001thank you America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all the things the board has been leading in closed sessions [Music] item 4.2 no action and then I do 1.3 you know action now we'll move to our special order of business by 21 School Spotlight Spotlight on excellence so I'm just going to turn it over to Mr gout this is our principal here at Freeman Elementary he's going to walk us through the presentation to review he's coming home Mr gout you're on okay we're just sooner on the agenda than I thought of myself welcome everybody Welcome board and Collective Administration parents families Community welcome I am principal Jack out principal of Lehman Elementary here very proud principal I just want to highlight some of
002the educational Excellence that that occurs here at Lehman Elementary for the board so um you know some of the things we do here at Lehman are revolved around Steam and uh you know we try to integrate science technology engineering arts and math into as many lessons as many aspects of the daily life of our students as possible so um you know I've invited a feed staff members and some students here to to have a brief presentation for you but some of the highlights that we do here at school with TK all the way to fifth T cares are are working with an ant farm right now they're hatching praying mantises and butterflies and speaking of hatching about half of our classes here on campus have ducks and chicks [Music] we have a farm here on
003campus first grade or kindergarten they work with coding and engineering design a lot of the times I walk into classrooms you can see them doing it and the coding that they are working on are actually kind of like placemats they put on the floor and they're learning just to explore and when they're that that age obviously the coding and working with computers can be positive but they're just exploring and then we move into first grade one of our classes Mr Florence class was highlighted she had her class designing and building model playgrounds last year so you can walk into the first grade classrooms and see them doing that kind of Designing second grade right now as a invention project going on they're coming up with inventions and building them themselves and then presenting them to
004a classrooms uh third grade they just visited fruit fail school and they have an Apple Valley Project where they really kind of highlight the history of Lincoln and this entire area the third graders love it yeah I put them on a shelf but it's really great for them to learn about our local history that way fourth grade I walked in their class today and they're working on a human brain project they are researching the human brain they are building a model of a human brain and then making presentations in fifth grade I invited miss van zyl here to need to talk to you about a roller coaster Street project that they're working on currently so these are just a few of the projects that that are that are highlights of our school and things that
005the students get to explore daily here so without further Ado I will bring on our first presenter who is Mrs visay she's our librarian and she has a few students and they want to talk about a coding robotics podcast that they've been working on [Music] and I am the librarian here at Lehman previously I was at Creekside Elementary School and um in my library it's a little bit different um we're not too quiet sometimes we get a little bit a little while um but I have the Makerspace area and I started Makerspace when I was over at Creekside it's about seven eight years ago um and what a major space is is where the students come together and they get to create they get to build they get to explore um and so a few
006months ago I was trying to spend my Scholastic dollars and I found that Scholastic offers robotic sex and um these three guys right here come in the Thai and Mika were so excited about this robotics set but I like that it can't run the program because I don't like that so our PTO was very generous and um bought me so after um a few weeks the boys got to start the robotics project and this is actually the second one that they said um all right robotics Portland I I'm Thai Nico Cohen how we built the robotic Focus first we connected like a robotic Lego pieces wires and strings to assemble the robotic forklift then we put batteries in it to make it move and pick up small objects this is a picture of us of
007assembling the robot and putting it together how the robotic forklift moves the robot forklift moves by using an iPad with controls to make the car go forward backward right and left you actually have batteries to make the wheels move the way you control here's a picture of our forklift and the controls to make a move our robots can make the world a better place robots can make the world a better place by picking up trash just like our affordable robots can also plant help plant more trees and plants there are many possibilities and applications for Roblox the picture of trees and the forklift picking up trash here's a picture of an agricultural robot that places better soil for plants and trees to help the plants and trees grow healthy theme concepts for this project science
008real world problems and solutions technology coding and computer presentation engineering assembling the robot art planning and designing the presentation math coding counting and playing team so the boys are actually going to show their forklift in action um and they did the coding and everything on the iPad that angel has [Music] [Applause] foreign they did a great job and this was um something that that took a few weeks they were in the library before school during recess lunch time then not after school thank goodness they have sports so I also did bring um a part over where you guys could see other students projects that are in the works we have a humanoid robot they had this um I stand there in the Box I forget what it's called but it's really cool it goes over
009like shoots the kids are practicing it today so it's this little car robotic car and the kids were practicing going over different um Heights and shoes are pretty tall so yeah all right let's forget this is Van's Island to the fifth grade teacher at Lehman Elementary and my prayer requests thank you interesting [Applause] hello good evening I'm Mrs Van zyl and we're going to talk about how we incorporate steam daily in our classrooms with a fifth grade roller coaster unit hello my name is Emory and we will be doing increased slash investigation first we read an informational text article that incorporated Ela Math and Science Concepts then we calculated how much it would cost to build our own roller coasters next using technology we are able to design our own roller coasters students have taken
010account Deputy friction initial Hills and Lewis lastly the costume will take several uh depending different roller countries around the US hi we are Sydney and Jackson and it will be telling me about collaboration next we use the information from the previous assignments to create an avid one pager in groups so to show our understanding of the information we just we discovered on roller coasters one Majors included a summary of history of roller coasters the final words such as Gravity Force kinetic and kinetic energy potential energy causes level questioning individual images hello my name is Reese and I'll be talking about design and engineering next we will use our newly acquired knowledge of roller coasters to build replica models we will use our engineering design process as a guide for this portion of the unit some
011idea examples are below my name is Russ my name is Western and I'll be talking about discoveries slash connecting to what we learned to the real world to wrap up this unit we will be taking a field trip in May 6 to 6 Flex in Discovery Kingdom there we will be able to apply all that we have learned from this unit to the real world while having fun at the same thing yeah hello my name is Ian and do you have any questions about Steam and important grade can I go on your field trip with you what was the most fun oh I really enjoyed um building the roller coaster it was really fantastic I loved it would you like to donate yourself no thank you for 30 years and it is a great career
012and I'll tell you why because we can actually do stuff like that for real like build real roller coasters all real Bridges or a real buildings design little buildings and it's very interesting open stuff I would recommend it [Applause] today [Music] [Laughter] thank you for visiting Lehman Elementary school have a great evening [Applause] my favorite thing in my house is my Robo vacuum I don't know how I ever survived without it all these years and uh so yes I agree robot robots and cool hearing we will always know that there will always be um there will always be a need for those type of things in in um in our world and um so for those people who love math because I know a lot of people don't love math but math is awesome math
013is the best even myself and my youngest son we have math contests and we think he's smarter than me and it kind of is um we have math contests in our house how fast can abstract multiply divide and it's really kind of fun so we're kind of a Geek Squad at home [Music] thank you that was wonderful [Music] [Applause] things all right okay agenda oh you know what we're going to give you a couple of minutes all right all right uh the next question is one motion which is not available oh um yes um thanks understand yes yes thank you congratulations all right 7.1 Communications and reports this portion of the meaning is set aside from the purpose of allowing opportunities for individuals to address the board regarding matters not on the agenda the board
014is not allowed to take action on any item which is not on the agenda except except as authorized by government grade section 59 to the 549-54.2 request forms for this purpose are located in the interest of the museum these response are to be submitted to the boards where prior to the start of the meeting speakers are limited to three minutes each and the board will limit the total time for public input on each item 21. so we have a few first year and we'll start off with Gus which guesses I'm sorry there's more than one security nothing with me I always wait to see 259 before I start talking I'll try to there it is uh hi my name is Gus Murphy I have two children in the district I wrote on my card class
015with parents because I'm happy to tell you that I think we have family or well it's been a long day finally found a way to unite um it's going to take a little bit of time but one thing I did learn in the past three years is that if the parents want to get together and share ideas and going Dons and Placer County or even within their own school districts social media is what you think is the best Avenue but there was a lot of disinformation censoring and a lot of Shadow Banning and thanks to I don't know what you guys think of him I don't know him but uh thanks to Elon Musk I feel that Twitter is the proper platform where you can help educate parents and get the word out so in
016fact sometime this summer I'm currently recruiting other parents we are going to create a Twitter account that will let parents know what's happening in Placer County where they can help advocate for what they want how to raise funds how to submit a formal complaint um just how public education system works uh and uh how to collectively use their efforts to get what they want because they do pay most of your salaries and they do vote you into office and so they should be heard and I feel that most of them are too busy on weeknights to uh to get together and do this across plaster so I'm happy to say we're going to unite them but I do want to say that uh we will do our best not to make it about religion or
017ideology I do believe that someone's sexual preference is not a choice before all of this started it was very much about gay rights and had actually participated in events to support gay rights and I believe and I've talked with the next gentleman earlier and I believe in that someone who is trans youth has a lot of difficulties that I never faced and that they need support not an animal I do believe that and I think most of us would agree with that It's Tricky though when we use public education because that's that's tax dollars and and then you know we're not allowed it's supposed to be a separation church and state so knowing that the the broker the brokering would deal with The Foundry maybe actually can provide some good framework so I want to
018say that maybe think about that deal is a good kind of jumping off point is maybe work with a city maybe an after-school thing so that support can be given but we don't have a parent outcry of hey why are my children talking to these reverends before they're talking to me right so I just want to we hope we can have good dialogue in the future but um look more for that uh more on that Twitter account uh in the future it's going to be big I promise thank you thank you [Applause] because that's and then Alicia Alicia Watkins Kayla I'm sorry Tiffany you need to give me some reading lessons or something I'm sorry pronunciation competitive hi I'm Kayla I'm a student at over just middle school and uh I have a question why
019isn't anybody burning up tbms of these meetings four members have been visited LHS and gems and October's elementary school but you never visit or talk about TDMs it seems like you don't think it's a part of Lincoln tvms doesn't have a wellness center and we only have one counselor for 800 students our students need to have support at home we support that school when we go get it at home right now it doesn't feel like to be a message for providing much support for the students also I'm in eighth grade and I'm nearing ninth grade but so far my entire class has invarned any sexual education when it is required by the Department of Education to be taught at least once in middle school and again in high school I feel as though sex side
020is very necessary because some children don't get taught it at home so the kids will most likely end up learning about it online or through other kids which is which not everything they may learn will be factual I wish to talk more about other subjects I think this will do for now so thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you hi board thank you for the chance to speak uh usually I come up and I have very well prepared very impactful very passionate speech and today I'm winning it and the reason I'm doing that is because I want you to hear from the heart what I have to say what that young lady just said that she hasn't even had any sexual education and she's already in eighth grade my mom taught at rescue for 17
021years gang bangers drug dealers and she had three 14 year old mothers that is why it is important to teach sexual education starting at a young age because puberty starts hitting at 12 to 13 and it's actually getting younger the other thing we can't we can't be a prude of society that's never worked out for any pleasure to be approved of society the other thing and I say this as a sexual abuse Survivor we put my own father in prison so I understand the level of protecting kids but also educating kids uh the intersectionality between the lgbtqia plus community and safety for bypoc students is a very uh delicate point because uh bipoc transgender people are some of the most abused oppressed and murdered people around the world and the numbers are growing so when
022we talk about you need to provide care for lgbtqia plus and you need to promote ethnic studies and have books that represent bypoc and aapi students those are equally important and you have to have them both I understand this is a hard concept to grasp I understand we're in a conservative area that's primarily why that's primarily Christian that doesn't matter because these students are what matters students are not clones of us they are individuals they have rights they have dreams and if you're going to become a parent you put your selfishness aside and you say it is our job to provide the safety and the support for these children to grow up to be who they want to be who you guys want to be that's what matters not our beliefs not our religious beliefs
023not our how we were raised they're the future we're going to die they're going to live and they're going to take over everything so please please please please please don't cave like other civil wars have open your minds be compassionate and support our youth whether you agree with them or not support and protect our youth and their rights okay please thank you very much [Music] [Applause] and Marlena Martinez hi thank you um because it needs to be addressed I'm here to talk about the continued slender against Pastor Casey there's been no accusations from anyone who young people who worked with him or you know colleagues I've worked with them for 10 years and I'll tell you right now he's a better man than I am the way he is responding to what's going on he's
024responding with love and um he just like his life has been threatened what's going on has made our community feel very very unsafe when kids speak the districts they come to me and I'm I'm afraid to even tell you what it is I do because I don't think it's a safe climate here um lgbtq youth are not feeling safe and what's been taken away from this has been support from people with lived experience and it's just it's tragic to me um we were very lucky to have him in our community and I thought so for like 10 years and I really hope that that hasn't been destroyed because even at investigations are done and things are booked at with logical eyes you know um if I were him and again he's a better man with
025better human than I am um if I if I were him I wouldn't is he cares and I just urge you know there's a lot of hate towards the lgbtq community and it's very politicized right now and this hate doesn't only affect the people that it's targeted towards um it's affecting our young people too and it's under the guise of us protecting them but we're making it less safe Earth Society is and I just urge you I don't know anything about the board here hello I'm having done any research none of that I just heard you please please make good decisions um please listen to the young people like when you hear them speaking at these board meetings like listen to them listen to them like it's amazing how much support he's had from the
026beginning of people that he's working with um and that urgent make good decisions Maybe there's some people who are mad who are very loud but I think there's more people who are quietly just go to death of what's going on I think they're greater numbers and that some people are louder though so I guess that's all I have to say so thank you thank you [Applause] you are on them right I would like to talk about Pastor Quincy I knew him personally he commits me to come out to my family um I have a lot of lgbtq family members of my family already it wasn't that hard for me but I was still scared um and he he does nothing but care about LGBT students and I don't think we're going to be able to
027find someone that can do his job that well um all he talked about was getting to more students and branching out and telling kids that hey like this church is safe hey this this library is safe you could come here and talk about it with people because it's very confusing um you can't just turn to the person next to you be like hey what's what's it like to be gay um it's not that easy um and family a lot of the time especially in this area is not safe I've had friends kicked out of their homes and it's really scary it gets scary really fast um and yeah and then I remember my freshman year I went to my first London spot meeting and I had older kids warn me about the farm bus and
028how that wasn't safe don't tell people you're gay if you're going to um Farm lessons because on the farm bus you'll get waterfalls thrown at you it's been a lot better now um but that was really scary um and it sucks that I couldn't be myself and express the way that I I am um I might not look gay but I am and I express myself the way that I want to and not only being gay but also being Mexican and an immigrant it's it's hard it's hard not being able to to be open about that without feeling like that's wrong and I'm not I'm not saying people have called me wrong for being Mexican I'm saying people have seen me in a different light because of it um my dad I'm great to hear
029when he was seven and it's me my life and his heart life heart in this community um and I hope that's recognized and it needs to be support for that thank you [Music] [Applause] Amy Wendell you are on Deck hey I'm here for something totally different I have no idea what I just walked in on I tried to get put on the agenda to present a lot of information about what I'm going to discuss I was told that I'm not allowed to present to have presentation time for this my son was kicked out of school he's quick kicked out of 12 Bridges Middle School this year we're not being fully vaccinated uh he doesn't he's allergic to the vaccines and he's been a great student he loved the teachers the principals the staff he loves
030school he loves Academia and um California changed its laws in the last few years so I'm going to give you a quick summary they changed the law so that in 2000 starting in 2016 they could no longer you could no longer sign up on getting vaccinated uh for personal beliefs I knew my son would be allergic to them I went ahead and got him vaccinated and he paid severe crisis for at least five years physically and mentally from it I uh it was time to get a second round of vaccines to let him go to school the next year and uh I I was going to do it because no doctor would give me a medical exemption I kept calling all these pediatricians to get a medical exemption appointment to see if he was eligible
031no one would give it to him I finally found a doctor who would consider it I went to her I got a medical exemption for him uh then California changed their laws again and said not a must they said you are they they started revoking licenses of doctors who gave these exemptions and his doctor was one of them so he was kicked out of school despite the fact he's in a school that has over 95 percent hurt immunity and I have no idea why people who are vaccinated are worried that their kids will catch something from my kid he went into a deep depression I've never seen him do that before I feel like he didn't start coming out of it until last week it's been a nightmare and um so I asked I wanted
032to ask the board just like you did with coven when you wrote a letter to the God and said we're not going to follow these protocols anymore I want something done within the district I understand that we only have a few kids this effect so he's not statistically significant he's one of the outliers as far as the data numbers go but um I think it's wrong for us to support things that are completely unconstitutional like that where I as a concerned parent can't say uh no my kid's body doesn't work with that stuff the rest of my entire family is vaccinated except for him so we don't even bring a threat as a family and uh I want the board to consider that thank you Julie thank you [Applause] doctors whose licenses are revoked none
033of them are revoked over medical malpractice or any harm that came to their patients [Applause] is my pastor um The Fallout of these videos these highly edited videos have affected students in your District students in the district where I'm raising my children Roseville my family and I have received death threats I don't know where they got our phone number but we have been called by two different people and what was said on the phone call was if you ever show up at that church full of again you and your son are going to regret it I have special needs son we go to church at Pastor Casey's church and because of that these people want to kill us um Pastor Casey has done nothing wrong zero accusations have ever been brought against him by a
034parent a teacher a counselor a principal every student who has worked with him has said either he saved their life he saved their relationship with their family um a lot of people are throwing around the word intergenerational relationships multi-generational relationships all that is is you have a relationship with your grandparents you have a relationship with a coach a girl scout leader a teacher a pastor there is nothing nefarious about intergenerational relationships unless your mind is in the gutter and you look at children in some kind of a perverted way those of us at Little Miss UCC and those of us in support of the landing spot are not doing anything to any of your children that is nefarious I would hope that when you investigate the facts rather than these highly edited videos that you
035will bring landing spot back to your schools because it saves lives thank you thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh wait I'm sorry oh Nina I'm sorry uh and then last one Colleen and we're not taking any more thank you um so I didn't hear anything because uh what I'm speaking about I kind of just did some research this afternoon because I wanted to learn more about the landing spot and also project Veritas who put out the video and so what I found is that project Veritas has already been sued and lost a case recently for 120 000 we're doing the same thing they use deceptive techniques I've talked to several people that watched the whole video as it has been heavily edited and Mr Brokers ended and this is causing a lot of problems I'd
036also like to say that I found out that recently the founder of project their cause has been kicked out because they found Financial malfeasance like let me give you some examples he spent 114 or sorry 14 000 on a charter flight to meet someone to fix his boat I know the guys a meeting with a donor sixty thousand and losses from dance events dinner events more than 150 000 in black cars of the last 18 months and now the landing spot is in their sites because of what people don't like being people that's not a reason and now Pastor Casey I'm not a member of this church I don't really know anything about his church until then but now I found out how many people have been helped by him there's been no accusations against
037him or his church this is all coming from one group and I'm really kind of disappointed that they're under Fire for a video that was edited and if you haven't seen the full three hours that I don't know how you can make a decision like this and if you're upset because they're going to Pastor Casey to talk about their problems and the fact that they might be gay instead of you okay [Music] [Applause] you are close to shutting us down so I just want to say that I hear a lot about project Veritas but um in a highly edited video but I heard full sentences that were said by that gentleman and they were extremely disturbing if um if this man should never be let back on any campus and um and these children don't
038need a fake pastor and they don't need things hidden from their parents and um so I just want okay I just I don't want him ever on our campuses ever again thank you Colleen [Applause] [Music] okay so now we have our reports uh student reports they can do school Ariana oh she's not here sorry I saw three uh corn on my eye thank you Ariana great report all right the 12 Bridges High School Clara thank you okay uh hi I'm the assistant High School uh yesterday NHS took a trip to Stanford Santa Clara University and San Jose State to dwarf an upper colleges uh testing began today um Juniors and sophomores are being tested on their math English skills this entire week we had a rally to support that and we're having a spirit they
039really keep morale high on Thursday some ASP students like myself went to William Jessup to work on our leadership skills and Shelby was there and my religion was there uh we worked on Winship skills and to establish what makes a great leader uh the 12 Bridges career fair was today and most students generated positive feedback uh it's extremely important to have the potential employees uh and have students who have career opportunities to ask questions um I got a full hat and then I also talked to people working in the fields that I would like to pursue and that Junior Prom is this Saturday it's located at 12 Bridges and it's April 11th thank you all right Phoenix High School Shelby hi everyone um so I don't really have a lot of our dances on Friday
040it's one of our first ever so I encourage everyone from the community to come it's gonna be great we're starting to make decorations today um State testing also started today we did English today and we were doing maths tomorrow we are starting up our softball team for the AAL League practices start next week I also attended the William Joseph leadership conference on Friday it was amazing um it was nice to be able to connect with students from different districts and be able to just continue people and learn how I can be a better I can better communicate with the people of the public to make my role as a student board member for awesome oh thank you next report is what's up and we can't really respond when I first respond but appreciation breakfast that
041Carrie spoke at it explained some of the concerns we have with our district one of them well which is going to be something we're going to be talking about a lot is that that's a bond issue and you'll hear a lot about that and uh we need that in order to improve and build schools it's something that's essential for the district and going forward to hear a lot more about it these fine young ladies both attended the digestive leadership conference and we also had uh uh again from Lincoln who was there too it was wonderful you just put it on with the help of teach and Peter constant it we talked about oh uh trust we talk about how to become a good leader the people that were there the kids that were there the
042young people that were there were pretty exceptional people anyway they're probably already leaders in their high schools but they represented all the high schools in the area very well should be committed they did a great job I had a chance after that meeting to talk to uh John Jackson who's the president of Jessup I was very impressed with them I told me about his philosophy about the university and about the the conference and so forth and it's the first chance I had to speak with him I hope to speak with him again and soon let me just finish up with um but I recently had a chance to talk with some other community leaders and I explained our situation with them uh both of our our need and you'll hear from the board on an
043ongoing basis about how we plan on doing that and having money to build schools and improve the schools that need it and there's certainly a need for that so with that I will pass on the 10th I attended the first Civil Right committee meeting for 12 Bridges High School I'm excited to say that our first graduating class will be doing an overnighter accent Splash but we need to raise forty thousand dollars so we have a year a little over a year to do that but we can't even sell raffle tickets for you so we put creative ways to raise money so everybody in the audience has any wonderful ideas let me know I'm the vice president for looking for help um on the 11th I attended my third ybn meeting I was only able to
044take about two-thirds of it but uh it was a good time we broke into small groups again we created relaxing vacations but I have to say I was a little jealous because my group was the only one that didn't have alcohol involved because we have the computers so it was still a good time on the 12th I met with Carrie for our one-on-one check-in we chatted about our families possible future courses offered work life in general and I just want to say I enjoy one-on-ones with Carrie because I can see the human side of her not the administrative side she's actually a really funny lady if you ever come on a while on basis I missed the leadership conference at William Jessup I was sad about that but my daughter from your high school shared
045tryouts months will be out of town for worlds comp they're in the actual share price had a really great time um last party though I did go to gyms and see their Wellness Center I met Rigo their Community liaison the kids loved him he's actually a lot of fun I brought my grandson with me he had the blast in there with all the kids during lunch time he got to play with strong building set that they have in there they're like straws literally straws to Nest rooms and they built a spaceship he had a wonderful time Miss Castillo hung out with us too we're there for about 30 minutes um they're doing great work of that in that school this really helped with the behavioral problems that they've had I fully support it and the
046kids love it they go in our two of the grade levels are competing and building jigsaw puzzles whoever can finish it first and they get candy for prizes but it just brings the kids together they're having a wonderful time there so it was nice to see because last time I saw it was when I was campaigning it was finished yet so to actually see the finished product to meet the counselors that are in there and see all the different kids from the school that hang out it's a good thing that's happening up there um I also emailed back and forth with Miss Aladdin because I was really concerned after our last board meeting that our lgbtq students were getting the supports that they needed um she gave me in-depth information way too much to discuss
047but I learned about three tiers um as far as support goes and I'm happy to say that I feel more comfortable now after having the emails with Miss a lot and that we are able to offer support and that they are doing their best to help the students and don't be shy and or afraid if you need to help go to the Obama Center reach out to miss London they're there they'll help you that's all they want to do is make you feel safe and comfortable and I feel better after having that email exchange knowing that we do offer a lot of support from students that need it committee meeting yesterday I had an epidural so it was down and out today I went to the tbhs career fair it was fun I had a
048great time I spent most of my time with the police department the sheriff's department and the military branches that's why it's 4K um and I found some great information for my daughter she doesn't know that he comes under the Air Force cabinet that's just my dream that was a lot of fun it was well put together I was only planning to stay for half an hour for almost an hour so I enjoyed it I think more than the kids so there's that's my report thank you number three minutes wow I know all right um last week I attended the Lincoln High School open Farm um and I got to see some of the classrooms I went and saw the egg biology class of the welding shop the garden that actually some of our students grow
049and um actually our search from our lunch for the district um got to see lots of animals got to hold baby goats and take some really cute videos with a little girl that was kissing all over the goats it was really adorable um and then um I wanted to let everybody I put some information by the front of the Lincoln FFA is having their annual fundraiser dinner on June 22nd and there's a QR code on here that you can um purchase tickets right online um the dinner is June 2nd at the bean Pavilion thermal enforcements Club will be cooking so therefore I will be cooking um and so um just a little bit about FFA and their organization it's great uh and it has some really great kids um it's not just animals that they
050deal with they have um speaking competitions debate competitions uh judging competitions so there's just a little more to that than just the high school problem so I just wanted to talk about that um the next thing I went to was the appreciation breakfast last week we got to hear from the amazing LHS choir they started at three wonderful vehicle songs um we went over projected enrollment and growth and the number of schools that we will need to have based so we can house all these kids in the next 10 years and we also um we got the cutest adorable dancing group from the bilingual studies children through K-5 and I just want to um I just want to um I just want to touch on a couple things um they're at fifth grade they will
051speak 50 in classrooms English and 50 Spanish and they will also be able to qualify for sophomores AP Spanish exams um they will they're going to expand in the elementary program with some more classes and also the students that are graduating with that will get will receive the Seal of by literacy and high school which also gives them 12 credits in their college courses so it's just something great that we can do as a district just to give our kids a leg up on in going into college right off the bat um I had I had a meeting with James Warnick the leadership gentleman last night I had my one-on-one with Carrie we talked personal stuff you know we're going to talk about Kings and and um just the town of Lincoln and you took
052it you want your personal ticket to Instagram oh yes uh yeah years ago I had a group of my girlfriends all we had a we were on a Case ticket um that I sent it yeah yeah we won some category or whatever in our office there was four of us I got all of us please take it it was against Celtic so it was pretty good game um and then today actually I was on a zoo call um with uh cspa I sat in um for an hour and a half class of the safety first expert tips for supporting effective school safety plans and student Mental Health and they did talk about the tier uh the three-tier support system and they also they also talked about how in in in in an emergency um active
053shoot or whatever it may be how to handle how to handle our special needs children um so and not just like oh I and then um also our substitutes trade our long-term substitutes and that was just something that as you think about so and that was pretty much what I've done okay thank you okay um so I met with our leadership consultant the plan teacher meetings for the board I met with Carrie and Jason and so you're hearing some of the some of the members already had interviews um and then my family got the stomach flu and so that put us out for a quite some time so um nothing past that so I do have a meeting coming up this Friday on the academic excellent Excellence committee with Scott Pickard and George and so
054that would be original here moving along there I do have a my personal interview with the leadership Consultants but I'm not sure if we have a one-on-one schedule oh wait you and I yeah okay because we just have a Monday morning okay um and then uh I wanted to Kayla are you still here Clara Kayla do you know each other okay you guys should probably talk because Kayla Clara is your representative and I do I like what you said so I just wanted to make that she's from the Middle School well she's from the Oh I thought you were talking about high school surprisingly there's a second Middle School yeah no no do we have a Wellness Center at 12 Bridges no no okay we do not either okay okay anyways they'll be going into
055high school so Clara will be here so thank you for bringing a uh I think that was a good topic um anyways to well Joshua already passed yeah no report okay Jim are you here all right that's a pass and it's okay okay I have just a couple of uh brief ones I was so sorry to miss the last board meeting although I I have found that I'm um I I had a sickly tied to it because I was checking in with my staff while the meeting was happening and just saying that's everything going okay um while I was visiting my mom in New York so I was able to get away uh over the spring break my mom was diagnosed with dementia about five years ago and so I was able to take my
056son and my husband and go spend some time with her which was really nice when I got back I hit the ground running so uh Tuesday the 11th we had our development a day we have another day tomorrow I'm excited about that I hosted the community appreciation breakfast and a huge thank you to Emma oler our marketing and Communications officer who planned that whole event for us and then Megan Dixon principal at Creekside Oaks came and presented about the the Dual language immersion program which was really fantastic and of course the choir and then the the folkloreal dancers from Creekside that was fantastic as well we um in our district as part of just staff wellness and efforts to try and prevent staff from being out ill or experiencing just issues ailments physical or mental
057we engage with um with folks through a wellness program and we recently had a wellness Challenge and our District employees beat the school sites in a wellness challenge I'm not sure how that happened but it did and I don't think I was a contributor to that but I did partake in the uh the award or the prize that we won and we were able to spend Friday evening at Four Bridges High School cooking pizzas and we got to make homemade ones and and be taught how to make the dough and having been from New York I it was not my first pizza Rodeo so I was 20 minutes late my pizza was in the oven before anybody else's so interesting um uh on Saturday uh the 15th I spent the entire day at Markham Park
058um over in the Fosgate area with leadership Lincoln our our team uh if you're part of leadership Lincoln through the chamber one of your requirements is you have to complete a project for the community that gives back to your community and we created a slogan rooted in leadership three parts one community and so we teamed up at Schreiber Markham and Machado and we planted 13 trees and spread bark and laid irrigation and we will be putting in the final treaty at Markham Park from attended noon on Saturday which is birthday so we will be dedicating dedicating the the uh clean up at those parks with the fleet with the trees being planted on Saturday um we have our first policies committee meeting on May 9th so Marjorie and Jason and then cabinet and other staff
059members will be meeting to talk about the first big pack in the policies and um I will likely be bringing recommended changes regarding the controversial issues policy and AR um uh to the board for the first read on May 2nd and I just forwarded Marjorie and Jason some information that we received from our legal about thoughts around changes with that and then um I wanted to let the board know that we the Review Committee for that you give is going to be presenting its um process and decision publicly to the board on May 16th and they will be notifying the complaints of the decision that they made no later than Friday May 12th but probably a couple of days before that and that important thank you all right section 8 8.14. request calls are getting
060submitted to the board clerk report each item is discussed speaker of the women in three minutes each and the board will limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes and so I'm gonna have one item but we have two speakers um Elena you said that before and I just hired someone with that name so I should have all right hi guys um I'm Elena the Seth and um uh he has been working with Western class report for a long time and I have um three kids two are Lincoln high school graduates and my son is a sophomore at 12 Bridges so it's uh it's been pretty exciting but I am here to talk about ethnic sense um so what are ethnic studies ethnic studies are the interdisciplinary study of race
061and ethnicity focusing on people's lived experiences and perspectives according to edsource 76 of students in California are students of color 76 percent there was a study done by Stanford University the University of Massachusetts and the University of California Irvine in collaboration with San Francisco Unified School District sfsud launched the pilot program in which students were automatically assigned to an ethnic study course as their first year social studies requirement if they had a GPA of 2.0 or less during this time the study showed academic gains were achieved at the end of the course higher attendance and great great Point averages over the course of the year's Long study more than 90 percent of students involved graduated within five years versus 75 percent of their peers students of ethnic studies were also 15 more likely to enroll
062in college within six years of ninth grade students apply more inclusive and open mindset while learning and crafting with other cultures America as a country is very complex and to better understand it to make it better we need the good and the bad those who do not like this type of History being taught say that it will make white students feel uncomfortable and that these issues are too controversial people of color have been learning about slavery Jim Crow emancipation exposing all students white students black students Mexican students to statistics and policies regarding housing segregation and civil movements shouldn't make them feel unwelcome because these lessons serve all students ethnic studies use critical thinking to promote an understanding of how different groups have struggled and worked together in the United States embracing all aspects of our
063past will help shape the present and the future thank you [Applause] earlier I heard a speaker say that if your children are talked into Pastor Tynan then you've failed as a parent I would um like to well I believe that if your children either learn in school that it's okay to treat everybody equally you failed as a parent it shouldn't have to be mandatory it's pretty obvious and I don't teach my children to look at people of color any differently and most of the people that I hang around with teach their children to treat everybody equally this is a strong man argument it's brought to you by the state of California does anybody remember what they did in the last few years anybody remember I could make the argument that if you allowed your child
064to be forced with experimental gene therapy you failed as a parent I do not want this incendiary stuff in school because it's a straw man argument the most low-hanging fruit you can have is to be against hate duh I've been all around the world I've shaken hands with people of all genders sexualities races a lot of them better than me a lot of them better for the world and I talked about Rosa Parks a hell of a lot in the last three years because I learned about her in school I'm from the south she was an amazing lady and we could have learned a lot about her instead of letting the state and the federal government dictate how we we teach our children I believe in the school board I believe in the district as
065a whole but this is a state initiative and I don't believe that the majority of children in this District or any District go under the playground and think well I'm better than this person because they're a different colors there is ignorance obviously there's some ignorance there and we need to get rid of it to Kill a Mockingbird and so on over decades or what a good literature over this stuff still haven't read the hate you give read parts of it but I'm not done and so what I'm what I'm saying is and I've said it several times the idea that you can constantly remind a young group of people how different they are in order to get equality is a logical fallacy they will naturally learn to hug one another they will do their own
066critical thinking they will look at each other and say you look different than me let's talk about it they will get there right because it's been going on for a very long time and I don't think that the narrative is true that all there's a lot of um victimhood I'm hearing and while I do respect that yes I'm a white male and I can even admit it's made life easier I'm not obtuse but to push this narrative from the state um is is I'll be in the back after the meeting and I would love to just honestly hear someone tell me why they believe that a child is going to be better off learning that they're different because of their color rather than just talking about how much alike they are instead thank you foreign
067[Applause] studies all right here we go um I have with me tonight Jennifer Clementon is one of our most awesome awesome specialists in our department and I appreciate her taking the time to be here so I'm gonna have her come up we're just going to kind of stand back and forth with the microphone going back and forth so before just to try and be as good as team Steam not a chance not a chance there's there's team steam there's Jennifer clementson and then there's Scott Pickett so I'm just telling you she's definitely way better presenter than I am but um I just I want to talk to you this is based on the board request the board wanted to kind of hear a little bit about ethnic studies this is a very very preliminary presentation
068and a very preliminary discussion so I I'm just going to share a quick story though about learning about people from from different backgrounds I lived and grew up 10 miles from the border of Mexico and a little town called Chula Vista I loved it I enjoyed it I had certain perceptions of people that lived in Mexico didn't have any real issues with him but you know I had perceptions and then I spent a year and a half serving a church mission down in Mexico came to know the people of Mexico it completely changed my perspective because I gained knowledge I came to know their culture the people I came to know so much about who they are and it has blessed my life immeasurably because of that and the fact that I did not speak
069another language I can communicate with people in Mexico as well so it's it's been a great blessing so the opportunity to learn we can you know I know there's concerns about this and and I know there's concerns people are excited that are sitting behind me people are concerned I will just tell you we can turn this into a positive where we can make this become an opportunity for us to learn from each other and kind of come together and that's really My Hope and that's my desire is that this will bring us together having said that we're not going to give you a lot of details tonight so it's going to be a little disappointing but we're going to just talk a little bit about kind of how we're going to get started and then
070more details will come as we go throughout this process so we're not I'm happy to show you working with you we just don't have them yet because we're getting started on this process so that's a lot of intro but I am going to turn it over to uh Jennifer clementson for the next slide well first we're going to speak about the law and that was passed so in October of 2021 California State Legislature passed ab101 which states I'm going to read part of it to you commencing with pupils graduating in the 2029-30 school year a one semester course is required in ethnic studies a local educational agency may require a full year course in ethnic studies at its discretion commencing with the 25-26 school year a local Education Agency that's us the school district with
071pupils in grades 9 to 12 shall offer at least a one semester course in ethnic studies so to recap that we have to start offering an ethnic studies course during the 25-26 school year and it becomes a graduation requirement starting with the class of 2030. thank you so when the state came out with this and this is a state requirement so yes that is um they kind of talked about hey there's four options that you can look at as far as when you develop your course the kind of the kind of way you want to develop it um the first one is based on something called the state model curriculum in ethnic studies it's development by This Acronym because we have a gazillion acronyms in education instruction or quality Commission of California Department of Education
072so they were tasked with creating this model curriculum this model curriculum gives Direction guidance support in in how we can develop an ethnic studies course and it provides a lot of different information it's on the State website and people can look at that and go to it and find it and there's different chapters it's all there and it's got links to it so um so that's one way to do it another is an already existing ethnic studies course there's some courses out there already that have already been created developed there's textbooks we can look at that there's also another option which is an Ethics studies course that's taught as part of another course kind of tying two together the only challenge that we have with that is that that needs to be a bigger part
073of a course and and so there is some trickiness with that but but the majority of that course does need to be about ethnic studies and sometimes that's tricky to meld two courses into one um and involving Staffing as well so that's the only that's the trickiness it's not a tricky content it's just the logistics of that the last one is a locally developed ethnic studies course approved by the governing board of the school district or the government charter school so what that means is that we would at the local level develop an ethnic studies course it's and we would we would then eventually present it to the board and the board you would have time to look at the information look at the curriculum look at the material be able to review it be
074able to come back and talk about it and share and approve and disapprove we tweaked and changed and we're we're happy to do that we've got some time to do that so our our plan is that's kind of what I think I've heard the board say and what their wishes are so I think that's what they might be looking but you can let me know if you have a different opinion of that the the locally developed it just means it's developed locally here at this level it doesn't mean that we're just talking about LinkedIn the entire time we want to include some things about the history of Lincoln and the ethnic history of LinkedIn as well I think that would be great so that kids can really connect that live here with part of that
075curriculum I think that would be great but a lot of it a lot of it is is more just about different ethnicities and a lot of different things and we'll we'll talk a little more about that but those are kind of the four different ways that we can develop that course so what the makeup of the course would be so these are the general principles out on the model curriculum for our ethnic studies course so first we want to encourage cultural understanding of how different groups have struggled and work together highlighting poor ethnic studies Concepts such as race and ethnicity and next a general principle of this course is to generate discussion by providing opportunities for critical thinking and rigorous analysis of History we always want this to align the standards so we're going to
076be aligning the course to our literacy and history standards as well as to the 2016 history social science framework and particularly highlighting inquiry literacy content into citizenship we always want to include accurate information based on current and confirmed research and as we do with a lot of our education we want to promote the values of Civic engagement and civic responsibility so as far as just an outline of of kind of how we would create the course it would be based on themes or a thematic approach it would provide opportunity for people to build in examples case studies people of diverse backgrounds so you could kind of have an opportunity to study and learn about people's real lived experiences of different backgrounds and ethnicities um you want to have the opportunity or the capability to engage
077multiple languages multiple genealogies again of different ethnicities um we're also going to allow for local state specific National and Global inquiry internet ethnic studies meaning we will take some time to study about kind of the global history and the country history the state history our local history of different ethnicities and different people of different backgrounds um we're going to look at also as we talk about these different ethnicities we're not just going to talk about the history we're going to talk about other things such as visual Performing Arts as it relates to different ethnicities economics just a range of different subjects it's not out there but sociology is the literature political science different things like that related to these these different ethnicities so that's what's going to be included again overview not everything and not
078comprehensive but some of those things that we're considering all right next we're going to talk about the audience and this is outlined again in the model curriculum and when we talk about audience we mean the students so the audience for this material are the is the students in the classroom and so these are the three points that we want to be mindful of as we engage them we want to be sensitive to the needs of all grade levels and Incorporated disciplines and provide balance and guidance to the field of ethnic studies we're going to engage pedagogies that allow for student and Community responsiveness we want to validate students lived experiences and address socio-emotional development we are also going to be very focused on being inclusive creating space for all students regardless of race ethnicity class
079gender sexuality or citizenship and about learning about all the different perspectives from the different ethnicities that we study in this course so as we look at developing this course you consider creating a course about ethnic studies and a lot of us not having a lot of experience about creating a course about ethnic studies we're going to need some resources we're going to need some support we're going to look to those resources that we can find Jennifer and I have spent time talking to the state talking to other local school districts that already have these courses there's some local school districts that have those and so if we're spending time talking to their district office staff we're going to meet with their teachers we're going to talk more with the state but but some really big
080resources that we have out there one is this the California Department of Education model curriculum and again there's information in there we'll use parts of this you don't have to use it and we can decide what we want to use and what we don't want to use but but it provides kind of some big chunks of skeletal support as we create this this course in addition to that there's something called the adg course catalog and this 8 G course catalog it lists all of the different ethnic studies courses that are presented and we'll look and study those and see if there's some things that we can glean some information from those of course catalogs as well and reach out to those individual schools and so that's also where we're going to find some information and
081then we're going to look into possibly the UC Davis history project UC Davis has a project a history project where they go to schools and they train schools on things related to social studies so we have them come in who I want to say about six years ago and they they worked with our middle school and our high school teachers and they did a great job when they changed the framework and did a kind of showed a change of focus from the state so they helped train our teachers to be able to teach to those different focuses which is what you saw in a previous slide has to do with content citizenship literacy and inquiry so um so we'll be looking at using chunks of that information to help us kind of build that course
082as we over time develop it in addition to that there's a lot of things to consider related to the logistics of it which we don't we just haven't made final decisions yet because we're not sure we're not sure how it's going to fit could be year-long course could be a semester course so we have to have conversations with a high school kind of just figuring out what what works and what's going to be available to to students but we're going to talk about you know discover who's going to teach it as far as whether what are the credentialing requirements which is down further on that list the state right now is considering and talking about a possibility of having to have a specific credential in teaching ethnic studies right now currently it is specific for
083history social studies or if it's part of another course whatever they're teaching in that course say it's woven into a language arts course the language arts teacher can teach that so there's there's different credentialing requirements that might change over time and we're going to look at that we're going going to talk about you know the grade level Focus what grade level do we want to really focus on for these students right now it's an elective I know in a local school district it's an elective we're in 9th through 12th graders can can take the course so there's a broad range of that so we want to talk about what's going to be the best place or what is the best place to do that um training we need to talk about how we're going to
084train our staff because this is very new to all of us and so we want to make sure that we're having some thoughtful training and and being effective in that um and so that's those are really the kind of the things we're going to consider as we develop the content of the course we also need to figure out how we're going to present it to students and when they're going to take it so and then we have one more slide that did not get in the presentation apologize for that but I realized we didn't really talk about timelines and so we're going to talk about that so because the law outlines specific dates we do have some timelines that we need to adhere to and so we put them up here for you to see
085so from now until October of 2024 we have about a year and a half to gather information resources and to develop the course and also to figure out all of the logistical questions that Scott was just talking about um in October of 2024 we will present the course outline and curriculum to the school board for discussion and review and then by December 2024 and we will be presenting to the board for final approval we need to have it we need to have that final approval done by December of 2024 so that we can get the course into the registrar and get everything going so that students can enroll in it and we are ready to go for the 25-26 school year what questions do you have I'm sure not okay thanks just kidding what age
086group what level class level was it you know we're so we're we're kind of just having some culinary conversations about that um in some cases we think maybe ninth grade because they came in they come in to take a semester of geography but if they already have a semester tied to that for another course so we're not we're just not really sure yet and we're as this becomes a required course and and districts settle down we're kind of we'll kind of check other districts and then we'll have discussions about part of it again is where is it going to fit and how we're going to fit this is it going to be a semester year course so we're we're not really sure yet but that's certainly something we're going to consider talking about it was
087I think it has been a lot just yesterday but I did actually look up some of the information um like for the UC Davis history project one section really got to me when I was many links so there's a lot of information there is it's yeah it's overload um one of the sections that I looked into though was um as far as world leaders and history for their ethnic studies they like Champion math on their as a great leader if you know anything about Mao he was responsible for 40 18 million yes that's the kind of stuff I don't want to put into the ethnic studies sure I want it to be real real cautious about who we decide to make great leaders in different ethnicities and make sure that they're they were truly great
088people yeah it was under one of the sections yeah I was like that concerns me yeah and and that's so I'll just speak to that I think I think we want to be thoughtful and there's there probably are things that we want to kind of pick and choose as far as what's going to be appropriate ultimately when we do bring this material together we want to give you guys plenty of time so that you have time to look at all material you have time to kind of review it preview it and share your thoughts and your input on that so we we want to be yeah you'll have a chance to do that to look at that so if we do have anything about Mao in there please by all means good take it out
089I have a question um slide number two it talks about commencing with the 25-26 school year for local educational agencies including charter schools so is that like John Adams to us yeah everybody knows because don't have it we're the charter right but John Adams will have their so they're they are completely independent we authorize them and we're essentially responsible for oversight um but they so our oversight is making sure that they're implementing this requirement but they will have the same authority to develop something locally or whatever it doesn't have to be what we create or Western posture they can do all right I just thought the charter school yeah they have to yeah would that be important opportunity it could yeah where we could yep I mean at least see what they're doing yeah well
090we're going to be so I I have a connection with with a large High School District here close by and so we'll be checking with them also and just finding out and seeing that we're our goal is to kind of partner and just plain information from each other yeah you know in in when visiting uh you know John Adams they had some great um people in history that they emphasized that we could possibly uh look to yeah there's so just to speak to that I'll talk a little bit about that in the in the modern curriculum and they have resources on the website that they're you know just as an example um they have people of different ethnicities and just people that have done some amazing things in their lives and I was looking through
091and just going through this list there are resources of lots of information of people I did not know about and I've not heard about it I thought holy cow I had no idea there were this many people from this background that were doing this that were artists and politicians and astronauts and doctors and all of these things it's it's it was it was a pretty comprehensive and impressive list so those are some of the things that will also something uh that April and I on the curriculum committee is that something that yeah we'll we will spend time with the with the curriculum committee once once that gets up and going then we'll be sharing that with you definitely as well yeah [Music] so um I do like the idea of local and California history I
092I was for a few years I was on a real California history um Rage of reading books and what I what I realized is that our textbooks don't really touch on a lot of the true history of California um I mean did you know that the Mormons the people from the Mormon Church settled San Francisco to do that yeah we knew that I mean I didn't know that until I read it um did you know that you know um several um of their own country so their own people over slavery over here did people know that you know so those are things that we know we really need to look at history a whole not necessarily textbook so that's my one point yeah I would just if I could just answer that we'll we'll want
093to be doing part part of this is you know studying people of different ethnicities when it comes to their history their culture their their current status right challenges all of those things yeah but we will look at we will look at from a global view and then also from a national view from a state View and then I think including a local view too just to kind of at any point that is part of it yeah yeah okay um so um I actually all just almost done throw this other I like a grade 11 through 12 for this and I think the conversations there would be very interesting and they're getting people I think these kids are getting ready to be adults going into a world um anyway um I thought I'd like I'm interested
094in looking at already developed curriculum to see which pieces and parts they can pull or maybe hiring maybe a consultant to help us with this I don't know if you guys have thought about that yeah I think I think we'll we'll jump into it and kind of see where it goes and then if we realize okay we need to look at more part of which I know some parts of that UC Davis history project where Paris is a concern there is some good stuff yeah and so you see Davis history project is they they would help develop that as well and they are they are consulted they are Consultants who work through UC Davis they have a lot of information a lot of knowledge and materials for us yeah so I mean I think it's
095good for us to look at a lot of things a few pieces of parts I don't I am really really big at a plagiarism the number of reports for school kids but you know there's so much information already out there there's no reason to admit reinvent the wheels I do like um and then uh that stuff that I just had that same question about curriculum command ideas to be really involved yeah beginning on this um so we kind of know um we're going to have regular reports because I really didn't realize that we need to file approval by next December that is not a long time yeah it's it's coming up quick the reason is because in January at least right now we have our freshman showcases at the different high schools and so that
096course needs to be determined and decided and um on those picker sheets is what they call them for whatever grade we decide but they start doing that like January February so we've got to have something done by December so that it's ready to go and then high schools can plan for it and make sure that it's in the right place and from there doesn't mean it's going to be for freshmen it's just once we get to the Freshman showcase then high schools to start having their kids get classes so we gotta have it ready by December I think yeah sometime yeah yeah we could get uh report maybe every couple months [Music] it's an awful lot for you know if Christy and I are you know really involved and then all of a sudden you've
097got this huge curriculum just thrown at the rest of the board yeah yeah yeah that's impossible yeah we would we would you know we'd be looking at October and that would be giving you at least a month or two just to kind of take time to look at it cruise through it yeah so I mean eventually that's I'm excited about this yeah thank you and thank you for giving all those those details I I think it was very much interested well and and I just would like to also comment you might want to check uh with some of our teachers that have been you know second third generation from Lincoln they might be able to have a great resources uh uh the Lincoln history museum is in in that an amazing um I have this
098where's that located uh there's a lot of people that would be willing to uh you know give lots of information yeah yeah it's exciting for us to learn about our own history here is the California history and how California history ties into you know our National History yeah yeah so again it's just it related to ethnicities related to their situations yeah okay thank you okay agenda items yeah I'm not sure how it is about this but I want to create a course life skills in the high school combat that type of deal why the end because they're asking for it you guys want that too yes so place it on who do we put place on the agenda or did we put it to a committee yeah it doesn't really need to be an agenda
099item because I Scott and I have already talked about it too like Hey FYI like financial literacy home economics you know basic life skills and so um so Ed Services knows that this is a topic that they need to start exploring and kind of come prepared to start but it would go through the committee I was thinking also that something that might go with that is we have talked um last year about um a class on the Constitution like a a real hard Lookout into the Constitution I think so many of our students people period everywhere um coming more now know the Constitution you know over the last three years but it is a reminder that we should all know what's in that policies [Music] that they would support so maybe having a discussion about
100uh just um yeah it would have I know Heather I'm looking at Heather because Heather was a history teacher before she became an administrator for our district but the Constitution is is taught it is more so but government um there is a big I mean you start with the Constitution first and then break down the branches and go from there is the way the framework is outlined in the standards um I would not say it's like this giant Deep dive right because you're literally starting with that document as the important piece and and dividing it out and really looking at branches and so forth how it goes against the law Etc um but I mean it would be an awesome course stop or maybe an elective and a social science potential application yeah yeah so
101so business item that we would want to talk about or is it something that would just says essentially giving us directions [Music] what do you think about those two items one is this is foreign [Laughter] but I do like an elective uh about the Constitution and a deep dive into the Constitution only that class will study the Constitution only because that's a very important part of our case you're making more and more kids need to learn that and owe it every single day yes [Music] 25. we can start working on it's a pretty easy course yeah 24.25 sorry you guys are yeah they're stamping implications and Jim can probably share as well but some of the things you're talking about are already being taught at the high school so we're adding seniors at 12 Bridges
102High School and Lincoln High School already authors personal finance as a math class and that's really helping with that financial literacy piece we're going to be offering it next year when we get a senior class but at least us has been doing it um Jen you guys also do food and nutrition they don't understand [Music] regular Guppies and Associated activities like mock trial and things that come along with that working safety for those honors we offer our Foods nutrition class which is whenever I hates or twice requested electives to offer some other like um like wood shop and things like that which is a highly requested classes and then um in which the math class that kids can take after they finish round three and so it's your personal finance we also offer consumer State
103class which is more of a skill space so those things are already being offered and have an offered for a couple of years or more and a lot of those things I'm just now adding at 12 purchase High School our site is because we're adding more lessons every year with more teachers more students more grade levels but a lot of what I'm hearing not necessarily like a constitution class but a lot of the things that I'm hearing are stuff that we are offering um so come email us come check to look at them there's also in the freshman year there's a class called state requirements which has a health component to it but also it's a place where there's an introductory set of skills at the top that is a life skilled space around organizations
104and we also offer a lot of classes on Avid is what that's called it's very much about organization and just self-perseverance and I'm an individual determination and through organization skills so we could definitely talk a few more about those things and bring you whatever information you might like there are a lot of classes but they're semester-long for one subject I'd like to have one class worked as a small approach on each different thing like I'm sorry I feel a failed parent my daughter can't sell a buttons so you know um there's a lot of little things how to iron a lot of these kids say they're in school all day they play sports yeah I think that through the event having where the committee has some conversation about what's currently offered and then is there
105is there something that could be operated and we can take a look at the junior high school to see if there are some meetups stuff um okay okay good all right thank you thank you very much good good discussion all right the next meeting uh May 2nd at the district office 6 30 for um for the public and five o'clock opening and profession and then the second one is May 16th at Lincoln High School theater and there's nothing else