school that offers both opportunity and community in addition to these accomplishments we are proud to share that the California Department of Education recognized calvine high school as a model continuation High School this spring this honor reflects the hard work and dedication of our students staff and administration looking ahead we're also excited to build on this momentum and find new ways to celebrate the achievements of the class of 2025 thank you for your time your support and for allowing us to share the impact of student leadership at calvine high school thank you it is my pleasure to introduce the Raymond case National Elementary Honor Society representative good evening I'm
013John santon the very proud principal at Raymond case and I'm very 11 years ago we came to our national Elementary Honor Society or actually to one of our teachers and said hey it takes more to being on the trail for College and Career Readiness of building a well-rounded student Emma Walker has been our adviser for 11 years and our NS students are going to tell you about their keys to success hello my name is Madison Tran and I'll be presenting scholarship scholarship means a commitment to learning an NS member is willing to spend time reading and studying knowing the lasting benefits of a cultivated mind we all must continue to learn even when formal education has ended knowledge is one great element in life that leads to the highest success and it can be acquired
014in only one way through diligence and effort members of the NHS are challenged to continually expand their world through the opportunities provided by [Applause] scholarship hello I am Anthony Nagatani I'm going to be talking about leadership our leadership as members of the national Elementary H Society should exert a positive influence on the school a student leader takes the initiative in class and in scho school activities driving their train and help others to reach their goals a leader has self-confidence and will go forward when others hesitate leadership is needed in many aspects of our life so the lead is another important challenge to each of our nhhs members hello my name is Somaya English and I will be representing responsibility responsibility is our commitment to do what we say we are going to do when faced
015with the temp when is Our obligation for doing what is right when faced with the temptation of doing wrong we work in a responsible manner at school to achieve our academic goals our responsibility is displayed through acts of good citizenship respecting laws culture and traditions of our part of the world NHS members demonstrate responsibility at home at school and in the community and we serve as role models for our peers my name is Kanan newfeld and I will be presenting service in our day-to-day lives many opportunities arise to perform service helping others to do what they cannot do alone this willingness to work for the benefit of those in needs without exp expectation of reward is the quality we seek in our members as members of nehs we are committed to the idea of volunteering
016our time and abilities to the creation of a better tomorrow for us all we provide service by planning school activities such as spirit days and dances volunteering during morning and lunch recess tutoring Primary students and greeting students in the mornings every Friday we also coordinate a schoolwide kindness week and Veterans Day assembly in addition we create cards for senior citizens in the community as as well as various other service projects our time as members of the Raymond case National Elementary Honor Society and our commitment to the four pillars is preparing us to become members of the National Junior Honor Society at Edward Harris and National National Honor Society Key Club members and Elementary School tutors as high schoolers at Monteray Trail [Applause] evening good evening everyone I'm k bro I am Tamaya keys we're both
017sixth grade student leaders at Barbara comto Morris Elementary tonight tonight we will talk about Avid what it means and why is a great benefit for our students Avid which stands for individual in advancement via individual determination is a program designed to close the opportunity Gap by by ensuring all students are college career and life ready the nine schools in the model region are dedicated to a College and Career Focus that means that elementary students can build on their grades and explore future pathways through middle and high school we are proud that6 of the regional teachers have been Avid trained to build on Student Success we want to thank the board for providing Avid coaches for our schools they help our teachers to create challenging challenging and accessible learning Environ and for our learning environments for
018every student in our region throughout the modal region the Avid coaches share expertise demo lessons Family Resources to learn about wicker wicker stands for writing inquiry collaboration organization and reading tonight the board will receive two sample F folders from two recent family teacher Academic Teams meetings wicker was wicker was shared with BCM families thank you for your time thank you for thank you for supporting us with Avid and as we prepare to be college career and life [Applause] ready hi everyone my name is Aliana McDonald and I'm a senior at Rio cadero high school and I'm King Lewis also a senior at Rio cadero High School we're part of the peer-to-peer program at Rio cadero high and as members we get presentations to sixth graders across the district about the dangers of vaping a big
019part of our work is creating our own slides to make sure the message really connects our goal of P perod is to build a supportive and inclusive community where students no matter their background can work together as advocates and help each other grow our mission is to make a positive impact based on our schools culture and values educate our community on harms of tobacco and other substances and develop strong peer Advocates with skills in leadership teamwork and problem solving this year we presented at Sierra Enterprise Perry Elementary and John wath Elementary we have one more presentation lined up at Sunrise Elementary in April what I love about peerto peer is that it's helped me get a lot more comfortable speaking in front of groups I've learned how to use canva which is an amazing tool
020for graphic design but most importantly I feel it's crucial for sixth graders to to learn about the risk of vaping early on the best part for me is getting to connect with younger students and teach them something meaningful knowing that we're helping them make better choices for their future is really rewarding our overall goal with these presentations is to spread awareness and give students the knowledge they need to make smart decisions we're proud to be a part of peer-to-peer and we're uh very proud to be making an impact thank you for listening next we give it over to our friends at haris Middle School [Applause] good evening my name is Lilia Rose Perez and my name is Nia Richardson we are both eighth grade leadership students at Edward Harris junior middle school throughout our time
021at Edward Harris we've been involved in many school events like career day open house rallies and a day in the life being a part of leadership has taught us valuable skills like Integrity responsibility and adaptability which will carry with us into high school and Beyond in the future I plan to attend the University of Hawaii to study criminal justice or psychology and I'm planning to go to San Diego State University to study drama and film making or business we are excited to share more about our leadership experiences and the impact they've had on our school's Community today we're going to share about two events that help sixth graders transition to middle school and eighth graders transition to high school I'd like to share a little bit about our event a day in the life of
022a cult Edward Harris organized this event to help our incoming seventh graders transition smoothly into middle school during the event we LED guided tours around key spots like the library cafeteria and classrooms we also explain our school's values responsibility Integrity consideration and hard work us eighth graders shared personal experiences answered the incoming seventh graders questions and even offer tips to navigate the new environment by the end of the day we noticed a real boost in their confidence and excitement about joining our community this initiative not only helped incoming seventh graders feel welcome and prepared but also gave us a chance to grow as leaders and Role Models now I would like to talk about my experience at Montery Trail High School Shadow day shadday was like a day in the life but we toured the
023high school as incoming freshmen mon Trails ordered organized this to help incoming freshman stay calm about our upcoming change Shadow day was a very fun experience for me being able to be the one given the tour instead of being the one giving the tour felt very reassuring I got to see how the sixth graders felt at a day in the life I also got to see how differently it was ran compared to a day in the life while it was very fun it was also very informative I saw how students manage things like homework extracurricular activities and sports it gave me a head started thinking about how I want to manage my time as both a scholar and an athlete by the end of the trip I felt way more confident about starting high school
024thank you for your time and now we would like to introduce monre Trail High School students Bianca and [Applause] Trang thank you Nia and Lilia we want to present the monor regional Equity Coalition MRE it's a regional effort integrating nine schools in the area this Regional effort began in 2020 in response to the death of George Floyd and a call to action to disrupt disparities the objective of the Coalition is to improve racial equity and educational outcomes for black and African-American students within the Mt region it includes Regional and site specific action strategies centered around collaboration among students parents and families faculty and staff site and District leaders and Community Partners this year the MTR has engaged nearly 100 Partners in purposeful discussions information sharing and strategizing through the quarterly Coalition meetings and related events
025students at the mths BSU are currently engaging younger students within the trail in listening sessions with a series to inform priorities and actions for next year each School site implements strategies towards intermediate and long-term goals including increasing represent ation of African-American students in Gate honors and AP courses increasing School connectedness decreasing disproportionality in African-American student dispension and increasing the percentage of African-American students graduating college career ready by 2026 comparison on data sets from 2022 and 2024 reflect a decrease in chronic absen ISM rate for africanamerican students across all five MTR elementary schools Monro high school has also experienced a decrease in African-American student suspension each year for the following past three years at approximately 3% 3% each year reflecting a total decrease of 5.6 from 2022 to 2024 BSU student students have been trained by
026our community partner Innovation bridge to host listening sessions at our feeder elementary and middle schools to hear from our students to inform our next action steps and BSU and student Equity have also been presenters at our MTR Coalition meetings at a couple of theater schools and staff meetings evaluating student voices and listening to inform our actions for continuous Improvement and now we want you guys guys to join us for mths home game for egsd Unified sports basketball mths versus EGS on April 3rd 2025 at the mths gymnasium at 4:30 if you had interest in MTR the next meeting will be on Tuesday April 29th at 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at Mt and in closing let's listen to The Talented Matthew Chen from where Herberger [Applause] St [Music] l [Music] w thank you Matthew Chen for
027an amazing performance and we would like to thank the board for having us as your moner Trail region Representatives have a great rest of your evening and go Mustangs thank you students for that wonderful presentation uh before we let you all go I would be remiss if I didn't introduce our principles from the montere trail region Toby pagee from calvine high school Doug Wendell from Rio cazadero High School Lara Ricks Monteray Trail High School Nick Frey uh Edward Harris Middle School John santon Raymond case Elementary School Dr Tamil La Moore Roy Herberger Elementary School kilolo Umi Barbara comto Morse Elementary School and Brian mcneel Irene B West Elementary School and before you all go I believe we have one public comment on this item yeah board President we do have one blue card this item
028so calling up Bren iy and Bill [Applause] rias good evening board president Vargas trustees student board member and superintendent Hoffman my name is Britt Herby I serve as deputy director of a community based organization called Innovation Bridge my colleague B is is in routee from another School site across town so I'm representing both of us um we're grateful to have ongoing partnership in collaboration with elro Unified School District and nine schools within the Monteray Trail region for the Monteray Trail Regional Equity Coalition or the MRE as we heard the students present um about much of what's Happening across the Mt region we wanted to take this opportunity to uplift the leadership of the nine principles and the way that their commitment has really moved the dial specifically as it relates to Black and African-American students
029um the principles across the region in 2020 took the charge to and have remained steadfastly committed to addressing disparities in educational experiences and outcomes for black and African-American students they said we can do it better and we need to do better and we need to work alongside students and parents and staff and our Community Partners to succeed through their leadership and through their action they really are exemplifying the Strategic goals that elro Unified School District uplifts and they're remaining committed to that um as well as leading their staff teams and their families and students in this effort um we've just heard some of the positive outcomes this work has accomplished um but there are other data uh that really do support the evidence-based practices that the principles are leading within their sites and so we
030wanted to take this opportunity to uplift them we recognize um as great as the progress is there's so much more work to to go and more work to be done um and so again we know you all have just acknowledged them but we wanted to uplift each of the principles and also in particular the amazing Kathy Wilson from El grve unified face Department who um on top of her face duties has committed countless hours toward the mrek efforts so um we want to to acknowledge the principles and leaders and we also as an organization we have our um Innovative leadership awards for each of you in the back um so we're excited to um just take this moment to uplift their work thank you thank you D Andrew Card board president excellent thank you very
031much all right uh students and families you are dismissed thank you so much we appreciate it number two [Applause] a com the agend okay we got a few on the library resolution okay yeah how many for non agenda uh we'll probably have less a few not a lot yeah we're not exceeding e all right folks if you want to take all conversations outside so we can keep the keep the meeting moving that would be wonderful our next agenda item is school bus driers day Mr black folks in the back thank you hey good evening uh board president Vargas Board of Trustees superintendent Hoffman Miss Avalos I'm happy to be here tonight to read the resolution regarding school bus drivers day uh we have an excellent group of school bus drivers and I'm privileged to get
032to work alongside of them every day the board of education is asked to adopt resolution number 75 2024 202 designating April 22nd 2025 as school bus driver day school bus drivers Day celebrated annually since 2009 was designated by the State Assembly to recognize and draw attention to school bus drivers for their continued and excellent services to pupils in California annually on the fourth Tuesday of April the people of California officially recognized all school bus drivers for their continued and excellent services to the Youth of the State the safety of our students rests in the hands of trained school bus drivers for up to six or seven hours each school day and as such they expend their personal time and energy on their initial training maintaining a current license perfecting their driving skills and ACR added
033knowledge of school bus laws through continuing education classes school bus drivers can also face natural and unexpected hazards in the performance of their duties while exhibiting patient and kindness towards pupils parents and School staff in the performance of their duties as such the governing board is asked to adopt a resolution to designate April 22nd 2025 at school bus driers day in elgrove Unified School District in order to draw special public attention to school bus drivers for their continued and excellent services to the pupils in Elbo Unified School District thank you thank you very much Mr Yang are there any blue cards on this item board president there's no blue card on this item excellent then I will entertain a motion to adopt resolution number 75 designating April 22nd 2025 as school bus driver's day so
034moved second moved by Miss albani seconded by Mr Yang all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries unanimously thank you very much thank you next up recognition of National Library week Mr schwitzer good evening board president Vargas members of the board superintendent Hoffman and miss aalo here tonight to talk about National Library week I know that we have several members of our uh School librarian and Library technicians with us here tonight if you all like to stand while I'm reading uh we'd be honored to have you so first promoted in 19 58 National Library week is sponsored by the American Library Association and observed in libraries across the country each April this year National Library week is celebrated April 20 through 26 2025 and Li as libraries host special events to
035highlight the unique role libraries play in people's lives and this year's theme is drawn to the library libraries are full of stories and a variety of formats from picture books to large print audio books to ebooks and there's so much more to the story libraries lend items like games musical instruments tools uh Library programming brings communities together for entertainment education and connection through book clubs story times classes and lectures celebrations occurring Across the Nation during National School library week include right to read day National Library workers day National Library Outreach day and take action for libraries day it's essential for us to continue our acknowledgement of the valuable contributions and recognize all Li Library workers uh Librarians and Library technicians our school support staff and others who make the library Services possible for all of
036our students every day this evening the board has requested to approve resolution number 72 to recognize April 20 through 26 2025 as a national library week thank you very much uh Mr Yang do we have any blue cards on this item board presidents yeah we do have a few uh blue cards on this item calling Amy mcgravy followed by Gina Bru uh superintendent Hoffman board president Vargas mopis and school board members first of all I would like to thank the board for appreciating the work of Library staff in our district I believe that the work libraries do is invaluable helping students to discover a love of lifelong and self-driven learning by connecting students with books developing literacy and informational skills and creating a safe haven for students on campus to study or engage with literature
037when I was a student that the library was that safe haven for me a place for me to have agency and peace on campus and I know that our district Librarians work very hard every day to create that atmosphere for our students in the spirit of National Library week I would like to ask the board to consider some of the ways that our mission to empower students is being jeopardized by encroaching responsibilities that fall outside of our field of expertise the main one being the decision of some school sites to put the responsibility of overseeing Chromebook laners checkouts and repairs on school libraries unlike instructional materials like textbooks Chromebooks are daily issue that take hours out of our day between looners Chromebook inspection and management hard resetting Etc all of these tasks come at the
038expense of Library staff being able to complete our primary job functions as we are constantly inundated with Chromebook help requests they interfere with our ability to manage textbooks create promote and Run library PR programming related to literacy and informational discernment teach lessons to classes on Research news literacy and Library skills create resources collaborate with teachers and promote books through book talks displays and reading programs these are the tasks we have been educated to perform Chromebooks are time intensive responsibility that is incompatible incompatible with our responsibilities as Library staff please consider looking at other solutions for Chromebooks such as having them be managed by technology Services who have the Education and Training to effectively oversee them unlike Librarians who are trained in literacy and Library science and ideally by creating a tech position through technology services
039like other districts have done to supervise Chromebooks at multiple sites since this job is so time intensive that it cannot easily be tacked onto an existing position I again thank you for acknowledging the work that Librarians do and I hope that that appreciation extends to helping us with this issue thank you thank you Colin Gina Follow by Courtney good evening superintendent Hoffman board president Vargas Miss Alas and school board members my name is Gina Brandon I worked in Elkgrove unified for 20 29 years and I have some concerns about Chromebooks I am the tech at Franklin High School and how it is affecting my job as a library Tech to the point where most of my day is consumed by Chromebooks this is what we call our casserola nonsense this is just half a year
040of Chromebooks repairs damages uh anything that you can imagine I have pictures that I get all the time these kids come in and they say what happened oh I don't know so we have tons of work ahead of us the point where most of my day is consumed this binder is only half a year of students we've seen admin handed it to the library they just gave us the responsibility of handling Chromebooks through the year but we cannot treat it as a checkout to libraries or textbooks we get lost lost we charge for damaged textbooks we charge for uh Lost Books kids have to pay for them in Chromebooks you don't get charged and we need to districtwide policy not a site-based decision if we are trying to give the students the tools to be
041successful why are we not teaching the students how to be responsible adults so thank you thank you [Applause] Colin Cordy followed by Joanne good evening president Vargas School Board trustees superintendent Hoffman and Miss Avalos my name is Courtney since we're talking about National Library week I'd like to talk about working in egsd elementary libraries I am the library Tech at Altha Donner Elementary School I actually attended Donner from fourth to sixth grade the library was a Haven for me as an exceptionally shy new military brat that had been bouncing around the country in my current role I try my hardest to make the library the same safe inclusive environment for all of my students when I went to school in egsd the library was staffed with a full-time 40-hour week Teacher librarian with a library
042credential and a teaching credential as well as a library technician that worked 25 hours a week today we no longer have teacher Librarians in elementary schools at all Library technicians are given just 15 hours to fulfill both roles as well as additional the additional responsibility of curriculum it is simply impossible to do this job in 15 hours believe me I've tried we've all tried every day we have to decide if we are going to donate our time to complete our essential work or stick to our allotted hours fall behind on our duties and force our students to have less than they deserve it is not this way for everyone some of the schools in egsd that have thriving esta ptas pay for their Library text to have additional hours obviously this is not Equitable it
043also isn't Equitable that we universally have 15 hours every school has a different population and volume of students it doesn't make sense that a school overflowing with students and our smallest schools are given the same amount of time it is actually my book fair week so I am wiped out I may or may not have written this 20 minutes ago it took everything I had to come here today I've working non-stop since last week to make sure my students create core memories this week and I raise much needed funds but I showed up for my colleagues we're drowning and have been asking for help at for some time at every quarterly Library meeting with our the Elementary District employees by sometime I mean years please reach out to us so we can further explain how
044the challenges we face and how it impacts our students I'm sorry and how it impacts our students students like us they deserve so much more thank you [Music] Joanne Follow by Bethany good evening superintendent Hoffman president Vargas members of the board and Miss alos I am Joan streeters and I have been a library Tech at cumes River Elementary for over 30 years at one time several years ago I had 24 hours a week paid by the district had time to read to classes help students find books and teach Library lessons I also managed the Accelerated Reader Program which helped students improve their reading comprehension I was able to spend time helping students discover new books and help students find information for research projects I had time to reshell books order new books when money was
045available and run Book Fairs I also provided a welcoming environment in the library for all students at that time I had no textbook responsibilities in 2010 the District laid off all the elementary librarian texts libraries became disorganized books were taken with no accountability that year the bill for lost textbooks skyrocketed there was no one experience to oversee the management of textbooks we also lost many experienced Library texts because they were forced to retire or lose their medical benefits the next year Library Texs were brought back today the elk grov School District still only pays for 15 hours a week our numbers of students and responsibilities have increased Library techs have a difficult time fitting in classes each week Library lessons and reading in classes is minimal if or not happening at all helping students find
046books and checking books in and out in such a short period of time is challenging as well as finding time to reshel our books we now have the responsibility of textbooks with each new Adoption we need to find time to process them and enter them into Destiny each year we check textbooks in and out to students as well as pass out consumables when consumables for the following year are delivered in the spring we must find time to inventory them and report back to the warehouse within three days of delivery with any discrepancies during the year we must also order textbooks and consumables for new students we have a big turnover of Library text because of so much to do in so little time our texts receive no training and depend on our current texts to
047find time to help them amount our district is short changing our students in the library our techs need more hours to provide basic needs and quality time to our students one of my former principles always said that the library is the heart of the school wouldn't it be wonderful if students had the opportunity to visit the library during lunchtime to a safe and caring environment thank you thank you be the followed by Katie [Music] ready good evening uh president Vargas board members superintendent Hoffman M aalos I'm Bethany Payne and I'm the library T at Dillard Elementary um the library really is the heart of the school so thanks for recognizing it this week um I've been at Dillard for 10 years and previously I was at Butler Elementary so I've been at a little school
048and a big school and there's a big difference um at Dillard we have a solid collection um we have two success F Book Fairs a year we have parents with the means to support them uh we have curation I've been there for 10 years my predecessor was there for 25 a lot of our schools don't have that uh I have community and teacher support they write my extra hours into the elcat plan because 15 hours isn't enough even at a little tiny school um I'm able to provide four days of lunchtime support for our students to give them a community space where they can come they can have quiet time they can do exchange a book and do homework and stuff like that but what this comes down to is equity um all students everywhere
049in our district should have at least this level of access and instead elro UniFi has constant turnover of Library text we have poor Collections and competition for resources I hear from my colleagues that their kids can't get the popular books that they really want to read we've got struggles to purchase books my colleagues uh are looking for funding just like the rest of us it's it's really rough um people have short visits they struggle to get even books checked out a lot of my colleagues can't read to their students which everybody should be able to read to their students every single week all students deserve stories um they have limited hours their kids can't get a new book even once a week reading is the heart of our curriculum science math it all comes down
050to reading these days and it's one of our Mo most important tasks at the elementary level um we know that Library Choice materials are one of the best ways that we build that reading skill we practice when we're excited about it we should all have materials that we're excited to practice with we have to want to practice though and we have to have things that motivate us to do that I can tell which students in my library have reading support at home which parents give their kids motivation which parents give their kids materials to read those kids are going to be fine those kids are not the kids that really need what the school library can provide but we should aim in our district to give that kind of support and that kind of community
051to every single child We Begin by supporting our libraries thank you thank you Christine followed by Maria pal good evening hello my name is Katie serat and I've been with elgrove Unified School District and at mcke elementary as a library Tech since September of 2014 prior to joing elgrove unified I was a librarian for the Sacramento Public Library for almost 18 years as a youth services librarian it might be surprising to a lot of people that our district hires Library technicians in Li of librarians because Librarians who work for elementary or secondary schools in California must also hold a library media credential in addition to having their master's degree in library science however this means that most of us are Library technicians aren't formally trained and most of them have learned the job while on
052the job since I started over 10 years ago there have been no formal training put into place and we've been forced to be creative in order to learn how to do our jobs there's no manual or any kind of formal training given most of us rely on each other to answer questions or problem solve which is highly problematic given that we're compensated for only 15 hours a week unless your site has agreed to allow you to put some overtime hours on a time sheet I took this job believing that I would be our school librarian which I was for a couple of years years before finding out that an entirely new job was being handed to me instructional materials coordinator however I was now expected to do both jobs in the same 15 hours per
053week the instructional materials coordinator is responsible for adding all the textbooks consumables teachers additions and related materials to our database and then checking those items out to each of our students and teachers these items have to be tracked and accounted for and require an enormous amount of time to um students coming and going from our campuses and if you account for the sheer number of changes that schools on the track system have then it's an entirely different ball game and I have no idea how those schools are tracking the materials given the small amount of hours that we have every week combine this workload with also trying to fit weekly class visits and carve out time to service all our students and teachers you might have a small sense of the difficulty doing our job
054in such few hours but wait there's more we have zero budget from our school district for new or replacement library books so if we want anything new we got to be fundraisers we are hourly employees with no benefits I'm betting most of us make less than my 20-year-old who is currently making sandwiches for S Subway sandwich that's so brain it's completely demoralizing and I can't continue to exist here in this hopeless manner so I've decided to retire at the end of the school year truthfully I've hung in there for over 10 years because I'm sorry I'm getting a little per climed I'd hope things would change and I love our students and our teachers at mck however as time has passed it's become clear that our Administration is big on giving us thanks but we
055receive zero meaningful support I don't want thanks for doing my job I'm tired of hearing thank you show us that you value our students and our staff by compensating us fairly by giving us more hours to to adequately do the job that we currently have and by giving us a budget that shows you actually value student literacy we deserve better and so do our students thank you appreciate it thank you next to the podium Christine Follow by Maria how um good evening my name is Christian jetti I am the um sorry uh I got a little emotional Afters um I'm the librarian at nwok Village Elementary School I'm also subbing at zinder Ranch Elementary School for the past six months as well I'm I was a stay-at-home mom for 15 years and was super excited
056to do something at my kids school besides being on the PTA I was hired by the amazing Dr Bole and was motivated to start the only requirement I needed to get the job was a typing test so I was super excited I was told I would have 15 hours a week which was great with having four kids what they didn't tell me is there's no one to train you there's no School District librarian no one to tell you how to check in students print out their barcodes ordering textbooks and Etc what no one tells you is the school librarian is way more than reading a story and checking out books to the students we have so many hats to wear teachers curriculum student textbooks and consumables seeing 900 students in a week and putting those
057books away all on 15 hours at Miwok I work 15 hours and I'm not able to see all my classes I have no time to fill orders or put books away and if I want to do those jobs I have to take time away to seeing my students if a principal wants more time for their librarian they have to find the money for it or PTA can pay for it which is not among or equal amongst all schools for example Miwok barely has PTA whereas Ender has an established one that's thriving and can afford to pay for hours and let's not even start let even start about how we have to purchase new books for the library no funding from the district on that one Librarians spent a lot of time volunteering to run these
058Book Fairs to get money to purchase books for their Library there are some schools that have 400 students and their principal is able to provide 20 hours where my school is going to have 1,400 students this year and I have 15 there is so much turnover on our district for librarians we have amazing ones that have been here for 10 years but because why there's such turnover because why would they stay we are not able to do our jobs correctly if we don't have more hours and that frustrates people to be able to not do their job correctly for these kids another problem is once a librarian leaves it takes a while to get a new one there's no one to train them and the only one suffering are the students and teachers who need
059their supplies I really hope the district can see the need for all the school librarians having more hours we all love our jobs and we don't want to make a choice between staying at a job we love or a job that actually provides income for our families thank you for your time thank [Applause] you Mar how followed by Linda good evening board president Vargas members of the school board superintendent Hoffman and Miss Avalos my name is Maria how and I'm the teacher librarian at cumus Oaks High School today I want to take a moment to celebrate one of the most impactful spaces on our campus our school library our library at cohos is so much more than just a room full of books it's a place where learning comes to life whether students are visiting
060the library for a class lesson on literature or research discovering a new favorite book or simply being in a place that they feel welcome our library plays a vital role in their academic success and personal growth literacy begins here but that doesn't end with reading and writing studies show that students that have a supported School library staffed by a full-time credential teacher librarian perform higher academically teacher Librarians are experts in information literacy digital citizenship curriculum design collection development and literacy promotion and instruction our library Fosters curiosity critical thinking and a love of learning that lasts a lifetime Beyond academics our school libraries are also safe havens a place where students can better understand themselves develop empathy and compassion and connect with others at cohos my goal is to ensure that every student who enters our
061library feels welcom valued and understood in a world that can sometimes feel overwhelming our library supports our students social social and emotional well-being in ways that are both subtle and profound as a teacher librarian I am very fortunate to work with a site Administration that supports our library program none of this would be possible without their unwavering support of our incredible leadership so I want to publicly extend a heartfelt thank you to our principal Zach cheni and our vice principal Matthew McCracken for believing in the power of our library and championing the work that my staff and I do every day their support makes all the difference not just to me as their teacher librarian but to every student who walks through our door at our site I also want to publicly thank my library
062Tech at Coos Melanie hob litzell for her support and dedication I'm very grateful for the support she provides to both the students and myself and all she does to help our library program Thrive all libraries in our district need a full-time classified Library Tech to support our students and staff they make a difference thank you for recognizing that a strong library is at the heart of a strong school and ensuring that all of our students staff and teacher Librarians in egusd have access to a well supported Library program at their school sites thank you thank you Linda hi and followed by Stacy uh my name is Linda seamons and I am the library Tech at Anna kurir Gator Elementary um it's my ninth year in the elgrove district and my 12th as a library Tech
063um when I first started at Anna kch Gator um the library was a hot mess to say the least um it had been six years since the district had gotten rid of full-time Librarians and in that five years since they got rid of them they were not able to keep and maintain a library Tech in my school so the library might be open for two months before the person quit and then of course it would take another three months to hire the next one so they were not getting and so when I started the kids had no love of reading and no books really they walked in the sixth graders they grabbed a book and they checked it out because they're teachers told them they had to have a book in the nine years I
064have been there I've seen a dramatic change in the love of books because of the time I've put in I am grateful for my hours I have a school that values the time that it takes to actually run a library unlike these other ladies I get through hours a week guaranteed in my contract and it has made a difference our schools our reading test scores at our school are going up I run the accelerated program at our school and I fundrais to earn prizes to provide these for the kids to encourage them to read and to continue their love of reading I see it every time I have a principal who has supported me and who has actually given some quite a bit of money to get new books and you would not believe the
065excitement that my kids even with all of that I still put in hours over because of the amount of time it takes I just hope that the school district can value Library texts and the work that they do and the impact it can have on their schools thank you thank you all right calling Stacy hi I'm Stacey the librarian and I'm excited to to be here in support of national school library month let me remind you why people love their libraries according to Angie Thomas author of The hate you give she says growing up I was unable to travel because it was simply something my family couldn't afford books however allowed me to see that there was more to the world than my neighborhood they saved my life in so many ways and libraries were
066the only way I was able to access those books John Bing writer and law professor states to ask why we need libraries at when there is so much information available elsewhere is about as sensible as asking if road maps are necessary now that there are so very many roads one of our former presidents Lyndon B Johnson said books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance another author States libraries raised me I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money he said I couldn't go to college so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years that author was Ray Bradberry author of Fahrenheit 451 a book coincidentally about limiting access to books as the society thinks they are the most dangerous of Commodities and finally from
067my own students when they when asked what they love about our library it's the only place on campus I feel comfortable and I appreciate and love it as you can see libraries are valuable both worldwide and here at home and because I am solution-minded I can't leave here without throwing out a few suggestions to improve School libraries across our district first I'd like to reiterate what has been said that Library technicians should be a full-time position across the district this includes at the elementary level as well as the secondary and middle schools who are working with a reduced staff they work to support students and their literary skills and love of reading second elro unified as one of the top five largest districts in the state should have a district librarian in addition to credential
068teacher Librarians they would provide the necessary training to make our libraries to be the special place they are and also provide consistency across the district finally we fall significantly short of the recommended book to student ratio in our school libraries the California Department of Ed states that a library collection should be updated annually with the latest and best in children's and young adult literature imagine what that would do for our test scores I want to end by thinking those who have come before me in this boardroom and advocated tirelessly for libraries and students access to reading whatever they choose we worked together to ensure a fair process in building our library collections to represent all of our students and I will continue to advocate for that and now I hope you all go read a
069book Thank [Music] you thank you so much and board president that ends blue cards on this item thank you very much and to everybody who spoke thank you again for the feedback we do really appreciate it and I apologize that we are slow slow institution we are a giant bureaucracy but we hear you and it is your words will be in the back of our mind um so board members um I will entertain a motion to adopt resolution number 72 recognizing April 20th through 26 2025 as National Library week so moved moved by Mr Yang seconded by Miss ballerini would any board members like to be heard on this issue Susan uh Courtney like you I was also a military kid who was in a new school new town every year up until 8th grade
070um libraries were my home where I went to find my friends uh so I know how important they are um and I've been a voracious reader ever since um textbooks you have my greatest respect that's the only challenge that I tried working at a school and I failed I ended up in my principal's office crying and said can I find a librarian on a time sheet cuz I can't do that um Chromebooks are beast in themselves I worked in a school that we did it in the front office and it took up the majority of our day so I I get it I understand that and you guys have my deepest respect any other board members Mr J yeah I I was also wanted to um share that you know growing up in a small
071home um there's not much room to study so we typically go to uh the libraries to study and just hearing all those comments uh remind me a lot of uh the important time that I spend in a library and the Librarians helping us out and reading some of those books I was very helpful and so I just want to thank you to you all for your contined um work of helping others and uh we'll try to do what we can to U Better areas that lack of thank you the board members uh start with Miss ballerini okay thank you all for showing up tonight I really think that it made a huge difference for everybody to understand what you're dealing with I personally know exactly what you what you're dealing with because we all know
072that I worked as a library tech for a number of years in this this school district my daughter actually has her master's degree in library and information science now because because of how much she enjoyed being in the library when she was a student I I can't express to you enough how important it is for kids to have access to books whatever books there are they need access and that is something we need to do I was thrilled back in the day when we had full-time Library texts and yes at that time I was the one fighting for him too so just know that you are on the top of my mind and I'm hoping that we can make some changes I can't do it alone we know that but you know where my heart
073is thank [Applause] you Miss Moore uh I would also like to thank um everyone who came to make the comments and IID actually just asked the superintendent about an item that came up and that is that um I do think it's um I don't understand why we have um 3 hours or sorry 15 hours across the board for all of our elementary schools because as I tour the schools uh you know Sunrise Elementary has 1,200 students and then I tour two small schools that have 350 students so um I do think that's something that we need to look into uh certainly at least ensuring that we can support our larger schools um anyway I appreciate the comments and um um and that's all thanks thank you all right seeing no further comments from board members
074uh we will move to a vote all those in favor of the resolution please say I I I any against motion carries unanimously Michael could we maybe get a picture of all the library texts a quick picture of them is that fair sure Lisa would you like to come take a picture that would be awesome I'd appreciate it would you like all the board members down there for it or would you that would be great we can do that want go down stand up here let's go down okay all right we got [Music] back okay ready thank you service you're welcome all right uh next up uh next resolution High School voter education week resolution Mr swizer round two y good evening again I'm back tonight to share information on our high school voter education
075weeks California Education Code 4940 designates the last two weeks each September and April as our high school voter education weeks voter education weeks provide an opportunity for students to become actively engaged participants in our democracy and to put these students on a path to a lifetime of Civic engagement and voting we strongly encourage our high schools and students to participate in high school voter education weeks and engage students in our pre-registration activities voter registration mock election and mock trial at our sites uh therefore this evening the board is asked to approve resolution number 71 20242 in declare April 14 through 25 2025 as high school voter education weeks thank you very much Mr Yang are there any blue cards on this item vard president there's no blue card on this item excellent then I will
076entertain a motion to adopt resolution number 71 which proclaims the period from April 14th through the 25th 2025 as uh High School voter education weeks so motion second moved by Miss chin seconded by Mr Yang all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries unanimously thank you very much all right next up uh recognition of California adult education week uh Miss Angela Rodriguez hi good evening board president Vargas superintendent Hoffman Miss aalos and members of the board I have some adult education folks here with me thank you guys adult education [Applause] week my my cheerleaders adult adult education week is a time to highlight the importance the important work and impact of adult education programs across the state the first record of adult education classes in California was held in the basement
077of St Mary's cathedral in San Francisco in 1856 the class was authorized by the San Francisco Board of Education to teach English to Irish Italian and Chinese immigrants John swe who was the first volunteer teacher for the class later became the state superintendent of Public Instruction adult education provides a way for adults to complete secondary studies and obtain a high school diploma or high school equivalency at their own pace adult schools also help prepare for the transition to post-secondary education and Career Training and provide CR critical opportunities to bring recent dropouts back to [Music] school Elkgrove adult and Community Education provides significant and varied classes and programs that serve adult El grve and the surrounding communities including classes in Healthcare Training computer technology job preparation classes high school diploma and equivalency programs English as a
078second language or ESL classes citizenship classes and citizenship classes the governing board of the elro UniFi school I'm sorry the governing board of the elro UniFi school district is requested to recognize the importance of of adult education and approve resolution 74 and declare April 6th through 12th 2025 as a California adult education week thank you very much Mr Yang are there any blue cards on this item boor president there's no BR on this item thank you then I will entertain a motion to adopt resolution number 74 recognizing April 6th through the 12th 2025 as California adult education week so motion moved by Miss bowan seconded by Mr Yang all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries unanimously thank you very much thank [Applause] you next up uh student expulsion and involuntary
079transfer recommendations uh first is a request for student expulsion uh would anybody in the audience like to address the board in closed session regarding a student expulsion seeing none I will take a motion to approve the recommendation for student expulsion so move moved by Mr Yang second second by miss ballerini all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries unanimously thank you very much next up is public comment for items not on the agenda Mr Yang do we have any blue cards on this item yes board President we have a you calling Kathy Wilson followed by Deborah Canon good evening everyone once again I must shed light on the ongoing treatment of black students families and staff here in elgrove UniFi School District after speaking at the last board meeting I experienced
080yet another incident further proof that these issues persist and that we must act far too often black members of this District do not feel safe value welcomed or heard and when they speak up they really do fear retribution this is unacceptable racial harm cannot continue to be ignored or dismissed the district response must be proactive and intentional not just reactionary too often when harm is done to other communities egusd seems to Rally to ensure that it doesn't happen again yet black students families and staff continue to experience harm with little accountability egusd must do better we must do better together I am grateful for the allies and anti-racist Advocates within the district but awareness alone is not enough will progress requires meaningful action I am here today because again I want to be part of
081the solution instead of waiting for the next incident let let's establish a strategic response team made up of staff and community members dedicated to supporting students family and staff when racial harm occurs we need trauma informed practices embedded into our dis response such as healing circles which could have helped those harmed in last month's incident but instead what was really done recently I had the opportunity to listen to Dr Martha Merchant uh she talked about research-based trauma interventions one key principle she shared was empowerment and collaboration which includes voice Choice plan action practice and accountability these are the very principles we need to make sure that we are showing up and showing out in elgrove Unified School District we do not need temporary fixes we need lasting structural procedural and systemic change we must elro
082UniFi School District we must take deliberate systemic steps to end the harassment and discrimination of our black students staff families and the broader Community it is time to ensure that every black member of the district is treated with dignity respect and Humanity every single day let's to commit to real lasting change let's do the right thing not just for some but for all thank you thank you next Deborah followed by JY good evening I'm Deborah Cannon and this is Monique Manning we are both par Educators with over 10 years of experience and I'm just wanted to inform you of some things that have been going on for over a year that we don't seem to be able to get answers for so last year the district reclassified us we are what used to be called
083Full inclusion Paras which means we work in a gened classroom last January we got classified as a level three Pera that position no longer exists so if I want to take my level three experience and keep the job I've had for over 10 years in a gened classroom I have to take a pay cut and become a par level one that doesn't seem fair doesn't seem Equitable doesn't seem appropriate I've brought this to our Union our union says they have been talking to HR and and numerous other people about trying to grandfather Us in so that we can keep our jobs my second point of I don't know just to let you inform you is that now the district is fading the use of the agency Paras some of these agency peras are working in
084level two and level three classrooms and now they're saying well somebody didn't didn't show up today so now I need you to go over and fill in in a level two or level three class I've never worked in a level two or level three class I only feel like that's where I would best be used so I only wanted to bring this to your attention I know Rosio has been working on this for a long time this has been over a year in the making eight of us there's eight of us at our school that are stuck because we can't transfer to another school and if they decide that all interchangeable because we're all par level 3es if I wanted to work in a sped classroom a level two or level three I would have
085already done that I like where I am and I like my job and I think it's not unreasonable to ask that I get to keep my job and that I don't have to stay at the site that I'm at if I don't want to stay there but right now for me to do that I have to reapply as a parall level one and take a pay cut so I'm asking you I don't know what the answer is but there has to be some solution to the problem that we've been dealing with for well over a year and our kids don't get service when we're P right those are kids that are pushed into Genet classes that need our support that don't get service thanks for your consideration thank you thank you JY followed by luring
086prior good evening board members superintendent Hoffman and egusd uh cabinet me Members I am jensy Ferraro and I am the director of advocacy at EG speaks and I'm here as a voice for the families of those whose children rely on the district for not just education but safety stability and inclusion we understand that change is inevitable that difficult decisions will be made that challenges will arise but I urge you to remember that while this may be a job for you this is life for the families and the students impacted by your decisions for many these choices determine whether their child can access a meaningful education feel safe in their school or simply be included in their Community as school district leaders you have a responsibility to ensure that any changes whether it's Staffing programs policies
087or resources are implemented M mented with empathy foresight and a deep commitment to protecting our most vulnerable students transparency thoughtful planning and proactive communication should be a standard and not an afterthought we are calling for accountability in the roll out of any changes with clear measures in place to assess the impact on students with disabilities our families depend on consistency and support please engage with the families who live these realities every day prioritize their voices and experiences in your decision-making our District's success is not measured by efficiency alone but by how well we uphold the dignity the rights and the well-being of all students to all the families and caregivers and of students with disabilities we at EG speaks remind you that it should not be this hard and you are not alone thank you
088thank you lorine PRI Follow by Sarah Green good evening everyone um Loren prior with black youth leadership project here again to talk to you uh one followup on what happened at cams with the roll out of the bucks um and the response that we got uh from the parents who are still on there now I expected accountability what I didn't expect was for adults to go into their classrooms and grandstand in front of children telling them that they need to think before they speak and before they carry information home to their parents additionally one of your teachers on your campus said to the his class the lesson was not wrong but was delivered incorrectly he also said that the news is lying and that they're making things up he also told the children that the
089NAACP asked that the school apologize and they the school will absolutely not be apologizing for the misstep with those bugs now we tell our children not to keep secrets from their parents why would your schools be encouraging them not to tell their parents what's going on with your schools they need some accountability there and then I've dealt with a parent this week from uh Irene B West and there was an issue with your Pioneer Day or Colonial day or living history day we got three different responses about that um and a child going home with a bag with his name on it a p a cloth doll and a rope shaped as a noose now I'm not sure if every student got a rope shaped like a noose but this particular black boy did and
090if every other student didn't go home with with that rope shaped as a noose I want to know how it ended up with this 10-year-old black boy and what was the message that was supposed to be conveyed with that we're not going to continue to Fain ignorance we're going to listen to our Librarians and go pick up a book A book where you can learn why those things are harmful to our community and how you can deliver curriculum without causing more harm there's no excuse for that and as I've been coming here year after year talking to you about the things that the parents have been telling me the different complaints this year alone I Fielding 43 complaints that is the most I've had in previous years as a consultant with Cal California versus hate
091and uh stop the hate California this is becoming an egregious topic here in Elk grov nobody wants to talk about your number one positioning as the number one district for disproportionate discipline of black children however you want to continue to roll out lessons or enrichment activities with no educational value in the way that they're being portrayed to black people we Are Not Invisible we are part of American history and I'm sick of these one-sided history lessons and these different um curriculums where our children are the butt of the joke have your staff pick up a book Thank you and to the podium uh Sarah Green uh shereé shereé green thank you thank you uh I'm here to speak on uh the traumatic impact of the Buck lesson good evening as an educator in Elk Grove
092for 10 years I want to thank you all for being committed to our students especially our most vulnerable populations specifically our black and African American students done correctly if help growth provided according according to our strategic goals quote targeted support and interventions to students who identify as black and African American end quote we see positive outcomes in data in the data for black and African-American students other marginalized students teachers and administrators the entire School community and Society at large our community needs more transparency what Resto s of steps have begun through the face Department through Ed Equity through Education Services through our schools the question isn't what if we focused on black students the question is why haven't we are ready thank you for your time thank you board president that ends our brw car
093in this item excellent thank you very much and thank you to the public for the feedback uh we always appr appreciate it uh appropriate District staff will follow up with concerns presented during public comment next up is the consent agenda uh Mr Yang do we have any blue cards on this item board President we do have one blue card on this item on number one board policy Callin Kurt Thompson hi so another year another attempt by this board to avoid Community input about curriculum changes by adding the consent agenda um I was just happy to go through it online before I came here and I was like oh I should probably come and give you guys some input so first let's talk about the money uh the board is still projecting tens of millions of
094dollars in deficits this coming year and this new graduation requirement hasn't been paid for yet so you would think that committing funds to long-term programs without knowing if when and how long the funds will be available would have been a lesson learned by now but I guess not second based on what I read this uh ethnic studies class is meant to replace World Geography so at a time when 66% of Americans can't find Ukraine on a map and I read similar studies in the 2000s about Americans not being able to find Iraq and Afghanistan on a map you would you all think that it's a good idea to tell our kids and students knowing where other countries are isn't as important about isn't important as learning about what's it called quote intersectionality of identity that
095seems so important third I have some questions about this so-called ethnic studies course I've read that this course seeks to challenge racism discrimination and oppression and interrogate the systems that continue to perpetuate inequality sounds great to me I do have some questions though since this appears to be replacing a world geography class will this class be focusing on racism discrimination and oppression in various countries throughout the world or will it have a very eurocentric take on those subjects will there be any discussion of treatment of ethnic Chinese people in countries like Malaysia or Jews in Arab countries or even salvadorians in Mexico or will this class just focus on European oppressors will this course be interrogating the systems of Oppression of women in the Middle East or homosexuals in Iran and Afghanistan or socialist dictatorships
096of Central and South America which have caused millions of economic migrants to walk thousands of miles for a better life in the United States my real question is are our history classes so ridiculously in adequate that students don't understand how various groups at best had their rights limited or were at worst actively persecuted it sounds to me like you think our history teachers don't teach about slavery Jim Crow and civil rights movement in our history classes and if that's true that's a much bigger problem than anything I've brought up before I have so many more questions but I have limited time so the main issue I have just with the process here is that to me it feels like you are trying to hide this change in the consent agenda without proper vetting from the
097community and that shameful However unfortunately this is nothing that I haven't come to expect from this board anyway thank you sir that ends our blue cards on this item excellent thank you very much uh all right moving to the cons actual consent agenda um would any board members like to pull an item from the consent agenda I would like to pull item number one please okay item number one is pulled any other items seeing none I will entertain a motion to approve items 2 through 40 on the consent agenda so move second moved by Mr Yang seconded by miss albiani all those in favor please say I I I any opposed motion carries unanimously uh Miss Moore item number one yes uh as I mentioned I'm this item and I intend to make a motion
098that we move this item to a future board meeting um agenda as a standalone item uh the reason I make this request is because I believe it's not appropriate to put a controversial item um within the consent agenda um we have this item listed as um High School graduation requirements but I believe that we should be fully transparent that we are voting to require ethnic studies for current or incoming um seventh grade children and younger as freshman in order to graduate high school uh as I mentioned this is a controversial curriculum and we should not be placing controversial items on the consent agenda it's so controversial that our own governor and legislators have not provided funding for the program I will be referencing an article from Ed Source titled the clock is ticking ethnic studies
099remains an unfunded mandate what will Nome do and um this is from December 12th um 20 24 it says the lack of funding is creating uncertainty about the future of ethnic studies and suspense about whether nsome will deliver the money next month when he proposes his uh 2025 26 budget and as importantly whether he will condition funding on amendments to the law assembly Bill 101 including those Champions by the Jewish legislative caucus um and again that was this is from December and he never appropriated the money um this quote um this is a quote it says I come at this with a fresh set of eyes it's pretty clear that the law only really takes effect if there's funding for this during the budgetary process there's been no budget allocated for that end quote this
100was from um assembly member David Alvarez who's a Democrat from San Diego um and Amber I'll Alexander representing the Department of Finance clarified that the 50 million was one-time funding for districts to create not implement the graduation mandate nor she added does the finance department believe the 50 million would be sufficient should the Mandate progress um one more quote Mike Torres director of the curriculum Frameworks division of the of the California Department of Education said gearing up for this requirement is likely to be a multi-year process with cost exceeding 50 million Statewide for districts to make that happen in an analysis of the financial impact of ab 101 the finance department estimated the implementation cost of ethnic studies at 272 million alvra said that the 2021 ballpark estimate would need to be recalculated and wouldn't
101Hazard a guess of the cost uh other than to say it would be well over 100 million annually to reimburse districts um and several districts around the state have postponed implementing ethn ethnic studies or even rolled back their implementations um so why are we plowing ahead when our own governor and legislators are not sure if the curriculum is even worth funding this doesn't seem responsible to move forward with this curriculum as a consent agenda item as I mentioned um I believe that we need to properly discuss the appropriateness of moving forward and the timeline at which we should do so so I'm also highly concerned that we never previewed this item to the community um looking through the presentation from 2022 I'm sure many parents would like to know more about their students learning about
102the intersectionality of gender and sexuality um so we should preview that to the community I believe it is our responsibility to give the community opportunities to be involved with curriculum implementation especially when curriculum involves controversial topics like sexuality I also believe it's not responsible um to require a curriculum when it has not even been appropriated by our governor and legislators thank you thank you I think you made a motion uh so if I paraphrase incorrectly please correct me um the motion is to move this this item to a future agenda that's correct thank you okay is there a second for that motion hearing none the motion fails for lack of a second I will entertain a motion to approve agenda U I'm Excuse me approve item number one on the consent agenda motion so move
103move by Miss bwin seconded by Mr Yang all those in favor please say I I I any opposed no motion carries all right uh let's see before we get to our report or and discussion item uh bargaining units would any bargaining units like to be heard uh good evening every Everybody um School Board hello how are you Mr Hoffman uh Jeremiah Miller I'm the union representative with asy local 258 um and we represent our wonderful Library technicians who are here tonight um I was not sure that they were coming tonight um but hearing what they had to say um you know definitely inspired me to get up here and I just want to acknowledge the courage that it took for all of them to come up and say these things that's a difficult thing to
104do um and I know that from your positions people come all the time to public comment but for staff to do that um it takes a lot of Courage so I wanted to recognize that for them I also wanted to support several things that they said um you know 15 hours per week um when we strive to have our students able to read by grade one is a challenge um also too it's an interesting thing when we look at equity and we talk about how some schools are able to afford through their ASB additional hours for some students I mean for some of these staff members um that's a challenge that is a real challenge for them um and with the additional duties that they've been assigned over the last several year years including Chromebook
105handling um it's been an even bigger challenge uh we have to keep in mind that these staff are not salary these staff are hourly um and so when they volunteer their time to uh do Book Fairs and things of that nature they are truly doing that out of the uh their heart because they could be getting time sheeted for that time um now not every School site has the funds to do that which creates another Equity issue and a question of how are we able to support having our students again know how to read by grade one when we can't support the staff that are um helping them to do that so I encourage the board I know that you heard them well I can't say it nearly as eloquently as they did um but
106uh please heed what they're saying it's a it's a it's a it's a thing the Chromebook handling is a big piece you know we have 63 some ODS thousand students that's a lot of Chromebooks and that not to take away from the library text but that's also our front office staff that are handling that too and over the last several years just since we're on it you know I've gotten so many calls about the difficulties with the Chromebooks um I think we all strive to have educational equity and have um access to these devices um and these programs for our students uh but maybe we need to consider some new ways in how to handle these especially with things that are getting broken and having to to be replaced um our staff um are wonderful
107with that but they're not it experts and I think that they do the best that they can but it is challenging amongst all the other duties that they have so again not to take light of our wonderful Library technicians who are here today um I know you heard them um so please keep those things that they mentioned in mind um and this is Nicole she's asky local 258 secretary and she also works for the district Grace yourself it's my first time doing this um I actually used to be a library technician um so I kind of know but not as of recently but so I kind of know a little bit about what they've been doing or kind of what they um uh yeah what they have done um so really quickly they made a
108a lot of really good points um one of the things I wanted to speak to as a parent of readers um but also as a person who worked in the library that's super important to me um and the mage that I wanted you guys to hear is the Magic in the kids eyes when you get to read to them so like if we could give them especially the elementary level Equitable time to read to the kids because that was my favorite time with my kids at night my husband does the voices when you're reading the books I don't do the voices um but my husband did it really well and um so when you get to read to the kids and they and you change your tone in your voice and you you make make
109the magic happen um the the kids just their eyes light up and they they glow I was a high school library Tech so the kids the magic is lost by that time and we don't we don't necessarily read to the kids at the high school level um but at the elementary level they need that that's when you Captivate them and you capture them as readers U which is why my kids love to read or you know whatever so um I really encourag us to increase their hours at the elementary level so that it's Equitable for all like you hear that you know some of them get 15 hours and then some of the schools have a bit more money in their in their budgets and they get more hours um and then the adding the
110Chromebook situation um I wasn't in the library when Chromebooks were introduced so I don't know the actual lift that they're doing you know in the library side of the house but I was in the office doing the Chromebook lift and it's a lot and um the EXT the other job that I want to throw in there is um it's not just SOA or you know office sta that are doing the Chromebook lift and the library office or the library staff that are doing the Chromebook lift but I've also heard it from the tech off you know the tech side of the house like it's a large lift for everyone um and the message I heard from one of the library um technicians tonight was to hold our kiddos accountable because in the office when these
111kiddos are bringing these Chromebooks in there's they just don't care that they just trashed you know a couple hundred um Chromebook but I bet bet you if it was their cell phone it would be a totally different story um and if they had a little bit of skin in the game it might be a different story and you know we may not have to charge them you know $300 or whatever but maybe just a little bit of skin in the game because I know those Chromebooks cost a lot but if we're charging these AP kiddos you know a couple hundred dollars for an AP book maybe we can find a way to um hold those um those kids accountable for the Chromebooks and and it might reduce a little bit of that did she call
112that like a noodle um whatever that book was a casserole okay maybe we might reduce that casserole sandwich thingy Mig she was carrying around um but it's real like that lift is real so uh I just wanted to share with you guys increasing the hours so that the sparkle in the kiddo's eyes you know we can get the young readers reading and increase our test scores so from a fellow Library technician thank you thank you thank you very much any other bargaining units not seeing any so uh before we get to you guys um uh this seems like a proper place for a comfort Break um so let's plan to come back at five or excuse me 805 um and we'll take about an 8 minute Comfort break thank you e e e all right
113board members I see you m all right let's come back to order our last substantive item of the day uh reports and discussion uh mtss and social emotional learning Mr Sing I face oh there you go good evening president Vargas members of the board superintendent hofman colleagues staff and Community it's an honor today to present uh mtss multidate systems of support in the integration of social emotional learning in that framework uh today's presentation is kind of a uh natural connection to last board meeting's presentation where we talked about safety and if you remember that presentation one of the things we talked about was psychological safety um you will learn today how SC is a big component of providing psychological safety in classrooms uh one of the other pieces that's that's important to understand is the
114framework has three major kind of subcomponents or Stratus academic social emotional learning and behavioral and they are all integrated so they don't stand alone in some way they are integrated and so you will get to know more about the social emotional learning piece of that and how it connects to a lot of the components of psychological safety that we discussed the last board meeting it's my honor to to now pass it on to KD Thomas KD is a colleague who is very very knowledgeable and is our District's kind of the representative on social emotional learning and the work that goes around us so all over to you kti thank you sir good evening superintendent Hoffman Miss Avalos president Vargas members of the board and our community I'm so grateful to be here tonight presenting on
115a topic I hold so near and dear to my my heart uh both multi-tiered systems of support and social emotional learning hopefully by the end of today's presentation you will have a deeper understanding of mtss as well as seal now seal fits into each and every one of these strategic goals which you will see throughout our presentation today however it is represented most in the wellness goal so that we can ensure all of our students are learning in an equitable culturally responsive physically and emotionally healthy and safe environment psychologically safe as you heard Mr Singh discuss so I will present to you what is mtss and social emotional learning we will talk about why seal is needed and how it integrates with academic behavioral and social emotional growth how it supports student development and how
116it supports Student Success and then we'll talk about what we've done here in egusd over the past few years specifically but also throughout the decades that we have been um teaching our students about wellness and then we'll talk about what the confirmed progresses all right so just to remind you there are three domains of mtss academic behavioral and social emotional but as Mr Singh pointed out they are not three separate Concepts but Concepts that are integrated and interdependent on one another for Success so we'll talk a little bit oops the what you callit aren't coming up you know the specific what you callets mhm animation so let's imagine here that there is the instructional framework which is the way we Define high quality tier one academic support on that instructional framework are Concepts such as
117learning targets and success criteria these acquire social emotional skills because we need to know where we're going and how to measure our success towards those goals it also talks about Independent Learning the instructional framework you can picture that right there talks about Independent Learning and Collaborative Learning Independent Learning requires the social emotional skill of self-management making sure that I motivate myself to get started and the social emotional skill of self-awareness reflecting on when I might need help Collaborative Learning requires the social emotional skill of relationship skills as well as social awareness so I can listen to my peers to understand so as you can see in the imaginary instructional framework there is a lot of ways in which social emotional learning is interconnected well I think I've gotten ahead of myself as I do I
118apologize let's start with a video Let's rewind to a video of a teacher talking just about those things that I have shared the ways in which she integrates social emotional learning into her classroom I'd like you to listen to think of skills that you hear her talking about that her students need in order to learn the academic content that she's discussing kid should never walk into a class where there's going to be a really intense discussion and not have been prepared for that I always try to give them a heads up and and say that we don't avoid hard things in here it's about learning how to face and deal with challenging topics I keep them moving pretty quickly in here there's not a lot of downtime and so I frequently give them less time
119than they need with the understanding that if they want more they can always ask for more how much time show me with hands how many minutes in all my classes it's really important for kids to know that they can take risks and know that this is the safe place to do that one of the things I yell at the kids all the time is that if you're going to be wrong be wrong in a blaze of glory right commit to something we can then discuss and if if if your idea needs to go in a different direction then we can work that out together it's always exciting when you have a kid that has felt anxious about raising their hand and they have an idea and want to share um I think you get more
120of that when they're in groups because they they feel safe talking to a few people and and flushing out ideas before they share with the class is there anyone that we learn something specifically about in the Brotherhood as a result oh light bulb go let's he it my brother Jack has a glass eye boom why is that important he's half blind it is he's half blind but how many eyes does he have one just like a no and that allows me to get to know them better right when you hear from every kid every day you know more about them they share more about themselves you get to have a deeper closer relationship with them and so tier one is really important because we're setting the stage and and helping our students bring their whole
121selves into the classroom and interact with each other as Learners together and that is actually where we wanted the video to end just talking or listening to that teacher here in elgrove unified and the way she starts to integrate some social emotional learning what did you hear that she talked about her students need talking in small groups thank you be anything else my favorite part of that video I'm Sorry Miss baller were you I was going to say going down in a blaze of glory when you make a mistake that would be me that is my favorite part too it is necessary to make mistakes to learn and to be willing to make those mistakes and acknowledge them is a social emotional skill just as I did I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself
122you know why the animation isn't working it's not the slide I thought it was right so the ability to engage in these kind this kind of thinking is how I learn and grow not just as an adult but in the classroom as well so let's go back a step to what exactly is social emotional learning so as I discuss all those different competencies you will be able to see how it connects all right here we go so we Define social emotional learning in the way that castle does Castle stands for the collaborative for academic social and emotional learning it's been around for about 30 years now and you can see the blue rings on the outside of what we refer to as the castle wheel which emphasize that seal goes from the classroom to schoolwide
123culture practices and policies to Partnerships with our families and caregivers who are our children's first teachers and to the communities in which they have opportunities to practice all of these skills Castle divines five core competencies the first is self-awareness self-awareness is related to how I know and understand myself can I recognize my own emotions do I know my strengths and my limitations the second core competency is self-management okay so I know myself what do I do with that information how do I manage those emotions how do I grow my limitations and leverage my strengths the third is social awareness that's similar to self-awareness but outward facing how do I know an understand other people how can I tell what emotions they might be experiencing and consider their perspective and then relationship skills is parallel to
124self-management how do I use all that information to engage in positive healthy relationships and communicate effectively and collaboratively problem solve then I put all that together to make responsible decisions and what that means is I look at the decision with an open mind and I think about the different choic that I have the impact that those choices might have on others and my family and myself and then I choose the solution that is best for as many people as possible all right so here's the slide where I was expecting the instructional framework sorry that I kind of gave away the plot but let's go back there for a second those learning targets and success criteria are goal setting right and important in that goal setting is reflection am I meeting that learning Target am I
125successful based on the criteria set forth for me and then active participation means I have to manage my own attention the attention span of an adult is about 10 minutes you can only imagine for a kid it's significantly less so we have to constantly redirect ourselves in order to actively participate that's self-management formative assessment and feedback is when my teacher or my peers are letting me know how I'm doing gosh I have to have a whole lot of trust in them in order to accept that feedback and to grow from it and that trust is a relationship skill right and we talked a little bit already about the focused instruction the guided instruction the Collaborative Learning and the Independent Learning and the five core competencies that are required to engage in each of those phases
126of instruction these are some ways in which seal is integrating into the different content areas that we instruct on science requires being able to evaluate my own bias so that the hypothesize I put forward is tested well and not already assumed that I know what the answer is going to be right social science is talking about human behavior talking about the perspectives of others and the way those human behaviors and the perspective of others have influenced social environments and and historic events math one of my favorite teachers is a first year math teacher one of my favorite stories is a first year math teacher who talked about how she had her students write about perseverance for the first two three minutes of class just as everyone's getting settled as a way to kind of calm
127their nerves and then she said to the students so she had them write about something that they had to persevere to learn something in their past that was really hard for them and then she said to them hey guys today we're going to learn something pretty hard in math when she shared this story with me I was thinking about double digit long division because that's what I taught as a fifth grade teacher and man did that require a ton of perseverance both on my part as the teacher and on the students part says the learner right and so that this teacher just had that student those students tap back into that you know how to persevere you've done it before and you can do it again so two three minutes spent just on one minor
128connection helped these students learn a very difficult math skill Ela is pretty easy connection to social emotional learning because we're constantly learning about characters and those characters have social emotional competencies or not and we can reflect on our own social emotional internal State compare it to the character and learn more about not just ourselves but the character as well in PE self-management is uh pervasive throughout deep belly breathing helps me Focus sports psychologist exists for a reason right because I want to be giving myself some positive selft talk before I take that three pointer in basketball right and then vapa our Visual and Performing Arts are all about how we use our own identity and understand the identity of others to create beautiful pieces whether they be theater or paintings or I'm not good with
129fappa so something else um Dance all right so that's how seal and the academic domain fit together this slide is about howal and the behavior domain fit together as you may already be aware we use PBIS as our framework for behavior supports positive behavior interventions and supports one of pb's main tenants is that we set clear expectations for our students to be respectful to be safe to be responsible seal is what teaches them what those words mean and the fact that being respectful to me might look slightly different than being respectful to you and my household you better look the parent in the eye as they were talking to you and giving you instructions in some households that's considered disrespectful so students understanding situational appropriateness is theal phrase for that why respect looks one way
130in certain situations and another way in different situations is how we connect seal and behavior seal also connects to restorative practices a huge initiative as you well know in elro unified one cannot repair harm without social emotional learning skills one cannot engage in nurturing relationships and belonging without relationship skills collaborative conversations also relationship skills healing accountability self-management change and growth self-awareness and self-management and voice agency and Equity literacy are also self-management to speak up on your own behalf and share how a certain incident impacted you that requires a ton of self-awareness and a lot of Bravery which is self-management all right seal why is it important now you probably have some ideas about this already based on what I've shared but let's talk about what the research says our own internal research shows that although
131most people when they think about seal think about just the direct instruction of the skill competencies to their own end independent of how they might relate to in academic outcomes there's a lot of research that is starting to emerge showing that Improvement in social emotional competencies is significantly associated with improved academic achievement in fact in 2019 2020 the district conducted a parallel analysis aligned to the methods found in kopa kopa 202020 study and was able to replicate his findings in our context meaning student level Improvement in their self-reported seal competencies had a significantly positively association with improved academic achievement these findings in our own District are replicated throughout the nation again Castle is the National Organization that we look to for academic social and emotional learning guidance they found that across prek-12 seal in schools
132has consistent positive impact on students academic achievement additionally they found that academic instruction that makes social emotional connections results in deeper longer term learning and that years after students participated in Seal their academic performance remained an average of 133% per 13 percentile points higher than those who did not engage in instruction most recently in 2024 the California Department of Education has reorganized and Rewritten their standards for the teaching profession I'll let you read this slide quietly to yourself to learn how that uplifts as you can see in the summary at the top the Department of Education is recognizing that social emotional learning is imperative to creating an inclusive learning experience for all it's important to remember that just like academics our students don't come to us with the same social emotional learning skill set some
133have stronger foundations in self and social awareness some have stronger relationship um understanding and relationship skills they just vary and in order to create that Equitable platform it's our job to do the instruction necessary to give everyone the same elevation if you will that example of cstp 3 shows that uh we will expect we will evaluate our teachers at some point on how well they integrate content processes materials and resources into coherent culturally relevant and Equitable curriculum that engages and challenges all of our Learners so that they develop the academic and social emotional knowledge required to become competent and resourceful Learners this is a new Initiative for us and still a lot of work to be done um to support each other in meeting these goals this is a study that was done a meta
134analysis in 2011 meta analysis meaning hundreds of different uh bodies of research were reviewed to find common factors and in that metaanalysis it was noted that students who experience social emotion learning instruction have better academic performance if you think about it this makes sense if I can manage my emotions I'm better able to focus on instruction if I'm aware of what I need I'm more likely to ask for help if I can accept feedback and that mistakes are a part of learning then I'll be willing to go down in a blaze of glory right and learn from that I also Must Believe In My Own capacity to learn that a growth mindset which is a part of social emotional learning and I have to engage in Partnerships with my peers because they have so much
135to teach me just as my teacher does the other um benefit that the meta analysis noted is improved attitudes and behaviors which make for a more enjoyable learning environment for our students and for students who are more willing to learn the third finding is more pro-social Behavior these are things like turn taking hand raising um speaking up on our own behalf but also knowing when to not speak up so that others can and this allows for fewer disruptive behaviors fewer or less time I should say spent on managing inappropriate behavior therefore giving me more time to focus on the academic instruction and then finally reduced emotional distress emotional distress is very distracting students are often in their what we call feeling brain and when they're in their feeling brain their cognitive abilities literally shut off
136because for survival we're designed to focus on our feelings if we're unsafe we need to figure out what to do about that we're not in a place where we can learn so when I have reduced emotional distress then I can turn on my thinking brain and be more prepared to learn all right more of the why so we have for decades been teaching PE nutrition and health uh in schools and that is how we set our students up for success as it relates to their physical health social emotional learning is the same thing but for mental health it gives our students the proactive skills they need to maintain their own mental well-being hopefully and we'll get to what happens if our instruction isn't enough in just a few slides but I do want to point
137you to the spectrum of support at the bottom of the slide there seal falls on the education and prevention part of that spectrum of support and then intervention from counselors and finally treatment for students who need more support for their own mental health now the percentages you see are from our most recent lcap need survey how important would you rank these items and 68% of parents ranked social emotional skills instruction as most important or very important 74% ranked counselor advice and personal support as most important or very important and 83% ranked mental health support as most important or very important I think if more people understood that social emotional learning is the beginnings of what eventually becomes treatment those percentages might shift as we say a pound of prevention is worth an ounce of cure
138right and this actually shows up in research as well for every dollar spent on social emotional learning $11 is saved in long-term benefits so what that means is for every dollar we spend on social emotional learning we save $111 on our mental health therapists or School psychologists or counselors or Behavior Support specialists don't tell them I said that all right last but not least why isal important well our vision is that students leave us College and Career ready I did a little job search on indeed for local jobs available here in elgrove and I picked some jobs that I didn't think would require that many social emotional skills when I think about an automotive adviser an insurance off auditor and an anesthesiologist technical skills are what I'm thinking about I could never be an automotive
139adviser I don't know how to change my own oil right it's a good thing that I have technology to do my taxes for me and to help me with my insurance choices because that kind of mathematical thinking is not in my skill set and an anesthesiologist has a lot of training in a very specific skill set of how to provide the correct dosage and I'm not saying all those skills aren't important but the employers are saying these skills are important as well compassion resolution practices collaboration listening feedback customer service relationships planning and organization attention empathy and the ability to create a safe and comfortable environment all present in the castle 5 Core competencies and all skills that will help our students get hired when they leave us so what have we done in El grve
140over the years well I'll take you back in a long journey to prior to 2020 I can barely remember the time because so much has happened since then but seal has been around for decades we just didn't call it that we might have called it whole child instruction we might have called it character education and in fact Second Step which you'll see soon is a curriculum we continue to use has actually been in our school since I started in the district in 20126 it used to be kits that um schools had to decide to use their own lcap money on now in 2020 some events occurred that led us to focus on the social emotional well-being of our students and ourselves frankly and at that time a steering committee was created a social emotional learning
141steering committee so that could figure out what to do to support our students social emotional learning professional development was created for our teachers because it's really important that we keep in mind our teachers are when we ask them to teach social emotional learning we're asking them to teach something that they weren't taught when they were kids and that they weren't prepared to instruct in their uh credential programs I joke all the time I learned how when I was an elementary school uh credential candidate I learned how to teach math I learned how to teach reading never once learned how to teach kids not a single class on how to actually engage with the children that were going to be in front of me every day so we have worked really diligently to create professional development
142opportunities for our teachers to build their capacity to support the social emotional competencies of our students and frankly of themselves uh we also developed a pilot uh group of teachers who were willing to test out if you will different curriculum that had been used in the previous years in our district and choose which one that we wanted to purchase for the whole District because we finally recognized that it shouldn't be a sight by- sight decision it should be something the whole District does that pilot committee uh tried three different curriculum they got feedback from their students from the parents in their classes and we did Community uh events that allowed for others to give us input as well and then based on that input pros and cons were developed and that was shared with the
143curriculum Council and ultimately the board so that a decision could be made on what um curriculum we chose once those two curriculum we did end up choosing two curriculum which is highly unusual for a pilot process never in my career have I seen two curriculum be an option it's always one that's chosen as a result of a pilot but we decided seal is unique and we need to allow for some autonomy with sites since different sites have different Readiness abilities and different cultures frankly so we we allowed for some Choice there and walk you through that what that choice looked like in a slide or two we then provided professional development on that curriculum so that people could learn how to use it one thing to keep in mind is even before a formal curriculum
144or words such as character education existed we teach seal just by interacting with our students there's a quote I really like that says children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them when I was in the classroom my students learned social emotional learning from me just by the way I managed my own emotions or on some days by the way I didn't manage my own emotions just by the way I interacted with them and by the way I interacted with my colleagues students learned social emotional skills from me whether I was being intentional about it or not this initiative helps us to be very intentional about what we're teaching our children and not just what they happen to see in front of them so how
145do we teach well there are three components ofal as I mentioned earlier most people think just about the explicit instruction ofal what are the different strategies I can use when I get stressed out and that's a good lesson for sure one that I teach myself on a regular basis but that's only one component ofal we also have to integrate seal into academic instruction as I've been talking you through for the last few slides and we have to create a supportive educational environment if we don't create that supportive educational environment children will not be willing to make mistakes one way that we work on all three of those components is to use Castle's three signature practices Castle recommends starting a meeting or a class session with an inclusive welcome and when I asked you to watch
146the video and reflect on what you heard that was my inclusive welcome I wish I could be engaging you more throughout this presentation because of that whole 10-minute attention span thing but the nature of the board meeting requires I give as much information as possible as quickly as possible but I will engage you in an intentional close now three components toal instruction right the first being explicit instruction these are the two curriculum that were chosen by that pilot process I described character strong and second step and this is what's called a Readiness rubric that was shared with site administrators and taught to them how to share with site leadership teams and they as communities decided where their own site was on this Readiness rubric and sites who were earlier in their Readiness were encouraged to
147choose character strong because it was kind of for beginners if you will and sites that were more intermediate in their ability and their Readiness to teach seal were encouraged to choose second step now fortunately for us character strong has done a lot of work to develop their curriculum over the last couple years and they're now what we would consider a more intermediate level curriculum which is perfect because our sites have been developing their ability to teach seal over the years along with us so that's the first component remember ofl instruction component component number two integrating it with academic content now I kind of went over some broad Concepts on a slide that looks pretty similar to this one the difference with this one is specific activities teachers can use in their classroom while teaching academics
148to support social emotional development I'll give you a second just to read a few of those examples you'll notice in science they're using self-management because they got to figure out how to store that equipment so that the next class can use it and that we don't have to fund more equipment in math open-ended questions getting curious why did you choose that method to solve that problem helps them develop their number sense in social science what resources could you use to get help again self-management all right component number three of seal is developing that supportive educational environment so that students feel comfortable risk-taking and engaging in the learning process the California Department of Education defines six what they call conditions for thriving which is the way to develop that supportive educational environment over the last two
149pre-service professional development days we have walked teacher through a robust understanding of what each of these six conditions really means and then given them the tools that they need to create these conditions in their classro for example creating shared agreements with students is one way of fostering positive relationships and developing a representative decision-making process that was a novel concept when I was a student asked the students what they need in order to feel safe while they're learning my teachers told me what I needed right and this really helps with our student Buy in so that their voices are elevated and that they feel like they have shared ownership of their learning so last but not least I want to highlight in this section I should say last but not least I want to highlight the
150way that we uplift seal through our caregivers and our community and the Partnerships there because as I said earlier it's not just in the schools but it's also in the homes and in the community activities so our face department is uh Department that we collaborate with and they work on teaching our Educators how to do positive home build visits that build relationships this is not in response to a concern this is for all the students in a class so that they can get to know the teachers the Educators can get to know the hopes and the dreams of that student they also have a website that gives lots of different resources for engaging in social emotional learning at home and a wellness series that empowers our parents to um use strategies to support their students
151well-being such as what do I do if I start to notice symptoms of depression in my student all right so how do we know if it's working if it's making an impact well we use something called the pick here in El grve which stands for the program implementation continuum now the social emotional learning pick was developed in part um both both on the foundational knowledge that teachers have and students have and then the application of are they actually teaching it so foundations is involved well I should say foundations is comprised of do teachers believe in the importance ofal in do they have the professional development necessary to instruct seal and are they using the seal data that we provide to them from the student perspective survey the applications is are you reflecting on modeling on
152your own social emotional learning as an educator student perception of their experiences withal in the classroom teachers use of thatal curriculum we provided to them the quality and quantity ofal instruction and the teachers awareness of what's going on in their students lives and all that data is put together to develop what's called a pick score so this example you can see that school is performing at a level three which we would say is with Fidelity level three or level four so right now in our district 18% of our schools are implementing seal with fidelity meaning they have a pick score of level three or level four seal implementation for the district overall is 73% which reflects the level two so our district average is level two and that's consist consent with our prior years performance
153so there's also been some correlational studies done to see what impact social emotional learning has on other key student outcomes such as suspension such as feelings of belonging and C scores an increased implementation ofal has been found to be significantly associated with more favorable outcomes in those three categories it is shown that schools with higher implementation have lower suspension rates than schools with lower implementation especially for our students with disabilities it has been shown that students at schools with higher seal implementation reported feeling more connected to their school than students with lower seal implementation and it has been shown that schools with higher seal implementation show better performance on the Casp math test than schools with lower implementation stuff I'm pretty proud of now that was all tier one right so if you go back
154to uh the mtss pyramid here that's all in this orange category here and those strategies are shown to be sufficient for about 80% of our kiddos but some of them need more strategic supports in tier two and that is in the form of group counseling for seal and then some of them need even more intensive supports and that's in the form of one one counseling and these providers are the folks who do that work our school social workers at our secondary level our mental health therapists at the elementary level and our school psychologists and counselors at both levels the board is generously funded uh the school social workers and the elementary counselors through the learning block recovery Grant and the other providers up there are funded through General funds so I will leave you with
155a vision statement which is typically how we would start a presentation but I think this vision statement does a nice job of summarizing in two sentences what it took me 30 minutes to present I also want to point out that we didn't develop a vision statement until we had a clearer understanding of exactly what is Seal so I wanted to develop your understanding before sharing this vision statement with you now my intentional close for you is to read that and call out loud the words that hit you what stood out to you inclusive School Community thank you feel safe valued and respected thank you learning to cocreate thank you critical thinkers who take risk abolutely these are the words that stood out for me and I can't wait for us to realize this Vision in
156the meantime I will take any questions or comments that you have excellent thank you very much uh Mr Yang do we have any blue cards on this item poor president there's no BR call on this item thank you very much all right uh we will take board member questions uh let's start on this side today Miss bwin I don't have any questions but I do appreciate this um presentation um I just think too that it's important for us all to recog recognize that uh the results that we're going to see from this great work is going to be uh significant in 20 years when our kids that are in our schools engaging in this curriculum and these activities and this support this tiered system they are going to come back to our district and be
157amazing leaders that are going to make a bigger impact on how we lead how we serve and how our we we do curriculum the things we do best and I just want to acknowledge that um I remember being a kid um and not having this and dealing with my best friend who committed suicide because she just had big feelings that she could not learn how to to deal with how to manage and how to adapt and overcome and and it's easy for us as adults to tell kids what to do but there are little independent thinkers they're people they're human they're take risks they learn from their mistakes just as we did and it's so important that we work through that and we support them and we show model I agree with you cuz um
158I know a lot of my my child um who is neurode Divergent that was the biggest uh insight for me as a like learning how to parent a a neurode Divergent child um was that modeling and the imitation skills that were so strong in my son um to really reveal what he knew um and what he was gaining from experiencing the world and so thank you for this um I really do hope we keep that in perspective that we're the result from this really great work is going to come in the future thank you for sharing your experiences with us thank you Miss Moore uh yeah I just have some questions so that the the public is aware can you tell us when the multi-tiered um systems of support was implemented please the multi-tiered systems
159of support began implementation about 2021 I would say I'm more familiar with when seal started but is that about right for mtss as well 2011 2011 I stand corrected okay and then seal was uh 20 well you have the timeline there yeah as I said before we started calling ital in 2020 2021 but we did um instruction that is in line with social emotional competencies we have done for decades well before 2020 MH okay um and and did you say can you tell us the year again that you did the piloting yes the pilot was done um in towards the let's see winter of 2020 to Spring of 2021 so that school year okay um you know what I'm wrong it was 2122 my apologies the steering committee was 2021 pilot 2223 implemented no pilot
1602122 implemented 2223 thank you well that's what I thought because I remember having a conversation with you and I don't know if you remember but some other moms were there and our child's our children's class was actually piloted and we were not informed and we did not get to give feedback so I hope that wasn't the experience of other classes I hope and I have learned from that to make sure next time that all families are reached out to thank you for sharing that with us yeah and I appreciate I believe that was updated in a policy so I do appreciate that um and then uh uh let's see with on page 29 are those statistics for our district or are those just generalized facts these here um yes on page 29 yes those are
161for our district specifically okay um so I guess what I would like to see is you know we I I've been on the board for a short time but before that I've been very involved with board meetings and for example when we shared um suspension rates we had had probably 20 different charts you know with um sharing about the rates for different ethnicities groups and so forth um same with open enrollment we had all sorts of data we provided to the board but what I don't see is when we talk about the multi-tiered support system and correlating programs I don't see that we are giving you know data and graphs to support how um how these program s are supporting our students um you know we have the dashboard scores we have the cast scores
162um so I would just like to see that we do that so we can we can analyze you know if these programs are really helping our kids um because you know if we provide data for other presentations why not for these because we I mean we're School District so to me that makes sense and um that's all my comments thank you absolutely um there's scatter plot data that goes along with these These are summary statements based on graphs that I'm sure we'd be happy to share with you Kati I can I can add a little bit um because I very much appreciate uh the question and in terms of with suspension um and suspension information and a lot of our outcome data outcome data is is very easy to identify to um synthesize and that's
163exactly we we um look at every state-based subgroup that we that we have when we're talking about programmatic evaluation that's a different now we're talking about um measuring the effectiveness of outputs and what the methodology that we use it would actually be considered a quasi experimental methodology that we use and it's because this means we don't randomly um assign students or staff or schools to experimental versus um control conditions so it's like what does that mean so Random control trials so think about medications so that's the methodology that's the gold standard of looking at cause and effect and it's extremely difficult in educational settings to do that because if we did it we would actually we actually could potentially do harm to students because what we would do so we don't Implement anything um Castle
164has been around for a long period of time it's very research-based PBIS the same even our instructional framework while we've identified those principles those have been around in heavily research-based so we aren't implementing anything that doesn't have substantial and historic uh evidence that it can be effective but we don't just rely on that but if we withheld that and said here's the control groups so these three schools are going to get nothing while these three schools get something we don't ever want to do that so what we do the quasa methodology is rather than conduct many of the impact evaluations using VAR we we look at variation in program implementation it's exactly what Katie was um just referring to pick program implementation Continuum and so what we do is we deconstruct programs so the very
165first one that we did was actually with our English learner program now our multilingual service program and our experts break deconstruct these programs and there was a BC that came out board communication that came out February 28th that actually graphically represents that and then what we do is we gather information in terms of we have a methodology where we are going school by school to determine levels one through four low to higher in terms of their level of implementation and our theory of action is that the higher the level of implementation Associated and directly correlated with the design standards then student outcomes are going to be we're going to have higher student outcomes and this is why we have predictive measures so there's it's not causation there's causation and correlation and what we're doing if
166it's a medical trial you often times get causation it's this c x caused y too difficult in in an educational setting because there's too first of all too many variables and we can't do a random trial methodology but what we do is we can we can get very clear predictive measures of what we're going to see and so I pulled the BC just to give an example and so what we do is there was one that says So currently 42% of our our kids are meeting or exceeding standards in mathematics on the esack test and that if every school increased their pick level by one that 42 jumps to 49% and that's 2,100 more kids that are going to be meeting or exceeding standards and the thing is um the longer that we do this
167that's the other thing and this is why I wanted to share this with the board because opinion right now the stuff that I just shared is fact um this is an opinion I think public education not just El grow public education can get a bit antsy and it's we need we need results now and so we use this and then after a year or two we're done with that because we want to do this and we want it takes time and this is why we've we've really dropped anchor on some very basic but very very important core components that we're staying focused on and to toot our own horn there's a reason that El Grove CP just a couple years ago received an award we were the only School District in the nation to receive
168it from Harvard for these research practices that we've developed we developed them and it's taken us I remember in my office and I'm not taking credit for anything working with a former research and evaluation director talking about how we could measure outputs because if you think about input output and outcome that's what makes a system our inputs that's what we invest human and material resources what we do are the outputs the outcomes are the results education typically has looked at outcomes only because it's hard to measure outputs and if you only are looking at outcome if somebody asks a question good bad or indifferent if the scores went up if they stayed the same or they went down and the only thing you have to look at are those scores themselves you're guessing well I
169think it might be I kind of think it might be we don't guess because we have we have means of evaluating our programs and so last thing I would say our schools put together individual we refer to them as site LC caps it's their site plans that they develop every year the single School plan and we've seen the shifting in the goals because they used to have goals that said they want their kids to increase in math scores from point A to point B logical goal they're starting to shift they're saying we want our program to go from a level two to a level three because they know if they do that they scores are going to go up you need to focus on the output that's where you have to put your energies and
170so it's a really good question that you ask in terms of the data that we have and we can get um and I'll do a quick and then I'll step away but I do want to do a quick this is the time because the perspective survey how do we get information we get it from surveys we get it from direct interviews and so if you were all teachers many regards you may may have been or were teachers or are teachers at home or elsewhere but if we're looking atal then what happens is you receive training we may ask you do you think you learned did you learn what was provided to you yes or no are you using it yes or no are you using it with Fidelity yes or no and it's a bit
171more than yes or no it's a Liker scale they use we also ask the principles are you going into classrooms and seeing it yes or no then we ask kids what are you experiencing and what we're seeing is if it's yes I learned it yes I use it principles yes I saw it kids saying here's what I'm experiencing in classrooms and that would mean it's being done guess what we're seeing increases in student achievement and this is how we eval valate the program so it's a really good question that you ask but I just I know I shared quite a bit of information but way that you can find out more about that too is anytime you want to go dig a Little Deeper um Mr Hinshaw and I'd be happy to sit down with
172you and the team and go over how we we we are evaluating our programs I'm not saying it's perfect because every year we're analyzing it to make sure that is that correlation coefficient because we do develop correlation Co coefficients won't go into the mathematics behind there not saying you can't figure it out but we absolutely look at that because that tells us the strength of that relationship between the program and the outcomes and how certain we can be that what we can predict is actually accurate so sorry about that but it's a really important question that you asked yeah well just to follow up I mean I appreciate that but I mean ultimately our outcomes are important and when less than 20% of our African-American students are meeting state standard and you know that hasn't
173changed it's actually gone down since 2015 I just I think it's important we evaluate I mean at some point we have to evaluate are we on the right course and you know we just need to make sure we're supporting these students so they can be College and Career ready because I understand all the things you're saying are important but ultimately if we don't help our kids um they're not ready for a colle college or career that that's really you know that creates a lot of difficulties for them and so that needs to I think that really needs to be a focus for us there is no question you know student achievement in El Grove needs to increase and certainly with certain student subgroups and we are literally at a point of no longer asking the
174question what should we do it's we know what to do we need to do it better and we need to and not do it in a way that we're shoving things down our our teachers throats who are working very very hard they're very receptive to the training that we're doing but I truly believe we're in a position where we know what to do and now we need to do it thank you Miss B I'm no I was just thanking Miss Moore for her questions and sharing her experience with us want to interrupt um so on page 27 the salal program evaluation it says spring of 2024 so is that the first year we've done this kind of evaluation that's a mistake on my part I forgot it was 2025 oh no that's not the first
175year I that's just to tell you that's when we do it yeah so we did it in the spring and we are just launching it this year so that was the first year was no that was not the sorry my mistake that was not the first year that might have been the first year we called it the student perspective survey it has had a variety of names was the kids survey before is that a different one no that's different yeah good question so we do that in addition and we've done this survey for many years but it's had multiple iterations we work very closely with research and evaluation to continuously look at how we're looking at things and so it used to be called the SE survey and now we've combined it with uh different
176perspectives not just onal but on school climate on teaching and learning so we're getting their perspective on a variety of programs rather than different surveys for different programs if that if I'm we got some feedback that we had um kind of survey fatigue that they that folks are taking survey after survey so in the prospective survey it took information from all the different surveys that we did and put it into into one and so we say please do this one um that that that's how we made that adjustment we Chang the two perspectives because we get kids we get staff and we get parent perspectives through that survey and this is done for fifth through 12th graders developmentally speaking um TK through fourth graders don't have the cognition skills yet necessary to engage in this
177kind of reflection uh the California healthy kids survey is done for very specific grade levels like every other year and I'm sorry but I don't run that program so I'm not 100% familiar you did so yes I want to say it's Fifth and 11th grade but I don't don't quote me on that there's I'm seventh perhaps yeah 5711 makes sense to me yeah thank you for the question and I'm not on speaker oops um exactly but you answered my next question which was what great levels do we test at so that's perfect so it's all every grade fifth to 12th or just Fifth and just 12th no fifth through 12th okay okay all right and every year we do it in Spring that's correct so we're no longer doing the California healthy kids survey no
178is that right we continue to do that it's searly a separate initiative sorry healthy kids survey is still done every other year M okay survey survey I know survey fatigue is real but but we need data we need to make sure we're doing the right thing I get it yeah thank you very much Katie thank you miss ballerini m Chen um I have no questions at the moment thank you so much for presentation thank you Mr thank you Mr Yang yeah um thank you for the presentation um I think um you know the mtts or mtss and uh SE uh program is um something that is needed um for our student for sure um you know U as human being you know our emotion gets in the way uh more time than not and even
179adults you know we still have that issue of um using our reasons over our emotions a lot of times so uh with the kids you know that's going to happen and uh you know U there's things that happen at school happen at home and uh their emotion you know um gets in the way of their learning so I think you know that this sort of program is definitely needed for sure and I'm grateful and thankful for um all the work that has been done um you know to to expand on the data you know I would also like to see um how many students we are serving um for me you know the more the merrier for sure because I know that there are more students that are needed that you know with this type
180of program and help and just want to see um the N number of um folks participate in the survey and those are um you know pretty to me it's pretty standard information um to have so you so for example you just uh alluded that um these programs are applied to fifth grade to 12th right and then you know next step will be okay um how many students right and then you know how many students um participate in the survey so these are the basic uh information I can understand why my colleague asked that so I would also like to see that going forward but yeah just very thankful for all the efforts and the impact that we have made uh on these programs so appreciate it absolutely uh just a data point for you so
181the tier one stuff I talked about is accessible to 100% of our students right so over 63,000 right now we have 13 currently 1,300 students enrolled in um either group counseling or individual counseling to support their continued needs and that's just the plans that are created that I can see some of our clinicians aren't as good yet as I'd like them to be at inputting the plan into a system because data input is not their strength but we're working on it so 1300 plans in place is huge in my opinion yeah and you know that's also good information to hear and you know all of the data that we um we wanted to see I think um that would also you know provide uh a comprehensive of um information that we could uh utilize to
182uh make decision going forward supporting these sort of program rather it's funding or how to you know impact more students you know so thank you appreciate it thank you Mr Yang thank you Miss Alani thank you for the presentation your passion for this is obvious and we appreciate having you here um I as a past educator I really appreciate the fact that we have continued professional development for this um I laughed when you said you were never taught how to teach a classroom um student teaching was a Saving Grace I student taught El grve and then I taught El Grove and the professional development available here made you become a better teacher but um it is it is very important that we continue that and I believe as we help these children we also are
183helping our adults and helping keep healthy employees and um they take that home to their families and um it's it's just it's an investment in our community as well as our children so I appreciate the work being done absolutely thank you I switched back because I neglected to point out the core skills at the bottom of the mtss pyramid is elr's way of acknowledging the foundational skills our adults need to engage in this kind of work and then underneath that even is that our adults need to experience physical and emotional safety in order to engage in this work too so I'm grateful we have a robust professional development department as well thank you Miss Alani thank you Miss Davis well having the privilege of working at a school I was able to see this go
184into practice and um especially after Co it was especially important we had kids coming back with no skills um it was nice to see the work that would go into it no children were falling between the cracks or being just written off as a behavior issue um we actually dug deeper found out what was going on and had plans in place for everybody um PBIS goes further than the classroom though because it's spread out over the campus it's in the offices it's in our custodians it's our Librarians it's a wide swath of people who participate in the PBIS um group so it was really nice to see also we got to see um it helped children participate in restorative practices because it gave them a voice they it taught them to speak up for themselves
185and to expect more for themselves and to fix things that they did wrong so it was it was nice and sometimes I used to wish that we could get adults to do this it it would be really nice so as U Miss Balwin said before we're going to see the benefits in this in the years down the road when our adults are able to practice this also I firmly believe that if adults aren't doing it it's just because they don't yet have the skills they most adults want to they just haven't been prepared to yet but thank you thank you for the work Davis yeah excellent uh I appreciate the presentation um as a data nerd I appreciate the additional uh information as we are uh starting to get some data from this I recognize
186that this is you know in in the grand Arc of the time that it takes for us to evaluate things I recognize that three four years is a tiny amount of time um and I think it's you know I I understand that the frustration of us trying to balance um you know the urgency of every student's very confined time with us and how one day or one week or one month of learning loss is enormous for every one individual student and yet we are evaluated on a time frame that is in years and decades and so trying to meet both of those things trying to be responsive to the in individual student and have and Implement things on a timeline that will positively impact each of our students while also being cognizant of the fact
187that the data we are gathering is going to take years and years and years and years to fully sort of flesh out is a very difficult challenge um and so I appreciate that you all are working on that uh and and that every year that this comes back because I've now seen this presentation three times um it is more in-depth there's more data right when this you know when I first saw this presentation it was a lot of uh the you know well this is these are the inputs and these are the outputs and this is we kind of what we think will happen right and and I think what I saw this year is a lot more all right now we see the inputs we've done the inputs we've seen the outputs we are
188improving the outputs and we are seeing some Connection in outcome and you know that to me again three years it takes a long time for these things to fully you know um but you know seeing that progression you know makes me think you guys are really on to something here and that this is really you know as Mark said right we know what to do and now we're just doing it and I feel far I feel more confident than this year that that is that we are moving in that correct direction um and so I appreciate the continued Improvement and the continued addition of more information as we have it um you know cognizant of the fact that it's never fast enough um you know so we we do appreciate it um I I appreciate
189the constant constantly pulling this back to the interner relationship between uh these three pieces of mtss right it is you know it's not enough to talk about these things silos uh you know is very important right you know social emotional learning is incredibly important in its own right um but we are at the end of the day an educational institution academic performance and academic success uh and you know preparing our students for College and Career is the core of what we do um and so pulling all of these things together and showing how they are interrelated is necessary to the service that we provide the public um so I don't want you know so I'm glad that you know as we continue to do these presentations we are we are being cognizant of that and
190and continuing to you know show how these things all work together um you know so I appreciate that piece um yeah and the one other the one other thing I wanted to mention about the presentation uh that I appreciated as well um was your you pointed out um you know and I hope that in the future we'll get a little bit more of this CU I would like to see a little I'd like to know more about this um is how you know these Services providing these services to students not only improves their experience on campus and their feeling of belonging um but pushes out to the community and to their families and is actually enriching those relationships uh and supporting you know the students relationships with their community members with their families um you
191know with loved ones all of those things I think that's uh enormously important and is a great contribution um of what the you know what we as a district contribute to the broader community so um I was excited to see that in there but um that's all I have I I appreciate the presentation um and thank you so much for everything you do thank you you'll be co-presenting with me next year right since it's the fourth year uh if I know enough about it by that point U maybe it'll be time for me to retire um all right thank you all for your time I truly appreciate it have a good evening all right we have one more item on our agenda uh board member and superintendent reports uh Mr superintendent anything uh board members
192any board reports okay seeing none then we are adjourned at 9:16 p.m. thank you everyone e