001Welcome everyone. I'd like to call tonight's regular meeting of the Las School District Board of Trustees to order. Um, a recording and or broadcast of this meeting is being made at the direction of the board which may capture images and sounds of those attending the meeting. We'll now call the role. Stella here. Jim here. Vladimir y Brian present and I s here as well. We're going to move on to the pledge of allegiance. Would any of our students like to lead us in the pledge, please? Right in the middle. Um, please stand. Place your right hand over your heart and pledge. I pledge aliance to the flag of to stands one nation under God. indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you very much. Would any board members like to provide comment
002on the bank agenda? Then may I please have a motion to approve the agenda as presented? So move. Thank you, Vladimir. I have a second. A second. Thank you, Stella. Thank you. Uh motion to approve tonight's agenda as presented was made by Vladimir, seconded by Stella. All in favor? Any oppose? Any abstensions? Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. All right. Close session report. So, the board took action in close session tonight to approve the OAH case number 2025200065 by a vote of 50. Superintendent update, Miss. All right, a few updates for you. Wanted to thank uh everyone for an outstanding Junior Olympics. I know it's been over a week now, but we had our great Junior Olympics a week ago Saturday. Uh really want to thank Alli Granberry and the Gardener Bullis team. The Gardener Bolis
003was in charge of the JO this year. It is a heavy lift. We have folks from every school site, all of our organization, staff, and it is just an outstanding LD tradition. Um, also wanted to thank Josh Ortman, Candace Marquis, and Dina Zakanti, who are our PE staff leaison who work with the JO committee and make sure everything runs smoothly. It was an outstanding really outstanding event. Uh, just a little bit of rain, but it was in the afternoon and it it was did not ruin the day, which is terrific. I also received a really sweet shout out from Ally about Lo, who's in our maintenance and operations. Lo was there starting at 6:00 a.m. and didn't leave until the whole event was cleaned up at the end of the day. He's such a great
004person and always helps anytime anything is needed. So, thank you to Lo. Um, and I know we've talked to so many kids and former kids and uh, Miss March and I were talking way former former kids. Everybody remembers their Junior Olympics experience even if they're 30 40 years old. So, it's really terrific. So, thank you all. Um Shelley and Brian might chat a little bit about this, but um earlier last week we were attending the Coast to Coast Federal Advocacy Trip, which is a joint trip between the California School Boards Association and AXA, the um school administrators association, and felt really um honored to be there. It's such an informative experience. uh we had the opportunity to learn a lot about what's happening in our federal government as it pertains to um funding uh for
005public education and had a chance to advocate directly with our Congress folks around um my my special piece was around special education funding and the promise that Congress made over 50 years ago to fund 40%. we we are nowhere near 40% of the cost of um supporting special education students. So to have the opportunity to talk directly to folks who um are just getting set to uh make some decisions about budget and what's being cut and what's being supported. Um I was glad to be able to be there. Um wanted to let you all know that we are celebrating our staff this week and next week. It's staff appreciation time and so we have been making our way out to the school sites with some ice cream and some thank yous and um we're so
006thankful for the great people who work in LD across every single job. Um they're incredibly dedicated and really exceptional people. So we're so happy to celebrate them in big and small ways. And then um I think I'm not supposed to say this publicly, but uh I'm gonna say it anyway. The PTA council meeting on Wednesday, we have um some retiring folks who are receiving an um honorary what is it called, Jim? Do you remember what the PTA council calls it? Uh honorary something or other award. And so u that's happening Wednesday. We'll talk more about it next time. So, I will be there. And then rushing off to the Hoffman Awards. So, the Hoffman Awards takes place at MetroED. Always a great time to hear about what other districts are doing to highlight programs that
007support students. So, that's happening this Wednesday each my update. That was great. That was awesome. That was awesome. Okay. And on now to the best part of our meeting, which is our school presentation. So, welcome Miss Mrs. March and the Springer stingers are in the house. Hello everybody and thank you so much for having us here. I have to say a little bit on a personal note here. It was really exciting. I was looking at my calendar. I believe it was a year ago yesterday that I was voted in here to be the new principal. And so it's super exciting for me to be here at the sunset of my first year as principal which has been just an amazing fabulous year showing off all the amazing things that we have done here at Springer.
008And I have to tell you this is like a big thing for the first year when you're here because you know that you know everything is kind of dependent on how well things look here. And so as I was getting ready I was thinking what are we going to show them? What are we going to do? What are we going to do? And these kids kept coming to me on the playground. They were asking me about zoos and they were telling me all this stuff and I'm like I don't know. I got bigger things to worry about. And all of a sudden, it dawned on me as I went in like this is the epitome and the dictionary definition of deeper learning that we've been after. The excitement that these kids had and when I'd
009walk into their classrooms with their two amazing fifth grade teachers, Miss Bailey and Mr. Ramirez, who you'll hear from shortly, had so much going on in the room and the kids were just buzzing, no pun intended. Seriously, with all these great things that they were doing. Um, I want you tonight to just pay particular attention. I know you've heard this in other um other deeper learning presentations, but we really have been talking about agency and purpose, community of learners and learning by doing, which this is a very strong example of. But beyond that, I also really want you to look at the critical thinking and the inclusion. Inclusion is a very big deal to me and is a big deal to us at Springer. and every child is in the classroom learning with their peers
010and doing the work that everybody else is. So, it's something that I'm really proud of and something that you're going to see tonight and some amazing impact statements from the kids at the end. So, I'm not going to talk anymore because I am not the person you want to hear from tonight. Maybe a year ago, but not tonight. So, I'm going to pass it along to their teachers. Let them make true students, Miss Bailey and Mr. Ramirez. Hello, I'm Brook Bailey and I'm Mar. Thank you for having us. Um, and we're really excited for you all to hear about this project. Um, I think when we introduced the idea of um, should animals be kept in zoos, we really had no idea where the students would take it. And so I think Yeah. Yeah. Um
011yeah, we always have you know discussion things like this throughout the year and in my old school and you know this question that we posed. It was just the question that we thought, well, kids like zoos, maybe they might learn something about zoos and, you know, I would hear about it through recess and the kids just kept talking about it, talking about it. And they just they made it their own thing and we just sat back and we kind of took advantage of that and wanted to harness that energy and that passion and we wanted to keep it going and have them. Um, without further ado, we'll introduce our first student, um, Kyle. Come on over, Kyle. Hi, my name is Pam. Today I will be covering what all of our peers thought and said
012before all of our research took place. Before we did our research, the teachers gave us a link to a survey on Google forms. The survey asked us all about our opinions about animals being kept in zoo. Over 60% of us said that animals should should be kept in zoos. That result was nothing like the 96% at the end that said animals should not be kept in zoos. That was mostly because we didn't do any research before the survey. After we did the research, we learned of many of the cruel traditions that of many zoos, most of them based in Europe. Come on up. Hi, my name is Ava and I'm going to talk about the class's initial opinions on zoos. At the beginning of our writing journey, we thought that having a class definition of
013a zoo would help us better understand them. So, we did some research and compiled a list of definitions. Then, we took a survey as a class and the majority of us chose a definition originating from multiple articles, websites, and dictionaries. The definition we chose was unbiased toward either side of the argument and simply stated the truth. Sahana. Hi, my name is Sahano and today I'll be talking about the beginning of our information gathering process. Before we built an argument, we made an unsubstantiated claims based on things that we believed to be true about Zeus. We made a T chart with both sides of our argument and we listed reasons supporting the claims. This was the beginning of the notes we would use to support our claim or stance on Zeus. [Music] Hi, my name is
014Elijah and I will be talking about how we gather information for our opinion essay. We gather evidence by reading articles. During this process, we learned a new phrase claim claim. This is when someone says something without evidence to prove their statement is true. We found evidence in the articles and wrote it on post-it note. Then we put the postage up on the writing wall to support the reasons that we had had made earlier in the project. At the end, some reasons had a lot of evidence and other reasons didn't have much evidence. We learned that the reasons with less evidence shouldn't be used to support our claim because they were unsubstantiated. Um, hello, my name is Susanna and I will be talking about our research. Researching was a very important part of our progress and
015we made sure to research both sides of the argument and use many sources. We created charts to organize the information we collected. The research was also very important because the information that we collected educated us. As we learned more about zoos and looked at different perspectives, a lot of our opinions started to change. At the beginning, most of us were in favor of zoos, but slowly many of us were inspired to take action against inhumane zoos. Thank you. Hello, my name is Gracie. I'm going to be talking about how we strengthen our arguments for our essays. First, we determined which arguments were strong. This helped us determine which arguments in our essays were reliable, meaning they came from strong evidence. Strong evidence comes from experts, research, and data. Strong evidence also has to come from
016a trusted source, meaning it provides a thorough, well-reasoned argument based on a source that is used widely. The argument also has to show a pattern, meaning it doesn't have just one example, but many, all tying to the same main idea. This help us find errors in our own work and improve our arguments. Thank you. about peer editing and feedback. We use two kinds of peer feedback. Two stars and one wish and rainbow editing. Two stars and one wish is a strate strategy used in our class to give feedback to each other and to learn how we can improve our writing. When doing two stars and one wish, the reader gives two compliments to the author about things in their writing that they think work really well. Then the reader gives the author one wish or
017one thing that the author can do to improve their writing. This type of feedback is important to the writing process because it helps the author find ways to improve their writing from their peers perspective before it is time to turn in their writing. We also get the chance to do two stars one wish with multiple partners to get even more feedback. Rainbow editing is a kind of editing that uses all colors of the rainbow to edit different parts of our writing such as grammar, punctuation, and spelling. It is important to do red rainbow editing with a piece of writing because the reader might catch mistakes that you didn't notice. It is also important for our writing to have correct grammar and spelling to make the writing the best it can be. Rainbow editing is also
018helpful to see what our writing might be missing. For example, if I didn't see any purple marks on my writing, I would know that I need to add some extra words to make my writing even better. Thank you. Hi, my name is Emma Tyra. When we were all done with our essays, we got to show them at open house. We glued our essays on a piece of construction paper and put them on the wall for our parents to see. When I finished my essay, I felt very relieved. I thought I would never finish. I asked for purple paper to glue my essay on and my teacher gave me one and and he was f and I was very happy. Thank you. Somebody who did share uh like a final impact that this project had for
019them now that it's finished. Um so Kyle, did you want to say something? I think in the end we had a very strong opinion about why animals shouldn't be kept in use because we did a lot of research a lot too much on our computers. We found out a lot of cruel things that zoos do do that we never knew before. Like when we went to a zoo before it would be like oh this animal looks so happy. But now if you go to a zoo somewhere else, you start to realize all the cool things that the zookeepers might be doing to the animals. Not in all, not in all zoos that happens, but in most research, I thought that zoos were a good place where animals were kept happy. But now when I go
020to a zoo, I try to think deeper and try to look for signs if animals are happy or if they're treated badly. This includes aquariums and looking at the fish. And sometimes I realize that the spaces may be really small. Even if the zoo is good, the animals still probably don't have enough room. Thank you. Before um we did this project, I used to go to some zoos and I used to like look at all the animals think that they're really happy living there and like all of them were getting fed and everything. After we did the research and I found that a lot of them were getting killed or even worse um then I thought maybe like the animals don't actually like being in the maybe they'd rather be free instead. Um, okay. So,
021this project really impacted me because like at the beginning I was like, well, of of course not all zoos are perfect, but overall zoos are a great sanctuary for animals. But I think we researched a lot and as I learned more, I leaned a little more toward the no side. I think a specific piece of evidence that moved me was we found information about a giraffe that was killed and dissected in front of a crowd at the Copenhagen Zoo. And so I decided to do more research and I found out that in a group of European zoos um around 3,000 to 5,000 animals are killed a year. And I was really shocked and horrified. And I think that along with other information I collected really impacted me. Um, writing these these essays and doing this
022research inspired us to step up and try to change something that we thought was wrong. And while it was only in our classroom, I think we made a difference in some people's ideas about zoos. This started when one of our classmates found a video in a zoo in Copenhagen on a public dissession of a giraffe that was declared unfit for breeding by the zoo's scientific director. The giraffe was shot and dissected in front of hundreds of people. After extensive research, we found out that not only does this zoo kill animals, but in total, the zoos in Europe kill 3,000 to 5,000 animals a year. We decided to do something about it. Over 30 kids started calling ourselves the anti-anim animal cruelty association. We started a petition which had over 30 signatures and growing and we
023even had two official meetings. We we had even plan to do a peaceful protest. This shows that even kids can do something big if they're inspired to do so. You want to say something? You don't have to. Um, honestly, once I started the research, um, I just felt like you got to just think deeper about things. And I guess it impacted me on that. And well, before I did start research, I thought zoos were just a happy place you could go for entertainment. But then when I started the research, I realized that what about the animals? Um, and once I learned more about the animals, I just was like, "This is wrong. This should not happen." And that's how the zoos impacted me. This project impacted me because before my teacher introduced the um idea
024of should animals be kept in zoos, I never really thought of it. Like I just thought, oh, zoos are cool. But then um after I started researching for this project, I realized the animals may not be happy there. Their their enclosures could be small or they're forced mating and um in that room. Before I started, I didn't know where I should have got my information from. I got it from wherever I got it from and only wrote what was underlined. I think that's it. A very emotionally complex issue and so I'm really proud of you for like going deeper into something. A lot of people have very strong emotional feelings about zoos and so um to go deeper into this and to start an anti- cruelty association. I think that's really amazing. Um board members
025any comments? Crap. Speechless. I did not know about the zoos in Europe by the way. That's awful. So thank you so much. Um we're going to move on to the consent calendars. Would any board members like to provide comment on the consent calendar? I have a question. Yes. Uh, inform K12. That's what we use. Informed K12 for all of our um internal time sheets, cash reimbursement, vacation payout, all of those things, hundreds of them. Thank you. Nice. Another question. the crossing guard um that draft with the color coding and the various crossing guards it wasn't clear I think and we got a question from the public that I didn't see an answer about about what the red means on some of these lines in terms of so the the question was whether or not and
026somebody's going to remind me of the um well he was asking about a specific intersection but sort of on a broader level it it sort of marks where they're currently staffed which they all were except for one, but then some of them are in red are in red. It wasn't clear. There was a conversation at one point in time after they had done a traffic study that some of those um locations may no longer be staffed, but I believe that is not the plan going forward. So, the plan is for all of these to be st Okay, great. And the one that the parent was asking was listed under Egan and not under Sanita. Oh, but it's on site number 11. Gotcha. Okay. Thank you. I was just going to say one of the requests
027from years ago is to have a question attempting. Uh and so I was just wondering if there's an equivalent one of these for the Mountain View. Not at this time. We don't. We do have a crossing guard at Springer right across the street from the school and the school has our own crossing guard that does that. Can we do that ourselves? Artega. Uh, no we don't. We don't go that far. All right. Interestingly, actually all of Elino is in Los is not done. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, okay. But we can talk to the city of Mountain View as part of their practice school to see if there's plan for that. Yeah, because that was a request a long time ago, like eight years ago. We can ask you a state. We can we can take
028the rest of that comments on the consent calendar. May I have a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented? So move. Thank you, Vladimir. You have a second. I'll second. Thank you, Stella. Right. Motion to approve the consent calendar as presented was made by Vladimir, seconded by Stella. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Any obstensions? Thank you. Motion passes unanimous. Moving on to employee requests to address the board teachers association. Alex Schroeder. Thanks. Appreciate it. Okay, I didn't bring my phone. This is just all from the heart. So, here we go. Not even rehearsed. Um, but thank you guys for having me this evening. It's perfect timing and teacher um or educators appreciation week. Um and I will tell you that educators in Los Altos, we love being here. We love serving the children
029here. We love doing the hard work that is required of a teacher in Los Altos. You really do have to put your all into it. Um we acknowledge that every single person we have in our classroom is somebody else's heart and soul. And so we treat them accordingly. Um our teachers work incredibly hard. Our educators work incredibly hard. that's our speech, our psychology, our special ed teachers. Um, working well beyond the hours that our students are with us. Um, and thinking about them well beyond the hours that they're with us. I mean, I think about students even from years ago wondering how they're doing. Um, it is quite an honor to serve them. I would say just like I said towards the beginning of one of these board meetings when I spoke, I really do
030and I really want to encourage all of our board members to come in and be part of our schools and really get to know our teachers and really be curious, ask those questions. You know, somebody very wise said at one of the last meetings I was in, they said, "Well, this is just numbers, but what about all the things the people behind these numbers?" You might know who you are. Um, and I just thought, yes, that is so true. Like, as a board, I know you guys hear a lot of things and you guys see a lot of numbers and you see a lot of data, but until you really see like our educators in action, until you go and talk to them and you have conversations and you really just sort of hear what
031makes their job joyful and incredible, and then what makes our job challenging? What are the things that stand in the way of us doing what's best for kids? what are the things that take up the time that maybe isn't the best time the um well spent because we are the ones taking on every initiative. We are the ones using the curriculum day in and day out and we are the ones that see what our kids need. So I guess to wrap it up, I would say the best way as leaders of the school, I think to show your teachers that you appreciate them is by truly being curious, by listening, by having conversations and engaging them because we are a group of highly educated professionals. Um, so thank you so much for your time and
032thank you for all the support. Appreciate it. Thank you so much, Alex. For the California School Employees Association, pleasure. Oh gosh. As we begin our new bargaining, we would just like to say thank you for our continued partnership and that CC cabinet and the school board have a very strong relationship and we know that we will continue to work towards our same goal of strong communities and that our partnership together and collaborating on how to continue to support all of our staff and really be a wonderful well-rounded community. Our negotiations team looks forward to working together and know that we will come together to find the right agreement for us. Thank you. Thank you, Kim. To provide public comment on an agenda item, speaker cards are to be submitted to the superintendent. Speaker cards will
033not be accepted once public comment begins. Your name will be announced when it's your turn to speak. On to community comments. This time is reserved for members of the public and employees to address the board on items that are not on the agenda. The board is not permitted to discuss or take action on non-aggenda items except to instruct the superintendent to review the matter further. Report back to the board at a subsequent meeting or place the matter on a future agenda. The board may make a brief comment or ask clarifying questions. And I see that there are no cards for public comment. Last chance, folks. All right, public comment is closed. on to action and discussion items. So, this is going to be exciting. The Egan Taiwan exchange trip. Well, I'm gonna let Dr. Bosco
034go intro this one. Thank you. We have another exciting student presentation this evening and thinking about staff who go above and beyond. I'd like to invite Raquel Meroli, our principal from Almond, Chile Ching, our Mandarin teacher from Egan, and Jen Batinho, um, our advent teacher and next year's teacher in charge from Egan to come on up and introduce our students who will be presenting on their visit to Taiwan over the spring break. Thank you so much for giving us uh an opportunity to to share some of this awesome experience that we all experienced together. Um, here to share kind of what what we did in Taiwan are Zachary, Eric, Lily. They're twins. Pani and Maddie. I was good in Taiwan, but the rest. Uh, as mentioned, I'm Joe Patino. I teach Abid at US history
035at the at Egan, but yes, next year it will be the teacher in charge. Hi, my name is Jordan. I'm the mentor at Egan. You know me, I'm Molia. I was uh not at Egan, but I was at one of the chaperones and great time. But I think we're going to let the kids uh share with you what they experience. So first, okay, whoever's ready to go. Thank you. Um, so I'm gonna be talking about the first day, which was the day that we arrived. So, we left California around like 12:00 p.m. And then we arrived in Taiwan around 5:00 p.m. And then a bus picked us up and drove us to Linko Junior High, which is where we had the welcome dinner. and they basically bought us food and they had a meeting like
036introducing us to all of the teachers and like important people there. And then we met our host families and after we split up. So me and Kyani stayed at the same like host family's house and our like families decided to take us to the night market and we got food and we just walked around and explored before going back there. Um, so I visited Chingchan Junior High School with Lily. Uh, we were split up based on our host families. And at Chinchan, there were many classes that had like bilingual learning where they spoke both English and Mandarin. And there were also a lot of students that were considerably fluent in English considering that they've only been in Taiwan. And we explored the campus which is seven stories tall. And we also uh went to an
037assembly where they would like present awards to students who were in competitions and things like that. And I made many friends at Chingchan. And at school there were meals inside the classroom that had food like chicken, soup, rice, and broccoli. And the students would make the would go around the school and clean it themselves. So they don't have any janitors. Okay. So also on Monday I was not with them. So me and Ga we actually went on a field trip for Lingo Junior High School. So the first thing was we went on the bus and we we were with the chaperons but we weren't with any of the other students and we did a bunch of like exploring around Taiwan. So, first we went to a temple and we kind of learned more about their
038history, their culture, and like what they do there or like what their norm is for like at a temple. It's kind of like a church. It's like their praying and like their customs and everything like that. And then after we went to a sock museum or a factory, which I guess was like it was supposedly like like well known in Taiwan. Um, and we like we learned how to make it's like a water bottle carrier kind of. So, it was made out of like sock material, but it wasn't actually a sock. And we got to make it with all the students. And then chaperons from both Lincoln Junior High School and Egan. And then after we drove back to the school and one of the parents of the students actually bought this little lunch from
039I don't know where it was from, but it was really good. And after that, we went to a tea store and that was like what we did in the afternoon. And we made we got to make tea jelly and we also got to experience what it's like to actually make tea, which is another thing that Taiwan is known for. So, we picked tea leaves from the like the fields from where it's from. And then we got to see how it's actually made. And we also got to try a lot of different types of tea. And then after um the school day like ended, you split up back into your host families. And then Gian and I just did a bunch of exploring around like local downtown area and like we ate dinner with them and
040then we kind of went like shopping in like the local stores. So it's okay. Okay. All right. So this is Tuesday. Uh there's some pictures. Uh this was on Tuesday. The first thing we did was we visited a gold museum which basically what it is is it's like it's like when you pan gold and when you filter it out of like the the ground and you get rid of all the dust. There's this whole process that they made us do. Uh first you have to scoop out the gold. You shake it around a few times. You uh you put it under the water. you like you kind of you kind of do this like switching movement. I'm not sure how to explain it. Then you but like what's left is a lot of that's the
041gold and then you just put the gold they give you a a small like kind of bottle or capsule. You put everything you put everything in there. Uh and you get to keep it as like a little souvenir. It's a lot of fun. Uh after that we explored this place. say it was calleden. Uh a picture from it. I'm not sure if that's a picture from but it was it was a lot of fun. We also got to we also went to this uh Jofen Elementary School. Uh this this school was really special because it had it kind it had like a whole exhibit within itself. Uh and it kind of taught us the history of the area uh all the way back since uh World War II actually. Uh I remember and uh yeah.
042Oh yeah, there's this uh we also last thing we did that day together was uh we visited this tea shop. Uh it was a lot of fun. They showed us kind of like a way of like how to put the leaves in the in the uh the kettle or the teapot and uh we just had to like wait and we just poured out the tea. Look, it sounds so simple, but it's it's a lot. Um, Tuesday, me and Camelani went to school with our host families at Lingo Junior High, which was the original school that we went to for the welcome dinner. So, we arrived at school at 7:30 because their school starts around like 7:45. And then Kylan went to one of our buddies, like she followed them, our eighth grade buddy, and then
043we also had a seventh grade buddy. And then so we split up and went to their classes and ate lunch with them. And then after we packed up our stuff because we had another host family because we had two host families. And so in the middle of the week, we like switched houses. So we ate dinner at the mall at a steak place. And then we moved to our second host family's house and got settled in there. Okay. So on Wednesday, we all met back up together and that was kind of when we saw each other again um because we hadn't seen each other at all for the uh first two days and so we had a semiconductor literacy class. Um, it says earthquake because in the middle of it there was an earthquake and
044that was kind of like when we saw the difference between like our two cultures because everybody from like Egan and the US we were all like going under the like they were all just sitting there because apparently in Taiwan earthquakes are normal and so they like look up at the ceiling and then if like the lights are shaking or something like that that's when they know that they should take cover. But they were kind of all just staring at us and but anyway um in the semiconductor class we basically just learned about semiconductors and then we built them out of Legos but instead of just building the semiconductor we like made the process through Legos. So it was a lot of putting things on and then taking it off again and then it was like
045really time consuming. But after we ate lunch and it was really good. We ate with a bunch of different schools because the semiconductor literacy class it was with Egan and then it was with a bunch of different schools including schools that our host family students like didn't attend. And then after we visited a place called Sheriff Waterfall, which is what those two photos are from, the really big one and then the one on the bottom on the left. And we weren't there for that long, but we just took a bunch of pictures and it was like a little hike. And then after we went to Chiffan Old Street which was right next door and we got to release these sky lanterns which was pretty cool because you got to write like special messages or like
046wishes or hopes or dreams all the lanterns and then you would light them up and they would fly up and then we actually saw some um when we were walking around the waterfall in like the forest area, there was some that had like fallen after from like previous people who had like written on them. And then we also walked around on the old street and we kind of just got to explore and again like look at more stores. And then at the end we drove to Mega50 culture night dinner which was a 50 floor buffet but we were on the 50th floor and there was like a restaurant there and then there were all the students who were with us from the entire day but also went to the dinner with us and then there
047were a bunch of education department officials there too and we all just got to kind of like hang out and talk. And this is also Miss Mary's birthday at the um dinner. Okay. So on Thursday in the morning, we went to a climate change summit. So it was an environmental summit with people from all over the world. There were people from Australia, but they were on a Zoom because they don't think they could get there. And then there were different examples of how we can help make the earth more sustainable and how Taiwan was doing it from like elementary school people and kids in high school. And they just discussed renew renewable energy and climate action projects they were doing. And that was that's the top picture on the right of all the people from
048the schools we went to. And in the afternoon, we went to an indigo tie-dye workshop at San Sansia Old Street and then also walked around the shops. So for the tie-dye class, we learned about the natural dying process of indigo and how they got it and also created our pattern, own pattern designs. And on the bottom left, you can see all the different designs that we had to choose from. And then on the bottom right is the indigo like bucket that we would put our stuff in. And then for the Santia Old Street, we walked through a historic area and enjoyed different foods and saw the traditional architecture which was there from a while back. Hello, my name is Eric and I'm going to cover what we did on Friday. So, Friday we started off
049with a trip to the National Imperial Museum um that housed many of the um mainland China's treasures that they took from the Forbidden City to Taiwan when they were kicked from the mainland. Um we then took a bus to uh Taipei 101 and um we went to the top floor and we had a um really fast elevator that and we could hear like our ears pop as we like. Um then we went to um the Chang Kai-Sek memorial uh the first uh Taiwanese president uh president's memorial and we saw where um how the uh where um guards changed place and uh they were like twirling their guns and it was like really cool. Um then uh me and Zach uh this is my this personally was like my favorite part. Uh, we went to the
050post center and uh, I bought lots of stuff there. Uh, then we ate uh, probably some of the best hot pot I've ever had in my life. Um, like everything was very good about it. There was like a self-s served bar. We could like get our own um, dipping sauce and whatever. And then uh we had to say goodbye to our Taiwan buddies unfortunately at the hotel. Yep. And that was Friday. Um for some like big takeaways, the first thing was deep learning which is like learning by doing. So we learned Chinese at Egan in our Mandarin class. Um, I think we all took it last year and this year. So, both and Egan. And then we got to use what we learned in class to communicate with our host families and the teachers and
051the students there because they could speak some English to us, but then we also spoke Mandarin to them. So, it wasn't too hard. And so, it was kind of like a mix of both. And then we also learned about Taiwanese culture by visiting historical monuments or like things that they have there that we don't necessarily have the same here. So for example, those are the tea fields that we went to go pick tea leaves, me and Giana. Um I don't they probably have something like that in the US, but it's not as big. And then also just the tie-dye again. Um they're old streets. We got to go to a museum and we saw a bunch of old artifacts. And then there's a photo from the Chong Paek memorial because that's like a special memorial.
052It kind of reminded me of like Washington DC, but it was just a special memorial of like um Chong Paek. And then the last photo is just like they have night markets, which is their big thing. Um it's kind of like something that Taiwan is known for. And so it's you don't really have something like that where like the food is really cheap but then it's really good and there's just a bunch of different stores and like shops with food in it. Um so that was really fun to try all the stuff that and like learn about everything that's not necessarily here in the US. Okay. Global citizenship. Uh slide's a little empty but uh uh we connected well we connected like keep in mind Taiwan is across the world right so it's amazing right
053that we can just like travel from San Francisco to Taipei in one day just off planes and stuff right uh address global challenges uh we did a lot of that during the uh meeting we had on Thursday I'm not I'm sure you guys remember we had this meeting on on uh uh the climate change, how to fix it. Many people I was listening the whole time. Uh you were just playing games. But anyways, uh I think I think that aside, I think everyone offered some really good ideas uh during that time. Uh we also we also did a lot of exchange between cultures like the uh like the earthquake that we just mentioned, right? That was kind of insane. They almost they they actually they kind of they kind of realized it was coming before
054we did. Like they kind of like went every the room just went silent before the before the before it started shaking. It's kind of crazy how they can do that. Uh and yeah, that's about it for this live. So for community, we lived with host families who opened up their homes to us and shared their daily routines with us. Our host family for me and Maddie on our second night took us to Dintai Fun and I love and I've had Dintai fun here in the US, but it was cool to see like obviously I've had it before, but the different ways that they make stuff there. and we were able to see how they make their their dumplings. Um, and then also we attended the Taiwanese schools and built friendships with the classmates and like
055we never would have met them but because of this we made new bonds. We also released the sky lanterns together which is like a symbol of hope. So it just like made the community stronger together. And then we just explored the local environment and like daily life and the daily routines are much different there than they are here. So, it was cool to see that and be with the different people. Um, for cultural exchange, we did like a lot of different cultural experiences while we were at Taiwan. So, on the first day, me and Taiwani visited a temple which was I think Kaiwani talked about it. It was like about their different gods and like how they pray and there's like gods that they pray to before um like they have tests to which like
056their like wishful luck. And then we also did tea tasting where they had like eight different kinds of tea and we would try them. And then we also raised the lanterns which you could like write messages on and it would be like good luck. And then we also like experienced their daily life because we followed them around their schools and they took like they took us around to like their favorite restaurants and places and like shops that they went to. And then we also went to different monuments like the one um I don't know what it's called. Yeah, that like or something like that. And then there's also a museum that we went to that had a lot of like Taiwanese like pottery and a bunch of like old artifacts that they have. So um
057appreciation and respect is what the entire trip was about. uh we build relationships with our buddies and uh in Taiwan and we actually still keep in touch with each other and I actually message my uh buddy sometimes through Instagram and we um send video send funny videos of each other. Um uh students uh from both sides were uh very respectful and there were um they were on our utmost behavior promise and um formed many bonds and friendships um from just a single week in Taiwan and yeah it was a function. Um, so there's mutual respect between us because last year most of the schools from Taipei visited Egan for two days and they also went to other places in America too. But our trip to Taiwan made us visit new schools as well as schools
058I met last year such as Ching Chan Junior High School which I was at with Lily and even my buddy her name is Rachel. um she actually went to Egan last year and also there's like pictures from them going here and then uh so Egan had shared our experiences in California and provided for the Taiwanese students and then later they gave back to us and then this shows our mutual respect of gratitude for each So, uh, we wanted to share a little bit of reflection from our staff as well. Um, I think the first thing I want to share is that it's no small feat to take six, uh, eighth graders across the world and bring them back whole and safe. So, have that check. Thank you, parents. And they were lovely. They were such
059a good group. So, we were really lucky that we got to travel with you all. Um, I think also you just showed so much courage going across the world without your families. Um, I felt a little bit like a mother hen just trying to, you know, make sure that you had what you needed, but really you were so independent and just putting yourself out there using a language that maybe you weren't born to. And so, I have so much um just like a I'm in awe of you. So, thank you for that. And then I just want to say thank you to Carrie Bosco and Katherine Sang um and all of the people who made this um happen for these kiddos and such a privilege to have been able to experience this with them. I
060want to say ditto the kiddos were awesome. We all had such a great time and yeah, thank you to to all of the people that made it help make it happen. um just looking at at the cultural differences and but also the similarities kind like you know you know all all educators face and all students face there's a lot more similarities that we have in common than differences and even the differences I found so fascinating like how one grade level has one garbage can and you start to think about what that would look like at um but um it and the people there were just so welcoming the hospitality is unlike any other and I'm excited to be able to host them if they want to come back and see us and just kind of
061reciprocate because they took such good care of us. I want to take such good care of them and I'm so appreciative of it and it was a a once in a lifetime experience for all of us. I really want to say thank you all and Katherine for making this happen. Um the kids but seeing that what they did unfortunately this time I cannot go with them. However, I since last year we started our man program started doing like pimpale exchange and also the um the Tanese Taiwanese school came here and I know they really wanted to have a partnership and um with our school that's why we always keep in touch and they always they since last year they started invite us to go there to visit them. So I told the kids um if
062you are well behaved we can make this and of course this year the the kids are really really good. They are angels. I keep telling you that they are my angels and they are so well behaved and they are so respectful and they this is really breakthrough not for our mentoring program also for our egan school and also our school district. So everything just a really new and really just a big breakthrough. Um what I see from my students that after they came back they they keep telling me that oh I see I feel so appreciate because oh the student the Tanese student have to arrive to school at 7:30 in the morning. Uh and and their lunch is so good and M can you please tell the school district we also want delicious but
063they often they see the cultural differences they embrace different cultures and I feel also when I read their journals they also talk about their independent actually I didn't really think about that and they told me that how the host family treat them so well how welcoming they are and how they show appreciation to each other. I think the students this year this is really really it's very I think this is really the nonforgettable memory for them and they right now they started spreading the words to my seventh graders ask can we go check Taiwan next year and you know what that depends on your behavior yeah please very and so with that I want to thank um Honey Colmore, Principal Woo, and Principal Chen. We have a sister city schools agreement now with Link Co
064Junior High School. And so we're really proud. And what it says is we'll continue to endeavor to have partnerships um with the school there. And then as part of this partnership, um Almond Elementary recently had a delegation visit just last week that was focused on educational technology and AI. So again, thank you Raquel. But I have to thank Katherine Singh who has helped coordinate these. She is a board member in the Loscato Saratoga Union High School District, the district where um I came from. So thank you Catherine for this experience for our students in our district. Thank you. Thank you for this partnership. I think it's a it's great to see your student really this uh school district really have a wonderful student. They are very respectful. They're really smart and they really like to
065be with Katherine was with us in Taiwan. So, and Stella also got to join us an event over there. So, thank you so much. Thank you. [Music] What was the one thing that was most surprising to you about either the culture, the people, or the educational system that they have there? Um for me uh I learned that at their schools they first off they their high school is three years and their middle school is three years so or like their junior high so their junior high is 7th 8th and 9th and then their high school is 10th 11th and 12th grade and then also I learned that once you get a class like for example let's say you have a class in seventh grade you like stick with that class for all the periods and
066you like stay in the same classroom but then after that in eighth grade you stay with the same class you just all move up great and then you have to stay with you the same people so it's kind of hard to have friends like outside of your class cuz you won't really see them um their school starts earlier than Egan and it ends later than Egan so they're at school longer but I think it's also because they have like time in their schedules for like other like things like they have for like the first like 20 minutes after school starts they just clean their classroom. And then after lunch too, they also clean their classroom or after lunch they also have like 30 minutes for a nap time and so they all like in their
067classroom. I don't know. I didn't really like do it because when it was like nap time, our buddies like just took us on a tour of the school. But I guess it happened like every day. Um, one thing I found surprising was they all clean their school, so there's no janitor. So, like every class is a different part. And me and Maddie, we helped a little with that. And it was it was just different to see like how they do stuff. And also, like Giana said, having nap time, it was a little weird for us. But since they were at school for longer, it makes sense because I could not go that long to school. Something I felt the most surprised about was how easy I was able to um talk and communicate with my
068classmates at school. I thought I was going to be like the odd one out, but they just treated me like um I was like a long friend and like longtime friend and we just like just immediately like Okay, so me and Eric went to the same school. mine my experience is a little different than his. But uh one thing that surprised me the most was that the the meal time uh I'm pretty sure this was brought up earlier, but uh when it's like lunch time, you don't bring your own lunches. the school provides lunch and you can just bring like a bowl and then uh what happens is basically the food is kind of like catered towards your classroom but like it's kind of rolled in on this card and you just scoop the food
069up and put it in your bowl and then well once you're done uh you can kind of just put the put like your uh scraps your food scraps back and then it's composted and it's a little more efficient. that's more reusable. Uh, similar to what Eric said about the friendship, I was really surprised because um, some of the days I would make friends and then one time on Thursday, I think I met this one girl and we were going to leave after home room. So, it was just during home room that I saw her and then I got like her Instagram and like I started messaging her and then the next day she uh came to school really early. It was like she she told me, "Oh, I'll come at like 6:40 on the first
070quest to give you a gift cuz I had to wake up really early to get to uh wherever we were going cuz we were going somewhere that was pretty far." And then so I was really surprised that they would do so much with someone that they just met. I uh so I got a lot of Instagrams from people that I met there and so Friday was my birthday and one of the friends that I met there on Instagram she texted me happy birthday and it was really nice to see because I hadn't seen her in like a month but she still like texted me and said happy birthday. I'm not sure I'm not sure if this should be a surprise or whether it's like a good thing or a bad thing, but all the kids
071the kids English was like was pretty good and they all texted in English with us, too. Like we never texted Chinese. Do you feel that your Mandarin skills got a little stronger? Yes. Yes. How many of you speak Mandarin at home? All right, cool. I have a question. Do you guys learn simplified or traditional Chinese at school? That might be why they don't text you in Chinese because they do traditional. Well, we could like see that sometimes it's really easy to realize, oh, I know that character. I could assume what the next one is based on the situation. And also, um, a lot of like things online. You could just like translate really easily. So, I usually message them in English and they would message me in Mandarin. Well, I think you all represented our
072school district so beautifully. We're so proud of you and thank you so much for spending the evening with us and sharing about your trip. You guys are wonderful ambassadors, not just for the US, California, but also for our school district. So, thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you, my friend Catherine. Thank you to our teachers. And you're welcome to leave. Thank you. Thank you parents for trusting us. All right, we're going to move on to next item. the uh Laltus Educational Foundation annual grant memorandum of understanding. Uh Mrs. Hudan. Yes. So, as you know, we've had great partners with LAF for more than 40 years now and perhaps we've never had a formalized memorandum of understanding kind of detailing the details. So, uh, thank you to Heather and we're so appreciative always
073of, um, the LAF board and the work you all do to fund raise an enormous amount of money every year to, um, fill the gap of funding to make sure that we can provide an exceptional education. So, I think there might be some public comment tonight. Um, but tonight we're here to really get you to approve thatou as outlined. Um, and to celebrate the great partnership. Um, we have one public comment card. If anyone else wants to submit a card, now is a good time to do so. B, do you have any um clarifying questions? Any other requests for public? Thank you so much. Yeah, exactly. I want a washer and dryer. Uh, good evening everybody. Um, thanks. I know I know all of you, but just for anyone that doesn't, I'm Heather McDonald. I'm
074the executive director for the Los Altos Educational Foundation. And I'm joined, we have 21 board members that represent every school in our district. So, I'm joined by uh two of our board members. Christa Sanders, she's our uh current vice president, and Emily Harris, she is our immediate past president. And these are two amazing and wonderfully engaged people. Um, one of the things that I just wanted to say briefly is because we were listening to all of these beautiful comments about community. And um, one of the things that just is so amazing to me is that this organization was founded in 1982. So, I'm going to just talk briefly about, you know, 43 years of history without boring anybody. But the amazing thing is that this was founded by people that said, "We have to do
075something. There's a gap in what um public funding can provide for our students." And these people said, "We want to support um a well-rounded education for our students." And it was funny, we are still in touch with some of the founders, our first president, some of the founders, and it's really wonderful. And one of the stories that uh one of them told me is they weren't even sure if it was legal to do this in 1982 to start an education foundation. And they said they kept kind of looking over their shoulder and saying, you know, is this okay? Are we going to get in trouble or whatever. Um unfortunately, a lot of districts in the state of California now have education foundations for the very same reason. There's a gap in public funding. So anyway,
076it's just interesting to hear the stories and hear what they were uh what they've been doing all of these years. So, um we are a nonprofit education foundation uh led by parent volunteers as I said uh representing all nine schools. Sometimes we have people that are community members as well that don't have kids in the students uh representing um a school or or the whole community. Um, we raise funds um to provide teachers and staff for essential programs and we benefit every single student in TK through 8 in our district. Since its founding, we have contributed nearly $62 million to LSD. So, it's a a lot of money. Um, we strive to be transparent with our community. Um, in addition to all the information that we have on our website, we have FAQs, we have
077an annual report, we post our tax return, all those kind of things and just like the district, we are also uh audited by an independent um audit firm. um we thought that this made sense to just come and um put together anou that was just really transparent for the community and um just to kind of reassure everyone of you know what we're doing um and how we worked with the district and um I just want to say that we are so pleased to partner with the district with the PTAs with businesses and the broader community um because the broader community does actually help fund these programs And so we're really pleased to be here and have a meaningful impact on all the students and thank you for your time tonight. Appreciate it. Thank you, Heather.
078Thanks. Hi Mike. Um would any board members like to provide comment on this agenda item? Okay, I just wanted to thank LF and Heather for being here and um for all that you do for our community. We have a motion to approve the 202526 Laltus Educational Foundation annual grant memorandum. Understanding move. Thank you, Vladimir. We have a second. I'll second. Thank you, Stella. Motion to approve the 202526 Educational Foundation annual grant memorandum of understanding was made by Vladimir, seconded by Stella. Um, any further board discussion? Great. Okay. Then all in favor? I any opposed? Any abstensions? Thank you so much. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you so much, Heather. Emily. Awesome. All right, we're going to move on to our public hearing. The California School Employees Association, chapter 103, initial proposal to the Los Alto School
079District for the 2022 25 successor agreement. Uh Dr. Bosco. Yes. Um so this evening there are there are four agenda items. The first two are the CSAs in the short proposal and the second two are the districts. And so we'll just open this public hearing with I'll share the articles that um our classified school employees are opening as article 13 compensation article six employment and assignments article 11s article 16 miscellaneous provisions and article 22 agreement. I was supposed to tap the gap. Thank you. Yeah, all of them. Um, are there any questions from the board? Okay. Um, are there any requests for public comment? Seeing none, public comment is closed. Uh, the hearing is now the public hearing is now closed. Discussion. Okay. Thank you. We're going to move on to the next item. The
080initial proposal of the California School Employers Association chapter 103 Southwest School District for the 2022 25 successor agreement. Um if anyone would like to provide public comment on this item now, please submit a speaker card now. Dr. Bosman. Oh yes. So um this would be the board considering to accept the initial proposal from the classified school employee association. Thank you. question. What does accept mean? Um, you're you're receiving their just receiving negotiations. And are there any requests for public comment? Public comment is now closed. Uh, would any board members like to provide additional comment on this agenda item? No. Okay. Then may I please have a motion to accept the initial proposal of the California School Employees Association Chapter 103 School District for the 2022 2025 successor agreement. Thank you Vladimir. May I have a
081second? I'll second. Thank you, Stella. Right. Motion to accept the initial proposal of the California School Employees Association chapter 103 Los Alto School District for the 2022 successor agreement was made by Vladimir and seconded by Stealth. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Great. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. We have another public hearing now. Uh Losa School District initial proposal to the California School Employees Association chapter 103 for the 2022 25 successor agreement. The public hearing is now open. proposes the following initial proposal articles 13 compensation 21 insurance six employment and assignments 10 recclassification 11 leaves 16 miscellaneous provisions 19 severance and retirement of full-time employees including early retirees 20 severance of contractual provisions 22 agreement we're going to be busy Thank you. There any questions from the board? Are there any uh public
082comment? No. Okay. Public comment is now closed. Right. The public hearing is now closed. Any further board discussion? Okay. We're going to move on to the next item. the initial proposal of the Salta School District to the California School Employees Association chapter 103 for the 2022 25 successor agreement. Um, if anyone would like to provide public comment, please submit a card. Dr. Boston. Yes. So, this evening we would like to request that the board accept the initial proposal of the district to the classified school employee association. Thank you. Um, any public comment? Okay. Public comment is now closed. Uh would any board members like to provide further comment on this agenda? No. Okay. Then may I please have a motion to accept the initial proposal of Lala School District to the California School Employees Association
083chapter 103 2022 to 25 successor agreement. Thank you Vladimir. May I have a second? I'll second. Thank you. So motion to accept the initial proposal of Gala School District to the California School and Voice Association chapter 103 2022 to 25 successor agreement was made by Vladimir and seconded by Stella. All in favor please say I. Any opposed? Any extensions? Great. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Busy very busy. It's never a dull moment. All right, moving on. Resolution number 24/25-14 transfer of funds means special retirey reserve funds for the general district has been uh for the last several years we've had a fund 20 and we we've only had about $14,000 in that fund and it's it's earned a little bit of interest over the years. Uh but we do a pay as you go. So,
084for retiree benefits, uh we pay every year. This year, we're budgeting about 1.2 million for retiree benefits. Uh some districts will actually transfer money from the general fund to um have money in there, but then when the expenditures happen, you actually have to transfer the money back to the general fund for the expenditure portion. Uh but it's uh but we're not contributing to that fund. Uh and so we felt it's not really necessary for us to to keep track of a separate fund for only $15,000. So, we're asking the board tonight to uh approve this resolution. This will allow us to transfer the money back to the general fund, which is fund 01. Uh and then we will close county treasury. Thank you. Are there any clarifying questions from the board? Okay. Um are there
085any requests for public comments? Public comment. Does that any further comment for members on this agenda item? Then may I please have a motion to for for resolution number 24/25-14 transfer of funds from the special retirey reserve fund to the general fund. So move. Thank you Vladimir. I have a second. I'll second. Thank you Stella. Any further board discussion? All right. Motion to uh approve resolution number 24/25-14 transfer of funds from the special retirey reserve fund to the general fund as made by Vladimir and seconded by Stella. Since it's a resolution, we'll take a roll call vote. Ryan, yes. Vladimir, yes. Jim, yes. Stell, yes. I too vote yes. Motion passes unanimously. I almost called you Steve. Oh, Steve. That's why I like had to pause. Look at you. Who are you? Why are you
086at my meeting? But your administration comments, uh, two things. I want to acknowledge Sandra Gole because I had I always have fun at um at Junior Olympics, but this year was more fun than others. She g she gave very detailed instructions to the mascots during mascot mania and mascot mania is at the very end of the day or it's kind of in the middle about 1:30 and the mascots have to go through this obstacle course and there's a picture on our website and had it was a great picture of Sandra like telling them the directions and the mascots were really cute. They had to make sure their heads didn't come off. And then but um but before we went out on the track, the mascots were so cute. They were like actually hugging each other
087like, "Oh, you're Lucy. You're from, you know, another school." And they were really cute. And the moms and dads were great because they were really making sure they were ready on time. Um so it's really a fun event. And uh so thank you for acknowledging Lo because he does so much for our district. He has students in our district. It's really neat to see him come as a as an employee, but also as a parent. Um and then my favorite thing is actually I got a note. So um last about two weeks ago I got to go visit Sarah Quigley who's a third grade teacher at Oak and they did a project-based learning activity. Uh Rich Julian was over there. He was um helping out uh to cover for Nikita was gone. And uh the
088kids had the most fascinating project. It took them weeks and weeks of learning. And the kids were wonderful for third grade. the level of learning that was going on. Uh Sarah Quickley, amazing teacher. The kids were on point. They all got up and spoke. They were well spoken. Um it was just super fun. And I got a really nice little thank you card from the kids. Thank you for coming to our playground pres. They really like their playground. They want like a a lazy river. It feels super fun for them. Thank you for coming to our playground presentation. We hope you can incorporate an inclusive structure of the playground and they all signed it. So, it's really nice for the kids to do that. Uh, and I'm going to make sure I go over there
089and and say hi and thank you to all them. Uh, but Sarah could a great job with her kids. Um, but the kids were super fun. That's kind of why we're in this business for the kids and when we see all the kids presentations, it really kind of makes the economy worth it. Thank you to the foundation being great partners to help fund some of the programs for our kids. So, thank you. So, that's it for tonight. It's a very full circle moment. Yeah. Um, uh, I think I'll just add thank you for allowing me to take Friday off. I enjoyed my son's graduation. I have a college graduate on Saturday, so it was wonderful. It really happened. He's not on the books yet, but it's your son, your retirement plan. No, your empty neester.
090Yes. Yes. That is exciting, Stella. Oh, well, uh, Catherine's not here anymore, but I wanted to thank her and Carrie for inviting me to the, um, the meeting with the Ministry of Education folks from Taiwan at Almond, and that was really great. And I seem to have missed the memo also on the We Are LD shirt. Please don't leave me out next time. Just always wear it. I'm just taking Jim's like fashion lead here. Thank you, Stephen. uh doing the Olympics. Brian, um speaking of organizational founders, on Sunday I attended an event for living classroom, um which is the sort of the nonprofit arm. There's a little bit of two organizations thing going on. So, we run our living classroom sort of internally here at LSD, but the nonprofit still exists and run programs in
091M Wisman and a few other schools. and Vicky Moore spoke and I bring it up only because when she created the program a number of years ago um she sort of happened to the idea at the same time as there was an instructional gardens program at the state level which provided additional funding. She has been working with legislators and there was actually a bill this year SB 341 which will reauthorize that program. Um and then she's hoping to sort of she says this is step one get the reauthorization and then step two we'll be getting some money behind it. Um but there's an effort to revitalize that state. Sorry just mention that because it's such a great program in our district. And then what's that? Well, then we attended coast to coast. Um got a
092meeting with some of our congress people's staff. Yes. And got to hear from some other congress people to say. It just my time. It was interesting. It was it was really good. Thank you. And um it was the I without sounding political like the the the vibe I guess of the mood in DC is a little different this year than it has been in the past. Um but what I did find really gratifying is um you know the state of California we all assume that politically we're all one party and we're not. And uh but it was nice to see that there are other school board trustees of different political leanings but all of us kind of advocating together for public education. And so I thought that was like a really powerful moment. And I
093don't know if that got amplified during the the session but it was really it was really good. And I think we had a really good meeting with um Congressman Licardo's education policy person. So I hope that you know and I'm going to reach out to him tomorrow. It's on my to-do list is make sure that we're on his consult list when he has questions about public education. That's fabulous. Yeah. And I guess I'll see most of you at the Hoffman dinner tomorrow night. I would like to just my Oh, Wednesday. I was going to say we won the Hoffman award last year. So, it really is um a celebration of some of the best of the best for our computer science program. Thank you very much. I was just going to comment that we could
094ask various different legislators to come to like graduations and like the exposure. No, I think that's actually a great idea. We should probably invite Senator Congress just with that. I'd like to adjourn tonight's meeting. Thanks everyone. Keeper.