Board Meeting 2/13/25

001district meeting we to call thise order at [Laughter] 6:1 Mr Goldman here gasby Mr Martinez excellent thank we have a form we're going to begin with the Pledge of Allegiance and I'm going to ask Dr Monique for please lead us in the pledge hands over our heart um I Al to the of the United States of America first order of business we do not have any items to report from close the session so we're going to go right into item 4.1 which is to adopt our regular agenda as submitted by a roll call vote do we have a a motion you have motion second all those in favor I I motion carries next we go to comments from the public we do have one comment do we have any other comments that we've received um

002in accordance with the board bylaws 9323 individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board the board will limit the overall time to 20 minutes since we have only one comment so far then the the speaker will have three minutes and please be advis this just in accordance to the brown act uh the board is not uh is not allowed to comment on the item but we definitely would like to hear your input our first speaker is David rer and the topic is um is bunny subay increase so if you could please come to the certainly good evening everyone uh my name is Dave Ryner by the way I work as a substitute in our district uh kind of representing a few other ones behind me this evening here to talk about hopefully

003at some point in time you guys considering a pay increase for our substitutes uh we I think it's been four years this since our last pay increase cost of living has gone up up up uh we all live close in order to get to school on time and as you know it's expensive to live around here it's expensive to pay for food uh we all hopefully have the support of every one of our substitutes in the district but I can only assume we do so that's simply why we're here today let you guys know that we would like to have a pay increase to our daily rate as soon as possible thank you thank you for your comments other just our next item uh we are moving on our agenda to item 6.1 uh it

004is the confirmation of a DaVinci board member uh Miss Laura sheer are there any is there is there a motion a second and any discussion conversation talk about I do have I do have some comments so yeah first I'd like to um uh for those that don't know there is a there was a board member vacancy at D Vinci schools and uh D Vinci did have a very open transparent process with applications and uh Matt correct me if I'm if I'm getting my numberers wrong but I think there was probably about 12 candidates that were originally submitted and possibly eight or nine candidates that were interviewed um for for the position so I want I personally wanted to thank the uh the community for their interest this was opened only to weisburn residents for the

005appointment so it's really wonderful to see so many people that are interested in our community having that uh the interest and also an opportunity to serve on the da Vinci Schools board um let's see um Nelson and I had an opportunity to participate and be present in those interviews for the candidates um and uh ultimately demain she selected um Miss Miss Laura schaer as as the as the candidate to be brought forward for wiser for conf confirmation as is the practice and what's in our in our agreement which were um very um how do you say um integrated and involved in this entire process and I think Miss schaer is going to be a very nice addition to the board in that capacity with her skill set and comments of the way she answered the

006questions so I'm looking forward to also partnering with uh with the new trustee um and now send I'll turn it over to you if you have any comments on that no I just Echo Roger comments and I certainly want to commend D Vinci on the process I think it was a very open process uh so thank you very much and enjoy being part of it thank you and uh welcome to miss Laura saer Matt sure if I might say that the open process was modeled after the weisburn Unified School District's open process um and we did have an opportunity to interview all the eligible candidates there were as you said Mr Benway those about 12 applicants I believe two of them um were ineligible because they lived outside the weisburn attendance boundaries for this particular

007seat so um thank you and I just say Miss Schaefer um was the interim president of Syracuse University is also now the COO CFO of pittser college so um incredibly strong candidate so thank you for all your support excellent we have a motion in a second all those in favor hi hi motion carries 40 welcome look forward to seeing her in the official capacity thank you Matt uh next uh Blake we'll move to special presentation so I'll turn it over to you for an introduction on item 7.1 sure um had an opportunity to um see uh some Performing Arts take place at D Vinci got to see my niece um at one of those events and and just um been a part of several planning meetings uh with with da Vinci and and and ourselves

008and the wisman Ed Foundation Etc just wanted to um give D Vining opportunity to brag about the performing arts program that's really evolved and and I think it's um anyway I'm going to let you all do that and and uh I have just lots of good things to say about it but I think you'll do better than me so um I think Alexi's here with Christine I don't know who's leading the charge here but definitely would love to hear both of you great and Matt sorry I'm sorry I didn't realize you were you were not on the agenda Matt we'll have to add you in thank you very much um you know this is just just an opportunity um you'll see it yourself that the amount of growth in our performing arts program um the

009partnership um number of kids being served is pretty extraordinary so my job is to publicly embarrass Alexi because he likes just doing the great work and not sitting in the spotlight of of of our gratitude but um I think he'll be very clear of the masterful work he and Christina have done and many others so um pleased with um the results today I'll turn it over to Lexi thank you all right all right good evening everybody evening good evening it's a that's a pleasure to be here this is obviously not my usual uh venue but I will um it's a pleasure to be here and I and I'm uh grateful to have the opportunity to be able to share with you a little bit of what we've been able to do with the performing arts

010program it's been really my honor and privilege to serve as the Performing Arts coordinator for the last uh about a year and a half you know I started there just as a choir director a couple days a week after school and um yeah I'm grateful to to have had the opportunity to to start building this program that we've had so am I using this can move try oh there we go yes so we'll talk a little bit about kind of the last 18 months um which is when where the program um has started kind of the beginning of last fall um up till this past December we'll look at this past semester specifically by the numbers um then we got a quick little video little one minute kind of highlight video just to give you

011you know performing art you gota you got to see it to to you know feel it a little bit so um I don't know if we have do we have audio hooked up like if I play a video find Tony okay right um so here's a little bit of a look um towards by the Numbers where where we landed kind of before we started our program which was about 50,000 a year with our studio Orchestra program which has grown to about 400,000 a year now um over the past couple years with approximately 50,000 for our spring musical you can see our new orchestra instruments that we purchased 40,000 there we have a few different locations of upright pianos which is just a kind of cool addition to the school and including right in the atrium

012so students that aren't really musical or don't participate in the program can still kind of sit down at a piano and just kind of explore so um we've also generated some Revenue primarily with the spring Musical and our summer program so we've generated about $25,000 um through those as well in terms of classes we started again with just kind of Studio Orchestra and choir which was about you know we had about three classes before we started and now we have 12 across all of our campuses which has led to approximately 60 before and now we have about 5600 students across all our campuses that are participating in some way um in our performing arts program we currently have uh music production is is kind of our most popular class and that was determined through you'll

013see a little bit after this through um some surveys that we did where we surveyed the community and da Vinci families and weisburn incoming eighth graders and really music production acting were the two top ones so we like you know those were kind of our lwh hanging fruit let's find a way to get those at as many campuses as we can so we currently have that at all of our high school campuses and then acting at four of them only because the rise campus prioritized music production over acting so we we stuck with just music production at the rise campuses for now um we also have a daily shuttle which is pretty cool to bring our connect students over and believe that also has that was either at the same time or has evolved into

014sports also hopping on that show so we bring that shuttle also now brings I believe athlete connect athletes to our campus as well uh and you can see these are some of our instructors that we have um Blake got to see some of them at the the event that he came to which was just our seminar night event and yeah la is La you know when it comes to performing arts and and so we we're grateful to be able to really tap into the industry here and build a program that um capitalizes on that location that you really we literally can't can do things here that you can't do anywhere else in the country and so we're we're starting to see seeds of that when we bring in Grammy winning Grammy winning producers to come

015and work with our students limo who's my friend there who my friend from Philadelphia um before I moved here she moved out here and now she this past summer was on tour with doac cat I don't know if got some big doac cat fans in the M okay great great great um so yeah she she got off off tour with her and she's again working with our students one-on-one so it's pretty cool um one of the other cool things is just aligning how performing art it's similar to Athletics I think has aligned our uh campuses and enabled our our students to kind of all come together so we found a way to kind of work our schedule so that every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons we uh all the 2011 schools have an aligned seminar period

016it's a little bit off by 15 minutes but um it it brings together students from all all the campuses for drum Ensemble stagecraft and Studio Orchestra and then obviously after school with choir and musical theater that's pulling again from all of our campuses um last year two 23 to 24 school year we had about 4,200 combined audience members for all of our shows you'll see again for this past semester where we landed with those numbers and then uh I think we kind of continued the tradition of rock around the block that I know Toby Harwell has done a great job um participating in and has kind of brought brought me along to bring choir High School choir and then last year our uh TK through2 choir performed as well they'll be performing as well this

017year so that's always a great event and was really great we heard a lot from our TK through2 families who a lot of them was their first time participating at the event and you know just to hear the way that they the performance yes but also just the event itself was really great for them are um yeah so we have these spring showcases or uh semesterly showcases so at the end of each semester that's kind of our those are our bigger performances that showcase our TK through eight students um as well as our high school students so we have one we had one in December we're going to be having another one in June we've also done some merchandising as you can see with some hoodies um which has been a great you know those

018things matter when it comes to building community and pride and all that so those have been really cool and then another cool collaboration has been these the Performing Arts Flyers which we've kind of posted everywhere those were actually designed by the DECA program by students at the DVC school um through their Deca program which has been cool um and then here are some firsts that we have had primarily last year we're kind of they're now seconds this year because we're doing them again but uh you get the idea um over the last 18 months again these are the first things that we did Adam's family our very first ever spring musical you know I I can't really say enough about kind of how our musical theater program especially at the high school has has kind

019of taken off and I think given a space for students that otherwise didn't have it and the production itself um was really phenomenal we're gearing up for another one in a couple weeks with grease that I think will also be a really phenomenal experience and production we had our joint wiseburn uh Da Vinci concert in the gymnasium which was um a kind of converted into a performance venue um space that I think was a cool experience that everybody did and great to know that we have that if we have if we require a large you know space like that we were able to do it kind of on shorter notice than we would like but it it worked out um band batch is a very cool thing that was actually an idea brought to me

020last spring by a student by a junior Dylan um at chavaria who is in a band I was like hey we want to do a rock concert I was like cool what what are we doing and he I I kind of gu you know I kind of guided him as if he was the booker the promoter the you know so I I showed him how to create the I'm I'm an artist I come from the artist musician background myself so I kind of know about you got to have the set list you got to break it down you know who it's not just enough just have your friends show up and say all right you're going to do this on the day of you know you got to have it broken up by the times

021the location and being really specific so it was great to work with him on that and this has since become a biannual event so we do this each semester we had one on Halloween this past year and we'll be doing another one on uh May 8th which has been cool open mics have been also a really cool another cool way kind of lwh hanging fruit we're trying to make the Performing Arts really accessible to you know we're we're we have a chance to really build a non-traditional program here and I think a way that um really reaches kids where they're at so this just gives chance the mic is open do what you want you know come as you are we really emphasize being a positive supportive space and these lunch open mics we really

022almost brought the entire school out to to come watch their friends perform for for 30 minutes so and then our K 38 program we've had um choir and theater offered that as is another element of our program that has really taken off and has really been a beautiful Community Builder as well and then like I said I this this slide could have also kind of gone at the beginning because this has really been The Guiding Light or guiding kind of North Star for everything that we've done which has been these Community surveys which we did last fall right right when I got here to kind of see what what do we want what what are we building here what are the the students want what do the parents and uh families want and then last

023spring we did an eighth grade survey as well for the incoming eighth grades and we plan to repeat both of those this spring to kind of continue to assess where things are at and uh like Blake said a lot of this has also been done in all of this has been done in lockstep with uh the partners at w and the school weisburn school district we met three times at the beginning middle and end of last year to kind of make sure we were hitting our benchmarks and the goals that we set together and we met again at the beginning of of this year to kind of touch base and see where things are at and to discuss collaboration opportunities one that we're hoping for this year is band bash we actually are hoping to

024get a middle school band to open up which we think will be pretty cool and so we're kind of working out the logistics for that so I'll leave you all we have our oh yes our our numbers you can see here these were our um first this this past semester so you can see attendance has kind of grown a little bit for our student participants with 650 and then roughly total audience members at 18850 and then these are our upcoming events just for the second semester in case anyone wants to throw these on their calendar you know just to be able to make it out but you can see it's a full you know it's i' I've been grateful to be placed in a place where students people are hungry for this and and are

025excited to perform are excited to come out and you know it's it's been very easy in that way to um serve in that way so I'll give a little we'll give a little bit of a taste here now maybe see yeah grab that real quick okay all been wondering if the sound's gonna workand new system [Music] building yes there we go [Music] this was s of a special boy are you kidding there ain't no such [Music] things why are there so many songs about rainbow and what's on the other side [Music] there you go thank you all again so much uh yeah I really appreciate the opportunity thank you thank you you thank you Alexi for that presentation and my calendar is already booked for March 8th for green so I think several of us

026are going on that dat also there's a board social opportunity to also meet with and and see our counterparts of you at Da Vinci I know a lot of board members from Da Vinci schools are going to be attending as well so looking forward to that March 8th is the day we're going thank you any comments from the rest of the board uh just it's exciting to see the growth of the of the Visual and Performing Arts programs and um you know as a former musical theater Kid myself I got all the non- singing roles in the musicals so it did help me at trivia enough um last week I knew that Tech was they still beat me but but not in that category um I think they did actually um but no it's really

027exciting to see the growth of the pro program and I'm excited to see the continued collaboration between the DV and weisburn um programs and see how we can continue to articulate and grow um and you know meld those programs um together so that folks are really um have something to look forward to when they get to the high school and it's exciting to see all of those those things and I am definitely looking forward to going to see Greece with all of you excellent and just um I was thrilled to see the kids from that you're shuttling the kids over and the sports there and I thought I was also a musical theater kid and that made a big impact on my life and you want to see joyous kids the most joyous kids in

028the world give them at musical theater that just brings those kids together so I was thinking you know about the sports this all performing ARS are like a magical team sport and there's so much learning and so much opportunity and so much education so I I couldn't be more excited and happy that you guys are doing this Matt I think we spoke at one of your board meetings before this building was born about this and to see this come to light is beyond exciting well done thank you I was I wasn't musically inclined as the as a kid but um I've always supported the music and arts and I love the presentation the program has grown it's it's great to see how it's evolved and Alexi I think you you said it well we're offering

029a space for kids and you can see the demand not only from the from the students but from the the parents in the community so uh congratulations and I'm glad to see how Da Vinci's really adjusted to that so congratulations to everybody and B Thank You Blake would turn it back over to you on 7.2 for our second special presentation on the California dashboard so this presentation is probably going to be uh not quite as uplifting I'm just kidding that's uh I don't think there would be anything to come behind you know that's that's a tough act to follow we should have arranged this differently on the agenda this but I I do want to say um you know if if anyone could make uh dashboard information um you know exciting um our own Maggie

030Mayberry will be able to do that so um without further ado I'm going to um ask Maggie to to perform I was going to say perform present a performance up here I will say thank you so much I'm uh president Ben muos Board of Education Dr Silvers and our WIS Community some big updates Happening Here with our California dashboard as well as our current reality data and our Alat midyear reviews so we're putting a lot into this one presentation for you so we're going to be discussing all four of these items tonight and then finally closing out with a little bit of Sean on where we're at with our budget and within the lcap so the California dashboard has been coming out since 2016 and we use kind of this gas gauge measure to see

031how that we're doing blue being what we are all achieving for red being down at the bottom where our lowest performers are at and then our colors in between to show where our Learners are at in many different areas of growth and this is a comparison of all California students across the board from basically TK all the way through our our 12th graders kind of a report card more or less that we get from the state of California and it's a great tool that we can use that helps our communities be updated about how we're performing how we're doing within our own lcap it establishes just some common expectations amongst the state and all of our communities as well as identifies our student groups here at in wiseburn and in California to really zero in

032on the needs for each and every one of our students it also focuses on the eight priorities of the state and then does everything that we need to ensure that we're getting our students what they need to be successful and then plan our budget around those needs So currently there are six State measures but here in weisburn we do not have to worry about our College and Career Readiness and our and our high school graduation and so when you look at our weisburn um dashboard those are kind of just grayed out is we don't have the data to support that that's going over to Matt and his te and then five local indicators which we survey amongst our staff so we have a staff climate survey each and every year our community survey which just

033recently went out and if anyone's looked at our website recently you can't go anywhere without heading that survey which is just amazing to see um and just our access to courses within within here in our high school presence and then our parental involvement in the state of California there are 14 subgroups this is actually a big change from last last year because there were only 13 last year we've now had the addition of our long-term English Learners within our wise Community we have 10 subgroups within the 14 and so African-American students Asian Filipino Hispanic and Latino two or more races White English Learners and then the new one with the aster are long-term English Learners socioeconomically disadvantaged as well as our students with disabilities so those are our subgroups that we get to look at

034in every category to see how they're perform form in against the state of California so what's new this year because the state loves nothing new than to just have a stabilized dashboard for us but this is great news as a former science teacher because we've actually added the cast assessment which is done here in weisburn with our fifth graders and our eighth graders so that is now appearing for the first time on our dashboard it's not going to have that indicator light that I noticed that I discussed earlier in the presentation because that's actually a grow over time and this is the first year that we've collected that so we're going to see that gas gauge color coming up in the next couple of years another big addition is adding the actual lcap to the

035dashboard page so you can click on both links to see what they're visible on as well as the addition of the long-term English Learners which is a great addition because this is a subgroup within our within our state that we really do need to focus on as a collective what distinguishes long term it's students who have been English learners for six or more years and have had no growth or progress towards mastering English or being fluent updated differentiated assistance criteria and then as well as 5 by5 charts but they've been at for the high school for the College and Career indicator we're going to actually talk a little bit about those 5 by five charts I'm clicking and pausing Tony now I'm getting nervous okay here we go like I don't want to go too

036far ahead but this is what a typical 5x5 looks like I have to say we had the the privilege of working with someone with each of our schools and we were able to pretty closely predict with the data that we had this fall with where we going to align as a district and at each of our school sites and we were pretty spot on with the data that we had so that was pretty awesome to see so it's kind of like a little bit of a matrix puzzle that we use to show how students are performing and then their their growth over time so it's using that kind of comparison someone told me once that it's like the 1600 on the sat and so you could see this is an example for chronic absenteeism of

037two different schools so you have our purple school here who has really low per chronic absenteeism but it actually increased from the year prior causing them to drop down into the yellow but the school in the pink here actually had better chronic absente and less students were chronically absent causing them to move to the green areas so we see this fluctuation in both our Ela and math scores as well as our chronic absente ISM in suspension rates here within the district so for our 2024 dashboard we have one green indicator in English language arts and four yellow indicators in math our English language learner progress chronic absenteeism and suspension rate so the good news is we've moved away from a red we had last in 2023 we did have a red um and we've moved

038away from that okay I'm chronic yeah chronic absenteeism but we uh we went down in the sense that we had two greens and now we only have one and that was The Chronic ABS or the suspension rate for next year and we'll see that on the 5x5 soon so another good statistic this state throws at us is called the distance from standard and this is something we're going to visit when we actually go through all of our our different data set points and so what this is is basically the state is saying how far are you from earning a three in both of our Ela and our math scores kind of like when we're talking about moving our report cards to like a standards based Mastery like how far are you to achieving the standards

039which is at a three and where's your score line so if you see the student on the left over here they're 12 points away from getting to that three so they have a negative distance from standard of 12 but our student all the way to the right here is eight points above so has a plus eight score what this actually helps in the state is it gives every student score a value to it it's not like this group did really well and they outweighed the students that didn't do so well each and every growth forward or backwards actually has the same weight amongst itself so our English language arts are big green which is great to see we are 23.3 points above the standard of three we actually decreased a little bit by 5. seven

040points and as you can see highly above what the state of California is at we have broken down on the bottom all of our different sub groups and where they align and so what this tells us is our our Reds and our oranges are our students that we need to start you know really looking at at a different aspect and looking at the programming around our our students our long-term English Learners are performing in the red in ela so we need to look at the program that we're provid Ting for those students to ensure that they're learning at the highest levels but what you can see here is we're about if our Ela indicator would have been blue if our distance from standards was 20.7 points higher so that's we're pretty in the middle of

041our green that it's going to be a big lift to get to that blue area now typically a distance from standard point is about one question or one question on the Casp assessments is about three points on the distance from standard so you're talking 60 a lot of questions difference clarify something yeah you showed us distance from a minute ago and now distance from standard is three the standard I'm GNA go back really quick because I want to look at what I said I understand three is standard yeah three is the standard okay that's I want to clarify the Assumption I made I want to yeah out of that one two three four that the state gives us great yeah here is Maggie socioeconomically disadvantage students whether we had any issues classifying those students because

042of like folks not returning forms and things like that I know we've been asking people to to do more about that and I'm just wondering if that's impacting the data about those students and whether um whether we actually can tell at this point um what they're like what our actual true socioeconomic numbers are and I know that's something I don't know that answer offhand but I do know like talking to my peers in other districts like that's something we're all kind of facing with to ensure that data is the most accurate so we get students what they need you want to jump in yeah and I will just a um we we were just going through the exercise um within my department and and um Maggie's Department to kind of look at all of our

043seabeds sta closely um and look at all of our unduplicated students and make making sure that we were capturing everybody so um before the window closed for that final kind of um verification and updating um we went back and took took a look at um a lot of our students whose families um completed the uh alternative income form and so we found out that um initially they they were not being included in that unduplicated count this year so um we updated our cets data and that ended up um adding about a 100 students to our unduplicated pupil count and so with that addition that that pretty much brought our numbers back into alignment with um what we were seeing in in Prior years so it seems like all in all it is kind of kind

044of a a steady um number for our unduplicated pupil count I just want to make sure that when we're giving that data to the state that we're counting all of the correct students in those numbers right thank you sure and then in mathematics we're in the yellow 5.6 below standard but we did increase 1.3 points as you can see we are outscoring California yeah but the good news is look at that little popup box our math indicator would have been green if our distance of standard were 1.7 points higher which I'm saying is like one and a half questions if every student answered one and a half questions more or correctly we would have been in the green that's something we could definitely tackle I mean with our onboarding of Eureka squared with our new

045math coach over at the middle school I only imagine that we're going to be in the green next year and the increase of 1.3 point should not be right right it's growth our teachers are doing great things within their classrooms and and it's showing us grow ongo we jump right next year the contract but I I I yes I will see te and I'm not leaving until there's a blue I promise our teachers have it they're doing great things and then science being 3.4 points below standard and they actually decreased 1.9 points and this is just a measure with our just our fifth and our eighth grade students and then high school students take it typically in 10th or 11th grade but what we can do here is I broke down the um distance from

046standards by our subgroup of where our students are aligning so this is not the first year that this this is the first year it's reported on the dashboard not the first year we've done the assessment yeah so we did it for a couple of years to Norm out the test it was kind of like a practice round and now last year was the first time we all knew as science teachers and above that it was going to be on on the dashboard and so kind of like during Co remember everything turned purple and gray it's going to be this way for two at least two more years and then we'll start seeing the colors and then our English language learn learner progress indicator 54.7% of our students made progress we did decrease by 2% with

047California being at 45.7 we're a little bit above them but compared to other English or our long long-term English Learners um we're performing in the orange compared with our peers sorry sorry mag I just want to say just to capture the the time like we're it's almost March February now right we're talking about last school year it's a little bit delayed just want to put that in perspective as we talking about so on that perspective too we're working on the dashboard or our own dashboard right right this would be great to see trended over time sure the standard and our performance against that over time and then you said our predicted models seem to be pretty good so we'd love to see those because then we're seeing we're making progress from our own metrics right

048against where we were last year since this is looking backwards we can be looking present with our own metrics and this is one statistic having looked back like I was studying your dashboard from 2016 on it's typically 54.7 to 55 there's hardly anything outside of that mean which means we we need to look at our programming yeah we like we need to and I know we had a big shift last year and so that's something we've been working on with our teams and about what our next steps are going to be I was just going to ask about if we could tell the impact of the integration of the ell within the classroom versus standalone classes right but you're I think you answered the question so yeah and and we'll have even more data like

049as we move to you know our star data like real time as well as this year's Dash this year's elac assessments and then chronic absenteeism 10.3% chronically absent we decreased 5.8% um California being at 18.6 it it's a state problem it's a nation problem the more I read it's it's happening everywhere and so I know we've done a lot to help with this to ensure that our students are in their seats because we know that the highest levels of learning aren't going to happen unless they're there in present with us can you remind me what the number of Mis days is before someone's considered chronically absent it's 10% so it' be 18 yeah so our chronic absenteeism rate would have been in the green if nine fewer students were chronically ABS I mean another thing

050that we could tackle like that's a a reality and then our subgroups of students again we're seeing our long-term English Learners performing at a lower level and then our suspension rate we're at 1.9% but it did increase from 6 that was causing us to move to the yellow that was in the in the green in the past um a bigger jump but if 10 fewer students had been susp L had been suspended last year we would have been in the green and again our long longterm English Learners probably still long it could be so overall we are performing exactly where the count other County schools are at at a 3.2 average rating the state of California is at a 2.7 so this is across all of the metrics that are used and then like in

051the Casp assessment or in the CP presentation we did do a comparison with our like districts these are different than the ones that we had presented before and we're performing out of those like districts we have 26 first in English language arts 10th in math nth in our English language learner progress chronic absenteeism sth and then 13 in our suspension rate and Tony can you go ahead and click on where it says click here for our similar District because we can see what what our comparables are we have two in Orange County that we can compare closest with being um low joint as well as um Cypress Elementary District and the reason those like districts are different from Casp is the dashboard takes in our our earlier Learners whereas our Casp is only our third

052through eighth grade Learners so our stats are a little bit different our number of students are different than other districts so this is amongst the dashboards measure then we could go back to the presentation thank you oops and then here's where our schools are at as you can see at Aviation green and blue Delair look at that math blue we I knew that was coming when we did the exercise and I was dancing like that is so awesome that is like our teacher really putting like that's the great work that they do with the students that they work with each each and every day it's awesome to see Holly Glenn as well out in green and green and blue and then our middle schoool's Ela scores are great you know we're onboarding our new math

053coach there so I only expect to see different colors in the future and then how our subgroups performed here toate right she's in the Homeland celebrating that's pretty awesome I hope she's having a fun party and then compared with where we're at right now in the fall I came to you and discussed our star data which was at 64% of our students were at or or above grade level has grown to 65 and then our math from 4 to 50 so we are making progress we our next steps are going to be another a star assessment and then we're moving into into the Casp season getting ready right after spring break and now it's time for the lcap Now we move over to where we're at and so this how we're going to talk about

054the lcap is just a little bit different than been done in the past but we designed a dashboard for you based on our lcaps actions and expenditures so these are each of the actions that are within the lcap so we have all the way from 1.1 to or 5.13 this is what we're doing and then the money that we're spending to do it and what we're showing you is how we've progressed within those goals for this year so we're in year one of our three-year lcap so green being complete or have already completed we've spent the money some of the yellows aren't as alarming because we are we're M year through the year we've got a lot of time left some of these things haven't fully progressed yet or we're just on year one of

055the three-year elk have it could be coming down the road like one within my own team is a science curriculum like right now we're so highly focused on onboarding Eureka squared you know this is something that we're going to bring into action in the next couple of years and then red being will not be completed or the funds won't be spent by the end of this school year and didn't really that we also have the same dashboard available for our actual me metrics so where it says this this one's a little bit different because we just don't have the data point yet being you know feelings connected with members of the wusd community I know Dr Ingram is getting ready to launch the California healthy kids survey like that's the tool that we use so

056we just don't have that information yet but it's going to be coming in the next couple of months Magie can I go back and ask you a question about the um the thing that you showed where the different uh subgroups were performing everything yeah is that unduplicated so like if a student is counted as let's say Hispanic they would not also then be counted as a long-term English learner so they're in a different C is unduplicated but know on the dashboard they appear as both I'm just curious how those are those numbers are impacting each other so like someone might be Hispanic and also a long-term English learner and the English Learners are performing really low down here and so it looks like our Hispanic population is doing worse than maybe it is because of

057that subgroup so I'm just curious yeah account for that and we know that statistically that our unduplicated kids don't why we receive more funding for them to help and programming you know specialized for them great question and then oops I'm going the wrong way I apologize our own understanding and then our budget Sean do you w to speak to these are your numbers or that were developed prior to this so just within each goal where we're at yeah so this is just um kind of a high level comparison of the budget to the actuals um by goal so as uh Maggie kind of explained um you can see our actuals are pretty much in line with our budget at the midy year obviously um some of the goals and actions are kind of front loaded

058because some of the activities are being conducted kind of at the start of the year with certain professional developments and things of that nature and then um certain things are ongoing um so this was kind of in coordination with Maggie and myself just going through each goal and action seeing what the budgeted amount was and then kind of seeing what we actually spent on on those goals and actions um I think a better measure of this will be after we actually close the books and um kind of look back to see where we actually landed for the year but I think this snapshot right now will be very helpful for ed services in the business services department to kind of really start the work for our um lcap going forward for the next year so

059I think this will really help aid in that work what I would love to see here is columned because we don't know from here if budget and actuals if we're expecting to make up that difference that's what we planned for so this tells us a whole lot without that projection Gap okay yeah within our system it does encumber funds for um like goods and services and things like that um unfortunately in our in our general ledger system it doesn't encumbers salaries so I could kind of provide you know maybe like an overall projection of what those salaries are going to look like for the second half of the year we want to know what I want to know is are we on track yes I I would say we are on track um certain specific

060goals and and actions um maybe we spent a little bit more just because maybe that goal or action you know warranted more services or or something else was required because when the budget was formulated before the start of the year it was just a budgeted number maybe you know in review of another goal in action maybe it wasn't warranted to spend the complete amount of funds because we already accomplished the objective for that goal um so I just could the next time could you actually spell out what the goals are on this so that we can I mean I can go back and look at the El Cap you know and see it but just like a few word summary there of what it is yeah what it's our five insurances yeah but we can

061I don't know which one is which how much are we spending 17 million projected to spend 17 certainly yeah go five the the main one uh goal five is organizational strength so so that includes a lot of our certificated classified Sal salaries um routine restricted maintenance so that's why that is the the largest category you'll see there so that is kind of the no close it's nothing exactly yeah I mean it doesn't include things you know utilities legal fees um maintenance agreements things like that but um yeah it is a significant portion of it but not the entire budget oh yeah this is representing what 27 million is of the 40 no 39 yeah and then lastly we're required to talk about our next steps with the lcap so we are in the process of

062sending out our survey to the community and our first educational partner meeting is going to be on March 6th right in here and then following in April our second meeting so we're going to at this point bring new data points to the teams um to kind of stop to see if there's any AC or goals or actions that we need to change and shift in in May Sean and I are going to get ready to present to you our finalized metrics and budgets for the school year and then bringing it in June to the public hearing and then submit to Leo and we're looking forward to that day it's my first time I get to hit that button I'm really excited Magie on the educational partner meetings could you just tell us how you're um

063extending those invitations and who they will go out to just because in the past it's been a little bit halfhazard right and so I'm just curious how you're planning to do it well anyone that's listening that would like to attend please email me um we would happily love to involve community members um but we asked each of our principles to go out to their school site council members PTA members and doing some advertisement within their Community um I've gone out to our dellock partners we've teachers have gone out to their to the elock partners because we want all of these voices to be heard so they've been comprised at the school site and both at the district level and so I reached out to W um W and they're going to be having a representative

064on on for the first time um with us so we're reaching out to who we know and so if there are people that are involved please you know send an email to your child's principal or to me directly because the more voices we have in the room and the better the opportunity is and the more focus our goals can be to meet the needs of the community loal control without local involvement yeah exactly exactly message to your message we're done all right great thank you very much you moving to the next section of agenda we're moving on to section eight uh with is which is board member reports going to go ahead and start to my left here with Rebecca thanks Roger um I had the opportunity to attend a few things since the last

065time we met um a couple of uh LA County School trustees Association meetings um including the um the sort of first meeting of the year of uh of that group with Roger um and we heard about um actions that they're taking to um keep schools and families safe uh in the current federal environment um specifically around immigration enforcement and um and how schools should be responding to to that and I know our district is taking steps as well which has been in some of the messaging that's gone out so um I'm you know and I also had the opportunity to participate in a in a secondary meeting from that about some legislation that's pending in Sacramento um that would also sort of expand the um the zone of safety around School site um to reinstate

066some things that have been removed at the federal level right so putting like a 100t perimeter in place um uh so the parking lots and things like that are actually safe spaces um again for families so really excited to um to participate in that continue to hear about that and um hopefully bring stuff back to the to the district um I wanted to um extend a thank you to uh we for their trivia night earlier this week I know several of us were were there and I think the winners of trivia are here in the audience congratulations to some of our Middle School teachers who uh I don't remember what was your team name you got schooled you got schooled and they did they schooled all of us in trivia um but it was lovely

067it was at 5.5 Brewery um and uh and it was just a it was a wonderful evening um and it was a great way to get out and um support Ed foundation and um and give back to the to the school so really excited that um we were able to do that and my team came in third whatever um I think Nelson's came in second um so we you know we'll get there we'll get there I'm I I see you um and then I also wanted to extend a thank you to um Dr Wallace and um and the folks at D Vinci for having me over um at the at DV this afternoon to talk to some of their students about pursuing a legal career it's always uh fun to get out and um tell

068did you know sort of try and expire the next generation of uh of uh leaders in our community and um students as they go on their uh furthering their um Pathways I've uh in the last week uh and a half well the last couple of weeks I've had a couple of my own mentees do some amazing things for our country so um you know things like federal judges passing you know enforcing certain things and people bringing lawsuits to help to do those things um and uh and just being able to continue to support our communities in a variety of ways uh and like I said sort of keep us all um safe and protect the rule of law and democracy across the across our great nation um so I'm excited to continue that uh and

069hopefully reach more students uh who might want to do this you know not everybody knows when they're nine but they want to go to law school um um or files a petition with the school board um when they're 11 it just doesn't happen um but some of us do that um and and then we move on so um you know was I was telling Steve it was a full circle moment when I joined the school board that I had once not this one but I had once petitioned a school board to change something in our school district and now I get to sit on this side so you can do that with a legal degree and not or not um but anyways I'll pass it back over to you Roger thank you thank you Rebecca

070we go to the right here thank you Ro I also wanted to thank the wise foundation for a wonderful Tri night um for hosting it wonderful night fun night yes I got schooled I'm happy about it um you know one thing one thing I would say is 20 years on the board and I still have a lot to learn about WIS so um and then just the other thing is uh I've been walking around the sites Blake and the fence screens look really clean good job thanks to the rain right that's all I that's all I have thank you nson go to Neil is rain on the payroll that's great um uh thank you Roger and thank I want to thank Joe Weber and uh and Reay at Da Vinci the vice president president there

071we had the opportunity to meet with them twice in our two by tws where two of our members of this board and two of the members of theci board are connecting and trying to continue collaborate and work work integration and and connection between our districts and that's just been a a really really positive experience um Rey said something in the meeting that I wanted to share with you guys that I thought really embodied the spirit of that and I know Nelson you were part of this before and felt the same Spirit which was we want to be we are such Partners in this we're getting to that point of really it's creating an opportunity for win-win we don't want we don't want to win at you losing they don't want to win at us losing

072it's a win-win connection and that Spirit was authentic and really great to see so we're looking at some Financial aspects they were very much aware of Vicky Barber's work and we're all looking forward to that in terms of our shared uh expenses and try to to make sure that we get the the best win-win we can and I just want to say we're off to a great start as we move forward here um yeah on another note I wanted to recognize Aviation Elementary for the Bulldog bark um I think I've mentioned jokingly I read the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and the LA Times just about every day and this takes the cake baby this is so much more enjoyable thank you very much so well done and super fun to see

073the kids just did a great job and last question I have I don't know if we have an update on the uh Ira money but I'm would love to know where we are in that if if and when you get to that thank you R right thank you um I do have a few comments as well on Wednesday the January 29th Sean and I had an opportunity to attend the local public schools funding Authority board meeting which is a subset of our district together with sentinella Valley uh and that they did move forward for those that do not know that Authority passed an $89 million bond in November and this meeting was to pass their first to to request approval to pass their first series of bonds so that moved forward and I think the

074community approved that Bond measure for by 76% was the approval rating weisburn residents do not get taxed on that Bond measure just wanted to clarify that as well for the community our measure measure e is is is we've had many updates here at our board but this is a separate Bond measure but it is a a working group it's an independent group comprised of sentinella Valley and ourselves weisburn so that moved forward and uh my next item I wanted to touch base on a little bit thank you Neil on the two by tws I think those meetings are going incredibly well with d da Vinci and we do have a spreadsheet you know that things that we talk about tracking and get done and move forward we have a a preliminary list of let's see

075here 17 items that we're going to be discussing um individually as we move forward we're tackling items such as not only Capital facilities improvements but also ongoing costs governance policies and procedures and things where we can gain Advantage by working together because quite frankly it's we've discussed a win-win scenario together we can accomplish more and I think all of us are really entering that dialogue uh with that mindset and it's going really well and Blake if you could please email this document to the rest of the board so that they can see the items that uh that we're working on uh with our with da Vinci as well okay um I also had a comment on the Bulldog bark I like your color I did print this out and it really is amazing the the

076level of effort it went into this I was incredibly impressed so I want to give a shout out to Lola Buckland and Matia Moren who are the editors of the Bulldog bark if you have not read it please do so because it is absolutely incredible the amount of topics that they covered in this uh and I am going to actually highlight one so please bear with me there's a really nice segment called under the uh student wellness and safety section so this is um is called acts of kindness by Isabella Martinez and I'm going to go ahead and read this briefly relation so that I don't know so it really Struck it really it really uh resonated with me just in terms of it's wonderful to see what our students are thinking so I'm going

077to go ahead and read it the the power of kindness will encourage better Connections in your relationships another reason why you should be kind is you are helpful to others they will be proud of you for giving them an act of kindness also if you are friendly with others they might be encouraged by you and eventually be kind to you it is also good to have a good will because you also have to be kind to yourself the importance of being kind to yourself can lead to happiness lastly it is healthy to have good self-esteem and to be proud of yourself when people are kind it makes a better world what a wonderful message so congratulations I I loved it I just had I just had to read it so thank you Isabella for put

078a nice job and I'm proud of you put put that together so are you proud of yourself right absolutely I appreciate that excellent um we're going to continue on that's the extent of my coments for today but our next item is 8.2 and I don't know if there's say anything further but Maggie it's a mathematics update yeah of course we got math to talk about but WMS uh participated in their second core learning day on February 3D where they focus on equations and expressions and I have to commend Dr Navaro and the whole staff over there who just come in so openhearted and you know willing to learn and grow from it um what's great to see is that our o own staff is taking kind of some of the modeling that core is doing

079to be able to do this within our own capacity so Dr nar's worked close with them to kind of continue that maybe not with as much handholding in the future from core learning so that's great to see and I have to say just from site visits the onboarding of Eureka I mean our teachers have done that so well at at the elementary levels it is very difficult you know to add it a new component to your day-to-day life and our teachers have done that so well and one thing we're really noticing is that not only are they using the book but they're using those great tools that they used in the past Dr Silvers and I actually had the opportunity to go to Aviation on Friday and we watched the whole fourth grade team perform

080what was called quilting quotients and we were standing in a class of fourth graders and they were told that they were going to solve Bo problems and they all said yes as an instructional leader I almost started to cry I'm like they're cheering for board problems like we are doing good our teachers are like this is awesome you guys like that's highest levels from what we see so Bravo to them and then just two more updates from Ed Services is I know a commend art we have 11 teachers at the right now within the district that are piloting I ready and so one thing that we are seeing is with you you saw with the star data while there was some growth is it really providing the data points that we need to ensure our

081kids are growing and so we've had these 11 teachers who not who aren't necessarily on our Ela committee on board this we have the entire fifth grade team at Delair so Bravo to to all of them for trying this because it's a new tool mid year which is difficult but I've been able to sneak peek some of those data points and it's it's pretty awesome to see because we're really dialing down to specific Ela standards right now not just how are we doing in reading but like how are we doing on our phony make awareness how are we doing our vocabulary how are we doing our reading comprehension and so I'm excited to see that in every grade level K through six we have someone piloting for for this and then uh it went to

082New Junior yesterday and it was awesome first of all I understand why Dorothy blue our director signs everything with sees the day I've now learn that as I watch the performance go but these I mean following what was just said at Da Vinci they are going to have a group of students this year they're going to be feeding in that have done this it's it's going to be spectacular so to everyone listening in the community and not just by Dorothy blue we have our own IO that is involved as well as the music director May 7th and May 9th save the date for this we we're going to be seeing them at rock around the block do a little tid thck kind of like the Macy's date period and then we're trying to form groups

083to come out to each of the elementary schools kind of fire up our community about those B performance so exciting news seiz the day even if it's raining that's what I heard you can say it even when it's raining excellent thank you Magie like I'll turn it over to you for district leadership report I think that that hit your District leadership you kind of jumped ahead of us here turn the we were supposed to stop after math and then that's sorry um no had a chance to uh to join Shan um Nisha and um we had WFA leadership uh with a CA leadership Alicia Galindo um uh Robin and Christa Puda at the uh School services financial update it was the governor's uh budget proposal Workshop um so Sean who is uh share with us

084a few of the updates from uh from that particular presentation new bad news pleas good news good news good news usually it's you know good news Sean conservative optimism but um the the general sentiment at this uh Workshop was actually positive for the Governor's uh proposals for the upcoming 25 uh 20 26 uh budget year uh so this is just kind of that 30,000 foot level I I just included this slide because um this just kind of highlights uh the majority of what the state of California's budget is based on so they call it the big three so it's the sales and use tax corporation tax and personal income tax and so here um the the estimates for the upcoming year are all um slight increases compared to uh the current year so that's out

085a positive uh the Lao and the um and the Department of Finance they're they're kind of on the same page uh with their estimates and and they're both projecting um roughly about a 3.6 and about a 2.2 increase um across the board for the big three so that's positive uh just at the state level but of course uh me being a pragmatist I always have to include um just some potential risk to the state budget um obviously there's been a lot of stock market volatility so that you know has an impact on kind of our our 1% our High um net worth earners who who pay the um the capital gains tax um we've had some extreme weather events and that kind of led into um delayed tax deadlines due to those natural disasters for

086the um the County of Los Angeles and so that can kind of have an impact on um the governor's estimates going forward for the budget because usually he has those tax receipts coming in but with that deadline being pushed forward into the next year it does kind of create a little bit of um uncertainty in regards to um passing the the budget in in June before July um there's some federal policy uncertainty in regards to tariffs and immigration and then of course it it sounds like we might be continued with a in an elevated uh interest rate kind of environment as well and then some risk to the proposition 98 budget which is the the Cal the state of California's educ a budget side um again the sentiment was generally positive across the board um

087the governor has eliminated that Reliance on um one-time funding to kind of support and and kind of uplift the lcff which is kind of what he did last year in regards to the um the learning recovery emergency block grant he kind of pulled some of that back to fully fund uh the cola for this year so there's no Reliance on that onetime funding um going forward for that um we're slowly replenishing the 98 Reserve uh for of course our times of uncertainty and um he does propose fully funding the cola and so they kind of highlighted um the greatest risk to the budgets are just kind of local decisions that are made at the individual District level in regards to declining enrollment um just continued Rising costs across the board and just being mindful of

088those um kind of at the local level and so this slide just kind of like highlights um some of the the funding factors um you can see um our lcff which is our local control funding formula the base Grant it does include a 2.43% cola again um that's projected to be fully funded but uh if you can recall that budget adoption and at first interim in our multi-year projection we were projecting a 2.93% cola so that's roughly a half percent uh decrease that we're looking at in the cola amount going forward this year last year went three to one that as well exactly um one one uh positive on on this slide is the the TK add-on for Ada the governor is proposing to um provide a significant amount of funding to assist districts in

089meeting the we currently it's a 12 to1 adult to student ratio this year um for 2526 that uh kicks down to a 10 to1 ratio so the governor has recognized the hardship that has placed on District so he is proposing a pretty significant increase in uh the TK funding add-on to kind of help district support that implementation to the 10:1 ratio so you can see um kind of at the bottom of the slide that's an an addition of about 300 uh $3,252 per per student um in Ada so uh for the district that's that translates into roughly about $323,000 increase to to help with that Sean can you go back real quick yes just want to clarify something with the TK program the TK was prior to the implementation it was not required of districts

090to hold the TK programs correct next year next sure it is so it's not teally that the state or the governor's helping school districts they're funding their requirement TK TK has or was I am I confusing the two with the increas expanded okay that's the portion that now they're technically funding the expansion yes correct so they're funding the expansion they they've continued to fund like on a per Ada basis the the increase in students that we've had but yeah it has been kind of a phased implementation of the the eligible uh age requirements for for kids are eligible to enter into TK so going forward in 25 26 uh the age group implementation is is is full it's complete so it it does capture does that present any facility problems for the size well we

091did so we we addressed that with the TK uh conversion uh yeah so we have uh we'll have minimum of four if not six classes um at Holly Glenn we we only have two at air and that's going to stay that way um so we believe we'll meet the the demand thank you going to Roger question little bit tag on the Roger question though does does the Ada cover we've done quite a bit of facilities work recently both at Holly Glen and Del air does that ada8 funding cover that too no right not the facilities portion just program so again this this slide is just uh going over that uh Universal TK proposal um so he's continuing to to to fully fund it as is but then in addition he's he's providing uh a total

092of about 1.5 billion dollar ongoing and that's where that TK add-on increase came from um to help uh districts meet that 10 to1 required ratio that will kick in in 2526 and these are some of the categorical programs that um will continue to receive that that cost of living adjustment that 2.43% uh so the ones here that that we have at at weisburn are the Child Nutrition uh special education and then the Mandate block grant so those funding sources will receive that Cola amount that increase for next year uh and so this this is one of his proposals it's a big one I know Maggie is is definitely in the Weeds on this one and and fully addressing it but it's in regards to his literacy requirements um just Early Education literacy um the screening

093for dyslexia things of that nature um so he's he's prop proposing uh $500 million in one-time funds um and it's wants to use it to expand the literacy coaches program math mathematics coaches um it prioritizes high poverty schools uh we don't know how how these funds would come in or how they would be um allocated to districts there was not really information um in regards to that specifically did you go back real quick to that Sean yes I think that comprehensive when you look at that you're seeing a big push um in two areas that I just want to highlight our our district priorities at this point right you see mathematics and you see literacy and I know that that one of the things that uh Maggie's been looking at our tools I know she

094mentioned I ready um as as one option but also just looking at how we can um research and and even Implement reading strategies along the lines of Science of reading um it's all kind of built into to the governor's budget proposal at this time they're taking our lead yeah that was my point so this next one was was kind of a surprise to me I I thought we were kind of done with the with the ontime kind of discretionary block grant proposals um but this this one was one that he proposed it's about $1.8 billion in uh he's calling it student support and professional development discretionary block grant So within that he has some he highlighted some suggestions as as to what he thinks the funds should be used for but for all intents and

095purposes it's discretionary so it's it's pretty open-ended it's it's pretty unrestricted um they they didn't highlight any sort of allocation amount for that either um I attended a budget workshop at Leo the next day uh Capital advisor group they took a look at the total um Ada across the state and they kind of broke that down and came up with about a $327 per Ada um allocation amount Baseline um and so for the district that translates into about $787,000 which is which is pretty significant um so we hope this will materializes but again that was a surprise to me and Sean is this a cross k2s and the Char schools as well it applies all students yes EXC okay and so next steps when we're kind of developing our budget um based on school Services

096of California's advice um some of the things they they felt that we should include in the budget um obviously the 2.43% cola since that was kind of a a half percent reduction in the budget that's pretty conservative and and we're comfortable making that adjustment the other ones um develop a tenative kind of internal plan but don't you know kind of formalize it within within the second interim in your multi-year projection just because we're not sure how how these are going to shake up um but it's us a little bit of additional funding in that LR EBG um the the TK uh lcff add-on that discretionary block grant the TK literacy funds um and then the bottom one the elop the 55% threshold that doesn't impact us because our up percentage is is already well below

097that so um I didn't so when we look to I just want to I think you know the perspective is to be pretty conservative in the budget development for this year um only including the cola but I just want to note that the other check boxes does represent a lot of money so there is going to be probably a need to come back to the board in August um with some sort of revision to the budget or some sort of clarification whether it has to be something that we uh formally submit to Leo or to um for oversight may or may not we just don't know but at the very least it looks like we'll have to bring a budget plan back to the back to the board once we have a better idea of

098these onetime dollars and and and at at all basically we've always embrace the conservative approach that's and that's all I had certainly exactly yeah POS for change actually One Last Thing Before You Go was there any mention of the projected movement away from ada8 to enrollment um I that hasn't been a part of the conversation I think we're a year ahead of that still Blake if you're was that I'm sorry Ada moving to enrollment instead of ADA for our funding just only the conversation I mean I've heard the conversation there has I haven't heard any projection but not not so I didn't hear that okay School Services presentation is pretty robust it's almost a couple hundred slides and they didn't mention anything about it highlight it so but if if I hear anything we attention

099thank I think what we're what we're looking at now is um how do we recover Ada I mean that's been the big push I know Monique's working on that through independent studies so it maybe it won't be enrollment but that we're going to try and cover some of those um some of those Ada uh I guess some of the loss that we're getting Ada through some recovery plans that's effective now that we can start that yeah yes so on that note um one of the agenda items tonight item 10.10 is um asking you to approve um an agreement with school's PLP which is a platform that provides instruction instructional material to students we use it during the pandemic so it might sound familiar um but this platform now focuses on um short-term independent study which

100is that 88 recovery that you were just talking about um so with that platform we would be able to provide students with instruction for that short term um for those missed um days at school those absences that are as as short as one day or up to 15 days um and it it makes the independent study process easier on teachers because now the instruction is online it's provided to students and it's an easy way for us to check and make sure that work has been completed um so that we can update our records and we've done an Roa on that of or Roi to I mean this is not a free program OB we need to if it's designed to recover we need to have the cost recover the expense not it will absolutely cover

101the expense and yes we have done that um we could bring that to the board if you'd like to see that um but it would it would more than meet the meet I mean we're more than paying this off we're going to actually end up um with a good deal of ADA recovery funds that will show in our bu it'll be significant in our budget is just a one time thing or every year no we can keep it ongoing so we're the bottom line we're just setting it up this year it was for this is year one um so we're just setting it up we wanted to make sure we saw all the rules and regulations I know Michelle Rainey at Da Vinci has been pretty helpful in terms of how we how how they're

102doing it um which helps support it and I just want to say too that um you know it's it's it's just untenable sometimes a lot of the times for a kid to be sick and then a teacher to have to provide work that very day at that very minute and so it's just giving opportunities for kids to continue learning with a tool that we can track and then be able to recover that the fund so I mean I I guess I'm saying that there's no there's no substitute for teachers teaching and providing instruction there is absolutely a benefit to kids doing some work and so just giving an opportunity for kids to make up some work some whether it be reading reading comprehension mathematics whatever it is um and uh we'll probably come to the

103board at one point soon with some sort of person like a a Personnel choice because that'll also even with a Personnel um you know adding person personel to be able to manage the program a teacher basically to manage the program we still end up in in tremendously in the positive um at the end of it perhaps not perhaps certainly more importantly is we're continuing learning of course yeah yeah yeah yeah absolutely thank you I think um yeah we can bring those numbers back but I think just kind of generally um ada8 is about like $50 $55 per student and those is like $27,000 we have I think a 202 2023 we had between like 5500 absences per day at school to 10,000 absences so um I think the math Ro had like almost 500 absences

104recovered to pay off school's PLP and then the rest would be um would go towards kind of those efforts to to manage it and then there's go the rest of those we win um other just really quick update enrollment we're continuing um to accept um re-enrollment information and permit applications um and new enrollment information so that's going really well again with our our new enrollment coordinator Elana she's doing a fantastic job um we still have a lot of interest in our tours I think we had a great kickoff in our first um month of tours last month and those numbers are still high so we had the middle school yesterday we had 100 over 160 registrants come um yeah and tour the school about 120 um at um let's see what was that Delair registered

105for Del air we did that tour this week as well we have Holly Glenn coming up um next week so all very exciting this month in February we stepped it up a notch a little bit we joined us for the tours um as did PTA members so a big shout out to them and a thank you to them for being a part of that I think our the the community members really enjoyed that um and the school mascots attended as well so that was that was a great per as well thank you I just have a quick um shout out that I want to share um we found out last week that um one of our teachers um special education teachers Mara Larson who's a support students at Aviation Elementary um was nominated by a

106parent um for the community advisory committee Sala award so she'll be recognized um actually on the 27th which is our next Bo meeting night um at uh North High School so this is um parents across our district um submitted nominations for members of our special education teams whether it's your teachers and instructional Aid um Specialists and so I appreciate um their input um the Sela is who reviews everything to determine who's selected um so we're really excited to have Miss Lon um be a representative for weisburn um and so we'll be celebrating her on the 27th and um I know Nisha is going to share sh some more updates in terms of some of the Staffing and things that are going to help support our special education on that uh on the uh nominations and

107stuff is it possible to share who else was nominated just so that they can be yeah recognized by for their work that if someone took the time to to nominate them it would be nice to just you know congratulate them even if they weren't absolutely you know that information from the S but they just let me know who was selected um but I'll find out more so that I know that other parents reaching out letting me know that they had submitted um so I know that that was something parents took time to do so I appreciate that very nice all right um I think okay um great couple couple updates um for me today um I do want to piggyback on what Mo'Nique said about the tours um just really good work from Mo'Nique and

108from from Ilana and the team I know Erica's put in some time too with Maria uh marketing also attending taking pictures just being there uh kind of reimagining what the tour would look like um I mean hundred literally I mean when you're I mean these are massive tours you know and just uh we're learning as we go uh but but definitely a lot of interest and with a you know 37 38% permit population I mean this is a really significant practice for us you know to make sure that we that we handle the tours and that we're able to to um you know keep our our our classrooms filled and keep our our schools filled so um just want to want to share that also had an opportunity to um attend the the annual acts

109of superintendence imposium um last week the week before last week uh and some of the key key takeaways from that is um the developing conversation and and utility of AI um not only as uh not only for students but but really what it seemed the focus was and how educators teachers administrators Etc can leverage that technology to able to um provide efficiencies and um just interesting some of the upcoming programs or or AI chat Bots or whatever they're called you know um what they're going to start evolving over time rapidly faster than we can imagine um and really do amazing things um so just just excited to hear that um there was a lot of conversation around immigration um and how school districts in California responding to uh some of the federal initiatives or federal

110uh ERS executive orders um obviously there's still a little bit of a lack of clarity in terms of what schools can do and and and um how we would respond however I think that we we've really started trying to stay on the front line of of reading those things and being uh proactive and and responsive um but it's definitely on on um on our minds and on our hearts in a lot of ways um also want to talk about graduation this year um I did we will send messaging out but just to to you know let the board know and I know you know I've sent email um to you but we do have to change our graduation date at the middle school this year because Da Vinci also graduates um their students on Thursday

111I see some looks they didn't know so I'm going to retract that statement and we'll we'll bring it back at another meeting uh no we we we uh there was a conflict Da Vinci three high schools graduate on the Thursday which is the 12th I believe uh June 12th so we are looking to move the Middle School graduation to the 11th not ideal to have students graduate 8th graders graduate and have to come back to school so we're trying to figure out how we're going to manage that navigate that um so more to come and and more conversations to be had related to that um but what the good news is is that we have the same day last day school is Da Vinci so I mean you know we're going to count our blessings

112um and move forward uh also want to share uh we are in the process of uh securing furniture for the pilot program that we're that we're saying sure sure um and uh with that we're expecting um probably you've procured Furniture right yes uh for for the pilot please yeah but um I just wanted to share that just due to um delays the which oneing June 14th or 15 uh more like October U no it's looking like the pilot will take place in March um we'll have some Pilot Furniture March April April um and then we will but the point of this comment was more to say that it's looking like October will be a time that we would be able to um have more more uh when we when we actually put the order in

113obviously it's just there's some delays in the shipping and so I just want to um and just in procuring that large number of of furniture so we may have to have a a a strategic plan to get furniture into classrooms uh maybe during Thanksgiving break or something around that time right is that did I hit that right no you want to add to it just so that we can make sure it's public and right that's actually what you told me I know I know and please don't speak in terms of Seasons good evening board uh so to piggy back off of what Dr Silvers was mentioning yes the pilot FF has been placed the orders actually were um issued out prior to going on break in December so current lead times um and updates that

114I have been given is that the orders aren't estimated to be start delivering installation until mid March due to disruption of classrooms and to avoid that disruption to staff we've looked at the schedule and have decided that we are going to Target Spring break for those move out of existing furniture and then the move in of the um installation of the pilot furniture which would then give um um staff and students the opportunity to then pilot the furniture right after spring break up and through the last day of school at which time we will conduct surveys we may do um a survey po or prior to the conclusion of the pilot just to see how the furniture is going if we end up receiving great responses from that first survey we may elect to start

115ordering the furniture sooner to help try and advance the current um plan schedule as Blake was alluding to to where the actual classroom Furniture would be then ordered in much larger um sizes and orders so it could be delivered and installed prior to um winter break but right now based on scheduling that's our best case scenario at this time for planning all right thank you does that make sense yeah okay great thank you just what I said um also want to want to share that uh that we uh we also are uh beginning the the signage um process I know that the board we had shared with the board and the board has shared you know the urgency by which we want to get signed signage uh permanent signage back up on our campuses and

116get those banners down um so we are we are in that process we're still targeting Sumer this summer is going to be busy just say we'll just say it's going to be really busy summer it's going to be a fun summer but uh signage will be part of that summer summer planning and and project uh so just want to keep that front center I know that's come up a couple time at board me board meetings do we have any temporary fix for the dealer not yet not yet it looks like we can maybe put up a like some kind of black tarping behind it so uh we're going to give we're going to give it a shot and see what happens yeah um yeah it's weird like when the on the Marquee at Del air

117when when it's when it at night when it's light you can't see the sign that covers it you just see it's weird it's a yeah the PRI so it looks it looks like there's no sign like there's no uh so yeah no like there's no Banner correct um so we we'll take a look at that so yes we're we're looking at a at a sort of a dark um like a plastic tarp type thing so we're just it may be a couple weeks before we get that get that in the all the signage this is not like the big Marquees changes right so these are things we don't have to get State approval that's correct right it's a a letter for letter replacement um right no I me yeah we will replace the base name

118I think the question little permanent yeah actual Marquee itself it was because we when we had talked about it before there was potentially a delay if we were going to do the mares because we had to get the the um things I just wanted folks to know that the this is like on us to order it and get it done but there's no like approvals because I think that delayed some of the other projects was getting approvals so yeah all right um also wanted to share sh that we have um scheduled tentatively scheduled we'll get information out for March 27th um at 4 p.m. uh to do the groundbreaking at the 135th um in aviation wisman sports complex um that'll kick off a really really exciting and fast-paced kind of process and progress towards opening

119that field sometime uh you know in December of 2025 so we're you know we're we're less than half a year away it feels like to to have that that facility done long kind of long awaited so I'm really really excited about that um and then last I just want to say that I want to congratulate Nisha dle for being nominated as the AXA Human Resources administrator of the year for uh 2025 2024 sorry uh for Region 14 just a you know a true pleasure to work uh work with Nisha and to uh definitely well so well deserving um of that recognition so thank you for everything that you do and uh we'll definitely celebrate more but I did want to um want to share that with the board with the public kind of fresh off

120the press um so congratulations thank you now you have to give a speech and that's all I have today all right no speech no speech next time wait we'll wait for after the event Blake talks on that all right we're moving on in our agenda to section 9.1 and that's public comment do we have any public comments on agenda items no the public okay we will go on to section 10 which is consent is there a motion for item 10.1 you have a motion for 10.1 second any comments questions just thank you for getting back to me on my questions Dr Silvers and how good excellent thank you all those in favor I I so for those in the public that just approved that the entire consent agenda so that's items also 10.2 through 10.23

121we're moving on to action items which um first item is 11.1 is to receive board policies for the first reading I need a summary unifor this is for the uniform complaint uh process and also for cup motion you have a second motion a second any comments questions here none all those in favor I I okay item 11.2 to receive board policy for second reading this is for a board member remuneration that was um also on our last agenda is there a motion so moved by Rebecca the second second by Nelson comments or discussion just uh thank you again to the board for considering this uh thing I think it will really make a difference for folks in the future um and you know like I have a babysitter at home tonight with my kids so

122it'll make an immediate difference um in my ability to participate and be here fully present so I appreciate the um recognition of the fact that we all have different circumstances and um and giving folks a greater opportunity to participate so thank you Rebecca all favor hi hi motion carries four going on to section facilities item 12.1 is to award an agreement for 135th and Aviation Sports Complex for inspector of record I consulting services to Pringle group is there a motion motion a second you have a second any comments or questions good experience the s okay all those in favor I I motion carries 40 item 12.2 is to award agreement also for 13 Aviation Sports comple Complex for the lab of record consulting services to Corey engineering and Testing Incorporated is there a motion second

123Rebecca comments questions hear none all those in favor I motion carries 40 item 12.3 is a notice of completion and release of intention for the Cal shape projects for various sites with site logic through and being paid through measur funds is there a motion second second Rebecca any comments questions all those in favor I motion carries 40 you at a 12.4 award of contract for campus modernization items and services from arban yeah Union School District P piggyback bid number 20 22-23 d001 for Aviation elementary school and weisburn middle school is there a motion yeah motion Nelson a second second by Rebecca any comments or questions hearing none all those in favor I I motion also carries 40 moving on to section with regard uh fiscal item 13.1 is to approve additional funds for epic Staffing

124is there a motion El a second second any comments or questions very none all those in favor I I she carries 40 item 13.2 is to approve Consultants agreement for star of California is there a motion motion second Com or questions hear none those in favor I motion car for okay upcoming dates and events we have a holiday presid day Monday February 17th and our next board meeting is Thursday February 27th any other dates um no we'll get we'll we'll add some to the next agenda um but I do want to say we do have need for a second close session okay we do have a need for a second okay well with that I'm going to go ahead and take a motion to ATT turn the Open Session but before I do that want

125to close by saying thank you everyone again for all your hard work and effort in making wisman community and for serving all of our students making it a better place and in appreciation of the Bulldog Park be kind as I will as well so motion second all in favor thank you and have a good evening