001now they're looking at daddy Pitman instead of us there we go alright it's that one ladies and gentlemen welcome the board chair will be here momentarily you have to suffer through me good trying to get this meeting going thank you all for joining us for this regular board meeting June 27 2019 as is our custom we'd like to start with a moment of silence I would like to take a moment since I have the mic actually oh the all the board members up here are wearing lapel pins for Gay Pride Month this this month is is Gay Pride Mart month and in fact tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City that many see is a takeoff moment for much of this work and so we know that how much
002progress we have made in Derman in this country and how far we have to go to respect the lives of our children who grow up with in in difficulty challenges of being gay or lesbian or of other gender identities so as we take a moment of silence tonight if we could consider both the progress we've made and the challenges we still have in that regard so let's have a moment silence thank you we have tonight with us to need of flowers Meeny ladies on and Spanish interpreter with their own public schools miss flowers alumnus of Durham public schools Riverside High School go pirates she has a BA in English linguistics with a minor in Hispanic studies and Spanish MS flowers is here this evening to assist our spanish-speaking families and community members you want to
003introduce yourself in Spanish for us hola muy buenas tardes oh I miss flowers e yo soy una de las interpreters para las escuelas públicas de Durham y esto aqui para ser bear a las personas que necesitan televisio de interpretation and in addition we have Martha Romo regilla is a Durham public schools ESL teacher with 35 years experience this remote village has 17 years of experience teaching and terpil in the United States buenas tardes minimally smart Oromo yo semester day English como second video ma muy contento de estar aqui estoy para estar ayuda las familias que necesitan interpretation esta noche gracias and that brings us to celebrations I celebrate that mr. Lee has shown up so well I apologize it looks like everyone in the Triangle wants to go to the Durham Bulls baseball game tonight
004yeah and so that means 147 are strangled so I do apologize for celebrations yes and as we think about celebrating we have to remember that this is Black Music Month so we celebrate all of the music that black people have brought to these shores and continue to bring and of course it was Michael Jackson's the death of Michael Jackson yesterday so we celebrate the fact that he was here for us and all the gifts that he gave us if everybody would come down to the red carpet so that we can recognize our students of the month and our spark Award winners for the month as well as long as we're adding to celebrations I will note that our our high schools graduated in fine form with about 76 million dollars worth of scholarships that were
005offered to our students there are some great things happening in Durham public schools and we're looking forward to sharing even better news in the months ahead but it's my pleasure to introduce the Durham public schools students of the month for June and July because we may if we're lucky not have a full board meeting next month we'll never we never know but just to me just to hedge our bets we're introduced we're introducing our June and July member of students of the month tonight the student of the month program spotlights students who distinguished themselves with character and integrity who are active in their schools and community and who maintain excellence to academic standards we'll start with our June student of the month so I'd like to invite Jerome leathers principal at Southern school of energy
006and sustainability to please come to the podium to introduce Southern's student of the month and then we will follow with the school for Creative Studies for the July student of the month [Applause] so good evening it's my pleasure to introduce to you today southern school of energy and sustainability a student of the month for June and his name is mr. Trayvon Cox mister Trayvon Cox he he joined us this year his senior year from the Bahamas and so Trayvon is here and I'm hoping that he had a great experience here with us trayvon immediately became a becoming involved in our curricular activities as well as our athletic activities so trayvon included himself with the sock the varsity soccer team as well as varsity indoor and outdoor track and so what's most important is that Trayvon
007was a member of the Student Government Association so every single thing that they had in the school he was a part of but what highlights Trayvon for most young men most young women as well is that every greeting from Trayvon is yes sir no sir yes ma'am no ma'am like where did you come from and so uh so it's been a pleasure now that Trayvon has graduated he's going on to Durham Tech with eventual plans of attending North Carolina A&T University in 2021 so trademark Occident before I sit down I want to recognize his uncle mr. Cox and his grandmother mrs. Cox and so he'll join his parents soon back in the Bahamas for a little while and he'll come back for continued studies so thank you Trevon and with the Cox family join us
008as well you [Applause] and now introduce Renae price principal of the school for Creative Studies and our July student of the month good evening it is my delight to introduce the school for Creative Studies student of the month for July Jason McMiller Jason is a rising senior and in less than a month he will be a rising senior because we go back to school in July and before I begin I would like to recognize his parents mr. and mrs. McMiller because Jason has the distinction of being the first class to open the doors of the school for Creative Studies in 2013 so he will be the first graduating class that has been with us from sixth grade all the way to 12th grade and those families that opened the doors with us took a great
009great I will say gamble because they bought into the vision when the building wasn't done when the furniture was not ordered and this has been a great success and Jason is a great success story so just as mr. leather said his student is always good morning how are you yes sir no sir Jason came to us the same way Jason has excelled in middle school he's excelled in high school he is in honors courses AP courses involved in many of our clubs including the young male achievers program he is full of life positivity character and cares about others and when we talked to the teachers in the school the name that kept coming up over and over and over again was Jason McMillan you can always find him with a smile on his face and
010without question is willing to assist everyone in the school our high schoolers as well as our middle schoolers he I just found out in the hall that he has gotten his first job and he is very excited about that Jason has chosen two pathways since he's been with us and that is digital music and visual arts and he's a very very talented artist so we cannot wait until we see what he does with that and his post-secondary plans include a four-year education at possibly State he said I had to cringe a little bit but okay we'll deal with that to study architecture and my statement was that Jason shared with us that he is a very mature student and provides productive feedback regarding how to better our school community and beyond Jason never Minds coming
011to us saying I think we could do this a little bit better and that is something we empower our students to do when we welcome that but above that I want to say that we abide by the four C's at the school for Creative Studies creativity communication collaboration and community and Jason is one of those students that brings our community together every single day it doesn't matter how he's feeling it doesn't matter who he's interacting with he is someone that you can always go to and he makes you in a happy place so if you're ever feeling down stop by Creative Studies and see Jason but this is just one accolade in I know a series of many so congratulations Jason [Applause] and once the families had the chance to take their pictures we'd love
012to have you up as well you Mayson McMiller congratulations to both both of our students of the month for June and July this school year Durham public schools launched a pinning initiative to catch our employees our students and our community supporters in the act of doing something great for the students and schools of Durham public schools I think I would use the word schools about 500 times in that one sentence alone we're extremely excited to celebrate this group of recipients who are influencing marketing and engaging our community in schools to ignite the limitless potential of Durham public schools so on my right we have spark recipients on my left we have families and supporters and friends and colleagues of them we're very grateful to all of you for being here tonight we're going to start
013with our spark advocates spark advocates are the influencers who work outside of Durham public schools to develop community partnerships increase engagement and support for DPS and improve student outcomes I'm going to read all of the names some tonight not all of them could be with us on a summer evening but tonight we are recognizing spark advocates Laura Ferguson from the YMCA of the Greater Triangle Carlos Moses of 4h and Mike de breve the Durham Soil and Water Conservation District our spark advocates next are our spark igniters these are the people inside or outside Durham public schools who provide hands-on direct serve impact services to students these can be teachers volunteers family members or people who just get it done as members of the Durham public schools team they include Carla Roberts of Glynn Elementary Kelly
014Magee of Carrington middle school Danielle Hamilton of Durham School of the Arts Lena desk ins of Sandy Ridge Elementary still looking Sonia Flores of Lucas middle school Jennifer Miska from Rogers her middle school good afternoon Jennifer miski Carla Joyner southern school of energy and sustainability and Waldo Rogers of Lowe's Grove middle school our spark igniters now looking at the list the highlighted names on this list we do have a large number of spark supporters here thankfully and these are the administrators non-instructional staff and other individuals again inside or outside of durham public schools who provide a foundation and expertise to support our students teachers and schools they include Mary Casey from arts education Donna Hudson from student assignment both of them are retiring members of the Durham public schools family and have received theirs Donna
015you're here she got her pin earlier but she's here [Applause] [Laughter] Emily Pugh Masaccio research and accountability Britta Parker from transportation Cheryl Caitlyn occupational therapy Joe Harris from transportation oh you're here your joke at Joe Harrison's at a conference tonight caning Blanding maintenance Lindsey Pelham Glen Elementary Ron Whelan curriculum and instruction live Angela elazer Oak Grove Elementary Emily Cottrell southern school of energy and sustainability and Jonathan McDowell from construction and capital planning and last but absolutely not least our last group of spark at sparks tonight is simply our sparks our students themselves who exemplify their limitless potential by innovating serving or leading our spark honoree tonight is mahogany Johnson from Merritt more elementary school [Applause] we have we have been able to take the time in our school board meetings to recognize a large number
016of people in the Durham community who make it happen for our students day in day out we are so grateful to all of them thank you very much this concludes her celebrations tonight celebrations are always great and the spark pans are a really good way to recognize those who go above and beyond alright alright the next item on the agenda is the agenda review and approval I move approval of the agenda second has been moved and properly seconded that we approve the agenda as presented any further discussion all in favor say aye all opposed please use the same time it passes unanimously next item on the agenda is the Board of Education the approval of the Board of Education minutes dated May 22nd 2019 move approval second it's been moved and properly seconded that we
017approved the board of education minutes dated May 22nd 2019 any further discussion all in favor say aye aye aye all opposed please use the same time it passes unanimously as well the next item is general public comment and before I call those up I wanted to make note that our board member Natalie Beier is out of town she's in Oklahoma and I'm sure her thoughts are with us yes she she is on vacation so now I just want to make note of that since she is not here we're going into public comment and there is a statement to read regarding public comment but I don't see it so I'm gonna wing it oh no here we are alright Yuri didn't want me to wing it no mess that up alright so as a quick review
018of the rules first please state your name if you're speaking for an organization please state your name and the name of the organization second speakers are asked to present their comments in a specified time usually three minutes it'll be three minutes today when the yellow light comes on you have 15 seconds left to start winding up your remarks when the red light comes on it will beep which indicates your time is up complaints about named staff and students or parents should not be voiced in open session however we are very interested in hearing your concerns with regard to public education safety of students or the operation of our school system finally the board members will listen carefully and consider the comments but we do not engage with a discuss in a discussion with speakers that
019being said the first public comment is javonni lewis then we'll have dr. Fatimah Sela good afternoon I came to the board meeting in October 2018 regarding the work that Durham committee education team has done to get better results for black students in DPS at that board meeting I said from this DPS system we need transparency the plan for intentional execution and accountability after hearing about the in school suspension that was happening at DSA Durham School of the Arts we asked for transparency around discipline practices a training schedule and implementation plan for restorative practice center and a consultant to help with the implementation we were told that the administrative team is handling the training and being at tensional however there are no resources to bring in a consultant to evaluate the process of changing from ISS
020to RPC dr. Maddox Perry shared a general plan for execution at one of the board meetings but the majority parents of color continue to see restorative justice practices as in-school suspension execution should be done at the school improvement plan level and as a board approves sip plans every two years want to make sure that that is on your radar to look at that intentional execution of restorative practice centers within each school we ask for transparency and transparency in the data that reflects the culture of the school in this board and this administration has been making tremendous strides and what you see as manned transparent but what does it look like from the parents perspective and what does it look like with data transparency regarding race equity and what's happening in our schools this incident at
021DSA raised questions of accountability who is accountable in a school that is not implementing a racial justice program or cultural framework with fidelity or getting students their work during the in-school suspension time parents need to know what to expect and who to hold accountable their children and the school alike and working towards solutions to these hard questions we have black parents and leadership who attended the black parent workshop and wanted to continue to see this work being done we have worked collaboratively with the district 1 we had an action item for data collection and we have parents versed in research analysis willing to view the data and make recommendations on hand which dr. Hinton you'll hear from him in a little bit we also had an action item for DSA and we were grateful for
022dr. Salette and her continued follow-up of action to make sure the kids are getting their curriculum during the suspension restored a practice time and lastly we had action items to support the district in completing a cultural assessment and racial equity matrix we are working on specific race equity training needed an increasing parent engagement that is connected to the school improvement plan and being supportive ideally this should happen at every school but it is a benefit even be able to pilot at least one school that this can come to fruition there are great internal strides and district visioning my concern is that we will have these changes at some schools and at some school levels but without backing and policy changes this will be advocacy for a moment we need policy that speaks specifically to data
023collection capturing data of all parties involved we need policy that speaks to specific ongoing professional development specifically to address anti-racist practices and implicit bias to regain the trust of parents while improving the academic success of all students especially students of color consider what transparency execution and accountability embedded in this policy looks like and what a progressive board is willing to do to get there thank you thank you dr. Sewell a I'm Reverend dr. Fatimah Sally and I'm here to just I know I was gone for two months i sat out there but I thought you had really good meetings and I didn't want to keep hounding you but so but I'm back a couple of things I want to keep you abreast of that we have made significant beautiful progress moving forward deputy superintendent Hardy
024and dr. McGregor and dr. Bullock or in a meeting where they had agreed to think about what it was to have a checklist of the classes that each student has monster sent to our PC and that to make sure they get their work for each of those courses while they're there and then what's the contingency plan if those students do not get their coursework while they're in our PC so there's a checklist and it would be done either in triplicate or whatever so we can make sure that the student and teachers and administrators are accountable to what's being missed in the classroom and as soon as they're not missing a whole bunch of working we're not accountable to these young people who are in ISS or our PC and they're not getting their work which
025was a big issue for this was that how are we sending them there and then there's just no accountability or some Hut some sort of check system to make sure they get their work second I want to say that we do have here DSA PTSA I'm leadership who has been phenomenal and like catching fire with this and pushing the school to make some amends and pushing leaders and administrators to see this as a real issue so this has been a community-wide pack everything it's just been it's catching fire I just don't want because the new cycle is so fast I just don't want us to lose momentum on this it is important so two things I want to highlight always with this number one why are certain students getting sent to ISS RPC and notice
026I'm always gonna use ISS RPC because until I see it is truly restorative I'm gonna keep ISS in the language until you show me until we're transparent about the real changes that are happening in there I want us to keep ISS on our mind because it is still looking a lot like that in some circles so and second why they're getting there and so there is racial training and equity training going on but that's not a one-off we need to make it a continual process that people are always learning let me say this oppression is dynamic it changes we have a new Jim Crow because the old Jim Crow we fought against it and if we're not continually creative about how we're gonna offset the school to Prison Pipeline it will continue to be what
027it is it just will so I am just encouraging us to stay lit stay lit second of all that once they're in and we decide that students cannot be in a community classroom that were accountable to them even in that space in beautiful ways that they're still being educated and that this that the educational system never takes on never takes on a punitive system attributes it should always be educational and that's what we want for all students but particularly for the disproportion in black and brown bodies that we have at our schools thank you thank you [Applause] Harvey Hinton and next will be Amy Franks greetings my name is Harvey hunter third as Miss Lewis spoke earlier I'm going to be speaking to this notion of transparency as it relates to the black parent empowerment
028workshops and so quickly I'm a teacher educator of a past life and my wife is a teacher and she does professional development good stuff and so we were talking about this idea of what happens in math okay in math we know that we have students who are low performing we have no problems identifying who the teachers are getting them some work we have no problems identifying who the students are getting them some work we as a bike parent empowerment committee we're asking the same thing as it relates to these suspensions we want to know who the teachers are and it's not to out them it's not to make an uncomfortable environment for them in their school but it's to provide them with the necessary resources it's very difficult for us to come in for some
029type of strategy of solution well we're not able to put our finger on and not any you know disparaging way to say these are the teachers who are having the problems let us work with you we understand the implicit bias we understand it's institutional racism so on the same lines we just asking there for more transparency with the data so that we can provide solutions that work with the teachers who are having the most infractions thank you thank you good evening I'm Amy Franks on the education partnerships manager at book harvest and my purpose of speaking to you tonight is to offer gratitude on behalf of book harvest for the board support of our books on break program without it we would not have implemented this district-wide in all 30 of DPSS elementary schools because
030of your support that of the superintendent office the cooperation of administrators and the work of school day staff particularly media specialists at each of the schools without whom accomplishing the mission of books on break simply would not be possible we were able to send all dps elementary students home for the summer with self selected books that they now own to read and enjoy again and again in DPS book harvest provided 76307 TX for students to take their pick from among the variety provided through the generosity of donors and sponsors as well as through purchases made possible by grant funds though the book giving and selecting looks different from school to school it happens district-wide and there are no other book giving programs in the state of which we are aware that enjoy this kind of
031partnership this kind of access one wherein all elementary students in a school district participate this is an incredible partnership for which we are very thankful and I greatly appreciate that some of you were able to find the time to come volunteer at books on break or just observe it in action so thank you for that I invite you all to be a part of book celebrate 2020 year we plan with an eye for expansion and for increasing the number of books each child takes home so we are always open to suggestions about doing more and being better if any of you would like more information I want to share ideas please don't hesitate to reach out to me again thank you for your support Oh dr. hardy wants me to share that on July 12
032book harvest is hosting a Rita Palooza block party that's at the WG Pierson Center from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. games activities food and free boots thank you next we'll have dr. Rhonda Taylor Bullock and then amber majors good afternoon I'm here this evening representing the Durham committee on the affairs of black people I am the education committee chair and I'm here specifically as the education committee chair I just want to first say thank you to the board and to DPS leadership for the openness and the accessibility that we have to you all it's been the greatest that I've experienced since working in Durham public schools and I appreciate the work and the efforts that you will have put to ignite our district and to move it forward and so that's why I'm very hopeful about
033the asks that I'm bringing on behalf of the Education Committee we are coming together and thinking about how we're going to prioritize the educational experiences of black children specifically but all children benefit when black children win and so we have a list for round one of some specific ask that we have that our time abound and smart by third grade we are asking that every child in the district will have had at least two classroom teachers of color one black and one brown the research exists talking about the impact of having teachers of color by third grade the impact is exponential the target school year for this is fall 21 20 21 we ask that the district hosts an annual educators of color job fair starting with the 2019 2020 school year we believe that
034in in this data that supports that black and brown children need to see black and brown teachers in the classrooms when it comes to educating black and brown children black and brown educators are born on 3rd that doesn't mean that we automatically are skilled at being educated but we have relationships and shared experiences that better equips us to serve in that role by spring 2020 we ask that you all create a detailed plan to increase recruitment efforts of educators from historically black colleges and universities our cities we'd like to see a plan for how those things will happen by spraying 2020 when deciding which schools receive new pilot programs we ask that you base those decisions on schools with the top 20% of economic need we would like to see we would like for you
035all to produce documentation that highlights that you all have done that process number five we request that every new hire should be required to go through racial equity training starting with the 2019 2020 school year number six each year during the week of welcome we ask that every staff member will be required to attend racial equity training starting with a 2019 2020 school year number seven every school should complete a racial equity audit starting with the 2019 2020 school year and this is phase one of our ask of the school board and of the district thank you dr. Bullock dr. Bullock would you mind sending those to us electronically thank you my name is Amber majors and I'm here on behalf of village of wisdom we're an organization here in Durham we work with primarily
036black parents to support them and increasing their capacity to advocate for schools that are racially just and culturally affirming and so that in we listen to parents we listen to their requests we listen to what they're saying and we create tools that they can use on their quest and when one tool is the culturally affirming Climate Survey this is a tool that measures schools responsiveness to students culture and also students grievances about experiences of racial discrimination and the special thing about this tool is that it was developed with the input of 7th to 12th grade students here most many of them attend Durham public schools and something else about this tools it was reap for people who like data it was recently validated so that means that the tool is reliable and it's measuring not
037just what we're saying is measuring but what the students who gave input about well this is these are the type of things you should ask about is measuring that students experiences and so some of what is measuring our indicators of equity justice and cultural affirmation as outlined in the bps strategic plan many of our black parents as well as school administrators have requested tools such as these that they can use as their evidence to show that these experiences that their children are having aren't just isolating experiences but their collective experiences right and so to that end we hope that you all will honor those requests of the parents and the students who said this is what we're experiencing and this is what we think should be measured especially as it relates to using data in
038evidence thank you thank you how come and that concludes our our schedule Jim general comment general public comment the next item on the agenda are the consent items 2019 through 2022 Durham public schools AIT plan and the scribbles software contract both of these were discussed at our work session or with the subcommittee's input on consented consent agenda and what's your what's your pleasure move approval of the consent agenda ii been moved and properly seconded that we approve the consent agenda as presented any further discussion all in favor say aye hi all opposed please use the same time passes unanimously before we move forward as you notice dr. Lou Bega did you speak about dr. gazenga dr. Moo Banga is not here with us today he is in the Congo with family on a much-needed vacation
039we wish him well based on his facebook pictures he's having a blast so I told him don't check in he said he was gonna check in once don't check in disconnect we need you fresh so when he comes back so I wanted to make note of that since we do have a another empty chair the next item on the agenda is academic services dr. hardy I think my hands just it just appeared good evening board members chairman Lee it's my pleasure tonight for us to talk about 321 work based learning initiative we are really excited about this work which we know will impact well over 10,000 dps students we are grateful for your support the Durham community has really began embarking on a paradigm shift that embraces youth based work learning as both essential to
040the quality of k-12 education and vital to us ensuring a local economy this is a transformational effort for our school district one that requires us to be thoughtful to reposition some of our work and to restructure in an effort to create the capacity to ensure that we have the resources to make sure this reaches each and every child in our high school we know we can't do this kind of work alone we are grateful for your support as well as the community at large because this kind of work depends on our business community to partner to ensure that our children are having those experiences we hope today as you get to learn more about this initiative and our progress that you will continue to advocate for this work within our community today our presentation will
041allow us to talk about the three to one initiative the alignment and framework to our derm strategic plan will provide you with the status update and our work with community partners the district as well as our principals as we begin launching this initiative and it will share with you next steps this is an implicit implementation plan and phase one actually will begin this fall and we've had the great opportunity to have some implementation at Riverside High School it's my pleasure to turn it over to dr. Julie Pak executive director of Career and Technical Education Thank You dr. hardy good evening chairman Lee board members in order to ignite students limitless potential and ensure they are prepared for college careers and life they must have offered he's to connect the classroom college careers learning to the
042world of work and gain work experience although I represent CTE this initiative will provide a foundation to ensure that all students not just CTE students are ready for a gainful career no matter when they decide to enter the workforce whether it's after high school post-secondary education or military service a recent study by MDC a research organization here in Durham found that 40% of Durham's young people may not be on track for to complete high school achieved post-secondary credentials or some kind of gainful employment by the time that they're 25 so our theory of change is that relevant learning combined with work exposure and experience will put those students on track to be future ready the model that we've adopted for achieving this change is going to be the 321 work based learning it calls for
043all all high school students to have at minimum three career awareness activities each year to career exposure activities each year and one career experience by the time that they graduate now at first consideration of the awareness and exposure goals in particular may not seem all that ambitious but when you consider the scale that we're talking about 10,000 to 11,000 students per year and the fact that we'll be tracking participation and ensuring that all students gain equitable access to these experiences it's really going to be a tremendous undertaking and exciting - now it's the experience category where this model becomes especially ambitious because it's saying that in any given year up to 2,500 students will be in our community participating jobs internships apprenticeships and again very exciting at this time I'm going to take the turn
044it over to our lead workforce development coordinator Andre Austin and she's going to talk about our work based learning continuum miss Austin has been instrumental in the development of the three to one framework and manages our community and business partnerships at the district level good evening over the last few years the system that you see on the screen has been in place for schools and employers to engage with our students at the high school level we call this our work based learning continuum our continuum allows employers to access a menu of options and easily register for them which simplifies the engagement process the existing system provides a foundation from which to launch the three to one framework which will ensure that work based learning is systematically employed across the district and that students have equitable
045access to the available experiences the three to one initiative aligns with the three major components of DPSS five-year strategic plan under priority 1a as part of diverse and robust Career Pathways all students should have equitable access to career awareness exposure and experience activities priority 1c calls for every high school student to develop a four-year plan of note is that this plan encompasses college and career readiness it will align with the three to one framework ensuring the students achieve the required work based learning objectives and finally DPS recognizes the critical importance of community partnerships such as those with our businesses government agencies and community organizations both to academic attainment and career readiness of our students the three to one initiative itself is a model of community-wide engagement committed to providing programs and services for youth dr.
046pack will now provide an update on the work that has taken place so far for this initiative over a year and a half ago the three-to-one work based learning framework work was developed in partnership with made in Durham to address the urgent need to graduate students career ready to lay the groundwork for successful implementation of the initiative both the community and the school district along with the schools have been taking steps to develop the systems needed to sustain the change the paradigm of paradigm and practice as you can see we've been busy over the last year and a half and these are we've been working with the community within this district within the schools to ensure this initiative is ready to launch fall 2019 up on the screen you can see here many of the
047things that we've already done I would like to especially recognize our cross district implementation team as well as our community partners including made in Durham Durham County the city of Durham the Durham office of economic and workforce development Durham Technical Community College and our CTE advisory board without whom much of this work would not be possible the next two slides demonstrate how the initiative will be implemented each year over the next four years these are examples of what a school may implement for each category we will roll out the initiative grade level by grade level to provide focus and control as we build capacity across the district the first year will focus just on freshmen at all high schools while we maintain and sustain existing work based learning experiences to establish a baseline and work
048with the community to build the needed infrastructure as we scale up each year in year two we'll expand to include tenth grade as well keeping in mind that each grade level added equates to roughly 2500 students please note that schools are already doing many of these things what we're talking about is providing a system maduk and strategic organization for these things to occur so that we provide equity in awareness exposure and experience activities in years three and four we'll begin offering expanded work based learning options such as internships apprenticeships and long-term volunteering for our juniors as we talk with our community partners we have found them to be extremely enthusiastic and supportive of the 321 initiative and they are very optimistic about the future expansion of work based learning experiences for our students as we
049gain more community partners to meet the need as I just mentioned there's a lot of excitement building for this initiative both internally and externally moving forward we want to capitalize on this momentum and our next steps are supporting the high school principals and providing them with guidance and support for the fall 2019 rollout of the freshman class giving schools the flexibility to create a three to one plan that meets their needs and their school's population and the resources that they have available helping everyone understand the goals of the 321 plan and how it relates to their staff and their school continuing to advance expand and intensify the internal and external marketing campaign and ultimately we're asking excuse me we're asking the community to host 2,500 work based learning experiences at one time and we know
050that that's going to have to expand the community's commitment and so asking for that and then finally this initiative across multiple budget streams including local state federal community and in-kind so seeking those budget sources finally as we launched launched this initiative we understand that it will require ongoing advocacy both internally and externally we know that achieving goals of this model we require a paradigm shift we're all students not just CTE students leave our schools prepared for careers and our future ready this means all teachers will have a role in preparing students for careers and working together to help students be successful after high school and lastly of course it will require funding to cover the cost particularly as we scale the work up over the next four years for paid internships field trip staffing to
051supervise the internships things like that so thank you very much again for your support for your enthusiasm for the three to one based learning initiative for Durham public schools this initiative has the power to help all of our students reach their maximum potential as citizens of Durham and graduates to have marketable skills and become viable and competitive citizens for the for the future of themselves and for the future of Durham open it up for any discussion or questions members thank you I had one quick comment and a question the comment is was that a breakfast for one of our partners this morning and someone came to me excited because for they were excited that a elementary classroom students who were not necessarily identified as a AG still had access to a IG work and and
052she was just so grateful that it wasn't just for a selected group of students and over the years we think of CT the same way so you're doing the same thing here where are you talking about all students and so I'm very grateful there will be other parents coming to us saying the same thing about this my question is when you talk about involving all high schools in your playing are you talking about are you including the specialty schools too or they're gonna stay within their own programs and yes they're all all specialty schools are included including the middle college and the early college okay all students will have a career one day i dr. Pak thank you so much for for this vision your team you're doing a great job just like Xavier I
053had a business person who's been established here for 44 years say that he needs to get children interested in his industry so I told him let's have a date we have a date for lunch on July 11th so I want you to put that on your calendar there you'll be meeting him and he'll talk about how he wants to engage students with his business thank you of course not be having lunch with you thank you all for this work it's so important for our students to get exposed to careers early and I think the more exposure they have the more variety they also realize that their own careers I think we always think about the traditional ones but there's so many different jobs and opportunities out there you talked about all the schools want to
054make sure we have equity there I know some schools are probably better situated to start this process because of the pathways and academies that are already within the schools do we have a plan to make sure we support some schools that might need additional resources to make sure that they're able to do that some I know some schools it's like built into the curriculum where others may not have the same yes ma'am so some of the specialty schools like I said are already doing this so they're they're the high flyers and that enables us to really spend more time with those schools who are on the beginning track of this and so we'll be there differentiating our support as we launched this I had one one kind of convoluted thought here so I this is
055the I'm extremely excited and it's a roll out of years and years and years of work and reef Emilio's myself with the made in Durham staff now and I'm looking at two staff and I'm looking at six staff over there and career development coordinators at the schools and counselors being involved but this is labor intensive I know you talked about resources so we're gonna have to fight for those resources if we're gonna make this a priority but I'm glad to see its kind of scaling up the other thing I'm worried about is just having had a peek into this work in the past is kind of blending what we heard in some of our public comment with with this and that is our community's readiness to accept 2500 students into their places of business and
056where that intersects with white supremacy and institutional racism and this isn't a comment to you know try to sound smart it's it's a fear that we won't be able to to do what we want to do so I think I'm not looking for response I'm looking for a can you communicate back to us what can we do as a board what can we do as citizens who care about these things to prepare our community to accept kids that they may have prejudices about into their places of work I've given us enough time I think we can so we have two years to prepare for the scale up and we are working with Maine under arm on that very issue it's not something that we haven't considered and we we are we are problem-solving to the
057extent that we we we we you know even if it's one student or 2,500 students we have to protect the student before they leave and go out into the community and it is about educating our our citizenry about how to even work with our students so I think that that is number one priority before our students leave our school at any at any rate to make sure that our community understands how to work with our students so that's part of our job as well so we'll be working on how to connect with our our businesses meet them they want to meet us we want to meet them and make sure that our students are protected along the way and they also want to make sure that their business is protected so we're all are mutually
058accepted grounds so thank you I have heard from some folks in the business community that are excited to see us moving in this direction I just have a couple kind of logistical questions it's a huge amount of students to track and so on what is who's doing that data collection so a trivet is happening at riverside now right so or at some some part of this happen here what's the data collection look like the Riverside was our planning partner this year and they helped us really figure out how to implement this for the Fall we have some pilot plans in place for data collection we don't have anything still under development okay so we have an electronic tool that we're going to use this first year that we think will really help us track we
059are still investigating because there are multiple tools that can allow us to do that we're using our principals our counselors and our CDC's to really help us think through we want them to be partners and so one of the tools that we're using does interface with our student management system PowerSchool which i think is an excellent opportunity because it allows us to look at what is occurring with the student and help us with 4-year planning there are some additional tools that are also out there that we're exploring as mr. sears indicated this particular initiative is one that takes all of us so not only the support of our board but the city the county businesses and we are going to need over the next four years additional human and fiscal resources to make sure that
060our children have the opportunity we know that it's important to track this information because then we can provide that data not only to you all but to the community to build the momentum as we're gonna need that especially when we have to go for additional grants or other other places for dollars in your kind of development and assessment you talked about how some of this is already in place in the in the work that we've been doing you have any sense of how much is in place it I'd say it at a traditional high school and how much we're talking about doing something we anticipated that question for me I'm am i that predictable yeah no no we could ask that pretty much we said about what 25 percent about 25 percent of our students
061participate in some formal work based learning now across the board I couldn't tell you off the top of my head I can get that back to you but that's right the ballpark is fine so yeah so that so you're ramping it up to three times right a bit yes sir okay that's that's gonna be that's gonna be a challenge thank you again I want to thank you as well for this work I think this is the direction that we've been looking to move and for a while now especially with partner with Durham Tech and trying to get the instructors out to the schools and you know that sort of thing I want to have a couple questions here and it's um when we're talking about these I guess it was was a career experiences right
062we're talking about let me preface this by saying there's nothing wrong with McDonald's right there's nothing wrong with jobs at McDonald's or other fast-food restaurants but I'm asking you know like what types of jobs are we are we talking about are we talking about you know like electric you know like carpenters without Columbia what types of careers are we looking at when we talk about those experiences so we will have have credit for a student who does have a part-time job well what we will ask that they do while they are in their their regular part-time job even if it is a what we would consider a minimum wage fast-food or trade or any kind of entry-level position what we would ask them to do while they were there is spend some time shadowing someone
063in the business their manager different positions in that entry-level positions so that they have an internship ish experience so they're still getting work skills having a part-time job it's very valuable many of us in this room had a part-time job when we were teenagers or young adults and will testify that those skills that we learned on that part-time job are helping us in our current profession so we don't want to take away the fact that an entry-level job is a valuable experience for your student but at the same time we want to also give them the added incentive of spending some time learning some of the other facets of the business that they are working in at the time okay you know thank you for them I appreciate it now during the years before you
064know the the Year the 9th through 11th grade before we get to the actual experiences or even when we find experiences do we have any are we thinking of any alignment with like Durham Tech say a child's that find a student says I really love welding right alright or whatever it might be and there's the possibilities of you know classes or even further instruction during the school year outside of these experiences do are we thinking of you know how we connect them with Durham Tech or what what type of arrangement we can set up for even further explore exploration especially when we get towards the end of high school and some ones really take an interest in a particular trade or a career so absolutely the key to all of this the the thread that
065holds it all together is that career and college readiness plan and so if we're if we're just popcorn it around and having kids doing a career experience and then you know it's not aligned to their career inventory awareness activity that they do and and it's not aligned to some exposure that they've had yes they will have some valuable skills and some information along the way but ultimately if we're not getting them somewhere closer to where they want to be in life then we may not be doing them a service after all so we really want to keep things aligned and the way that we do that and hold it all together for each child and personalize it is that career and college readiness plan and that starts with helping them decide what it is that
066they want to do with their life that what skills they have what interest they have those kinds of things very good my last question well that's not really a question it's more of a statement I would love and phase whatever four five whatever is to move this further down into grades you know eighth grade seventh grade sixth grade I would love to have sixth graders having these conversations you know and thinking about you know obviously they can't have a part-time job at that yeah he's staying federal rules but I was saying what I was in my seventh grader to work in a heartbeat he's not watching so I could say that but I would love to start you know the you know someone I think Steve said earlier we have these conversations you know the
067better we are when we started to get to high school we start to think about that in a broader sense and so you know somewhere down the line you know not look for a plan right now but I would love to see what that would look like financially and and as far as a plan to start to move further down the the grades there so thank you very much we really appreciate you all being here and presenting this I'm really excited about this so thank you thank you all very much thank you thanks hey the next item on our agenda is the chief of staff she has a few that's just three items to present good evening board members and the agenda the first item is policy 3624 second reading mr. McDonald is joining me
068here the board had a couple of questions and regarding this is the extracurricular activities and student organizations I think you answered several of them but with regard to what are other districts doing mr. McDonald did do some research on that and he is prepared to share that with the board if it's the board's pleasure yes please good evening I had the opportunity to talk to several of my colleagues across the state of North Carolina Buncombe County has already passed this they beat us by a couple of days because they passed Aires on June the six most of them are using the term co-enrollment or dual enrollment which disqualifies them from any awards or anything because the student ultimately will receive a diploma from their home school and not from Durham public schools but they will
069be enrolled as a Colle enrolled student in Durham public schools and that's what most of my colleagues across the state are currently attempting to get implemented in their County as it relates to other extracurricular activities currently as it relates to athletics we don't oversee anything except athletics s mr. casein already knows however there are some students currently from Durham School of the Arts that participate in marching band at some of the other schools so that would be something that the district would have to make a decision on because it's not governed according to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association policies we don't govern anything except the sports that we offer within the state of North Carolina thank you the PM anyone have any comments or questions I know in the I think it was
070a work session that we discuss discuss this and I think that was the the outlying question everyone satisfying I think we're satisfied yes yeah I think we're satisfied all right thank you thank you very much mr. Hall of Fame athletic director I'm gonna keep saying that why do I know I keep saying it yes ma'am [Applause] let's check the budget see if we buy a ticket ooh how much did the county commissioners give us all right yes ma'am so not to belabor the point the next section is for thousands there was not any additional comment or commentary questions regarding the section 4000 policies so unless the the board have any questions at this time we accepted I would need thank you well do we need to right now do we have I see we have
0712/3 I mean yeah we actually have to vote on each one of these individually right well the two policies 36:20 in the 4,000 a section I move approval of those no we could do both together it's been moved and properly saying that we approved the second readings of policy 36 20 and policies 4,000 a test policies as there's multiple ones it 4,000 a is several is a series of all tees that's list policies in Section 4008 any further discussion all in favor say aye all opposed please use the same sign passes unanimously thank you and the final item under my section is a discussion regarding the translation of policies into Spanish which was added to the agenda by mister requested by mr. Andrew I did I think mrs. white did you provided you with a
072list of the highlighted policies dr. hardy and myself met and went over the policies that we initially believe should be translated we heard on the side more policies being translated than less I kind of put on my mom hat and figured out which policies I would want as a parent if I was a non-native English speaker and so based on that I've highlighted we've highlighted those policies and I've given you on the last at the end of that the approximate cost to translate those policies into Spanish the global translation Center which would be providing these trends which has in historically translated our policies for us charges 28 cents per word so I went through and counted the words in these policies and the total amount and this could fluctuate but just looking at the ones
073that we've initially highlighted and we're still considering that I mean we it's not at the point of action for the board at this point but it's one hundred and thirty one thousand two hundred and ninety six words which translated into Spanish would be thirty six thousand seven hundred and sixty two dollars in eighty eight cents give or take but that is the current status with regard to translating board policies into Spanish it is not our belief nor the belief of our council that we need to translate every the entire policy menu which was the quarter of a million dollars like the purchasing function I mean I've looked at I mean we looked at it very carefully to make sure that these were so that every please parents would have access but they wouldn't need to
074know like ethics in the purchasing function like we wouldn't need to pay for a lot like a lot of the employment policies were aren't parent related which is what OCR and Department of Ed tends to focus on so that's where we are we would this is obviously for discussion if you have any additional questions we can go back but we're still in the process if we want to take another look at it and kind of run it through some other folks to make sure that these policies are all covered I spoke with mr. Friedman today and this is a lot of policies and so I would like the opportunity to sit down with him as well and go through and make sure that we haven't missed anything in regard to getting making sure we have
075all the policies translated that need to be for our spanish-speaking families so do we do we have a suggestion for should only be Spanish or do we have a an idea of other languages I see it's it's is that number per language yes there should be on the very last page is the list that was mr. Friedman's if you recall his presentation on the language is spoken in our district and legally the only language is that we are required to translate them into Spanish in Spanish but we are obviously wanting to make sure and when I spoke with mr. Friedman today make sure that all parents when they request any information it is provided it through his multilingual Department okay but he was an agreement that the Spanish that this was what should be done
076well that last conversation you know with mr. Friedman was about what with regard to what the other languages that the only one that we are required to translate into is Spanish in there as parents that speak like or do or Hindi or Pashto those parents when they reach out to his department if they request something to be translated they do get those items translated and again that's what I'm saying we're still in the initial stages when he and I spoke today we did discuss and how to make sure that when someone requests something to have like one spot shopping on our website and at the schools that people that make sure that people that speak Pashto are like it's not that many people but still that make sure that they know how to access the
077documents etc that are that they would need as parents so he did indicate that they are doing that but we did both in our conversation and dr.hari and I talked about this a little bit earlier we do need to elevate the access for parents they've not parents that don't speak English or Spanish and he as mr. Friedman was on top of that so does that mean we have kind of a growing translation in effect of policies because as as people are requesting it I have some ways we keep a copy of whatever and that's why so it's kind of a growing set somebody so I guess my question there is part of the reason why this expensive is that we were told that this needed to be a legal translation are we getting in fact
078legal translations of the policies and all these other languages as well when when it's requested well it's not what he is I don't know that they've done policies what he and I were talking about we're like field trip forms and various forms at school send out so we did about the policies correct okay okay I would ask that we asked the folks from the the Keenan Institute it at Duke where they have been working with families and different languages to also take a look at this list and see if you all if you wanted to do that and kind of get a sense of from outside of you know if this list is it seems so it seems like the right list I definitely think it's the right way to move you know to be
079appropriate to meet the needs well also being cognizant of the physical limitations of what we're doing so I thank you for doing that work I had a question to really appreciate the way you tell giving us the approaches you've been taking on this and and I know mr. Freeman always just does great great work I was at a meeting like its last week it was a really refreshing because it was a part of the Durham's campaign a third grade level reading but it was a meeting specifically for parents to actually grow parent leadership in day in that effort and there were a lot of great comments coming from my parents and one of them one of them was talking about how they wish that information was available on-demand like you described with mr. Friedman's Department
080where someone can say here's what I need and they can kind of try to help them and so here we talked about having some things in some policies in place before the demand is asked for my question is and again I know he does great work do you know to what extent he's talked to actual parents and families on helping decide which these policies should be translated no mr. Friedman has not oh okay dr. hardy and myself and that's what I was requesting from the board at this point that you allow us to go and make sure that this list and kind of the plan that we're looking at is appropriate and that would be consulting with mr. Friedman and various other groups to make sure that the needs are being met great because I
081know he's that he's got access to parents waiting for ways to help and lead him in anything we're doing so that would be great if they could be looped in as well thank you well I like 36,000 more than 250,000 yeah so yeah very much so I'm prepared to give so absolutely give more time yeah well this is a discussion yeah we can bring we can once we meet with him we'll bring it back to you okay in the near future okay thank you Mike thank you very much I appreciate that telling you when do you anticipate the readiness of this because it's gonna pass just when do you anticipate we'll have these policies done in Spanish we can bring it back to the board and on the 20th if it's the words pleasure at
082the retreat or the work session in August and having betted the list I mean I don't want it to just be me and dr. hardy saying this is it so once we've vetted the list as we've discussed we can bring it back in as long as we write the check the global translation is ready great so parents can have it yes school either begins yes yes yes so that people understand that we're serious about the business yes of communication yeah can I get some guidance on the retreat or the situation looks good no I don't wanna retreat we need to let's do it yeah we're just doing the the politics right we're just getting which one you the vetted list ranked all right xx we can do the Bennet list on the 20th if that's
083the board's planner is that what you're asking for men know that so they were gonna they're gonna read that's the initial preliminary list so what are you are you asking for like a timeline well I'm trying to reduce the amount of business that we have for the retreat you know and then pushing business to the first meet in August our first well I think it was it the seventh the work session August 8th yeah like we have a little bit of business to do for the well the trans have started over it's more than 28 cents as a they charge you it for expediting in what we could do if it's the board pleasure is at least start with the kind of easy ones and get those started getting translated I don't know what the
084board's involvement is Ben I know typically every policy like in the past I mean it wasn't that many but policies were translated so if it's the board's pleasure we can proceed with getting things translated and then get a vetted list or add additional lists from mr. Freedman and that would allow us to kind of as think they can run concurrently a partial translation and then we could have the translation by the beginning of school these are pretty easy calls here I mean what we're doing what we're basically vetting is if there's any other exactly right yeah so like the highlighted ones I guess you know we could we could get those started but also receive feedback if there are others yes so I mean I'm fine with you guys starting that um I mean I
085don't think we vote on something that 36,000 that's not all right we don't vote on that it's humanly is the expectation that we have as many policies translated by the beginning of the opening of school I just want to make sure we understand um your time I'm not interested in us paying an extra for expedition you know for expediting it right let's just get it started right no one expects it to be done by the time school starts right let's just well several of these policies won't be adopted by the time school starts like the six thousands y'all won't get those until later in the fall but what we have adopted we can get started on that right that's a we should wait until we finish the whole policy manual that hit someone like we
086should not go ahead and translate the 6,000 if we have not edited the 6,000 right there you don't yeah then can't do the 6,000 until y'all adopt them these are did the draft yeah all right can I can I add a few tearless since we're gonna go ahead and get started the seven the NCS be a policy I don't know the first column number is but 111 112 113 114 136 crius grievance procedure discipline discrimination harassment and bullying complaint procedure prohibition against describes not highlighted is that what number is that [Music] numbers in the first column are 111 112 113 those are double codes or triple they've already listed in the 1017 40 those are really important that's why they're a few twice alright thank you but if the board does anything I mean please
087if you see something that you think it would be critical for our families and our parents to have let us know and we will reach out to mr. Friedman also alright okay thank you thank you alright the next item is actually a Board of Education item and this is the resolution recognizing black lives matter at school week of action 2020 now we discussed this in the work session we're actually read it did we voted it did we vote on it that day and we just want yes we did yeah we voted on it we approved it but we wanted to send it to the we wanted it to be in an agenda packet where that's what could view it that's correct what's your almost pleasure on this do you want to read it again or
088do you we we approve it or we just wanted it in the agenda packet is it in two packets I know it's printed out here I didn't see it it's not good yeah I think that was I think that was my request cuz I wanted people to listen it to see it I think they've seen I don't know that we need to read it again I thought we did a pretty good job last time all right yeah very few errors couple of others and odd alright so the video player will just keep it into the package is on the website please take a look at it we approved it last time I think we have the sign it right yeah all right all right next item next time is a closed session what's your pleasure
089I move that we go into closed sessions for the information that's listed on our agenda second it's been moved and properly seconded that we go in a closed session for the reasons stated on the agenda any further discussion all in favor say aye aye all opposed please use the same time it passes unanimously we're in closed session you now how do you prepare to be up here okay we have a new superintendent breaking news I present to you let me go alright we're now back in open session dr. hardy I present for approval the personnel report for this evening full approval for personnel report for June 27 2009 teen thank you has been moved and properly seconded that we approve the personnel report dated June 27th 2019 any further discussion all in favor say aye
090I think all the polls please use the same sign it passes unanimously and with that we're adjourned you