Board Meeting - September 5, 2023

001good afternoon I'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the elgrove board of education for September 5th 2023 and announce that the board will meet in close session to address items 1 through four on the Clos session portion of the agenda at this time I'd like to call for public comment on the Clos session portion of the agenda Mr superintendent do we have any public comments we do not thank you I'm going to close public comment and recess into close session good afternoon if folks could please take their seats we're about to begin you ready Mr mate good afternoon and welcome to the Elkgrove Unified School District board meeting for September 5th 2023 the board of education has resumed full iners excuse me I skipped a step here already I'd like to announce

002that the board met in Clos session and no action was taken the board has resumed full in-person board meetings unless remote attendance is permitted pursuant to the California Brown act live streaming of of full in-person board meetings will be available via the public to the public via the zoom platform today's meeting is being video recorded and will be available on the district's YouTube channel going to share some information regarding the public comment process during regular board meetings the public may take may make public comments on items on the agenda or items not on the agenda individual speakers will be allowed up to 3 minutes to address the board board on each item the total amount of time allocated to public comments by the board will be limited with the total of 30 minutes designed uh

003excuse me designated for public comment on an item public comments during regular board meetings may be made about items not on the agenda but within the school district's jurisdiction public comment may be made on all items that are on the board agenda and will be heard when the selected item comes up individuals may not defer their time to another individual speaker to increase their time Beyond 3 minutes please be mindful that District students may be watching or participating you're encouraged to address the board and the public in a respectful manner such that all of 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 shall be grounds for the board president

004to provide a warning and then to terminate the individual's privilege of addressing the board first item on our agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance I'd like to call up uh Sandy Borman Richard wall principal of TR Smedberg middle school and my colleague Mr Carmen forina is going to read to us about our honory today good evening it's my privilege to read some wonderful words uh written by TR Smedberg Community TR Smedberg school is honored to recognize Miss Sandy Morman as our education partner the elro Unified School is recognizes the outstanding contributions Miss Borman has made to Smedberg Middle School to support its staff and students 11 years ago Misty ceron became the Smedberg activities director and little did anyone know that miss cam was a packaged deal as she also brought with her Sandy Borman

005her mom to avoid any confusion from Miss borman's last name being different from Miss Calon she was given a new name by a staff called her mom over the years cder mom has helped at dances ran the grill at eighth grade barbecue and provided a helping hand at dances and and uh with uh celebrat Smedberg and his course called on Mom regularly indulged staff and students with bags of irresistible home baked goods and all that she does cder mom is Pleasant to everyone she is funloving and she is a joy to work with Sandy Morman the staff and students at TR Smedberg middle school and the Elkgrove Unified School District recognize and greatly appreciate your hard work and your kind-hearted dedication Sandy please know even when your daughter steps down as activities director you will

006always be smedbergs called her mom thank you so please stand so we can salute I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and if you'll stay there for just one minute please yeah thank you again miss Borman our next item is a presentation or recognition for a recommendation of the N the name the library at Maran mix Elementary School I'd like to welcome Miss Kristen coats try that one more time good evening Madame President Board of Trustees superintendent Hoffman Miss aalos uh staff and the public uh tonight uh we are here asking the board to approve the request um from Mary and mix Elementary School staff and Community to name the library

007at Maran mix uh School the Shelly Clark Dixon Library consistent with board policy and administrative regulation 7511 community and staff members from Mary and mix Elementary School have requested to the name the library at Maran mix Elementary School the Shelley Clark Dixon Library uh we support this recommendation consistent with board policy I'm gonna ask Dr gualt to come up and share her story good evening Madame President members of the board superintendent Hoffman and Miss Avalos I'd like to share a few words uh Marian Mi Elementary School opened in 2015 and leading this amazing Endeavor was Shelly Clark Dixon Shelly was at the four Forefront of every decision and detail that went into opening the school and the values core beliefs and high expectations that she set for students and staff permeate throughout the community although

008she was a principal there for one year her Legacy and dedication continue today it is for this reason that the mix Community would request to name the library in honor of Shelley Clark Dixon sadly Shelly passed away in 202 23 she left a legacy in her Trail but nothing brought her more joy than her two daughters she was an amazing mother wife daughter sister aunt and friend the mar and mix Community would be honored to invite her family to attend the ceremony at mix and take part in the name naming of the school library this would truly be a full circle event as the school has many pictures throughout the campus of the opening ceremony of the School capturing Shelly and the school's namesake former employee maryan mix along with her family Shelley was a

009lifelong member of the elgrove community she attended elementary middle and high at elgrove her lengthy career began as a teacher vice principal principal and then director in Human Resources Shelley set high standards for her students in a loving and supportive way as an administrator she maintain the same expectations for her teachers with whom she worked as a director she worked to recruit new teachers and student teachers while putting in place systems for acquiring and training quality substitute teachers although Shelly was working in the district office she consistently returned to mix to recruit Master Teachers Shelly understood the importance of literacy and truly enjoyed reading in her private life life the community Fields naming the library in honor of shell would be fitting the modotto that was chosen for the school is Know Thy impact and

010Shelly has certainly left an impact the plan would be to have the Shelly Clark Dixon Library painted directly above the library door along with a plaque commemorating her life the staff and community of mar and mix agreed that Shelly Clark Dixon do deserves to be honored in this manner and now uh Peggy will say a few words and then Andrew Shell's husband and Hannah Shelley's daughter and if you are here in support of shell please feel free to come up good evening everyone and thank you for this opportunity to speak with you it is my honor to address you all regarding the naming and dedication of the mar and mix Elementary School library in memory of Shelley Clark Dixon my name is Peggy Barett and I was the principal at Mari and mix for the

011last five years Shelley and I were not only colleagues but good friends we met at a lifeod Donner Elementary School in 1997 and we went on to teach together at Elliot Ranch Elementary she taught both my children and I had the pleasure of teaching her youngest Jacqueline in second grade we even ran a half marathon together as our careers progressed in the district we kept in touch and our paths continued to cross so I know how excited shell was when she was given the opportunity to open Mary and mix opening a new school is a year-long Endeavor and Shelly put her heart and soul into creating a school that provided students a wonderful learning opportunity having a continued connection with Shelly and knowing the amazing culture she had established at mix I was ecstatic when

012I was named principal at the school she had opened three years prior although I retired in June it was my great pleasure to continue the vision for mix that Shelly had created the stem Focus collaboration among Teachers Community involvement high expectations for staff and students are all areas that we continued and I know Shelly would be proud in fact I spoke to her just a couple weeks prior to her passing about how best to carry on the legacy of mix although shell was only at mix for a year she left an indelible mark on the school and its Community when speaking with the staff members that worked at the school or worked with shell it was evident the lasting impression she made on them and how she created an environment where everyone felt supported and

013aspired to be the best Educators POS possible Shelley was committed to the importance of literacy for all and in partnership with the staff we determined naming the library would be a fitting tribute to her as you enter Maran mix Elementary The Motto Know Thy impact is painted above the library and can clearly be seen to visitors staff and students as you enter Shelley was instrumental in creating this motto for the school in working with the community and the staff we concluded that there would be no better way to memorialize Shelly than to have the center of the school which is the library dedicated to her memory it is our vision that the words the Shelly Clark Dixon Library be prominently displayed Under The Motto Know Thy impact this will serve as a remembrance of the

014impact Shelley Clark Dixon had on the students staff community and all that knew her thank you good evening board I'm Shelley Clark Dixon's husband Andrew Dixon and on behalf of the Clarks and Dixons I want to thank you for this beautiful gesture for Shelly also I would like to thank the board for such a wonderful recommended motion and rationale that was stated so eloquently about Shelly we are so touched and excited about this naming of the mar library after the woman who was who has given her entire life to the Elk Grove unified school district she loved being a part of this school the school district and the community although I wasn't a part of shelle's life yet during the time at Mary and mix I got to really relive many of those moments and

015hear about all the challenging happy stories from her and her daughters Shel loved people kids family friends co-workers and always wanted to help each of them succeed Ed I've heard her on calls with kids she had as a teacher or principal contacting her to thank her and her ask some advice years later Shelley was so proud of her kids and students as so many of them went on to college and finding their successes in life she was so pleased that many of them went on to achieve so much and become Educators themselves she helped many teachers get hired by the district by giving them tips suggestions on how to succeed in interviews two teachers I know have called her back the last few years to thank her for helping them her them get hired one

016of the most priceless moments was after shelle's after sh's diagnosis she decided to record herself reading some of her and her daughter's favorite childhood books we have several of these recordings for her daughters to remember and be able to show them to grandchildren because she loved these books and loved reading so much Shelly wouldn't want any extra recognition for her work as she did it out of the enjoyment of out of enjoyment and love and honoring what this couldn't be more appreciative Shel was the most driven person I knew know and was so smart and worked so hard Mary and mix was very close to her heart and she was very proud of it shell didn't want much in return but I know this is making her heart smile and I truly feel she is

017deserving of this moment I waited for 50 years to find my soulmate and Shelly and I'm so pleased you are honoring Shelly in a way that will continue her Legacy for years I'm also excited to announce the Shelley Clark Dixon Memorial Scholarship fund that was established this year and will also help continue Shell's Legacy thank you again for this evening and for the recommendation thank you so much thank you good evening everyone and thank you all for being here my name is Hannah Hughes the eldest of Jack that's my sister of shelle's daughters and one of her earliest students my mom taught me to read at an early age leading me to test out of preschool and jump start my education a library is a very fitting place to remember her as she believed reading

018and literacy to be highly important skills that should be equally accessible to everyone back in 2004 Shelley Clark Dixon was known as Shelley Hughes or Mrs Hughes to my fifth grade classroom yes in her final year of teaching before becoming a vice principal I was allowed to be a student in her class along with a few of my closest friends thanks to the generosity of Mr vigario which she never let me forget throughout my years as a student in elgrove I was blessed with many incredible teachers especially in elementary school however I speak with as little bias as I have when I say that my fifth grade year in Mrs Hugh's class was the most fun memorable challenging and influential year of school I've ever had College included it's impossible to condense the impact that

019school year had on me in just a few minutes but I will say everything we did we did as a class we Laughed Until We Cried many times we encouraged each other to be our best selves no matter the activity every single day we created allinclusive learning environments which where each student felt appreciated and important we even had fun recreating Parliament meetings and other American historical events as a class LED enthusiastically as always by Mrs Hughes the lifelong memories aside we were also taught Reading Writing and math tools that I still refer back to this day I truly believe I learned the most in my mom's fifth grade classroom than I did any other year of school at the time I didn't know her much more than that as a mom and a teacher but

020as I Grew Older I was fortunate to join the group who called her boss or even better friend while Miss Clark was never my direct overhead I did report back to her each night at home these were among the happiest years I had with my mom apart from that fifth grade year during that time I could come home and discuss The Good the Bad and the Ugly with her over cups of coffee or glasses of wine if I had particularly a rough group of students that day she would give me an insight as to the cause of that behavior and advice on how to handle it in the future as I'm sure she's done with many teachers here today I'm happy to say I did not take for granted living with the mind and heart

021of such a talented educator Shelley Clark Dixon was a woman glowing in knowledge passion and love for career she was destined to have and moved to share with others who knew thy impact she loved and cared for all in this room whether she knew you or not she not she followed her calling to serve others and in the process touched all who knew her with her Light May Maran mix Elementary School and the elgrove Unified School District never forget Shelley Jane Clark Dixon and the impact she left on our world I shall continue her Legacy and Lead others with the consciousness of my own imp as I encourage you to reflect on your own be it at home in the classroom or the boardroom thank you thank you so I just want to make sure

022I'm doing these things in the right order um I am to call for a motion and then take vote and then ask for public comments that's what I have here which sounds out of order so public comments before a motion or after that's what I thought okay so uh Miss Lasser do we have any public comments on this item Madame President we have no public comments via Zoom for this item thank you Mr Jamerson do we have any blue cards for this item Madame President we have no blue cards for this item okay at this time I'd like to call for a motion to approve the request from Mari and mix Elementary School staff and Community to name the library at Maran mix Elementary the Shelly Clark Dixon Library so moved move by Vel biani

023seconded Mr Bettis all in favor please signify by saying I I opposed measures approved unanimously um and I'm going to pause to see if any board members would like to make any comments I know some of us had the pleasure of knowing her Mr fortina would you like to begin thank you yeah I I I really enjoyed my conversations with Shelly um shell had vision and shell had passion and Shelly cared and uh you know those reasons among many others are why she was able to do the work she did and why so many people thought so highly of her she was fun to be around she always had a smile um but for me like I say for me personally um the fact that she she was focused on making things better for everyone

024all the time and she knew what she needed to do to get there and uh this recognition uh certainly is is a wonderful thing to do to in remembrance of someone who who did give a lot so thank thank you to her family thank you salani I just want to thank the family for sharing her with us as a district we were very blessed I just want to say that though that I don't know her um through your words uh it hits me um and makes me understand how special she was and this recognitions um helped tell her Legacy going forward to our kids in our school district and our staff so thank you for being here and sorry for your loss and our loss as a school district thank you um Mr Pettis okay

025she's the one that was the principal at the two-story High Elementary correct yes I was very impressed the first not the only time I met with her but her professionalism her knowledge of education and her rapport with the community in that geographical area and with the students she she was a Charming person with a smile that would radiate through classroom walls the fact that you know those children seen her every day you know it was they were lucky they they had a person like that a teacher uh counselor administrator principal and and I learned a lot talking to her that day and I'm I'm sorry that I didn't go back and and and and work with her more but because she was so outstanding person in in in our community and in our district but

026uh I was very proud of her and and I did keep track what she was doing you know that was the best thing to do that you know that's a person that should be here at district office you know and you know so other than that you know we did lose you know um a very influential person in this community but she had a big impression on a lot of people the bottom line students the community the state of California and all the educational institutions in California okay thank you Mr Pettis um I had the pleasure of of meeting Shelly first when she was principal of my son's Elementary School Joseph Sims Elementary so going going a while back there um and I got to work with her in her different positions that she held

027after that um I don't want to be repetitive of what's been said but I do want to know how how interesting it is that people who encountered her in different ways and in different periods of her life have such consistent things to say about her that she was consistently excellent at her job you know she had this generosity of spirit that she spread light and joy in other people um and that was absolutely my experience of her I think she um sets a high bar and she just really serves as an an example for us in in how to conduct our own lives so I'm so grateful to have known her I'm thankful to for her family for sharing her with us and um for bringing forth this resolution so that we can continue to

028to share this part of her Legacy so thank you so much to all of you and with that we have concluded this item thank you our next resolution is uh one of our traditional ones we actually do this one two times a year it's for high school education voter education week or weeks rather I'm going to call on Miss Lasser to see if there are any public comments via Zoom for this item Madam President we have no public comments via Zoom for this item thank you Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards for this item Madam President we do not have any blue cards thank you I'd like to call up Mr Chad Switzer all right good evening board president chyz Espinosa members of the board superintendent Hoffman and Miss AAS I'm here this

029evening to share information on our voter education weeks California educ Education Code designates the last two weeks in September and April as 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 young 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 pre-registration voter registration and mock trial activities therefore this evening the governing board of the elg grve Unified School District is asked to approve resolution number 11 20232 24 and to declare September 18 through 29 2023 as high school voter education weeks and encourage our schools throughout the district to participate in programs and activities that help our

030students uh become registered to vote and become informed and civically engaged students thank you Mr schwizer I'd like to call for a motion to approve resolution number 11 which proclaims the period from September 18th through 29 2023 as high school voter education weeks I moved I'll second then I think it was moved by Mr Fortin second by Mr Vargas I couldn't tell sorry move by Mr Yang second by Mr Vargas all in favor please signify by saying I I opposed none that resolution is approved unanimously thank you Mr Switzer our next resolution is for Hispanic Heritage Month Miss Lasser do we have any public comments via Zoom Madam President we have no public comments we Zoom to this item thank you Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards for this item Madame President we

031have no blue cards for this item thank you I'd like to call up Miss Danielle black good evening board president cheres espanosa miss seagull members of the board superintendent Hoffman and Miss Avalos I'm here to request um passage of resolution number 14 designating September 15th through October 15 2023 as Hispanic Heritage Month the board of education has a long-standing priority of supporting diversity and Equity within our school district and the board of education has an opportunity to support this priority by recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month in September of 1968 Congress authorized president lynon B Johnson to Proclaim National Hispanic heritage week the observance was expanded in 1988 to a month-long celebration America celebrates the culture and traditions of us residents who Trace their roots to Spain Mexico and the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America South America

032and the Caribbean September 15th was chosen as the starting point for the celebration because it is the anniversary of independence of five Latin American countries Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua in addition Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on September 16th and September 18th respectively throughout the year the contributions of Americans with Hispanic heritage are presented in the regular curriculum however the special Focus for one month serves as a reminder of the combined contributions of this group in support of this resolution the curriculum and professional learning department will facilitate a virtual training the Mexican muralism movement on October 12th and it's available for our diversity equity and inclusion credit for both our certificated and our classified employees I humbly request that the Board of Education recognize September 15th through October 15th as

033Hispanic heritage M thank you Miss Black I'd like to call for a motion to adopt resolution number 14 does designating September 15 15th through October 15 2023 as Hispanic Heritage Month so moved second moved by Miss Jamerson seconded by Mr Vargas all in favor please signify by saying I I opposed measures approved unanimously thank you I have a question regarding the mural presentation is that right I asked that a question regarding what against sir the mural mural the class the Mexican muralism training who is is that an outside vendor that did the actual presentation or is it internal it's internal I facilitated the training uh last year for our certificated employees and with some updates to now offer it uh to all of our employees okay very good I'd like to talk to you a

034little later about that sure okay or right now thank you next we have the Filipino American History Month resolution Miss Lasser do we have any public comment M via Zoom for this item Madam President we have no public comments via Zoom for this item thank you Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards for this item Madame President we have no blue cards for this item thank you go ahead Miss Black whenever you're ready so as we have previously noted we have a longstanding priority of recognizing and supporting diversity and Equity within our schools and that we have an additional opportunity this evening by recognizing October 2023 Filipino American History Month with the recommendation of adopting resolution number 13 the Filipino American National Historical Society established filipino-american History Month in 1988 subsequently every October many

035communities throughout the United States and its territories have celebrated this occasion not only to commemorate the anniversary of the presence of the first Filipinos on us soil and to observe its Heritage but also to recognize the social intellectual and economic contributions of Filipinos and Filipino Americans in this country the California Department of Education First recognized Filipino American History Month in 2006 and the state legislatures passed two bills calling for the integration of Filipino American history into curriculum assembly Bill 199 focused on the contributions of Philipino American veterans in World War II and assembly Bill 123 focused on Filipino American contributions to the farm labor movement including leaders like Larry it Leong Filipino Americans play a vital role in the alar Unified School District community including more than 3,000 students who identify as Filipino throughout the

036year the contributions of Filipino Americans are presented in the regular curriculum however this special Focus for one month serves as a reminder of the combined contributions of this group in support of this resolution the curriculum professional learning Department me will facilitate Emeral training Filipino American history through ART music and dance on October 17th this will also be available for our diversity equity and inclusion credit for both our certificated and our classified employ please wonderful uh I'd like to call for a motion to adopt resolution number 13 designating October 2023 as Filipino American history month so move uh oh tell me who was first I second who was first they got went first okay um Mr Yang first second by Mr ptis all in favor please signify by saying I I opposed that is approved unanimously

037thank you Miss Black next up we have um our request for expulsion extension Miss laaser do we have any public comments via Zoom for this item yes Madam President we have one public comment okay let's go ahead and take that one arac to okay so clarification now that we had a phone call um with this parent they're not specifically tied to the expulsion I don't think there actually is actually an expulsion for the student that they wish to speak to so they wanted to make General comments about our expulsion process so I think that will happen during regular public comment versus um because we can't do comment about an individual student in public session thank you appreciate the clarification um I I trust the same will go for blue cards but I will ask do

038we have any blue cards on this item Madam President we have no blue cards on this item thank you I would like to call for a motion to approve the request for expulsion extension second move by Basel biani seconded by Mr Vargas all in favor please signify by saying I I opposed that is approved unanimously thank you related item request for readmission Miss Lasser do we have any public comments via Zoom for this item Madam President we have no public comments this item thank you m Jamerson do we have any blue cards for this item Madam President we have no blue cards for this item thank you I'd like to call for a motion to approve the student readmission from expulsion move by Miss alvani seconded by Mr Vargas all in favor please signify by

039saying I I opposed none that is approved unanimously we're moving on to public comments for items not on the agenda uh Miss Lasser do you have any public comments via Zoom for items not on the agenda so Madam President we have then two public comments via this item wonderful so first would be our Tech M hi thank you so much for the opportunity um I'd first like to find out the reference to the Sunrise Elementary School District's violence and anti-discrimination policy uh what the policy basically where it's located and then wanted to let you know just give you uh the description of events that had led to this that my son is a first grade student at Sunrise Elementary and I'm Dreadful to send him to school every morning knowing that there's a student who

040throws chairs trash can other objects around that can physically hit other kids and then physically assults the teacher by yelling and creating a non-conducive uh teaching environment educational environment in addition after my son started peeing his pants a couple of weeks ago I started looking into what had led to these events and my son told me that his same the same classmate has been shoving in his face the old quiet coyote sign that was forbidden which my son communicated to the the students student that means death to Armenians and the student is eliciting a response from my son it's a known Turkish terrorist organization sign known as gray wolves which the school district forbid about a year ago and this sign was made illegal by France and is internationally Rec recognized as hate speech and

041I understand this kid would be expelled if the behavior was ous in nature however we should be proactive instead of reacting to hor event which is not if it happens but when it happens when this kid is aggressive and dangerous pretty much every single day in the class this is not why we're paying such high property taxes in our neighborhood uh that supports the school and pretty much all of your wages um and for this kid to disrupt the class every day by yelling and posing grave danger to the surrounding of the kids and the teacher herself so please advise of the time frame the school district district is anticipating to stop this Behavior within before a decision is made to involve Federal author authorities by filing a title 9 civil rights complaint thank you

042sir Mr Hoffman I trust your a designate will connect with the gentleman thank you next public comment via Zoom is Joel Bo Mr Boyd you're you seem to be muted we're ready for you can you hear me Mr Boyd okay sounds like Mr boy is not available I'm going to close public comment for items not on the agenda oh I apologized thank you so that was Zoom going to Blue cards good go team so miss jamers then uh do we have blue cards for items not on the agenda yes Madam President we have blue cards starting with Stephen Ruiz followed by Amanda Jimenez we have those folks in the room Stephen Ruiz good evening board veners um first off I distributed some literature when I came into the room I believe you'll have outlines and

043organization go go beyond grades and I'll just reference you to that and any concerned parents in here as well if you can go to that site I'd recommend it also um I myself I work in it and I have for almost 30 years years and every three months every six months or every year we have to be certified in all of our disciplines on a regular basis if we don't pass our certification we lose that certification and we can't maintain that discipline for our job now the teachers in the school district I don't know what certification or what vetting process they go through but I'm really concerned because I see a lot of lack there and I don't know what the policy or the procedures are but I'd like to find out um going on

044um I'm sure you all aware of the notice of procedural safeguards that's T 21-22 um specifically the idea and the fape outline in that particular document now as a parent my child my student has gone through uh several years and has struggled vehemently and we've asked for assistance from the school to bring my child up this par at where she should be as a senior this year and she's not even close now I've made requests and I've done the proper procedures to do so I've had to obtain counsel to come to the school and ask for an iea which is my right to ask for it and they stole M we for two years to to get that done it finally was completed this summer and 41 page report was completed for my child pinpointing

045and indicating all her shortcomings and all the assists she needs now the school has yet to act on them and I again getting delays and excuses they're telling me it's going to take 60 days I can't wait that home my daughter is very far behind and she continues to fall even more behind and I'm having to pay out of my pocket to secure a tutor and assistance for her just to bring bring her up to speed I've already gone through this once before with my oldest daughter she's a product of consumer SS high school I will be very blunt and state her diploma that she GI was given to her was nothing more than a participation F because she was Ill prepared for the secondary level of Education she went to Sacramento City College to

046apply there they had her placement testing and they told her that she was have to take numerous remedial courses just to be brought up the speak before she began taking her courses for her major she got discouraged she ended up dropping everything thank you your time is up thank you sir we have Amanda HZ followed by Gandy wri okay um hello I'd like to use my time today to first thank the board uh having been a safety officer on on a little league board can you get a little closer to the mic we want to make sure people can hear you um having been a safety officer on a little league board of directors um I can imagine will you have thrown at you pretty often um thank you for continuing to preserve the First

047Amendment rights of our students at every meeting I've been to so far I've only been to a few there's a handful of people that come up to the podium and call our board of directors groomers for protecting that right uh some book contain uncomfortable material and some even have heinous acts but they are not glorified in these books their intention is educational at every meeting the most graphic scenes that can be found of rape and molestation are read aloud then have the audacity to describe them as children engaging in sexual activity no one should be coming up here to imply that rape is engaging or consensual rape is something that happens against your will so when I sit in the back and I listen to our district officials being called groomers because these scenes are

048interpreted as consensual or engaging it's it's disgusting there is such an organized effort to Shield children from learning to organize or to recognize concerning behavior and to limit children's ability to talk about being brave brave enough to speak up when something's bad why is there so much push to prevent students from learning to organize and recognize that these acts are wrong over and over we hear the same penal codes cited but never in their entirety on the California legislation website the penal code 311 that's been stated here multiple times also states that this does not apply to the activities of law enforcement and Prosecuting agencies in the investigation and prosecution of criminal offenses or to the legitimate medical scientific or educational activities or to lawful conduct between spouses I'd like to request that if you

049decide to implement any kind of book restrictions that it's considered to go before a board of equity uh some Department that would be able to ensure that anything that's being limited is done with equity and inclusion at the core thank you I have Gandy WR followed by Emily a hello so last year was a difficult year to be a parent of an LGBT student it was a difficult year to be a lover of librarians and books and reading and it was difficult to hear things that were said at the board meetings every month last year and I'm sure it was a difficult year to be a board member um we saw the rise of moms for Liberty in Florida book Banning across Florida and then that's also made its way here in California the temperature

050is increased the hate has increased and um we saw Laura an Carlton a mom of nine get shot outside of her store for hanging a lgpt pride flag the hate in our community has gotten extreme and it is a small group of people but they're a vocal group of people the shooter of Laura Anne Carlton belonged to a school board group and online um Instagram and Facebook group called leave our kids alone that was that's a spin-off of moms for Li a lot of the same tactics and speech are used on those social media Pages for leave our kids alone if you Google or if you get on Facebook or Instagram and look at El grov School Board you can find local groups inform parents of el grve mom Army and here in El grve

051leave our kids alone the exact same name and the messaging from moms for Liberty the same kind of LGBT attacks political messaging that's all on our local leave our kids alone group um so I think it's important just for the board to recognize that there's two groups of parents here there's the group of parents that are advocating for their students my daughter loves her High School experience she's had a chance to Blossom to grow she's had just an excellent time in her high school and that isn't just an accident it's architecturally purposely driven that she's protected as an LGBT student to attend the school here to be a club president to do well to get good grades like that isn't an accident that's because of our board that's because of decisions that have been enshrined

052within the elgrove school district then there's a second group of parents and these parents aren't advocating for their students they're not trying to get special ed resources they're not trying to get certain books in the library they're not trying to make a cultural awareness month for their kids they're advocating to take resources away from other students and I see that as the Paramount difference you're either advocating for students or you're advocating against students and a lot of times this advocating against other students is on the moniker of parents rights so we have to be aware of that term being associated with these leave our kids alone movements with moms for Liberty um I just want to end with a quote from thank you your time is up oh I have Emily a followed by emilina

053good evening and thank you for your time here last time I spoke to you I reminded you that Juris uh your jurisdiction does not include discriminating against any protected groups in the school district and your discrimination does not include violating constitutional rights including the right to read the brown act also does not compel you to accept comment on items you cannot legally consider so please please keep that in mind this evening board meetings should not be where hate can be fermented toward marginalized students and I see you allowing that and that concerns me the district includes equity in its commitment and has an educational Equity Department in fact as Miss Black said this board has a long history of supporting diversity and equity on your website you say Equity requires the system to recognize address

054and transform inequalities in policies practices and Al of resources particularly as they have historically marginalized and oppressed particular populations EG sexism ableism racism classism homophobia and xenophobia achieving Equity is where all outcomes are no longer predicted by identity categories such as race ethnicity gender and socioeconomic status unquote parents rights will be on an upcoming Schoolboard agenda and I want to remind you again that I do not have the right as a parent to erase other students protected identities any of them and other parents do not have the right to erase queer identities in our student population we do have the parental right to know that as we are required to have our students in some form of education and we trust our students to this public education system they will be at least as safe

055at school as they are at home I have the right to know that if my students my children are queer they will be as safe and represented as any other students in this District so as you consider parents rights at an upcoming agenda I expect you to keep that in mind and with that in mind I would ask you to form an equity Council of people who have a demonstrated commitment to equity as defined on your website that kind of history of equity for all students who could offer you free advice and input and screening on any policies you consider to protect you from liability and to protect the students thank you thank you I have Rhett panel followed by Charlotte oh wait I'm sorry did I skip oh emilina I apologize okay well um

056today I will use um Martin Luther Kings Jr um quote as a base for my comment here today you know Mar Martin Luther King believed that people should not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character so I'm here today not judging Nancy titis I am GNA be judging her actions you know on August 1st I sent her an email on August 8 I came here to this meeting uh and made a public comment regarding um the comprehensive Sexual Health advisory committee that was being formed well Nancy you lied to me you said that you did not know anything about this committee and but shortly after my meeting here on my comment here on August 8th you posted on social media that you looking for four appointments for

057the advisory committee that you told me you did not know anything about it if there's something that I cannot tolerate in this life is people lying to me I do not take that well and believe me I'm really trying to control my passion here not only you could not own up your lie you try to make a scene you you try to gas Gaslight me saying that I had asked you for for a different committee for a different advisory committee and that was not true as I emailed you the conversation that we had had when you talk about Divergence Viewpoint that you mention on your social media actually you're lying you're really not looking uh all you're doing is really trying to fill up a quota space with people that carries your agenda you really

058don't want an independent thinker like me because if you did you would consider me for that committee all these talks about diversity inclusion Equity has become buzzword and it's dead words to me means nothing how can you tell students to be to to be honest to have respect to have integrity when you you go about lying in people's face could he have told me why couldn't you have told me about the process to apply for this advisory committee and allow it not naturally to take his course oh but no you wanted to control the outcome you see that's a political game that I don't appreciate it and I don't want to play I really don't want to play that if you lie about this what else do you lie about can I trust you again

059if you lie to me once and you are Unapologetic about it I will not trust any anything that comes out of your mouth thank you I I hope people keep that time is up thank you thank you I have R pel followed by Charlotte okay thank you for allowing me to speak um I'm on the library committee thing and I would like to know who will be on it how will you get the people and will there be names of who's on it will you have teachers principls parents will you have a diverse community on that and how will you choose the books and then once you get to choose the books will the uh other parents in the school get to know who's what's going into the library and um I think that's it

060I just have a lot of questions I haven't heard anything about it and this is something I'm just going to keep on asking because I think that we have a right to know how you form the committee what all what are you going to really do that's my question okay thank you since we can't respond to your questions here ma'am feel free to email them to us or leave them with the board secretary and we'll be sure you get a response I have Charlotte followed by Heidi good evening thank you for this time so we as parents have have not seen any transparency we've talked about District policies that you all have for example elementary schools you need permission slips for PG movies um you need permission slips for field trips or you need permission

061slips for comprehensive sex ed um those are parental rights Middle School the same but um the teachers are protected with the guidance of sexual harassment policies prohibited sexual harassment includes but is not limited to unwelcomed sexual advances request for sexual favors and other verbal visual or physical conduct of sexual nature nature submission to or rejection of the conduct by an individual is used as basis for for academic or employment decision affecting the individual the conduct has a purpose of effect of having a negative impact on individuals academic or work performance and creating creating and intimidating hostile or offensive educational work environment but yet our children have access to sexually explicit books other types of conduct which are prohibited in the handbook and which may be constitute sexual harassment include stories drawings pictures or gestures but

062again our students have access to all of that so I was looking at reported mandating you all are reporting man or mandated reporters so you have to report if a child has received pornography yet we have it in our libraries you have to report a child who receives sexually explicit images from someone who is aware that they are under 18 but yet we have it in our libraries you are also support supposed to report report sexual abuse of any kind but everything that's described in here is in those books in the library so you all are telling us as mandated reporters that it's okay to hand these children who are minors these sexually explicit books so there's a huge hypocrisy right there and I think you all need to re-evaluate that we're only asking the

063sexually explicit books to be monitored they are not literary whatever they're calling them they're filth and it's embarrassing that you all are mandated reporters and you all are allowing it thank you thank you Heidi followed by Loren PR thank you um so I'm actually not here today today to talk about the porn you have in libraries um instead I'm reminding you the Education Code section 3529 2.5 requires restrooms to be clean operational and stocked with paper products and soap it also requires that restrooms remain available to students during the school day education codes also require one toilet per 30 female students one toilet per 50 Fe ma male students and one urinal per 100 male students now in March I made you all aware that pghs was closing most of its bathrooms throughout the day

064sometimes only leaving one bathroom open per gender and since that time there has been no change and additionally this year I've discovered that cams also has many closed bathrooms now although some of you may have visited pghs to take a selfie for our social media have any of you visited these schools to ensure bathrooms are open and functional I specifically emailed Miss Alani about the bathrooms as she is the assigned trustee for these schools her response was questioning questioning if I had been in touch with the schools which she knows I have so why is it my job I've made the district aware of the problem why has no one visited this school why has the district not taken action there are literally kids checking out of school to go home and poop and if

065you don't believe me ask the administrators ask the students they're checking out to go home and poop because they can't poop at school not to mention girls who are menstrating running around the school trying to find the magic bathroom that's open so they don't have an issue or an accident when they're menstrating I was told once it was a budget issue due to a head the lack of security and because there's vandalism well if it's a budget issue I'm sure there's plenty of places you can pull money from um for example you just voted to get the superintend in a raise and he makes more than $500,000 with Benefits let's take from the top so our kids can use the bathroom there's plenty of other places we can cut from too and if you want

066I can expose that but it's time that you take action and actually put kids first because after all that's what you keep saying you're all here to do so it's time to do it thank you thank you Loren prior followed by Lisa Stanley good evening long time no see um it's been a while only because we've been super busy um dealing with other issues in other school districts um I did want to get up and um thank Miss G for attending our black grad um thank you for the kind words that you said on the video um because it was a surprise to me um I didn't realize that the work that we're doing was actually having the impact that it's having until I listen to the words your words the chief's words and some

067of the other people that were in attendance so I wanted to thank you um additionally Joel Boyd is online and he's wondering why you guys couldn't admit like unmute him and he's ready to give his public comment so if that can um if y'all can re redo that or whatever it is that you do um to get him on he said it was interesting because he's still using the same device and for some reason he couldn't be unmuted um with that we have another year it's a whole another year I am hoping um that there won't be a Victory lap with your suspension mention numbers and I'll be back to comment on that as well um because from my standpoint I've been here since 2018 talking about the same stuff over and over again seeing

068very little movement a lot of resistance a lot of gaslighting a lot of wasting time when these futures of these kids are at stake um I'm tired of coming here with the same things I'm tired of hearing from parents um just today and I couldn't get back to the parent um her child is now being put up for exposion this child has had numerous issues in this District including your staff putting your H their hands on her um they Chang schools and it's the same type of situation continuing to occur so my question is at what point do we start to hold adults accountable accountable for the way they do children accountable for the way they mistreat children accountable for just giving up on kids who we already know have significant issues what type of

069programs are you all putting into place and keeping in place not the parade of things that you guys kind of trotted out signed some black orgs to some contracts and then disbanded those contracts and didn't move forward I want to know about the sustainable programs you all are putting in place to deal with these children who have some issues in this District I'm not putting myself on the table I'm just simply asking a question because at some point we're going to have to get real about what it is that we're seeing and I'm hearing both sides of the parent argument about Free Speech Free Speech goes both ways everybody doesn't have to like everything we have to figure out how we can find a happy medium and how we can going to work together and

070have our children coexist in this environment so I'll just leave it at that thank you Alisa stle hello my name is Lisa Stanley and I am a youth Advocate with a black youth leadership project and um we're here another year 23 24 now and um as much good as we're doing um like Loren said about our graduation and this just this whole summer of what we have planned for this year and the the places we're going to be um at program wise wide um um and yet we here we are again with elgrove Unified School District because you guys are in our backyard right we live in the same community and we have so many complaints coming out of this school year it just started um and it's unfortunate how many times we have to

071come up here and nothing has been done um I have only been with um BP for the last three years and no movement right um the same things and just the um complete disregard for the black stories that come out of here is just um it's gut-wrenching right but I'm not going to let let it um dim our lights because because un because other school districts are picking up on us right and they um see the need and we are in places um but it's it's really unfortunate that um right here in our own backyard that you guys are not um have not implemented us and like L said we're not on the table um but that doesn't mean it's not going to stop us from showing up and giving our black youth a voice

072because that's what we're passionate about that's what we're here for and that's where what we are going to continue to do thank you thank you Madame President that is the end of the blue cards for items not on the agenda okay so per Miss prior's comment uh Mr Boyd say said that he's still on Mr M are you able to see that okay since we are still in public comment for items not on the agenda I'm happy to give it another shot I see it looks like he is no longer muted Mr boy can you hear yes can you hear me go ahead sir all right thank you uh thank you madam president um board members Miss aalo superintendent and guest uh that are there uh thank you uh Miss prior for getting my message

073uh to the board um yeah at the last um special school board meeting you know I I was able I wanted to try to give a public comment um you know again you know this perception uh the school district that uh parents are having a decreased voice uh in the community um with uh voting down on parents rights uh making recommendations that board members have to request for upcoming agenda items in public I mean in private outside of the public view uh disbanding uh commit IES again are examples of the school district uh taking away the voices of parents uh you know I know the buzz word of parents rights can be associated with uh other organizations that uh you know have extreme uh views uh that uh they bring to the the board that

074the board does not have the the legal right to even uh entertain um but uh you know parents uh need to have more voice uh in the community and in the school district and I would like the the school district to um you know give parents a little bit more uh of a voice uh the the parent that talked about the the the restrooms and finances uh you know you could have brought that to a finance Committee Member but the finance committee has been disbanded uh I I saw the last uh Workshop meeting you're GNA have the ad hoc uh committee getting together in 2014 I guess that that's the start but uh how however you know you're taking away uh the uh voices of the parents and it's this perception that the school district

075is starting display that you don't want parent voices at especially at a time when you need to have more community members who are willing to engage with the district not to come and complain but you know to have a vested interest and making sure the school district remains an excellent School District because it is an excellent School District um but it's only going to remain excellent uh if the board changes their ways and you know start allowing parents to be more engaged uh in in the in the conversations and and where things are going in school district um I I want to close also because I didn't get a chance to get my comment about some of the behavior of the the board members that that were shared uh I won't uh you know repeat

076a lot of it but you know it is obvious that not all board members are prepared uh for board meetings and that takes away uh from public engagement and you know we deserve better you know the board members need to be prepared you know for these board members so that it doesn't infringe on the time that the the public has um so um you know let's do better you know the community wants to do better uh we're all engaged because we believe in the school district and uh I would like to see the school district kind of reverse some of the uh ill-advised actions that they've taken by uh taking away uh the uh engagement invoices of the parents and uh thank you very much uh for your time thank you Mr Boyd we have

077one more blue slip for items not on the agenda go ahead Miss Jamerson I have Jess Carlson good evening board president Cher espanosa members of the board superintendent Hoffman and miss aalos my name is Jess Carlson I'm I am a parent a small business owner admin of the elro book club and an lgbtq ally and activist I would like to address all of the kids in this district and in this town tonight I want you to know that if there's a book out there that has been banned or is being considered as a book worth Banning that reflects you in any way shape or form it is not an invalidation of who you are of your journey of how important your experiences are you matter you matter to me you matter to my family you

078matter to all the people in elro who know and understand true love and acceptance and we support you always the moms for Liberty Group that keeps showing up here in yellow shirts keeps trying to erase the reality of our world the reality of our children my child will not be erased her PE ears will not be erased the highest form of knowledge is empathy for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world to all lgbtq plus students as your mainstream parents we believe you we know you deserve the same care that all youth should have access to we will continue to advocate for you to show up as your wh selves we love you we are an awe of your courage to show up and live authentically and we will keep

079fighting against people like Heidi Moore emilina Mendoza moronica Garcia and all the other opinions of no value because they know nothing of the subject thank you thank you so that concludes public comment on items not on the agenda our next item is the con yes sir yes we have closed public comment but thank you next item on the agenda we have close public comment we did not CL and I close public comment folks I'm being as flexible as possible letting folks come back if they're having technological issues at some point we have to close public comment so we have closed it thank you thank you um so our next item is consent agenda um I did get a note thank you from one board member about some items that are going to be pulled Miss

080Lasser do we have any public comments via zoom on the consent agenda Madam President we have no public comments via Zoom for this item thank you Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards on this item we have no blue cards on this item okay folks if there any conversations uh they need to take place outside please so the meeting can proceed okay okay okay I'm I'm sorry to hear that I'm sorry to hear that folks we we do need to proceed with the meeting okay um okay so no blue cards all right folks uh let's see so before I call for a motion uh we've had a request to remove items 13 18 19 and 34 from consent for discussion may I have a motion for items one through 40 except for 13 18

08119 and 34 moved by Mr Bettis and seconded by uh Miss Jamerson all in favor please signify by saying I I I opposed those items are approved unanimously Mr Bettis can you speak to number 13 please number 13 approval to purchase Chromebooks computers accessories and related equipment just recently in the Sacramento be they had a big one two-page article regarding the Chromebooks that were going to be outdated well they're they are outdated now three to four years and I was wondering if our staff was aware of the LIF span of these Chromebooks and if they did a phib feasibility study versus buying Chromebooks we could possibly purchase actual PCS computers for these students because you know um Ma and what went the last time we purchased these these these These Old Crome books are you

082cannot update the software so we're going to be in this predicament again spending millions of dollars so I was wondering if staff considered doing a feasibility the cost so we're fully fully we're fully aware of that okay issue and it's been built into the replacement process one of the things that's actually happened the machines actually hold up really well there was an issue with the software not being supported but the actual vendors have actually extended um those amounts of time now so that's less of a problem um so the Chromebooks is the right solution for making sure each of our kids um has an electronic device um works very well um expense wise um significantly less expensive um than a laptop and um have worked very well for us still a lot of work I

083mean you're talking about 63,000 kids and every kid having um you know having a machine and then building in a cycle for um replacing them every um every four years as they go through the cycle so a lot of work has been done an immense amount of um work has been done and Analysis and it is the right solution for us well I would have liked to see that because the fact that you know the uh the way they pointed out you know some districts are going to go PCS and so I just was wondering so you know it would be nice that we would see that that analytical background of that particular item number 18 Mr ptis let's take those one at a time okay um thank you those those are kind of known

084issues so appreciate you bringing those up for us um do we have a motion move approval of item number 13 second second uh mooved by Mr fortina I think I heard Mr Vargas second all in favor please signify by saying I I I opposed that item is approved unanimously Mr Bettis would you like to speak to item number 18 okay um approval to award RFP number 763 d23 424 Healthcare perum uh Staffing services this is the article I mentioned to you that I felt like we should had uh discussed this item in close session regarding Staffing because I feel that that um it's almost like Contracting out of our nurses some of these positions could be done by us uh some of our you know health assistant School nurses and so I was wondering um

085you know I would like to have a full discussion kind and close session regarding this issue with all the board members and how they feel as of today I don't have any idea of what my fellow board members feel on this issue it's not a Clos session item at all and it's an RFP process that the board approved um doing the RFP process um which was done publicly and we had entities that um submitted um their Solutions within the RFP uh work and these are um very public work and um is now having the board take action on this work so I don't know anything that could be more public than the RFP process okay with that do we have I have another question on and U the issue the other issue I have this

086with this item that we are going to assign or authorize the director of purchasing or does the need to execute the renewals of the terminated ones now don't we have that's their job purchasing unit that's the ones that buy buy uh wom and things that do they have expertise in this Arena absolutely purchasing where they buy book Vehicles buses and all this I don't know how much more I can say absolutely yes okay do they do they have health background you know that's you know this is a healthare folks didn't issue and I don't understand you stop for a minute well I'm still talking you asked 12 questions but you never wait for the answer okay so the qu the the RFP process there's a group of people who fully understand the needs of the

087RFP that do the analysis the purchasing folks carry out the RFP once the decision's been made by the qualified people within the district to decide which vendors are the RP we going to use so highly qualified people make the make the decision about what um vendor we're going to use the purchasing folks are highly qualified to make sure that that is carried out so all of that is in place yes so they would be following the scope of work and duties and all that of this contract correct yes okay very good and so um the other issue what what were the the criteria for theer termination of those other um providers uh I like to see a look at that so if you can provide that to me to see how they were terminated I

088like to see that if that was from the purchasing unit or from a health consultants so you need to set up an appointment so we could do that you can just send me the information I'm not going to send it to you can set up an appointment so we can provide you that information yeah I like you send it to all our our you set up an appointment to review that information I move approval of item 18 I second uh we have motion by Mr fortina seconded by Mr Vargas all in favor of approving item number 18 on the consent agenda please signify by saying I I I opposed none the item is approved unanimously Mr Bettis would you like to speak to item number 19 yes sir approval of Award of additional contract under

089ifp number 6 760 2223 expanding learning opportunities program and Afterschool education serve and safety this is a very important uh um program which I support 100% but it says here the rationale it says there were 24 firms that we had by the closing date of May 4th 2023 11 proposals were received now did we fund all those 11 or 12 because when I look at this list there are 12 12 Contractors you know that or 12 Elementary sites or School sites that we are funding but up here up up above it says 11 so we received 11 proposal one of those we did not we don't have a different vendor for each School oftentimes one vendor will serve more than one school so we we had 11 proposals those were evaluated yeah but like I

090said I'm counting 12 Elementary or sites School sites they're all elementary but yet you meant so did we actually fund 12 versus 11 what so if you look if you look across the top of the chart the center assist CSD and Catalyst are the four vendors correct and those are the sites that they're serving yes that are listed underneath so what does 11 refer to then 11 the number the number of companies stop the number of organizations that submitted a proposal right of those these four are the ones that we're using okay I'm not sure how much clearer that can be very good got that clear okay so we ready hold on I hold hold on hold on 19 I second I have another question again the director of purchasing or design to execute renewal

091termination is deemed necessary to take other actors this is another issue I have regarding the the contract analysts who who monitors this are they do they have the minimum qualifications to do this in purchasing I only knew that you know they program program people Services I wonder if they have social service backr prog people are still responsible for evaluating program purchasing folks carry out the contracts that's their responsibility so having slded once again that we do have the right experts doing the right jobs uh I believe we had a motion from Mr forina second from Mr Vargas on item 19 on consent all in favor please signify by saying I I opposed that is approved approved unanimously Mr Pettis item 34 on consent 34 contract approval for Sacramento Cal students opportunity and access program Consortium

092memorandum of understanding um I'm looking at this with my uh Equity lens and it doesn't look very good that Floren High School did not get funded under this program and I want to know why didn't Floren High School get funded for these these positions or the services Miss ay can speak to that for you what someone's coming up to answer so the contract that you have before you is for tutoring services that are related to the AVID program so those are all site-based funds where part of what the course provides is ongoing tutoring to students who are enrolled so sites either contract with scoy in this case where they train the tutors and um pay for the service um or they provide tutoring on their own so the four sites listed there have chosen to

093work with scoy and they've done that because they have more sections of avid so they're not able to meet the need at their School site it's all of that followup work for Avid is part of site based funds so Floren High School didn't have the need to contract with scoy so how many advid s classes do they have with them and how many Advent classes are there at Valley I think that's outside the scope of this item Mr P it isn't we're talking about Adent we don't have that number off the top of our heads well anyway Floren High School did not get funded you have seven tutors high school that is not fair Mr Perez you're you're stating it wrong again yeah it says site the site chose how to spend site dollars this

094isn't the district telling the site how to do their work this is how the site is choosing to use dollars that are allocated to the school site to meet the needs of their school and those folks know that work now we support them we ask questions but Floren has Tak care of their need for tutors in a different way these four schools of all the schools that we offer Avid these four schools are choosing to do it in this manner if if each of the um School site plans the local lcaps that they've done each of the schools has spelled out how they're meeting this need these four schools have chose to do it in this manner and we're supporting them and sko is supporting them and doing it this way it's just the way

095they've chosen to use their own site allocated dollars their choice School site choice and you as a a superintendent didn't look over this say hey Florent High School uh uh why don't you put a proposal to get some tutors for the advoc classes not a proposal to get tutors yeah so they already have the tutors they need for Equity lens okay you I move approval of item number 3 four I I don't think Floren High School is giv second equity in this one we have a motion to approve item 34 by mrina and a second by miss albiani all in favor please signify by saying I I opposed item is approved unanimously we have dispensed with the consent calendar next uh bargaining units are there any bargaining units who wish to address the board okay

096uh next we okay thank you um I am going to do a five minute Comfort break and we will come back thank you okay folks we are going to come back and proceed our next item we could have other conversations in the room please move outside so we can commence thank you our next item is the report on reducing exclusionary discipline which the board's request has been coming back to us uh every year for at least a few years now um we were not able to get to this one at our special meeting our last meeting so it's carryover um and uh I will begin with public comment Miss lter do we have any public comments via zoom on this item Madam president we have one public comment via zoom on this item okay he's

097requested to speak after the presentation yeah that's not going to be an option so the option is to speak right now if if there's someone who's willing to speak on Zoom uh there's a difference in what you said between what your practice has been and what our handbook says yeah and and I'm trying to be consistent I I hear you absolutely I was looking them up before this meeting I always want to be consistent but um we we can't allow some people to speak at some times and other people to speak at other times so we have been since we've been doing this Zoom public comment been really consistent that that's at a designated time for the convenience of the public so the opportunity to to speak during Zoom do via Zoom is is now

098so is the individual available interested Joel Boyd he on yes good evening can hear me yes sir we're ready for you yes I am available and um you know as as um trustee Carmine foreing the stated and also uh superintendent Hoffman uh you're not following your rules and again it's a prime example of you know some of the board members is doing whatever you want to do and not paying any respect to parents rights we have the right to hear the presentation to give public comments and then the board to have their discussion that is in your handbook and if you are choosing Madam president to not follow the rules then that's on you and just because it is past practice doesn't mean it's the right practice and you need to Pivot in and make

099a change uh I have come to the school board um respectfully um because I care about the school district I care about the community I live in and I never come to the school board in disrespect and I always if I have something to say that needs some uh recommendation suggestions I come with a recommendation suggestion I don't complain um so I am asking you to follow your rules um for the presentation to go on and then to get public comment this is a very serious matter and again to not give this topic the due time that it was due at that special board meeting again perception to the community is that this is not an issue this is not a critical enough issue for this board that had put this item on the agenda

100when people took time away from work to attend these special board meetings the my opinion the special board means should be held at night when you have more parent engagement but as a parent I a lotted time to hear this topic it was not covered and now you're willing Madame President you are now willing to wax and Wayne between the rules of your own handbooks to again diminish public engagement and public comments and it's appalling so I am going to ask for you to follow your handbook rule to allow the presentation to occur and then allow me to give my public comment that is my ask okay thank you Mr Boyd I'm going to stick with the process that is uh on our agenda that we have been using the entire year um I I

101can't get into a conversation with the public commenter but I will say and also in response to um Mr fortin's comment um the discrepancy that has been pointed out has been noted and uh we will absolutely talk about that and uh Endeavor to align uh all of the all of the authority and make sure that we are consistent so I do appreciate that point but for today's meeting we're going to stick with the process that we have in this agenda okay do we have another public comment via Zoom madam President we have no other problem public comments via Zoom for this item okay thank you do we have any blue cards Miss Jamerson yes we have lorine prior I to would have liked to hear the information before making my public comment what I would

102say since I don't know the plan I hope you have a hell of a lot of plan you got all these people up here and for the last five six years you haven't been able to come up with one so I'm hoping that I'm going to hear something um that talks about why the numbers are the way that they are why they continue to be as astronomical as they are I want to know how they different um based on whether the enrollment is down or up I want to know the disaggregated data of your Foster Youth and your students with disabilities cuz those numbers are atrocious um and then I want to know specifically what you're going to do to curb the suspensions and expulsions of your black students that's what I want to know

103I've been asking that same question for multiple years I have yet to have an adequate answer and so that's what I'm going to be listening for um and I'm just I'm actually really disgusted that I can't hear the information first I mean I read it um I mean we it's the same stuff on school dashboard there's nothing specific going on these are self-reported numbers I want to know the actual numbers I want to know what's really going on on your campuses are you using um on campus intervention still are you still doing on campus suspension and not marking it I want to know all of that and so I hope that's going to be covered in this presentation because I'm listening I'm all yours thank you does that conclude public comment Miss Jamerson yes it

104does okay with that I'm going to ask up uh Dr greywall and Mr schwitzer to kick off the presentation all right good evening board president chyra espanosa members of the board superintendent Hoff and Miss obos we're here this evening to present on reducing exclusionary discipline uh to the board the format for this evening Dr greywall will share our guiding principles then we'll hear from our elementary and SE secondary education directors Martin fine and Richard Gutierrez uh they'll share student climate data and successful practices then we'll hear from our school principles and they'll provide reports uh from John santon Katie Hedrick Andy Johnson and Charles Amy hello again so are four bullets that are our guiding principles so we continue to believe that the behavior incidents are to be dealt with educationally rather than punitively we

105also believe that eliminating disproportionality is a necessity the third bullet is the principle that reducing exclusionary discipline results in increased student connectedness and the last bullet it's important that classroom behavior is conducive to learning and school safety is a foundational expectation good evening thank you for this opportunity to share our year and discipline data for the 2223 school year as we continue to support uh our students by examining our practices and calibrating our approaches to reducing disproportionality and exclusionary discipline we're pleased to report that the overall number of students that were suspended has uh continues to decline for the data sections uh tonight we're going to be showing certain stat statistics that are commonly used when reporting suspension data first we're going to review the number of uh suspended students this is the number of

106students who received one or more suspension during the school year and then we will we will review the numbers of suspensions where we count every suspension incident that occurred so one is a student count one is an incident count our first table here shows the end of the year uh excuse me um yeah end of the year number and percentage of suspended students there are two sets of data 2122 uh compared to 2223 and within each year there are three data points enrollment sus number of uh suspended students and percentage of suspended students uh and then down the left hand side you'll see uh that we have uh the district and the three levels of Education U elementary middle and high school and with each in each one of those bands we've got our three

107subgroups African-American Foster Youth and students with disabilities okay so to start with the district Excuse Me overall number of suspended students in 2122 were about 2,800 42 4.2% of the enrollment uh last year we reduced that to 2 59 students a reduction of almost 300 to uh a percentage of 3.8 with our African-American students we also uh saw a reduction of almost 90 students we went from 843 to 761 Foster youth declined as well uh from 56 students down to 47 and our students with disabilities from 686 down to 666 a reduction of 20 students our elementary schools followed a similar trajectory uh overall we had 453 students that were suspended in 2122 we reduced that by almost 80 to 375 in our African-American subgroup uh we went from 137 students down to 112 Foster

108Youth and students with disability followed suit at 14 to three and then 135 down to 131 passing two our middle school and high school um kind of a little bit of the same Trend with the exception of two sub groups uh for our Middle School our complete number of students is 11 uh 1,11 then that would be 11.4 to reduce last year to 1039 to a 10.8 with our African-American subgroup 33 uh for 2122 to 295 on 2223 and then with our foster youth we did had a a slight increase but from 14 students to 16 students and for with our students with disability 227 to 255 slightly increase as well with those two subg groups uh with our high schools continuing the trend a reduction as well with the number of suspended students from

1091180 to uh 1022 from African-American students subgroup 379 to 328 our foster use 98225 student with her disability 309 to263 here uh is a visual representation and the data provided to you on the previous slide you can see how are the sub groups for fostter youth uh African-American student with stability and overall our eusd has had a reduction slope from 1819 to 2223 uh you do you do notice that Foster youth had the slightly increase by 1% here but the number of those are slightly only about 10 students of those numbers and uh but the rest of our subgroups we have seen a reduction of of of of every subgroup within our sdmr um here is a percentage of students by other category subgroups you see that also that every category uh we have had

110a a reduction of suspension overtime from 2018 to this year to last year year 22 23 with the exception of one subgroup that you see here which is our um Native American students that had a slightly increase from 22 2122 uh to 2223 you see that our Co impact the year is not here because we didn't collected the data on that for that year and for our 2019 2020 is only for quarter one to quarter three because that's when we went to Co on that on that last um quarter of the year for that specific school year but nonetheless in every subg group you'll see that there has been a reduction of suspensions over time with acept group uh continuing with other student groups we see here our faster student group again that we talked

111about before but also we includeed our homeless students you can see also a visual representation on the the work that the sites have done over time student with stability as well as there uh social economic disadvantaged students as well and our district overall and then our e students too they have over time had a reduction of suspensions and again this is for suspended students not incidents we'll talk about the incidents in a few minutes and again you do not see here uh 2021 and 19 and 20 you only this only a representation of quarter one quarter two and quarter three all the way to March okay this next table shows end of year number and rate of suspension incidents that's different from the uh number of actual students this illustrates the number of incidents that

112the students from the first chart were suspended for meaning um that some students have been suspended multiple times for different incidents so following the same structure starting with the district uh we went from almost 5,000 uh suspensions in 2122 down to 4200 uh last year with a reduction of um about 780 with Foster youth we went from 123 down to 109 and students with disabilities from uh almost 1500 uh down to 1335 uh or almost 100 less with elementary schools um we started uh 2122 with 599 uh suspensions and last year we're able to reduce that to 575 and although we did uh see a reduction in the actual number of African-American students and students with disabilities that were suspended uh we did see a slight increase in the incidents um resulting in suspension for

113these two subgroups with our African-American subgroup um and 2122 we are at 180 suspensions uh last year at 204 and students with disabilities 190 up to 235 our foster youth continue to reduce from 17 to and it's the same Trend like such for middle school and high school you see that our overall Middle School uh first suspension incident uh we had about 2450 to 20 uh 21 uh for African-American 886 incidents reduced to 708 our uh Foster youth uh 40 uh suspension incidents to 53 they had kind of goes with a little bit together with the number of suspended students that we had and previous slide however for with the students with disability 662 uh although we had an increased number of suspension students with student with disability we also noticed a decrease on suspension

114incidents with that same subgroup to 605 our high schools 1867 uh number of incidents to 1512 for for last year 652 with African-American students to 59 Foster youth 98 to uh I'm sorry 64 to 44 and students with disability 555 to 476 number of incidents in those those two years so as you can see again there has been a slight reduction on overall for year to year um in regards to suspension incident this is just again another uh visual representation in regards to what the previous numbers are it just you know kind of to point out that they are being reduced um in a category there okay to um give you kind of a visual um this kind of hard to see on the right hand side we've got um the Ed code violations that

115were that happened last year and the number of Ed code violations um on the leftand side was uh school's response to those head code violations the the dark blue um representing other means of Correction the um light blue Aqua um representing teacher managed and then the orange were suspensions so uh if you look at the very top line on the right um 48 900k is the Ed code violation there which is Defiance and disrespect there were about 10, almost 500 incidents of that uh last year and as you can see on the leth hand side 99% of those were handled either by the the teacher themselves or um the site using alternative means um and then 1% was met with suspension whereas if you if you let your eyes you know drop downward you can

116see that some of the um uh should say mandatory suspensions but some of the the the more um uh intense Ed code violations that were met with uh suspension things like fighting or possession of drugs or weapons alcohol on campus you can see that the um most of those were met with suspension and and not immediately I have to say on all of them I know that our sites follow Progressive discipline uh as well uh furthering our responses to uh Behavior incidents um based on all the incidents and there were about 46,000 uh Behavior incidents last year 9% of those received a suspension that's a decrease from 11% um in 2122 so that means then that 91% received something else and and that 91% about half received a teacher managed um classroom type response that's

117an increase uh from 2122 and that's what we would like to see um 177% received some kind of admin student conference which is a decrease more more than likely due to the increase in teacher managed um responses 18% received a detention which is a decrease from 21% and then 8% received some type of mediated response such as uh restorative conversation or student contracts that's an increase from 3% uh in 2122 so we want to call out some successful practices at the district level um you know to start our discipline guideline really does provide site admin and schools a guideline and allows them to collaborate and calibrate um student outcomes when it comes to the response for discipline obviously the um um board adopted law enforcement relative to student Behavior back in 2018 our student support

118and Health Services Department um constant support with our sites with PBIS and the mtss process thank you um we have many other interdepartmental supports including our school Improvement support office which um supports our schools uh helping them allocate resources and the supports that they have uh our face Department with home visits they're looking at Chronic absenteeism always a great support our Ed Equity Department helping with um diverse clubs on campuses restorative practice training um and Dei support and then finally our um curriculum professional learning Department who you know through the instructional framework that they're they're bringing about with teachers uh are really helping solidify that teaching and learning and and you know help students connect more at school and become more engaged in the high quality construction every month we have trainings for principles and

119vice principles where we um we take real scenarios that we've encountered at school sites and we have them discuss we have them analyze the um disciplined data uh and they get together and look at how you know how can we change some of the outcomes maybe that have already occurred moving forward uh and then our district trainings for staff including uh mindfulness restorative practices all of them um supporting uh better mindsets to uh address discipline so moving into site uh School level um things that we do to be able to reduce our number of suspensions and and when we say reduce you know it's not necessarily we reducing right it's the work that our schools are doing to get us here it's very important to highlight that our schools are really invested uh in regards

120to calibrating year-to year looking at their data look and making progress via their lcap uh collaborating with colleagues doing research so with that has brought us for example for use of the discipline Matrix with Fidelity um our campuses kind like Mr F has reported every year we do meet with our vice principles and principles who go over vignettes examples in regards to things that occur in our campuses and how we address those before they used to go zero Toler I mean zero tolerance suspender for five days automatically for things nowadays we do other of Corrections which has helped a lot in regards to uh restoring the the culture of the school with those students is really important for for for them and for our schools to to to calibrate and look at the Matrix in

121regards to when certainly um when certain students break certain laws or S rules what are the discipline and what is the guidance principles in your girls to uh how to support them because they're there are students they're going to come back to our campuses we want to make sure that they calibrate and to support them upon their return uh with part of it that is goes with our multi-tier systems of support M TSS and positive behavior interventions as we know our schools are always looking into making sure that they have a positive culture on our campus they create the values around PBIS and they collaborative work with our counselors and mental health therapist that we have on campus that help support that and part of that it is to make sure that we intervene with

122alternative suspension including restored practices wellness centers IEPs teams to qualifer and mental health uh and therapist to support and to include our foster uh uh coordinators or rather that they work with on our campuses they they in they started to collaborate whenever our foster kid hom leads are being suspended they talk to each other to make sure what supports are we going to offer upon the return or the reasons why they're being suspended uh hence the use of tier 2 practices to identify primary cost of students behavior we want to get to the roof where are this coming from right what what is this behavior is it you know something that we can control and if it is not something can control how can we support those families or those students to make sure that

123they are being supported upon their return regularly matching this school data so uh for the past few years I can speak that uh every time that we have opportunity to go over this with our device principles to calibrate to look at data we have equipped them with monitoring their own data and when they do that they look at the the practices they have on the lcap and they make necessary changes as needed or when whenever we need to make sure that uh the support services that we have on our campuses are supporting the needs of our students uh addition to those School level practices we have of course the the additional exra funded Staffing supports that we were that we have implemented in the past few years where we it allow us to bring Vice

124principles mental health therapists counselors campus supervisors academic interventions and teachers and social workers which of course this brings an array of support services to our students to really get into the root causes of of of of those needs that we have on with our students uh improve focus and instructional in connection to social emotional learning competencies in your curriculum uh some of our schools you know they do mindfulness right before class they do uh they they they bring some other things that will help with social emotional uh just again to connect our students to have a more conducive learning environment connect our students through campus through clubs and expand their learning something that we promote and push every day on our campus to make sure that all students are participating in some sort of club

125or they're engaged in in expand their learning um expand student voice and decision making via student Equity councils black student union Student Government so since I'm remember we have brought the voice of students in into our practices right we want to hear from the students we want to hear things are they feel in our campuses we look at the survey data that that we do every year and we might we want to make sure that those are voices are being heard hence also being part of of the changes in our campuses and to speak of this school levels uh we have our principls here with us that would like to kind of share what they have doing what's working what's not I think you know is important for for us to kind of you know

126bring it together and yes hear from some of them uh we're going to start with the elementary John uh from Raymond case Elementary Katie Hendricks for J B Elementary and then we're gonna go with Andy Johnson from James rer I know Miss kep linger is there but she cannot she cannot be here with tonight so we have asked Mr Mr Charles Amy to be here with us and in talk about the practices that he does at he signed John I was planning to be the walk-off home run so um so sorry about that um uh members of the board uh president Espinosa members of the board superintendent hofman and miss aalos thank you so much it's quite um a distinct honor to be able to talk about our best practices for reducing exclusionary discipline at

127Raymond case elementary school and I would like to speak for all of our elementary schools to give you General picture if you think about 180 days of school 758 students on campus with 11 recesses a day before school after school and after school events having three self-contained special education um classrooms on campus and to have a total of IND documented in Synergy 24 discipline incidents for an entire school year um and that would be including um seven suspensions so I'm very proud to be able to speak to our um uh exclusionary discipline practices first of all I'd like to say that our entire School Community has a strong belief and the values that all students will be successful our students cannot wait to step out foot out of their car or get on their bicycle

128and come to school every single day every student starts every single day with the fresh start with warm Smiles a high five or a hug or whatever that students needing every single day and the students who need those extra supports we know who they are and we make sure to be really find those students out are as Dr greywall mentioned earlier student behavior in fractions are seen as learning opportunities we say all students will make mistakes but the Smart Ones don't do it again and we look at our data for repeat offenders and it's almost non-existent um our longtime school Veterans have helped us anchor that that strong Vision about the positivity on campus and the belief of all students being learning and then it goes with relationships with with staff as s superintendent Hoffman

129said in his opening address to our staff this year is a connected kid is a kid that's going to be successful and we believe that all students on Raymond case campus are connected and it might not be connected just with their classroom teacher but it might the our yard supervisor who we refer to as recess mentors uh that has been there for 20 years um there is an incredible spirit and those CH children carry the spirit from their classrooms onto the yard go home and talk about it and we get to see that and when somebody mentioned in the meeting about giving parents voice we have the opportunity to hear our parents Voice through the parent climate and culture survey and the results are amazing from what we get back and that's due to the

130hard work that our teacher ERS are doing it also comes from the social emotional surveys that we get from our children for very responsible 84% of responsible decision making social awareness at 82% that's incredible with little ones under the age of 11 or 12 um with that umbrella our tier one PBIS and MTS system is truly incredible schoolwide behavioral expectations are explicitly taught practiced re enforced and we have routines routines routines that helps any child who comes in new to our school they follow in the routine and it's just a wonderful place we uh my vice principal and I meet with every student once a month in our our monthly team times and not only here do we focus on seal but monthly character traits we set school goals and we can also address behavioral

131concerns that happen at difference between a first second grade recess and a fifth sixth grade recess our yard supervisors as I mentioned are we refer to them as recess mentors and that's that refers to reaching every child ensuring Student Success they're out there to make sure children are connected and we have a buddy bench to make sure that children are connected with each other we don't want children walking around by themselves and we are very tight in our collaboration with our um I like to say school principal and vice principal and our recess mentors and our supports and I'll speak to that briefly um most importantly through tier one is restorative practices we are passionate about those restorative practices and when a child makes mistake it is a learning opportunity to spend some time with

132an adult in building a relationships so that they understand the importance of not doing it again a consistent seal curriculum with our new second step program that was adopted last year is taught kindergarten through sixth grade mindfulness mornings and all kinds of reflection opportunities and I'd like to say that recess games and that's a large part of the little ones little little ones come from a lot of different backgrounds but having the um being very explicit about what we're doing children come out and everybody knows what is school rules and we like to we don't call school rules we say school expectations um members of the board superintendent Hoffman our department of pre6 and all of our other interde departmental supports I immensely thank you for what you've done since 2018 I believe Raymond case

133Elementary School had 59 suspensions in 2018 and last year we had seven but that is largely due to the supports com in in through our campus supervisors and we refer to our campus supervisor as a campus Mentor that campus Mentor if a child is we know that that child is GNA have a a a challenge in a math lesson we intercept that child we help that child we talk with that child we spend some time and we redirect to be able to give that student um uh success to get back into the classroom it hasn't has been mentioned here but our Esser funded academic intervention it was mentioned academic intervention teachers we have fifth and sixth graders providing math interventions and that is often a time where children weren't found a way to be able

134to get out of class because they weren't successful and now children are being connected to the curriculum being connected to the to the instruction thank you mental health supports mtss counselors and just having an entire staff that has an inclusive mindset for all students um I want to thank Miss uh board member Vargas for visiting Raymond case Elementary School it was quite a pleasure last Tuesday and uh members of the board superintendent Hoffman I extend the welcome to any of you as well thank you much shorter than him and I wanted to go first I know good evening thank you for having me oh you didn't really have to do that Katie Hedrick I'm the proud principal for a joh re Elementary um and I'm excited to share with you just a snapshot of the

135great work going on in our elementary schools I'll focus a little bit on John reath but it truly ties all of the work our elementary schools are doing together so we believe philosophically in the preventative work and our school culture and climate are positive you can walk on any of our school campuses you will feel like a million dollars from the moment you arrive and hopefully to the time that you leave um we start every single day with morning movement and music to get kids excited to be there our families and many of our schools walk and that culture begins right when we begin we are centered and focused around the mental and physical health of our students and that also ties directly into our academics so at pre-service a few weeks ago all of

136us calibrated our foundational practices and like what John shared um we reviewed our discipline Matrix going over the foundational consistent practices that needed to be at our school sites and we realigned our commitments to our kids this year we revised things like cell phone policies those things that are getting into our students lives and minds and disrupting our school environments we calibrated our PBIS walkarounds and every staff member has been clear consistent teaching routines all around our campus and we align that with our yard staff our classified staff our custodians and our teaching staff everybody is on board with teaching those expectations all around campus um and then we calibrated fun things right we want kids to be energized and love coming to school so our monthly rallies are aligned our character education that we're

137teaching our bright spots how we positively every school has a system you could walk on campus grab whatever their token is and pass it out like candy to all of our students um and they they can't wait to earn that little award just to make them feel good to be there themed dress up days celebrating birthday monthly attendance award all of these are practices that we realigned our our staff with at pre-service um each of our schools have a second steps or some sort of character education from the three that we were able to choose from and our staffs have been aligning this year to really focus on the mental health of our students teaching those skills of the preventative work how to make a friend what to do and stand up to bullying October

138will be that preventative month where we talk about it but that's something that we talk about all year so that's a lot of the pre-work that we did at pre-service now we focus on what we do every single day in action in every single month we calibrated our um monthly tier one team and that lays the foundation for our expectations at each of those meetings we review data we break it down into each of our subgroups by by area by Time by location where it's happening who it's happening to who it's happening with and we really look at where do we need to beef up our systems and our practices to support our students we target strategic areas of concern and we focus on building that positive vibe to really support those areas our tier

139two means teams meet almost probably at least twice a month um and we review data even further to the student level are we making sure that that student has every intervention possible not just academically but mental health we have counselors on campuses we have groups going they talk about many of our students um many of our elementary schools have opened up their rainbow clubs we have black student unions from the high schools coming down to support our elementary school kids so all of these are ways for kids to get involved and connected at school which in turn reduces suspension rates and behavior on campus so we have a lot of ways for we can provide with our care Solace um team and we can get the mental health supports into our students and our fam's

140hands um as board member Yang uh just recently visited the valley region um we calibrate every single month as a region so from the high school down to the elementary school we are calibrating with region goals and talking about the real work going on in our schools and what our students really need um and we align regionally and this year we're focused on parent nights and one of the goals of the region is to truly look at the cell phone practices um of our middle to high school to Elementary and aligning the parent resources and our student resources in their hands to help prevent some of that stuff that bleeds into our classrooms and on our campus we also do and thank you Mr Yang for being there to support us we really felt that

141love as a region that you were there listening listening to our school and our student needs um each month each week we meet as principles and like Mr fine was talking about we take real scenarios that are going on in our schools we calibrate how to handle those behaviors are we doing the best for our students are we giving consequences that are appropriate and fair for our students are we teaching them how to reflect and grow because suspension isn't a oneandone no child returns and like yes I will now not be make this same mistake again it's all of that preventative work that truly goes into the mental health the restorative con um conversations the teaching that goes into helping our children learn from their mistakes because I'm not perfect and neither are they so

142we focus at um our principal meetings on going really deep and looking at this data how are we supporting each of our subgroups so this year John wraith I'll top a little bit specific specifically about my school site we bring this data monthly to our staff meetings we break it down we talk about the real kids that we're serving um and we take real life scenarios at a basic site level and we really truly look at are we addressing the needs and we we talk about it we talk about our our three goals our African-American students our foster youth students and our students with disability we know the disproportionality in our district um and it is high at reach as well and I would love for it to be something that we are focused on

143every student getting what they need and that really aligns with our practices of PD so this year a lot of our work went into uh doing a book study and it's not a oneandone so please don't think that I'm saying that but we all we had 35 Staff members sign up to read challenging behaviors and students because we looked at the data and we're like whoa we're not equipping ourselves with enough strategy IES to support the kids sitting and standing in front of us um and we are starting to have those really tough conversations especially from our CPL work with the Dei courses that every staff member is taking to truly start talking about the real work and the real needs of our students um it sparked great great conversations with our staff to really

144see if we are focusing on the needs of our students and we spent a lot of time talking about those Aces factors where drug abuse alcohol abuse obesity depression suicide strokes and more those are all things and factors that our students and our families are dealing with and then we bring them to school and more we want to educate them so we can combat some of these factors every day by providing a safe nurturing a loving and caring environment for our students we have to teach coping skills to our kids we have to address our own own biases each and every single one of us and we have to have those tough conversations about systematic changes in our educational system and truly to Foster our resilient Learners so that is our focus at John reath

145this year we're reading as a staff fostering resilient Learners we can equip ourselves by learning as much as we can about the kids we are truly serving in our class rooms every day um so again it goes back to building relationships making connection understanding trauma and brain development all of that mental health work is going to decrease our suspensions I would like zero of course and I know with everybody they would um and I we spend time with our district leaders we don't take any suspension lightly we call our directors we have a team come together before that's ever a decision and a conversation to suspend a child because we know we need the preventative work and the work on the back end to ret and give them this skills they need to make it

146right in the future so again we focus on what we control the preventative work at all of our sites with PBIS walkarounds those are happening all the time right now teachers teaching clear expectations holding kids accountable basic routines and structures are strong our job is to provide a positive and healthy and loving climate every single day we're going to do that with high quality instruction in every single classroom every single day and we are going to make sure we have monthly lessons with character education we're going to layer in our mental health supports It's never enough we talked about that with Mr Yang last week um we we need as much as we can get into these kids hands to give them that help and support we're going to layer in phenomenal teaching practices and

147Educators that are equipped and ready to serve our kids and we're going to have a whole lot of fun doing it and John talked about those things with music on the playground assist a monthly owes we want kids to be excited and engaged coming to school and we're truly building lifelong learners but they we're building College and Career Readiness skills but we're building life skills we want kids to be ready for the real world and that all goes back to relationships relationships and relationships um to do the preventative work to support our kids so thank you for giving me a moment of your night thank you good evening board taking Kling Jer Pleasant Grove High School Charles Amy Edward Harris Junior Middle School uh we're just going to talk about you know uh I don't

148want to be redundant in Sharing all the practices that we do the elementary schools and the secondary schools do a lot of the same things um but with the initiatives that we have from arbinger to Dei to restorative practices they don't work if you don't have awesome Educators who are empathetic who teach with love um and who are caring so that's what we have at Edward Harris jior Middle School and that's why a lot of our behaviors are mitigated because we believe in loving our kids first uh we meet them at the gates we meet them at the doors uh we have handshakes with our kids uh we do a PBIS kickoff which I'm sure you guys have heard about but when we do our promotions speech auditions a bunch of kids without fail talk

149about their first few days at the middle school campus and how uh anxious they were how scared they were uh and so we realized the importance of starting Middle School off with a positive note so those first two days are about you know ice breakers and showing uh our kids our expectations our behavioral expectations on every part of the campus uh as well as introducing them to caring adults right our staff members so that when they do have troubl times which all of our kids will at some point they have somebody uh to come and talk to uh also with that being said we have a robust restorative practices program uh which allows kids to reflect on their behaviors I mean how many times have you said what do you think what were you thinking

150to one of your children or to our students uh and we actually give them time to process what they were thinking when they did a certain Behavior they get to meet with conflict mediators so there's peers in the classrooms get to talk to them about um whatever it was that they got in trouble for um also we have a bunch of Community Partnerships the more mentors I say the better so we have uh improve your tomorrow on our campus sat connect we have sweat on our campus and all these programs uh give our students mentors that they can connect with and talk to about their various issues we also host a Unity a Unity day uh for a select group of our tier 2 students um so that they can get to know each other

151and see commonalities versus the differences uh we also have a robust advocacy program so um we have uh anti-bullying day once a month uh we also have D digital citizenship uh lessons that they go through once a month I believe that's big because I don't have the research in front of me but I guarantee about 50% of the issues we have on campus stem from social media and what somebody said uh on Instagram or something of that nature we have a 7 through 12 model with monter TR high school so we really lean on the high school since it's right next door to provide mentorship and tutoring for our students as well we have the monter trail Regional Equity Coalition which is uh with all of the elementary schools and all the feeder programs we

152meet together as principles and discuss ways that we can improve uh conversations improve educational outcomes for African-American students we get to hear the voice of those students and the parents uh we meet quarterly uh also we just have a strong student support team with our counselors our social workers and our school psych plus the face program is amazing at elg Gro Unified School District uh last but not least we truly believe uh in the framework for high quality instruction because engaging lessons always mitigate behaviors in the classroom so uh that's what we're doing and we'll continue to do thank you for your time thank you Mr Amy good evening that was a a tough stand up right there the knees were creaking uh it's it's a struggle I'm GNA raise this up a little bit

153we got some um Andy Johnson from James roer M school I appreciate your time um not only come up here but um to celebrate some successes we're having at James Rudder you know it's it's a long ways over there to that side of the district and there's some good things that are going on um beginning with before school even started you know we talk about pre-service but let's go back to jump start um when we had close to 70% % of our incoming seventh graders attend um a program the week before school started um the purpose of this welcoming a connection with somebody they're going to connect with somebody from a different School somebody new up here but also those teachers and we know like you're they going you you belong and there's a success

154to that but you also find somebody that you can connect to um that be a staff member whatever um that was our first opportunity to introduce our PBS expectations not only in the classroom in the cafeteria line um at the speed line over on the blacktop um but that was the first the first opportunity for those students to be welcomed um the PBS roll out Mr Amy talked about was our second opportunity where everybody on site staff members administrators campus supervisors um our um Food Services lead um talked about in different areas what our expectations were um it was important to see different faces not only as well you're not my teacher but everybody here is somebody that's invested in your learning and your education um the students have that opportunity to hear from them

155what our expectations are in each of our different locations and it was our first opportunity where you talk about a meet and greet that they have the opportunity in one of our locations as they went through the different rotations um to meet a um through the instructural framework one of our focuses um this year is with student talk and not behind a Chromebook not texting somebody especially half the time when they're next to you but to be engaged face to face um and I know that's sometimes a struggle with our students but having that reflection that opportunity um for that first time on our our PBS roll out um on that Friday to enter to uh with a peer maybe they didn't know but to have some commonalities you know something simple as the first

156time who find someone who shares the same birthday is you um but then extending that opportunity as a focus from class to class to speak solve problems there's a um a lot of our teachers went through a glad trending this year um in different disciplines and what does that look like as we rotate as we share as we have um um problem math uh problems of the day problems of the week in math but they're rotating and they're watching how each group of students solve this different problem during their warmup and then talk about it problem solve it but do it together and so just involving that face to face um uh at the beginning talked about the Esra funds with an additional counselor and then also a social worker who's been important um on

157our campus especially um they're partnering with our tier 2 team and one of the the data that is shown with with um our site is we've made a focus there was um at the Bell when I when I came to Rudder November 1st last year there was an urgency to be behind the door and in class um we play play music with a minute to go and that was just an invitation to not finish a conversation and get started but sometimes well what's that music can we how do we uh get that music changed or well I have 30 seconds let's start a new conversation um but we know transitions in Middle School are a time that becomes a struggle and so placing an urgency on the transitions from one period to the next and

158we have we have multiple uh with six periods multiple opportunities for those transitions problems so we've been able to tighten those up through the data we've noticed that those students often that are Ted to a class there's things behind being tardy to a class whether they're struggling in that class um where they feel like they're misplaced or there's peer interventions that need to take place and so that one to one time with those students out in the in the hallways um has been um a huge element in making those connections and putting them in places with the services that they need we've also seen a reduction of tardies I'm happy to say that there was three periods today today at James Rudder where there wasn't a student outside in the hallways on the doors were

159shut at the Bell so I mean that and that is that is a huge win but those students are in the classroom those students have less um of an opportunity with the staff involvement out there um for um mitigations to happen so there's there's been a reward with that um Mr Amy talked about uh the community invol ment I do want to give a Shameless plug to somebody that we brought in and then now is at Jackman Valley um Edward Harris and multiple middle schools and that's elite soccer um in our area um and in middle school we don't have that opportunity for that group which is very large to participate in that sport um that opportunity elite soccer um uh was founded by keko at um through the Sac Republic and anou was developed

160last year where they bring trainers on um from South Republic they're they players or part of their programs to come in and train our students um they have a certain number they have they um contact parents they're very involved with the parents as far as behavioral expectations and Great Expectations through a day through the day but we reached a group um that wasn't being reached before the the significance in that is not small it went through other campuses um and the plug I will say is that Charles do you remember what the score was I don't think it was all that close but um they provide opportunities for us to play travel to different sites see different sites see uh have an involvement with other other students and also be trained by professional athletes um

161and that's just one one of the opportunities that just came in um one of um talked about assist this another area where we've noticed those problems is not transition but also lunch what opportunities can we provide for those students during their free time where it's going to be positive and assist has been a big big resource um it provides opportunities for the students to go out besides a four-minute passing to release some energy and the significant uh incidents at lunch have reduced to almost nothing um so those outside uh contracts and agencies that we can bring in and provide services for our students at those times has become important um we have made uh plenty of um I say field trips to other sites as far as we've also established a restorative practices or a

162Wellness Center um funded by a full-time Wellness counselor through our elcap um preventative in nature with that place to uh reset um I guess reflect but also the opportunity to provide proactive um conflict mediation um when students are coming now this this is something where you have to trust and you're not going to have students that are going to trust an adult um unless you've been out there being proactive as far as let's talk what can I do for you um and then providing those resources they're not going to come and want to do a conflict mediation if they think well I just I just snitched you know and and and how do you provide that opportunity or how do you provide that trust for students to want to come and solve a problem when

163society says it looks better to have fight posted on on Instagram or to this site than it does to config do a config mediation at school um and so that constant um being out being present having that place providing a check-in checkout through our tier 2 system where the students have a person that they come and talk to that person they see in the morning that person they see in the evening were you um can we reflect in third period I see that um there was a problem here on this form what tell me what happened oh his m I didn't understand the problem so is the problem in a behavior is a problem in we need to provide some services in that area and they often time coincide um the the the final thing

164I do want to bring is we've we've noticed that um we provide a lot of opportunities through iyt um through some of our other programs where it's heavy involvement with uh our male population what are we doing for our females 90% probably of our conflict mediation is right now involve females um and it's um the groups extended like when you you meet with two students you find out there's three here four here five here um and they're a little bit clicky I guess that's the right way to say it um and so bringing in groups that are um targeted specifically to help with our Stu with our female student population um we brought in and and working with theou process throughout School program to bring Ruthie Bolton hfield and then her group in and she

165has quite an effect um with students um especially students of color um and so that that opportunity to see somebody to hear somebody that that um has been there and then has has lived it and walked it um is an encouraging um opportunity for our students um I will say we've been awarded and just changing the um the language and the focus to an academic focus at Middle School um when it's not necessarily a requirement to go through to high school um when I say that is there's a minimum for the to walk the stage for promotion um you just don't get that at high school you can't say English n English 12 you're okay you have this minimum right here um but to change that Focus um we've I I worked with um Aon

166cyes in our expanded learning program um and we have the opport to Pilot a program for Credit Recovery in middle school and then have that focus of you're out of class this is how it can affect you but you have this opportunity for credit recovery long the Su line that they do in high school and so the the the light when we're seeing when we're identifying those students talking to the parents using that to be introduced through our coffee with the counselors once a month and bringing the uh family members in to introduce a new program was kind of a light for the the the family in our communities to hear as well so there's an opportunity to not only get back and earn credits but build back that cap that capacity you might have

167me with Miss with a failing grade which in the past wasn't a practice so that's encouraging um we're excited at Rudder to have um a bunch of new teachers um there's been quite a turnover in the last couple years I'm sure as as some of you are aware um but with that comes an opportunity for not only a fresh start but a big culture change and what supports can you provide to those those young teachers who are excited um who have who have bought into to what our expectations are um but also um providing them with the supports and what they need to to meet those students that are in front of them because it's it's it's a it's a brand new challenge for all of them and so I think when we talk about

168high quality instructions what supports are in place with um for especially new teachers um and how we can meet those expectations provide high quality instruction but also see the needs that through either trauma informed care or started practices training um to deescalate a situation be able to see and uh you know without the blinders on what's in front of you instructionally some of those indicators um that would help identify students that need services in place so um I appreciate your time um I thank you as is was a good worthwhile wait um I was looking forward to it before but it's even better tonight thank thank you thank you sir Madame President members of the board Mr Huffman uh you just um witnessed a testimony of some of our great leaders on our on our

169on our school district regards to the practices that they put in place not to say that we're not satisfied right this work to be done this work that we need to bring to our campus to support the needs of our students which is a focus that that that that we have as a director of secondary and I can speak for elementary we always meet with our principles with that Focus you know what are the practices that we have on our campuses right now and what are the practices that we need to change that are not working so we are really invested to make sure that we do bring uh the needs of our students into play that will support us to continue these um other means of Correction and support our students and our family

170with that uh we will we will continue kind of uh use our assistance successful practices that include the restored practices schoolwide um um practices for schoolwide training and monary Trail and school regions uh focus on the Middle School to make sure that the the work is been done there has to help reduce the number of suspensions with our Foster and our speci um students with disabilities uh at the school level uh collaboration calibration with District andite administrators implementation of PBIS with Fidelity and practices and of course you know something that is very um hard to Family Outreach and make sure that we continue to work with the families and hear the voices as well thank you thank you so colleagues um we are moving on to questions comments from the board and I will do

171what I often forget to do is to offer Mr G the opportunity to go first if you have any questions comments and then I'll uh pick on one end or the other um sorry I just want to say thank you so much for the presentation um I I like to see this because I see um a lot of these policies like in place as a high school student um I just also wanted to specifically point out um the the the part where you mentioned um therapists and social workers reaching out to students um I just want to highlight I think that's especially important I think a lot of times it's an expectation that students reach out to them um and I yeah I just think if we highlight how important it is when students are

172struggling that um it's not an expectation that um they know what help they should be seeking um and yeah that's all I have for now thank you ma'am I will look to start uh with Mr Yang any questions or comments sir all right it's either Tony or myself huh yeah all right that's fine I'll go first um you know other people have done it other ways I can't keep track of the like randomizing it every time oh it's okay it's okay um first I just want to say thank you for all your hard work and extend that thank you to um the folks that are part of this uh Journey this process thank you so much um I'm I'm happy to see the trends going down um as we look at the data um on

173this presentation and you know our school district is a system um school district and um we got to trust the process and of course uh we going to have to uh adjust and make uh um adjustments um on the process and uh from my standpoint of view being here two and a half years uh we have made that adjustment as we go forward and one of thing that I heard that I really like is the fact that we study our past practices of um so-call it case study and I thought that that's um that's a good thing um because we have to dig deep dive on those kind of case study so that we learn from our um right doing or efficient way of doing it and then the inefficient way of doing it and

174that actually back fire us um in many ways but um the goal is to have zero suspension as we all know that and um we strive to to get to that number um so with that said um I I like everything I heard um I just wanted to uh point out couple things that I uh believe that um kind of like the um the the co Cornerstone of um prevention and um providing um guidance to kids students to have um the mindset of not even pay attention to suspension of being worried about being sus suspended but actually uh Thrive and to me is we got to be really focused on uh absence if we have kids absence we had to be on it um it's like a red flag right we got to be on

175it um second if kids getting bad grades we have to be alert and we have to flag it and U one example I talked about it uh during our principal meetings in a valley region is that if a students gets a d or F there should be an email sent out to that that include um the teacher of that class um counselor VP and the principal because those are the key leaders in that school that should be aware of whichever student gets D's or FS should be notified right away and there should be a process to address it right away with the student and the parents and that should be to me that's my expectation and we have to be very intentional about that and I think if we do those kind of stuff I

176think that uh our kids it's going to be a better place but I really love what I seen so far um and um I will continue to play a part of um bringing a solution it's not easy as we all know uh but it's because of the passion that we have I think that uh we are going the right direction and thank you so much for being here and presenting this is information and it's being recorded and I know some people going to be watching it and uh we should be hearing feedback soon and I really want to hear feedback as well especially from the parents so thank you for your time and the presentation appreciate it have a good night hi thank you very much for being here tonight and coming back again um

177I think every year we get this when we get this presentation there's there's the tendency that we look at the numbers and we go we have to do more are we closing the Gap there's a you can come at it from a very negative side and and there's people that are very passionate and and with good reason I mean it's their family and their children but um I I think we are very honest in where we're at and I appreciate how how we don't hide these numbers and how we look at them and the idea of calibrating constantly I love I've been to a principal meeting when you bring up a a discipline action and you all talk about how it was handled and how you would handle it and I I really appreciate that

178honesty and the trust you've built in those meetings to have those conversations to get them done on your sites and I think that's really important um I want to give a shout out to our teachers that are handling more of these issues I think that is a sign that they are building relationships with their CH with with the students you can't handle those things in your classroom if you don't have a relationship with your students so I think the importance of the work we've done to see students as children and people is is paying off in that fact and and I appreciate it its time and its effort from our teachers and and them doing that to me is a direct a direct positive out of that so um I think we won't get to

179suspensions being a zero ever because there are certain items that you suspend children for you bring a gun to school you're going to get suspended you are responsible for your community and being a part of your community so but I love the words that and I often have said we're an education we're in education that's what we do so we educate kids and um I feel for you middle schools oh my goodness like what I we just we try to train them up so good in elementary school and they get to middle school and I've had middle school kids and they're hard and they're hard so um anything we're doing in Middle School please share your best practices that cannot be silos those those are kids that need need adults definitely and um I think

180um I appreciate we've when I started here we didn't have a face office we didn't have an ed Equity Department we didn't have a BSU except on two campuses and I will tell you they were um there was one that was strong and that was it and I I could cry at the excitement from the BSU I feel that are in our high schools our middle schools and our elementary schools even now and and I love that we're creating spaces for children and Connections for Children um and I think we can't lose sight that high quality the instruction is the key because when you've got a teacher given a good lesson it's exciting I've watched kids run to get to a stats makeup at elro high school they'll they'll wreck a car trying to get

181to that class on time I mean my kids have stressed me out and it is so exciting to see them so excited to learn something and and that's why we got into teaching I mean I was a teacher there's nothing better to see your kids excited to do that and so we just have to help and keep searching for those connections and that passion and and we do it we have teachers that don't have that passion and how can we help them because our students deserve better and so having those systems to help the the the teachers that are not supporting our students right that that's that's an issue as well that I don't think we're ignoring and and I appreciate the work we're doing towards that part so um I've always said we shouldn't

182have silos of excellence and I think we're doing a great job learning how to share things that are working and I really do appreciate that um that's all I have thank you very much thank you Miss Alani Miss Jamerson hi good evening and yes thank for coming back uh for this presentation and um I thank you for the information a few um points before I get to my questions in terms of um definition for our community that's watching when we say the term suspension can you clarify if that is in uh if that is uh off-campus suspension or at school suspension for those watching that one of the questions that we've got received I think it's a combination of both uh their in school suspensions and also out of home suspension okay thank you and

183then I just also um want to reiterate the same point that I made last time when we had this uh presentation is that when we look at the three groups black and African-American students Foster Youth and students with disabilities that we are really talking about black and African-American students because Foster Youth and students with disabilities the percentage there or U majority of black and African-American students so um again I just want to bring that intersectionality to top of Mind remind folks and to remind our community that we see that intersectionality and to make sure that we are addressing that um you know and when I look at slide for um or any of the slides it's just kind of a general Point um if I am John Doe um and if I identify as black

184African-American a foster Youth and a student with disabilities that I show up in this data three times is that correct that's correct for for this they can uh they can be in each category if you will correct so I just think again I I kind of raised that question and clarification the last time if just somehow because we have um our public that reads this and is not able to be here for the presentation and is not necessarily able to ask those questions if somehow we can just identify that you can show up multiple times in this data um and then a couple of questions oh I did want to say um and I am somebody that does come at this with a little bit of a critical lens I do appreciate the work that

185is that is taking place and the improvements that we are seeing but I do come with some critical questions too so um slide 13 we had um you had trainings that are taking place for principes and vice principls as well as the staff um and you mentioned arbinger are there other um external um vendors that are providing that training or is it arbinger the only uh external vendor that's providing training and that those are internal because the examples we're talking about that you're providing um internal trainings and so I just wanted to know external or internal if they're other external I believe they're all internal okay these are these are the trainings with our principles and vice principles predominantly with our um case studies that were're providing the calibration of the suspension data and then

186continuing on for this year is where we have those within the Matrix the opportunity like up to three days now we're looking at further calibration within that so where we have those firsttime incidences you know what are each School site doing up to three days are we Cal are we saying that's one are we saying that's two and trying to calibrate that even further okay okay you have the outside um agency work with we're starting in the Monteray Trail region with the restorative practices that's that's already approved which will be going through um the entire District but we have we do have a combination of inside and outside resources okay I was just wondering if there were in addition to the restorative practices in the arbinger okay um and then on page uh slide 15

187I Pro I'm not going through each slide I promise um slide 15 I just wanted to thank you on that bottom bullet there um in really centering student voice uh because again I think that this is um when we look at discipline really there's a lot about culture and you talked a lot about culture but I think that um having the students be a part of this process is really going to be beneficial to the students and to the culture of the school and then finally that kind of brings me to I appreciate um the autonomy that each school can kind of determine which strategies might work best for their school and their students their culture and their community and we heard a lot about culture um with all of those strategies I wanted to

188find out are there any ways that you are measuring those the success of those specific strategies because when it comes to budget and US approving the budget for your schools to continue those strategies I want to know which strategies are working so that I can approve the funding for those and so I'm just wondering are you measuring the success of specific strategies and if so how are you doing that well as always we look at our chronic absenteeism right but then also with the chick survey that we have we look at connection and belongingness right so we look at the um the question that asked do students feel like they belong or do they have a trusted adult on campus so there's questions like that that we can look at to measure if what we're

189doing is successful okay which I think those those are outcomes of that and our reduction are outcomes of those strategies but I'd really encourage you to identify which strategies are working in a measurable way just so that again we can support those strategies um and then finally um again it was a lot about culture and I appreciate that we need to do that and I by no means want to take away from that but at the same time what are we doing to reform structure and what are we doing to reform policies because um discipline is a result of institutional racism and so an in the structure itself was not built for all students and so I just want to make sure that we focus on building and I think um there was mention of

190looking at our structural um design and really think about about that moving beyond culture continue with that but also looking at how do we really reform um so that we can really serve the students uh that we're fighting to serve thank you so much thank you m Jamerson umino thank you um John K and Charles I know that the three of you do a great job and I haven't been out to to uh John reath for a couple years case been certainly been uh over Edward Harris that being said because I want to say the comment I'm going to make I'm going to make in context of what we're talking about and that is that James ruer and the rudder that we just talked about is not the James Rudder it was a year ago

191or five years ago or 10 years ago the changes that have occurred there andy are terrific and and you need to be really proud of those changes you and your staff um I continue to hear from teachers parents in that area and you know we've talked you do you're doing all the right things thank you thank you all right um my background certainly is that of an educator and uh have had a lot of experience over the years and with the experience I certainly uh have developed a mindset on certain things and so I'm going to throw the first one out on the table and anybody can feel free to jump in on it now we have spent Millions upon millions of dollars in training and yet we know that be behaviors are enforced differently

192depending upon the group that's that's a given also and we never talk about this ever children come to school with behaviors that are either acceptable or encouraged at home which are not appropriate school so well how do we deal with those two things in your schools how do you address it if you agree with me how do you address it sounds like they need to ponder that a little bit more yeah I I I'm loving this I I absolutely love it um in in terms of and and we don't have to go look at at SL 10 but one of the things that it does say is that there are areas of behavior that are discretionary with respect to the the consequence of the Behavior Uh and in the context of all of the training

193is that an area that you get into looking at at teacher Behavior or others with respect to Judgment of of punishment for an act that occurs in one place that you don't see occurring in a different place but do they get into calibration char Charles has has you know 40 kids and you and you never see a kid being brought up for exclusionary discipline and John has 10 a month does that say anything to anybody how do you how do you address those kinds of specific things that may or may not occur at your school maybe I'll see if I can make this want to jump in I don't mean to make anybody uncomfortable when you're paying attention to your data um and you know kids are coming from a specific classroom or or if

194there's a situation that pops up where um where there there's a one again we have teachers that you never see anybody because the instruction and the relationships going on in those classrooms um they don't they don't pop up there but they pop up other way when that happens without getting into any specifics of an individual what do we do so I I'm I'm going to speak both as principal and as a director what I a principal obviously when I used to see that Trend uh there would be a lot of mentoring a lot of coaching with the teacher especially if because they have two spectrums you have a new teacher right and you have the teacher that's a veteran teacher that potentially have different practices um from when we started to calibrate with a matrix

195we started to also bring bring that training and calibration with our teachers as a director that's one of the things that I engage my principles with it in regards to the data right obviously we cannot bring specific data to specific teachers for evaluative purposes however when it comes to calibrating in regards to the student discipline the reasons why they're in the office some other schools have implemented a little survey for the students to to respond why are you here what the reason why you're here and so way you we collect that data as well to see you know why our teacher sending some students for this behavior and some of not I I have seen that some of our sites use that to calibrate among teachers and bring that to specific meetings I used to

196do that um but I'm sure maybe one of the other sites would like to speak of that as well so so we are looking at that data and we do mentor and Coach our teachers and and and we use resources like our dist coaches to kind of connect our teachers with the co with coaches as well sometimes we recommended some teachers with par uh which is a there's like lead uh to support teachers in regards to certain areas and so we do different things and and the other piece is looking at looking at the data is if it's popping off and Andy spoke to it's popping off in the transitions between classes what are we doing so the implementation of Music the moving moving kids along so there's there's so in studying the data it

197may not just be the difference between classes but that's that's reality as well but it's other times during the day uh we're paying attention to um is it are things happening before school um and do we do we need to make sure we're getting kids into the multi-purpose room making sure they're getting fed making sure they have some type of activity in the in the morning session before they head off the class so that they're ready to learn uh when they go so I mean principles that there's any anyone have but there's a lot of examples of those data looks that we should be looking at um through through the collaboration we um involve and I believe Miss Jamerson getting back to your um question there's a lot of um collaboration on the stake on

198the campuses that is within our site leadership team we have a site equity team we have a site PBIS team we have our comprehensive safe school committee as well as our School site Council so through that comprehensive safe School plan we could say there's an excessive number of suspensions or behavior referrals from our fifth and sixth grade recess we decided to go through the structural supports and separating our recess and so of just having fifth graders out there and just having sixth graders so we're able to have more Mentor support with children and that takes a lot of collaboration amongst all of our groups um and then to answer your question as well Mr forcina um as Inu instructional leaders on our campus that's our job of to be able to work in and work

199with teachers and keeping in reference of whether it's through supervision and evaluation and provide them the supports and having honest conversations after you've been able to develop relationships thanks J Charles can you take a few more minutes to talk about the restorative practice um trainings that are going on in montere okay so we already have the restorative practices program where we have a teacher in there uh with five students every period that he trains to be peer mentors and conflict mediators so when a student gets sent out of class uh for punitive purposes they're able to meet with these conflict mediators or the master teacher uh and discuss the the issues but right now the restorative practices training that we're getting for schoolwide is to use restorative circles as a means of building Community uh

200and using student talk as an instructional strategy as well uh to enhance student voice and again to create a sense of community within the classroom and school uh but that's just as an instructional tool but if it got to the place where there was harm or someone um misbehaved you can use that same Circle uh to restore harm and repair harm and at Edward Harris do you have a designated FTE for restorative practices yes and and how do how do you fund that uh that is just from our General FTE so you designated for restorative practices yeah yeah so we use it as as an elective course yeah good because going back to one of one of the comments that Gina made uh in a lot of schools they rob Peter to pay Paul the

201old expression to deal with restorative practice at PE um those the kinds of things that the Board needs to be aware of such that it could provide the funding if and and the data will support it if you believe in the value of restorative practices I do then then the there need there needs to be more on the table than just someone's feeling towards something and that's what certainly where the data does does come into play so thank you Charles um last one here and and again you know this question I'm G ask uh it goes It goes back to that whole issue of of of teachers having discretionary um decision making ability when it comes to a behavior one Behavior versus another Behavior but in your trainings do you do you deal with with

202uh mandator mandatory behaviors versus discretionary so we uh we are addressing those and we are putting together uh new information that's going to go out to the teachers regards to what is uh two different um majors and minors in what to do in such in such one or the other right teachers do have the discreption to suspend students but we are trying to work with them and continue to work with them and doing a good job you know as you can see they are doing a lot of other M Corrections they they use other other practices that they they implementing to make sure that students are in their classrooms learning uh via this thing that we working with take services and putting together two different you know ways of what is a major what is

203a minor and what you do in case that that's that's being implemented and developed thanks for thank you just add we also utilize Keith bims and Don Gordon to come uh every year to talk about those different levels like you're saying discretionary versus mandatory and and their level of knowledge on what would be considered mandatory um is great insight for our staff good thank you thanks Dan all right Mr Vargas uh thank you I'm try and be short and follow the of my colleagues and doing a little bit more uh just not pontificating um but speaking rather than asking too many questions I'm also losing my voice um but anyway uh starting with positives because I'm a nitpicker I apologize um in advance um but I wanted to start with positives uh the homeless use

204numbers look great in here absolutely fantastic I love the fact that we're doing more teacher managed responses definitely Echo what has already been said around thanking teachers for you know doing that I know that that is a b that can be a big lift um you know in terms of responsibility and time um and the use of restorative practices the fact that we're seeing much more of that start to be used regularly and taking the place of some of the other um you know discipline including exclusionary discipline is really good to see um I one area where I want to nitpick on that a little bit is on slide 10 um the response to student behaviors by violation uh what what I see here in some of the numbers is um other is a big

205category and I would love to see let broken down into what do you mean by other responses um so yes it's awesome that we see exclusionary uh exclusionary uh suspension is shrinking um or exclusionary response is shrinking seeing the growth of teacher managed response is great um now tell me more right because one particular ular area that caught my attention um was uh bullying and harassment and this is an area where you see that um other means of Correction is 69% that's a huge number um and bullying and harassment is a huge issue and so I would love to know more about what's going on there and you don't need to come up and talk about it now um but in future presentations I would love to see that broken down a little bit more

206so that we know what are the things that are being used used in order to address that particularly going back to some of the previous comments around um you know how are you using restorative practices when are you using restorative practices getting specific about us seeing that um both in the data and in the stories and I the stories are a fantastic way of um getting that information out there um and you know the more that we can put it in because I'm a numbers dork um the more we can see it in the numbers I would just make my life so much better um the other one of the other issues I wanted to surface um is uh the two that have me a little concerned are Foster Youth and Native American um both

207of those numbers don't look fantastic um the other piece of that that I want to surface for you guys just to think about um between now and the next time you guys come uh come to us is a lot of those areas where there is seems to be you know um evening out or even some uptick you're also seeing a drop in enrollment and so one of my concerns there is okay are we one are we seeing these things sort of plateau even as those students are and so what we're really seeing is an increase because the enrollment is shrinking or the other issue that I do not want to say is happening I don't think it's happening but I want to make sure is not happening is that we're not essentially pushing out problem

208kids in order to make these numbers better um and so those are just some things to think about um you know the next time you guys come with this presentation um as these numbers continue to shift um and we're only looking at four years of data so there's there's always going to be fluctuation totally get that um but just some things to think about as uh as these numbers continue to shift over the next uh six months um and I think that that is it for me so beyond that thanks you guys I really appreciate it um to the principles who came out thank you so much for taking the time out I know that you know sitting through our meetings can sometimes be an adventure um and we really really really do appreciate your

209time and expertise on this so thank you thank you Mr Vargas Mr ptis anything okay very good comments I like those exactly what I was thinking about but okay Paige let's first of all I'm not gonna say you guys did a good job you did but I'm gonna say positive negatives whatever um most of the time we get our data districtwide and that IRS me because it's doesn't get deep into the problem it's overall picture of of our district issues but it doesn't get at the classroom School site level so that's what I'm concerned about and I'm glad that you mentioned that you do a regional uh uh report and meetings at in your geographical areas but I do I assume that that's going on regionally or throughout the district that's the question I have

210up here and and my belief it should because when they transition from elementary to Middle school to high school if they are you know uh have issues you know going through the art school district and progressively creating problems what I call School climate problems or you know that's that's what it comes down to school climate and and schools should be health and again health and safety is our number one issue and that we should be responsible for so the question is can somebody say yes that's happening regionally by U by uh board member regions those meetings like yours I'll jump in here I know for the valley region we are and we've invited Mr Yang to our monthly meetings um I know that each of our regions are meeting collectively and I'm I'm sure they

211would love to invite you all to come out so um it is something that's happening are we perfect at it no way can we do better yes but it is happening in each of the region areas because you're right what happens at the high school trickles down to the middle school and should start with all the foundational work at the elementary and we have to partner together and I believe it early intervention academically socially emotionally all those like like I said before I believe in Community Schools you know it's sad that this board didn't give directions to go that route and eventually it's going to happen it's it's it's doing that but you with mental health and was peacework but yet you know so anyway let me tell you what I discovered in doing these

212uh data on on page four and what I see like for instance the Roman from 2021 22 to 20 22 23 it dropped 378 students they're out there in our community they're probably making the newspaper they're you know uh maybe who knows I I was inquiring about those students that ended up in the B YOLO bypass were they high school students junior college students were they you know what those students I wonder about these these things every day so anyway we we lost districtwide 300 according to this yes I think around here if I did my math right 378 in which you mentioned or somebody mentioned um that was the suspensions uh um were 300 less right so if those students were in school would they be those I I question that would they be

213part of those numbers most likely yes because I think my theory is they're the ones that we lost because of achievement Gap and learning loss they do not want to participate in the school system now because of that and they it's embarrassment and we haven't gone out looking for those students get our Ada that's not true okay so anyway that's what I am very concerned about they are in our communities with no direction at all don't you don't know that hey well let's prove it let's find out what is the statistics of juvenile uh uh have uh uh commitments have gone up or things like that well you know also look at okay and so uh yes so all these figures I look african-amer we lost 173 Foster youth 63 and we grew tremendously in

214students with disabilities like like we're known for you know providing Services you know from 92 to 95490 so you know like and that's those type of numbers kind of affect this report numbers I think you know we got to think about that yes we're we're improving some areas but with those students were back in our system in our district I think that would I we would maybe not have so much good outcomes of students of these issues that we're talking about today so and again um yes let's do uh other groups Latinos Asian homeless um you know in these reports you know we yes we could highlight African-American was use and students disabilities but yet we need those numbers corly that's what we do do priority of funding to Target a certain amount of students

215at certain schools and districts I mean regions um okay let's go over here I like page six that's a very good example you know yet you know where's the data you know like to have you know a sheet behind this with the numbers and again like page seven again okay uh so Mr pres you do a trend study I like see a trans study like that Mr okay go back speaking but want the thing you spoke to is very important I want to make sure we highlighted is we did include the other groups this time oh yes so if you look at Pages five and six yes that was a request by the board right and we we did the numbers the numbers we need numbers the data District white Mr Perez I'm sure Perez

216Mr Perez I'm sure if you contact staff in advance of the meeting they'd be happy to provide you with that info but I want to know do any of you feel that we need numbers on those I I I personally don't if I did I would have requested it myself so anyway um like I like it I like um page eight you have that one suspension rat um nine is very good where's the data again I need the data okay so the biggest thing I I I want to contribute to or suggest did an excellent job on this page I liked it very much because on the right you have the totals of by the the Ed code violations and Defiance disrespect but I'd like to maybe you had maybe put a page what those

217Ed code violation definitions were maybe uh in the appendix because a lot of people in our community they don't understand that disruption and what does a tech okay what what does physical contact versus fighting what's the difference between fighting and having physical contact is it a love tap or things like that we don't know I don't know you know what you know what and then I wonder do new all teachers most likely they get training in this correct at the beginning of the school year in the summer how to report these yes I imagine right I think yeah so anyway that's what I like to suggest that you have these ad code violations and then because of the fact that um some people would how would somebody physical contact and fighting how would you distinguish

218the difference so as if somebody was because maybe they somebody socked somebody three or four times that's a fight or touch them one time is that's physical contact I don't know what can you tell me what that is or uhuh Mr President could be many different ways a physical contact would be just me walking by John and bumping his shoulder intentionally and a fight could be a fullon fight okay so I think we need we in the the community needs to know that I need to know that and then the disruption you know you know um and I'm wondering if the a uniform uh reporting process one teacher might say oh that was just a love tap or fisical versus a fight so your data is going to be different or you know it's going

219to reflect that um so anyway what I did on the blue which is teacher uh management right manage that's is that is that another word for classroom management the blue the light blue so I was wondering about that instead of saying classroom management uh uh issues you do use a teach manage so anyway I noticed that technology that's the number one item which is 81 81% of teachers manage 4,469 incidents that's too much and I was wondering we we have a I know a contract for Technologies the students use do they actually use that nowadays uh contract student contract acceptance use agreement and and this and complete the form only if you want to revoke your students access to District technology resources does that apply to the telephone which that you know is that the

220issue on this particular issue misuse of telephone on campus yeah yeah so majority so that is if I'm gonna look at that there there's a couple different things um and this is where the calibration when you're talking about one incident handled to the next not only with staff but with Vice principals so there's calibration in different levels right but if we take technology violations and you're saying that's too much I would 100% agree with you yeah but technology violations Mr press could include um when you're entering an incident and they're posting on Instagram and the students having no contact contract and they're posting about post contract an interaction with students or they're going on Instagram and they're commenting on a fight that was posted right on that page that's the technation that outside of our

221school hours that's bleeding on the campus or having their phone out during campus or so there's there's a lot there's a multitude of um of where we could go with that but it's far as being too much it's doesn't matter if it's a phone incorrect use of your Chromebook what it's doing is taking away from instructional exactly and so okay the next one was other what you mentioned other that's Behavior unknown so what's the definition of that how do teachers do that's number two that's 78% of teacher time and that's 1, 122 incidents dress cold here's another one you know this is petty but I'm not sure if it is because the the clothing is maybe I'm not sure proceed with caution Mr Pettis what proceed with caution yes exactly so I'm not sure why

222the reason of that issue is but that's 60 that's the third one 67% 356 uh uh cases the other one is TR Andy 65% but yet we have 639 lining cheating 58 689 disruptions Mr Mr Pettis let's not let's not read slides so okay can you wrap up you've been making some great the point is on that one if you look at that I'm wondering how much classroom time do the teacher puts into reporting these issues districtwide you know so at the beginning at the end of class so you know that's a lot of time so are we not doing a good very well orientation to school rules is that the issue I don't know you tell me and so anyway so the other means of Correction the um again the number one thing is

223okay yeah other means correction which is the dark blue yeah inappropriate location that tells me that our camera system is going to start working right we want to get those new cameras we're going to know where these students are on Camp inappropriate that's number one 71% 3,400 Incident That's too high harassment bullying let's move forward mrtis we're not spend more time on this if you had some pretty detailed questions I should have been asked beforehand but I'm saying the bottom line if we would have did these with ranking and look at the picture prioritize you know what those are by those colors and you know to the right of that it but you could make more sense of you know what this really this chart really means Mr presid I thing to keep in mind

224this is 63,000 kids oh yeah over 180 days right over multiple periods per day correct so the actual number of incidents that are happening is a year yeah yeah it's relatively small right compared to the thousands and thousands of kids we have and the interactions that happen every single day exactly I agree with you but the thing is we got to get more in the detail by School site by classroom they do that okay so there's no time to do that here who knows in the time of year does four incidents happen in Christmas or at the end of the year or holidays all these things affect you know that right you know that so you know how Jolly they get so anyway that's the issue that we need you this is a very good

225start you know this report but we need to get better or deeper into the analysis okay okay that's what I'm saying the bottom line of that and okay I sto there on that let's see what if I have a couple more questions over here I do but because of time uh parent engagement I think the parents were in in our high schools middle schools and and and and and PTA part more part participation watching these CL kids you know yes we have supervisors but when grandma's there Mother's there boom I see a whole lot of difference with kids' Behavior because I've been in in an educational settings throughout this you know this this California system so yes now do we do home visits you didn't there is there a database that how many home visits

226or uh how many Community Based organizations get involved uh so you know there's things like that that I'm uh and more evaluation on some of these successful programs am or oh that I don't believe in that I tell you that right now because you know I haven't seen evaluation of that program we spent a million dollars on it but no evaluation you know uh so uh the federal dollars for uh Isa you know there's lot of more money that we have not spent so think of how we can improve these programs that you believe in come back to our board and and recommend you know these programs you know we have model programs over here over there let's let's see if they work and Implement them districtwide that's what I'm saying you're the ones are

227out there in the field with our students are you can articulate and advocate for those students yes we need more dollars the latest one report I seen I can't believe this our teachers are spending $1,000 for school supplies let's let's do something about that Mr Pettis let's stick to the item on the agenda that's a school climate issue okay so you know who sounds like you're done right well you know all that I heard one two and then I heard hold on those questions so yeah family outre you said that you're doing that contract so anyway keep up the good work you know it's it's hard work out there I know it is we have you know students and poverty that's the thing poverty causes a lot of problems and they come to our schools

228and we need to deal with the full comprehensive Services of these students the whole student thank you thank you Mr Pettis um I am always happy when the board engages as deeply as they do and there's very little left for me to say it's like Christmas came early um much appreciated um it is evident that a lot of work continues to be done in this area this is one where we have uh been engaged pretty deeply going back several years and trying to change the way that we do business at a really granular level um which is not work that typically happens very quickly um so I I'm encouraged to hear that the calibration type activities are still occurring that we're still you know occasionally trying to slow down our processes and and check all

229of our biases because as we've said we've all got them right um so that's that's very encouraging overall there are some there are some Peaks and and then you know some some backsliding overall I think it's fair to say um that it's it's a modest Improvement and I appreciate that it's headed in the right direction um as a result of all of the work that is going on um what I am wondering is whether we are not at a place or approaching a place where we need to step back again and say okay if we're kind of starting to plateau in terms of the Improvement that we're seeing what else do we need to to explore um and I'm not posing that as a question today really just as as a suggestion you know as

230we all continue this work because um I'm I'm seeing that right and and some of these gaps that we want to close the rat's really important because um if we if we only move those needles at a really modest rate um it's it's not going to be meaningful change for the kids that we're serving right now right so uh I'm not telling you anything you all don't know but just want to share my thinking so very much appreciate um hearing about all the wonderful things that are happening especially at the site level um it's it's fantastic it's it's great for us to make those connections between the resources that we're able to to put in your hands and the hands of site leaders and everybody else uh for our kids so um appreciate the report

231and um look forward to having even more of a discussion on this next time that it comes back to us so with that thank you very much so our next item is uh under public hearing action items we have two and the first of those is the Williams sufficiency of instructional materials and Miss lay Blomquist will present good evening Madame President steam board superintendent Hoffman and Miss Avalos I am here in accordance with Williams legislation Ed code 60119 which requires that the governing board of a school district hold an annual instructional materials public hearing to determine whether the district has sufficient textbooks and instructional materials which we do and under the same Ed code the Board of Education shall make a determination through a resolution as to whether each pupil in including each English Learner

232in each School in the district has sufficient textbooks or instructional materials in each subject including English language arts math history social science science and that they are aligned with the academic content standards and consistent with the cycles of the curriculum framework adopted by the California State Board of Education therefore we're requesting that the board approve resolution number seven certifying that the Elkgrove Unified School District is in 100% compliance with Ed code section 60119 ensuring that each pupil has sufficient instructional materials thank you Miss Blomquist I'd like to open the public hearing and call on Miss Lasser to see if there are any public comments via Zoom related to this item Madam president there are no public comments via zoom on this item thank you Miss Jamerson are there any blue cards on this item Madame

233President there are no blue cards on this item thank you I'm going to close the public public hearing and call for a motion to adopt resolution number 7 certif El of Unified School District is in compliance with Education Code section 6119 ensuring that each pupil has sufficient instructional materials so moved second moved by Mr Vargas second by Vel biani all in favor please signify by saying I I I uh opposed that is approved unanimously thank you thank you so much next up Education Code section 17556 at SEC consideration of resolution to Grant permanent electrical facilities easement to the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District for El Grove High School Miss coats all right nice to see everyone again the Sacramento Municipal utility district has requested the district convey without cost an electrical facilities easement on the Elk

234Grove High School site 9800 Elk Grove Lauren Road Elk Grove California the the purpose of this easement is to allow the uh SMUD uh to access construct and maintain electrical facilities serving the elgrove high school campus the final configuration of the easement will be determined at smud's expense upon the completion of the installation of the electrical facilities recording the easement accurately in relation to the facilities we recommend acceptance of this request um that the easement be conveyed since it will be of public benefit and no cost or inconvenience to the district um the board adopted the resolution number 222 uh 2023-24 resolution of intention to convey an electrical facilities easement on August 8th 2023 a notice was duly posted and published for the public hearing as noted below as required for granting of such easements

235the notice of this public hearing was published in the elrow citizen on Friday August 25th and posted for at least 5 days in three public locations El grve High School the trig education center and the El grve Library the resolution gring permanent and temporary easements must be adopted by a two-thirds vote of the board thank you Miss coats I'd like to open the public hearing and call on Miss Lasser to see if there are any public comments via Zoom related to this item Madam president there are no public comments theum for this item thank you Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards for this item Madam President we have no blue cards for this item thank you uh I will close the public hearing and call for a motion to adopt resolution number six

236granting electrical facilities easement uh to the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District for the El grve high school project so moved second moved by Miss Al biani seconded by Mr Yang all in favor please signify by saying I I opposed none that is approved unanimously we are to board member and superintendent reports so these are your reports of uh board subcommittee work or other work that you are doing as an assignment on behalf of the board um Lots going on so we could start different places um we can kick it off with the instructional materials uh I don't even know what we're calling ourselves that subcommittee um just I want to note that um today is not the day we're doing our detailed report out and debrief um we will do that when we come back to

237the board um we continue to work towards a target of October 17th to come back to the board should something happen like we receive com uh um comments that highlight additional work that we need to do at a subcommittee that would mean additional subcommittee work that may or may not push back that October 17th date so I just want to be fully transparent about that's what our goal is but things could still come up um and I will defer to Mr fortina and uh Mr Vargas if they would like to say anything else about how that's going Noe no okay all right a lot of work though a lot of work we've been meeting for three hours of a time and uh we're not sure if we're done so no um one quick thing to

238add just because it's been brought up in public comment repeatedly um is that there will be opportunity for public input um on these policies more information on that is coming rather than getting into a bunch of it here we will leave it to the administr because they have a plan for Rolling that out yeah I think it's fair to say this week we'll have the information out yes that is fair to say so stay tuned folks um uh Partners in education also met we talked about many things including uh the current revised comprehensive excuse me compensation study um how we Stack Up compared to other school districts as employers and um how we intend to write some of those things that aren't really working well within our system um that was a big thing that

239we talked about we also talked about future activities and trying to set kind of a revised agenda for that group um arbinger um interest based bargaining um gosh I have a lot of notes on that one but um lots of things budget 101 what's that budget budget 101 yeah there was interest in in you know learning both kind of state level and internal departmental practices so just good stuff to help people be more effective in their roles um so lots lots you know stay tuned right that group has a has an ambitious agenda things they want to accomplish that is all that I have any other board member reports yes sir yeah Chris and I U met last Thursday with the city of Ranch Cordova our on our regularly scheduled 2 by two and you

240know i' I've indicated before they're they're a wonderful group to work with um they continue to have interest in uh uh the middle school high school uh construction I think we we have been clear and answered all the questions we can possibly answer on that subject uh one of the council people continues to have questions and she's going to be submitting her questions to uh city manager and then we will all get those questions um been assured that the currently that the work going on to look at boundaries of fsam Cordova are just focused on fome Cordova and not elk grov unified at this point in time so that's where we are interesting stuff but at one time another city council were interested can you elaborate on that was a number of years ago when

241Steve lad was uh yeah um superintendent and and and that was resolved back then 10 years ago yeah let's stay with them the the report so folks um last time we talked about a process to replace our way of putting future agenda items on the agenda which would mean that this item comes off of here um airing on the side of caution about not knowing how quickly to pull that trigger it's still here but we did come to a consensus about the fact that we want to do things differently going forward so it is here and I am not hearing anyone needing to use it which is exactly as things should be working so I appreciate that I don't have a timeline for you on when the revised language and process will come back but

242um we will get that out as soon as we as we know yeah so with that folks I'm going to call this meeting to adjournment at 9:50 pm thank you