VCUSD Board of Education - Regular Board Meeting 05/07/2025 Part 2 of 2

001Good evening everyone. We're reconvening our meeting at 6:04. Can we please have roll call? Trusty Hodes present. Trusty Flores present. Trusty Young present. Vice President Amboy present. President Fox present. Trusty Morales present. Trusty Simmons present. We have a quorum. You at this time let's do the pledge of allegiance. Algiance to the flag of the United States of America. To the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, our report out from our actions taken in close session. Um, we worked on our superintendent's evaluation and that's all we have to report out. Now, do I have a motion for adoption of our agenda? Trusty Flores, make a motion to adopt the agenda. Um, I don't know who was next. I think it was Trusty Young, but I'm not sure. A second. Roll call, please. Trusty

002Hajj. Hi. Trusty Flores. I. Trusty Young. I. Vice President Amboy. Hi. President Fox. Hi. Trusty Morales. Hi. Trusty Simmons. Hi. And the motion passes. 50. Board presentations. So, good evening everyone. Uh, we have three school presentations. I believe the first school up is Glen Cove. So, we could have the Glen Cove team come up. All right. All right. You hear me? All right. Uh, good evening, Superintendent Rurio, Board President Fox, governing board members, fellow colleagues, and members of the audience. I am Ken Zabo Daniels, principal of Glen Cove. I'm excited to present to you all the amazing things that are happening at Glen Cove Elementary School. On the slide in front of you, you'll see several pieces of artwork that were created by our Hawks during an art project led by a college student. The

003theme of the project was draw art, and our students truly rose to the occasion. As you can see, these pieces are not only visually stunning, but also represent unique perspectives of our students. The project allowed them to experiment, express themselves, and push the boundaries of their creativity in ways we are so proud of. What makes the project even more remarkable is the feedback the college student received regarding his work. Not only did his artwork receive high praise from his professor, but it also captured the attention and admiration of his fellow classmates. This evening's presentation is centered around our district's portrait of a graduate, a guiding vision for how we prepare our students for success in the future. At Glen Cove, we take great pride in laying the foundation for the key elements of our portrait

004of graduate with our Hawks. The work we do with our students is intentional and designed to help them develop the skills, knowledge, and mindset needed to thrive in middle school, high school, and beyond. Our work at Glen Cove is not just about teaching. It's about preparing. We want our students to leave our school with more than just academic knowledge. We want them to be confident, curious, and ready to continue their education as they enter the next stages of their life. Tonight, I will highlight some of the initiatives we put in place to ensure that our Hawks are not just ready for middle and high school, but also equipped with the skills that serve them well throughout their entire lives. We prioritize we prioritize communication as a vital skill for student success. Focusing on both written

005and spoken expression through collaboration, problem solving and group projects. Students students learn to listen, share ideas, and work as a team building essential interpersonal skills. We writing is emphasized through regular prompts that help students organize their thoughts and express them clearly. Additionally, our leadership students enhance their speaking skills and confidence by delivering daily announcements, gaining real world experience in a clear in clear and effective communication. We continuously foster critical thinking skills with our hawks, empowering empowering them to analyze, evaluate, and solve problems uh thoughtfully and creatively. Our students recently showcased this through a play where they explored key story elements in integrated vocabulary and context requiring deep literary analysis and creative expression. In science, they designed structures to demonstrate Newton's law, applying principles of motion and force through hands-on problem solving. Additionally, in the environment

006of science in, excuse me, in additionally, in environmental science lesson, students examine the water cycle and its local impact, analyzing the interplay between weather, ecosystems, and natural systems to better understand real world environmental issues. Collaboration is essential for success in school and in life. Students are giving meaningful opportunities to work together, share ideas, and learn from one another. Whether it's answering essential questions in a group project, participating in daily community circles or engaging in cross-grade reading partnerships, students practice active listening, compromise, and respectful communication. These experiments help them develop empathy, build strong relationships, and strengthen critical interpersonal skills like teamwork and problem solving, preparing them both for success in school and in life. We recognize that change change comes in many forms and we are proud of how our students learn to embrace and grow

007from it. Our multil-anguage learners demonstrated resilience as they adapt to a new language and culture. supported in building confidence and connection. Through mindfulness practices, students develop emotional awareness and coping strategies to navigate challenge challenges with resilience. Additionally, organized games like soccer help students adapt to dynamic situations, work as a team, and respond constructively to change skills that will serve them both well in and out of the classroom. At Glen Cove, we believe in nurturing a strong sense of responsibility and service in our students, encouraging them to contribute meaningfully to their community through activities like the canned food drive for the local food bank. Students learn the importance of helping each other and working together towards a common goal. They also express gratitude by thanking writing thank you notes and creating posters for local organizations developing

008empathy empathy and recognizing the impact of the essential community services. Our student leadership program further reinforces these values by helping students explore traits like integrity, teamwork, and communication. These young leaders are learning to be compassionate, ethical role models who contribute positively to both school and community life. Whether through acts of service, appreciation, or leadership, our students are gaining the skills and mindset needed to become thoughtful, engaging citizens dedicated to making a difference. I'm going to take a little side note on this here. I wanted to uh I am excited to share two major accomplishments that reflect the dedication of our entire Glen Cove community. First, we had the honor of welcoming state superintendent Thurman, who visited earlier this school year to learn about our significant literacy growth over the past two years. He toured classrooms,

009spoke to with teachers, and observed the effective strategies behind our success. He praised highlights his praise highlight the work of our educators, students and families and it was a proud moment that showcased the positive impact of our collective efforts on student learning. Our second achievement has been the significant improvement in our student attendance. As you all know, can't learn if you're not there. So, we had uh at the beginning of the year over 90% attendance for the first 65 days of school. This milestone reflects our commitment to creating a school environment where students feel motivated to show up and engage every day. These accomplish accomplishments in both literacy and attendance demonstrate the strength of our community and our shared commitment to helping our Hawks succeed. Our staff play a vital role in bringing the portrait

010of a graduate to life by modeling the very skills we aim to instill in our students. Critical thinking, communication, collaboration, community, adaptability through their daily actions and integrations or excuse me, through their daily actions and interactions. They show students that these skills are essential not just for academic success but for life. Whether it's working with colleagues, supporting students, or solving challenges, our teachers and staff embody the values we teach, making them making learning more meaningful and impactful. We're proud of the committ commitment to helping our Hawks grow in a thoughtful, capable, and and with compassionate individuals. As I conclude our presentation tonight, I want to take a moment to express just how proud I am of our Glen Cop school community and the incredible work we do together to support our future VCOSD graduates. The

011success of our students is a direct result of the dedication and hard work from everyone, our teachers, staff, family, and students. Together, we are building a strong foundation for their future, and I couldn't be more proud of the journey we're on. This is Glen Cove. We are BCUSD. Thank you. Comments or questions from the board? What positive rewards do you do like daily with students through the classroom or throughout the school? Yeah, so there's teachers have their own systems that they set up in class to recognize. Um we use um we have a PAX we use the PAX model at our school and so a lot of it's those intangible things we do uh the wacky wheel comes out. You'll hear about that a lot with our uh schoolwide. Um you know and so it's

012just it's really trying to tap into those those little um trinkets and incentives for kids. Um but we typically follow like the PBIS pack system for that kind of stuff. What do you contribute that your um attendance was lower and then it got higher? what what do you think was the contributing force? You know, that's a great question and I think in reflecting um it I it was a first I think the communication out. So, letting our families know, you know, informing them on the importance of attendance, making sure and it's not just coming from me, but it's coming from all staff that we're communicating this out and then it's putting actions behind it, right? So, it's incentivizing the kids around attendance. Um, celebrating positive attendance with their kids um and then showcasing that with

013families to see, you know, that um students are excited about coming to school and to help support us by making sure your child is here. So, it's really a collaborative effort, I would say, to that helped us be successful this year. Well, and I want to congratulate again about the reading scores. Yes. Thank you. and how the staff will continue with that momentum. Um that's very that's a lot of um to be proud of. Yes. Um living in Glen Cove and driving by the school every day multiple times. Um I'm curious about dismissal like um drop off and dismissal sometimes on the street there. It's very congested and there's been some altercations. How are things going with safety with drop offs and pickups? Yeah, I think um as with most schools, you know, there's there's

014challenges with um trying not to impact the surrounding areas, but I feel at Glen Co, we've done a really good job of setting up a system there that minimizes as much as possible. We still have families that are um very early in coming. They want to be there and and it causes that lineup, but our system of getting kids into cars through a valet service is really um I think impacted us. I mean, we're probably down about 10 minutes of getting kids out. So, it's just the beginning of the year is a little kind of getting people used to it, but as we go, it's it's a really smooth system. And I invite you to come by and check it out sometime. We'll do. I've done it before. Awesome. And uh also the Glen Cove

015Association donates every year to the school different items. So, make sure you're thinking ahead what you would need for when you get that question. What do you need? Definitely. Um we have another comment. Trustee Young, thank you for your presentation. Um, I can always say when I come to your school, I enjoy uh being there. I'm always included in um anything activity that that's that's going on there. Uh prime example, I was in a classroom the last time I was there and this one particular student came up to me. He couldn't find his eyeglasses and he asked me if he could use mine. me knowing them, you know, they luckily they were shades, you know. I said, "Yeah, you can use them if you can use them." He said, "I'm sure I can." And he

016took them and he said it was just a read. And I said, "Wait a minute now. I can barely see with these glasses." But anyway, that shows me that the children aren't afraid to ask questions. And that's a good thing because in this world, if you don't ask questions, you're not going to get answers. You that you know, you think that you might know or not know, right? So it's a questioning environment and they feel comfortable. I was a stranger. They didn't know me. So you know that was my story visiting Glen Co. Yes. Thank you. Yes. Appreciate it. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you everybody. Our next presentation is from Ward Law Elementary School. Principal Hopurn. Hello. Oh gosh, my glasses. Excuse me. Wear glasses, too. Huh?

017Yes, I to the point I can't read without. So, good evening, President Fox, Vice President Amboy, Trustees Young Flores, Hajes, Superintendent Aurelio, and student trustees. My name is Michelle Hawthorne, and I am the proud principal of Wlaw Elementary. This is the end of my second full year as the principal of Wardlaw and in these last two years, these last two years have made me extremely pa proud to be part of this community. I have seen so much academic and social growth among all of our students. This year, our focus is on a portrait of a graduate. I challenged my teachers to really take a look at each component of the portrait and to integrate them into their daily lessons. The slides I'm going to show you are a showcase of all the wonderful things happening

018on our campus on a daily basis and how they align with portrait of a graduate. So we'll start with our TK learning through explor exploration and play in TK. So even in TK our kiddos are working towards the elements of the portrait of a graduate communicate effectively and collaborate skillfully. So, as you can see, some of these are showing um through their imaginative play, their early literacy practice and prewriting activities that they're learning to communicate effectively as well as collaborate skillfully with their peers. And then thinking critically through their outdoor water and sand exploration, imaginative play, students are challenged to ask questions, solve problems, and make decisions based on evidence and reasoning. In our kindergarten classes, they are communicating effectively and collaborating skillfully as well. Our kinder students are learning to communicate effectively by measuring

019and observing their green bean plants that they've planted and grown, working together on the smartboards, um, blending CBC words. And they've really embraced the element of contributing to the community through participation in National Kindness Week. Our whole school participated participated in National Kindness Week. Um but kindergarten and other classes went above and beyond and they collected trash every day throughout that week and they actually continue to do it now um on the playground and um outside actually um like in the front of the school to make it look nicer. They also have buddy rooms and they wrote letters to their buddy rooms and visited their classrooms to share their letters. our students in first grade. I have two first grade slides. So this first one, they really focused on the elements of thinking critically, communicating

020effectively, and collaborating skillfully. All year, students were learning about estimation. So they take turns explaining their reasoning, follow their discussion rules and scaffolds. They use different strategies, discuss estimating, and comparing strategies. They also learned a cute little estimating song that they were told to teach to their family as their homework. I'm not going to show the video of that because we have a lot to show, but it's very cute. So, there's that, too. In second grade, our students focused on adapting to change, thinking critically, communicating effectively, and collaborating skillfully. So, there's a lot going on. They really had to use initiative and persistence when they were trying out their STEM catapults that they made. So we see that listening, speaking, and writing are evident in research and writing activities. They also, the second grade team

021every year does a book tasting on read across America day. So they turn their classrooms into restaurants and each group is a genre of um literacy and they get to go and taste, also known as read the books, and then there's writing activities included. It's super fun. And in third grade, third grade we have um shown here all of their writing, but they're doing obviously a lot more, but writing is really taken a forefront in third grade this year. Um so communicating effectively and collaborating skillfully is really a top priority in in third grade. They really impressed me with how their writing has evolved over the school year. In the beginning of the year, they start their writing use like using a DK1 prompt and while collaborating with their teams and now they're on to

022DOK 2 and three and then even four prompts um in their um writing and their projects. They show initiative, creativity, and resilience when they work in teams to complete a project. Our fourth grade students really focus on contributing to the community, collaborating skillfully, and communicating effectively as well. We have a big group of fourth grade students who are constantly cleaning up the lunchroom and the playground on their own. Yes, they do get star tickets for that, but they do it on their own. They choose to do this on their own to help keep our school beautiful. Students worked in groups to collaborate on creating black history slideshows and then presented them to their classmates. And in our fifth grade students have been working on collaborating skillfully, communicating effectively and thinking critically as well. Every project

023they are presented with is a group collaboration. They use listening, speaking, writing, creativity, finding solutions, and teamwork on a daily basis. The culminating project that they submitted for the portrait of a graduate was to create a comic book using a DK4 prompt. Think of someone who is a real life superhero to you and create a comic book featuring a main character inspired by them. These were so awesome to see and those are on display up there. And then we have a fifth sixth grade combo and then two sixth grade classes. And I wanted to do one, we wanted to do one slide for the combo class themselves because there's so much going on there. Um, this class is the epitome of a class family team. Everything they do, they do it together. Their teacher is

024a SEAL champion. She teaches a social emotional learning lesson every day for at least 30 minutes. She has an SEAL word of the week that students have to reflect on and write about using real life examples. They complete rounds of partner talk every day, which gets them up and moving and talking with their peers. You can see the joys on their faces as they participate in community building activities in their classroom. I love that picture on the top left. And then our oldest scholars are busy every day collaborating skillfully, thinking critically, communicating effectively, and adapting to change. From working in teams to explore owl pellets to black history projects to designing their own tennis shoes to completing science labs and many more. It has been a joy to see these students grow over the years.

025And we have a I have to take off to read far away but we have what we love about WLAW. This is from our students. So, the caring staff and teachers, safe learning environment, student store, wellness room, large campus with big play area and field, daily announcements and birthday celebrations, pizza with the principal, fun run, spirit week, family nights, recess and classroom dance parties, the diverse student population, our youth leadership and student clubs. So, as principal, I am proud of the young leaders growing in our classrooms. I know that if we continue to nurture these elements in the portrait of a graduate, our students will not only graduate, they will soar. Thank you for your time. You questions and comments. Trusty Flores. Thank you for your presentation. I wanted you to go in a little

026bit into DO. What does that mean? The importance of it and how it benefits the the students. So DK stands for depths of knowledge. So there are four depths of knowledge DK 1 to four. Um it is okay to work under DK 1, two and three but we want to one and two but we want to see them explore more in three and four. So it's getting them to think critically basically to do more analysis. It all of the components in portrait of a graduate are in our depth of knowledge questioning. So, and and the reason I I wanted you to kind of elaborate a little bit on that is because for for our parents that are at home, it maybe this is a way that they can kind of bolster it at home as

027well where where they can ask those, you know, if they know what depth of knowledge, what they're working with, you know, what that acronym is. So, yes, and they do know. So we do share um that with the parents, the teachers share them with with the parents at back to school night. But like a a depth of knowledge one question would be just a basic question. What is the name of the boy that went to the store in that story? Uh two and three might get deeper. They need to analyze, look deeper in the dete in the text, find evidence, cite the evidence. So it just gets it gets um larger as it goes along. Do the students understand those or is it mostly teach teacher driven? No, they the students know. Please come to

028our classroom and you can ask anyone who visits our classroom. We have posters. We have really focused on DOK and structured student talk from last year to this year. There's posters in the classroom of all examples of do one to four. And if you say if a teacher someone walks in and says what's do they all go depth of knowledge and so they know but they actually understand they understand what it is the easier ones and twos and they know the harder the who what when and how and then below ground above ground. Anyways anyways they do I'm so impressed as a teacher. I'm just loving this. Yes we have been really pushing it and so I'm really impressed and I'm also so impressed with the teachers how they've taken this on as well. Thank

029you. Any other questions or comments? Oh, I'm sorry, Trusty Morales. Thank you for your presentation. I had two questions. So, the first question would be, what do you guys sell in your student store? That's a good question. Our student store is awesome. So, we have star tickets. Students earn star tickets for um making good decisions, following directions, um being respectful. Um, and so they go as little as little water bottle stickers, little rings, little trinkets to wlaw gear we sell. Um, pizza with the principal is actually you have to earn 20 star tickets and you can have pizza with the principal that is every other month. So there's all little things, balls. The youth leadership team is the one who created or who thought of all what uh prizes we should have in the store.

030So they actually run the student store too. So and that was my second question. What does youth leadership look like or what is what do they look like? So they meet every Wednesday with our academic support provider provider. Um and they come up with different ideas of things we want to do at school. They come up they they run the student store. Basically our academic support provider doesn't have to do much. She just stands back and they run the whole store. They do it Thursday and Friday. Friday is just for the the kinders. Um Thursday's for everyone else. Um yeah. Yeah. So, they just come up with ideas and then they present it to me for approval or not. Um, they're the ones who came up with adding pizza with the principal. So, things like

031that. Thank you very much. I see you glowing with pride of your students also. And okay, so it's mostly hot. All right. It's a glow. Thank you. Glowing and hot. All right. Thank you. Have a good night. Who's our next presentation? Next is Valo High School for the health career pathway to go. We'll have a group coming up. Good evening. President Fox, Vice President Amboy, Trusty Young, Trusty Flores, Trusty Simmons, Trusty Morales is emptying his seat, but he's going to join us tonight. So, I just want to say thank you for inviting us out to highlight one of our pathways at Valo High School, the health careers pathway, and you're not here to listen to me. So, I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Mel Gene Tubal, who's the lead of the pathway. He

032was also our Val High School teacher of the year this year. So, uh I hope you enjoy our presentation. Dr. Tibal. Yes. Superintendent Orelio, members of the board, thank you for this opportunity. Uh we are here to showcase our students of Vallejo High School Health Careers Pathway. We're very um we're very proud of our students and uh this is actually a showcase of the students being an epit an epitome of um a portrait of a graduate being supported by the district, the school, the admin and together with the community. So that being said, here's our president of the school leadership. Yeah, here we go. Good evening everybody board members of the board. So I'm Kaylee Tan and I'm just going to present the people who's going to be in our presentation today. So I'm Kaylee

033Tan. I'm the president of the health club in our school. Then we have Tia, Josealito, Aiden, Ricardo, Jade, Verona, and Raven. So in the healthc care pathway, our mission is to help better train our students into the future medical field. We offer classes in our pathway that will better give them the experience that they'll need in the medical path. And those on the presentations you see is our mission in our classes and our also our vision. So we made a couple changes in this year 2025. So starting as you can see it's listed there above. Um this year we started to offer new job internships and job shadowing now to students. We've also we also um sorry we also starting next school year we're going to have new classes for the medical fields and then

034we also have have started new learning um experiences for our students. So those just are a brief more of what we've are going in. So what you see there is the partners that we are share with. Sorry, it's a part of our community as well as some guardians who support us and there's a lot of people who support us of our pathway. So I'm passing it the slides over now. Good evening. I am Tia Anderson. I'm treasurer and uh secretary of the health club and these are some of the classes that we'll be having next year. We have human biology which start from freshman all the way up to seniors and that is college credit and then we have medical terminology and that just sophomore up to seniors and that's also college credit that's like

035an entry class and we have medical careers that is called a credit that's for seniors. Um, okay. Next one. All the classes are uh college credit, but medical term and medical careers only go to CC colleges. And um, human biology will be going to UC and CC colleges. And my passes over to Aiden. Uh so here's some of our uh certifications. As you can see, we have our CPR uh SL AED certification and students uh will be taught and uh we'll learn how to uh study CPR and first aid and after like you know a couple months they'll have their test and we'll give we'll be given their uh certification if they pass. And after that we have our Narcan training and all students are are going to be trained on the lock zone and

036medical careers will will learn how to um teach others on uh opioid overdose and the use of the lock zone to make others become equipped and um in handling over uh opioid overdose emergencies. And we have our uh facult faculties or the pathway. So, here's some of our stuff like, you know, hospital bed and babies and all that. And then we have our uh phabbotomy. And then we have our uh CPR uh first aid dummies. And yeah, and I'm going to pass this over to uh Veron. Um good evening everybody. My name is Veronica. Um so this is our health leadership club. Um in this club we actively support health p um health pathway initiatives by facilitating related activities and promoting wellness among community members, school staff and fellow students. Good evening. My name is

037Oalito Gregorio. Uh as you can see these are the internships that's um exposed to us students of the health pathway. Students in medical careers are required to join at least one of these internships. I've participated in uh HOP at Toro University and uh club stride. All of these internships um is like an introduc introductory to the health health occupation. Okay, as mentioned before, these are the classes that um we currently offer aside from human biology. Uh these are college accredited classes uh medical terminology and then medical careers accredited by Solano Community College and Diablo Valley College. And then on the right you can see the context of each class. Okay. And then passing it on. Good evening. My name is Raven and these are our field trips. We had a field trip at Turo University

038and here students practiced checking vital signs on a medical mannequin and tooured a clean lab for medicine prep and filled bottles um like real pharmacist. And then we went to Kaiser Permanente School of Allied Health Science in Richmond. And here we learned about the allied um health careers and application deadlines. And um we also toured the school such as the radiology, the OBGYn slash um ultrasound tech and phabbotomy labs. Hello, my name is Ricardo Morales and on this slide we had the um invitation to visit Sutter Health, their hospital here in Valleo and we were joined with um Venanishia High School and we got to tour around the hospital the hospital and the facilities and in this tour we were able to um go to different stations such as the medical physics, cancer therapy pharmacy,

039laboratory, radiology, nutrition, medical and supply logistics department. And overall, this trip was an amazing opportunity and it just want helped me pursue the medical field even more. I'll give it back to Raven. Um, our medic ambulance visit demonstration day. Um, Valo High School and the biotechnology and health science pathway has welcomed um, medic uh, sorry, the medic ambulance every year since 2023. And here we were able to um, learn about the professional careers of becoming an EMT. And we also learned how to use the emergency um the emergency sorry um such as the CPR and AED and we were also introduced on the pathways of how to become an EMT and a lot of educational resources that they've taught us. Thank you. proceeding on to Hello, my name is Jade and this year Valo High

040School participated in HOSA. Every 11th and 12th grader in the health pathway had the opportunity to participate in HOSA and eight finalists were able to go attend to the state leadership conference in Sacramento. Overall, HOSA was a great experience and it allowed us to train for new skills that we will need in the medical field. Pillar four, community centered education. And these are all of our community partners. Hello me again. Um so in this slide we had the opportunity to do a narcan training and teacher training. So I said before we were trained to um learn more about Nlloxxone and how it works and in this event we were able to present a presentation a slide presentation to the teachers of LA High School and we were able to just let them know on how

041nlloxxone works and how what you're supposed to do if a student overdoses in their classroom. And in these in this event, we were able to demonstrate a few um things to look out for and what to do. So, we had the opportunity to show the recovery position and demonstrate how to admit nlloxxone to a person who is overdosed on substances. Hello. So, these are some of our areas of growth. To summarize, um we aim to strengthen student relationships, um expand real world experiences and certifications, um increase academic and career readiness, boost community and parental involvement, and enhance support for health focus initiatives at Bole High School and BCUSD. Um, so this is our health careers pathway recognition ceremony that will be held on May 21st. I'm currently planning that um as well as some of

042my fellow students in the back. Um, this um ceremony will be for the seniors where we we will be presenting stos to recognize and celebrate their achievements in the health pathway. Um then we have this quote the power of community to create health is far greater than any physician clinic or hospital which is a quote that we like to live by. It's really important to us. So I just want to say thank you for letting this time for us to showcase our pathway. So that just concludes our presentations. So, if you guys have any questions for us, we'll be happy to answer them now. Thank you. We'll start with Trustee Simmons. Um, hello. Good evening. Thank you for your presentation. This was um I learned a lot of information about your medical program. I'm so

043jealous. Okay, so you said um during the presentation that eight of your students qualified for a competition. Um what were the competitions about and what did you guys do there? So most of we all chose the competition we wanted to compete in and we've been training for them since last year. So we took multiple tests for us to qualify for state. Me personally I took two which was pharmarmacology in sports medicine. I qualified this year but unfortunately I could not make it but thank you. Thank you. Yeah I wanted the qualifies and I can call them up to tell them too who've done it. So people who want to Um, okay. So, I qualified for medical reading. So, basically I just took some test about some books which qualified me to I think what was

044it? State first. State and then I took another test. Um, and then I found out that I got sixth place for that one. So, yeah. [Applause] I qualified in HOSA for um medical spelling, which is basically um spelling medical terms correctly. and I got to go to state and yeah um I didn't win but I qualified for for um medical term insert and I took two testes for both and I qualified but I wasn't able to be there to know what score I got if I went or not. Thank you. Okay. Me and this guy qualified for CPR first aid. Yeah. uh and I also qualified for uh for pharmacology but uh same as uh Kaye I couldn't uh attend also. [Applause] Okay. So for HOSA this year I did not qualify but it was

045actually a great opportunity. I tried to do CPR first aid but I will try again this year actually for my senior year for Jose. Thank you. Um I didn't qualify but I did medical terminology. I took the test for it and I thought it was a great experience and then if I if I could I would do it again but I'm a 12th grader so thank you guys. Uh Dr. Young wow this is just fascinating that um you guys are doing um a portrait of graduate and it's uh career orientated. I'm really for that. You know, everybody is out there and looking for uh a vision and you guys have definitely found your vision and your your your way that you're going. My question is, do you do your community um partners offer you any

046summer internships? Yeah, anybody can answer that. I mean, you know, no, they do. So, so like as Jose said he had volunteered for HCOP and that happens over the summer. It's our partnership with Turo University. So, Turo University offers us some internships over the summer. Give you the opportunity to actually hands-on with the field that you're interested in. Yes, they give us hands-on experience. So, how many of you are going to take advantage of that? Raise your hand. Quite a couple. Don't be shy. Okay. As well as Kaiser. Kaiser's also offering some um internships over the summer as well. It's starting like a couple days after a graduation and that's like for the whole summer from June to August. So, how many how many seniors do we have here? Oh, you're out in that big

047wide world now, honey. Yeah. Okay. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Best of luck. Thank you so much, Vice President Amboy. Uh just by a show of hands, how many of uh students here are dual enrolled? Like for college credits? All of us. All of us. Have you guys found any difficulties in enrolling um to this to to the like other school like Solano or DVC or something like that? Yeah, it's kind of been kind of confusing on having to apply for it. And like I know for like DVC, I had some problems of them sending me an email about I guess I have to wait for a couple hours for them to give them my ID and that took a while and then I didn't see it for a while. So I had to call

048them up for that. And then for Solano as well, I also had some difficulties in logging into my account. So I had to call the help center for that one as well. I think we need to probably um have more support on our end for for the students enrolling because I think it's important for us. I mean, it it's great to see that you're that you're all dual enrolled, but as as a board, we would like to see us helping you guys out because it's just as important that you get your foot in the door rather than still waiting to, you know, finding the finding your way to um to get those credits. But thank you. Thank you, Dr. Young. My advice to anybody that's still waiting is that you take your own chair to

049the table. You get in an Uber and you go over there and you find out what the problem is. You don't wait for That's life. I mean, come on. You got to fix it. You go over there and find out what's going on with your future. It's just that simple. I can't make it any clearer than that. Um, so don't be shy because it's your it's your future. It's not theirs. They're sitting there already have their future. So you get in that Uber or get in your car that you just got for graduation and uh go find out what's holding up your future. Okay. Thank you. Else for questions. I think she's saying you need to advocate and fight for yourself and make sure that you just keep on them and don't let them not

050call you back. You're on them. Okay. Thank you so much. Keep going. [Applause] Next we All righty. We are on to item 6B which is going to be the Evolve pilot program presentation. And I will call up Director George Tisby and whoever else he brought with him. Good evening, Mr. Chzby. Good evening. Good evening, uh, President Fox, good evening, Vice President Amboy, uh, Trustee Dr. Young, Trusty Flores, uh, Superintendent Aurelio, um, Student Trustees Morales, and Student Trustee Simmons. Um, thank you for the opportunity to present this uh information to you today. Um, and I also have a couple people from the site. Um, I have Chris Smith. He's the lead site safety supervisor at uh Jesse Bethl. We have JR. We we like to call him JR. Um, so Mr. Mr. Richards, he's also from

051uh Jesse Bethl. Then we have Daniel Martinez. He's the vice principal at Jesse Bethl. Okay. So this system is called the evolve um or this project I should say is the evolve lighthouse project um and we started this um October 22nd. So basically what it is is a weapons detection system um that we implemented um at both uh Jesse Bethl for daily operations and then um over at Corbusfield and some Val High School uh extracurricular events. Um and what it's doing is changing the culture of our at our high schools. Um the evolved systems will be utilized. Um also they will be utilized at our upcoming graduations at Corbus Field. Um and we have the great recognition of being the first district in the Bay Area to use the Evolve system for student safety messaging.

052Um we sent out several messages to our district and to our students and to the community um about this uh this new program, this pilot program. Um and it was essential in fostering understanding, engagement and trust why we wanted to implement this system. Um Evolve is accurately and efficiently prevents weapons from entering campuses and events while being mobile, durable, and free of construction. um and legacy technologies to maintain a welcoming culture. Um Evolve prioritizes directed searches for maximum efficiency and equity. Ensure students to get to class on time and ideally identify specific areas on students, uh community members, whoever. It identifies specific areas that need to be checked without compromising flow or the culture. Um this this data summary um basically states um as of March 21st, 2025 um at Jesse Bethl alone, we screened

053a total of 85,92 people. Okay. Um and then if you look down um on the the data, so Jesse Bethl has se out of that 85,92 Jesse Bethl was about 77,492 of those people. Um the daily average is about 980. The reason that average is down a little bit is because we we we put the system up around 9 9:30 and then after that we wan people um when they come in if they come in late, things of that nature when they go into the main office. Um and then over at Corbus Field, um that was mostly for the football games, um soccer games, things of that nature. U we we approximately 85 uh 8,500 people came through that. So that was an average of 302. Um what you see right there, the average clear

054rate, it says 69%. The clear rate is who gets through the system without getting searched. Um and there's things that are triggering the uh the searches. Um Jesse Bethl, you know, they don't have a lot of lockers or enough lockers for our students. So they carry their their their computers, you know, their binders, things of that nature. And anytime you have anything like that in uh or when you walk through the system, it automatically triggers it, which makes us search and do a random search right there on the spot. Um uh and so you can see the numbers. Jesse Beth was about 67% and Corbusfield was about 71%. Corbusville is of course going to be a little higher because students are not bringing their backpacks, you know, adults are not bringing, you know, bags for

055the most part. So um and we we had a total threat out of that 85,92 we had a threat of about 46 items. That items can be a pocketk knife, it can be a sharp edge, it can be a just a a piece of steel. Um but once we see that, we take that away from that person and and continue searching um the rest of the the students, staff or community members. Um, as a a result of informing students in the community about potential secondary searches, we have seen a decrease in vapes, weapons, and other prohibited items being brought on our campus and in into extracurricular events. Um, there has also been a significant decrease in gun related issues. U, we have a this a case study that we we wanted to put in. Um

056there was an incident where a student had a weapon um in their car and they left it in their car and we really we really believe it was left in that car because um he knew he knew he would get searched if he brought tried to bring it on campus. What embodies why you have systems like this. Um and thankfully he had he had a responsible grandparent at home that also tipped us off on some information. So um the weapons like I said overall the weapon related suspensions have been uh significantly lowered since implementing the evolved pilot program. Um this is the part that the most important and it's the most important because these are the the staff that are using uh this evolve every day for the safety of our students and staff. So

057I'm gonna have uh Mr. Martinez come up first. Good evening. Um so I'll just read my quote and then say something about 20 seconds. So our school is now a safe area where students can come and feel positive. Um moving the morning um ingress into the theater and has created a use of a space where we normally wouldn't be there and it created a haven for students as they enter the campus to uh start the day. Um, what I mean by that is we moved it from the uh the initial point where it was in the front of the school into the theater and it created more space for kids that are being searched because it's random. Um, the system searches us uh based on what they see as a threat and not anybody specifically.

058So when they go inside if you it takes away the uh the embarrassment piece and the stress of being checked if something might be in your bag or just feeling like you're being singled out. So by having it being in another room where they have to go into a door first before they go into it to help with some of the uh the positive feedback we got from students when they do have to go through this process with us to make sure we maintain safe. Um and also I would like to thank our um well I don't know who came up with it but whoever had the idea to look forward to this to have it come into our system first into our schools and to be forward thinking with the um the environment in

059which we live in that we can't control but to have something more to help our students stay safe. That's um that's a big step for our district and I appreciate that. Thank you. Hello. Good evening. How you doing tonight? I love having the system. I wish we could keep it. Um it is another form of security for me. It's like having another linebacker up there waiting to come through the hole to tackle someone. But all in all, thank you guys for having it. And we do need it. And if we could keep it, we'll appreciate that. Thank you. There's a term uh money well spent. Whatever you spend for it, it's been worth it. Um, it shows where any backpack, a handbag, it shows where it at, whether they're moving, strapped to them down below

060in their pocket. It shows it right on the spot. So, we just pull them off to the side and it's right there. This is money well spent. Whatever you spend for it, it's worth it. Please keep it. We need it. Before I bring um the next two people up, um this great idea I would I want to say was um Superintendent Aurelio. I know he reached out to me um when he first came on about this information, asked me if I heard about it. I said, "I'm all on board." And so it it happened. And then just to clarify, we have not paid anything. [Laughter] Good evening board. Uh my name is James Ballentine. Good evening. My name Good evening board. My name is Miss Chanty and No. Okay. Good evening board. My name is

061Miss Chanty and uh we're site safety right there at Valo High School and uh we're able to see the safness that the evolved security system brings within our school within our sporting events. Um I've actually heard a lot of positive feedback to where people from out the city want to come back to games. From last year I would hear things just working the games. I'm not coming back here. but to this year where it's like, "Oh man, you guys are taking the next steps and safety, caring for the students, caring for the staff, and caring for our visitors that are coming onto our campuses for our games." And um yeah, it's it's a great investment. I believe it's a real great investment in safety for all of us here within the Valo City School Board

062as well or the district. I mean, you want to read this? It's hard for me to hear You want to read it? Yes. And also, this is what one of our lead site safeties wrote down. We were very fortunate to be able to work with the Evolve security system for our sporting events here at Valo High School. It has been a tremendous help with ensuring the safety of our students, staff, and spectators. The look of the Evolve system itself would act as a deterrent as some spectators would see the system and head back to their cars. They would head back to the respective cars before entering our events. Several knives were discovered while using the system as well as discovery of vapes and other items prohibited at our schools and we have spoken with all

063of our site safety as well as our site safety from other schools who were thorly trained with using the evolve which uh none of them had anything negative to say regarding the system. It has enhanced our level of security, streamlined our bagchecking process and was even given positive commend given positive comments by adults going through it admiring the level of security that we are now providing to our our city and to our schools by the Valleo City Unified School District site safety. And we are hoping to continue to utilize the evolve system for all of our future events. And uh what used to take about a good minute to two minutes wanting everybody takes about 10 seconds getting everybody in. Second them. Thank you for your time. Is there are there any questions? You got

064it. Okay. Yes. Um I wanted to ask you mentioned all of you mentioned um I wanted to ask how do you feel as a staff member for this system as a staff member and then what have you heard from students response or parent response just real quick what I personally heard is um parents love it the students that may have something on them don't like it because it's making them accountable for what they may have or bring. But the students that are wanting safety, they love it. You as a staff member, how does it make you feel? Oh, it makes me feel very safe knowing that, okay, uh, everyone that went through the machine, went through the evolve, I know personally that one, they don't have a weapon, they don't have a sharp object. I

065don't have to worry about them too much of a weapon sense or someone getting hurt or injured uh, severely. So, it makes me feel very safe and prepared. So, thank you. Who else would like to answer those? Well, it makes me feel safe. I love an angry student. That means I'm doing my job. You know, when when they come through and they and it shows where it's at and we talk to them and we pull them to the side and tell them what it's about, they understand. But we also have those parents that look at us the whole time till their kid come through there. and if their kid doesn't come through there, they will get out the car, come to us to say why my kid didn't go through. So, I'm thankful for that

066and I'm thankful for having good parents. Thank you. So, as far as how uh as far as how it makes me feel, like I'm not very afraid of stuff, but you can see the demeanor change with our students. Um especially when the light of like the major stuff that happens not in our city but around the country with uh like the god forbid mass shootings and stuff that happened at school. We kind of timed this perfectly when we implemented it cuz something had just happened right afterwards and it showed that we were already ahead of the the kind of the bowling ball with that. So um it makes me feel safe because the kids feel safe and then it also it prevents um travesty for what it is. And I've had experience working with these

067machines at my other jobs. And it's it's made specifically so you can process people in and be non- evasive. And that's the biggest part that's the most important because nobody wants nobody touching you and doing all that stuff. But you just walk through and the system um checks for the safety of the the entire group and not just specific people. So it's a it's a good fit for what we're trying to portray as a school a school and a district. Thank you. Was that the Okay, we got some other comments. Um I don't know whose light was first. Um, do we know who was first? Dr. Young, I'll start with you. I My question is um is um where are these checkpoints being designated for? How do the students get through this system or is

068it just for um game activ uh student uh activities at the corpus field only? Are you set up at each one of these campuses? Yes. So when we implemented the pilot program, the the only location we do it daily um is is Jesse Bethl. Jesse Bethl. The footprint, the logistics of that site make it much easier to funnel students to the front of the school. Right now at Val High School, we're only using it for extracurricular events and Corbus Field until we can get a more secure footprint at that particular site. Um but I'm gonna let you um Jesse Bethl kind of talk about that also. So what we have done we have taken it from the main office and we moved it to the little theater because if you experience coming up to Bethl

069it is so cold outside. So when it's cold we had to make a alternate place for them to go. So we moved it to the little theater and it worked well from there. Moved it to the little theater. Yes. So, how do they get in and out? Side gate. They come through. They come through the middle and then come through the side and go straight out to the quad. Yeah. I forgot there was a side in. We have a system. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, in the process of maybe possibly having it at Balo High School, how will they channel that situation? That's an open situation there. That's a director Tisby question, I think. Yes. Um so right now from as an operations department we're trying to see how we can um once again reduce

070the footprint of that site as you know the the the ingress and the egress at Bel High School is huge um and you know right now we're in the um a district that you know is having some financial issues. So bringing on more manpower is not going to work right now. So I know the maintenance and the facility side of the house are working with architects to see how we can add additional fencing um for Val High School so we can implement that system in there. Um but like I said we are using that system at Val High School for the extracurricular events. I have some ideas. President Marles, thank you for your presentation. Um, so I just want to clarify some clarify on something. So what time did um I believe I heard 9

071and 9:30 you start to use this. So no, we bring we shut it down around that time. You shut it you shut it down. So what happens with the students who may like they may get there like late and they have to what's the process for that? Yes. So we keep a one-site safety in the front of the school right there by the um the attendance uh the main office and he manually wands them when they going in. Um the the issue with this system is a great system but it does have a toll on manpower. Um so we you have to have somebody that you know you initially watch the system for any alerts and then you have to have several people searching the bags. For example, you have a 1300 students at Jesse

072Bethl. So in that time frame and you know correct me if I'm wrong if necessary but we're getting that that 1,200 to300 students in in a very timely manner. Um so but the guys need to go out and start roaming the campus. So I can't have four to five guys in front of the school when there's a lot of the population becomes larger on the main campus. Um because every site safety supervisor has a section and they man that section. Um, you know, for example, um, uh, you got you have the the the S building, um, you know, the basketball courts at Jesse Belf, you have the quads, no different than Val High School. You have the quad, you have the East, um, you know, the East gym, you have the science building, um, things

073of that nature. Petari gym. So, they have to break it down and then go back to their sections so they can do continuous walkthroughs in their sections. Thank you, Trusty Simmons. Hi. Um I don't have a question. I just wanted to give some insight on the um evolve system from the students to everyone. Um so evolve is great. I just want to put that out there. But um students before we had evolve, they were like kind of weary because um one before we had the evolve system, we had already had like two situations regarding weapons at our school. And then two, when we f finally found out that we were going to have metal detectors evolved system, they weren't very keen to the idea. Some students also took took it as a challenge like, "Oh,

074let's see what I can sneak in." D. Oh, sorry guys. Um, but I could say that since since October, um, since we have had the evolved system, students are okay with it. And the metal detectors, there's not much, um, push back against it anymore as there was compared to the beginning. Um, the school culture is definitely better. Students feel safer coming to school. We have not had any weapon threats since Evolve and we haven't really had any fights. I'm not sure if that's because of the Evolve, but that's just something that students are noticing. Um, I do come to school fairly early throughout the week because I have zero period. I usually get there at like 6:00 a.m. And sometimes depending on how early I get there, the um, systems are not ready. But staff,

075as I said, they do still check us. they still wand us. Um, and when I get to school on Wednesdays, cuz I don't have zero period and I get to wake up late and um, almost be late to school. Um, it's very congested. Um, hold on. I wrote it in my notes. I don't know why I paused like that. Um, it's very congested, but they do, as I said, they do wand us when it's starting to take a long time, when it's starting to get slow. Um, and when it breaks down, like cuz sometimes, I think it's only happened two times since we've had the evolve system. it's like broken down or something has happened. Um, one thing that I will say that has it's still going on right now is that students will always

076try to find a way around it. I noticed that during Wednesdays, um, as we said that the evolve systems are in our like student union area and from the gate to the evolve system, we have tables where we put our backpacks down, take our computers out if you haven't done it. Some students will just walk right through the tables and not go through the evolve system. Um or some students will have their friends who already went through the system open the gates and be like, "Hey, come in. You don't have to go through the metal detectors." Um that is something that does happen and I wanted to bring attention to that. And um students, as I said, are going to try to always try to find a way to sneak things in. So um regarding

077like vapes, students still bring vapes in. students still bring in um things that they want to like try to test the system with. But regarding like big weapons or like really dangerous weapons, the Evolve has been doing its job. We haven't had any major like issues regarding weapons since evolve. And um for the parent statement, um parents do enjoy the evolve system, but some parents are weary about like our reputation. I hear them say like, "Oh, look, Jesse Bethto has like metal detectors. It's going to make people think that the district is unsafe or has like a violence problem, etc., etc." So, that's just what I've been hearing from the parent side, but other than that, Evolve is for weapons and it's worked nearly eliminating those issues. So, that's just a little insight from us.

078Thank you. Um, Trusty Flores, I want to thank you for your presentation and the sensitive nature of all this, right, in in the balance of student safety, staff safety. I I don't look at this lightly, you know, um, and the but I just feel that this is just a big giant placebo, meaning that it's not really making us any safer. Um, I I would ask if if site safety feels this way about Evolve, would they be willing to turn in their bulletproof vest that they asked for us to purchase because the campuses are safe now or at least Bethl is, right? So the other thing based on, you know, a quarter of a million dollars in expenditures for for this I'm I'm kind of just running the numbers, you know, and and I look at

079I look at Bethl, right? Uh 77,492 clearance rate is 67%. So that means 26,000 or excuse me 28,348 people got second searches. Correct. Of that 46 people were found. So that's like 16%. You know I mean I I think that I it's not I think we could find better ways. I one of the other issues was in regards to what uh Trusty Simmons was talking about. My goal is to have a district that doesn't require this, right? So, I know that takes time. I know that we're trying to implement uh mental health uh structures in place so that we this wouldn't be an issue. The other reason why I I call this a placebo is because I asked for data for 2023 23 24 25 school year for BETHL and for Valo High, right? Valo

080High does not have the evolved system in place. So based on the data given to me, Valleo High actually had a 26% drop in incidences versus Bethl of 20% in that time frame in the time frame that Evolve has been in place. Um you know uh possession of controlled substances has gone down at at both sites. um contraband cuz I specifically asked for for contraband weapons and um uh I forgot what the other thing was I asked for, but I got information on possession of controlled substances. Um and and I see at a place that doesn't have it, it's still going down. So to me that's saying that we're doing something right in the district at our schools that's helping and I don't take the fact that this could be a deterrent in a lot

081of ways but um again I I've heard it from other folks. Trese Simmons uh says it, you know, I mean, folks will get around it, you know, and and the the thing about it for me, it's just it how many psychologist, psychiatrists could we get for 225,000 at Bethl so that we could maybe address the issues, you know? Um, so, so again, for me, it's just the numbers don't, if I'm looking strictly at it, it's just the numbers, you know, it it it doesn't add up. It it's not as effective as as I feel like I'm being led to believe right now. Now, is it making you all feel safe? I I I I'm not arguing that. I I believe it is, you know, but but just based on numbers, I it's really not any

082more effective than what's going on at at the other high schools. So, I mean, it just for me, it's it's not there there's other things that I'd rather invest in. And and the other question I had, and I'm not sure if um you had the numbers on that, was of of the 31% that that went to secondary searches, how many of those were false negatives, you know, because I I if the system is just if there's because if there's only 42 things found uh of of 20 28,000, that's like I think less than 1% of things and and we can say it's a deterrent, but I I just can't imagine to be that, you know, I I I'd want to know if you have the the information on it, how many of these are are

083false readings of of students having weapons or contraband, vapes, etc. So, that's just kind of where where I'm at with with with this, you know. I mean, I I am open to to conversations about how to make the campuses safer. I just don't feel that this based on on the numbers provided, it it doesn't it doesn't really make campuses safer. Thank you, Mr. President. Amboy. Oh, um, did we'll have time in a minute, Sean. Okay. Vice President Amb Director Tisby, thank you for your presentation. Um um I have just a couple of questions in regards to um to the data summary overview overview page. Um you you tagged um we have 46 tagged. Of the 46, how many were from Jesse Bethl and how many were from from Corpus Field? Um, good question, sir. I

084want to say the majority of that was at uh Corbus Field because it was, you know, extracurricular events. So, we deal with a lot more adults um in that setting at Corbus Field um from, you know, adults from other communities, children from uh students from other communities. So, the majority, I don't have the exact number, but the majority of that was from the uh Corbus Field um uh setup. Oh, thank you. And also um I was there from the from the first day that Evolve was on on the Bethl campus and as a parent um of of two kids who go to Bethl I've see how the process has evolved um no pun intended um where it's more streamlined and I and it's you can see that you have a number more students passing through

085the system uh more quickly um and more in more rapidly and I I do appreciate that um that your systems in place have been um have been flowing properly. Um and I think and this is one thing that we we've discussed too, you know, from when we were discussing about having evolved, you know, we you know, it's it's it's a deterrent. Um it's to give if anything I as a parent I want to have the the the staff have that peace of mind that that we are looking after for our staff because the staff is just as important um to me as as the kids you know if you feel safe you know working um and we have s a system like evolved I mean yet we we all know it's not Perfect. Um, but

086I think that it's important that we have some deterrent um that's available to us. Now, it's is it expensive? Um, I'm sure it is and I we we all know it is, but I I have to invest in the safety of of the kids, the parents, the staff. Um, because that to me that's the number one priority. And it's and I I mean I look at it like I mean just as an example as a as um being in my industry like like if someone bought a car car for me they want to keep their car and so they'll put low jack. They'll put they'll put the club on the steering wheel. They'll put the wheel locks. They're doing yes all those systems in place. If someone wants to steal your car they'll steal your

087car. But if you can have some systems in place, at least it will make people think twice about um taking that taking your vehicle. And again, it's it's not a perfect system and I understand that. But I just want I just want to let the staff know that we're it's important that we think of your safety as well as um my my children's safety and our our kids' safety is is our priority. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Young. Yes. Well, it's two four on the 225,000. Is that one school or two schools? That would be for two pieces of equipment for both for both just like we have set up as the pilot right now. One will be at Jesse Bethl High School and one will be at Bel High School. That's for two. Yes,

088ma'am. um in keeping our our our students and faculty and everybody in the mix of the community in a safe mode. Um with the changing of the environment in the world, we're going to have to do something. Um and right now this seems to be working to a certain point. Um, it's not TSA uh like we have at the airport and sometime they make a mistake too cuz I know I don't have nothing and I I get buzzed every time. So, so you know uh it's for my jury. It's for my jury. Okay. But anyway, um I get buzzed. So we we have to have something in place uh to deter deter uh to make uh for for anything that possibly is thinking the wrong thoughts of other than coming in those doors and getting

089the education. Okay. So yeah that yeah we need something and if I can just make a couple more points. Thank you. Um, oh, I'm sorry. Okay, Trusty Simmons. Um, I just want to say I do also think it's important, as Trusty Flores said, to look into like the mental health bit of it. Like maybe not mental health is the right word, but to look into why students might want to bring certain things and be more like proactive with it, if that makes sense. Um because as I said like parents and parents hold I'm just going to read what I wrote guys. I'm going to not try to bring it off my head and maybe we can tackle the problem so that maybe we don't need evolve anymore and so we can break the stigma that's

090coming on like oh um Jesse Belto VCSD is unsafe because look they have metal detectors and um so I was I do think that maybe we should invest more into looking within and seeing like why this is happening and being more proactive. Thank you. All right. Um for my turn. Um we have a big problem in this country. Huge problem. Kids being shot in our schools all across the country for years. Was it starting in Coline and it's gone to every kind of school, Christian school, public school, private school. Employees and children and parents are afraid to send their kids to school. That's an epidemic here in the United States. It's an epidemic. is a travesty for this country. It's embarrassing for this country. Extremely embarrassing. And under our new control in this country, I

091don't see it's going to get any better. But anyways, that's my personal opinion. Um, what I see as a trustee and as an educator is every ounce of my being is to keep every student safe every day from the moment they arrive to the moment they leave. They are my child, my responsibility and that's all of our educators responsibility. Whatever we can do to enhance that in this day and age of 2025 with what we're dealing with in this country, not what we're dealing with in Valo, the country we need to do. I don't care how much money would it take to save a life. What what how much what's the value of money versus a life? Can you give me a number? Can can you anyone give me a number for that? Because I

092find that to be ex extremely insulting. Anything that shows prevention, anything that shows a perception that we're doing what's safe to take care of our students, anything is a deterrent, which we are deterring. For that student who kept it in the car because he knows if he went through, he would have went off with the buzzers or whatever. or the kids that don't bring it in. That's why there's only 40ome incidents because they know they'll get caught. That's a deterrent. There's your data. I don't know. Am I right? I I think that's what I'm seeing. I think that's what I'm understanding. And data has so many variables. You can't just point to one thing. You cannot. Anyone who's educated knows you have to look at all sides of data and other perspectives. And to Miss

093Simmons point, of course kids are going to push the limits. They're kids. That's what kids do. Who's had teenagers? And know they're going to push every limit every day, every second of the day. That's in their DNA as a teenager. Come on. That doesn't mean we're not going to protect them. And again like we heard earlier, we don't have the money for more manpower. But if we are doing everything we can so there will not be someone's life lost and showing we are trying every day to do XYZ. Keep them safe this way, keep them safe this way, keep them safe this way. Not having discussions and then the time you're having discussions, kids get shot. No. Absolutely no. So, I think you know where my passion is, but I also find it insulting when

094I voted for you all to have the vest you want. You are here to do a job and it's my job to make sure you feel safe. So, you want to come to work. So, you want to protect our students. Whatever tools you need, I want you to have the tools you need to do your job and keep the students safe and keep you safe. Not versus an evolved metal detector versus a vest. If you want both, you want both. It's my job to make sure you are safe and that you stay our employee, not that you go somewhere else because we're not listening to you. I don't care about someone's perception. My perception is to keep you alive. That's the only perception that will go through my head. Someone's trying to say it's a

095Valo problem. No, you haven't been listening in the United States. You're under a rock. John, you wanted to say something a bit ago. Some of you want to say something. I think I'm done cuz I'm so boiled right now. I don't care what money. We'll find the money. That's not the point. We're going to protect these kids' lives so they go home to their parents every [Applause] day and their employees go home every day to come back. Who wanted to comment? I forget. Shantra, I thought it was you. Yeah, Chant. Uh Chanty. Yeah. But I would like to just make a couple of quick points. Um and thank you. You know, this is a great discussion. I appreciate the time. Um, but as a director as the the as a director of this department, I

096have to take the pros and the cons of being over safety. Um, and the evolved system is not the only component of safety. Uh, safety is a mentality. Um, uh, you know, um, I believe this system is at all of our theme parks down in Southern California. Okay. Um people still call that the happiest place on earth even though they have metal detectors on the outside. Um secondly um uh the bulletproof vests were were given to our the district's first responders. Um, so when we have situations, and I'm not going to just say site safety does that, but sitebased staff, um, administrators I've worked with for many years, teachers, everybody that's on a staff and when something goes down at a school site, every adult is responsible to protect the students, period. Okay. Um, but

097I also want to say Evolve is not the only component of safety. again. Um, we have, uh, installed several hundred cameras at all of our facilities in recent years. State-of-the-art cloud-based cameras. Um, we have a a very vast and detailed communication system for every one of our sites. Okay? And um, and that includes the comprehensive site safety plans that you approve every year earlier than March 1st, which is legal the legal date for that. This district has started doing that early almost like December because if you can if you have an emergency that emergency might happen you know in in in November. So just getting that practice done standardizing state standard standardizing safety um is what I have to do as a director's department and I'm from this community so I'm very vested on this

098being a successful department. Um, and I have staff. I have staff that care about students. They're here for the students. They're not here for anybody else. Okay? And that's the people I want in my department. People who are student first, okay? Because when you student first, then you worried about anything that affects that student life. Things that are at home. Um, we are statemandated reporters. You know, I I need people I tell the site safety all the time when they come when they're coming in, be that first smiling face that that kid see because you don't know what that kid is dealing with in the community. And a lot of these guys, guys and gals, excuse me, are from this community. So, they know what's going on in this community. Okay? But I'm going to

099let them speak for themselves because they're all very capable. Good evening. Um, I just wanted to make a comment, Mr. Flores, based on what you said about the vest, even though Mr. Fox covered it and George Co covered it, too. I don't like to harp on things, but that vest was instrumental for us. That was a step in the right direction, something we should have been had a long time ago. I was part of that, putting a proposal together, we all as a whole to get those vests. I was out there when my buddy got shot in the street. Had he had the vest on, he didn't he didn't die, thank God. But still, a vest probably would have helped him as well. Um, I think that's a great investment. We need nothing is 100%.

100But we give 100% at site safety every single day. And I might add 120% because I'm strictly dedicated to those kids at Valo High School and all these kids in Valo that I have come into contact with. I take it personal, right? I have to go home to my family. So does all this high safety that's there with us every day. We deal with a lot of different things. And it's easy to say things like that when you're not in the thick of things. And this is nothing personal. I'm just saying in general, like our job is hard. You have to kind of love your job to be there because it's definitely I didn't come here for the money. Definitely not that. I wouldn't even came. So, I'm just saying I'm well vested and I

101believe all of our site safety that we have for the most part are vested in these kids. So, please support us in trying to make it happen. The machine is one thing, the vest is another thing. Let's put some other stuff together so that we can make the schools a little safer than they are right now. It's not going to ever get that much better. Like Fox said, it's probably not, but I'm very optimistic. That's why I've been there as long as I have because I believe in the Valo City Unified School District and I'm waiting for everything to turn around because I could go over to Benicia. I could go over to Fairfield. I could go to Brentwood where it's probably a little less crime and we'll probably be dealing with drugs more so

102than guns, but I choose to stay here because I used to be a probation officer. I know what it's like out there in these streets. And that was in Houston, Texas, and then here in Solano County. So, I know and I take all of this stuff that we deal with every day to heart. So, I just need you and all the other board members to really understand understand where we're coming from and I appreciate you taking the time out to listen. Thank you. And one one additional thing too is having those professional relationships with the students and staff is key in in overall safety. Um, uh, I talked to Chanty. She has wonderful relationships with students at her site. That's what's making the site safe, too. Um, and you can't put a dollar amount on

103that either. So, um, having having the staff understanding how, you know, you have to really understand how everybody can't do this position. Um, everybody can't do this position. And I only can speak of it because I I manage it. So, I've learned over the years how you have to always have it's almost robotic. Um, we do training with a lot of law enforcement and I ask them all the time, how do you continue dealing with, you know, trauma and they say you have to be just revert back to your training. Um, when you're getting cussed at by a adult or a student, you have to be professional, you know, regardless of the situation and still give them customer service, period. Um, every student, every community member deserves customer service from the Val Unified School District

104staff, um, regardless of the situation. So that's how we operate and that's how I manage my team. So um we need to make sure that we give the site safety supervisors all the tools um that they can use on a daily basis to keep our students and staff safe. Oh. Oh, there's there's a light. Okay. Did all of you get a chance to speak? They wanted to. Okay. Trusty Flores. So, you know, I I thank you all and it's not and and I think this is where I where I want to make sure the conversation is on the topic we had because having emotional outbursts and talking about deaths and all all this stuff. Of course, nobody wants a child dead. Of course, there's no there's no uh uh price tag on a child. We

105all know that. We all know that. But that has nothing to do with an evolved system that is ineffective based on the numbers. So that that is what I'm against. I am not against site safety supervisors safety, their health. The reason I brought up the the vest was to kind of kind of get you to understand what what how safe can you really feel. You know, I I will admit that I voted against the vest because my understanding was that everybody got them that wanted them, but nobody is required to wear them. So, what what is the purpose of of a walkie-talkie that's in in an office? Hence, what's the how does a vest So, that that was that discussion, but the point of that was not give me your vest. I want your vest.

106I was just trying to uh kind of get a get you a yes maybe a contrasting point is it uh of you know of how safety there's safety and then there's perceptions of safety you know and that's why I was telling you the numbers you know because we can talk about the children how much we care about the children in the district I have a child in this district I have a child that I send to school every day that I want him to come home safe that I don't want all these things that happen all over the place to happen at his school. I, as a parent, and I can only speak for myself, I as a parent wouldn't don't feel any safer with with metal detectors at his school or or or those

107things. But what I what I listened to as you were explaining some of the uh things you do, a lot of it was heart work. It wasn't metal detectors. It wasn't it wasn't all that stuff. It it's like you said, it's that relationship building. It's like how how do we build that? Because at the end of the day, don't we all want a district where we don't have to require bulletproof vest? Don't we all want that? I think we do. I don't. I know. I do. And I get that that's that's like one part school, five parts community and and home life. But if we can provide places of safety, of comfort where they can where a student can feel like you said that they they're going to walk up to a smiling face. You

108know, one of the one of the most uh things that stuck to me when I was doing some of the training when I first came on to the board and they gave they asked us to rank of of staff members at school sites and and the district who were the most trusted custodians, site safety were like one and two, school board superintendent were like six and seven, you know. So, so that that's what I want to invest in you and and in your in your team and your department. It's it's it's not that I don't want you all to be safe. I don't want you all to feel safe. And and I apologize if it came off a little insensitive, but I just was trying to get a point across how this specific system is

109not the the as effective as as it's being made out to be based on the numbers. Based on the numbers, I would want a more effective system. I would want to pour more into you, your department, your staff. What does that look like? How how you know? So, for me, that that's what it is. It it has nothing to do with you all and what you guys all do as as a whole. You know, my my hat is off to you all, but this is specifically just on the evolve uh system. Superintend I just want to make just a clarification. So we're not there is no vote this evening. There's no contract this evening. This was strictly a presentation on the pilot program and just to bring the information back to the board because when

110we brought the system in we we said we would be bringing back the information. Um that way when we do get to a point if we do bring a contract forward, we've had some of this discussion, we've looked at some of the data so that way the board can make the informed decision if we do want to move forward with a system like this. Dr. Young, I want to thank the safety for coming up, stepping up and giving us the true feeling of what it is. It is what it is. It's no, it's it's no um covering it up with with with uh you know coloring. Um I happen to know because I was a site person. I was an administrative on a school a high school site. So I'm aware of what you're talking

111about. very aware and what you're up against even more so now because things is so technologically driven. So, you know, uh thank you so much for being um unapologetic in your concerns about what is happening on these school sites and what you're up against. because if we didn't know what you're up against, we would really wouldn't know um how to gauge our um decision making up here. So, um thank you again for being very truthful and uh unapologetic with it. And I just want to say thank you for your time. Um very important discussion. Um, I'm always willing to, you know, um, uh, provide additional information. Um, but we're doing a lot of good things in this district as far as safety and I just want to continue, um, that process. So, I appreciate the

112time and thank you so much. And I want to thank all of you for your voice and your concerns. And from what I hear, I hear loudly, you want us to keep the evolved system is what I heard. So, um, thank you for your voice and what your concerns are to do your job and to work in this district to keep our kids safe. Have a good evening. [Applause] Next, we have a resolution. We're down to it's teacher appreciation week and uh we definitely appreciate our teachers. Uh, superintendent really, I was I was just going to introduce item, but I would love for you as a I think you were the the teacher on the board. So, if you wouldn't mind reading this resolution. I'll try. All right. Resolution number 5053 recognizing May 5th through

113the 9th, 2025 is National Teacher Appreciation Week and May 6, yesterday, Teacher Appreciation Day. Name the teachers we need for our education for education. We want the global imperative to reserve as the teacher shortage. Whereas a strong effective system of free public education for all children and youth is essential for our dem democratic system of government. And whereas the United States and the state of California have made considerable progress in the social, technological and science scientific fields due to our system of free and universal public education. Love our public education. Whereas the Valo City Unified School District is com comprised of 608 certificated staff members including teachers from preschool through the adult school librarians, counselors, nurses, resource specialists, teacher leaders, and other special specialty staff. And whereas the district's certificated staff play a vital role

114in the academic, social, and emotional development of Valleo's youngest citizens as well as adults enrolled at the Valo adult school. And whereas the district's certificated staff have shown their dedication to the students in the district. And whereas the district certificated staff are part of the one of the most important professions, educators, because they both touch and create the future and all that they do each day. And whereas the district certificated staff have shown their understanding of and support for achieving the district's goals for improving student achievement. Narrow narrowing the achievement gap for groups of students who are below grade level. Improving student uh school climate and behavior so that every student and staff member feels safe and teacher can teach and every student can learn. And whereas got to move down. Hold on. The district

115certificated staff are implementing interventions at all levels to accelerate the learning of students who do not meet grade level standards. Use student performance and data in several curriculum areas to monitor student progress. Share best practices and adjust instruction. Pursue professional development. ensure the success of elementary, middle school, K8, high school, and adult school. And whereas breathe, the district certificated staff have shown support for the district becoming stronger and better. Now therefore, be it resolved that the governing board of the Valo City Unified School District do hereby recognize May 5th through the 9th, 2025 as National Teacher Appreciation Week and May 6, yesterday, as teacher appreciation day in the Valo City Unified School District. We urge all community members to join in. Join us in recognizing the dedication and hard work of our teachers and thank

116them for their continuing commitment to our students of the Valo City Unified School District. This adopted on the 7th day of May 2025 by the governing board of the Valo City Unified School District. And I'd like to make a motion to approve this resolution. Do I hear a second? Vice President Amboy. I second. Roll call, please. Trusty Hodes is absent. Trusty Flores, I. Trusty Young, I. Vice President Amboy, I. President Fox, I. Uh, Trusty Morales. Hi. And Trusty Simmons. Hi. The motion passes. Five and one absent. I'm sorry. Four and one absent. Thank you. I do want to add though for the teachers that know this. Um when you wear your teacher hat every day, you're you're not just wearing the teacher hat. At times you're the nurse with the band-aids and the scrapes and

117the cleaning and then the you're also the counselor or the mom or the dad for the child that's going through situations that are very difficult. Or for the child like I had one today. Mr. Foxer putting me in. He's crying, sobbing. Mr. Vox are putting me in soccer and I don't want to go. I'm so terrified. I'm like, it's okay. It's okay. No, no, it's my worst fear. And he's crying, sobbing. And here I am. I have 30 other students and I'm trying, this is the beginning of the day. This is how this child walked in the room. Crying and traumatized because he's going to have to go do soccer. And I'm trying to get the class going. Put your lunches away. Got to And I'm like, you know what? I think this might be

118a good thing. You might make friends there. You might realize this is something you like. When I was little, my mom made me do things and I was so mad at her. But then I realized I liked it. So what I'm trying to say is we wear so many hats during the day, not just teacher. We're counselor, we're mom, we're dad, we're nurse, we're doctor, we're all kinds of things. We're behaviorist, which we're not, but we try to be. It's unbelievable the things that kids walk through, but we're only trained to deliver curriculum. My credential is to deliver curriculum. But because you're a teacher, your heart and your soul has you do so many other things, not just the curriculum. That's just one part. It's a huge puzzle that we put together as teachers and

119we juggle it all every day with all 30 or number of students you have. So I want to say how special and thankful to our teachers because it's just more than saying thank you and appreciating you since co and since the world and crazy things we deal with. We have a shortage for a reason. This is a hard profession and they don't pay us enough. Sorry, they don't. We do it because of our heart and because of who we are as people. So I wanted to add my own little two cents to that uh resolution. Now with that, let's move on. So item D is resolution to recognize May 18th through the 24th, 2025 as classified school employee week. Do I have a trustee open to reading this resolution? Out of breath. Trusty Flores. Hey,

120Val City Unified School District resolution number 5054 recognizing May 18th through 24th, 2025 as classified school employee week. The theme is trusted, inclusive, united. Whereas in 1986, California Senate Bill 1552, Campbell established the third week of each May as classified school employee week in order to recognize the vital contributions of classified employees. Each May, California salutes the important contributions of classified school employees during classified school employee week, CSW, May 18, 24, excuse me, May 18 through 24, 2025. And whereas the Valo City Unified School District is comprised of 694 classified staff members who provide key support functions in the school district including office managers, custodians, PAR educators, maintenance and technology technicians, fiscal service employees, bus drivers, health technicians, cooks and food service workers, noon supervisors, site safety workers, school attendance workers, and many other related

121responsibilities. And whereas the district's classified staff continue to display their dedication to the students and parents, guardians in the district. And whereas the district's classified staff play a vital role in the academic, social, and emotional development of Valo's youngest citizens by providing essential services which contribute to the education of Valo student such as driving buses that transport students to school, mowing the grass for physical education and sports activities, helping a struggling student find resources in the library or in the classroom, supporting instruction for students in the classroom, and providing extra assistance for students. students to have success cleaning classrooms so they are ready for teaching and learning. Keeping the district equipment and technology operating at high levels, ensuring that all staff are paid. Assisting with the processing of new staff members, welcoming parents and students,

122registering students and tracking attendance and all the details of life in a school and providing the support functions needed for the district to provide leadership in a variety of areas. And whereas the district's classified staff represent the school districts in the community as part of their daily lives and contribute to the community's view of Valleo schools. And whereas the district's classified staff have shown their understanding of and support for achieving the district's goals for improved student achievement. Eliminating the achievement gap for groups of students who are not meeting grade level standards. Improving school climate and behavior so that every student and staff member feels safe and every teacher can teach and every student can learn, ensuring the physical health the fiscal health of the school district and not being detracted from performing their responsibilities. And

123whereas the district's classified staff are committed to helping the district become stronger and better. Now therefore, be it resolved that the governing board of the Valo City Unified School Districts do hereby recognize May 18 through 24th, 2025 as classified school employee week in the Valo City Unified School District. We urge all community members to join us in recognizing the dedication and hard work of our classified staff and thank them for their continuing commitment to the students of the Valo City Unified School District. adopted this 7th day of May, 2025 by the governing board of the Valo City Unified School District. I'd like to make a motion that we accept resolution number 5054. Dr. Young, I second. Roll call. Trusty Hodes is absent. Trusty Flores, I. Trusty Young, I. Vice President Amboy, I. President Fox, hi.

124Trusty Morales. Hi. Trusty Simmons. Hi. The motion passes. Four and one absent. you. Now we're down to E. Our next resolution 50-55. Our next item is resolution 5055 recognizing May 2025 as Asian-American Pacific Islander AAPI Heritage Month. Do I have a volunteer? President Amboy volunteered. You all didn't know there was a speed reading contest this evening. I'll try really fast. Leo City Unified School District resolution number 5055, Asian-American and Pacific Islander AAPI Heritage Month. Whereas during Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we celebrate the accomplishments of Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, and we reflect on the many ways they have enriched our great nation. And like America itself, the AAPI community draws strength from diversity of its many distinct cultures, each with vibrant histories and unique perspectives to bring our national life. And we

125are grateful that the AAPI community have helped build, defend, and strengthen our nation as farm workers and railroad laborers, service members and veterans, artists and activists, entrepreneurs and scientists, and as leaders of government because they have gone beyond in embodying the soaring aspirations of the American spirit. And whereas this month marks 156 years since the final spike was hammered into the transcontinental railroad, an achievement made possible by Chinese laborers and Filipinos um who did the majority of the backbreaking and dangerous works and generations of AAPI have helped make this country what it is today. Yet they have faced a long history of injustice from the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the devastating impact on the history, language, culture of native Hawaiians to the uh opportunity limiting laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act of

1261882 and the immigration act of 1924 to the No Filipinos allowed barriers to the interment of Japanese Americans during World War II and even today South Asian-Americans. Especially those who are Muslim, Hindu and Sik have have too often faced senseless violence and suspicions due only to the color of their skin or the tenants of their faith. And whereas with the courage, grit and abiding belief in American ideals, AAPI have challenged our nation to be better and with irrepressible determination and optimism. They have prevailed over adversity and risen to the top of their fields from institutes of higher education to medicine to businesses to the judicial bench. But even now to many hardworking AAPI families face disparities in health care, education and employment that keep them from getting ahead. But as we recall our hard-fought progress,

127let us resolve to continue moving forward and together let us ensure the laws respect everyone. Civil rights apply to everyone and everyone who works hard and plays by the roles have a chance to climb up climb ladders of opportunities. Now therefore be it resolved that the governing board of the Valo City Unified School District recognizes the month of May 2025 as Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. And we call upon everyone to learn, understand, and celebrate the rich history of Asian-American and Pacific Islanders and their profound contributions to this country, the city of Valo, and the Valo City Unified School District. Adopted the 7th day of May, 2025 by the governing board of the Valo City Unified School District. And I'd like to make a motion to um pass resolution 5055. We a second. Trusty

128Young. Roll call, please. Trusty Hodes is absent. Trusty Flores. I. Trusty Young. I. Vice President Amboy. Hi. President Fox. Hi. Trusty Morales. Hi. Trusty Simmons. Hi. Uh, the motion passes four with one absent. Thank you. We are now down to our forum. Is there inter agencies? I don't see any inter agencies this evening. We have VA. I'm not seeing VA. They haven't been here for a while and we haven't had a report in quite a while. Is there someone we should contact of EA? Is there a vice president or a union member that can start giving us reports? We haven't had a report in months, let alone to someone here at the meeting. I'll reach out. That's disturbing. And we're talking about teacher appreciation. Anyways, um what about CESA? Sea. Yay. Yes. Oh, thank goodness

129we have CSEA in the house. Good evening. Um, President Fox, Vice President and Boy, Trustee Dr. Young, Trusty Flores, um, Trusty Simmons, and Oh, she just walked out. Sorry. Um, Trustee Morales and student um, sorry, staff and community. My name is Kayla Dues. I've been with the school districts since 2016 in human resources. Um, but today I'm here as the CPRO for CSCA. Um, we want to reiterate the recognition of classified school employee week which takes place May 18th through May 24th. This year our theme is trusted, inclusive, and united. share a little poster we got. Beautiful. Um, these words reflect the heart of who we are as classified staff. Um, trusted professionals committed to creating inclusive environments where every student feels supported and united in our mission to improving the lives of our members,

130students, and community. We're also proud to recognize Abigail Miller, clerk 2 at Cave Language Academy. She was to she was chosen to represent our district at Scobby last night for this year's classified employee of the year. Um in addition, we do have some updates. Um our scholarship applications closed on April 18th with 12 applicants. Um of those 12, six were from Jesse Bethl and three for were from Valo High. Um we've recently made our selections and hope to present the recipients at the next board meeting. Um, so far we think our scholarship process is going well and want to be able to provide our students and families more opportunities um, next year. To do so, we are holding a seized candies fundraiser which closes May 31st. And if we reach that our goal of $500

131this month, we plan to reopen our candy store for a longer period. Um, the proceeds for this fundraiser um, will support our scholarship fund, chapter events, and member experiences. Lastly, we wanted to remind the board that you're welcome to purchase a ticket to attend our classified retirey dinner on Friday, June 6th. Tickets are $30 per person, payable by cash or check to CSA Chapter 199. Um, the last day to RCP is Thursday, May 15th. Thank you very much for being here and for your report. We appreciate it. No problem. Good evening. Um, VSMA No. Okay. Report of district advisory committees reports this evening. Committee members, we have a card. We do. Miss Hazel Wilson. Yes. Good evening. This evening I'm coming as um the representative from the CC Sabathia Pitchen Foundation. CeCe and Amber greatly

132appreciated last Friday, May the 2nd, 5252. Valo High School really honored their favorite son. in front of the high school is a 40 foot banner. So if you drive by there, you will see how much [Music] um they wanted the community to know that they were celebrating Cece. During second period, every class got a lesson on Cece Zabathia. He was a class of 1998. so that the current students would know what recognition and honor he has brought to their school. Thank you, Dr. Young, for um coming. I made sure that each of you got the wristband that um the school gave to every student. um administrator, every the whole Valileo High family received the wristband. So they just wanted to make sure CC and Emperor that um they thanked Fileo High School um and the

133district for honoring them. Thank you so much. the the uh Sabbath scholarship is open. Uh it closed it's been open for over a month now. It closes on Friday. Um the scholarships that he's given over the years is awesome. The amount of money too. Um so um anyone make sure that if you know of someone who qualifies that they apply. Thank you so much. Thank you. Maybe our student trustee or Ricardo Marles can help his fellow students to encourage them. All right. Now any other committee members? Oh we have student reports. Student reports. Trusty Morales. Um before I start, I just want to say Oh, we have another student. Okay. Yeah. I was I was about to say I don't know if um I see our John Finny student report. I don't know if he

134has something to report. You want to come up? Good evening, ladies and um gentlemen of the school board. My name is Joshua Kazarees and I am the representative for John Finny Education Complex. All right. Students had an opportunity to participate in a workshop facility by Jessica Raf on balloon decor for those who might have interest in hospitality or becoming an entrepreneur. On April 16th, students were in attendance for the automotive technology career day at Solano College. We spoke to professionals in the industry and we participated in breakout sessions and met professors that teach us courses at Solano College. Students were able to sit inside of a BMW, explore an auto repair van, and learn of opportunities to enter into the industry. We were provided with breakfast and lunch. Me personally, I am currently registered to

135begin my first year in college of the automotive program this summer. On April 22nd, we were able to attend an education day at the San Jose Giants baseball game. There were activities, vendors, of course, the game itself, and lunch. It was a pretty good time. On April 25th, students attended the Valo Biotech Career Expo at Solano Community College. This one I did not personally attend. I just want to make that clear. But from the information I have got, students were educated on biotechnology. Um, they were able to explore various career various career pathways in the industry and were able to connect with professionals in the industry in addition to participating in class sessions. Students shared wait students shared that they were able to use microscopes to view microorganisms and participated in the sessions on financial

136literacy. Breakfast and lunch were also provided for this field trip as well. On April 28th, students received participation certificates after meeting with Mayor Source and participating in a focus group session session. Students had the opportunity to share out wait to share out about what it's like to live and attend school in the city of Valo. Students shared ideas and suggestions regarding areas of improvement and shared about the things that they are beneficial to our age group. Student of the month rec Student of the Month recognitions have been uplifting. Students are being recognized with certificates, treats, and other incentives for um their attendance, positive academics, and just their all-around attitude. John Finny High School came second place in the March Madness attendance competition. They made it a point for me to show you guys the trophy.

137All right. Our boys and group I can't talk. Our boys and girls empowerment group sessions are scheduled to be held weekly. On May 1st, we have a presentation from the department of employment development and learned about the importance of identifying our passion. Wait, importance of identifying our passion, employment exploration and how to utilize workforce development to obtain mentors and research. the highest ranked occupations and obtain employment opportunities. We have completed state testing and we met our 95% completion goal. Thank you. Lastly, we are proud to share that we have over 20 early graduates and we are preparing for senior activities and our graduation ceremony. That is all for me. Thank you, Asha. Thank you so much for being here. We're so glad to hear your voice and what's happening at JohnFinny. Got a few questions

138for you. Um what do you think about were you there with the mayor when she was there and the talk? Um I was asked to be there but I couldn't leave current or I couldn't make it because I did have family things that I had to go do but a lot of my friends went and what I will say is that there was a lot everything I wanted to ask was asked. So there was a lot like you guys were talking about safety earlier. We did talk about safety for the school or they did um they also talked about just what it's like growing up in Valo. Some of the hardships that the um our students and people in our community just in general face and things that we could do not not only may

139the mayor could do, not only the school district could do, but as a community what we can do to really uplift each other and really make the community safer. Also, it sounds like it was a great talk. I'm glad that our mayor has taken interest in attending each of our high schools to have these talks. It sounds like it was very powerful. Um Joshua, can you tell me what is the boys and girls empowerment sessions? The boys and girls empowerment sessions. Um I am not a part of the girls and boys empowerment um empowerment groups. um those had I'm not sure when those started. Um and they didn't really give me too much information on them, but next I will make it a point for next time I come or if you guys don't have

140any meetings, next time somebody else comes, I'll make it a point that they'll give more um information. Okay. Thank you. And then you talked about maybe that some students are connected with um mentors through the community in some program. Was that a different Yeah, that was for the um that was through uh the college. I think it was the biotech one if I'm not mistaken. But basically, it's just you can reach out at any time if you need help um getting into the industry if you just need help in general. Like just pretty much a mentor, someone who h not only has the ability to open doors for you, but has the knowledge to show you where to go once you get through them. And really is just there to like really is just there

141to help you, you know, figure out where you're going after high school. I mean, a lot of kids don't know. A lot of kids don't even have a plan. They're just going through and whatever happens after high school happens. So, they're there to make sure, hey, we're going to sit you down. We're going to have a plan. Not only are we going to get you graduated, but we're also going to get you graduated and have something to look forward to. This isn't the last step, you know. Oh, thank you very much. Um, and I want to congratulate you. You said you're going to be graduating and going to take classes on automobile repair. Is that correct? Yes, sir. So, where is that going to be at? That's going to be at um Solano Community College

142through their um automotive program. Congratulations. Thank you. And now I see a light. Um Dr. Young, your light on. You ask my question. I asked the question. Okay. Of course. Any other comments or questions? Just want to thank Joshua for being here tonight and and hanging in there. I know it's gone late. Thank you. Oh yeah, you guys are all good. I thank you guys for the opportunity. You guys have a good rest of your night. You too. See you at graduation. Okay. Um Trusty Morales, are you ready for Valo High School? Yes. And after that one, I will do Trusty Allayia's she sent me her report, but um so I will start off with mine. Good evening everyone. So, um, first I'll start off on Thursday we had our decision decision day event where

143all seniors were able to express their college or university choices um by going on the quad um just acknowledging the the um college or universities they're they're deciding to go on in this fall. And the posters were made by our leadership class which did an amazing job and um they just did an amazing job making the logos and the names for the universities even though it was a hard task to do. And on on Friday after that, we had our Special Olympics event happening on Corvis Field where students from where I saw Stephan Manor, Dan Mini. I know there was more students, but from what I saw, um, I was glad to see them. And also from our leadership class, um, our students helped out during these mini games and events that were happening in

144the Special Olympics, which went very well and with all the help they had. And unfortunately, I wasn't able to help and be part of the leadership helping team because I got sick and was not able to sign the form. But overall, an amazing event for all these students. And this week we had we started our AP exams starting off with AP biology and so forth. So, um, every day there's two tests going on. So, today there was one in the morning and one past 12, I believe. Um, and I believe it's only one week of AP testing. and I hope all students are doing well and resting um the night before. In this past week, Trusty Allegia and I were able to attend our first 2 by two meeting uh at the city um city

145hall, which went very well. Trusty Trusty Allayia and I were tasked to get the word out about certain opinions on how students may feel about the public transport transportation we use here in Valo Soul Trans. By the next meeting, for my part, I will have numbers and statistics on how students at Valo feel about soul trance and the survey will be made by me. And on Monday, on Monday, class presidents and I have a meeting, oh, on Monday, class presidents and I um had a meeting with the vice principles and principal about certain things. One thing that we talked about was graduation this year. And one of the ideas we were hoping to do is have a competition on who will do the national anthem and we will have rehearsals for that person or group

146depending on the the candidates we have. Um other than that we also spoke about grad night which is happening on May 29th I believe May 28th. And overall these meetings help the admin team and leadership team collaborate on a few things that are important. And lastly, um, since we talked about this already, I just want to give my personal thank you to all teachers in our school district for teacher appreciation day. And it was just not to me that Dr. Melagin Tubal won teacher of the year, I believe it was. And uh, yeah, he's my favorite teacher and um, that's my report. Next, oh, thank you. Next, I will give Alia's report that she emailed to me. Jesse Bethl. All right. Right. For Jessie Bethl. So, good evening. Hello. So this week we have we

147have been teach we have been doing teacher appreciation week and our leadership team has sent out a survey to nominate a teacher as someone we appreciate and share a message on why it also in in this week also we have AP testing. The exams have started and our school has been grinding has been doing very well. Um teachers at our school have been really helpful to us by opening their classroom before our exams and providing snacks and drinks. Next week is mental health spirit week and this initiative is an important opportunity to promote wellness and provide support for students across campus. So our leadership has planned some events in spirit week dress. I am very excited for pajama day. We don't have a spirit week. This past week I had the opportunity to attend the

1482 by two meeting where myself and trustee Allayia discussed the upcoming NLC National League National Leadership Conference trip. It was a productive conversation and we are looking forward to how this experience will benefit student leadership at our schools. I've been already telling people around my school that this about this opportunity so that more people more students apply the next round. Um, additionally, I was honored to be part of the principal panel committee. Good job, Malaysia. As a student representative, I have participated in candidate interviews and helped vote on the final recommendation for our school's next principal, which was very exciting. And we also have celebrations celebration even for student achievements. Uh we are having a junior night on May 9th, sophomore night on May 15th and freshman night on May 22nd where we will honor

149the hard work for student for work of our students. So come by and celebrate with us. Some of our staff and student have been trying to tackle the bathroom issues at my school and we have some problems either congestions, drug and vape use in the bathrooms um or not having soap or other stock in the bathrooms and students behavior issues in the restrooms and we are brainstorming ideas. Um please take allergy please take your allergy medicine and this time of the year all my friends and teachers have been sneezing like crazy. I also want to bring attention to this app called Saloona. I was a PHP meeting. I was at a PHP meeting on this on Friday and it was brought up and I am unsure that many students know about it, but it's an

150anonymous mental health counseling app. You can talk about coun you can talk to counselors for about 45 minutes and there's so many features on that app that can help students. So, just throwing that out there. I'm working on spreading I'm working on spreading this through my school. This is the end of my report. Thank you. made by Alicia or Jesse Beth. Thank you for reading for both. Any questions or comments? All right, that we are down to agenda item eight, uh, consent items A through J. Do I hear a motion? Vice President Amboy, I'd like to make a motion to approve um items 8A through 8J. I hear a second. Uh Trusty Flores. Second it. Roll call, please. Trusty Hodes is absent. Trusty Flores, I. Trusty Young, I. Trust uh Vice President Amboy, I. President

151Fox, I. Trusty Morales, hi. and Trusty Simmons is absent. The motion passes four with one absent. Um, with that passing, can we have Paul Mansing come up, please? So, Paul, Dr. Paul Mansing, I'm sorry. No, it's okay. So, we want to welcome Dr. Paul Mansing. He was just approved as our executive director of finance. Um, Mr. Mansing. Dr. Rancing. Uh his most his current role is director of business services in West Contraost Unified School District. Formerly he was a high school principal for Hercules High and he has a long resume, but I'm not going to go through all of it, but if you can say a couple words, introduce yourself to the community. Okay. Well, thank you so much for the opportunity. It was great experience to listen to the schools and the uh the

152safety uh presentation and the student presentations and get a feel of the community. So, I look forward to uh joining Valo City Unified School District. I look forward to working with the business department and staff. I look forward to working with superintendent. I look forward to getting to know the board um to interacting with you and finding out what it is the initiatives that you are looking to get supported and supporting you through those and look forward to the community area over here because I am part of this community just over down the road. So, um thank you for the opportunity. Uh thank you for voting me in and I look forward to the work uh ahead that we have. Welcome to Valo City Unified School District. With that we are now down to information

153agenda nine uh recognition of Vos Unifi School District administrator certificate certificated and classified employee of the year. I'm going to start by apologizing to you all for having to sit for so long. Yes. Um we that's why I just asked like why isn't this sooner? But uh Dr. Patrick will get us going on this. This is probably what everyone was waiting for. This is the best agenda item. We get to honor our own. So thank you for hanging in there. Okay. Good evening. Thank you um superintendent. All right. Thank you so much. Good evening, Trustee President Fox, Trustee Vice President, Enboy, Trustees Young, Flores, Morales, community. And yes, this is an exciting time because this is the time that we get to recognize our own for their wonderful work and how they've supported students. And

154so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go, if it's okay, I'm going to go a little bit out of order of how things are listed. And I'm going to um ask our classified employee is Israel. Abigail. Oh, I'm sorry. Abigail, please come on up. I'm going to share a little bit about Abigail. So, she is the VCUSD 2025 classified employee of the year. Miss Miller has been an employee since 2015. She is currently a clerk to and noon duty supervisor at Cave Language Academy. She has been a uh been dedicated to serving the students at Cave for the past 10 years. Mrs. Miller demonstrates unparalleled dedication and professionalism in every aspect of her work. Whether managing complex administrative task or coordinating schedules or addressing the urgent needs of students, she approaches each

155responsibility with efficiency, precision, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. Let's give her a round of applause. Congratulations. [Applause] And what we have tonight is we have a certificate of appreciation as well as a gift and some flowers. And at the end, can we do a group picture with the board and everyone? Perfect. Here you go. Water everywhere. All right. Do you want to do photo or anything or Okay. At the end. Okay. Oh. Oh, sure. Congratulations. Thank you so much. All right. Yes. Okay. And next I want to have Charlotte Sanchez come up. She is our 2020 or 2425 teacher of the year. [Applause] Congratulations. All right. Can you hold that for me? Okay. I'm going to share also. Um, so Miss Miss Sanchez has been with the district since 2005. She has been teaching

156for 20 years at Dan Mini Elementary. She is known for her compassion and inclusive teaching practices. An expert in English language development ELD instruction, she creates a welcoming and empowering environment for all students while fostering strong relationships with families, colleagues, and the broader community. Her leadership extends beyond the classroom as she mentors new teachers and regularly contributes professional learning sessions at her school. Let's give her a round of applause. Congratulations. You're welcome. Thank you so much. I think she wants to do a photo with Can you come do a photo? Come on. She's hiding. Congratulations. All right. And I have one more and then we'll be done. We're gonna have um Dr. Edison Kelly come up. [Applause] Congratulations. give you your plastic in a minute, too. All right. Now, just one second here. So, Dr.

157Edison Kelly is the director of student services for the Val City Unified School District and we are happy to announce that not only is he being recognized by VCUSD, but he has also been selected as the director of student services for the statewide AXA award. All right, congratulations Dr. Kelly. Dr. Kelly has been an employee in the district since 1993 and has provided 32 years of services service in various positions. He has extensive experience as a leader in VCUSD. He started as a classified parah and a campus safety officer. He was a teacher for several years before becoming an administrator. As an administrator, he has been a middle school vice principal, a high school assistant principal, principal of alternate alternative education, and is now the director of student support services. Let's give him another round

158of applause. Congratulations, Dr. Kelly. Thank you for waiting, sir. Appreciate it. Here's your stuff. And I'm gonna take that, give you a bag so you can cover your home. There you go. And we'll take a quick photo and be care. There you go. Thank you. Okay. Take a quick peek. Oh, El's like, "No." All right. Congratulations. And then we're the board is going to take a picture with all the awardees. Yes. Okay. Perfect. And here you go, hun. Give you that so you can cover it. Nice. I'm shoot. Agenda item 10, action items. 10 A, adoption of high school science materials. Heather Tacio, all the excitement. I forgot I was next. Um, so thank you so much. We have a few um action items 10 A, 10B, and 10 C for um for consideration this

159evening. Um they are for adoptions of materials for our high school science, for kindergarten through 8ighth grade mathematics curriculum, and for um world language curriculum. So those are the three items. Staff is here to present for you this evening. um one presentation that covers the three um action items and I'll let them come forward with that. Good evening, President Fox, Vice President Amboy, Trustee Dr. Young Trustee Flores, Superintendent Ourelio, and Trustee Morales and community. I am Amy Pingan, director of professional learning, and I'm here to provide some updates on our curriculum. And so, as Heather mentioned, um we are recommending some specific adoption materials. Um and we did go through an extensive process of piloting, evaluating um and also you know I wanted to note that we worked with um an organization called Unbound Ed

160to develop our vision and our mission for a mathematics instruction and this was all in collaboration with our teachers, teacher leaders and a few district administrators. So why do we want to do this? So the main purpose for adopting new materials is to ensure that we provide highquality materials for the students of VCUSD which are aligned with the California standards and frameworks. Our standards define what students should learn in each subject and grade level while the frameworks provide guidance on how to implement implement those standards in the classroom. and they're directly tied to um instructional expectations and practices. So what this slide shows is the date of our current California standards, the date of the frameworks and also our current materials. And you can see here that it's time for us to find something different

161for our students. So the publishers that we are recommending to all of you have developed curriculum that align with the standards and frameworks but most importantly align with VCUSD's instructional priorities which are grounded in student engagement and rigor for all of our students. So, at this point, I would like to introduce one of our amazing and super hardworking coordinators of the professional learning team, Danielle Brever, who will talk about the collaborative process of adopting materials. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Um, I'm going to start with high school science and I have Crystal Johnson. She's here from Jesse Bethl High School. Amazing science teacher and department chair there and I couldn't have done this process without her. Uh we had a team of nine high school science teachers between the two high schools that started

162last school year and continued through this school year to pilot three different programs. Um they looked at STEM scope savlin hardcourt. They received training on all the curriculum. They got the materials and they were able to pilot a unit that they selected. uh they collaborated on a very extensive rubric to evaluate these and the students were also surveyed which we got some very interesting results from that. So that was fun to read. Um and then they came to their final decision with that. Um for world languages um Angel Delgato uh they weren't able to be here tonight. Uh they were going to represent for world languages. We had 12 high school world language teachers review and select materials this last summer because they all were in need of it. We have Spanish, heritage Spanish, French,

163and American Sign Language. Our Filipino courses, the teachers actually created their own curriculum because it doesn't really exist for what we needed. Um, and during a a trip during Thanksgiving break, one of our teachers actually uh picked up the materials in the Philippines for us and brought it back. So, it was very challenging to find these materials to create this course, which is very popular for students. So, we wanted to make sure that we had everything that we needed. um they've got all their materials now. Um they've had all their training and they have ongoing support which our other coordinator Christine Lucero is in charge of their collaboration time. And then our really big one is our K8 mathematics. Um we did uh we had a math adoption leadership team. We worked with Unbounded as

164Amy uh talked about. They received a grant with the Gates Foundation and so all of this work was free for us and uh we created this amazing vision for mathematics instruction and student learning what we wanted to see and what we needed in our district. We developed some pretty intensive rubrics. Um all the staff who were on the pilot team used those. Um I presented it to um I had a a showcase here and I had a lot of people come from the community. So, some families came, some staff came and were able to look at the uh programs that we were piloting and give some feedback. So, they were able to complete a survey and ask me questions one evening while we were here for a few hours. We had a large team of

165educators in grades K through 8. They received training on the curriculum and they p they uh piloted illustrative math and amplified Desmos math in the classroom. So they each did one, some did two units in their classrooms. Um the leadership team, uh Marne is here, uh she is our amazing teacher leader over at Glen Cove and she was on our uh adoption leadership team. So she was able to go with me and sometimes by herself to some of the teachers classrooms and observe what they were doing and how it was different from our current um interim adoption that we have. So we got to see it in action. Um, and then I also I talked about already the district office um, showcase that I did in March. And then I also presented at our January

166DAC meeting where we had over a hundred families. It was amazing attendance. So they got to see it as well and experience what uh, math instruction should look like in the classroom. So our final recommendations from the teams were for HMH science de dimensions for high school science. And then we also have a link that's connected to all those other science classes that we have. We don't just have biochem and physics. There's a whole bunch of other courses. So we've got those listed on there as well. For world languages, there's a link there so you can see each publisher is different. And then for K8 mathematics, the team decided on a unified program for all those grades, which is Amplified Desmos Math. These are the members of our amazing team. So, these are all the

167people who helped out, supported, spent a lot of time and energy making sure that they understood what they were getting into, giving lots of feedback. Um, and I trust all of these people very much, and I'm really grateful for all of their support through these processes. Yep. Mhm. So for for world languages, it was pretty much almost everybody who teaches world language. And then for science, it was most of the science teachers. And then for K8 math, it's a pretty large team because we have the largest number of elementary teachers. So that's why that group is larger. Can I ask a question now or wait? Oh yeah, we're done. Okay, there you go. Yes. Um, did the teachers vote or did you do it collect? How did you come up with which we Yeah. So

168we didn't vote, we did consensus building. So Unbound Ed helped with that process. So we had a variety of of surveys that they were completing and then we looked at the results immediately. So they would kind of rate it on a scale and then it was kind of like yes this this fits our need. This is okay and like I'm not I'll support it and like the next one was I'm not going to do anything to impede it but it's not my favorite. And then the lowest was I don't like this at all. and Amplify Desmos had only um the top the like all fours, some threes and no twos or ones. And then Illustrative had um did they have any fours? Do you remember? I don't think they had any fours, but they had

169a lot of threes and some twos. Were they voting because they were piloting them in their own classroom with their students these this curriculum? Yes. To see if they liked or not. Okay. So, they they actually got to use it with students the components. They used the whole unit. Okay. Does the new math one have manipulatives for the lower grades that are included? Yes, they will have the hands-on manipulatives. Thank you. They have them. They have hands-on center kits, manipulatives, and they also have um virtual. Awesome. And I'm I'm sure there's the digital planner. Is it do the children like on Chromebooks or on Google? They'll they have an app they can get to lessons. Yes. Awesome. Yes. And then other question um homework for the elementary. this is my my realm, my world. How

170does the how does the homework component work with the new math? So, it's really up to the teachers and some of our school sites don't assign homework. They just encourage reading at home. Um, so it really depends on what they're doing. In my son's class, he goes to Cave Language Academy. They have some stuff that they can do online and then they have other um like handouts that they can do for review. So, there's a lot of options in there and there's some personalized practice they can do online, but we can't require students to do online homework outside of the school day. Okay. And for augmenting, it's just good to augment the skill with the parent can see what they're learning. Yeah. And there's some parent uh communication and it comes in multiple languages so

171that can be sent home and shared with families to also let them know what they're working on and things that they can support at home. Another question, um, scaffolding. How does scaffolding instead of a child being isolated to a certain skill they get the skill in August and if they don't see that let me just say fraction I'm just going to say and then each month a chapter or different skill what kind of scaffolding to make sure those skills are keeping cycling throughout the the year yeah it it has spiral review embedded so those concepts are going to continue and then we also already have in place three supplements for our K5 classrooms that focus on that those kinds of things to help support students. So, extra stuff for running centers and small group and

172intervention activities so that those things don't get left behind. Oh my goodness, I love what you just said. Um intervention, small groups, and tier 2 level um teaching. Um we heard a lot about DK earlier. Does it hit at a certain level throughout the or you're not sure on that? Um I haven't taught from this because I work here at the district office, but yes, it it follows the new math framework. So that's why we want this, right? that's why we need this. So, it looks at teaching math in just a different way. Um, and really letting students explore and learn it at a deeper level. So, it really is getting to those higher DK levels. Of course, you're going to do DOK1. Kids need to know how to do one plus one, right? There

173is still wrote practice in learning mathematics, but there's also a lot of opportunities for them to work collaboratively. All the things that we're looking at for portrait of a graduate, that's all embedded in this program. The last question is application problems. I've been part of um a team. What's the book on the mathematics? You and I have talked about building thinking classrooms. Thank you. I'm tired. It's late. Um for building thinking classrooms for students. Um I call them white books. They're white. They're posters all around the room and kids go in optimal groups of three. Um how is it application problems where they have to think and prove their work? Is that component part of it where they actually get up and do application problems? Yes. So this year we actually held our math best

174practices for K through 12 and we did a book study on that. So a lot of our teachers are already using that and we purchased white books for all of the participants including all of our uh middle school and high school teachers whether they came to the training or not. They got it from Jamie Karns our uh secondary math teacher leader. So she did individual training with all of them. So we're we're already doing that. So most of the people who were in the pilot also come to the best practices. So yes, we got to see that in action and the curriculum does specify like you know in partners in small groups these are the the math language routines and other things that you're going to do. So it sets it up really well to

175work with that together. Thank you Dr. Young. Question comment. My it's off. Oh it's off now. There it is on now. question is um I was looking at the curriculum review team and it says K8 math pilot team continues. Okay, that's that's it was a pilot program. So these are our regular classroom teachers and they decided to step away from the curriculum that we're using now, take time to learn this other curriculum and implement it and get their students to learn how to use this other curriculum so that we could make an informed decision about whether it works or not. Okay. So, this curriculum that that you're proposing that we do, how what was it based on? Did you guys look at anything um doing dealing with the the the test scores and where our

176children are failing at? Yeah, we wanted to make sure that we have something that is aligned to what our students need. Does this student does this curriculum reflect what we need? And is it going to be I how can I say this? Is it going to be um implemented like are the teachers going to use it or is it going to sit on a shelf and get dusty? Is that what you mean? So it's districtwide. No. Yes, it is. It is at all of our campuses. It's available in Spanish. So Cave Language Academy will have it as well. Um and yes, we are going we actually are going to continue to work with Unbound Ed next year. We're already working with them now for the launch process. So now we have a different team we

177work with to make sure that we get all of the professional learning for our teachers and then followup. So it's not just like here's your stuff now go. Our leadership adoption team is going to continue to support people throughout the who at the school site is going to be held accountable for that information to get back to you. you can't I mean you got enough going on your own plate but um who's going to get back to you so we can know that this we have our amazing teacher leaders at at the school sites and I work closely with the principles as well so and having your meetings at the school site do they get the feedback of what's not working and what is working the teacher leaders oh yeah yes thank you for that

178question so um in order to ensure that teachers are using the materials and it's also about the teaching. We do have a system that um we have our district learning walks process that's district-wide where we take a measure of how we're doing in terms of implementation and then at the school sites we have the classroom walkthrough process um where we're looking for specific um you know tasks that students are engaged in and so teacher leaders and principles um are also engaged in that process. Um, in addition to that, during the trainings, we also want to know what teachers need. So, we send feedback surveys to assess where we need to provide more additional support to make sure that they're implementing because we um are very confident that this is what our students need. Okay. Do

179you have the backing to give that additional support when you need it? We do. We are. So in terms of financially or leadership, well the money always comes into it, but I'm talking about manpower right now. Yes. Woman power, man power, woman power, whatever you need, right? Um one of the key um supports for implementation of anything, especially with this new program, is through our teacher leaders. And so they are trained, we've sent them to cognitive coaching, they are also involved in all trainings that you know in curriculum and um and so they have an accurate picture of where what the expectations are to provide feedback. So it's a collaborative process. However, in terms of implementation and measuring that, we do look at um you know our learning walk data. But we also look at

180how this is going to impact our student data as well. Well, you know, um I've been through I don't know how many adoptions over the 40 years that I've been with this school district and um I have yet to seen one that's consistently effective. So, I'm crossing my fingers for you guys because the effectiveness of a program is how you um deliver the instruction and how you get the feedback and the accountability of is it working? Have you monitored and adjusted according to your student population, all that counts? It does. And um you know we had such a great representative honest team to evaluate these materials and they were coming from that DO lens. Um they are also you know we've focused a lot on structured student talk because that is also um how we

181strengthen the skills for our um English learners. So all of that is taken into consideration. Um and one other important thing is that it's user friendly. It really says this is break out into teams. This is what you say. This is how to adjust and scaffold your instruction so that you can reach all students. So we understand that no program is perfect, right? We always say that the box appears in your classroom. But in order for box that box to be effective, we do um we will continue to support our teachers and staff. Thank you. Um, superintendent. So, just one quick comment. Thank you to all the teams involved in all the piloting. That's tremendous work and and you all. Um, I noticed for world language. So, we are adding Mandarin at Jesse Bel High

182School. We've hired a teacher. Oh, good. Yay. Okay. So, we are moving forward with Mandarin. So, just to make sure we add that to the list, we will need curriculum for Mandarin. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Superintendent Reio. Uh, Trusty Flores, thank you all for all the work you've done so far. I know it's a pilot, but out of what you have seen so far, has there been trends that have, you know, have you guys been tracking trends and tracking the data to now and seeing effectiveness, results, change, upward movement, anything that says, okay, this is a good idea to move with this. So, the teachers completed surveys. So based on like the data that they received, the students completed surveys and also the families were able to complete surveys. Just a few simple

183questions about what they noticed about their students math work. Um some of our teachers are continuing to use the program since we still have access online. They're still using it for the rest of the year with their kids because they like it so much and they feel like it is better than what we currently have. So they want to keep using it. They don't want to go back for the rest of the year to use the old stuff. So that tells me that they feel really confident that it's getting the results that they need. It's very engaging. The students love it. So they they really enjoyed it. Um they liked both of the programs, but um this one won by by a little bit. It was pretty close. Um but I feel like that that

184says that they feel like it really is addressing what we need for our kids. But but is it but like numbers like the data, you know, I understand that they're enjoying it. It's user friendly, but do you see is there data showing movement in the right direction? Well, we only tested one unit. So, it's not like we used it we didn't use it for the whole year. So, they used it for about six weeks, right? So, um they gave an assessment. So they had their pre-assessment and post assessment and they didn't share their like specific grades that they got with us but they shared like overall like how did your students do with this compared to Envision which is our current adoption and and so with that you saw better. Yes. Okay. Yes. And that's

185what everybody on that that team was feeling like it was definitely getting better results overall which is positive. Dr. Young, you had a You had a pilot program also for world language. All of Yeah. So yeah, for all of these. So world. Okay. Yeah. The world language that's the group that that got to have input on that. I think you mentioned that um the people that are piloting the program. Mhm. Want to keep the program. Okay. What about the people that weren't piloting the program? What are they doing? They're for world languages. whole school in the math department piloting the program. No, just one. Tell me how all of these people these people these people were the ones who were piloting. They're representative of the district doing using our current materials. But now we're see

186now we want to use it already. I see a problem right there already. Suppose we adopt the pro we we're asking you if we can adopt it. That's what we're we're coming for so that everyone can use it because you have to do a pilot first. You can't which is just a pilot. Yeah, I realize that but uh so yes, that's what we want too. Oh, okay. Yeah. So you want everybody to be on the same level. Exactly. Well, to be equable. You want the playing field to be even. Equitable for all of our staff and students anyway. Yes, you got it. Vice President Amboy, I'd like to make you a motion to adopt the agenda item 10A. Do you want us to do A, B, and C or separate? They're separate items. I'll second

187A. Roll call, please. I have a question. I had a question. Question, Dr. Young. Yes. Um, is this costing us anything? How much is this costing? Yes, it's it's listed on the items. Dr. Young. For item 10 A, which is the high school science, the cost is not to exceed 400,000. For 10B, it's sorry, it's loading on my screen. They're all in there. They're all in there. So, each of these curriculums, there is a cost. I figured there. Yes. There was a first and a second. Roll call, please. Yes. Rhonda, can we please have roll call or for 10A? Yes. Uh, Trustee Hodgees is absent. Trustee Flores, I. Trusty Young, I. Vice President Amboy, I. President Fox, I. Trusty Morales, I. And Trusty Simmons is absent. The motion passes. Four and one absent. Thank you.

188Now for agenda item 10B. I'll make the motion to approve. Or do we have to go through each just like that? Okay. Do we have a second for 10B? Vice President Amboy. I second. Roll call, please. Trusty Hodgees is absent. Trusty Flores, I. Trusty Young, I. Vice President Amboy, I. President Fox, hi. Trusty Morales. Hi. Trusty Simmons is absent. And the motion passes four and one absent. Thank you. Agenda item 10 C. I'll make a motion to adopt the world language curriculum. Uh, Vice President Amboy, I second. Roll call, please. Trusty Hodes is absent. Trustee Flores, I. Trusty Young, hi. Vice President Amboy, hi. President Fox, hi. Pres. Uh, Trusty Morales. Hi. And Trusty Simmons is absent. The motion passes as well. Four and one absent. Thank you for all your work. Thank you. Looking

189forward to the new results. Mhm. Uh 10 D resolution 5049. This is Dr. Patrick, please. Just so the board knows, Trusty Morales is going to be leaving now. Good night. Thank you. Okay. So, this is uh resolution 5049, which is the release of temporary certificated employees for the for 2526 school year. Uh, of course touching on the pillar of a vibrant culture of teaching and learning. We're asking for your approval of this resolution. Vice President Amboy. I'd like to make a motion to approve action item 10D. Uh, Dr. Young. Roll call, please. Trusty Hodgeges is absent. Trustee Flores. I. Trusty Young. Hi. Vice President Amboy. Hi. Uh, President Fox, hi. Trusty Morales is absent. Trusty Simmons is absent. And the motion passes four with one. You agenda item 10E. Dr. Patrick, you're on again. Yes.

190I am asking for approval of uh re resolution 5050 regarding nonreelection of noncredential certificated employees for the 2526 school year. Trusty Flores, make a motion to adopt resolution number 5050. Uh, Dr. Young, I second. Roll call, please. Trusty Hoses is absent. Trusty Flores. Hi. Trusty Young. Hi. Vice President Amboy. Hi. President Fox. Hi. Motion passes four with one absent. Action item 10F, Dr. Patrick. Yes. And now before um I ask you to pass resolution 5052, I do have two uh numbers I'd like to have removed from the list before you vote. Uh number 20, which is 128892, and number 33, which is 13342. And if I could have you approve resolution 5052, which is the final written notification for classified employees due to the decrease in the number of classified positions. Again touching on the

191pillar three, vibrant culture of teaching and learning minus those two employees you mentioned, those will be staying on. Yes. Okay. Do we hear a motion? Vice President Amboy, I'd like to make a motion to approve agenda item 10F with those two addition um two subtractions from the agenda item. Dr. Young, I'll second. Roll call, please. Trusty Hodgees is absent. Trusty Flores, I. Trusty Young, I. Vice President Amboy, hi. And President Fox, hi. And the motion passes. United. Thank you. And one absent. Dr. Patrick. All right. reports. Uh, agenda item 11, superintendent. So, good evening everyone. So, I want to begin tonight's report by sharing several important updates from across our district. Uh, first and foremost, leadership hiring update. This week, we are conducting interviews for critical roles, the assistant superintendent of human resources. Um, additionally,

192we recently completed interviews for the principal positions at Highland Elementary, Jesse Bethl High School, and Valo High School. and we're in the process of also doing um interviews for Penny Cookook Elementary. We've extended offers to top candidates and are hopeful to announce new leadership placements after our next board meeting. These hires are key to ensuring stability and continue continuity as we plan for the 2526 school year. And I once again, you know, we introduced our new executive director of finance, Dr. Paul Mansing this evening and we're excited to welcome him to the Valo team. I believe his start dates June 2nd somewhere around there. Yes. So you'll see him in the hallways starting June 2nd. Um we're also celebrating uh inclusive student experiences. Last week marked our 49th annual Special Olympics Field Day held at

193Corvis Field. This event continues to be a powerful celebration of our students with special needs and the incredible dedication of our staff. The joy, pride, and community spirit on display were truly inspiring. Thank you to all who made this day so memorable. Special thanks to our SPE special education educators for all their hard work. Um also that same day we were honoring a hometown hero. We heard earlier this evening um from Hazo Wilson that on Friday we proudly honored the Valo High School alumnist and baseball legend CC Sabathia. His continued support through the pitchin foundation established by CC and Amber Sabathia uplifts fileo students and reinforces the power of giving back. We are grateful for their partnership and the inspiration they bring to our young people. We also wish to congratulate CC on being selected

194to join the baseball hall of fame. Um end of year testing and attendance focus. So, as our schools are completing their CASP testing, we continue to encourage families to prioritize strong attendance. Every day counts, and we want our students to finish the school year with momentum and pride. Just an update on the 7-Eleven committee launch. So, we are preparing to open applications for the 7-Eleven closure and consolidation committee. We will soon begin outreach to the community to fill between seven and 11 seats on this advisory committee which will represent a broad cross-section of voices across our city. This group will help us assess district property and provide recommendations to guide the next phase of our right sizing work. Thank you for your continued partnership as we move forward together. That's my report. Thank you. Board

195reports. Trusty Flores. few things. Uh I I had the good fortune of going yesterday to help celebrate um the uh employees that we honored this evening. So that was a really good experience and um I think they should have won it all, but that's just my opinion. Uh the other thing I was able to attend today's soccer game prior to the meeting and found out my little guy scored two goals. So yay for him, you know. So that I love what extended learning is doing with with these inter mural sports because again I've said it before that that that is a really big uh attraction to districts that that I've heard over and over as to why folks think our school district has has gone down and sports or lack thereof is is something that

196comes up a lot. The last thing I want to talk about and expand a little bit and I apologize for holding you all a little hostage right now, but I I had the good fortune of being invited by um our SULPA director, Kristen Hardy, and I was able to go up to the SULPA uh lobby day, and we lobbyed uh with Assembly Member Lorie Wilson and California Senator uh Christopher Kalden. Um I I was there with one of her staff members as well as a parent and and unfortunately their names uh elude my mind right now but I I can remember the parent I can remember her pride and joy Dakota I asked her to come when she gets a chance to come and uh present in front of the board her experience in the

197district with you know her her children's being graduates of our school district her oldest daughter being appointed to the California State Superior Court. Um, so so here is those stories that we don't hear about our district, you know, and here's somebody that we can have come in and and and discuss it. But the one thing I want to kind of mention about the the event, they had a SULPA meeting prior to it, prior to the lobbying aspect of it, and they brought a gentleman by the name of Kevin Schaefer. I guess he he's uh really big in in that area of uh of education so far as special needs and special education. He has a program called uh supporting innovative practices project and I was surprised at the emotional the heavy emotional response that that

198this event had on me and the way it touched me in a way I just couldn't you didn't realize it would. you know, I was going there for information, education, learn about it, but uh by the end of it, I had a big giant lump in my throat and just, you know, just want to share a few things that that I feel that I looked at and had to examine my unconscious biases. um you know he talked about how in the past this our kids with issues that had we didn't talk about it. So he said what's not discussed leads to shame and and there's a lot of ostriization shame around this topic around these kids. it seemed like it and and with the work he's done, it it's helped remove that kind of stigma.

199But one of the things he said that really struck me, I think this was what like really hit me was when he said, "Disability is not a deficit or a tragedy. It's a natural part of the human experience." And in that moment, I looked around in that room and there were all these parents with with special needs students of all degrees. And as the kids were just being themselves and just, you know, if making sounds or whatever, just being them, not one head was turning around and looking and hey, what's going on and and whatnot. And and I realized in that moment some of the the unconscious biases I've had, you know, where where where I've looked at parents with with with with kids with disabilities and and I've said to myself, "Oh man, that's

200a shame." And but is it or do they feel heartbroken or what? Or or do they just look at their child and say, "That's my child that has extra needs." You know, and in regards to our district, you know, he talks about inclusion is not charity. And the and another thing he said is don't ask if the students are ready for inclusion but if the system is ready to include these kids. And that was like wow, you know, I mean that that that really made me think about it, you know. And um and he gave examples of what it would be like, you know, cuz they had a couple of uh young ladies there that were going to Davis getting their degree. uh they had Down syndrome and that you're looking at their their life

201and it's it's just a regular college experience, you know, that that they're providing for them. And there's very few programs like that in the state of California. And it, like I said, it was just something that like made me like think a lot. and he and he mentioned what would it look like to see a a a person with with Down syndrome on on a school board or on city council, you know, where where they're just a part of society. And you know that when I came back I talked to superintendent really about it and it's like I think maybe our our student trustees for next year we need to look at all the populations in in our school and I'd love to see somebody with with out of that program be up here as

202a student trustee so that they are seen in everyday spaces. And the last thing I want to share because so so I'm I'm seeing all this and and motions are running high now. We're waiting for uh to speak at at at Assembly Member Wilson's office and this group of I think it was realtors that were coming in to um to lobby for for their stuff. So the guy asked, "Hey, what are you guys doing here?" "Oh, we're here with South. We're here with DCUSD. We're here to um lobby for these certain bills." And he goes into this story about how, oh yeah, I used to own a KFC and uh yeah, and we used to, you know, I used to hire those people and and yeah, they used to think they were working. And I

203kid you not, he put up the the quotation marks working. And I'm looking at him. I'm like, "What do you mean they were working?" We're like, he's like, "No, you know, I mean, they thought they were working." I'm like, "No, no, they were working." And he's like, "Well, you know, they were just filling napkins and you know, but so so here's like like it was like this thing that the universe put in front of me to look at, you know, here here's a guy that because a person has a developmental disability of some kind. Now they're when they're working and being paid, they think they're working. They're not." It it was just it was like wow. You know what? What uh what a coincidence. Anyhow, um I've held you guys long enough, but you know

204that that that's my report. Thank you, Dr. Young. It's unfortunate. Um Trusty Carlo said we have more people that aren't inclusive than are inclusive that aren't. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. and have that mindset that it's their definition of what is working and not what really is working. Yeah. I had the opportunity on May 2nd uh the day of celebration at Valo High School and students and um staff celebrated CC Sebastian's induction into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame and it was a wonderful uh photo shoot. uh in front of the school. Um it was well attended and um I thank CC and Amber for all their ongoing support of Valo City Unified School District students. Um they've been there from the first to the last. So they're to be commended. I

205also mosied on down the road with the bumps, you know, we got um in front of Alos. But anyway, I went on down to the Special Olympics and that was a joy within itself to watch those kids uh compete. It was so cute because when they really won, they thought they really run. They just fell out and did everything but the but but the super dance. Okay. And it was just a joy just to watch them feel that accomplishment, you know. So, that was my day. Thank you, Vice President Amboy. Earlier in the month, uh I attended the um 2 by two. Um one of the things that um we probably would need to discuss in the in the actual regular city council is the Rollingwood as well as um the deed to um our

206um our district office. So, we probably need to put that on a on a city council agenda. Um we also discussed the um soul trans um probably we one of us should probably attend one of their um their meetings as well um to discuss our um transportation needs when when we're considering consolidation and closures. Um also attended yesterday's um employee of the year. It's my third year attending it. It was it was it was nice to see everyone again and also congratulate Lette from um on her ongoing um looking forward to her retirement. So um I'll let John explain a little bit more about the 2 by two. Thank you. Sounds like you did a great job. um vice president boy um yeah we're having a hard time getting anywhere with the I've been trying

207for six years to get to the deed to this building and or maybe it's going on seven years and um we're just going in circles with the city. So it looks like we need to find other ways to try to get our voices heard and for the Rollingwood property hopefully all the boxes are getting checked. We need to get that and hopefully um unfortunately the city manager just canceled his meeting with our superintendent so there's another lack of communication and so we'll have to find ways to get that as you said um we do want to talk at our next 2 by two about continuing to as Dr. Young said, "We got the speed bumps on uh Nebraska Street to outside Val High School to deter cruising and speeding. So, we might next we're looking

208into closing off the street during the school day for safety." Um, I think that's pretty much Oh, and our students were there talking and they were asked to invite to have them continue to come for the student voice, not just for soul trans, but for all all items. They want to look to start a youth commission. Um on my other report is um our keep working on our ethics training which will be Monday May 19th at the county office of education. Dinner is at 5:30 and it goes the the lawyer doing the ethics training is 6 to 9. Again it's all being paid for so our district doesn't have to pay for our ethics training. Um so those that's my report on that. Do we have community forum? close session. We do not announcement of

209upcoming meetings. I want to make sure we have the Monday the 19th on there as well. If we don't, we need to add that. Not on this agenda item here, but we we all have the calendar invite. I'm so glad that we have the um the May 28th one because I was going to ask for that one too. Thank you. Yeah. So we have our regular board meeting on the 21st, our next 2 by 2 on the 22nd, and then we have our in Spanish unendos familiv, which is Wednesday, May 28th, and that's going to be held at Valo Charter School. Um, and that is open to all families, but it will be delivered in Spanish with English interpretation. And then May 29th is the end of the year teacher induction program celebration from 4:00

210to 5:30. Wonderful. Dr. Young, don't we have Willie B. Atkins uh also? Believe we do. We do. Do we have the dates for that? Monday the 12th. Oh, that's next week. Monday the 12th. Yeah. Okay. Monday the 12th 6. We'll get a calendar invite for that. Yeah. Flores have it on. But just uh for the community, we have that reclassification celebration as well on the on the 20th. Very important. All right. Um, future board agenda items. Flores. Um, I' I'd like to get an update on where we're at with um protecting our district, our students, our our school sites from uh immigration rates. uh so far as how how far in depth the training is, what procedures have been put in place, protocols, um signage, etc. Just I just kind of want to get a

211report of where we're at that with that because actions are happening in our city and um I want to make sure our schools are are areas of safety. Thank you. Thank you. That is something that 2 by two talked about. Uh, Chief Ta talked about how that our local law enforcement have nothing to do with um have no part. Sometimes they might get a quick heads up they're coming, but they have nothing to do with or are connected with in any way with the Yeah, they're not they're not enforcing the immigration. Not at all. Um, Dr. Young, um, I'd like to see something on how the pathways are funded yearly. one of the school sites. Okay, I'm taking notes for that. For the coming year of 2000 26 2526 and and note obviously with June

212there a lot of our meeting time is going to be dedicated to budget in June because we'll have our budget presentation. So, okay, whenever I'd like to see the designation of it of how what goes where and where goes what and what's the rationale behind it and all that stuff. All right, with that it is 9:20 and we are adjourned. Good night everyone.