0015:30 pm on March 6 and I'm opening up our pgusd Board of Education regular meeting and we have with that our call to order and I will read the land acknowledgement so good evening as we begin this meeting it is important to pay respect to and acknowledge that we are on the traditional land of the alone costanoan and esen people and additionally pay respect to Elders both past and present so with that would you mind helping us with a roll call vote absolutely president Dr Hazen I am here C McNary here trusty otar here trusty shamas here and trusty wax here excellent so our next item is the adoption of the agenda as printed um do we have any public in the room or online that would like to make a comments looks like no
002so I'll go around to the board was there any concern or question about the agenda today I them one item from was one walk on yes so I'll go ahead I'm going to propose that'll be under consent as item K on the consent agenda and that is specifically for a um contract uh with it's for a food track for the stem and science fa evening and Rober down which occurs next week and so you know we needed to bring it on at the last minute this evening for the board's approval this is a contractor that we've we use regularly great any other thoughts or comments from the board if not any chance I could get a motion I move that we adopt the agenda for tonight okay I'll second that with item K added as
003suggested so that's all in favor please say I I I I I opposed and that's none so that motion was made by trusty Shas and seconded by myself and P 5 Z so now we move on to our Clos session I think right and we are going to identify the close session topics we are going to be talking about negotiations collective bargaining session planning and prep with the pgta for 2425 gov code 35491 the same collective bargaining planning and prep with a CSA for 2425 government code 354 9.1 Public Employee discipline dismissal release leave complaint appeal of findings from investigation of complaint concerning an employee and then conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation pursuant to government code 54956.9 so we'll take any public comment on closed session items at this time none online and none
004in the room so I will go ahead and adjourn us to close session thank you see you guys back at online I'll G us back in at 7:36 p.m. and I will go through and just report back out on our closed session items item one and two we're going to bring back after the meeting item three the board voted unanimously to issue a notice of non- reelection to four temporary certificated teachers um item four information was received and Direction was given and item five I think we're also going to bring back afterwards so with that we have time for the Pledge of Allegiance and Mr Mountain could I get you to lead us in the Allegiance since you said hi to me thank you very much and now with that I here we are to
005have a presentation for us tonight and so miss forella I think is on members of the Pacific Grove School Board we are here tonight to talk about Avid Avid stands for advancement bya individual determination and we have two Avid elective courses at the high school and at Pacific Grove Middle School so we are here tonight to talk about both so the mission of Abid is to close the opportunity Gap by preparing all students for College and Career Readiness to find success in a global Society one of the ways that we implement the uh the goals of the mission is through the college and Care career Readiness framework so in supporting our students and maximizing their student agency Educators building their relational capacity for their students allow for rigorous academic preparedness access to the opportunity knowledge
006needed to catapult that student agency and advocate for our students aligning the work to reach those goals um breaking down the barriers toward opportunity knowledge and then finally insisting on the rigor to for our Avid students so who else is the Avid student typically supported by um in the in in our communities the Avid student is supported by their elective teachers uh first and foremost their families I should have said that started with with their families uh the Avid student is supported by their families our Avid elective teachers the help of college tutors in our classes they core subject teachers of course for all the good points of confusion come from um the uh the counselors um our district admin of course and uh oversight from Avid support staff at the national level we have
007exposure to colleges and universities and um exposure to local community members such as instances like tonight um so with that here in PG those that make up the Avid team we have Jamie aair as our Avid elected teacher from Pacific Ro Middle School resident Avid elective teacher Kyle Mountain from Pacific Grove Middle School myself as an avid elective teacher at Pacific Grove High School and then Aon Vasquez who couldn't be here tonight um who is also an avid elective teacher at Pacific Grove High School um those that oversee us and advise us and some of the leadership here at the district office we have Linda Adam Adamson a staunch supporter of avid we have Larry haist who was the original founding member of avid back in 1999 with pgusd um myself I also act as
008the Avid district coordinator for our program in both sites pghs and pgms um and that are and at our SPO sites we have the awesome help of Shawn roach at the middle school principal of pgms Jason Tani assistant principal and also an avid expert um Greg omir principal of pghs Sean Keller at the high school as well and then um the support of James eret my colleague as the Abid counselor and then the nine and 10 guidance counselor as well we have Kent leam this year who is killing it in the College and Career counseling position at pghs so we do a lot of collaboration with the College and Career Center as well so in our Avid elective course some of the curriculum themes that we go through are planning and organization individual habits and
009academic thinking skills literacy and reflective practices collaboration and communication uh wior which stands for writing inquiry collaboration organization and reading and then finally tutorials and student inquiry where I me resolving uh points in confusion that arise during our core academic subjects and then working through the Avid tutorial model to help aid the uh and deepen the content knowledge found in their core subject classes so the Avid elective course itself um some of the goals are to develop as readers writers speakers and thinkers deepen the content Knowledge from their core subject classes and resolve those points of confusion that arise uh receive explicit instruction in the Avid class on strategies for reading writing thinking talking and collaborating um cultivating those habits skills and behaviors and then taking it out into the field to apply those learned
010skills in a variety of settings the goal is to also Foster collaboration and problem solving through teamwork the collaborative study group model and then finally the Avid tutorial which is where some of our Avid um tutors come in we can go to the next slide um oh the one before so I just wanted to take a minute to mention our wonderful group of college tutors that that support within our Avid classrooms um generally they support with the Avid tutorial which is a collaborative study group facilitated by the teachers and aided by the college tutors and during these Avid tutorials students use Socratic inquiry and collaboration to make sense of uh potentially confusing or unclear Concepts from their content classes which um if I had have it in high school it probably would have made it
011a lot easier um more accessible I should say so some of our awesome College Tutors are former PG grads um a lot of our College Tutors are also former Avid students so they come and support from a variety of different angles and really add to the cohesion that our Avid team in the Avid elective classrooms um exists so outside of the classroom um Avid likes to get out there in the field and this past year and in the past couple of years we've finally been able to do that again post pandemic so this is an awesome photo from Fall of 2024 we went to CSU East Bay it's a big group the biggest Aid group we've ever ever seen so so big that we needed like the wide angle camera this time which was yes
012handy from um a parent chaperon so that was a really cool thing to see uh we also went to Cal on that same trip there's us at the stadium yep and then um Dr hacks makes a cameo here orating something interesting to the group there at C as well and then the spring before we went to UC Davis that was a phenomenal trip um so evidence of that as well and then the year before that we we've gone to UC Santa Cruz UC mered CSU Stannis La we kept it local with CSU MV and then that same year we also went to Stanford um so we tend to get around the the local neighborhood um which these kids are lucky that so many wonderful institutions exist nearby back on campus some of the other things
013Avid engages with are College and Career Fairs both at the high school and the middle school um close collaboration with the College and Career Center um we bring in guest speakers to our Avid classroom so that could look like college Representatives or local community members local professionals from a variety of career Fields uh adding in that career Readiness piece that that Avid lately has really TR has really um worked towards building into the model and then finally access to a a partnership with rotary for a job shadow for some of our high school students where they can partake in building those Community connections at a young age evidence of some of the things I just talked about um so our Avid students are always busy and then um one of the things that is really
014wonderful to be able to celebrate here tonight and and make note of is the progress and growth that has happened post pandemic so um pghs in particular has seen increasing student enrollment um at a at a pretty exponential rate so in 2122 we had less than 15 students that was my first year as an avid elective teacher and then currently in the 2425 uh year we have grown to 72 students at the high school and that is just phenomenal to see um part of the hard work of of the connection between pgms and pghs and that longitudinal um uh maintenance of the program so and at pgms the student enrollment consistently reaches our thresholds with tons of enthusiasm down there year after year this year there are 41 students and that's pretty typical of of
015every year at pgms and one thing that is uh super notable and we're very proud to say this year is that underrepresented student groups for the first time now make up a majority of the pghs Avid population and that is a significant um Milestone to have achieved so we're happy about that um and finally a lot of this has been made possible um by the support from our generous donor Partners they couldn't be here tonight but we are so grateful for their generosity and that's the William masy and Adeline Densmore Chapman foundation and the yellow brick road Foundation who have helped make some of our travel and um tutor support possible so we are very grateful for them and with that I thought everybody uh should hear it from the horse's mouth um we are
016going to bring on some of our Avid student speakers starting with Scarlet grade 12 Scarlet you can come on up hello everyone like she said my name is Scarlet yarte and I was invited here to share my story with Avid before Avid I was really struggling with my grades I was barely passing my classes or quite frankly I was failing my classes I had no motivation or any idea of what I was going to do when I finished high school it worried me deeply I joined Avid my junior year of high school and I was greeted every single afternoon with Miss pella's warm welcome to the classroom just like that my senior yearh had came and usually for someone's senior year they are so excited for what the year had to offer and most importantly
017College to me that was a dreaded word I tried to avoid it at all cost it gave me so much stress I was heavily discouraged by my family they told me constantly I could never get into college let them graduate high school because of my previous failed courses being around the atmosphere made me actually start to believe them I remember walking into Avid one day in September and going up to miss bartella telling her I can't go to college because my family had engraved in my mind that I cannot make it to college I remember what she told me and she told me that I have a say in my future and I can choose what I want to do in my life After High School so for the first time I believed in myself
018I started to apply to schools and just like that I started hearing back I would tell Miss P miss portella about my acceptances before anyone else she always leaped with joy and give me hugs and told me she was so proud of me and that's all I wanted to hear I just wanted to know that someone believed in me Abid has been one of the greatest gifts to me I went from a 1.6 GPA in my sophomore year to a 3.8 last semester Not only was the grade boost significant but I also learned and gained so many tools for my teers in this class I learned how to communicate through questions understand assignments on a deeper level and most importantly know how to motivate myself and others last semester I was able to commit to
019a college become a first generation college student and now I get excited whenever someone brings up College because I'm able to share my story I'm so thankful for the AVID program and especially Miss portella for telling me not to lose hope uh next up from the Middle School we have Kaylee oh sorry um I don't know what time it for it but I'm just gonna I like to say my manner so good evening my name is kayy Rodriguez guus I an e8th grade Aid student student from M Class Aid is used throughout schools in the United States to that Educators can improve a students's quality of life today I'll be presenting my perspective on how Avid has benefited students um I'll be talking about three specific parts of avid learning logs tutoral Quest forms and
020college preparedness one of the assignments that we do in Aid that is helpful to me are learning logs a learning logs is a form that includes questions asked what did you learn what is something interesting and what questions do you have this allows the student to get a flashback of what they learn during class although web results come after completing a learn log each week as for myself I find it helpful because I tend to focus more class so that I can retain the information I learn and write it down on paper since it has a purpose writing a question at the end of the log allows me to think beyond what I was taught and come in preparation when writing my point of cusion for future trfs tutoral request froms or known as trfs
021is a key part of Aid that extremely helpful to me TRS are worksheets that have a student write down a question that they're unsure of then it asks them to collaborate through their peers to help them get the solution TR is a huge part of learning because it impacts on how to start academic conversations with other people this allows you to become more comfortable with working different people TRS assisted Me by helping me think of advanced questions when helping a classmate but most importantly TRS helped me with my public speaking in front of people my better eye contact and as well as explaining why I'm confused about a topic a third goal added that is really important to me is to focus on College preparation the Abid the Abid program encourages students to research colleges
022and universities through the research we learn about the campus environment the housing the instate and outstate tuition and the financial aid this part of the program is important to me because I get to know if I really like the school if the college has a major that I want and whether or not I'll be able to pay for the school we get to take educational field trips like Miss portella said UC Davis UC Berkeley and next week calply St Louis Obispo we're also creating our Middle School College Fair I'm really excited for that in conclusion all of the topics that I've discussed tonight cannot be taught outside of the AVID program these are all the things that are necessary to become a better and more successful student I'd like to end with a quote by
023Mary Katherine Swanson the founder of avid the goal of Education in America must be the purpose of teaching all of our students to the very highest level for lifting up people thank you very much next up we have AA Bennett from the Middle School grade eight sorry I have it in my pocket hold on one of the most impactful things Avid has done for me is to open my eyes to the world of higher education before Avid I thought I knew everything about college that all changed the first time I set foot on a University campus when I visited UC Berkeley it was my first time seeing a college campus up close and I was in complete awe Mr Mountain says that I said OMG like a hundred times I was like OMG a building
024OMG grass the sheer size of the campus the energy of the students walking to and from class the incredible resources and opportunities it was unlike anything I'd ever seen or experienced I remember standing in the middle of the Sprout Plaza looking around at the Historical banking buildings and thinking this is what college is really like seeing the students there interacting with each other at the different booths made it all feel real I could just imagine myself walking around being a college student taking classes studying in librar sitting in lecture halls and being a part of the a vibrant academic environment the trip completely shifted my mindset I grew up in the Houston area in Texas and for the longest time my dream school was the University of Houston because was familiar where my dad went
025but after Berkeley I reled there was a whole world of possibilities out there and suddenly my goals felt bigger of course avidus helped me in so many other ways it taught me how to stay organized with my learning through weekly learnings and binder checks which Kaye thankfully explained which I was not going to um making sure I plan out my week and keep my materials in order I also learned how to take Cornell notes something I never heard of until I went to Abid class for the first time the summary section in particular has been a game changer for me because it helps me to process and retain key details from my notes instead of just writing things down and forgetting them later but more than anything Avid is expanded my horizons and helped me
026to see the value of exploring different colleges and finding the right fit for me that's why I'm beyond excited for my trip to cowply next week if my visit to Berkeley changed my perspective so much who knows what possibilities this next trip will bring and then uh we have an avid elective teacher who is going to read a statement from one of our 12th grade students who couldn't be here tonight so thank you Mr Mountain um I'm on behalf of Maya Lo who is a senior at Pacific Grove High School uh she said I joined the Abid program in 8th grade because I heard from a friend that it would help me stay organized which I desperately needed my most academic busy year while I thought Aid would be only useful to stay on top
027of my schoolwork the habits and lessons I've learned through it have also Branch into other aspects of My Life as a senior I applied to several different colleges a process that was quite stressful and would have felt like a huge hurdle without Avid Avid helped me with the college prep with college preparation allowing me to narrow down the best choices for colleges to apply to that would best suit my needs and interests my parents did not attend college in America thus a majority of the information I learned about college and application Pro process was through Avid Avid has helped me become better at managing my time and prioritizing my tasks before I never found a use for planners and calendars I did not know what it meant to set aside time to the study for
028my classes I refused to mark down events because I felt overly confident that my memory would suffice due to my in atttention to time management and prior prioritizing my tasks I was overall less effici and wasted more time than I thought I was saving by not wasting time on planning out tasks and events this wasted time this wasted time took away from my other parts of my life because of a Time debt I would create through Avid I picked up the habits of planning and creating efficient routines such as using a planner and setting systematic timers to control my busy life and my roles as a student athlete employee and an older sister the most important thing I learned from Avid from the AVID program was the importance of asking for help I grew up
029fearing to ask for help even just raising my hand was something I was ashamed of in the past I would rather sit in silence and struggle than subject myself to speaking up for myself ad would push me to work through Problems by solving them with peers tutorial groups focused on singular subjects allowed me to feel more comfortable working with academic problems I did not fully understand because of the peer-driven nature of tutorial groups asking for help came about in a more natural and relaxed process I find talking to my teachers and professors a more casual task I attend math tutoring sessions and check in during my professor's office hours with a lessened fear of reaching out for help I've become a better student and a more dependable peer Avid has set me up as a
030more organized and efficient person with skills that I can use in college and my future career although Avid calls for one to slow down to plan and focus on the details I discovered that slowing down creates more speed efficiency and strength in the long run in academic professional and personal life gotta go slow to go fast as they say um our final student speaker is Adam modder grade 11 So Adam wanted to come on up good evening everyone my name is Adam modder and I'm a current Junior at Pacific Grove High School I'm going to elaborate on my Avid experience through the things that I've gone through over the years when I was in Middle School I had no clue what college was or how it worked all I knew is that my grandfather wanted
031me to go to college during Middle School I found out about a class that teaches a multitude of habits and tactics that will guide me towards College this class was called Avid and I was about to begin my seventh grade year when I found this out plot twist that was during the first year of Co I remember it was so early in the morning and those early memories are foggy but something about the virtual simulations of Phil trips were exciting enough to recruit my buddies for the next year we had we all got back to when we all got back to faf Grove Middle School with the promise of in-person college visits from Miss Mah I had him sold turns out being so fresh out of social distancing colleges still weren't too keen on having
032big groups and middle schoolers exploring their campuses although the promise of visiting campuses was not fulfilled that eighth grade year I was motivated to continue I was motivated to continue to find out what this class would hold for my high school career my buddies not so much coming into High School my freshman year there were only eight people in my avoc class with Miss forella and as the years went on the numbers began to Skyrocket I started to ask more of my friends if they wanted to give it a shot because I believe that the class would be much more enjoyable with them there and boy it was after my freshman year the class number almost tripled it was it was an amazing time getting to know more and more people who wanted to get
033the feeling of exposure to colleges early in their High School career alongside these goals anybody who knows me knows I love sports I have a memory from middle school where Mr roach came up to me and asked if I had ever thought about playing football at the time I had no clue how that sport worked all I knew was that it was a popular sport I responded by telling him I don't even know what a football is but as I started to play this play the Sport and made an impression on me and coming into my freshman year I started playing with the junior varsity team I didn't play much that year but I fell in love with the sport I've always been a wrestler and recently joined the track team and one of my
034biggest goals to play sports in college Aid has help me to complete just that not only has it given me exposure to different colleges around California but it has also helped me balance my workload and build other academic habits that have helped me incredibly throughout my high school years I remember telling Miss portella in ninth grade that I was going to play football in college two years later as a junior I find myself telling her the same thing those goals haven't changed and I've stayed on track to achieve them throughout the years as an avid student I've learned how to balance rigorous courses alongside my extracurriculars I learned how to make studying more efficient complete tasks and assignments and maintain a good academic standing and a through G eligibility I've brought my friends in on
035the Avid experience and look forward to what my future holds After High School thank you y thank you so much for our presentation from Avid we hope you have a wonderful night don't go anywhere yet you don't get out with that easily I just want to say a few things before H you leave tonight and we have to get a group photo as well of all of you before you leave so all right so I think just a couple things number one just thank you all for being here this evening uh thank you to the teachers and all of the the staff who are here to to Really support the students but to those our students who who volunteered and who stepped forward this evening with such courage and how articulate you all were if
036I could have had an ounce of that at your age oh my goodness so just thank you for you know we get to sit here at these board meetings very often and there's so many decisions that our board makes uh that really impact your lives and I think for you to be here one of the reasons we wanted to start all of our board meetings this year with something that showcases a program that impacts directly our students that we serve this is the reason it gives us our why and we get to start out on such a positive foot as a result of that so thank you for number one uh starting our meeting out in with such a positive note there were so many themes that came through as each of you spoke but
037I think the the the one common one for sure that stood out to me was that whole concept of You' initially had that thought that maybe College wasn't for me and how Aid changed your whole perspective on that and really gave you that that that hope right some of you talked about stepping onto college for the first time and really that was when it became real for you and that is been my experience with a that I'm such a firm believer and a fan of it and to hear it directly from you as students on how that's impacted your lives directly that is powerful so thank you for sharing those stories with us this evening um to um teachers you know particularly you know Miss Maddie you Mrs Pella I just thank you for organizing
038this this evening for really allowing for the rest of the staff to be here tonight we are thrilled I do have certificates for each of the students who are here so I'm going to present those these really fall in line with our culture of we uh celebrations this year and we present any students who come to our meetings with us really as in recognition uh and with gratitude for uh the role you're playing in carrying out and implementing our core values of safety of belonging and prosperity and everything you've spoken to this evening really brings that to life for us so uh thank you so I'm just going to go ahead and ask you to all come up one by one and then we're going to come to the front and I'm going to ask
039our board to come forward for a group photo so Scarlet yuriar congratulations KY Rodriguez good is AA bent Maya and Adam Ma and teachers as well if you want to come out to the friend and e e e again thank you so much it's really so enjoyable to have a presentation like that before we have to get into the the I won't say the deepness of the business we have to do I'll just say um the next thing we have we to the communications and we normally start with our student representative comments but um they could not be here today so we'll jump right into Item B the board member comments at written Communications um I'll just start quickly with the written Communications they were multiple Kudos we got to stop particularly teacher at Forest
040Grove and uh one email also about uh budget and some of the decisions we're making tonight go around I actually not going to have any um board member comments so I'll pass on just down the line This Way see if there's any more written or board member comments people wanted to share um I received the same written comments you mentioned thank you and I don't have any to add um for my board member comment I had the opportunity to attend the measure be facilities Master planning Community engagement forum for the community on Tuesday night at the high school and um the presentation included some really great information that I hope will be accessible and available to our community and the public so that um more people can have access and participate in the process and
041it was um I was kind of curious just for anyone who might be listening to tonight what the next step is for us in that process and what might people look out for in terms of how they can get involved so those are just my questions thank you trusty atar um I received um an email um that was uh discussing gratitude for Miss alt at Robert down I received an email asking me to vote no on both uh reduction Force resolutions I received an email regarding student student safety and then also one about um concerns regarding political comments during board meetings and I have no board comment tonight thank you you got a few I forgot to mention I appreciate that M uh yeah I haveed the same emails um and I went to the
042uh Tuesday Morning uh facilities presentation and um it it was very interesting um one of the takeaways was the one of the leaders of the group was just so impressed with the adult school like he just could not stop talking about it like he was so impressed with the breadth of of um offerings and and it was almost like he's never seen an adult school before I don't know no I mean it was very very nice to hear and um welld deserved of course um and also the other thing is I was said I was going to be able to go to the lcap training at mcoe on Monday but I'm not because I didn't realize I had a conflict on that night so I am not going to be able to go to that
043um let's see I received all the previous emails in addition to uh some that were just directed toward me which was another one uh asking me to vote no on the Riff uh reduction on Force resolutions today and um another um email about my own communication style as well as a text about my communication style um and and then also another uh inperson feedback about my communication style from a very rude Community member who was my wife but I'll forgive her and that's also just to mention that uh This Ti is actually from our wedding day and our anniversary is next week so you know shout out to her um and let's see I think that's the only other thing oh I i' like to say that uh I was at the nighttime meeting for
044the facilities management on zoom and he was very impressed with the adult school but I also got my adult school mailer so you know check your mailboxes to register um and then the final thing which I wish the some of of the more Avid people would be here but I was um looking over this research paper about how new AIS or llms learn uh best and said that the researchers identify four fundamental cogn cognitive behaviors that mirror how expert human problem solvers approach difficult tests verification which is systematically checking intermediate results for errors backtracking which is abandoning failing approaches and trying alternative Solutions three subgoal setting breaking complex problems into manageable intermediate steps and four backward chaining which is reasoning from desired outcomes back to initial inputs so I had never learned these and these
045seem great to know but it also seems like um the curriculum with Avid very much is in line with that and really just kudos to you for um you know the AVID program seems to be educational but also uh communal you know your love uh for your students and uh is evident and also reciprocated it seems so great job um and it just seems like a great confidence Builder and um yeah it's a great program to have so thanks for sharing it with us and the students that's it thank you so much uh and with that we'll move on to the superintendent report Dr Adamson right well thank you and good evening again I have you know just six items I'm going to report on this evening and at the first at the top of
046the list is yes regarding our Master facility planning input sessions we had three last week and so good that several of our trustees were able to attend um and we're just grateful to those of you who were able to whether it was in person or online um next steps on that we are uh awaiting the uh the actual link to the survey from MGT and that is the company uh who we have partnered with who is assisting us you know through the Gathering of the the data and through the actual development of our you know Master facilities plan so there is a survey that really mirrors the questions that were asked during the input sessions that we will be sending uh at some point next week out to our entire Community to all of our
047staff uh really asking for your uh input so everyone has that opportunity to go ahead and provide um you know their feedback on what you identify as priorities and I cannot stress enough how important that's going to be and helping us really identify our priorities right for how we're going to be spending uh those measure B dollars uh so please be looking out for that and then of course for the board uh once we have sort of a draft of that the plan at this point is to bring that forward um in April uh for initial you know at least an initial update as to where we are in the process but really you know at the end of June is really what we're looking at as far as you know bringing something for that
048initial uh you know your initial approval but we're definitely going to have those opportunities you know leading up to June to get your feedback and input as well um once we've got that summary so we're definitely looking forward to that in the email that we send out there will also be a recording to the presentation because you know as I've heard there was really good information in there yes above and beyond our incredible Adult School which you know absolutely was highlighted uh but really there's you know it's a 20-minute presentation that R will include the link to that that way people can watch that prior to even you know filling out the survey and all of this information will be on our website as well so we'll you to be providing all of that in
049the in the coming week uh along the lines of input number two uh really is our lcap input uh we're going to we have a a session scheduled for March 25th in the evening at the high school library I believe that that communication has gone out this afternoon and so we'll do you know be sending regular updates but that's March 25th from 6: to 7:30 in the evening at the the PG pghs library and that is your opportunity once again you know for us to uh gather and ask for input from our entire Community uh we will be presenting some information on the progress we are making uh among our four goals that form a part of our local control accountability plan which is our three-year plan that drives really everything that we do as
050a district so I really encourage you to set that evening aside um March 25th uh there will be the majority of that evening is set aside for actual input uh from everyone who is there there will be an opportunity to uh join us online as well um once again we'll be you know all of that information has been sent via email the you know spring is a busy time for uh cultural and religious observances and so that's really my my third topic I just want to share out and uh you we received an eail recently from uh State superintendent Thurman you're already just sort of highlighting and identifying you know some of those uh those observances and so I just you know share among them we have Ramadan lent Passover and Easter so holidays observed
051by our Muslim our Catholic Jewish and Christian families and I just think this is an important you know um comment to make just because it reminds us of the incredible diversity that exists within our incredible uh community of PG uh and gives us that opportunity to really once again in so many ways Implement our culture of we and be reminded of that strong sense of belonging and safety which here already two about our core values so really just wanted to remind everyone of that uh bullying prevention learning series continues uh we have our third one coming up uh at the middle school next uh next Tuesday so March 11th from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. once again that opportunity to join online as well but I highly encourage if you have been attending them don't miss
052this one if you haven't attended any this is your opportunity to get in on that so as student rights and parent responsibilities is the topic for this coming Tuesday so again all of that information available online on the the calendar on our website so I really encourage you to add that to your calendar if it's not on already I always try to include something along the lines of sports and you know we had a lot of information a lot of highlights and celebrations for basketball recently and you know with that season having ended um one that doesn't always get a lot of that you know notoriety and and uh focus is lacrosse and I I share that only because we do we have one of the coaches sitting to my left uh but really honestly
053they were incredible last night I wasn't able to be at the at the actual meeting itself we had a leadership meeting here but I understand that they beat Hollister 13 to one so um go across and they're I just have a feeling it's going to be an amazing season coming up so nice work coach and then really my last you know topic uh for reporting out uh you know really I was um a wonderful good news story was shared with me uh just yesterday in fact by our grandparents within our community and they were very much along the lines of full disclosure disclosure two of these kid those are their own grandchildren but from what I understand we have three students two of them are Robert down students and one Middle School uh Billy beavers
054and Vivian triplet and in Henry beas held a bake sale uh this last Sunday within our community and was all to raise money for you know families who are are struggling in Ukraine so again you know we talk about this all the time you know this culture of we you know belonging safety Prosperity you know and this was really something that from what I understand was initiated by the students themselves they you know were selling you Ukrainian treats and Ukrainian flower arrangements and you know all of the proceeds which was $850 that they rais when you know I might add you know kind of you know sort of rainy weather it was cold out there they were sitting out there you know throughout the day um $850 which will all go towards you know families
055in needs so that warms my heart you know I think of kindness the initiative these students showed and just that compassion for others um you know the grar who emailed me they you they said that you know one of their favorit quot favorite quotes um is Mother Teresa's and I I just want to end with that there are no great things just small things done with great love so just that strong reminder for who we are as a community and you know what we do matters and our students are watching and you know that's them you know just putting that into practice their own initiative with that I return it back to you president Haz thank you so much some good words to live by at the end especially um we have the safety report
056next I think from our assistant superator s Dr Adamson thank you for the uh PG boys lacrosse commentary we appreciate that it's been a rough few years prior to this year so we all feel really good not related to safety although everyone's healthy today um I'll start out with our comprehensive school safety plans our cssps uh were that were approved by each School site Council we submitted to the Min County Office of Education by the March 1st deadline they've all been placed on the district website uh and also shared with Pacific Ro Police Department we also have um updated the big five flip charts you've been seeing those on at your school sites here the district office uh which were also shared with Pacific Co police department and dispatch we have one hanging on the
057wall over there uh kudos to uh director Martinez for getting that organized and put together uh Senate Bill 153 uh which is a new statute that requires local educational agencies to adopt plans to ensure all students can access instruction during an emergency or natural disaster uh requires our school district as well as other leas to uh begin to develop instructional continuity plans uh those instru continuity plans must be a part of our comprehensive school safety Plans by July 1st 2025 so we've got some work to do on that prior to the next adoption of our comprehensive school safety plans pgusd has been approved for the stop the bleed educational license um once trained our district will be authorized to teach uh teach us Department of Defense approv stop the bleed classes uh this educational license
058is good for three years and our goal is to train staff to be uh to effectively stop uncontrollable bleeding uh with the use of tourniquets and other um methods within our classrooms and our school sites more to follow on this as we progress Sandy Hook promise see something say something Anonymous reporting tool just a quick update the district the district's goal is to provide uh continued refresher updates and courses to our student population uh to introduce them to the anonymous reporting tool and that will be done after each semester uh we had CPR infant toddler and adult first aid training at PG Adult School we had uh 26 attendees and just again this highlights the great work that's being done at the PG Adult School to continue to support our community additional um automatic automatic
059electronic defibrillators aeds have been placed throughout the school district thanks to Tyler Hart uh Institute they've been supporting Pacific gr unified uh in this endeavor for quite some time now more recently with a partial grant for four additional aeds uh sites were assessed for location and proximity to students and the additional devices have been placed at Robert down the high school and the adult school uh these are also identified on our our School site evacuation Maps couple of other facility updates uh camera systems we have the improved camera uh camera coverage project installation and integration which is complete now uh staff and contractors are performing some of the fine-tuning with our camera systems to ensure they have the optimal view uh the district is currently looking into uh Vape sensors at the high school and
060the middle school staff's reviewing proposals uh for Vape sensors to be installed in some of our restrooms at our Secondary School sites more to come on that as we evaluate the budget uh and implementation and then fifth grade Montage prescribed supplemental drug prevention awareness program uh is complete at Robert down in Forest Grove this of course is Dr Grover's presentation uh which replaces the Dare program the district is looking at additional nationally accredited drug prevention and awareness programs to replace there in partnership with Pacific Police Department in fact director Martinez will be meeting with one of them tomorrow to discuss this further and bring something forward and finally that we've got your back training has been uh lessons have been delivered to our school sites all Sites have been provided the curriculum and support materials
061related to we got your back training uh and in curricular support all Sites have been trained and the implementation and parent notification uh in the implementation and parent notification support and the roll out of the program will start in the 25 26 school year and that's it for me tonight thank you thank you so much and welcome back to assistant superintendent Jordan it's good to have you back in the room and with that we're going to our first public comment session and so I have a few things to read um I'll start with just the the statement here public comment on any item of interest to the public that is within the board's jurisdiction will be heard the board will also take public comment on each specific action item prior to that item any individual
062wishing to comment on those specific items are kindly asked to wait until that item is discussed the board will allow a reasonable amount of time for public comment on each agenda item not to exceed 3 minutes per speaker and no more than 20 minutes per agenda item pursuant to board policy 9323 speakers will be called sequentially online and then in the room until there's no speaker coming forward on the agenda item or the amount of time allocated for the agenda item has elapsed which ever comes first this meeting of the board of education is a business meeting of the board conducted in public so please note that the brown act limits the board's abilities to respond to public comment but we may choose to direct items to the Administration for future agenda items and just
063another little addition to that is we do want to ask to refrain from Applause or snapping or acknowledgement on decisions obviously when we have amazing presentations like we did from the students please clap for that but that will just help everyone feel safe and confident and sharing their own perspectives so we will now move on to community members that would like to comment on non-agenda items okay going once twice sold feel like I should do that for um next is pgusd Staff comments on non-agenda items pleas coming up here clearly we're coordinated um please forgive us we're both therapists so we're not used to uh doing large groups like this um however uh afterwards we can sit KNE to knee and I can tell you how normal you guys all are wait I'm just gonna
064hi my name is Douglas George I'm the therapist uh embedded at PG middle school and I'm Audrey Cordova and I'm the pgusd mental health therapist in place at PG high and PG Community High in an effort to transport transform or transport conflict and promote healing in our district shout out to the little book of restorative justice we'd like to address a narrative or perception that's out there and provide clarification first we'd like to say that's Audrey and myself that we've been so impressed by how much mental health is valued by everyone in this community in our schools also in this room be outpouring of support is truly awesome and let it be known that March is National Social Work month this is both Audrey and myself training this is how we come to the table
065this is how we come to you for PG and what we offer with our mental health therapy and our framework to that people have been coming to us in droves with blessings of Support over 20 years ago in our social work programs we never would imagin we'd be here today truthfully our country dedicates less resources to helping people from marginalized communities Social Work professors train future social workers to always be ready for budgetary surprises yeah um in pgusd our district as well as our site I'm sorry I'm wearing my reading glass this as well as our side Administration um continue to study efficient and responsible uses of public funds uh Dr Court Anthony uh yes we are gonna point to you as work closely with Audrey and myself to collect and analyze data that support
066budgeting and future program planning decisions it should be noted Yolanda Shan Greg and everybody else and everybody else sea Greg and everybody everybody else are passionate leaders and student advocates in 2022 when I was hired there was a teacher on special assignment at PG High his name was Dr hagquist because we shared a goal to offer mental health support for longer than a couple years we work together to develop systems of data collection the same ones we use today when reviewing data such as student utilization of mental health we found service duplication exists we're on campus nine or more hours a day the overlap is there actually we've been there longer today that's okay we're we're failing whatever we're good uh we that is Audrey and myself uh are and will continue to be available
067to all students all students in general education and those also that receive special education support we are a resource of information and strategies to our parents our school staff as well as to our administrators whether it is Lunch Bunch at pgms or the super sewing seist Society at PG high and slime emotional regulation with slime here proof that was today um we promote student wellness outside of the onetoone meetings however it should be noted that mental health support happens in collaboration with everyone on campus I have to say that PG is is unique in this um coming from several different districts uh we do absolutely have a community of fierce student allies so one of my favorite experts uh renowned psych psychiatrist and child trauma expert Dr Bruce D Perry says anyone can be therapeutic
068regardless of profession we are PG we will prosper together thank you thank you it's okay thank you very much for your comments I know that was hard not to clap to we did add another three minutes because there were two of them just for the record that's why you got six thank you for the comments do we have any other pgusd staff comments seeing none online and none in the room we're going to move on to the consent agenda and this is now items a through K we add an item about a food truck for our upcoming Robert down um event stem night so does anyone in the public have a comment on the consent agenda okay no one online or in public now up to the board any comment or concern with consent agenda
069not seeing any we're going to go ahead and I'll ask for a motion if anyone wants to approve the consent agenda I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda with the addition of item K I'll second okay the motion was made by clerk McNary and seconded by trusty otmar all in favor please say I I un opposed it passes 5- Z so now we're on to action discussion this is item 7A resolution number 1146 that's going to be presented by Chief human resource officer thank you president Hazen um this is the first of three resolutions that we'll be taking a look at this evening this is resolution 1146 um regarding the certificated Personnel reduction in force the recommendation that the administration is making at this time is for a 4.6 uh FTE total reduction
070in in force um making up the components of that 4.6 reduction is uh 1.0 uh TK ele Elementary uh multi-sub teacher um K through five elementary school multi subject teacher a 3.0 FTE uh reduction and then um a point4 FTE reduction uh at the M Middle School in uh math and learning support and then um a point2 uh full-time equivalent reduction um for the middle school math uh of a middle school math teacher teacher um so the total uh savings from that would be $589,000 um and the resolution is for your consideration this evening thank you very much so we'll Now open up for public comment none online none in the room so we're now moving to board discussion um I'll go ahead and start relatively in the Middle with trusty schas that will head
071around 10 o'clock wise um I think we've had a full meeting of discussion on this so I not having anything else to say about that's totally fine yep Tristy wax um I I would Echo uh trusty shas's comments I I would just like to add that um in one of the communications the email today about this matter uh the the Community member um reminded me of how difficult of a uh position it is for our schools and our school staff to kind of live um with this possibility and so uh for myself I I just uh am so sorry that people have had to live with doubt and uncertainty um and uh I appreciate uh everyone's work thank you very much and I'll go and say similar you know it's these decisions and I'm going
072to say it now but this applies for the few resolutions we have coming so I don't repeat myself but I just really do want to acknowledge the immense difficulty and making these sort of decisions that impact the lives of our Educators and staff um layoffs are not just numbers on a spreadsheet they represent real people who have given their time energy and passion to our students in community sorry the loss that even one Valu member affects not only their livelihood but the quality of the education and support we provide so um our schools are only as strong as the people above them and within them and each one recognize deserves to be recognized for their contributions so sorry for the tough decision tonight but thank you for those that we will have to let go
073CH CL Mary um I think I am appreciative of the process to get us to this point and it's just unfortunate that this is still part of the process um I don't have anything to add to the discussion um but thank you for everyone and for how respectfully you've all all participated I can Echo everything that's said my eyes are tearing while you talk um I do want to just make sure that um it's clear and to confirm with you Mr Rogan that um these reduction and this reduction and force on resolution 1146 is based on our enrollment projections correct that um all of the uh recommendations that we're making are done to maintain the contract goals as opposed to the contract met maximums and it is a result of um having fewer students um
074in grades TK through through five which um allows for the reduction in force to occur while maintaining um the Thea goals in terms of class size and should those numbers um increase then we could modify based on those numbers in order to stay within the contractual agreement correct that um you know uh what is going to happen is anyone that gets laid off if they are a pro programation employee they will be put on a 24mon re re hire list meaning that they would have rights to a job if it were to open up within the next 20 24 months if any person um that is laid off as a permanent employee then they get put on a 39-month re re hire list so they will have rights to be re rehired by the district
075should we experience an increase in enrollment and um have positions available as a result of that okay thank you for that sure I don't have anything else with that any other final I think we appreciated comments and discussion um I think we will move on to a motion which I'll go ahead and make the motion to uh pass the resolution as written if I get a second I'll second motion was made by myself seconded by um cler McNary all in favor please say I I I'll opposed that passes 5 Z so now we're on to resolution 1147 the determination of certif certificated tiebreaking criteria she f one of the parts of the process we do a reduction in force is um that there needs to be tiebreaking criteria in in place should um there be
076two uh members that have the same date of date of hire and um and so having that same date of H have um the same level of senority within the district and so um what the district has uh is recommending is that the board uh review the uh resolution that is going to put forth a tiebreaking CR criteria and it's a kind of a point-based system um if you look at the resolution itself under item a that would be uh points for a preliminary clear or life credential um if it's a preliminary credential that a teacher holds they would get one point as far as a work rating goes and um they would get two points per every clear or life credential that that person holds what that means is that if a person holds
077a single subject a credential and holds a multiple subject a credential then that person has four points applied toward the tie tiebreaker um under B there's the authorization for English language Learners um you would have three points for a bclad which is a bilingual clad CR credential and a plus one for a clad um just a point of reference for the trustees um every teacher in district is clad certified um C the supplementary authorizations that is if someone has a credential and they have a supplementary authorization under that credential to teach another subject an example is my own that I've got a single subject teaching credential in English and I've got a supplemental authorization in J journalism so uh that would that would be worth a point in the tiebreaking criteria that you have here
078and then any degree that's earned past the ba or BS level would get a plus one rating per degree if two people are tied to add all those up the person that has the higher level of points is the one that would maintain the the senority tie tiebreaker the other person is the person that would be um suffering the consequences of um a layoff in the event that the tiebreaker winds up tied then it's a lottery it it would be a random draw thank you very much again we'll go out to public comment first if anyone has thoughts on these tiebreaking criteria in the room or online we might have one person coming to the microphone um not that obviously I'm getting an answer anything but just so that it's on the record and for
079clarification that since there is no bumping that is only in the event that teachers have the exact same higher date is um where this point system would um take place thank you very much for your question and getting it on the record my understanding is that is correct um I'll go ahead and direct just to make sure that is correct yes that this is only if people have the exact same hire date um even if someone is hired one day before another person that one day um is the criteria that would uh supersede a tie tiebreaker that takes on my comments so I'll go next to CL bar that's again no comments thank you no no no questions with that I'll go ahead and ask for a motion I'll make a motion on staff's recommendation
080I'll second a motion was made by Clerk mcer and seconded by trusty otmar all in favor please say I all opposed passes 5- Z thank you very much again and chiefin we got you for at least one more right now resolution number 1148 resolution 114 a uh classified Personnel reduction in in force um you will recall from our presentation that we made that the district has the intention of a reduction in force of three mental health therapists um and when we did the updated presentation on February 27th the district talked about um uh aligning the resources that we have so that we would be able to hire three mental health therapists for next year with those three mental health therapists being funded outside of the current General funding sources um two of them would be
081funded through the um uh well through the money that we're currently using on a contract for services with Montery County Behavior Behavioral Health and then the other one would be funded through the Arts music and discretionary Grant um that would be one-year funding so one of those positions would be a temporary the other two um would be funded um through the unrestricted general fund but the relief coming from that special ed funding um so while this is a 3.75 excuse me a 3.375 FTE reduction in force there um is the intent and the plan of the district to bring back three mental health therapists for next year the 375 is an instructional assistant put position that currently is one vacant put position at the elementary level and that brings um the total reduction in force
082to um 3.375 with um a savings of $552,500 here and I just wanted to confirm with you chief rogman that you know if the these plans the rehiring of the three do not meet the needs if there's greater needs in the district for mental health support how is the district ready to Pivot and support the mental health of our students um to the best of our abilities that might be a question that's better asked to the superintendent I mean I'm not going to say specifics but I think you know the the plan that we presented that we put forward really you know speaks to what current case loads are um you know I just want to reiterate that we've we have two of our lovely mental health therapists here this evening that they've been involved
083as you know with director you know cor Anthony looking at you know what the data is what those case loads are with that you know having our three mental health therapists in place for next year in addition to you know the hiring of you know additional interns we're not hiring right but just bringing in additional interns uh in addition to our counseling staff and our psychologists we really feel that yes we've got a robust enough plan to be able to move forward based on the information that we have at this time if those things change that'll be something we plan to monitor closely um you know uh director cor Anthony meets regularly with the mental health therapist with counselors I think the plan really for next year is to you know this year it's been
084separate you know those have been separate meetings but really the idea being to bring them all together uh to really be able to make sure that there's that alignment across the services that they're looking at the the needs at you know at data I think our you know site leaders our principles of the sites are going to be critical in that process as well as we you know monitor throughout the year and so I think as we become aware you know of those additional needs we will assess those and evaluate we you know have an obligation to meet the needs you know of our students and so if more is needed you know we would look at what we have available at that time and we needed to go out to outside organizations to provide
085additional support we would have to do that at that time perfect yeah that's that's exactly the kind of answer I was going for and the you know the only comment I add on top is just this again the kind of the systems thinking is just making sure sounds like we have those meetings but if we can make it a little more formal or more organized so that we have that you know kind of mental health accounting to make sure that we're we are meeting those needs I don't doubt that the plan will but we don't know what the next covid or bird flu might be let's say um so with that I will go to others I can go um I do just want to make sure that if I'm if I'm voting yes on
086this that um there is an assurance that we're bringing back three mental health therapists at the same without a reduction in salary that everything is going to be the same across the board um no changes to that simply moving them out of our general fund and um funding it with the montere County Behavioral Health contract money is that correct corre yes and um you know uh I can assist superintendent I think what I'd like to say to that specifically is that you know as we do anytime we make an adjustment to any position we you know do comparative studies and so you know I can absolutely confirm that we're not looking at a reduction in what the salary currently is we would look at what those comparative studies are you know and and we use
087you know neighboring districts to go ahead and deter that would be part of the system part of the process that we would follow but you know I think I can pretty securely say that you know as far as the the rate you know the the current you know annual salary at this point would not be reduced okay right y thank you sorry for the interruption um I just heard that happening um Elliot touched on uh president H touched on what all right Elliot um touched on what I wanted to discuss too that if we discover at some point that our students needs are not being met via frequent communication not only with the mental health therapists that are directly working with the students but also with the counselors and even with teachers because it's true
088it is a community that serves our students mental health needs um on a daily basis so if it seems like there is a just a general sense that the students needs are being met I want to make sure that we are ready to Pivot with a plan and it may be something that we need to discuss in advance so that we're prepared and we we're not flailing trying to figure out how we're going to almost what you referred to earlier Mr Jordan is stop the bleed I mean it really is like it's an essential it's food water and mental health as far as I'm concerned we want our kids to be successful in school talk about a through G they need to be mentally healthy in order to learn and move through life I'm gonna
089start crying but that's fine so I just want to make sure we're prepared to Pivot and that we have a plan and that we are engaging everybody that needs to be engaged and that um we do discuss having a mental health collaborative group of professionals that we refer to and that meet regularly if they're willing to do that and so that everyone's in communication and we're doing this in a way that's holistic and true to our students needs and that is my biggest concern so I just would like confirmation that was a lot of information coming out of my mouth but I would just want confirmation if I'm saying yes to this and my name is on here as a yes vote I just want to make sure that's going to happen yeah the intention
090is absolutely to involve everyone you know on that team I think I've named you know all of those individuals and that absolutely includes yes you know our our side administrators that you know the the regular monthly meetings are occurring now but they you know it's happening separately with counselors separately with mental health therapists I think the intention of director cor Anthony will be to you know bring those groups together regularly um I know that they you know are even planning on you know coming together in the next three weeks to even sort of start that process and what that's going to look like for next year um and like I said I mean a part of those meetings will be to you know analyze and look at you know case loads share challenges you know
091what you know each to them are seeing at the school sites and part of that is identifying And discussing you student needs specifically so that'll be the monitoring you know part of the the process and the plan and then I just wanted to voice just one more time that I do have a concern with discontinuing the mcbh contract because those are high needs students that they serve um and those students do need to go somewhere they do need to go to a therapist um my concern is that there's going to be a difficult um division of time and that even if it is spread across three therapists that you talked about at last week's meeting even if it is spread across three that um it is going to leave a gap so I just want
092to make sure that that's monitored and being looked at and um it's not my intention to micromanage these are just the thoughts that are coming out as I sit up here so um but I just wanted to get that into the microphone so I don't have anything further but thank you for listening and for um allowing me to speak and um feel up here thank you any other board comments um just that you know it's it's our job as a board to set goals and that that's something that we can do regarding what is our priorities U around mental health counseling and um that comes up every year so and then we forward it to the superintendent so you have the power um uh let's see I don't I don't have too many questions I
093would throughout this process um trusty 's uh questioning and and uh feedback about the process has been um appreciated by me since she I presume because you're in the healthcare industry and because it's kind of uh at the foremost um of your thinking um so I just really appreciate all that attention that has been paid from you and um also the superintendent and Dr cork Anthony with how we might transition to to this uh in-house mental health therapist team um and um yeah that's that's all appreciate everyone's work um trusty Omar perhaps something like a mental health um advisory committee like in the something could be another idea but I think what you're saying is also like what we need to approach this holistically and ongoing um and I agree um and I think we
094have lots of options to explore and to continue to use our most excellent resources in our school um I think I'm satisfied with the discussion we had at length last meeting and um thank you for your comments to both of our mental health therapists today um I appreciate the addition information um and I'm comfortable moving forward with the recommendation as presented agreed I think with that I'll go ahead and open up for a motion if anyone would like to make one not I'll go ahead and make a motion to pass resolution 1148 as presented I'll second okay motion was made by myself and seconded by chust shos all in favor please say I I I I none opposed it passes 5 Z so we're on now to item D thank you very much Chief er
095um proposed Board calendar Dr Adamson thank you there are no additional changes since our last meeting uh so I'm just opening it up to just approve as is yes think we still go to public that right see any questions on the calendar if not I'll look back to the board yep here no one grabbing the mic so I think we are okay and we don't need to make a motion because it's stays as is so um then now we have finished up the action we're on to item 8A for future agenda items so again this is an opportunity public comment if there's any to be added the public any from the board here things I'd like to bring up with this point okay so with that I think the direction is to leave as is
096and we're not going to adjourn now just remind everyone we have to go back to close session because we have more job to do um but thank everyone here we'll come back if you want to wait for us and cheer us on after we're done we'll come back and gather loud after we're done but thank you everyone for attending and for the comments okay we're going ahead and Gathering us out I after to report back out that we um information was given or information was received in Direction was given on both items that were left or all three items and with that I will G us out at 9:56 p.m. thank you very much