001okay okay we're live you all ready good evening everyone thank you for joining us for our first board meeting of the school year before we begin may i ask guadalupe can you provide the information for a spanish-speaking audience thank you guadalupe before we begin i want to let everyone know that today was the first day of school for our students teachers and yes yay teachers and staff have worked very hard over the past few weeks making sure our buildings were ready and everything was prepared for them to have a first great day so thank you on behalf of the board for all your hard work i hear great things are happening today so welcome back everyone please join me for the pledge of allegiance pledge allegiance of america and to the republic for which it
002stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice i this is my first meeting i'm presiding over completely so apologize ahead of time for the missteps um i would like to ask that we observe a moment of silence um in memory of genevieve martinez miss martinez was elected to the adams 14 board of education in may of 1973 and served a two-year term our condolences go out to her family and friends so if we could just take a moment thank you everyone um monica roll call please mr amador here mrs excused she's out today here miss lubia here thank you uh next on our agenda is approval of the minutes may i have a motion and a second to approve the minutes of june 28 and the minutes of july 27 2022 a motion
003to approve thank you second monaco roll call please mr amador aye ms lovato aye ms lubia aye thank you um item 2.7 is approval the approval of the agenda may i have a motion to approve the agenda for the august 9th 2022 meeting a motion to approve thank you second monaco roll call please mr amador aye ms lovato aye aye thank you um next we have classified staff recognitions um dr lauria do you have an update on that that you can provide yes thank you modern vice president members of the board and community members here with us i am pleased to inform that soundcore has agreed and has been very generous this year will they will be supporting this program again so starting next month we're going to be able to have um we're going
004to we're going to start again the cycle of the recognition of classified staff the way that they are selected any manager any school actually anyone can nominate a classified employee whose job is strong in clear evidence of just going above and beyond to ensure that our students and our schools and families have what they need usually we have between four and five three to five individuals every month and we're going to start that next year and i'm sorry yes next month thank you to the support of soundcore so i just want to thank them publicly i don't know if there's anybody here from suncor um but i um we're going to start that next year works next month we're excited about that it's just the first day and it feels it's been a whole year
005it's a new year yes that's wonderful news thank you so much um next on our agenda is the superintendent updates yes and this is a different type of update i would like to bring a little bit or highlight a few of the main projects and work that our different departments are doing in the business office there has been a lot of work in the beautification of the buildings we're very excited about the work and the progress that has been made everybody knows we have aging buildings old buildings but that doesn't mean that they need to be you know ugly buildings so we are really working hard and i want to thank the operations team and business office for their hard work over the weekend they were here everybody has been hands all hands on deck
006so i want to thank them for for that in regards to safety and security also in business we continue with the installation of public address systems and high resolution camera system you will probably recall last spring there was a presentation you approved a quite you know strong purchase on camera so that we can ensure that all of our buildings and every area in our schools have a camera [Music] so we continue doing that and then that's going to be a presentation that is going to be coming up in the next few months and our community and engagement student information system we are actually they're actually planning our adams 14 20 22 20 23 first annual stock soccer world cup operations so it's going to be a lot of fun we're going to be asking everybody
007to sign up we're going to have just you know little games for fun is not going to last the whole 90 minutes i don't think at our age well i'm going to speak for myself i'm just going to jump in play for 10 minutes then you know 30 minutes break and then another 10 minutes but i think it's just a recognition to not only what is happening in the world with the celebration of the world cup but also acknowledging that in our community soccer is a big thing for our kids and we want to ensure that we we connect with our community in different ways [Music] in finance we have started the financial audit that is going to be coming up in the next couple of months when it is concluded and in hr our
008hr department has been working very strong hiring teachers we know as the state actually as a nation i was reading in the washington post over the weekend how difficult it is for all districts to find teachers and our our hr department is partnering uh with the following universities because i'm going to have to name several so adam states university colorado state university metro state university regis university colorado a university of colorado in boulder in denver in univer university of northern colorado also with teach colorado ball state university university of the the dubuque i just butchered that and western governors university so it's quite a list of um partners our new hr department is really doing a going above and beyond reaching out to these universities to so that we can have student teachers come in
009so there are visits planned for september for these universities we're working on retention of our teachers through mentoring communications and grow grow our own programs so a lot happening that can go on and on but we will be able to bring this programs and these efforts to retain teachers in future study sessions so that you can be asking lots of questions as well lastly i would like to ask my cabinet to stand so they can be recognized i will kid you not they have been working long hours ensuring that our staff our schools and our principals are ready they have all the resources they have to welcome our kids today was a phenomenal day today and it has been all hands on deck even our finance person was wearing a t-shirts and tennis and helping
010with the beautification of the building so literally all hands on deck in a true joint effort to welcome our students so very excited so thank you thank you in our last actually um um no we're good um mr cochran josh is the new face that you will see ever you have met everybody on cabinet uh mr cochrane video stand i'm not gonna ask you to come up here i'm not gonna put you on the spot but he is our new executive principal uh he is here working directly with our executive directors and academic office and he um his role is going to be well um all of the i guess i'll do this as assigned but um he's gonna be um uh strengthening our bench for administrators helping assistant principals prepare to be principals and
011helping teachers prepare to be administrators we know in our district there's a great pride of staying here and in in building our own so he's going to be focusing on on that and put instructors in place so that they are well prepared to continue supporting our students so thank you mr dr cochran [Applause] there has been a lot of work but i think that those concludes the main um the main pieces for me great exciting stuff thank you for the update dr doria a lot of stuff going on yes um colleagues do you have any questions or comments i just would like to echo that thank you to everybody uh including all the staff that work during the summer to make this happen i know that it does take just takes an army of people
012to make sure that our kids are safe and they're coming to safe spaces to be educated as well as they can be with the tools that we have so thank you to everyone i agree it's so exciting as i was driving into work this morning um i got to see the families outside taking pictures of their little ones they're you know signs of the first day of whatever and it was very exciting and to see the buses on the road again and got to drive by the school grounds which there is a marked difference in the upkeep so thank you again to our team for that um i'm really excited to learn more about the annual soccer world cup thing are we working with cronky at all um since they're in our backyard or is
013that something we're we're trying internally first um well i don't know i'm gonna have to look at our official coordinator who is also um world cup coordinator world cup coordinator can you please stand and share some words of what your vision is uh you know like like always my team they're experts in their field you need to know that he was a professional soccer player at some point in his life oh i didn't know and um so um you know he used all kinds of analogies and i just go sure just tell me what you need and i'll make it happen that's usually what happens with my cabinet they're experts in their field i'm just here to make sure they can do their jobs so mr marquez good evening vice president of autonomous of the
014world superintendent uh it is in the conceptual state at this point and the vision is that everybody will play or be given the opportunity to play all the way from preschool pre-k to the 12th grade uh there will be activities for everybody whether the students are special ed or not and the the idea is that this is going to be a community engagement event yeah if you imagine the same way that the world cup gets inaugurated and run uh there will be dances there will be there will be music there will be flags food lots of color uh say each team will be guaranteed three games at least it will be feature games of uh say student versus teachers uh central office versus schools and so forth it's gonna be a lot of fun and
015so uh we're gonna try to package this say in one saturday yeah if necessary then finals would be on sunday there will be trophies there will be medals it's going to be a big deal for our community yeah great thank you looking forward so everybody who wants to participate make sure to sign your agreement or your release or whatever you know like the older you get the more papers you're going to have to sign or the older you are so i'm going to be signing about 20 i guess i'm i'm okay with that but the idea is just to have fun bring the community together it's going to be this fall of course the world cup rather than in the um summer as usual it's going to be november just because of uh the place
016where it is it's so hot they just wanted to a little bit cooler of a in qatar yes and um so the idea is just to get the the community together uh and then you know just have some fun and have have a good a good saturday and potentially sunday to enjoy one one additional element that i'm considering bringing in is the scouts the college soccer scouts for the the students that are in the middle school or high school age that they can be seen at games competitive games by the scouts and then maybe be offered scholarships on the spot so we're going to be making those contacts with those institutions as well as well as organizations that do professional scouting yep and and we're going to be asking some businesses if they want to
017support a school with uniforms or um you know just drinks or um just just pom-poms out there to be hurting for them um it's just to have fun yeah yeah thank you thank you mr marcus and one um final comment and i'll be quiet i love that we're supporting our teachers with all these partnerships and programs um and the grow your own is something i think we've needed for a very long time um and mr cochran i look forward to the work in that area as well because we do we have generation after generation that this is you know they want to be here um thank you um next on the agenda we have 4.2 the tntp introduction and update um dr lauria would you like to introduce anyone from tntp or provide an update
018yes thank you very much um so mr lynch as she comes up to the podium we have engaged in a lot of work with tntp um just i know you know but for everybody or anyone listening tntp is our partner and that we have engaged with this year and i just want to make sure that although that it's part of the the state order we actually go into this partnership very excited because we're working as true collaborators uh they're not here to manage and and and not to dictate what they think is right they are really here in a in in every single meeting is evidence of that they're here in the true spirit of collaboration and on doing what is right for our students you will get to hear we're going to have our
019in our upcoming study session an opportunity to hear more for you to ask questions and just just to have a good conversation that will um you know allow you to to really understand the work that we are doing uh but for today since we're our first day and uh and she's working going around to all schools with us i wanted to introduce her allow her to introduce a little bit of the big picture that we're working on um there's going to be more time during our study session to learn about that but miss lynch thank you thank you thank you madam vice president and members of the board uh really excited to be here i want to express tremendous gratitude for the team here in atoms 14. they've been tremendously welcoming to our team welcomed
020us into cabinet spaces into professional development spaces even into the back to school bash which was a blast wanted to give you a few updates and we'll absolutely share more in the next couple of weeks the tntp team has hit the ground running we are a team of at least 16 and we will be pulling in team members as needed so far in this school year we have designed the assessment strategy for this year knowing we're going to need to revisit that next year as we start to take feedback from school leaders around progress monitoring we've had folks facilitating leader pd and teacher pd and participating in school openings today i was at central for arrival and it was wonderful i want to share with you our six major goals that we are aligned across
021both the tntp team and the adams 14 team we are all working towards these goals this year we are hoping to retain 80 percent of teachers and leaders who are meeting or exceeding expectations we know folks are really doing a fabulous job and we want to keep those folks in in this district we are hoping to see 90 to 100 percent of tasks in core content areas be aligned to the state standards and be coming from an approved curriculum uh in terms of academic outcomes our goal is 1.5 years growth for all k2 students in ela sla and math we expect to be moving in the direction of 40 percent of student students here in adams 14 to be meeting or exceeding expectations on cmas our goal is 95 average daily attendance across all grades
022and uh our goal of retaining all students here in adams 14 is we're hoping for 90 of students who start the year with us this year will return to us next year because we know parents vote with their feet and so we expect folks to stay because the quality of education they're receiving what you can expect in the next three to six months my team is working on an equity audit right now they're analyzing 10 years worth of data to really understand better what's happening and how we can allocate resources to best support the team here in atoms 14. we're talking to stakeholders across the district and in the community shadowing students doing classroom observations looking at assignments that students are interacting with in their classrooms setting a vision and starting the work of strategic
023planning for the next three years we anticipate revamping the assessment strategy next year to include other progress monitoring tools and my team is focused right now on tier one instruction and i'm happy to take any questions you really hit the ground running colleagues do you have any questions or comments sorry it's okay that's not good oh um so just you know these were presented at the rally right if i'm not mistaken i was in a baseball uniform yes i remember that it was a great rally by the way and i am very impressed with um with how much it is i'm just wondering if it's if it's not a little too much or is is that is that your experience in other districts to have such rigorous goals i really like them don't get me
024wrong i'm just i'm trying to be realistic because we know we do have a quite a challenge when it comes to mobility in this community because families do tend to cross boundaries quite a bit depending on work depending on a lot of things housing you name it and um i guess i i didn't see anything on here on parental involvement and i know that that's something that is is high on my list of trying to get more parents involved so you're talking about the persistence goal keeping students so the way we're going to measure that is students who move more than 10 uh miles away we're assuming mobility what we're going to be counting for persistence is students who leave to go to other districts within the surrounding areas okay okay i see all right
025thank you any other questions no thank you for all the hard work it's great to meet you and then i look forward to our study session because i'm sure we'll have lots of questions then looking forward to it thank you thank you thank you and i just want to mention we're focusing um highly on building the capacity of the staff that we have uh one of the things that we do not want happening is when you know at the end of the contract or you know when it's um at the end of the contract that they leave and then there's a huge void uh our goal and our focus is to build the capacity of those internal build our own so that when there is a the the time comes for them um to leave
026us we can sustain ourselves and um and also the goals that were shared is not the only goals were working there are a lot of subset goals to get there and they're going to be different metrics for that i do believe it's a lot and it's quite um [Music] what is aggressive i would say an intense but a weird turnaround and uh there's no other way that we're going to get it um done uh unless you know a lot of work and an intensity in the work turnaround i've always said it's not for everyone and that's okay because it requires a lot it's not the normal work day it's it's long days and and that's okay for us to be able to take our students and grow them in one year more than a year
027a year and a half or even two years for them to eventually catch up that's the only way we're going to be able to get it done so thank you for recognizing it's a lot of work and it's going to be intense yes that keeps me up at night every now and then but um it's it's the only way that we're going to be able to get it done and we have our a cabinet and a team in the capacity at the schools to get it done people will eventually make choices that's okay but um i appreciate you recognizing it because my team has has been working a whole lot on getting those done and we'll continue working on it and i'm very appreciative of of their push yeah i i would just like to
028commend you and and your staff for just the the sheer collaboration and and the effort that's going into all of this um contrary to what is often said i think this this team is so strong and so collaborative and we're working for what's best for our students and teachers so thank you next we have audience comments um i am there's no particular order i've been shuffling these a bit so i apologize if somebody was here first um carla garcia oh [Applause] dr laudia you didn't want to share the video speaking in spanish monica since they are up here we're gonna do it after is that okay my apologies um just a quick reminder as well um per our board policy um comments are limited to three minutes um oh monica thank you you're setting the
029timer um sorry i read all this something no no okay i should have read all of that yeah i think you yeah you guys all have the the long list of policy but thank you welcome hi gracias my name is thank you [Music] good afternoon my name is carla and i came before you to the board of education today as a former student of adams 14. almost 15 years ago i was sitting in one of your shares in one of your classrooms eight months ago you approved our charter school application and say yes to a little girl who dreamed of doing something important in her life you say yes to my mother who worked really hard to provide me with opportunities that she as an immigrant didn't have so you say yes to a families
030who were asking for a high quality option in their city who took that very seriously and started hiring we already alejandra garden is [Music] uh so we now have alejandra who is being in charge of the preschool education at tl who will be charged in charge of education for multilingual students we have a we have continued to co-design the school with families and community we are now asking you to move forward with the guests to work with us and finalize the contract we know now that you have concerns and we want to work to understand what they are we want a meeting with you this month [Laughter] um we want to meet with you this month so we can finalize it next month and make something really that just a short time ago seems like
031a dream thank you thank you [Applause] um next i'd like to invite susana posius to come up [Applause] hi good afternoon thank you for allowing us to be here um i am here on behalf of my team um up and the community um basically here with the concern of being able to open the school this coming year and not next year in august so we can start letting these children come into our schools and getting the education that we want to give them we want to give them something high quality working alongside with you guys we want you to partner up with us go to our campuses and visit them and see how we run so that you guys can see how well the community we have developed and it's something that we are deeply
032passionate about and we would like to see you guys helping us move forward with that process because it's not only meaningful to me but it's meaningful to them and to like all the other kids that are out there in commerce city that are looking for something really good it's a partnership that we really really want with you guys and if there's concerns please please visit our schools you will not be regretted it would be something that you guys would be fascinated about as i was when i saw you prep and when my daughter was there i was like wow this is good so please feel free to reach out to our staff members and come out to our community and be involved help us develop that partnership so we can open our doors this coming
033august [Applause] thank you so much um next i'd like to invite mamie j howard [Applause] good evening members of the board i'm gonna open with a quote because i think it's very important that we breathe life into the voices that helped gain the approval for university prep they have invested community members who have spent hours upon hours to create something that will work for them in my world that's called the human design model you take an issue you bring it to the community and you have members of that community create something they feel is going to give them resolution to whatever issue that is that was said by maria zubia december 14 2021 i won't forget that day my team won't forget that day and our families will not forget that day because on that
034day our school was approved on that day the adams adams14 community demonstrated that when our families come together we can build something strong and that our family's voices matter now i'm going to take a step back and introduce myself i'm amy j howard and i'm the founding principal of our brand new school i have been working since march of 2021 with our families i am a mother as well i have an elementary age child who is now entering fifth grade and i have a soon to be elementary age son who is three and a half years old and i know first hand as a parent what it's like to feel like you can raise an issue and have it not be heard which is why i joined on this mission with our families to make
035sure their voices are heard i have been inspired over the past months working with our families and hearing them say things like we want to have our native spanish language be honored and valued in schools and that doesn't mean it's not happening in adams 14 but it means that we have the opportunity to do more of it to create more bilingual citizens in our community and we took that very seriously and instead of just running it back and saying we'll do a spanish enrichment class we said we're going to elevate spanish the same way we elevate math and science and language arts which is incredible and then we took it a step further and said not just for native spanish speakers but for english speaking scholars as well because they too deserve the opportunity to
036be bilingual and we hired who i will be a little biased and say is one of the best in the business tl who sits behind me to oversee the educational programming for multilingual learners because it is that important that they get not just a regular education but an excellent education under my watch we also heard our family say ece programming doesn't have enough seats in commerce city so we said why not partner with y'all let's open some doors and have more seats for our youngest learners so that they have access to a high quality education from the start and we hired alexandra who is the best in the business to get those doors open so i come before you to ask that you give us the opportunity to address our concerns on the contract thank
037you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yeah that scared me thank you um next i'd like to invite wendy hernandez to come up [Applause] hi good afternoon my name is wendy thank you for having us i am here with our school u prep trying to basically um persuade you guys to give us more consideration in regards to what was already in the works of being a process to letting us be part of your community while speaking for myself in general i've been part of adams for my entire life i lived in commerce city my entire life i went to rose hill elementary and um i remember the days when my mother was um it was a little bit difficult for my mother to really be involved with the school and just listening to all the other plans that
038you have going on right now with your school district it was pretty amazing because i wish that was there when i was back in school um it's it's something that um i know my mom would have appreciated and i know that right now our school is a great place because it not only involves the current parents it also involves both spanish speakers english speakers and that's something that really hits home because i know that through my entire life since i was the first born here it was hard for my parents to be involved in school it was hard for them to go to teacher conferences to get me into tutoring to really be involved and i think if the way things are right now especially how uh what i really appreciate with uprep that they
039always go above and beyond with communication and for both spanish and english speakers and they consider every family situation i'm pretty sure that's something that would be appreciative to join your school district as well and it would make me proud because it's something that i know i would have wished they've had before and just knowing that the college view it was hard for me to visualize going to school going to higher education and up is something that they focus on from a very young age and that is something that um i can't wait for my son to experience and i just wish more families will get the chance to experience that if you give us a chance and really consider going through with our requests for our new school thank you [Applause] next i'd like
040to invite jennifer i'm going to butcher your last name i'm so sorry um saginaw hey thank you no thank you my name is jennifer sangenov born and raised in cummer city been here my whole life i started my school at central preschool after that i went to rose hill elementary school then went to kearney and then adam city been here since my i don't know elementary years teens 20s 30s and now 40s now i have a family of my own and then having a family of your own it makes you think of life life is very gentle how do we embrace it how do we give it a chance um i have a daughter her name is camilla very special little girl i never once considered her to go to school here unfortunately um so
041i i found you prep and you prep was the best thing i've ever thought of and decided my husband thanks me every single day he comes home from work he's a nurse and he thanks me every day on the cheek and he depends on me a lot with it just for the decisions i don't care what it is but i'm glad he does that um but just her being there a couple of weeks in kindergarten her behavior has improved you know i never learned how to read in an elementary school i mean in kindergarten or i i just never did that's what i remember i just remember the alphabets and just a few other things but i'm i'm taking a long time so my point is i like to see my three-year-old and i i
042don't want to move out of cummer city but i would love to see my three-year-old go to this third school here in u-prep i love the enthusiasm i love all the members and they're so happy to greet these kids all the people that work here they're so happy to see these kids and work with these kids from the time you drop them off to the time you pick them up when they call you on the phone for parent-teacher conferences i trust them with you prep and i don't really trust many people but anyway my name is jennifer and thank you so much for giving your time for me to speak and take care thank you [Applause] next i'd like to invite juan pena up to the podium [Applause] all right thank you for the opportunity
043to speak to you yeah my name is juan pena i am a founding board member of u prep so i've been with the school for 11 years uh and also my two sons over here they're alumni of the school they graduated uh in the last two years the reason why i'm so passionate about you prep is related to my personal story i am an immigrant from colombia and back in my hometown as far as back so i can think of a decision that somebody in my family made that changed the trajectory of generations was the decision my grandmother made in my little hometown of hirador colombia where only 10 of children were literate when my dad was an 11 year old had never been to school in his life and there was a little church
044that started a school with a kindergarten and my grandma heard about this took my dad and eventually basically my dad graduated through that school and eventually became the head of that school so when i grew up when i when i was born my dad was an incredible superhero in my little hometown because he was able to now be a part of a school that now had a thousand students and was changing generations through education so fast forward now i'm an immigrant here in the united states come to denver in 2008 and really have a passion to help my people really find the same success in life that i have now because of decisions that my grandmother made for my dad and i really see you prep as that solution for this community and that's why
045i'm so personally passionate and really asking you to please listen to all those parents that are talking about the possible impact that this school can have through generations here in this local community i'm really proud of the hard work we have put with our team to really co-design the school with parent leaders that you're listening to these are leaders that are from this community they don't want to leave this community and they really are begging you to please work with them to allow you perhaps to educate their kids as a board member we i know we have had tons of conversations on the board and we have invested at least a half a million dollars towards this community in good faith in in working with you hiring extra staff making sure that when that school
046starts we are starting with the best foot forward so my plea to you is we have written a letter from the board our parents have written a letter to you and we just we're really concerned about the silence that we're hearing uh and and we want to know like what else what else what other things can we what other questions can we answer for you what are the concerns that you have we want to co-design the school with you and partner with you and we believe that that's a two-way street so our ask is that whether it's in the work study session that's happening in august 23rd that you guys have requested or some other time before august that you would just allow us to sit down with you to listen to your concerns so
047we can address them and move forward with the promise that we have made to our parents of really create a great school for them so i want to say thank you to you thank you [Applause] next i'd like to invite javier noriega hernandez to the podium hi oh okay thank you for coming i saw your note i'm glad you guys are here um osman isaac zuniga rojas same yes can you come to the microphone please oh yeah sorry we we broadcast so it's helpful there oh yeah everybody can hear that's okay yeah yeah so um being a person of the community and being around the environment that i'm in i just wanted to say thank you to the new team and i wanted to say thank you to the people working very hard to bring
048us activities to bring the community together such as the uh world cup soccer thing that's something that like really like sparked my mind i was like wow like i didn't know like like that's something i really appreciate and like the people that are bringing the um the trying to bring the new school likes that's something i really appreciate that they're trying to educate our kids better and things like that something i really appreciate that's all i wanted to say thank you thank you for coming [Applause] that's all we have for audience comments thank you everyone for coming next on our agenda are consent items uh they are 6.1 personnel actions 6.2 oh sorry approval oh i'm sorry oh okay madam president oh yes my vice president um there was a video uh during my updates
049that i wanted to show and it just slipped through my mind so if you don't mind we can close we can close with that uh because it's actually uh a good video so if you if you allow it we can close the meeting with that okay that sounds great thank you um i'll reread the consent items thank you for that i'm sorry i didn't know um 6.1 personnel actions 6.2 approval approval of the 2022 2023 calendar of board of education meetings and posting location 6.3 approval to have duct cleaning services completed at adams 14 educational support services building 6.4 approval to purchase cases for chromebooks um may i have a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved hold a second thank you monica roll call please mr amador aye ms lovato aye ms lubia
050aye thank you next we have business action items 7.1 is the approval of the boys and girls of metro denver and atoms 14 partnership may i have a motion to the to approve the request of the partnership agreement between the boys and girls club of metro denver and adams 14. a motion to approve thank you second thank you uh monica roll call please mr amador hi miss lovato aye ms lubia hi i played right through that i'm sorry i didn't know that for a discussion 7.2 is approval to accept the colorado opportunity initiative cozy fund may have a motion to accept the cozy fund award in the amount of 300 000 over the course of four years for adam city high school so moved well second thank you any discussion i remember this time no
051um i just quickly want to thank the team for getting this approval i think a lot of our students really appreciate it and i know my son did so thank you for that um 7.3 approval to extend agreement with international alliance group iag to fill vacant licensed positions may i have emotions to approve so moved thank you oh second thank you any discussion about this item okay um i quickly want to thank dr gloria for being persistent with this one because i know um anything to help fill these positions is greatly appreciated um monica roll call please mr amador aye ms lovato aye ms wilbian hi monica did we vote for seven two yes yes was there roll call yes see yes thanks for keeping us straight yeah we did roll call and about okay
052it's been a long a long day yeah we're almost there uh seven points madam vice president vice president you can you can always do roll call again okay okay let's do would you like us to do that direct avatar yeah okay monica do you mind uh doing roll call for 7.2 mr amador aye ms lovato aye ms lubia aye thank you then we're covered uh 7.4 is board action regarding board governance at our last business um item [Music] we're going to discuss beginning the process for traditional board governance to policy governance we began this journey almost a year ago august 2021 in a study session jointly held by the colorado department of education and the colorado association of school boards to discuss governance and how best the board can govern our districts our job is
053to represent lead and serve the community and to govern the district by establishing expectations for student achievement results expectations for quality operational performance and monitoring actual performance against those expectations we feel adopting the carver model of policy governance as a framework we will clarify our roles and responsibilities in terms of dealing with our staff and our community we continued our journey with the day and a half workshop led by the cas led by casby to discuss the policies within the framework which include ends the board's values goals and expectations for the district governance process the boards protocols and procedures of how we govern and monitor ourselves board superintendent relationship the operational and contractual decisions we delegate to the superintendent and executive limitations which placed constraints on the executive authority of the superintendent establishing prudent and
054ethical boundaries we also attended the 2022 govern for impact conference in june where we explored policy governance in more depth with experts from all over the world we feel the move to policy governance is the direction we which wish to continue in and therefore i move that the board with support from the district staff began the process to develop the policies necessary to implement policy governance as the district's governance framework may i have a second i move like alright second sorry one day um any discussion on this item i i just want to say that um once we get to the the point of of getting there like actually where we'll be running these meetings under this different framework it would be a really good idea to have um an easier explanation almost a visual
055for for families and anybody else watching so they see how we operated before to how we're going to be operating in the new way um so that they could see that difference because otherwise it's it's not going to make a whole lot of sense to people if i wasn't sitting in this chair i'd be asking well what difference is that as to how you run your meetings now so that would be one of my requests with this um is that we get something that is visual and easily explainable so that people understand it i think that's a great idea yeah i mean we've we've gone through many days of training to understand what this is how it will impact the way we um govern um and work with our superintendent and ultimately reach our goals
056which is to improve student learning but i agree i think we need to have a very clear description of where we are and where we are going nothing further all right um monika have roll call please mr amador aye ms lovato aye ms wilbian aye thank you um next on the agenda we have communication um do we have any new business requests for this evening if you'd like yeah i i think the only and it's not really new it's just um just updating or getting an update maybe at our next meeting as to um something we had left uh open last year when we were looking at hansen and monaco we had talked about having a committee made up of parents from hansen monaco and lester i believe and so just making sure that that
057doesn't fall by the wayside i know that we have a lot going on um i know people um out there following um what's been going on in atoms 14 know that we have a lot and and the staff i commend you all because there there's a lot it's a lot that has been asked of you in the last um i don't know less than two years and more is being asked every day and there's just a lot going on and i i hope people realize that it's above and beyond um what dr loria said a little while ago of um you know it's not like regular well for me it's not typical we just are not ever in a typical state right now and so the more we request and the more we ask is
058just more hours out of our staff's time to do things so we we are it does not go unnoticed just know that it does not go unnoticed um so i just want to say that as a caveat that there is a lot going on that you know everybody's trying their best to make sure that our district is successful because at the end of the day it is really about our students right it's about those families that are in this community and and it's not just a about a certain group it's about all of them all six thousand plus students all the families all the staff all the subcontractors everybody it's about everybody that has anything to do with our district and that's a lot of pressure for anyone so thank you for doing that and
059thank you to your staff and all of the other stuff that's not here um from you know management all the way down to grounds everybody has like you said all hands on deck so that is something i personally appreciate um because i know what it's like and i've been there so thank you and i just would like to something that i've been hearing from some of the community at the schools is we used to have a program before kovid of helping our parents do english classes at like the high school and stuff and i know it was a like a grant or a program that we were providing and i know once coveted hit it went away and i'm just kind of seeing now that kova is kind of ending i had a couple parents
060come up and ask me about it last night at the back to schools about starting that program up again and just seeing if you know if there's something there that we can start doing again to help that you know to help them maybe not achieve a ged but achieve proficient in english so that they can communicate with the teachers and staff as well i did have some of the parents asking about it so that would be something if we could look into i think to help our community in helping the parents you know get more fluent as well great thank you um next we have board member communications did you want us to do that um dr lydia before the video or after or um yeah i think we'll do communications and then do the
061video is that okay okay does anybody have um anything they'd like to share yeah i just wanted to say also thank you for that event uh for the backpacks and um everything that was offered here in adams 14 on that saturday unfortunately i couldn't be here but um i know people who came and they were very appreciative also just as a reminder and a plug don't forget if you still need your coverage shots we are still doing those because now they have the ones for the younger babies that you can have and don't forget that kids first offers the the baby ones as well and we still have the covet vaccine clinic at the flea market for anyone from anywhere uh and the kova test because we don't want to be shutting down schools because
062the numbers are out of hand again so please everybody that's out there listen and help us out here because there is one non-negotiable i have that everybody knows and that's the health and well-being of our students and our staff so thank you great reminders and i just want to thank all the staff for everything i've been to four back to schools this between this week and last week i've participated with all of them grilling out at the community event so you know helping out with our you know if our community gets involved and looks when the softball was doing some stuff out and fixing up the thing for the softball fields to get the season started um you know just want to thank you guys for doing everything you know the grounds look great for
063the kids today going back to school and walking into those last night with all the families there and talking all the teachers and seeing all of the staff out here at the schools too going from school to school so i just want to thank you guys and hopefully we have a great year this year and look forward to working with everyone and hearing some more about tntp and what they're doing i'm excited about that so look forward to seeing all you guys throughout the year thank you thank you director zubia and amador i feel like i've been m.i.a for so long because personal reasons but i do look forward to going out and meeting all of the schools i'm so interested in meeting with the students and the teachers and just visiting the schools and
064seeing what's going on um the world soccer cup looking forward to that i also want to put a quick reminder out there we are still seeking applicants to fill our vacancy on the board um you can find information about that on our webpage if you have questions please feel free to reach out to any of us we're happy to answer those questions applications are due by august 17th so i just wanted to put that reminder out there that's all we have if you'd like to share this awesome video i'm excited yes uh thank you ma'am vice president members of the board committee members uh the video that you're gonna see is just a little um uh compilation of of images uh of the work uh that has been done by the staff and as we
065receive our students um i think uh i know i don't think i know all schools have been visited actually more than once in a couple of days sometimes more than that because we are going and making sure that all schools have what they need and it's as i said before all hands on deck so and just one comment about the esl for parents the english lessons for parents last year in june you approved an amount that will be used for this so we are working on that we heard that from the community and from you last spring and we added that this year because it had been removed so just a little comment for that so monica thank you how important our job is and how important it is for us to be ready period
066[Music] as the team changed the narrative for our district uh we're here to we're here to support uh tntp is here to support adam's core team we love that you believe the kids in commerce city deserve to have excellent schools in the neighborhoods where they live [Music] we will change our story we're telling the clarity we're starting to tell a different narrative for students they need to hear we are enough they need to hear they are enough they need to hear being bilingual is an asset they need to hear me a minority is an asset they need to hear being them is an asset [Music] um when i heard the principal say bilingualism is a gift i said this is my district that's why i'm here espana barcelona [Music] keep on learning and improve myself
067i've found new ways to engage students and learning from other teachers and other staff members around the school to better engage our students that's what i learned on how to better engage our students working with our staff collaboratively to make a better a successful year we saw some exemplar models of what we wanted to do for the next school year so that we can be successful how the structure listens as you know which components how to build it what resources what assessments the whole language [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning eighth grade schedules [Music] um [Music] okay [Music] what do you guys expect for the first day of school student engagement and students being excited to return back to school absolutely ready for them to be here [Music] loving the first day of school send the
068kids back that's that's what it's about that's what it's about getting these kids in there so go here you go here for your schedule i'm excited for this class mostly because uh you guys are freshmen and this is an exciting time for you this is like the next chapter in your lives excited for the school year it's gonna be a great year at adam city high school welcome to allen 14 bienvenidos [Applause] that was wonderful thank you for sharing that um i've i skipped over something really quick that i need to circle back to um under 8.2 for board member communications um we do need to start uh scheduling meetings with city council regularly and it was um a joint meeting that we would hold when there was five weeks in a month so um
069i just wanted to open up for discussion about what you guys are feeling about that if that's enough if you want more um [Music] and then monica added a hold for august 29th for our first meeting if we can um solidify that if we wanted to host or ask the city to host us i think it works for me i think once a month would be good because they have some many things happening in the city as well and we have been too so i think that communication needs to start happening again and we need to start building stronger relationships with our elected official peers at city council so i agree i do too once or more once a month okay um monica do you mind connecting with them to see if that's a possibility
070or we could even um meet on the 29th and have this conversation with them as well to let them know that we would like to meet more regularly great okay what time on the 29th um and you want to holster you want them to oh we can host we can host it yeah i think it would be nice if we have a set of them yeah um 6 30 isn't that usually but it depends on their schedule right yeah it depends on their schedule um i think monica do you mind following up i think if um i think we typically opened at 5 or 5 30 with the dinner and then um started the meeting i think they normally start at six on mondays so it'll depend on their schedule as well okay awesome thank
071you um and then really quickly i want to thank everyone from you prep for coming out today um we are hearing we are listening um i would like to ask i believe our legal counsel is in contact with yours and we're going to schedule something here soon so just wanted to throw that off [Applause] this concludes our business for the evening our next board meeting is a study session on tuesday august 23rd may i have a motion to adjourn so moved i'll second thank you uh monaco roll call please mr amador hi miss lovato aye ms lugia aye thank you thank you everyone for joining us and i hope you have a great evening you