001Yeah. >> Good evening everybody. We're going to call the meeting to order and our first item of business tonight is the student representative report. Um this week at PHS we have ASB elections are next week but this week um students have or candidates have the opportunity to campaign and some ASB campaigns and posters are super creative. There's memes, there's funny quotes, everything everything you can imagine. Um they're going to be voting on their president, vice president, secretary and treasurer for the next school year. Also, leadership sold snow cones or snow cups on Friday and we'll keep doing so for the following Fridays until end of the year. >> Yeah, the snow cones were a big hit. I didn't haven't sold any of them yet, but I did buy one and they were really good and
002those have been a big money maker. We've also we're going to be selling pizzas this Friday and this Saturday at our track meat for districts. We have an oven at the high school that the construction team has built and we've been using that to make homemade pizzas and sell them at events. Awesome. >> Is that your update? >> Yeah. >> Okay. I like a quick update about pizza. Okay. Um All right. Accentuate the positive. >> Those who did you all have something? >> I can share something. >> Well, it's up to you. If you prepared something, go for it. If not, don't worry about it. Um I just want uh hi board and cross principal of the fire ship. Um I just wanted to do a quick thank you. Um last board meeting our grad
003night um parents came and invited you to grad night. Their auction was on Sunday. Um it was beautiful. Um they had a couple of snack moves over the course of the year but they did an amazing job and they were able to raise um around $17,000 for um which is about the typical amount and so just really proud and thankful for that. Um, I also just wanted to give a quick shout out to our future planning center and our u current sub in in a role up there, Maggie Taylor. She's also our color guard um coach who put on an amazing decision day celebration for students on May 8th. You probably saw some highlights on our social media, but just some really great um things happening especially surrounding our graduates and sending them on. So,
004just wanted to shout out to those people. >> Thank you. Okay. Yeah. Um I attended outdoor ed with uh Mrs. Conoran's fifth grade and Missy's very fifth grade uh class last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Um and it's an amazing program. I've gone once before and I just want to thank the school staff, the bus drivers, the staff at outdoor school and all of the chef rooms that attended to help these kiddos have a really good time. >> A lot of memories of those. >> All right, anything else? And there's a newsletter um from Cedexo, right? >> Okay, great. Um, next is citizens comments. Do we have any signups? >> Anybody in the audience wish to did you come here and speak? >> No. You beautiful how this works? >> Just learning about how the board
005works totally here for first board meeting. Just this board or any board? >> Any board ever. >> Oh, well, you came to the right place. >> We do. Okay. Uh, superintendent report. >> Yeah. Thanks, Sheriff Campbell. I just want to uh again kind of reiterate just thank the staff and um the families. This this type time of year is extremely busy with a lot of activities and um so many things happening for our kids and and it takes additional staff time and and prep and resources and things of that nature. and we just have um really amazing people to help uh put on those events. Uh also want to share that I did share some information um specifically with families from talent uh last night and the board about currently as we speak there's a
006budget uh committee meeting in the city of talent. Um last week we heard that uh school resource officer um and talent was not going to be in the budget moving forward. Uh which is a big concern for us. Um as you know we contribute significantly to that program. Um and we need the city to help uh partner with us in that regard. Um and so we uh I drafted a letter that I think I forwarded out to this board and to our staff uh about the importance of school resource officer. We asked Ernie Whiteitman who used to be one of our uh resource officers at one time, our original one actually, um and the really the guru and the expert who trained school resource officers around the country. He's going to speak tonight at that
007meeting um in support of the school resource officer program. Um and so just so you know, it's like our budget committee. they submit um a budget staff submits a budget uh to their uh budget committee and they may rule on that tonight. They also have a meeting scheduled the 27th if they need more discussion um which I'm hopeful that they will have discussions around the SRO program and then that budget once approved by the budget committee goes to their council in June for formal adoption. Similar to ours, our board will adopt the budget that the budget committee recommended last week. So, >> so do they have community members like we do that add? >> Yeah, they have additional community members. Yeah. Um there will be some time I know a number of uh families and
008staff submitted written testimony because they couldn't be there. So, we will find out how that went. Uh, I'll connect with the city tomorrow to see what the the next steps are and if there's any other decisions that are happening. Thank you to Rebecca and Rick for meeting with the city staff yesterday. Um, Chief Snook and uh, city manager Alex Campbell um, to to have just a frank conversation about the importance of the school resource officer. That's all I have. >> Yeah. Thank you. Any questions for Okay. Uh, next is a consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve? >> I have something on the consent agenda. >> You misspelling. >> Oh, okay. >> Um, >> which part? >> Uh, it's on Miss Low's uh, accentuate the positive. It just says um, town police department
009challenged their kids for service hours and offered a tie the police contest, but I know it was a pie that the police contest. >> Oh, I Yeah. Hi timer >> also an interesting contest >> I think I can take them >> and I need an amendment of the agenda. Can we include um a discussion about when you take um our amazing um student reps out to >> Yeah. Let's just talk about that at the end. >> Yeah. Yes. >> Thank you. >> Um, okay. And with that change, do I have a motion to approve >> consent agenda? >> I move to approve the agenda. Is presenting because we're adding something >> with the changes. >> Oh, >> yeah. >> I move to approve the agenda with the additional change of having a discussion around um
010our annual end of the year student rep. Okay. Second. I can't see. Thank you, Diana. Any objections? Hearing none, the consent agenda is approved. Next is information and discussion. Um, Don is in line at Space Mountain right now. She asked me to call her. >> It's not at that Disney World. >> Is it They have Space Mountain at Disney World. >> Do they? >> Yes. I'm pretty sure. Maybe she said F. I'm not sure. It's only in California. >> Do we have any other legislative or OSBA updates? >> I do just have one thing. Uh there was a late this afternoon there was a information on the June revenue forecast. You may have saw something that came through. Um it does have addition. I think he may have remembered where he kind of disconnected from
011the federal um some guidelines and it added some additional uh revenue. We don't know exactly what that means or um if if it amounted to how much they were anticipating it was fair enough to but it's about $130 million in additional revenue that they'll be reporting stuff which is good >> that's for next year that's for the next benium for the next bianium. >> Yeah. >> Really? That just came up. Yeah. Okay. That's good. >> All right. Um, we're slated for a recess, which we should probably do just to get ourselves situated for the student interview. So, um, before we do that, can I just get a show of hands of who's here? Um, is Raphael here? Okay. Great. Antonio >> here. >> Okay, great. Lucero >> here. >> Awesome. Is it Analo? >> Um,
012>> Anna, I'm sorry. But you're here. >> It's great. Go ahead. Uh, Catherine's here. Eden's here. Hi, Eden. >> Hi. >> Okay. And then is Joselyn here? >> Not yet. Not yet, but maybe she'll come later because >> they're finishing up at the National Honor Society. >> Okay. Okay. >> They should be on their way soon. >> Got it. And then Emily doing the same. Okay. Great. Okay. Perfect. Well, everyone who's supposed to be here is here except for those who are coming later. So, that's great. Okay. Awesome. So, we'll we'll take a five minute recess and get everything situated. I think we're going to have each of you wait in the green room. All right, >> deep breath. We won't bite. We are back and ready to start our student rep interviews. And our
013first interviewee e is Raphael. Welcome. Um, you have basically five minutes. Um, and I understand you're ready to go, so go ahead. >> Cool. My name is Rafael Torren Valentine. I'm a freshman here at PHS. I'm also involved in the leadership track and football and came today to talk about the phone policy. So give a quick rundown what I've gathered throughout the week. I went to multiple groups from low upper from underassman to upper classman. So I'll share what I have right now. So I went to talk to the upper classman first and I know that their freshman they didn't have phone policy. they could just went on their phone and obviously I went to ask Lincoln here first and he told me that once the policy was implemented he never realized how much he
014was on his phone and I talked to other seniors they said that like before that they would just use their phones to listen to music or just like has something in the background but now due to that policy implemented they can still get their work done but they feel like they're missing something when they're doing their birth and I as some juniors and speak you hear this a lot they all kept saying that like they should the phone rule should be like a teacher's thing. Like for example, like if Sim gets all their work done, they can they should be like, you know, be able to pull their phone and just do something but not distract the other students. And some other juniors who like this important, but they said it really affect them. Like
015does it matter to them? They're still doing their work. And the sophomores I asked them, they just said they didn't like it. I wasn't given a clear reason to why they didn't like it. Some of them did also say there should be the teachers rules. And some of them were reading that we should be allowed to teach them during a passing period just to be able to check it like you know if a parent were to text you a guardian and then the freshman they had some explicit words which I won't repeat about the phone but wanted to bring up the good idea if a student were to walk their phone there in the class and teacher told them to put it away but they didn't it would therefore be the student's fault not wanting
016to put the phone away and the teacher could encourage them to you know put the phone away so they could learn the students to put it way, which should, you know, be their fault. But then that brings up the moment where you if you have all your work done, you could go to, you know, like there's like a corner of the room or like somewhere else to like you could just, you know, on your phone or do something. Then the people who don't have the work done can still be on doing their work, but like they shouldn't like distract each other at all. >> Sorry. Doing great. And when like obviously I understand like people have like you know like playlist to help them do their work and stuff and also on school Chromebooks some
017people can't access their music and like maybe sometimes that playlist has words that are allowed like you know are blocked by the YouTube so that brings the point where people like want their phones just to like you know listen to music while they work because for example when I study I like to listen to like you know my own music helps me like do better especially for my like English classes when I'm writing an essay and I have my music and I feel like I know what I'm doing but then when bring it to like a school some kids will you know like struggle or think like oh no I can't focus because I need my music to focus because like it's just part of that so that's where fact that we should I think
018it's good to have a phone or music but then some fails think like oh I have my phone I can just play my games blah blah blah but that's not really the whole point of what we're having that for >> then the juniors who I asked about like oh like why doesn't the you know phone policy affect you they said that like they've never had a need to pull out their phone or listen to music they just you know go through their class or get their work get their work done don't need anything don't have distractions and that made sense to me like oh yeah you also need you don't need to have the phone but for them they don't need to have it all because they're focused on what what they're And for me,
019like you know, the the phone policy doesn't affect me as much. I mean, don't every now and then I pull out my phone because I have my work done. I just check like, you know, what if I got a text message and sometimes I do like to play games or something because, you know, I do have all my work done. But yeah, but for me, like, you know, it's never been like ever since the beginning of this year, I haven't like thought about it too much. other freshmen have told me like, "Oh, I got my phone taken away because I checked the text message from my parent." And I'm like, "Oh, that really sucks." But like, you know, we've been told not to take it out because obviously some teachers are like, you know, we'll
020be fine with you having it. Some teachers will allow like a very strict rule about it. So, that's why I'm like, you know, that's why around from the freshman, sophomore, juniors, seniors, they've all told me like it should be a teacher's rule. Every teacher is different. Not everyone's going to have the same, you know, rule about this like the phone. Some will be like, "Oh, if you have all your work done, you can have it out." Some will be like, "Nope, don't want to see it. She even have it on you." >> You know, sorry. >> Like for example, like you know, for kids who are in, you know, multiple sports, you know, club sport and, you know, school sport, they might need to text a parent that you know, the practice was cancelled. But
021then some people will be like, "Oh, but the coach could email them." But like, you know, it could be like a last minute thing. Coach had something to come up, you got to email. So like you had to tell a player to do this. And then, you know, that player could be, you know, stuck at the school or, you know, a game or somewhere because they could like they couldn't know beforehand that the practice was cancelled. Like especially like at like a say like you're in a class and then you just found out like practice was canceled and you were like are expecting to write home your parents but you live pretty far and then you'll have a coach take you back your friends are taking the bus you know it would be nice just
022to have that phone say like oh hey you know practice was cancelled can I get a ride back like mom or dad or guardian Sorry. >> Does anyone have any questions for you based on his application? >> I was wondering if you noticed a difference since we do have the phone policy in terms of bullying around social media because >> of bullying social media. you know, I'm not chronically online, but I haven't noticed like, you know, anyone saying like, "Oh, look at this person." Like, no one like this person for like, you know, being bad at like a class or something. So, like I don't think I would say I have not noticed any bullying at all. >> Most like I noticed our teacher social media like promoting good stuff by school, you know, that's
023what I noticed. >> I have a question. I was wondering if anybody talked about why there was a cell phone ban or what anything around that. Uh when I asked around I didn't hear why there was a soquote ban. I'm assuming you know maybe like not our school but I'm I'm assuming maybe the kids around the state have like you know started pulling up their phones just like not focusing on work and it's probably like drastically like reducing like grades or like attendance or something like that. So I'm just saying but honestly I haven't they don't know that much. Like I said our school was not I don't think like all the students like pull up their phones or anything like that. I'm sure every now and then, you know, well, the phone took a
024text message and then instead of being taken away, >> you have questions for you have any questions for us? >> No. >> Okay, great job. Thank you so much. >> Who's up next? upstairs. >> I think he's speech. I have my notes when I do this. >> Yeah. stuck off in her. >> Welcome. >> Hello. >> Hi there. Welcome. >> Hello. Um, >> go ahead. My name is Antonio Williams. Um, I chose to talk about the phone policy because there's a lot of strong feelings about it knowing all ways. Um >> there the I talked to multiple different kids and a lot of the consensus that we all came about that were together and out of just you know let your emotions out of it and just got down to the facts was they they
025agree that the phones are a distraction. They understand that phones are a distraction because when they're on them, they, you know, want to text their friend or want to do play this game on the phone or watch some video. Um, but they also saw how a lot of them wanted to use them to put music on in the background when there was no work to for them to do. or if there was work for them to do, they could sit there and listen to their music and get work done because that it helped them focus on whatever assignment was there. Um, another consensus we all came about was the kids that were there that I spoke to, they felt like they were given the expectations of to be a mature adult but were being treated
026like a little kid because they felt like they were being punched for not having their phone and that was they were just getting taken away. But one thing that I brought and when me and Miss Cross were talking about it, she brought up the fact that you guys fought for us to even have them during breakfast or lunch, which not many schools do. And they really need to then one thing I would bring up to them is that you guys are being told not to let us have. You guys aren't just being like they shouldn't help, you know, it's you guys being told and given an expectation which is then being given to us which we need to find a better way to explain because in the beginning of the year we had these presentations
027of we would go over the phones but if we're g but I feel like there's a better way to go about it where we tell them how you guys are giving an expectation and if you don't meet that you're going to get yelled at. You know, >> it's your version of, you know, getting your phone taken away. >> So, there I feel like we should find some way to explain that and explain your side because there's multiple sides to every single story. And so, they're just getting frustrated with the school and all of this. Um, I'm blanking on what else I was going to bring up. Um, is there anything about how you heard about it or how the policy was implemented that you feel like could have been better? Um, I feel like when
028it was first implemented, we were given this vision of what high school would be like as when we were coming into it from siblings or friends of, oh, you know, you can have your phone out whenever. And then we we come through and it's I mean for the sophomores anyway I can't speak for the juniors or seniors but they were but we were given that expectation and then it was just you can't have your phone out and some some teachers are very lenient with it with okay this is a family emergency or this is this helps you and you can you know put an headphone in and listen to pick a playlist and set it on my desk and you don't touch it, you don't have it, which they probably don't want you to know,
029but it's the truth. >> Mhm. >> And so, could I get some names? I'm going to >> which um don't answer that. which overall, you know, will help kids get um school work done, which I feel like we will the school board should or at least try to look into some way because I know we don't have access to the settings or Bluetooth, but if we are able to connect our personal headphones or earbuds to the Chromebooks and put play music on, you know, YouTube or find a way so we take the phones of needing that music out of the equation and then we don't have to worry about the phones at all. Um I I'm not a computer guy. I don't know how any of that stuff works. But um because every single kid
030I talked to was just like I want my music. I want to listen to music. I want to, you know, some kids were like, I just want to if there's no work to be able to watch some video because if I watch this video on my phone, at least I'm not talking, which valid argument, but then you guys are still being told that's breaking what you guys are control. So there's a middle ground where, you know, students and the board has to be able to find and come with the senses in sensitive um Thank you. of this is where we're at and this is where we're trying to be and this is how we're going to get there. Good job. Any questions for Anthony? >> You have any questions for us? >> No. All right.
031Great job. Good job, Sarah. All right. So, just to be clear, these grades on here are where they are right now, right? >> I think so. Yes. >> Yeah. They put on here >> most of the time. Yeah. >> No, I think it's all the 10. So, yeah. What they are right now >> except for Eden says 11. It's more and more like >> welcome. >> Hello. >> Hi there. >> Hi. My name is Lucero. I am a freshman here and I would like to talk about a little bit about myself before I say what I want to why I want to represent for school board. >> So my name is Yeah, my name is Terrell. Um I'm a three sport athlete. I am involved in community service where I go to my church and
032volunteer and just assist as like an assistant for the first communion because I'm Catholic and I just like help like different ages of kids like learn more about their faith and understand some clubs I do is trio pirate raiders project youth but I want to join more clubs next year I'm going to be in DECA to just learn and just be more involved. Um so that's really it about myself like you know and today I am going to talk about the policy of equity. Equity. Yeahity. >> Equity. >> Um I'm going to do the policy of equity because I think every student should like get the support they need and achieve like to their full potential in education. And this strengthens the entire like student body and it kind of creates like fairness and stuff
033like that. Um this can drive like socially and like uh academically because you know everybody needs to feel involved and feel comfortable in being in school. So um why this impacts like equity because I've like heard about like different students. I asked different students from different groups like the theater kids and stuff like that and they told me that it's unequitable that students who have like a 504 plan or like an IEP don't get like the support like like for example if they want like a a like if they want a soda from the vending machine and it's only used for class hours they can't get like if they want one they can't get the the drink they need. If they have to have more time to like study and stuff like that, then someone
034who does like study and like get things fast, they can just go like during their bathroom break or whatever to go get that resources and help they need. But someone who can't because they need to study and focus more in class, can't get the drink they want, then it's like not equitable since it's only for students who I mean, if the vending machine is only used for class time hours and not lunch and like breakfast, stuff like that. and it just really doesn't like like help those kids like you know. >> Yeah. Um, another issue that I've heard from the student body was that it's the consistency of the one minute bell isn't consistent and it's making students tardy and making them tardy is making the teachers punish them obviously for being tardy when they
035don't know when the time. Like when you train students to get that one minute bell like song then it trains them to tell them like oh like we have to go to class like we so we don't be late and for obviously like people like to walk around people like to just like walk around so that's like understandable but like people who actually want to go to the bathroom or people who need to go to the office or something like that don't get that like one minute bell to go to class makes that makes them tardy and it not being consistent is just like I think it should what the student body would like to make it more consistent. I asked from 10 10 students from the Hispanic community say I asked them if if
036with the bell does it make it with the one minute song bell does it make them like tardy like more likely to be tardy or without like two out of the eight said that if it there's no song they still get on time but the other eight said like if there's no song the one minute song they're most likely to get tired And I also asked some teachers perspectives cuz I wanted to see their POVs of how they feel around the school and not just the students >> and they said yeah there's we have like a lot of they explained more about what is equitable like some positivities as well like for example that it is equitable that we have food like free food, free breakfast that people like the students can get like breakfast
037and lunch when when even if they don't have money. And we have a really good bilingual like facility and translator tools like and just materials in general for not only high school, middle school, but especially the elementary schools since there you can have the opportunity to have either like the bilingual class or an English class. And that really helps students like get to learn the language for especially foreigner kids. And they said that that it really helps and that's really good about Phoenix High School and just like the the district in general. It's really good. So all the students the students and teachers have like different perspectives and stuff. Um, but there's like a little unfairness which we could probably like polish up a little bit which is but basically the vending machines and the
038one minute bell. But overall I think it's a pretty good school. Pretty like most of them said there's a pretty good school around here and pretty good uh facility and that's pretty equitable. Any questions? >> Well, they searched. >> Yeah. Well, >> I'm impressed. Well, thanks. >> Why do you want to be part of the school board um student rep? I want to be a part of the school rule school rep because I think everybody needs to be comfortable and be able to feel comfortable obviously and it just gives them like not like anxiety to like or like less education even if like they don't speak English. I want them to make sure they have the same education and same opportunities they have for like other food. >> Thank you. Thank you so much. >>
039Okay. kind of cool. >> Yeah. >> Consistency. That's what he said. I got the headphone. Welcome. Hello. >> Hello. Hi. >> How are all of you guys? How are you? >> That's good. >> Okay. Hello. My name is Anna Lee. I'm a sophomore at Phoenix High School. One of the ways I want to help my community is by becoming a student board representative to help make a difference. And today I will be talking about personal electronic device policy for my topic. The electronic policy affects K to 8 and 9 to 12 with 9 to 12th grade being slightly different. With K to 12 or K to 8, you cannot have an electronic device unless through the office or of an emergency. one line to 12. You can use it during meal breaks and before after
040the first and last bell. Secondly, I want to talk about the ways this policy affects students of the Phoenix Talent School District. Some positives of this policy is students feel more of a need to focus because they do not have a phone to distract themselves. But although some kids seem more focused, others still try to find ways to distract themselves. And with the phone policy, the consequence of skipping class and not going to school at all are higher. After speaking with two students of the seventh, and eighth grade and four students of the 9th, 10th, and 11th grade, I found that students in the middle school found the phone policy infuriating and had problems with it. But for the ninth graders, they found the high school's phone policy were more lenient. This goes the same
041for 11th graders as they also have prep periods and can use them then. But the 12th graders found the phone policy in purity and more kids find themselves being late or skipping to find a source of distraction that isn't that isn't their phone instead of doing work. Based on my research and survey, I believe the high school's phone policy is neutral, but teachers that want to implement using phones after all school work should be given the choice to do so. This way, kids have a goal to do work through class so they get the reward of being able to use their phone. And for the middle schoolers, I believe they have slight they should have slightly more freedom with where they can have their phone so they have a sense of their voice being heard.
042And part of helping them feel that way, I believe allowing them to have their phone during lunch or allowing them to use it outside during lunch will help them feel less frustrated with school policies. >> And that's all I have. >> Great job. Do you do >> questions? >> I have a question. Um, did you find that some that people understood why we had cell phone policies? Yeah, a lot of them found that they understood why it was there, but they still felt a little more frustrated because they couldn't like distract themselves when they were bored or like even after like classwork, they still they found themselves bored, but they understood why it was there and why it was important for them because that way they don't distract themselves during class as to like pick
043it up and look at it. I I have one more question. Go for it. >> Um, what and why do you want to serve as a student rep on the board? >> Because I want to help and be like the voice for my community and my school classmates. I want to help them feel like their voice can be heard and I feel like being a student board representative will help me do that. And yeah, good. Do you find yourself that you um connect? I mean, I love that you shared all these numbers between like the K through 8, the 11th. I mean, it sounds like you talked to a lot of people. Do you feel like um as you're saying that you want to be a voice for your for the student body from the
044high school? Um is it easy for you to talk to people? Do you get nervous? >> I feel like it's easier for me to talk to people because I feel like I'm quite like an energetic. I love talking to people, meeting new people. So, I feel like it's easier for me to connect to them and I feel like that'll help me get their voice out for people who are more shy >> and just find harder times and like voicing their opinions out there. >> Fantastic. >> Question. Have you found that students are talking more to each other than before the cell phone no cell phone policy? >> I find that they have. I think it helps them socialize more because I find that more people connect with different people that you wouldn't expect them to
045connect to. So like more quiet kids were more louder kids and I find that helped them a lot because they didn't have a phone to distract themselves with it. >> That connection was >> Do you have any questions for us? >> Um no, not at the moment. >> Great job. Thank you so much. four minutes. All right. >> Thank you, Lincoln, for being the ghost person. >> Oh, yeah. We can tell him who's on the back. >> Oh, that would be smart. >> That's what Nancy just did. When did specifically this year or last year? >> I think this this year this January. >> Oh, so this is like a whole school year. But we had somewhat of a >> we had a similar policy before. Oh, >> there was an executive order that every
046needed >> like when you heard Antonio perspective on your Thank Thank you. >> Hello, my name is Katherine Rocha. I'm a freshman at Phoenix High School. I'm a three sport athlete and involved in many different clubs such as DECA, Project Youth Plus, and TRIO. I really value these specific subs because they have helped me build my leadership skills and step out of my comfort zone. I would like to be a student representative for the board because I have a big family, some in kindergarten and some about to graduate. I hear complaints and praises about certain rules and regulations all the time. With my help and determination, we can change them to benefit the past, present, and future of our schools. Now that we know a little bit more about me, today I'll be talking about
047the benefits and problems with our personal electronic device policy and how I would improve it to ensure every student says they are safe and heard while making these decisions. This policy impacts students by not giving them access to the internet when needed, such as for work, and texting a parent or coach about crucial information. Coming from an athletes perspective, a lot of my coaches don't get insight into practice information or game time/departures until a little later in the day. With how the phone policy is now, I can't see or reply to said text until lunch or even the end of the day, causing confusion and or rupture in communication. This is only one of the many consequences with our phone policy. The phone policy positively impacts students by keeping them on track and focused when
048needing when needed. Sorry. According to studies, over 86% of students showed to be more engaged in class with their phones restricted. This engagement significantly benefits students grades and class participation. After speaking with several students, I came across a wide variety of opinions on our phone policy. Some students talked about the fact they needed to communicate with their bosses about work and it's a struggle to do so with the policy that is being implemented now. Other students said we should just be able to have them the whole day. Others said to have them only when the teacher allows and some even said to not have them at all. I took the opportunity to talk to a teacher who I see is always having to confiscate phones and asked them what they would change about this policy.
049They talked a lot about brain breaks and when students are all done with work, give them the opportunity to listen to music, play a game, or read a book if choosing not to be on the phone. I found that this would encourage students to get work done so they have the opportunity to participate in said breaks during class. Students practice the phone policy by having phones shut off and put away during class and passing periods and only being used during breakfast and lunch. Based on my feedback and personal experiences with this policy, I would improve the fact that we can't have our phones during passing periods or class and set it so that we allow to utilize them during passing periods and when the teacher allows to allow students to text coaches, bosses, and parents
050about all information. Some disciplinary actions that can be taken if a student is on the phone when the teacher hasn't allowed them to are and to kindly remind them to put it away if said student keeps the phone out, confiscate the phone and send it to the office while implementing the three strike rule that is already in place. Thank you for your time and I hope you can take something away from my speech today. >> Questions? Did you find that people understood why there was cell phone policy or where it came from? >> I had a lot of people just like be very like stubborn. They're just like, "Well, we just want to be on our phones. I just want to play that." And I tried I was like explaining to them that it isn't
051always about just what you want, but it's what you need sometimes. Like I that's why I did that research on how much it benefited us with not having them there and stuff. So, >> what makes you interested to be part of the um student reps for the school board? >> Like I said, I talked about having like a big family. I want to make a change because I have younger siblings who are go to Phoenix Elementary and I have a older sister who's a junior. She tells me all the time, she's like, she's just she's always bad. She always has something to say. And I have siblings in the middle school as well, cousins and stuff. And they're always like, "Oh, I wish I was my phone." Oh, wait, no, I actually don't. I like
052being without my phone. And like my brother's like, I he always talks about how he never like he leaves his phone at home. He doesn't even like want to ring it and stuff. He says it benefits him, but then also with my sister, she likes to listen to music or she likes to scroll on her phone for a little bit sometimes. That's what so. >> Do you have any questions for us? >> No. >> Great job. >> Literally. Please popular shoe, huh? You may know this person. >> Just so you guys know, Jocelyn is sick and will not be able to show up the interview tonight. >> Thank you. >> How are you? >> Good. How are you? >> Good. Let me start the timer. Hey. Um, hello board. My name is Ilia Santos. I'm
053a junior and I've been in this district for about I think six years since like fifth grade. Um, I participate in basketball, tennis, cross country, math club. I really like math. And American Sign Language Club. Um, I'm also in leadership and some other little programs throughout the year. So, I don't just say this to say that I'm doing all of these activities, but to show that I have met a lot of people and I love meeting new people because there's always people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and opinions, and you really get to hear them out on what their view is on different topics and um genres. I would like the opportunity to represent students who are bursting with ideas and different perspectives and views. And I really like hearing feedback, especially when something can be
054improved and there's something we can't do about different policies like I will be explaining today. And I just really think that everybody is different, unique in their own way. And that is what makes PHS a truly great place to just be yourself. Um, I chose the JBB district equity policy. I felt that it was very important for people to try to understand what the difference between equity and equality is because when I was um doing my interviews with different with different students at Phoenix High School, many of them didn't understand what equity and equality had in difference and I tried to explain it to them. So, a statement that I found from the policy online was, "In short, we believe and are committed to creating and maintaining an anti-racist equitable school environment in order to
055best accomplish this vision as well as hold ourselves and one another accountable to it. We affirm the following. Number one, schools should seek to narrow the opportunity achievement gap. In order to help accomplish this, resources will be distributed equitably, not equally. We therefore commit to directing resources based on need in order to address issues of equity first and foremost. And I felt that that was the primary idea of what I wanted to base my research and questions off of. So I did ask the questions but I handed them in a way that really emphasized that I was talking about the equity policy and not in just general of PHS um other policy. So the first question I asked my interviewees was how does the policy of promoting equity above equality impact your day-to-day experience at
056PHS? A few students felt that programs such as TRIO, Project Youth Plus, and other programs helping with college credit costs because there are many AP students, but some of them can't afford um the costs that come with the credits. So, they really liked how there was also programs that help them with other costs like CTE, some like construction, it costs $20 to get it. Maybe those $5 are not a lot to some people, but to others it does mean a lot to have to pay that at the end of the year. Um, and as well as college tour opportunities and information that will help them prosper in their future careers and future ambitions. Another student expressed that plans such as the 504 plan really helped uh them with some help that they might need, such
057as some students might not be able to focus as much and other students have anxiety. So they felt that that was a great part of equity. Another student expressed they felt the equity policy promoted inclusivity in the PHS environment. The second question I asked, have you experienced or seen any positive impacts come from this policy? At least 60% of students that interviewed felt that the positive impact felt the positive impact of equity of of the equity policy because programs again that support students who may need help with paying college um credit classes. They felt was a great way to support students who face financial hardship or might not be able to pay for those classes to meet or may be in need of these resources. Some students saw a positive impact through everyday classes such
058as special education, regular classes, and advanced classes that will challenge students and keep them engaged in class and not just give them a piece of work that might be really easy for them or might be too difficult. The third question I asked was, have you experienced or seen anyone face challenges due to this policy, the equity policy? 85% of students who interviewed say said they had not experienced any challenges with the equity policy. And that's like a lot of people. Number four, the fourth question I asked was, have you experienced any unintended consequences because of this equity policy? And surprisingly, 100% of students hadn't faced any unintended consequences because of the equity policy. The fifth question I asked was, "From your observations, how is this policy of prioritizing equity in diverse settings experienced or implemented
059by you andor other students at Phoenix High School. Many students said that clubs such as Latino Student Union or Black Student Union as well as Meta, it helped them belong and it could help other students find different communities that they could feel they belong in and had the similar interests as them. Students can also um start their own clubs and a great way it was a great way for students to connect with others who may have those similar interests as they as they do. One student felt that World Day, a day in which people get to learn about other cultures and foods, is a good example of equity and diverse settings because there's all of these all of these cultures. are Mexican, there's Hawaiian, there's Native American, and it truly was a way to teach
060other students that there are other cultures out there and other ethnicities. Um, another student expressed her gratitude for programs like ASAP and Pirates Charers that help students with tutoring with school work when like if they need help after school programs. um those pirators is also a college program that helps you pay for some of your college credits. So all in all I feel that conclusively the students have have benefited a lot from programs such as the college ones that help them pay for those costs they may not be able to afford or the classes that maybe are too difficult or are too easy and that the school can accommodate to their needs when they need it. especially when they need a 504 plan. There might be a few students who might not realize they need
061those plans, but in reality, they are there to help them out with whatever they need. >> You um why do you want to continue on the on the board for a couple years now? Why do you want to continue? I think I really like the side of the feedback aspect of it because >> if there is a way to improve, why don't we improve, >> right? So, I thought that this this project right here was a perfect opportunity to seize that moment and see what students really think about different policies that are established and implemented in this district that they may have not known of, like the difference between equality and equity. Some students didn't know that these policies have been implemented. Yeah, >> I really appreciate that you took the opportunity not just to
062learn from your peers but to educate them as well. >> That's really cool. >> Did they read this whole policy before you talked or did they have access to it? Um, or haven't you? I mean, you had questions about it, but were they able to read the whole policy prior to answering them or >> No. Okay. But I did give them a definition of equity. I Googled it and tried to give them several examples of what equity may look like in um throughout the school like the special education programs and the FPC and um the 504 plans and they re they realized that all of these um plans and programs had helped them but they didn't realize how big of an impact they had. I just have a comment that I hope you share your
063love of math with other people as you grow in your age. Like I can see that that is important to you and I want to encourage that because I feel like that is an anomaly in the world and I I love this about you. Thank you. >> Great job. Last one. >> Eden and then Hey guys, welcome Are we sitting? >> I'll set it. >> Okay. >> People know me. >> All right. Welcome. Go. >> Okay. Uh my name is Eden. Almost all of you know me. You're the only one who's going into my senior year. I'm in leadership. I did the school board last year. Um, I'm part of a new voters fellowship to help get young students engaged in civic activity and registrations to vote. Um, a little about me. So, for my
064presentation, I did the equality one, the JBB. Um, almost everyone said that is very good and the school is implementing it very well. There were a few things that people had to say like that schools could do more to like promote diversity rather than like promoting like just not being exclusive like actually promote like diversity like have culture like spirit days or like LGBTQ like wear pin like as a spirit day like help celebrate diversity and more so like less than we're all the same and more like it's okay to be different like talk more about that. Um, other things I heard was maybe doing some more like family outreach to make sure that the underprivileged kids are getting support from their families also like through the school and rather just through the school at
065school. Um, sorry I'm wrong. Um, the other thing that some students said is they feel I don't know how to say this like correctly. They feel like some of the more like minorities are almost like so like taken care of and prioritized that they're almost taking priority like specific minorities are taking priority over other minorities as well. And like those are prioritized rather than other ones. I don't feel like I should say specifics. That feels a little off. Um, but yeah, that's what I heard from students. Other than that, everyone said that the school is like very diverse, especially compared to other schools, and we're doing a great job with like making sure that everyone feels included, using inclusive language, and all of that stuff. Um, the impact of this policy is it gives a
066lot of students who wouldn't normally have opportunity without our resources the opportunity to reach their full potential and to do everything that they want to do. Um, our school is specifically doing this with like I think the translation devices that we have are so key and important because without them people who don't speak English wouldn't be able to learn. Their families wouldn't be able to hear the events. Like it is such like a great thing that we have that and I think that's so awesome. We're also like I said we're doing really good with inclusive language like online and assemblies and like all that stuff. I also think that we just have free lunch for everyone rather than like specific free lunch is like so good and it's really important because it helps like not
067make people feel like oh well you're don't make enough money so you get free lunch but why don't I get I think it's great that we have that program >> to make everyone feel included. >> I think that's all I have for my presentation. >> I'm a little shaky. Sorry it's got a long day. be great >> questions for >> I wondered um how you did you have them read the policy or how did you introduce that or get their >> pretty much I went and found policy the hardest time finding the actual written policy from you guys but I found it and then pretty much I went through like all the like the one through however many there were points summarized what I thought were like the key points and wrote them down in
068my journal >> and then read my summary to them I don't have the summary on me right now Okay. >> Um, and then just like on the same paper, wrote down everyone's answers, some summaries like that. >> Why do you want to come back, Michael? >> I want to come back because I just loved it so much and I am planning on going into like public policy and public administration. And I think this is like a great place to start. And I'm so grateful I got the opportunity to do it last year >> and I would love to do it again. and especially because that's that's what I want to go into and I know all of you guys are so good at policy and I could talk to you guys more about like how
069policy works and all that and also I think being on the board last year helped me realize like that I do want to go into policy and public administrations and helping like make a change so I'd love to be back. >> Any questions for us? >> Um no. >> Okay, >> great job. Thank you. Great you guys too. >> Is Emily here? We can Yes, she is here. Great. >> She hasn't been at school for a while. school just like Well, hi. You're welcome. >> Um, hi board. Um, my name's Emily as you guys know. Um, I'm just going to tell you a little bit about me. Um, I'm involved in 4, um, where I've been showing paddle for seven years. Um, I'm also part of Calves in the Classroom, which is like where I
070teach a third grade class about paddle and I take them to a field day and they're going to meet my steer and um, name him and all that stuff. Um, and then I'm really into art at Phoenix and I'm a member of the Jackson County Junior Stockman program and I work at um, Joey's Hot Sauce. Um, I'm running for representative again because I want to advocate for students to be more involved in my community and be more involved in my community. Um, I believe every student deserves to know what's happening if that affects them. I want to be the person who makes sure that information gets to them. Being on the board is an opportunity for me to give students a real voice in the decisions being made about their school experience. I'm here today
071to speak about the personal electronics device policy and what I've heard from students. When it comes to the impact on students, one important point and having isn't is having their phones um on them so they can contact people immediately. Um one intended unintended consequence I observed that is partway through the year some students had their phones confiscated when they weren't using them. They were simply on their person. Um that could have been really hard on students who weren't aware of the policy aware the policy had changed or really what it was. Um, from a student perspective, students appreciate being able to have their phones on them and used during breaks. They also feel strongly that changing a policy halfway through the year isn't fair to students who weren't informed beforehand. Um, in terms of putting
072this in practice, some students didn't believe there had or didn't know there had been a talk of banning phones entirely at school. Um, and they were relieved nothing had changed for them. Many students feel that if something is being considered for the future, they should be informed so they can voice their opinions. Um, my proposed solution is this. We can make sure students know who the representatives are so they can bring their concerns directly to us rather than us having to seek them out and risk missing people. There's also a suggest or there could also be a suggestion box where students can share things they're too embarrassed or nervous to say in person. Um, thank you guys for your time and considering >> what do you think your biggest takeaway was from serving this path
073here >> as a veter? >> Um, I think a big takeaway is when I were to tell people like, "Oh, I'm going to a board meeting." They're like, "Oh, what do you guys talk about? Like, can you say this for me?" Or I would ask them like, "Hey, do you want me to say anything about any sports you're in or things like that?" And they're like, "Oh, you can do that." Like, I do want them to know about these things. So, I wanted to voice like smaller groups like the band and art and things like that because they were like, I don't feel like I get enough recognition. And so, that's something I was really happy to do. And um if like there was a policy like the phone policy, like I would reach out
074to people and be like, "Hey, what do you think about this?" Especially since we had multiple meetings about it. Um I was like, "What do you think I should bring up? Like, what's a reason you think would be interesting for them to know?" well, we can't have our phones if if we can't have our phones at lunch, how are we supposed to do some um work if our computers are like blocking sites? And I was like, I didn't think of that. So, I think that that was really important for me. >> Did it change the way you interacted with your fellow students? >> Um, I don't think it changed the way I interacted with them. I think it was more of a way I could recognize like they're talking about a problem and I was
075like, "Oh, this is something I could bring up in a board meeting if there's a chance or oh, I didn't realize that like this is affecting them." And that was really important to me. And looking at other groups and realizing that like there's a lot of things I can do and I want to be able to be that voice for people because I like being somebody can come up to and feel like heard. So, >> any other questions? Do you have any questions for us? >> Um, I don't think so. >> Great job. Thank you so much. >> That's everyone. How do we want to do this? So, we talked about um I think we only have one item left in the agenda and then the new item discussing getting together. Um we want to
076bring everyone back and then um send them away do like a recess. >> Do they know the process that we will be deliberating and then we will inform them by email? >> Um yes, they know that they won't be like it won't be announced here but I can remind them to check their email and I can give them an TA, but they deserve that they're >> they're waiting to be dismissed and that they want >> Okay. >> Do we want to just bring them back and tell them all what a great job they did and then you dismiss them more and then we can break? >> Yeah, that sounds good. Yeah. Take a three minute. >> Go ahead. >> Well, welcome back everybody. I just wanted to kind of let you know what the process
077is going to look like going forward. Um, first I just want to say incredible job all of you. >> Um, yeah, you all worked so hard on your projects. It's clear that you um did a great job connecting with your peers. We took this very seriously. even prepared. Um just incredible job. So um the board has a couple agenda items that we're going to finish up and then um we are going to deliberate about our choice of who we want to appoint for next year and we're going to send out an email um and um to to all of you who are participated um announcing our decision. Um, and so, um, we found that's kind of the best way to, um, to handle this process. So, um, but I just wanted to thank you all
078so much for doing an incredible job. And if my fellow board members would like to say anything, um, um, go ahead. Um, and but once we're kind of done with that, we'll dismiss you and we'll finish our meeting and >> they can stay to watch us do our thing. Oh, if you if you are here, yeah, if you really want to see us vote on the long range facility master plan, you're welcome. >> And then, of course, our current reps are welcome to stay for the rest of the at least the agenda portion of the meeting because we do want to talk to you about um getting together for a little uh celebration at the end of the year. So, anything else from anybody? I was so impressed with um all of you and I
079love that some of you like you had handwritten notes. Some of you just spoke from your heart and either way it was really really beautiful. I feel like I had an opportunity to get to know you a little bit more. Some of you I see you in different spaces, but just all around I really appreciate the time and dedication and like um the intent that you took as you were kind of doing this research project and then sharing and you look so incredibly nice too. Thank you. Thank you. >> Absolutely. Um, one thing I'll say too, we don't often get the opportunity to kind of explain this ahead of time before we announce our decision, but um, I I want you to know that whatever we decide and whoever we appoint, it's not always it's
080not just a reflection of like how you did in a fivem minute interview because sometimes the board takes into consideration things like um, what things you're a part of at school or sometimes we we look at the the totality of the people that we want to point and we're looking for different kinds of of um activities and things you bring to the table or grade levels or anything like that. So, it um if you're not chosen for some reason, it's not it doesn't mean that you did a bad job. Um and and so I just want to put that out there um because we have to consider a number of things um when we make these appointments. So, just keep that in mind. >> I think also too this is a younger group than we
081usually see. We usually have more that are going to be seniors. So >> if you weren't chosen, I want to say 100%. Please do this again. And if you feel passionate about that, >> um, don't be, you know, worried about that because there there is time for some of you to do it again since we'll be 10th graders. So >> we haven't made our decision yet, but I just want to put that out there. So um, you all did an incredible job. So thank you so much. >> Yeah, you guys all did really good. That was probably some of the best interviews I've ever seen. And I don't know how you all are going to number of people who applied to be on the >> I think >> to be to be a board representatives
082though. We're super super grateful. And if you are not um invited to be a board representative, please continue to stay engaged because we really do need all of you and you all have such really unique spaces that you're in >> either from like the classes or the clubs or the sports that you play. So we hope that you maybe just stay connected, be a partner to whoever gets to be um a board representative because you all have so many amazing qualities. It's really really impressive. I was like I don't know who I am choosing because it you all did amazing. Thank you. Your level of professionalism was topn. >> Awesome. Great job. One more. >> See you as state representatives and legislator. >> We thought about lying as a writing candidate in November. that met
083yesterday. >> Yeah, true. Okay. Um for the um long range facilities plan, do I have a motion? >> I move to approve the long range facilities master plan as presented. >> I'll second that. >> Thank you, Rebecca. Thank you, Paulie. Any discussion? I'll just say appreciate all the work that went into getting this together and for our um our vendor partner who helped us with this as well. Um we have some kind of big things that we've got to address. Um and so I look forward to um finding a path forward to addressing those things like roofs and air conditionings and um and then just kind of a larger discussion about our facilities. So, um, but this is a a really comprehensive plan and I appreciate all the hard work that went into it. Are
084you this facility study not only looked at all the needs of the different buildings and systems within the buildings but it did a population >> kind of scenario of who would be coming into the school which I found fascinating. I mean, they don't even do that on the city planning and I sat there on committee meetings, but that was the most comprehensive look at population and where it was going to be coming in and what kind of housing was coming here so that they knew how that school population was going to impact the facilities. So, it's a really complex issue and it gets presented in a >> 153 pages. >> 153 looking for something to do tonight. >> But the first 30 were readable. >> 20 were like what >> keep you just consider your
085vote for the first 30 pages. >> I see that on our next agenda we have a welcome. So, whoever gets clicked here, are they asked to come? >> Yes. And we'll include So, when we send the email, it'll have some instructions for those who are chosen. Um, uh, but can we vote first before we Let's vote first on the the long range. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> It's okay. >> Every time. >> It's all right. Not every time. >> Yes. >> Okay. Yes. The facilities passed. Um, yeah. So on the on the email that we send out, we we like to invite our um new appointed board members and that'll be June 4th. So um keep that in mind. So do you want to talk about how do we want to do our get together
086at the end of the year? What we have done in the last few years is that we have taken the students out for just a really nice celebratory dinner where we get to have some yummy food. I don't know if you all pick where we go or how have we done it before. I think I don't have we >> Yeah, we did it last year. >> I was like and then like some place in Medford and then like last night switched to the food. So you guys picked last year. >> Does the foody work well just because there's multiple choices of like >> Yeah. Okay. >> Do they have all the restaurants filled now? >> Ice cream again. >> They have more. >> There's ice cream again. >> Yeah. There you go. Okay. >> Uh
087so what dates are we looking at? We want to do what about >> could we maybe do not the week of graduation >> graduation day work >> you don't want to stay with us after >> oh we will see you girl Next week I have school events Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. >> Nice. >> That probably won't work for me, but I'm available Mondays or Friday. >> Monday's Memorial Day. >> Monday or Friday. >> We can do Friday. >> The 29th. >> Friday. Oh, yes. >> Yeah. >> Friday the what? >> 29th. >> Does that work for current? >> Yeah. >> What time would it be at? >> Yeah. Do you want to spend your Friday evening with a bunch of old people is really the question. >> Yes. Do you want to have lunch? >>
088Would you rather have like lunch >> or we can do it? >> I'm not a school forever. >> Oh, you're not available until Sorry. >> Dinner is like available. >> You're not available and either. Okay. Oh, thank God that was eight. Let's after graduation. Perfect. >> Monday. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> What day is it? >> Monday. >> Are you going to be gone for like days or just >> six? Oh, I could be I could be back by the 8 evening. >> We could do it like 4:30 or >> Yeah, >> 4:30. On the 8th. Yeah. >> Right. I work that day, but I couldn't make it. >> 5 4:30. >> 4:30. >> And are we saying the food? >> Yes. >> Wow. >> Okay. Does that work? >> You said at 4:30. >>
089Yeah. Does that work? >> Yeah. Yes. >> Yes. >> Seriously? Oh, okay. Great. >> On the 4:30 June. >> We'll bring Brent so he can pay it. Perfect. Welcome to God.