001Well, welcome welcome everyone. Thank you. Such a great turnout today for our third board meeting. I'm going to go ahead and call the Weber Unified School District board meeting to order at 603 for Thursday, November 2025. Welcome again. I need you please take call. >> Dr. B >> here. Mr. Mr. Martinez, >> Mr. Be. Thank you. >> Okay, we're going to continue on with our public comment. And I do have six cards today uh for comments from the public um regarding um actually give me one second. Give me one second. First item on Yes, I got ahead of myself. Going to go ahead and take a motion to approve our agenda. I am on item 4.1 of our agenda for today. Is there a motion to approve the agenda, please? >> So move. >> Second.
002motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I thank you. >> Now we're on to public comment. I I do have six cards. >> Roger one. Uh we skipped the pledge. I don't know if you want to go back and do the pledge of allegiance. >> 32. >> Thank you. >> Yes. >> We're going to go ahead and ask Dr. straighten over your heart to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic which stands a nation under God, indivisible and justice. >> Jason, is Nelson able to be on? Do we know if he's on? >> Don't see him on. Okay, if you could behind the scenes try to connect it, that'd be great. Thank you. >> All right, now we're on public comment. Thank you everyone for your patience. I
003do have six cards. Um, and just to let everyone know, uh, public comment is limited to 20 minutes. Each speaker will have three minutes, and we have six cards, so we're well within the 20 minutes. There is a time clock on the right hand side over here by Wendy for three minutes. So, please uh be mindful of the of the time clock and we look forward to receiving all of your comments. Um based on the Brown uh Brown Act and Robert's rules of order, we are not allowed or permitted to respond to the comments today, but your comments are welcome and we will definitely consider them. With that, we are going to start with our first speaker, um Levi Burge Wells. And I do apologize in advance if I pronounce a few of the names
004incorrectly. Please correct me as you come up. Thank you. Right. >> Good evening board members, superintendent, and community members. My name is Levi Barriia Wells. I am the labor relations representative for Weisburn Chapter 486 for the California School Employees Association representing classified employees here in the Weisburn School District. And we are here tonight to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the Weisburn Faculty Association because we ultimately share the same priority. Ensuring students and especially those in special education receive the sport, the support they need to thrive. Tonight, the teachers will rightfully be asking for increased staffing in more instructional aids in special education, and we fully agree. However, increased staffing alone is not enough. To hire and retain the right people for these critical roles, we need accurate, specialized job descriptions that
005reflect the unique responsibility of special education aids. Currently, Weisburn has only one instructional aid job description for all aids, whether they work in TK, general education, special education, or one-on-one intensive settings. This is not the norm. I represent four other school districts in the surrounding area, and other districts have separate classifications for special education, general education, and moderate to severe AIDS in various different structures. This distinction is important because clear specialized job descriptions firstly help us number one recruit well- suited candidates that these positions demand. Number two provide clarity and avoid confusion and conflict on duties which are essential for student safety and success and build a stable committed workforth workforce rather than relying on thirdparty contractors who cycle in and out without accountability to our students. For the past year, CSEA has been raising
006this concern to district administration, and we look forward to hopefully soon negotiating an updated special education instructional aid job description. This step will make it possible to meet teachers call for more staffing with qualified long-term employees who are invested in our student success. We urge the board to prioritize this work now because every day we wait is a day our students go without the consistent specialized support they deserve. so that together Ca and WFA can help make Wiseburn a model for collaboration and excellence. Thank you for your time. >> Our ne excuse me our next speaker is Kathleen Espa. I do apologize if I got the first name wrong. Uh um the topic is the need for more substitutes. Please come on up. >> Good evening, Dr. Silvers, Dr. uh Dooall, and members of the
007board, as well as the guests in the room and our online guests. My name is Kathleen Espa, and I'm a second grade teacher at Holly Glenn School. Teachers face countless small disruptions in our classroom each day. announcements, phone calls, behavior issues, unexpected meetings, fire drills, or technical glitches. Yet, we adapt. We adjust to maintain continuity and keep learning. Keep learning unexpected. Sorry. Keep learning moving forward for our students. However, when we are absent, the continuity often break down breaks down. Our classrooms need qualified, reliable substitute teachers who understand our systems, know our students, and can step in with confidence. Unfortunately, there are simply not enough substitutes available picking up our assignments, which directly impacts student learning. When an absence goes unfilled, there is often a scramble to find coverage. On those days, it's uncertain whether
008meaningful instruction will occur. Teachers frequently leave review packets rather than lessons knowing there is little chance of active teaching taking place. These lost learning days are becoming increasingly common across our schools. At the middle school level, unfilled absences mean teachers give up their prep periods to cover for colleagues. While they do this to support students, it reduces the time available for lesson planning, grading, and communication with families. This work then shifts into evenings and weekends, cutting into personal and family time to ensure their own students needs are still met. At the elementary level, we face similar challenges. One intervention teacher was pulled to substitute 11 times last month, 20 days for this year so far. 11% of the school year of lost services to our students. Finally, we strongly support a pay increase for our
009substitute teachers. This issue has been raised to the board before, yet our sub rates remain 20 to $50 per day lower than negotiating dis uh sorry, neighboring districts. As a result, we lose qualified substitutes to near nearby schools such as Hawthorne where they pay they may earn up to $1,000 more per month. Substitutes teachers play a vital role in maintaining continuity and supporting student learning. We respectfully ask that the board find a way to ensure reliable class coverage that does not automatically default to teacher cover teachers covering classes. Revisit substitute pay to make it competitive with surrounding districts and explore creating one or two permanent part-time roving substitute positions to ensure reliable classroom coverage. Thank you for your time and attention and continued commitment to supporting our students, teachers, and classrooms. Our next speaker, please
010Bonnie Olen. Uh, regarding classroom aids. Hi, my name is Bonnie Gene. I am from Holly Glenn Elementary and I teach kindergarten. Good evening, members of the board, superintendent, district staff, and online guests. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak tonight. I'd like to share a concern that I believe many of us have witnessed firsthand our classrooms urgently need more staffing support, especially in areas of instructional and sped aids. Over the past several years, classrooms have changed dramatically. Our student populations are more diverse and inclusive than ever before. We are supporting students with a wide range of academic, behavioral, and social emotional needs. Learning styles have often has have also shifted since co and teachers have adapted to new curricula technologies and instructional methods to keep students engaged and growing. At the same time,
011teacher responsibilities have expanded. Our days are filled with planning, instruction, meetings, interventions, data collection, and district initiatives. Teachers are working harder than ever to meet the needs of every student, but the level of support in our classrooms has not kept pace with these increasing demands. In the past, teachers could rely on strong support systems. Parent volunteers were a regular presence. Office staff and classroom aids helped with everyday tasks. Those supports allowed teachers to focus their energy where it matters most, teaching and connecting with students. Unfortunately, much of that support has faded. Changes in district policy have limited parent volunteers. Auxiliary staff have who once helped in classroom with sorry who once helped with classroom tasks left have and have not been replaced. Instructional aids are few and often pulled away for other duties. Likewise, special
012education aids and RBTs when assigned are sometimes reassigned during the day without notice, forcing teachers to make lastminute adjustments to lessons or testing. Many aids also need more training and consistency in their schedules to make effective support for our students, but it's unclear where the time for that training will come from. These gaps affect everyone. Teachers are stretched thin and the quality of instruction is inevitably impacted. We continue to give our best, but time and focus are divided among too many competing priorities. I want to shine a light on what's happening in our classrooms. We need more consistent instructional and sped aid support. Our aids need access to training and predictable schedules, and they deserve fair compensation to ensure we can retain them long term and build a strong Wiseburn family. Ultimately, we all share
013the same priorities and goals to ensure our students, teachers, and support staff have what they need to to succeed and thrive. Thank you for your time, attention, and continued to uh sorry, I couldn't talk continued uh commitment sorry to supporting our schools. Our next speaker is Maria Rodriguez and the topic is foundational grade level supplies. I want you to first notice that I'm wearing a purple turkey hat and not a brown turkey hat. Good evening board members, leaders, educators, community members, and online stakeholders. My name is Maria Rodriguez and I'm a kindergarten teacher at Holly Glenn School. As the Holly Gen Blend kindergarten team, we want to share some concerns regarding supplies that directly impact instruction in our grade level. It is our understanding that as of week four of the school year, we had
014already run out of many colors of construction paper with no plans to order more until November. In addition, we were running low on paint and our copy numbers were running out well before the end of each month. Because TK2 is a craft heavy projectbased grad, our instruction relies heavily on materials such as construction paper, paint, and copies, easily accounting for 50 to 75% of the of the way we deliver lessons. Without these essentials, we are limited in our ability to engage students in the handson, developmentally appropriate activities that are critical at this age level. For example, students are cutting shapes and gluing together projects. These activities support and extend overall fine motor strength. Our our site has seven TK, six kinder, six first and six second grade classes. So approximately 563 students use these materials
015to learn and build foundational skills daily. We are curious as to what has changed in our district's ordering or budgeting systems in the last two years as we have never encountered these shortages in the past. We want to ensure that whatever new processes are in place still allow for the consistent availability of fundamental supplies for for foundational elementary grades. team me team members were concerned that why by week four of the school year we had to ask parents to donate paper. This is not only unsustainable but feels inequitable and places an unnecessary burden on families. While we are we were not required to we chose to use our PTA grade level money in the 2425 school year to purchase construction paper rather than the rather than other instructional items as we had planned. This shifted
016funds away from enrichment and innovation in order to cover basic needs. Moving forward, it is our hope that the district ordering and alloc Thank you very much. Thank you. Our next speaker is Deb Davis. District funding is the topic. Please come on up. needs my backup if I don't make three minutes. >> I do have a slipper to observe. >> Uh good evening members of the board, superintendent, district leaders, education community. My name is Deborah Davis and I am a TK teacher at Holly Glenn Elementary. This is my 38th year of teaching and 33rd year in Weisburn School District. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight on behalf of teachers of this district. Over the past several years, the role of a teacher has tr transformed dramatically. And when I say several, I don't
017mean just a few. Probably about 10. Through every unexpected challenge, teachers have been the ones supporting students academically, emotionally, and socially. We adapted overnight to online learning. We welcomed students back after months of isolation. Worked tirelessly to rebuild community and restore confidence. We stepped in during staffing shortages, covered classrooms on our prep periods, and expanded our roles to include counselor, mentor, technology facilitator, mediator, and caregiver. And we did all of this because we are devoted to our students and to the district, a district that, though small, has earned an exceptional reputation in the education community. People across the region admire this district for its close-knit community, its high standards, and deep commitment to students. That reputation exists because teachers consistently go above and beyond. But while our responsibilities have multiplied, our compensation has not grown
018in a way that reflects the weight of that work or the value we bring to our students, our schools, and our community. During these se same years, we have seen significant financial growth at the top levels of district leadership. The superintendent had received compensation including raises, longevity increases, and signing bonuses. This year alone, the deputy superintendent received an 11.8 raise. Other administrative positions have also seen adjustments that reflect the district's desire to retain top level level leaders. Once again, this speech is not about criticizing anyone or suggesting that leadership is unworthy of compensation. Excuse me. The work of running a school district is important and we appreciate the guidance of our leaders provide. But the contrast in financial treatment is undeniable and it sends a message none of us can ignore. Over the same period
019in which administrators had received substantial increases, teacher had received amounts that barely kept place with inflation and rising housing cost. These increases have helped us survive, but they have not helped us get ahead. They have not recognized the expanded workload or the emotional labor of teaching through crisis after crisis. Our district's excellence cannot rest on the shoulder of a few administrators. It's built by teachers who greet students every morning, who create safe and creative creative learning spaces, who write lesson plans late into the night, who buy supplies out of their own pockets, who build relationships with families, and who care deeply about every child who walks through our doors. Our small district's outstanding reputation was not created by compensation packages. It was created by teachers, >> excuse me, by people. >> It's Dee Zerbal. >>
020Dee Zerbal, kindergarten teacher at Holly Glenn School. Um, continuing um, Deb Davis's statement, um, our small district's outstanding reputation was not created by compensation packages. It was created by people, by teachers, by pareducators, by support staff, by those who are closest to students every single day. If we want to maintain the excellence that we are known for, we must invest equitably in the people who make that excellence possible. This is not a call for confrontation. This is a call for alignment between what we say we value and what we financially support. A call for fairness, a call for sustainability, a call for recognizing that while leadership matters, the heart of this district will always be in the classroom. Teachers have proven their commitment. Year after year, challenge after challenge, we have stayed. We have served.
021We have given our best. Now, we ask the district to match that commitment with financial treatment that reflects the essential work we do and the essential role we play in protecting this district's reputation, stability, and future. Thank you for your time and for listening with the same care and integrity we strive to model for our students every day. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you everyone who spoke. Thank you for your comments and we would certainly take those all into advisement. Again, we cannot comment on the specifics of it. So, we will continue with our board meeting. you are certainly welcome to stay for the for the business that we have at hand as well. Okay. Our next topic is school site updates uh for and our first is Miss Summer Grace on aviation elementary.
022>> Oh, it should be agenda should be >> I have a different agenda. I just >> agenda. >> What am I? >> Okay. Hello. Good evening. Um, thank you for having me here. Whenever you're ready, Wendy, >> you're reading what you're doing. All right. >> So, I just wanted to pres present you with some updates and where we are >> when you're ready. >> Let's move on. >> Okay. Could please advance. Oh, okay. >> Oh, do I Oh, okay. >> Do I just Yeah. Okay. I'm not used to fancy things. Okay. So, >> it's slow. >> Okay. So tonight I'll be discussing reading, math, science, student wellness, and safety, which are all our priorities, but I'm kind of throwing a little bit in here because we're really working on school culture. So even though I
023know that that's not kind of like maybe the the data stuff you want to look about look at, but I want to talk about that, please. Can >> Oh, okay. So Oh, sorry. Okay. Uh and as I know you've already heard from Kiana uh Clark about what we're doing. So this is very similar. You know, we had our getting reading right professional development in the summer which I think we all got a lot out of and I talked to various teachers of different levels. It was really helpful for me, but I think that everybody uh felt like that was a really good use of our time. Uh and of course you're familiar with the fact that we're using Ire diagnostic data. Um it's really cool to me. I I I won't go too into this,
024but I just want to say I am very excited about everything I'm talking to you about because as a longtime teacher, I never had the opportunity to see things like disagregated by each specific skill. So, you know, it was kind of like, oh, I don't know. I, you know, looking at kids and I'm not sure what do I need to focus on. So, I think it's a really important um tool that we can use and I'm sure that you've seen the fact that it's a um assetbased which I think is so helpful too if you're working with students individually to start out with. You already know all of these things. Let's work on the things that you know you're need a little help in. So, we're excited about that. And of course, we are using
025this to track goals. And these are the the goals that we were talking about um that I think we all decided on that by the end of the year it would be basically all the way across the board 80%. Starting in phonics because that's where we see the need and then of course that's kind of enveloped in the comprehension piece. So we saw a consistent situation where we uh would like to raise the comprehension scores. Um so this is first grade. I won't I won't say this each time because I know it's really redundant, but you know, this is the same format for all of these slides, like what we're looking at. So, uh this is just to show you why we're talking about phonics being something we want to work on in first grade.
026Uh as you can see, the mid uh the mid tier, I'm sorry, first tier, second tier, third tier, where we are with that. And um obviously I know you've heard this before and I'm probably everybody knows here, but we're we're talking about the notion of just really trying to capture those students and just getting them just push them a little bit over. Yeah. So that's where we are with the first grade and then you'll see this trend. So we all are talking about second through fifth grade. We saw uh definitely a need with literature particularly as they get older. the need for informational text which I would say middle school teachers feel the same way. High school teachers definitely feel the same way because it is so helpful for all the other struct or the
027uh subjects that they're teaching. >> Jesse, I'm sorry. Can I just I had the same challenge with the last presentation as well. Sure. Understanding how tier one 23 6120 and 18% correlate to the colors on the screen. >> Okay, good question. So, um, when we're in it, so if I were to sit with you and I showed you what I Ready looks like, you can hover your cursor over each of those. So, that's representative of. So, um, I'm just talking about in this one comprehension overall. So, I'm breaking down the comprehension overall and those are the scores. So, if you look at the diagonal lines, um, that's mid or above in the green section. Okay? So you've got the mid or above would be the >> gotcha. The two greens are the 61, the yellow
028is the 20 and >> the same in our um presentation at the beginning of the year as well. We're calling those greens tier one, right? >> And then knowing the you know >> I'm remembering now it's just >> Yeah. No, that's a good question. And also that's kind of um >> when we're working we're we're usually using using those terms like the nomenclature for all this is kind of like that. So it's consistent. >> Thank you. >> Sure. Did I skip? I did. I just went right through. Sorry. Okay. Um, again, comprehension, that's what our focus is for third grade. Um, I'm just going to keep going and if you have questions, I mean, because it's all similarly laid out. And as you can see though, I think it's interesting like the funological awareness is
029gone because that's not what they're dealing with at that point. >> Um, fourth grade If you have questions, stop me. But I mean, you've seen this, I know, multiple times in fifth grade. And I think that for me when I was looking at this, the most important thing was that theformational text really needs some serious help in there. And again, now remember this is the beginning of the year, right? So this is like we've this is what your baseline is. So, um I think it's really amazing to be able to say to distinguish between the two as a teacher. That is really cool. I I think because that also of course is going to be reflected in science and social studies too because they need to be readingformational text. >> This one on this one
030here we see tier one tier two is 68% seems to be a drop off from fourth grade. It's not in the 80% drop. Is there is it has there been some analysis of why we see a drop offs from born to dead? >> No, not that I know of. I can ask that question. I don't know in like their TCT groups maybe that's something that they've been looking at, but I haven't heard why that's But it's an excellent point. I mean, it's I think for me because I really like weird nerdy data things, it's fun to look to toggle back and forth between the grade before and the grade after and just like why, you know, what was the thing? And I I don't think we've talked about specifically that. I I think I would
031speculate. I'm going to guess, but I think it's because the actual um content is more challenging. >> We could take a look at that and cut. >> Yeah. >> That'd be great. Thank you. >> Can you just clarify? So when you say you want to get to 80% proficient, >> is that 80% within tier one >> itself just tier one? So like we're at 33% but you're trying to get to 80. the diagonal is like above, right? Yeah. So, we just want to expand that out to 80%. Um, but again, like the thing that when I look at this, I'm like, "Oh my gosh, this huge numbers." We're only talking about like 14 people, right? So, it's like it's it's a little bit kind of confusing in that, but there's so much hope in that,
032right? Like, if you could just get those 14 kids over that hurdle, you're in. And there's momentum in it, too. like you said the yellows and that they were two days into fifth grade when they started this assessment. >> This was right at the beginning. It'll be interesting to see our other site >> for now not there's a comparison but just as a point of reference good question and observation are we seeing this this >> and that's informative >> and again I I know that you've already I had talked to Maggie about this and I know you're all you've seen a lot of how it appears but for us looking at this particularly if a teacher looks at you know I am going to look at Jesse Lubes and oh my gosh it breaks it
033down so carefully that It's just such a great use of your time, right? So you're not doing the things they're already really good at and a lot of them are really good at a lot of things. So math, you know that we've already same thing I ready and then we're of course continuing to work with our outstanding math specialist Holly Compton. She has helped us in so many ways. Um she comes in during our uh collaboration time and our coaching cycles to work with us and she's doing all kinds of other things with us and that I think are really helpful. She's leading all kinds of discussions. she's uh kind of like doing postmortems on stuff and like really helping us see what we might not see. Particularly, you know, we're going through our PLC
034process uh to help us narrow it and to help everybody recognize what are actually the essential standards because I know the teachers want to do really well. They want to do everything really well. So to kind of pull it back and say no, what are the essential ones that we have to guarantee Okay. So, similarly, it's that 80% number. I mean, it's ideal, right? It's a goal. Um, and I'm sorry, there's a typo on here. I I submitted this before I talked to Holly about it, but uh numbers and operations, algebraic thinking in first, numbers and operations in base 10, operations and algebraic thinking, operations and algebraic thinking, and fifth grade is actually numbers and operations the in base 10. Okay. um fifth grade teacher. >> Okay. Yeah, I know. I know. She's like, "Yeah,
035I look at her eyes." Uhhuh. So, similarly, you know, this is what we're focusing on. And the reason why is because math, I think, you know, obviously I think everybody knows that math is a little bit different. There are these skills that kind of circle around more than uh language arts, which kind of like adds. So number and operations was something that we saw uh that we wanted to be focusing on same with second grade and I know you already um had Kiana already presented right so you know you've seen all this so it looks really similar >> huh yeah but again like if anybody ever wants to come over to Delair and like use your cursor I mean it is you will just go into the rabbit hole of data stuff about this one
036back to number and operations and then our fifth grade. Right. So looking forward to um going into sixth, seventh and eighth grade with algebra and potentially geometry. So that's >> Jesse. I know this. First of all, thank you all for this. We're picking a goal and we're shooting for it. >> We've This is a goal out of educated but a little bit of thin air. Thank you for striving for. Is the 80% in math more ambitious than the 80% in ELA or are we are we being realistic? >> In my mind, I I think we are I think we are being realistic. Optimistic, but realistic. And the reason why I think um so as you guys know I'm I have a high school background so um I'm used to uh understanding so we would work
037together. I know I have a little like limited time Wendy so stop me because I could talk about this for a long time. So uh high school teachers generally take their uh they already know their essential standards and they backward map it from the get-go. That's how you plan. you plan with like your ninth grade group and your tth grade group and your 11th grade group. So that's kind of just how um I think most high school teachers think it's really kind of essential standards to begin with. I think that there's a tendency with elementary teachers. They want to do everything and they want to do it really well. So it stresses people out because they're thinking, "Oh my gosh, I have to do all this." So I think that this is a big paradigm
038shift to say yes you still can do all of these things and I know it's important to you but we really want to have this guaranteed curriculum that we are going to now because I know you have you know we're working on the report cards. So um this is going to align with report cards. So it's a really elegant solution to this and if we can all get on that same page with like it's okay we're really focusing on this and I know that Dr. Silvers was in Arizona um looking at it. Was it a whole one school or was it a group of schools? >> You're taking away my fun. >> Sorry, I won't I I won't spoil it. I'm just going to like just touch on it. Okay. So, I mean >> so
039I mean the it's it's like ultimately it's going to be a really big paradigm shift. But but to answer your question, the notion of 80. Yeah. Because again, you know, this is only pushing a couple kids over the finish line. And if it's only, you know, not only, it's still a lot. I'm not saying that like, oh, they only have to teach it to you, but but to to lessen the like uh emotional burden and the stress of like I have to do everything. No, you should do the things you do typically, but these are the things that are the guaranteed pieces, and that's what we're looking at in the PLC process to make sure we're getting it right. Does that answer your question? >> It does. Thank you. Go team. >> Go team. Some
040of them are here. >> Um, okay. So, and of course we have for science, we've got our steam lab, which is amazing. And the kids, I think, all really enjoy it. When I walk in there, they're super engaged. They're always doing cool stuff. Every time I go in there and I sit down, like I'll sit on the floor with them and they're doing stuff. I'm like, "Why are you doing this?" They always know why they're doing it. They're always doing cool things that they want to tell me about. They're excited about it. And it is really fun to watch. And of course, you know that it's that practical application of of collaboration, which we all know going into college and graduate school and beyond, the workplace is increasingly collaborative. So I and I I have
041seen this many many times. They're really working together legitimately. It's not like I don't know what, but when I was in school, there was like the one kid who would do all the work and the rest would be like I don't know what's going on. They are all invested in this and it's fun. But I know you guys have all come out there. So I I would like to have you come out as much as you like. So I just made this for fun. But this is to me what is the most exciting part for my brain. So when I look at all of this to really have us focus on these essentials, we are having we are working with professional learning communities um to discover what they are. We've already identified them. We're working
042to take data, see how it goes and talk about it, collaborate about it. And then we also have the I ready diagnostic assessments which are going to be data that we use for that part to help us informed what we are going to be doing with our asset and stand I mean I just did both because they are assetbased report cards and their standards based report cards and they're going to connect to what they are learning exactly and it's going to be helpful for parents to understand where they are in this >> right okay tell me because you know me with a microphone. Okay. And of course I in the spring I came to you and we were talking about the culture change and I'm really working hard on changing the culture. And so this
043has been something that um our teachers have embraced. We are adding different things as we see that they would be helpful. Um you know we use our capturing kids hearts as you know about. Um and then we have our SWS lessons. We have assemblies. Um, we're looking at changing those because we had a little uh mishap with our speakers that we were doing it outside, but then another teacher suggested, why don't we do it on Zoom the way Holly Glenn does. So, that I think we're revisiting and I think that that would be really helpful. We had our student council elections and that was like a big hit because they were I walked out and they're like, I saw you. I saw you. I'm like, yeah, you see me every day. But apparently it was
044really interesting to have people um on that screen and and everybody can hear us and if it's a rainy day, we have a place for them. So in any event, these are the things that we're working on. And the last part of this is celebrations. And I did have a student who was going to be coming here tonight, but we thought that it was maybe going to be too long. You know, he didn't probably want to stick around, but his name is Samuel Martin, and he's awesome, and he's our student council president. So he'll be here in the spring. He's so cute. I don't know if they're watching. Martin family. Um, okay. So, you know, the celebration piece. >> Shut up. >> Um, okay. And again, to reiterate, school culture. This is what we're really
045as a group working on. um having more community involvement uh having our student council have more responsibilities and leadership roles to be doing things with the other students. We have a Zero the hero who comes around today. I saw her and she was walking around with her cape and her thing and like so basically she's going to class to class to explain what's going on, right? But it's fun because she's an older student and the little kids are like, "Oh, you're so old. You're amazing." Oh, that's fun. Um, I'm starting this. Uh, so we had the the students who ran for student council and of course the majority of them did not get elected, right? So I'm taking those kids because they've they've clearly expressed a desire to be in leadership roles. We're going to
046have an advisory committee with them. Um, so then we can have coffee or not coffee, hot chocolate. I'll have coffee there. I I promise I'm to the camera. I'm not feeding your kids coffee in the morning. Um, but we will have, you know, refreshments and just have them be a part of really hearing what they have to say. How are things falling on you guys? What's going on? Um, and of course, school site council and safety, which I I put this in the celebrations part because I want to thank Dr. Silvers particularly because um he listened and he got right on it with helping us figure this out because this has been the bane of my existence since the minute I got to the school. And you know we can't control people's behaviors necessarily but
047looking like Sofi Stadium has killed it. Like everyone's so excited. Now in the beginning it was some rough going and Dr. had to talk to some people about that, but they came to see that this is really helpful. And I've had a lot of people come to tell me, "Thank you for doing this." And you live right there, right? I mean, it was wild in the beginning, but it's so placid now. And and I get to be out there waving instead of going, "Don't do that. Don't um it gets a little dicey in the afternoon, but luckily we have more people out there. Um we have uh many more adults. we've kind of like moved people around and tried to figure out how to do that. Um, but again, I've heard so many way more
048positives than negatives and so we want to keep it going. So, thank you for that and I invite you to come um to we this um Dr. Nushim Faladay is amazing. She's a speaker where uh we had to postpone her till January. she thought it was helpful or more helpful they do this whole goal setting the fourth and fifth graders that's going to be in January because she thought it was make more sense like new year new you kind of a thing um then we have stone soup if you want to pop by the first graders do a fun thing where they've got a little feed you know stone soup right the story so it's fun and then we have our our music performances and I just want to say publicly thank you for our
049PTA PTA. We have an amazing PTA and we're working very hard on bringing more people in. We had a PTA meeting last night. Uh we do like a hybrid Zoom and in person. So many people are involved. Um it's it's growing and I'm really excited about that. Um Ed foundation of course and I I do want a little shout out to Miss Downer because she has helped so much in she does everything for student council. So, you know, we had sandwiches with all the people who uh were even running for it and they, you know, it's just fun. It's just it's it's a neat thing to have them be interested in just all the workings of the school. So, that's it. Thank you. >> Any questions from the board or Jess? Thank you very always.
050Great to hear the good news. Thank you. >> Next on our agenda, we'll go to board member comments. And I'm going to start on my left hand side with Rebecca. >> Thank you, Roger. Uh just a couple of items. I'm going to start with I attended the recent LAXA uh meeting on behalf of the district uh on behalf of the board uh the LA County School Trustees Association um meeting. We got an update on um some bills that uh the governor had signed uh as well as legislation that the CSBA had um advocated for. And there were a couple of them that I just wanted to mention. Um you guys will recall that last year we adopted a stipen for um board members um and there was an uh a bill that was passed AB1390
051that um uh requires an increase in the uh or increases the maximum uh amount of uh available for stipens. So just wanted to um ask that we make sure that whatever our um policy is is in line with that new legislation. AB1390. >> You wanted to bring that back into the draft. >> Yes. I just did any uh a review of the of the current policy and make sure that it's in line with AB1390. Um there was also a uh a bill SB 374 that um ch eliminated the IDEA part B addendum for the LCAP and extended the deadline to submit some reports. So again, just want to make sure that um we've that our policies are in line with those. Um I think there was one other one. Just one second. Trying to scroll
052through here. Oh yes, school board member training. The governor signed into law AB640, which uh requires that LEA all LEA board members receive training in public education school finance laws. Um and so um want to make sure that we have the opportunity to um receive whatever that training is that's now required >> funded by the governor. >> I don't know I don't know what it uh what uh I don't have the specifics of it. I just note that it's a it's a new bill um that uh that we just need to >> it doesn't uh the the information that I have doesn't provide a lot of details about it. Um uh and then the last one was AB772 which requires eleas to modify existing policies or adopt new policies on addressing cyber bullying that incurs
053during non-school hours and off-campus. Um and it requires the CDE to adopt a model policy. Um, so just again, um, want to make sure that those were bills that were all signed into law by the governor, um, that we've, uh, reviewed and, uh, make sure that our policies are in line with those new, uh, pieces of legislation, uh, whenever they are supposed to come online. Um, and then, uh, just a couple notes. Um, I thought that at our last meeting that we had agreed to continue bringing forward resolutions each month, but I didn't see the November resolutions on the agenda >> for November. No, the native the Native American Heritage Month, Military Family Appreciation, and National School Psychologist Week. Those were the ones from last year. Should those have been So, anyways, I just Can
054we >> We did them, right? >> Did we do them in October? Okay. All right. I just wanted to make sure they It just felt weird because there wasn't anything on here. So, okay. >> Then December we do for January. >> We don't have any designated for December. Okay. >> Ones like that. Okay. >> Celebrate like general traditions as their um like community building lesson for the month about just general traditions where they're able to discuss kind of what their culture is like and what they do at home. community building in that way. >> Okay. Thank you for clarifying. Um and then I just wanted to say we're getting ready for Thanksgiving and it is National uh Native American Heritage Month. Um and so just want to make sure that we're remembering that um that
055a lot of our Native communities consider Thanksgiving actually a time of mourning for them. Um and just a reminder that there is genocide and violence that's experienced by our native communities both in the past and ongoing. um and that it just is important for us to be incorporating the full picture of um of uh Native American heritage into our lessons and projects and activities um to just ensure that we get that um completeness. I had the opportunity to go to um aviations uh fifth grade uh Native American uh displays a couple weeks ago and uh it was really beautiful to see just the variety of ways in which the students had interpreted uh each of the different tribes that they had been given and um really uh fascinating. lots of weapons in there, but the
056ones that were really interesting were the ones that were like the foods and tools and all of that. It was really, really, really sweet. Um, so anyways, um, I'm glad that we we're were doing those kind of activities across our classroom to just raise awareness and remind us. Um, and then lastly, just again, since this month is uh our military family appreciation month, just to uh recognize and thank all of the um students and families within our district who are military families with LA Air Force Base straight across the street. We know there's many of them in our community. Um, and as someone who grew up in and around the military, um, I know and have seen firsthand the dedication of these families, spouses, children that they make, um, for their service members, whether they're
057serving here or abroad. Um, and I know that this year in particular has been trying for um, a lot of folks both here and abroad. Um, and so just want to take a minute to recognize those sacrifices that they all make for us. >> Thank you, Rebecca. >> Y, >> thanks for being show >> you. Um, I, uh, was able to, uh, be the representative and attend the W uh, the Wise Education Foundation meeting. Um they just had their parent party the past this past week and I did not get to attend but I heard it was a lot of fun. Um it was a really really fun theme. Um and I just want to acknowledge how much work goes into uh what this group does. It's all volunteers and it's a nice tight-knit group.
058um always looking for more help but is the work that they do is so important and it you know I share their frustration sometimes when you know they don't feel like their their reach is enough because they just want to give so much um and so frustrations around um you know just visibility and trying to be everywhere all at once and so I just wanted to make sure that um I said I I gave the plat their platform here in the sense of um you know it what they do for our district is so monumental and they're so quiet about it. Um and so um I just wanted to make sure that that that was brought to light. We are they are in the middle of their annual campaign. Uh one of the main ways
059that they uh fund raise money for the district and so they're extending it another week. So if you have not given to that you know a lot of discussion around you know things times are tough and we're you know we're asking for a lot but um you know this is again one of the ways that benefits um our district directly. um some uh so as far as the annual campaign as well there's also like other fundraising opportunities December 13th they're having a Kendra Scott um fundraiser event um where purchases go towards Ed Foundation um and then kind of the more traditional fun things that they do um like the bear bazaar um they're co-sponsoring the bear uh or doing that along with and it's supposed to be more um not just Holly Glenn but kind
060of across the community uh with the silent auction on December 6th. Um uh sponsoring a community coffee uh over at the middle school on Friday the tomorrow from 8:30 to 9:30 and they're going to have Da Vinci um speakers uh to speak more about the high schools and um stargazing January 30th. So lots of things like they work tirelessly to have these community events for our uh to bring us together to have awareness. Um, and I just wanted to make sure that people were aware of them and all the hard work that they do. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Michelle. Next, we'll go to Neil. >> Thank you, Roger. >> I just want to do a shout out to the people who spoke tonight. Um, the greatest thing we can have in a community
061is passionate people who care and differences of opinion make us learn and make us better. So, thank you for sharing those views. Thank you for educating us. Thank you for letting us hear. Can we do everything we want to do? No. But we certainly can hear and try to make progress. And that's I can commit and I think I'm speaking for everybody on the board that we'll we'll hear and we'll listen and we'll talk about it, see what we can do. So, thank you for those comments. Um, separately, uh, thank you to Maggie. I mentioned I happened to run into you today in the parking lot, but I had asked you to send me the articles on the grading and I think Maria, if she's still here, made a presentation on that and moving and
062I was a skeptic uh because I was had some concerns and you forwarded me some of the research and I explored that research in some depth uh and from that you learn and uh I'm on board. So, thank you. Appreciate that. Or Blake I should say. I'm on board. So, there you go. Um, I would like us to I we had a Roger may mention this as well. Roger and I had a good meeting with the Da Vinci two two members of the Da Vinci board and uh Dr. Wonder, Dr. Silvers this morning and uh you may have heard the Vicky Barber presentation a number of weeks ago on kind of reconciling our finances and I'm pleased to report we're making some really good progress on that and um good things are happening between Wismer
063and Da Vinci. A lot of great joint efforts. You mentioned them coming in. So, I just it's a good moment. It's we're really moving forward. It's a really good time between our two organizations and uh working in partnership. It's really good. Um I also wanted to mention some of the awards we've not we but the the district has gotten uh schools to watch, innovative schools, US News. Uh I'm I'm going to get this one wrong. The economic forum. You'll you'll correct me, Blake, but >> I'm sorry. >> I will. >> Yeah. Good. Please do. Please do. >> You said you're still thundering that it's a second person. >> All right. Fair. It's all good. It's all good. Um, the spirit's there. That's what counts. Um, and that comes from the collective work that was mentioned
064by some of our speakers this evening. >> Thank you all for making that happen. And then the last thing I wanted to mention is I'd like to hear where we are on speaking of the Da Vinci and Weisman Partnership on the profile of a learner andor profile of a graduate which I kind of prefer that term. How are we doing on with our changing world with the accelerating pace of change with innovation with all these things? How are we seeing what the light ahead looks like for our students and are we getting them there? I love what we're doing with PLC and all the things we're doing and we should have a clear picture of what we're trying to get to at the end of the game. So, I ask us to get an update
065on that. Oh, yeah. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Richard. >> Thank you, Neil. Um, thank you for mentioning our partnership and meetings with the Da Vinci schools. Um, we did have a very productive meeting today. I think over the next couple months, we'll be seeing some items come to the board. Staff is going to be in development of the the future plus program. We have an agreement in terms of the management of that program as we move forward. There's also governance issues and facilities issues um and cost associated with those and governance. So, making a lot of great progress on a lot of those ends. uh there'll be some action items on the Weispur board uh agenda for review and approval, but also on the Da Vinci board. So, really looking forward to continuing
066that dialogue with the our counterpart our uh partners over at Da Vinci. Um regarding the comments I've made tonight that thank you again for all of those that came to the board to speak with us. Thank you for sharing all of your thoughts. Unfortunately, we can't comment during that session, but please know that we heard the comments and it is a um it is a challenge to balance all of the different needs within the district and really appreciate you bringing those forward as you are teachers out in the classroom and we'll certainly look at those. So, thank you again for coming forward tonight and please know that you're always welcome to bring all any of those items to us to our attention. And if you feel that it we may not know about those, we
067certainly welcome those comments and we look forward to working with you to resolve all of those items. And lastly, I wanted to say um very happy Thanksgiving to everyone as we're getting ready to uh to to to break for the holidays. There's a lot of great uh uh time that's to come with family and friends. So, I definitely wish you a wonderful holiday break and I look forward to to when we get back and also future board meetings and communications. With that, we're going to continue on with district leadership reports and our first report. I'm going to turn it over to uh Sean for our business official for an update. Yes, I will um just add that we are currently completing work on our fiscal year 2526 first interim budget report that we will be
068bringing to the board at our next meeting in December uh for approval. So the first interim budget report will incorporate any changes since uh budget adoption which was back in June. So we'll include updates from the actual uh state budget adoption which was adopted after uh we adopt our our budget. So we'll incorporate those changes >> of course just the typical process for that. Um any changes um kind of in regards to enrollment uh staffing um it'll also incorporate um our actual expenditures and revenues today as of the end of October. So 10:31. Um so definitely a lot of a lot of changes to come that we'll see reflected in the first interim budget report. And so again that will be presented in December and we will just kind of highlight a lot of those
069um important notable uh changes and differences from the adopted budget uh to the first interim reporting >> and all the changes are exceptionally good right >> a lot of positive changes from the state from the state uh budget passage. We were really looking for a yes. >> Thank you, Sean. Thanks, Sean. >> Great. Next, we're gonna I'm gonna turn to Maggie for >> I'll go ahead and begin with our math update. We had our last elementary math family night and it was on game five of the World Series and we still had over a hundred families appear at 5:00 at night. >> Some dads had a headphone. lots of phones out and they were trying to interact with kids, but it was just such a magical evening. We had the most Da Vinci volunteers being
070that we had more stations. We had over 20 stations um in the Delair um cafeteria area and it was just like such a great event to see our high school kids. First of all, there are some friendships formed at Da Vinci's above above the schools because they volunteered for all three nights. They all know us now. I'm getting these volunteer hours. So, it was such a great opportunity for them as well as so many of the staff members at Delera came out and celebrated their students and their families, you know, from earning a math passport and just learning how to interact with math in just very simple ways at home and just having it be part of a conversation at home that it typically isn't. And so, I want to thank you to Miss Loops
071and her staff as well as Holly Compton and the Da Vinci staff. Um, Carla Levenson and appreciative for all the volunteer work that she did to really get these nights rolling. So, that was awesome. And we have final approval from the state of California on the secondary math textbook list that was supposed to come out in March of 2020. Remember that list from the math paperwork finally passed and didn't November of 2025. So, our middle school staff is very excited and we are rushing the process of a hopeful adoption with your approval in May May or June of uh 2026 and are going to be piloting two tools um in the winter and spring of 2026 with um Amplify Desmos and um Eureka Square. And so those were the two that we narrowed it down
072with in our first meeting. And um we are going to be doing 10 weeks of each of those curriculas, the entire MAP team at the middle school. So, thank you to them and to Miss Compton and Miss Waldberg for the organization of that because we're going to see great things happening with those new tools and our students and our and our um staff member fans. >> And then our fall cohort of getting reading right, we are one our next board meeting is the last night or day five and we will have our entire elementary staff trained. So, our eight members that have been going in the fall have just been so fantastic and it is not easy to be out of your classrooms and they've come and said like how much they've learned from being
073in this training. Um, you know, really moving the state is moving away from whole language and bringing in the science of reading and making sure that our teachers have that knowledge base is is just incredible to see the things happening with it. And then I do I would like to give a big bravo to the Wiseburn design team that has been working. We had our staff development day on November 10th and you know listening to staff feedback and surveys was you know asking for time with the with this kind of new report card that we're dealing with and each department and grade level broke down with design. We met as a collective, you know, just to review the philosophy that we had built and each grade level broke down with the structure of a report
074card and was led by the design team members um you know with administrators in the room but definitely more in the background and led just wonderful conversations and then they came together in grade level bands and shared the progress that they had amongst their you know TK to two and then three through five and then at the middle school and then we ended the day with you know our report cards are on the assessments that we built and so we designed designed like uh we asked each grade level to design a brand new assessment that they've never done before. You know, be creative, use AI, create something. And then we did what was called the SLAM where all the staff came together and people from different grade levels came up and shared their new knowledge
075base. So, we created a hub for all of these new types of assessments that we're going to be asking our staff to do when we move to our report card. So plea uh thank you to all those members that put themselves out there. The extra hours studying the presentations that we had put together and really leading their own staff members in conversations is is so exciting to see. And then the last one is we have another AXO winner here in Wisburn Unified. Noah Torres from the SLC was selected as the South Bay co um cohort uh every student succeeds winner. So he is going to be represented at a dinner on no on December 2nd and he's our South Bay region winner. So there'll be there's 14. So it's so exciting to see. So my
076hope is to invite him and you all to to to a meeting to congratulate him in person. >> Great. And Roger, sorry you're done, right? Okay. Um just for for time sake, I I realize um ironically that the technology is not very intuitive. Nelson's actually on. We just can't see him. So, I'm wondering maybe we go to Mon'nique and then swing back after that to Nelson for a comment. Sure. Just I didn't want I since it's not real visible, >> I just wanted to bring that up. >> Um just a brief update on Capturing Kids Hearts. We recently had um four days worth of visits from our Capturing Kids Hearts coaches. One was our districtwide coach. Um so I meet with that coach regularly. We were able to tour the school, tour the schools and
077assess pro progress, speak with principles about strategies, what was um seen and also um speak with some teachers and some students. Each site visit was a little bit different based on the site's needs and discussions with the principles which was helpful. Um but we got some really great feedback. Obviously strengths at each of the sites on what everyone's doing and the progress it's being made, the practices that are being implemented. Um also suggestions for strategies moving forward and supports. Um but some great feedback that um a few of our schools um our district coach believes that um they'll qualify as national showcase recognition schools um which is like cal um capturing kids hearts kind of model schools and so um we're on the right track. That's a great thing. Um so that was one day
078as I mentioned and then there were three days of visits with our site level coach. So that coach meets with the principles monthly. Um and the site visits just kind of help bring all of that to life. Right? So the coach can come again work with the principles based on these specific um days that are scheduled or days that are scheduled based on needs visiting classrooms talking with teachers talking with students and again just kind of working with the principles to reflect see what's happening in real time and provide feedback that then the principles can take back to the counselors and the teams teachers to help um with implementation. >> Thank you Monique. Do Kim, do you have an update today? >> I Yeah, just a quick one. I just wanted to give um again,
079we're doing a lot of shout outs tonight to um the my special education team across the district. Um November is a hard month for our teams just because there's a lot to get done. There seems a lot that converges at that time and it's a short month. So, we have to get a lot in on a fewer days. And so, that requires a lot of flexibility with the teams, Jenna, teachers, conferences. because there's a lot that has to happen and they really have just risen to the occasion and every day come prepared to meetings ready to go with parents and um it really matters and I just want to give them credit for the work that they're doing day in day out. Um and just a followup for I shared that we had our WFA
080spend committee meeting in October and just as an outcome of that um that initially was created as a committee through anou um with the district and um as a committee we felt that it was a valuable space for us to have conversation and dialogue and discussions about the concerns that are um happening in our district with special education. And so as a group, we've recommended that this continue, not through anou, but more the standing committee. Um, so that's something that will hopefully be fleshed out as we move forward, but we're very excited by the fact that we have people that are really committed. It's been a very productive space and so um I'm encouraged by that as we move forward. >> Great. Thank you, Kim. Next, we'll go to Dr. Doo. >> Now to our
081district superintendent, Blake, >> or were you gonna wait for Nelson Brown for me? He has not just do that. >> Uh, okay. Just uh quite a few um updates today. First, I just want to um I want to thank Kim Jones um and the special education team. Just uh you know, knowing the the just just how dynamic and fluid this program has been over the years, the ability to to to kind of navigate and to be flexible. Um I appreciate it. So, thank you for for the work um that you do. you know, I have to be careful asking her how she's doing on a given day. It's um unfortunately more often um not a great day, but but we're uh but she does it with a smile. It's not a great day with a
082smile. So, I I appreciate that. Um just wanted to to acknowledge it. Also had a chance um over the last couple weeks to do one-on-one visits um at each of our sites. I did get to all four sites. Um was able to talk to to teachers at each of those sites and just appreciate those that took the time to come and and share issues, challenges, all of those things with me. so that we can sort of operationalize support um and move forward. Uh just uh I find some really nice meetings, really productive. So appreciate um the time that folks spent to uh to share their concerns. Um just yesterday we returned and a team of us went to Arizona State University as part of a partnership um with the school of education and the next
083education workforce um project or initiative um happening out of Arizona State. sort of a a reook at how uh teaming works. I've shared that with the board before and how teacher teams um can um really eliminate teacher burnout, can um work on on better recruitment strategies, retention um and and certainly from that leading to better student outcomes um over time. And so just was a great opportunity to talk to Dr. Carol Basile who's the the dean there as well as other uh leaders and and thought leaders in that area at Arizona State Researchers and so forth. So a really really cool opportunity um ahead for us on uh December 18th. Um as I shared with this board um I'll be traveling to Detroit, Michigan for the Alice training um reertification for instructors. As you know,
084I've been the um trained person in the district. Uh this year Ted Okasinski will come. So, we'll have a couple just have to build that redundancy um and have our active shooter violent violent intruder type response all ironed out. It's kind of strange that you know I see you shaking your head Dr. Goldman. It's strange that we have to do this but unfortunately we have to do this. Um so, we are uh really looking forward to to going out there reertifying um and be able to bring back some of the latest and you know um support that that we can for those types of issues. primarily looking um at a lens with how to train students. This has been something that um I don't want to say we've avoided. I've avoided uh but it's certainly
085a hard conversation starter, you know, to to bring this to students. So trying to figure out how we can differentiate that. Um not scare TK students with it, you know, our kinder students with it, but >> scare board members. >> Yeah, we're scared members. Um anyway, I think there's some uh some work that we have to do there. Also, um want to want to share uh Dr. Goldman is the educational result results partnership. That's the name of it. Um and this year it was um for the first time the district was acknowledged as well. So we've had schools in the past. This year it was the district. It was aviation Delair and Weisburn Middle School um were all were all acknowledged. Holly Glenn because of um uh lack of test scores was was the reason
086why it hadn't hasn't been acknowledged. But nonetheless um those that qualified this year uh made it. So congratulations. you know, it's just another uh you know, nice recognition for us. Want to talk a little bit about facilities. No is not here today, so it won't be two hours. It'll be just five minutes maybe, but I'm gonna she'll go back and listen to that. >> The yoga will not end. But um I want to highlight um the baseball field at 135, I'm sorry, at Delair, the the high school baseball field. really want to thank Sheree and No, Miguel, Greg for their diligence on on a field that really wasn't looking good. You know, when we first saw it after it was, you know, supposed to be completed, and I say that with quotations. Um, it just
087wasn't looking really good. And now we're in a position where u it's looking really nice. Starting to come along. I mean, it's been raining pretty bad, so you know, obviously that's just the part for the course, but really looks nice. They filled a lot of the a lot of the indentations or the or the the depressions with sand, rolled it out. Um we're looking at a pretty uh pretty nice field. You know, I think uh had a chance to walk it a week week and a half ago with u some of the baseball folks and I think them seeing it as well and seeing the progress was was very uh made them very optimistic. We did lose a few weeks on the sports complex as I'm sure you could probably imagine with all the rain.
088the sports complex that was initially targeted to be done January 31st is now targeting a midfebruary um you know we we lost about 14 days so midFebruary I know has shared that she's going to try and really push to get some of that you know make up some of that time but obviously with the inclement weather chances are are probably highly likely we're going to continue moving the wrong direction um but then look forward to getting together with the teams youth groups our youth sports uh you know partners ers um our schools so that we can figure out use of that field. It's a big field. There's a lot of desire uh for the field and we haven't really been able to dive into that yet. So I know Sean's working with us and so
089forth on that. Um and with that just want to you know wish everybody happy Thanksgiving, happy week off um all all the good stuff that you get to enjoy with family and friends and those things. Thank you. That's all I have today. >> Thank thank you Nelson. Thank you Blake Jason. Can you uh please uh bring up Nelson for his comments please? >> I'm here. Good evening everyone. Um sorry I couldn't be here in person uh today. I'm a little bit under the weather. Um but if there's one time I appreciate going last, it's tonight because all my comments have been covered by my colleagues. So thank you. Blake stole my Blake stole my thunder. Um, so I just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a a uh wonderful, healthy, and safe Thanksgiving
090holiday. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you, Nelson. And Rebecca, did you have a comment? >> I just have a question. >> Sure. >> Um, like for the for the sports complex, um, I think we've talked about this, but I just want to say publicly, I want to make sure that when we do whatever ribbon cutting or grand opening thing or whatever that we're inviting our other uh, local elected officials um, to be part of that. So just um to keep us posted when the uh date gets set. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's a good question, Rebecca. We actually there's emails floating right now because now that we have an ended site, it's not quite the end we wanted. You know, it's moving, but Nick Nick at the left has reached out as well because they want
091to help co-sponsor it. But once we get that date set, then certainly have a list of all the electeds that will some local and some the state level. Also, just one thing, this is don't mean to be so out of the blue here, but the charging stations at our various sites have gotten some questions on those. We have a timeline on those. >> Yeah. Um, probably we're looking at best case scenario probably February, March. Um, there's just a lot of paperwork that entails like we have to submit a a large worksheet back. So, we go back and forth with the company. Um, so we're about a third of the way through it. Um, and then we'll we'll get that and hope once that happens, we're up. So, so I mean we're we're closeish. Um, you
092know, obviously I we had um recommended to the board and and that we um offer free charging between certain hours. So, we have to set that up. So, that's in the process now setting those parameters and and going from there. >> So, I think >> Yeah. No, it'll be a code that a staff member would have and be able to use. So, um, basically maybe Sean, can we put that on? Maybe get an update, um, in December. We can get a more realistic end date. >> We'll get you a realistic update on December. In December. Great. What the actual like to give some answers? >> Sure. >> Thank you. Thank you, Wendy. We are on item seven of our agenda for public comment on items on the agenda. Do we have any um any public
093comments? I do not have any. >> Okay. Thank you. Moving on to section eight, which is the consent agenda. Is there a motion for item 8.1 to approve items 8.2 through 8.13 that are on the agenda? >> So move. >> You have a second. >> Any comments or questions or discussion on any of these items? Okay. hearing none. There's a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. Motion carries 50. >> Section nine is action items. The first item is item 9.1 is to approve memorandum of understanding between Wisburn uh USD and CSEA and its chapter 486. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. Any comments or questions? >> Just what was the genesis here? >> Uh the genesis for theou came really from the library clerks um
094the additional hours they got every June and every August. And so when we met we decided it would be a better option to actually um formalize it into their work year. And so they a they can better plan for their own breaks. Um and we can also better plan what work would be done those first two weeks of school and the last two weeks after school. >> Great. Thank you. There's a motion in a second. All those in favor? >> I I motion carries. Don't see Nelson on, but I believe it's >> there. >> I said I >> Okay. It's the volume's low so thank you. Motion carries 5-0. Item 9.2 is to approve the single plan for student achievement for Deler Elementary, Aviation Elementary, Holly Glenn Elementary Schools, and for Weisburn Middle School for
09520 for the 2025 26 school year. Is there a motion? >> You have a motion and a comment. Okay. >> Second. >> Thank you, Neil. Thank you, Jesse. Thank you to your fellow principles for all the work that goes into this. I know this is a daunting task. Um, two things I was thrilled to see on here. One is that we've incorporated and built it around our asurances, which is fun to see that we're living to what we said is foundational elements of the of our entire district. And the second was as part of your presentation this evening, we saw goals throughout. Um, what I don't know, and I think it's more of a question, is how will we see the progress on those I'll turn that to Maggie or or whomever. >> So part
096of that you'll see with the LCAP midyear report. So well it's going to be our presentation on the California dashboard. We're going to tie it all into one big presentation and then our middle of the year diagnostic um overview and the LCAP overview. So there'll be an update then which is going to be scheduled for like the end of January, beginning of March and then each of our schools is going to present again in the spring. So they'll be giving an update from their middle of the year diagnostic of where they're at towards achieving the their particular goals. >> Okay, great. >> I just want to reemphasize this is a >> cultural shift, a different way of doing business here and I know we've taken a stab at these goals and >> I'm ecstatic that
097we're moving towards measurable outcomes and super exciting. So thank you. Thanks to all the teachers. Exciting to see. Appreciate it. Wendy, I think um sorry, Roger, just because we have one trustee that's that's I think we should roll call vote. It just probably would be easier for record. Um I think that's actually a it may be a requirement, so let's just do it for the rest of you. >> Okay, there's a there's a motion and a second. Wendy, would you please take roll call? >> Dr. Goldman, >> I. >> Miss Cappy, >> I. >> Miss Legatsby, >> I. >> Mr. Ben Willows, >> I >> Mr. Martinez. >> I >> thank you. Motion carries 5. Moving to section 10, action items for facilities. Item 10.1 is to approve amendment number eight for Delair Elementary School
098at the transition of K or a transitional kindergarten playground project for architectural design services with Corgan to be paid out of measure EE funds. Is there a motion? And I'd like to make a motion for 1013. >> Motion on 10.12 10.3. >> I'll second that. >> Any comments or questions? >> Just that's fun to see what what's the name you have for the current structure at at Dair. >> I'm not saying that. >> Okay. >> I'm not saying that. >> He baited me on that. We're growing. We're growing. We're We're making it better. >> There you go. >> Well, on that note, I'm going to call the question really quick so we can move on. Wendy, would you please take role on that? On items 10.1 through 10.3, please. >> Mr. Gatsby, >> I. >>
099Dr. Baldman, >> I >> Mr. Benos >> I >> Mr. Martinez >> I >> thank you. Motion carries 5. Moving to section 11 for fiscal to approve additional funds uh with RCM H health care services. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> A second. >> Second. >> Any comments or questions? Hearing none. Wendy. >> Yes. >> I. Dr. Coleman. >> I. >> Mr. Benos. I >> Miss Tappy >> I. >> Mr. Martinez >> I >> thank you. Motion carries 5-0. Um Blake, any uh upcoming dates and events before I um we journ. >> Sure. Um you know a couple obviously uh Thanksgiving break is coming up. That is a a week of holiday week. So the offices are closed across the district. Um I just hope everybody enjoys that time. We'll have more. Our
100next meeting is on December 11th and at that meeting we'll have more dates because we'll have all the winter uh concerts. We'll send those to you prior. We'll make sure you get them sooner than that, but we'll have those on the agenda for the next one. Um it'll culminate well it may not culminate but there will be the larger um assemblies performances will be at the middle school. It's over two nights to manage crowds and so forth. So really excited about that. We'll get those to you. >> That's it. >> Excellent. Okay. Um, thank you everyone again for everything you do day in and day out that makes We Wismer just a little bit better every day. Thank you and I hope you have a fantastic happy Thanksgiving. Um, and we are going to adjourn
101to a second closed. Thank you very much.