001good evening everyone Welcome to our board meeting um follow the meeting to order a recording and our broadcast of this meeting is being made at the direction of the board which may capture images and sounds of those attending the meeting I will now take the role Brian pres GL here here s here Jim here and I are K here as well oh I think we have some students who are going to lead us in the col Alle a little birie tell me and would you would you like to as well your brother Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands would any board members like to provide a comment on tonight's agenda then may I have a motion to approve tonight's agenda as presented thank you vladim second thank
002you Stella a motion to approve the agenda as presented by Vladimir seconded by Stella all in favor any opposed any extensions excellent motion passes all right close session report uh in close session Direction was given to staff but no action was taken in close session tonight now move on to the superintendent's update have a quick update for you tonight because I know we have our eager guests uh three items one is I hope you received an email from Claire crane about our wellness centers at both block and Egan opening next week we are so excited we have Egan opening on Monday blocks opening on Tuesday we hope that if you're able to make one or both of them that would be terrific I want to thank um Jen Walker who's one of our uh former
003School psychologists and mental health therapist who's now been working with us for this special project Claire crane of course our mental health therapist at both junior high schools and of course Connie and Wade who are lead leading the charge um along with Jen Piper uh were Opening Our wellness centers and really able to establish them with a series of three different grants um so we're so thankful for that opportunity to really support our kids at the junior high schools so we hope to see you there um just a time and date stamp next Thursday the 13th we have a minimum day for students that's a time for teachers to have some extra work time and our classified um AIDS have some training options for that shortened day because that is a work day for them
004so we're happy for that to happen on the 13th and then I'm going to ask you I did not put this in my weekly update to you to hold the date of March 28th if you're available it's Friday from 3:30 to 5: working with Mountain View High School's uh Tech intern team and Dr Kip Glazer Glazer the principal over there uh March 28th is National AI literacy day and they're going to be hosting an AI Workshop we'll be inviting students parents and staff members to join us with the ultimate goal is we're going to get a report from these very talented and amazing high school students that will help inform our philosophy statement around AI as a district so we're really excited and you will get it will be over at block you'll get an
005actual formal invite we'll share it out to the communities um but I just want you to get that date on the calendar because it's coming up quickly that's great that's exciting very exciting that's it for my update tonight hey oh best part of the evening our school presentation I understand we have both in the house yeah all right well good evening everyone as you uh as you all know uh LD Focus for this year is deeper learning and Oak has been the principles of per deeper learning our purpose agency community and learning by doing and so you see that in all grades starting TK all the way up to sixth grade at Oak and we thought what a wonderful Peak it would be for you all to see what our little list grade does with
006deeper learning and so here's Miss White our amazing TK teacher good evening so I'm going to go through a couple of sort of adult slide grown-up slides and then I'm going to let our some of our TK students talk about how this isn't happens in action in TK so guiding principles of early childhood education naeyc that is the most highly respected organization um that weighs in on developmentally appropriate um practi practices and I think you'll see as as you kind of glance through the some of the the vocabulary that jumps out that ties in so much with deeper learning exercise through intentional teaching Educators blend opportunities for children to exercise choice and agency um support specific learning experiences be active Constructors of their own understanding initiate and regulate their own learning activities and interact with
007peers right it's just so it couldn't be more um I think more closely aligned and we kind of are the foundation then hopefully of launching kids up into that that way of learning as they go on so a few more again quotes to kind of peruse but um uh their statement on developmentally appropriate practice as you know assumes children are born eager to learn they take Delight in exploring their world and making connections and I just boled some of the language again delight and wonder and learning joyful learning maximizing opportunities um and then I also wanted to to kind of point out the ignment with our new preschool transitional kindergarten learning foundations because those are the the core um it's different from the standards it's different from kindergarten and up standards but it is the
008the what drives um best practices in um in our TK realm and it's just new with the state came out last uh last summer and so again the integrated nature of learning and I I pulled out this quote in particular mathematics skills um and they detail out noticing patterns collecting or interpreting data um they those flow right into the scientific process where car children carry out investigations and document um and interpret their observations um when Early Education experiences build on what children know and invite them to use their own skills and knowledge playfully across domains they thrive in Learning and Development so again it just all goes together and then the quote from Dr Meta at the the bottom there from um an interview with in the Harvard Gazette on Neer learning being not just
009is the understanding not just of the surface features but those underlying structures and ideas which is always what we're we're aiming for and you're going to see a couple places where we further integrate the little project we're going to talk about tonight with other things going on through the year so okay so this is what we and it we couldn't have timed this better you guys it's amazing so since January we have been visiting online um the live stream of the you've may be seen it on the news now but we've been watching it since January when we came back from break empty nest seeing the Jackie and Shadow the male and female B Eagles that live there uh knowing that their their time of laying eggs would be coming in January and so we
010started watching before and then what happened how many eggs did they learn three and so it was very exciting and so we started this inquiry project I offered this as a provocation as a see if they're interested in what they want to learn about it there's there's endless ways you could go and so these were just some of the the questions that came up how many eggs at the very very beginning how long until they hatch how does Jackie stay warm when it snows which it does a lot when do the babies leave the nest and so is holding our again a preliminary sort of and this was done as a a shared writing where they we kind of co-constructed the text I did the writing but they um they came up with the the
011question so um we've had this as our focus and they laid eggs on let's see if we can see that's today's so you can see that based on this we've kind of been documenting what we've been observing and found that um right around January 22nd she laid the first day and then a couple of days later she laid the second egg and then she laid a third which was a bit surprising um and so we've been watching and this week happens to be the week that they was hip watch and so today two of the eggs are starting to hatch wow did not plan that but it last year none of them she laid too and they just didn't hatch so that is the that is when you you enter into doing a project like
012this it is a very much a life science it happens right so these were further questions today questions about hatching how do they make a pip so they've learned some specific vocabulary and talking about incubating and hatching and the PIP is what is the PIP it's the first little you just so it's it's really been fun and so that's the project and we have the charts in there in the slides as well um the observations so I'm modeling for them as we go um guiding and then leading them you know sort of what are they but what are they wondering and that's why it's never the same year to year no matter what group of students you do this with um and then before we move into theirs this is where you see it play
013out I've seen them doing dramatic play out on the playground where they're chasing each other around and you know two of them are Japan Shadow and one is a raven that came and tried to get into the nest and you see it spontaneously happening in their play which is another their oral language is being impacted um but I went out we have an interesting tree in the yard at um at o and it's lower to the ground but all of a sudden we saw some BS in all different places where because we've talked about how do you build a nest it's it's a lot harder than it might seem but it was just it made me feel really good to go out and see that I was starting to see them figuring trying out like
014testing out on their own that's very child directed that was not uh that was not anything specific that I told them to do so now when don't you let come up and do you want would you like to go stand on Scarlet so I have four and shy with the you help with the Volcan not yet okay all right so stand on up and here here's what you're going to do you are going to talk about I want you to tell what is something they're just briefly going to let you know what was the question you had and what have you what's been the most interesting thing about learning and observing these eals anybody want to go first what have you really been interested in R how do they build a how they build have
015we found out the answer to that yet we haven't found it out but what have we observed on the webcam what have we observed that doing else bring sck go okay so hold on to that but how about you what's something super fun that you've gone home and talked to Mom and Dad about that you think it's really interesting about e e do you want to just stand that okay so who thought it was amazing when we saw the raven come and try to get their eggs were you worried about what might happen what did you notice Jackie did wing on she flapped her wings on the nest to scare that was how she communicated to the Raven so C don't the begin okay so now let's turn your pictures over and Evelyn I'm gonna
016move you over here have a me right here and then Scarlet you can go ahead and turn your picture so they can see and then this way and then ran you go stand by Scarlet where would you me okay so Evelyn Evelyn is holding the picture of the PIP that we saw sorry this is after lunch okay okay let's switch okay Scarlet what picture are you showing them what did we start to see the very first p and we got a really good picture but then by Evelyn what had happened b c a bigger pip and a second egg started to show the beginnings and then what did your show at the very end of the day before we left it you could see you can actually start to see the theab in there and
017what's happened to the other egg it's even bigger so we're going to have two but we don't know if it's going to be tomorrow or tonight and there's still a little bit of snow on that Nest okay you guys can go back and sit down okay so the other thing I wanted to do briefly was there's a lot that goes on and it's very much a lot of oral language in in the TK classroom we're beginning to get into the literacy pieces of them eventually having an observation Journal that they're keeping on because we're also going to be observing the Cal outs uh when that happens and doing some compare contrast so they'll begin to document and so we're putting those literacy developing literacy sorry alphabet skills to work um um so that will be
018coming as soon as we have more um there we go as soon as we have a little bit more to work with um but they also I the parents I think given that the products that they're producing are not necessarily something that I can show you it's it's being in the middle of it but I know the parents have um talked to me at different times so I thought it might be an little insight into what's how the students are bringing Hess learning and where it's going so would you pleas like to just come stand up and tell a little bit about just okay yes yeah thank you so my name is Arun and my name so we have two boys Rohan is TK and aush is in fourth grade and we have been part
019of the district for about since I was in first grade so first of all we are very glad to be part of the Oak Community uh It Feels Like You Just Right invite coming out of Co into the community in particular we have been really thrilled about the TK program Miss White Miss Samantha and Miss sha have been so welcoming to the students each um I'll just give you a little bit of a perspective into how our dinner table conversations happened um of course we start talking about how our day went and immediately Rohan in particular is sharing with us big words about condensation precipitation and then he's talking about songs that he's learning part of his science curriculum in particular recently he started talking about some stories about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King
020and doesn't start off with the way the story is he just starts talking about something and then he says I have a dream and then and then he talks about the bus incident and then he talks about how you know uh if I have a ticket I have a right to be there and as we talk to him we learn about the stories that are being read in school and how they comprehend that and in fact we were not aware of the Jackie and Shadow project till they started talking and listening to that at school so it's amazing to see how much effort is being put in the classroom to uh to do real life learning and observe and learn and I would just add to that and it just shows how curious these kids
021are and it's just like they are like like sponge for ready to you know absorb everything what is being told to them and just excited and just hoping them to continue that Journey learning and I would like to thank M Miss White and M sh and missa for just helping them out and building the Curiosity thank you and MRA I'm Mitra rosar Roy's M I would Echo all of those comments the two examples I'll share are um one that Roya comes home from school and announces triumphantly mom huge news today and it's always about Jackie and Shadow it's not about any of her classmates because I think she really believes they're part of the class you know they're so integrated into all of the things they learn we actually have looked up where their nest
022is to see if it's feasible to visit we wondered if we could hi get closer to them and the second thing I'll share is the sophistication of what they're learning you mentioned the precipitation of apparation is so far beyond what certainly I was doing at ages four and five um the example I'll uh call back to is lya's learning about volcanoes and she says Mom do you know dormant is different from extinct no you not just active but they're different kinds of sleepy and it's just Way Beyond anything that I would have imagined she learning so thank you to Mrs White and Samantha for really giving them I think an experience far beyond what um you know my generation received as as a young hi I'm Jessica um oh I'm Evelyn's Mom this is my
023first year as a in the Los alas School District um she's my only child um when she first started she didn't know any countries and she came home start seeing the Asia Africa song oh you know song and then one day she's like asked me mommy the super and Super Bowl rhyme I'm like no but then over time she got it like Al so lime and Li yeah so it took a lot of time at first she thought it was leg sound it started the same but now she like got gets rhyming and I love that and I've seen her grown up so much like one day someone asked her what's your name she's like I'm Evelyn e v e l so she's like really learned her letters and developed a lot of um yeah
024like confidence as well so I love that for her and I'm like grateful for Mrs White Miss Samantha Miss shelle and excited to see how she grows and Jane and Jane has had two children in TK yeah I'm Jan and I have three kids at Oak and my two younger ones got a chance to be in Mrs White's class um I think the first year that Mrs White came toak Oak was my middle one's first year as teer and uh it's been absolutely amazing watching her go through the entire year and then watching uh Scarlet go through as well and I remember when Josephine was learning same thing Continent song I think there was a planet song and then I remember seeing they kept the bird log like a I think it's a weekly or
025monthly log of the birds and I I don't think I think the Eagles did not hatch but then the paragan Falcons that they looked at in the spring they followed that and they did hatch I remember looking at her Journal like oh my gosh they're literally drawing pictures of like from the eggs to when they hatch and it's funny because then tonight I was telling Scott I said yeah the bir meeting and I said yeah going to talk about the birth and I said yeah so what's been going well there's a pit I was like what's a pit I was like oh so the chicks are fully eating no it's a pip I said so she had explaining me what P was um and then uh she we were talking about going to Utah um
026and so she told me she's like yeah I want to draw a map I want to know where Utah is and I asked Mrs White to show me where the states are and so she Drew it's California believe Nevada in Utah and then she held up the map and then she actually took it to Utah with her um which great and then one last thing so when Josephine when my middle one was going to TK uh because they learned so much about plants life cycle and all of that I remember at the end of the school year she said Mommy I can't decide if I want to be a farmer or a teacher thank you so much um so that's that that speaks more than I could I can tell you about what I do
027that's my hope is that this is what happens um is that that's always the potential we have in the classroom um and the last thing and this is this is all because of Roya so when we talk about student centered and inquiry um Roya particularly has been wanting to learn about volcanoes all through the year and so we've talked and done little bits but um we generated a big list of questions so Roya helped get this started and then but there was another page I didn't bring all the papers that I have um but I am also using um an AI tool that is um from a company called learning Genie which is geared in the EC it's it's the ECE world and they have a really amazing AI tool that lets a teacher put
028in student questions and tell it to generate um using which ptls switch learning you know foundations um I want to use how many weeks I want it to be including small group and whole group all kinds of other things and then it will generate and it will generate um it's generated for this unit that we're starting kind of after the hatching takes place um a way to go through and make sure so I can say here's the interest how can I sort of make sure efficiently that I know oh there's some Avenues here to get some other teaching and that's related to the the preschool transitional kindergarten learning foundation so that's kind of there's there's two things going on in balance at once but um I just I wanted to I invite you to come
029at open house in May for us because hopefully all of this will you'll see all kinds of more information about um the investigating and the inquiry that they're doing so thank your students for being so great and standing up and talking to us explaining I didn't know what it was and some of the questions were like oh how do they keep the nest think about it and we we just don't as adults sometimes pause to say I wonder I wonder about that so it's it's a delight on my end to be able to be in that environment with them to get to wonder it's very clear how much you love I just want well thank you again when superintendent mcgonagal said our TK was going to present on deeper learning I had no idea what
030to expect to be deeper learning is what you do in like high school and college so this is amazing so thank you so much example thank you move on to the consent calendar would any board members like to provide comment on the consent calendar okay then we have a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented so move thank you glad is there a second I'll second thank you Stella motion to um proove the consent calendar as presented was made by Vladimir seconded by Stella all in favor I any opposed exensions motion passes thank you employee requests to address the board um was Alex going to back I go I have to say too I appreciate not having the podium I was a little stressed this afternoon thinking where are my little and I'm not
031that much taller so thank you thank you so much um okay so Alex wanted to share that um and I'm just on her behalf um she uh said I wanted to emphasize that we care deeply about our Student Success as a as a union um we are teachers and I think you can see from my presentation we we bring a lot to um into the classroom every day um uh not just showing up and leaving but we are really committed to fostering meaningful connections uh with our students and families and um constantly seeking ways to engage support and demonstrate that we truly know and care for them um and as students work as Educators working directly with students every day um we value building strong Partnerships within the district and we're proud to have partnered
032with laf their recent launch of the uh deeper learning grant program um this initiative allows us to bring valuable learning experiences and materials into the classroom that will enhance the student experiences um we've also been working closely with District administrators to ensure um that educator feedback is integral in shaping decisions um that directly impact our students and the lcap will serve as a another tool for educators um to provide critical insights on how we can partner to continue to to meet and improve the way that we meet the needs of students in um in all of our programs um we value collaborating with the district and our parent Community um because these Partnerships as you could see tonight are are really um benefit the whole system so that was on behalf of Alex thank you
033do we have anyone from C excellent just saying on behalf of CA thank you to cabinet and the school board for the strong compensation package that is coming before you tonight um CCA members and our classified staff really are the backbone it is our work that happens often behind the scenes that is not visible that allows teachers to do the amazing work that is visible and directly with our student community and we know that this raise it really will help improve both retain some of our really fantastic staff we already have but also Recruit new really well qualified staff to do that as essential work and by doing that it really will make our community stronger and so thank you on behalf of our Union thanks thank you right moving on public comment to provide
034public comment on an agenda item speaker cards are to be submitted to the superintendent speaker cards will not be accepted once public comment begins your name will be announced when it is your turn to speak so we're going to move 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-agenda 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 it looks like we only have two speakers tonight so Eric can we give them three minutes each Finish First
035will be K Nicholson and then hatb hello for those of you who don't know me my name is kson I'm a gardener buis parent and the Executive Vice President of the gardener PTA um I'm speaking tonight as I wanted to share with the board how excited The Gardener Community was to be the host of the first districtwide spelling bee last week uh with nearly 100 students from five of the elementary schools uh it was really heartwarming to see children from across the district engage in friendly competition we received positive feedback from many parents at multiple schools about how successful the event was we want to express a special thank you to our principal Kate skimmer horn who bent over backwards to make this event happen um well Kate does amazing things on a regular basis
036she deserves special recognition for making this event possible in such a short time frame the Gardner bows PTA appreciates the continued support of the district for events like the spelling be and we look forward to continuing further collaboration with both the district and the other ptas to expand to other inter school events like the spelling be we believe they are important not only for facilitating better overall community relations within the district but also for furthering student skills like public speaking and resilience in low stakes competition thank you thank you everyone one of the things I do is I volunteer at the AL school homework program part of the ELO program and I want to thank everyone who helped create this program um Mr Martine the teacher in the classroom does great work with the students
037he creates a safe place it's very culturally congruent for the kids in a wonderful way the kids are very focused and they're learning it's great to U help support them I believe that all the students there are Latino socioeconomically disadvantage kids and the data says that across the whole District um every subject only 27 to 36% of these kids are achieving a great level they they really need all the extra help uh we can give them and the research shows that programs like this are one of the most effective interventions in making a difference in student performance so I want to specifically thank Denise colid who I know took I think it was kind of a courageous step to say we're going to do it right she had I think just taken over responsibility for
038the program and she made the decision to do it and I know she's providing ongoing support so I hope that we can find ways to expand it next year at mman we're currently helping fifth and sixth graders and a few fourth graders and I know the younger kids would benefit as well so I think it would be I know I mean with conviction we money very well St there earlier we can help the kids the greater Leverage is is there to help them succeed I've heard great things about the program The Parallel program at Santa Rita I've never been there because I'm at all but please share my thanks with everyone who is making this happen and please consider ways that we can do more this next year thank you other question um the program
039you're talking about was the homework program or El program it's both both okay right thank you next we'll move on to action and discussion items the art dosent program update Kimberly Dickerson art dosent coordinator will provide an update on the art dosent program nice to see you guys it's been a while and welcome to the new board members thank you for inviting me today it's always um great to tell you a little bit about what's happening in the art world so here I am for those of you who don't know who are new to the district new to the board um we are a program that started 55 years ago and there was budget cuts for the Arts and um we've provided art education for our district for those 55 years we're very proud of
040that Sarah leev and I are the employees who work um in the office who coordinate with the teachers where the leis on with the dosens the staff and the District administration so um in that 55 years our mission has remained the same to stimulate at an early age a child's awareness of Art and to help him or her understand its processes through both appreciation and participation and we think that both of those are equally as important um a little bit about what able to for it manually or do we need to restart it chat through some of this but um in last school year um we were very excited to give to the students of the district a total of 700 lessons um we had 100% of the teachers signing up for lessons in their
041classroom and overall we had a 97% order rate for the lessons the teachers can choose what what and when they want to schedule things so this is the highest order rate that we've ever had um in my lifetime I think in the lifetime of the of the program as well and I really attribute this to the fact that we as a program are um listening to what the teachers are saying we're changing our lessons we're adapting to new teaching styles and new curriculum and we're always updating and changing things so um I was very excited that last year we offered a total of 51 unique lessons across the eight grade levels and um over Co we started doing some video lessons so we have a library of 150 video lessons lessons the teachers can use
042um to do art projects on their own um with their own resources in the classroom so we see that those are used periodically throughout the year as well so they are getting more art than us just coming into the into the classroom um in last year we introduced two new lessons in kindergarten a printing lessons with um the children using both cardboard and their fingerprints to print um different trees of the seasons and then in sixth grade a lesson called pleasing pastels which um ties into the math curriculum with ratios and the golden ratio um and the Fibonacci sequence so I'm very excited to introduce those two lessons last year um we also had four Student Art shows last year uh we had one community art show uh we started something new with gallery9 and
043we were able to collect one piece of art from each grade level at four schools and display those at gallery 9 Downtown it was a wonderful time where they had gallery 9 artists there and then our children artists came in with their families and they talked and they you know they learned so much from each other it was an amazing event and we're excited to be continuing that this year as well and last year I also uh redesigned our website we hav done that for years and years so now I can actually do versus somebody who computer science you're do is wonderful so we're very happy happy about that gr at pleas um this year we are strong and continue to grow in both size and breadth um we have 72 returning dosant this year
044which is back to our preco um numbers so we're very excited about that we have 20 new trainees in our training class this year and this year we offered 54 lessons so that means we have three new lessons this year that that we offered uh we will have art shows at the PR um other schools at Alman on April 3rd go have an art show Covington on April 24th and then on um May 22nd for Leola and are open houses so if you're there at the open house please pop in and the all time to see the art um and we will be doing the gallery mine exited as well um in junee so if you're downtown pop in and see the Student Art here um the new lessons that we offered this year uh
045just more onk since that population and classrooms are growing so we designed a lesson called line box which explores line and color U they use temper sticks which are paint stick um so they can they love it because it's really bold and it goes on nice like lipstick it's easy to control it's great for their fine motor um and teachers and distance love it because it's not as messy and it dries really fast so we've seen some great results with that lesson and then our pattern portrait lesson is I think my favorite lesson where we talk about patterns that they're studying AB patterns and the kids actually can make a background that's based on how they're feeling and they can use large and small or different colors or different shapes and create a pattern and
046then we add their picture for a pattern portrait um and first grade we added a lights color collage lesson which ties into the science curriculum um transparency translucency and opacity kids get to um create a piece of art that has all of those areas in it and also do some color mixing with tissue paper so they can use the primary colors to make secondary colors and I'm excited because we actually used the old scraps from the laminators at each of the schools as the foundation base for this so I feel like I'm doing one for the environment here I'm excited cycling um and both all three of those lessons have really done well this is a chart that shows the number of lessons that we offer per grade level um as you can see in
047the blue those are the lessons um that we offered the previous year and this year in the red the number of off of lessons that we offer um this year at that grade level so our goal in our Five-Year Plan is to increase um the lower grade levels we would like to see eight lessons at um each grade level across the board but we know we have to kind of take our time and do this slowly introduce three three lessons this year we um are working on two uh lessons for second grade that we'll introduce next year and we're going to test those out this month we're actually very excited about those um so we we are making progress but we know that we need to to go slowly um to keep the Integrity of
048the program going uh this year we also switched from our old green lesson feedback form to a new electronic feedback um living classroom's been doing this for years and we were actually seen that more teachers returned the paper versus the electronic but there was a little switch last year so we switched over to the electronic um feedback form as well which is great I find that the feedback that the teachers put in the electronic form are actually more um enriched there's more information about what we can do to help um the next time we teach that lesson or in general with with the content so I'm really happy with with how that has gone um so every year we have new team for our our um program this helps us uh provide the program for
049ongoing education for our distance um kind of helps me just come up with a theme and this year our theme is Art it's good for you our chair Karen in is nutrition and she really believes in this as well she's seen it in the Health Care System um she has just noticed um that when art is around it supports positive outcomes for patients for their loved ones for the providers and for as a whole so we really putus on here um to back that up the World Health Organization reports that therapeutic benefits of art are many including just while you're appreciating art looking at And discussing art you um are encouraged to be present and mindful to observe and interpret your surroundings um this relaxation and examination improves concentration we know can help myself included
050um by actually doing art you're engaging um in art you are given a safe outlet for self-expression especially when some topics are very hard to express verbally so um that visual component is is amazing it helps provide stress release the act of repeating or finding your Zone when you're creating something allows you really to immerse yourself in in the activity um it can provide emotional healing um by providing that non-verbal outlet for recovery and reflection and it enhances self-esteem so in short it's good for your mental health and as dosens we're trying to add more mindfulness to our work this year and we hope that it shows um in our instruction with the kids as well so um I just wanted to say I'm so excited to be a part of a community that supports
051the Arts so much I really appreciate our partnership with LEF with the district staff and the teachers and the administration um I feel honored that you all support our program as well please feel free to reach out to me anytime to talk about anything my office is fre and if you have any questions please let me know right now thank you so much was wonderful I don't think we've had like a presentation on the artram it's been a long time board question um any plans toes mid Journey or Val oh we actually do have some Del in our um in our lessons we're our Focus going forward is to really try to come up with some um more contemporary artists that are underserved um from underserved communities so we're really trying to make a focus
052to have other people and cultures represented in the art that we Show versus old DE like gu but we do have um I know you mentioned the shows that were coming up during open house I know this is a topic that comes up at least in my school Community um we would like to see art doent work every year at open and I know there's some things about that but I'm just commenting that if we could come up with a way to show off the art dos program every year year when parents were there that would be good for everybody I would love that I just don't know how to physically make that I mean maybe not the full art show but anyway just make and certainly teachers do highlight their art doen art in
053their classroom too and I I usually try to get them a little sign like this is an art do project so that they know that but I understand where you're coming um maybe we can think about other ways to do that in the grand it just came up day frh for parents to see what their LF donation is actually doing it's you and our PT are paying for the consumables yeah they are a great example but I think you could do that on a smaller scale yeah anyway it just was on my mind thank you so much for coming to you know whenever there's no parking in the lot a to tell whether I'm an art J Center but I don't we can make that thank you so much oh our local control and accountability
054plan are your report Dr Bost thanks all right good evening it's my pleasure to bring a midye update for local control accountability plan um in February we like to just come forward with a brief update you have the attached report and then the executive summary happy report we're making good progress or have completed all 18 of the actions in the four areas and I thought I would just highlight some wins and successes and then some next steps as well um in goal one we talk about thriving students and that group of students who've been chronically absent has reduced by 50% between last year and this year so half of the number of schools are in the red and all nine of our schools have made Improvement We R up an attendance process and a manual
055and a procedure and really excited report we're working through independent study programs and improving student attendance we know that leads to better uh academic outcomes for kids in the area of empowered educator you've heard La talk about the implementation of the teacher Advisory Group that's been a really positive new addition in the district with teachers from All N schools coming forward and providing input and subject areas they're interested in talking about we meeting with our classified staff tomorrow and input Le listening session and we've done listening sessions at all M schools so that's been a helpful way to improve um the input procedures and collaboration with our our employees in the area of engaged families I'm really excited to let you know that our new communications director Lynette white will be coming next board meeting
056an update um on District Communications we've been looking at ways that we can streamline Communications and and keep it easy including looking at different platforms and then finally as kimley mentioned in the area of finances we've been making some progress on competitive salaries for our classified staff and our certificated staff while maintaining um a healthy budget as well so this next item tonight I will be bringing forward a a proposal assl with their classified employees Association have you take any questions about the document coms um comments okay thank you so much you okay guess we move on yep okay uh Financial impact of proposed collective bargaining agreement and approval of the tentative agreement between Los Sala school district and California School Employees Association chapter 103 thank you so we're delighted to bring board a tenative
057agreement with our classified school employee Association it does contemplate 8 and a half% on salary schedule for the 24 25 school year as well as a reclassification of our library specialist positions and then some other minor language changes but we're hoping uh for your approval tonight this is an action item think we attached a disclosure 1,200 disclosures about impact of budget are all within the agenda item as well thank you um any questions for numbers okay um there no request for public comment so any further comment then may I please have a motion to approve the tentative agreement with the California School Employees Association chapter 103 so thank you Vladimir may have a second second thank you Stella motion to approve the tentative agreement with the California School Employees Association chapter 103 was made by
058Vladimir seconded by Stella all in favor I any oppos any exensions great motion passes unanimously great thank you thank you for all your hard work everybody right going to move on to the me n bond budget revision Mr W kevich sure so periodically the district required to update the board and revise the budget we do this annually when we adopt the budget in June and then if we make any major revisions to the bond we try to bring them back periodically usually much every quarter there's any major changes we want to highlight a couple of the changes that are in yellow um we added the designed build contract for block androi block for the 10 site so you can see that under uh the second page let me actually go to front first page um
059we plan on doing some portable removal at almond school we did Covington in Springer last summer so we're going to budget 125,000 to remove two Portable Buildings in the back of almond um Gardener Bullis there's uh some parking lot upgrades that are required by DSA uh the parking lot is going to need some alterations and changes to meet ADA requirements also there's some sections of the asphalt payment that need to be replaced so it's a little more feasible for us to try some of that work at the same time uh due to the winter we were unable to do any of that work during February we also had rebid it um because the bids came in over the bid limit so we're going to budget at this time 295,000 for a summer project Covington we
060highlighted the total cost of the portal reable uh last year actually it's been almost a year and a half here at Covington we did an ADA inclusive playground and all the final cost have come in on that that was a partially funded with some of the building fund and Lease revenue and then also part of the bond and then we just completed the 8 door upgrade over at Egan School uh we budgeted 68,000 and we think the cost come a little bit under that and then the last item is Springer the final cost for the portable came in at 200,000 and then on the next page was the 10 site design build contract for $4.5 million and then we did the master planning which was and all these contracts have been com have come been
061coming to the board for approval but we wanted to revise the budget on these and the last one was the master planning which was approved last year and completed uh the final cost was 222,000 this is an action item to approve the revision to the measure and bond budget update okay thank you so much Eric any clarifying questions question um on the first page the land improvements you have under alond I'm not sure I understand why that 125,000 is only in the original I thought you said that was in addition so there's been no budget for it I could probably refine that put that just under a budget adjustment just looked in a couple other places sure with similar similar issues you put it in budget adjustments and then current project budget so I don't
062know why that would to be in the first r that budget adjustment there was no original budget for that when meas started for like project list sure right but so that seems like it's been the same category as the gardener buis land improvements where we didn't budget for it and to we'll do that I just wanted to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding we can fix that Eric um if I read this correctly we spent $8 million on facilities for BCS last year no this is total cost from all of metan so these are total all-in cost uh for the last probably 10 years so some of the budget some of the work that had to be done over a block all the upgrades to the foundations and portabl those are all a lot of those
063are much of those costs okay so that's the the section I I somehow I managed to lose my papers here uh that's what under eight uh G buis uh buis charer correct yeah and then um this is this budget only and then uh the bond oversight committee will be receiving the audit report this Wednesday morning we'll review all the total expens of the Total Bond since Inception of meure and then we'll bring back final cost at the end of the in reconcile okay thanks we don't have any requests for further for public comment excuse me um any further comments on this okay as Eric said this is an action item so may I have a motion to approve the budget revision of measure n oh can I prove that we appr appr the budget revision
064subject to that one change um such that almond is the Almond expenditure is reflected in the proper col second motion to approve the budget revision of the measure and bond money subject to the change that Brian uh described putting the Almond expenditures in the proper column made by Brian seconded by Vladimir all in favor I any opposed any extensions motion passes thank you everyone thank you but don't go too far Bond program Management Services agreement bard of chrises will consider approving an agreement with coming rot for Bond program Management Services yeah we're excited tonight to present a contract for the board approval and it's for the Cummings group uh last November uh the community pass measur e which authorizes a $350 million bond to upgrader schools uh in December uh the district quickly moved to
065request for qualifications for Bond program Management Services uh proposals we gave the vendors almost six weeks to provide proposals and qualifications we received five proposals at that time we did interviews and three of them were determined to be responsive and responsible District held interviews with the district panel um and they provide the most coste effective uh proposal it was a unanimous decision by the selection committee comings group is very experienced they've done Bond program Management Services neighboring districts including Mount View B Al High School District um we feel very confident in their ability to help us get our bond program started so tonight is a not to materials time materials not to exceed $260,000 from uh approval tonight until the end of the fiscal year uh at that time we'll be asking for an amendment
066number one which will be for services for the next fiscal year for July 1 through June 30th 2026 um many of the items be helping us with the District staff has been working very hard the last several months getting a lot of things kind of kicked off already so they're going to be helping to support us we have very limited District staff so they're going to be helping us get our bond program kicked off we do have R remaining measure and dollars and they'll be helping us with our R remaining measure and dollars then once measure e and we get sell Bond proceeds then the expenses can be charged to measure e once we get measure e so tonight is an action item we're asking the board to approve a contract with coms group for
067Bond program La program Management Services any qualifying sorry any clarifying questions no oh yes please so Eric you talked about how we would amend the contract to renew for the following fiscal year is that something you anticipate for as many years as it takes to spend the correct and then uh the the program as the program changes the contract will also change and as we start to ramp up our bond program we might need more services and more support and then as the bond program winds down after several years then those Services would put Decline and a program would be adjusted accordingly I'm sorry I'm sorry if I missed it but when you said it was um 260,000 it's from now until the end of the fiscal year so then what would it be for
068the entire fisc next fiscal year depend know what Staffing support we needed local and we'll talk staff will be coming uh where they'll be located do we need to have provide a trailer for them uh Services uh how many staff will need how many hours per week they'll be working it's based on their on their staff of how many staff members we have supporting us okay and it'll change every year every year will be a little different uh it's a little bit more up front to get the bond program kicked off and then as the program gets moving we'll adjust that contract and um it's in our best interest to only enter in one one-year contracts uh and we can adjust as needed thank you any other clarifying questions I don't see any cards for
069public comments the public comments is closed any further comment board members on this agenda item uh then may I please have a motion to approve the agreement with coming group for Bond program Management Services thank you Vadim you have a second I'll second thank you Stella motion to approve the agreement with coming group for Bond program Management Services was made by Vladimir seconded by Stella further bond for discussion all in favor I I any oppos any extensions motion passed unanimously thank you very much Eric all righty next oh another action item yep one more one more item uh the 2025 csba delegate Assembly Election the Board of Trustees will consider casting a vote to fill four vacancies on the csba delegate assembly yes so if you looked at your attachment uh otherwise we have it
070here if you want to grab on and pass it down but there are seven um trustees from our region running for four avail slots uh sh happens to be one of those folks running so as a unit you all need to vote for or cast your ballot for four votes so typically in the past some of you have had some opinions on or recommendations so I think it's an opportunity for you all to speak to it anybody wanted can I ask you a question yeah um I don't know if anybody knows the answer to this question but I was looking at the the existing list of delegates and um there's a county delegate listed but then one of the candidates that we're presented with is actually a member of the County Board now right so
071running as an incumbent but running different so I was confused about whether he's eligible for so the office I actually did ask about this um the county does have its own seat I believe uh is the C and then Jessica is in the second year of a two-year term right now she's on the county right so the county actually has two people on on the delegate assembly but um somehow they did explain it to me that jge is still eligible okay but then that would mean that there would be three count so it's kind of so there's a designated County Seat but then the rest are kind of at large which might be filled by the County Board member so I mean it's I think it's also important to think like the mix of large
072school districts small school elementary districts UniFi um by might make a plug I know Naomi Nano Matsumoto very well from the femont Union High School District she's done a lot of work with the Santa County Schools Association so I would recommend her name as one of the four I happen to know sh C um do anyone have any other thoughts I mean I can run run this down I don't know Teresa castanos very well I do know Elizabeth holiday uh from Campbell very solid person very good van late uh also another very nice solid person George Sanchez from Franklin McKinley um that is the east side of San Jose also a lovely fellow so [Music] so I don't know I guess I didn't help you narrow it down I well I read the applications and
073I thought some of the applications at least the way they answered the questions you know some seemed like stronger applicants based on that but I don't know these people personally yeah so well I just um it seemed like other than the people we've discussed um well I guess I more so remember the the applications that I thought were weaker so I don't so but if if you guys have your laptops handy you know I thought that was useful as far as who I'm leaning toward I one of the things to think about geographically also is we have San Jose so San Jose Unified used to have their own dedicated seat but since they are facing enrollment deine so they lost their seat so now they're kind of at large with us uh Franklin McKinley I
074believe is like kind of East San Jose yes please no I um I me you mentioned three people they're all with high school districts so I think would be good to have San Jose as un they're the only Unified School District on there I would agree with that's true Teresa casos so question for you um I know that in the past there have been a lack of attendance to certain school board meetings yeah Schoolboard uh me County Schoolboard Association thank you meetings and I'm wondering if Teresa was one of those that was supposed to show up and didn't show up I I don't know I don't know tresa I've not seen her and I so you've not seen her but I also don't know who she is I couldn't pick her up pick her out
075she s in the audience but those meetings are big enough that that's not un well UniFi I was just to say I mean in my what time I've been on this board because there we're talking about two different structures right like this is the delegate assembly I mean kind of two different structures but the County School Board Association ters unified it's not been I don't know itas specifically or it's just like the practice on that board has not been to participate really in the schools Association that is very true has a un typically D says that she's been a csba delegate for six years wait that's assembly right the county county organization isn't quite the same thing too many right to many so delegate assembly is the uh rubber stamp for the uh State School
076Board yes the executive yeah I have a second Jim you know proposal that we include a Unified School District representative and then of the remaining I would favor George Sanchez I was going to say George is uh he's a very longtime incumbent lovely person and I think he does bring a good perspective I I just don't want to make com because I know some of these people so I feel very sure odd making comments so sorry no I just have a question that maybe is so it's Reon to St that Frank Kenny is one of the school districts that may end up the state may take control of their board so so there's two does that know there influence at all any in some ways it makes me more inclined but because they're a school
077district I think they're I think they're closing down school don't quote me just voted last week to shut down several schools risking a takeover by the state okay so I think that a district that's in that much trouble may have some really valuable insights to offer well that's kind of what I yeah asking right are they more hopeful or less I I would hear on the side more okay that' be great okay so my comment there about George is I think he's a nice person I don't know how effective he is yeah the other way to think about it is we've had some of these folks are a really long time incumbents and do we want some fresh new people there and I mean if we did I would recommend Elizabeth there well if we
078if we wanted someone if we wanted a who's not inent yeah someone who's not a long time incumbent just to kind of mix things up and get a new perspective out there but anybody know anything about hor I have seen his name around yeah but I think if there's already two people from the County Board like he can rotate on but it does seem like over representation of the County Board yeah that's my that would be nice he's a really lovely fellow he's very smart but right though it does make me a little nervous that the county should have that much influence in our region there's also no requirement that we vote for more than we're not allowed to vote for more than four that is true that is true yeah I mean I thought
079um my only concern with Elizabeth is that she's only been on her board for two years yeah she's brand which she's I mean it's not brand brand new but still kind of new in she was the she was the only one who's with an extremely short tenure on her board I think with then East Side Union is also San Jose it's another part of San Jose so my I would be inclined to pick only one San Jose either Teresa or van if we're going to but they're not Unified so if we were going to pick four delegates to vote for would you need a motion naming the four delegate I think so okay is anybody opposed to me making a motion right now okay I move that we vote for c naom n matoto George
080Sanchez and Teresa or the delegate second second okay then motion to vote for Teresa castanos from San Jose Unified Naomi Nano Matsumoto from Fremont Union High School District George Sanchez from Franklin McKinley Elementary District and Sh ciri from lalta school district was made by Stella seconded by Jim all in favor any opposed any exensions motion passes great thank you all for your vote accompany appreciate it oh and that was our last item in that section board and administration comments you want to S us off here specific comment I brought forward the 2425 CSA agreement and be coming forward with the 2526 Sunshine we'll be looking at some language and I should have thanked our team up there before I'm going to do it really quickly right now Jason Jina ER and I at negotiations table
081so just want to thank them for their their time thank you yeah I just want to thank business staff for working over break to make sure we get the contract ready for the for the a1200 disclosure um we're also working on second interim which we'll be bringing on the March 17th meeting uh we've had our first uh had two two uh budget review committee meetings uh We've also had cacf and this is Bond oversight committee will be meeting this week been a lot of meetings lately so it's been great uh and just want to thank our staff for working so hard uh it's great having Kim here as partner with CCA and she's also actually came to cacf and she loved it oh so we've got LA and cacf so thank you Kim for helping
082us thank you Kim that's awesome so H yes so uh Sandra Jim and I went on a tour of block which was L and I also we were also at the Ean Aid presentations and it was so great to see their projects and I did have a request for a future agenda item to discuss possible board buddy assignments for next year oh good sorry yes I'm sorry I always you know get to go first go like this and then I kind of go have more school visits conly impressed and um and the Aven presentation was great they're doing amazing things in that program at Egan they're doing awesome things at block as well in different ways and um it's just constantly impressive awesome thank you right I'm looking forward to going to the legislative brunch
083Saturday um yeah hope to make the one Center presentation is anyone else from rep going to legis I did sign up for the we try to something yeah um I went to the uh PTA leadership uh meeting that was really good and I had a Cofe today with the the president of that group so that was really rely and um just look forward to collaborating more with our PS and that's it folks jour