001good evening and Welcome to our March 4th board meeting I I call this Mee into order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in a moment of silence you may be seated next item on the agenda is our roll call Marella would you please perform our roll call for this evening's meeting thank you madam president roll call for this evening's Reg meeting March 4th 2024 I will begin with Miss Victoria Gastro Corell present Mr Michael buts pres Dr Ashley Hajj here Dr Megan ftz here and Miss taana Peña here mam President we do have a COR present for this evening's regular meeting thank you so much the next item on the agenda is 1.04 recommend that the governing board adop adopt the agenda items on the consent agenda may be pulled and discussed by board
002during the meeting is there a motion to adopt the agenda items as presented so moved second all in favor I I passes unanimously the next item on the agenda is item 1.05 recommend that the governing board approve the minutes held on January 7th 2025 and January 21st 2025 is there a motion to approve the minutes so moved second all in favor I I any of those okay thank you um next item on the agenda is student outcome Focus governance and I will ground us in our work in 2023 the board and block the embarked on the journey to align our framework at the board level with the incredible work that happens every day in the classroom with our students at the center the entire RSD board is committed to engaging our South Phoenix community and
003Gathering meaningful Insight our RSC vision is a community United to create better futures for all through education and student outcome Focus governance is improving student achievement and success through research-based policym and decisions to increase learning outcomes based on the community's values and Visions for the district the school board will set the goals and the guard RS for reaching that Vision in short student outcome focused governance means that the board put student outcomes in success first in every decision that we make through this framework we have adopted board behaviors that emphasizes Synergy and teamwork to Define our vision and goals this approach helps us set clear targets for student outcomes established core values to identify our non-negotiables and Implement measures for progress and accountability to monit monitor where we are and where we're headed our ultimate
004aim is to enhance Student Success achieving these goals requires effective systems and processes as well as your voice advocacy and encouragement or engagement so student Focus outcome governance and actions means that 60% of our board time is spent on student outcomes um it adopts a budget we adopt a budget that prioritizes goals and guard rails the superintendent evaluation is focused on adopted goals and guard rails board conduct is rooted in in guard rails the RSD Community collaboration and Collective vision and our increase two-way communication regarding goals and guard rails alignment from the classroom to the living room and here are the goals that we adopted 45 and five the first goal is the percent of fourth grade students that score meets grade level or above on the ASA Ela will increase from 20% on August
005202 3 to 45% by August 2028 the second goal the percent of fifth grade students that score meets grade level or above on the AA aasa math will increase from 11% on August 2023 to 45% by August 2028 the third goal is the percent of seventh grade students that score meets grade level or above on the ASA Ela will increase from 22% on August 2023 to 45% by August 2028 and the fourth goal is the percent of eighth grade students that meet grade level or above on the ASA math will increase from 12% on August 23rd to 45% by August 2028 in our board guard rails guard number one is a healthy healthy board conduct and discourse guard R number two is our board operating procceed procedures guard R number three is student outcomes Focus
006decision making go guard R number four is financial integrity and G number five is community engra engagement and this is how we decided that we're going to govern ourselves and the superintendent house guard RS as well um guard number one and attaining this the board the board student outcome goals the superintendent shall not go without proactively sharing updates and plans on the budget or enrollment that will change the current landscape and stability of our district to stakeholders including board members students parents staff and community members gway number two in attaining the board student outcome goals the superintendent shall not fail to consider the climate survey results to ensure a holistic approach to student development addressing academic social emotional and physical well-being which includes after school programming and wraparound Services guard number three and obtaining the
007board student outcome goals the superintendent shall not allocate District budget resources in a manner that does not prioritize and support student outcome Focus goals ensuring that financial decisions directly contribute to the academic and developmental success of all students guard number four in obtaining the D's student outcome goals the superintendent shall not fail to Implement and maintain effective strategies for the retention and development of teachers including promoting from within to ensure they have a positive positive impact on students as evidenced by data and the final V for our superintendent in attaining the board student outcome goals the superintendent shall not fail to ensure progress towards exiting atsi and CSI status which ensures that students with special needs and English Learners and African-Americans receive quable access to high quality instruction resources and support services tailored to their
008unique needs to promote their academic success and overall development as a parent student Community member or part of our staff you can always join our board meetings on the first Tuesday of the month um and then we also have a study session on the 18th of this month um you can share your feedback give us give us your voice hold us accountable to the and guard rils and build a partnership and collaboration that helps us move our students forward the next item on our agenda is item 2.02 goal number four and interum goals 4.1 and 4.2 and so we will now have a presentation on the eighth grade students that score at proficiency or above on aasa math will increase from 12% on on August 2023 to 45% by August 2028 and we will also
009review the interim goals 4.1 and 4.2 the inum goals are goals designed to measure progress towards our board academics it is the board's responsibility submit questions to the administrative team prior to the board meeting to ensure that the team has time to answer the questions but there will also be questions that were not sent to Administration acts during this portion of the meeting and with that being said I'll pass it to Dr Portilla thank you madam president members of the board executive team and Roosevelt Community I'd like to call to the podium Mr Nick oo who will present to us the data thank you good evening Madame President members of the board superintendent Portillo Deputy superintendent Dr battle and executive team thank you for having me here for our goal four report um I I
010also uh once again have Miss Susa who has oh and Miss sander too all right so I have some backup today as well uh for uh on the teaching and learning side and project momentum side um so thank you to them they've been a big help over the last couple of reports uh so now we have uh gone through all of our our goals and are back at goal four for the second time uh I mentioned this at the when we did this the first uh goal four Target report that um I felt that this was going to be the most difficult to accomplish of the four just that eighth grade math getting to 45% um would be the most challenging it's also where we were starting from the lowest Baseline number um I just
011want to make one small reminder that the original goals were based on non Fay goals so we have 12% for August 23 and that's why um we're tracking though based on Fay which stands for full Academic Year so we're tracking students who were with us for the full Academic Year when we're talking about percentages that's why there's just a slight variance there from the chart and from our Baseline uh number okay so we also on our report have added eighth grade star math proficiency it was our intention to try to have these over overlay on the graph uh but when we did the star math proficiency and ASA it just looked a little too convoluted it looked a little messy uh so we have it here in a table and uh you can see this
012is over the last two years that our students have been taking the star math proficiency test and again uh star math is meant to not necessarily mimic but be a projector of success on aasa so for example you can see that in the spring of 24 our students were at 16% proficiency which is pretty much right in line with the 15.1% proficiency they had on ASA so in in that sense it was very aligned a a good indicator of where we would expect to be um which is uh why I had put for our headline that our current proficiency projection is 18% based on where our students are in the winter and and the growth that eighth graders made from Winter to Spring last year uh but the goal is 22% and so um just
013to put it out there very clearly that that would put us not on track to meet this goal I do want to say though that eighth grade math has been a success we've made steady growth from 21 to 24 and each year on um eth grade star we see a lot of proficiency change and growth average which I'll share with you may I yes ma'am thank you so again we just want to emphasize that though we are not um projected to reach our goal we're not on track we still are projected to increase um to around 18% so that's also a celebration we want to continue to support our staff and celebrate that they are moving our students forward and our students are also working hard but we are not increasing at a fast enough
014rate to reach that 22% okay so uh page two uh we typically look at uh we had been previously looking at aasa data now we've have a more updated Benchmark uh data in our star math winter um so this is each school we have their fall proficiency and this was actually a good question that I got from Mall when we say fall or when star actually Renaissance says fall that means our beginning of the year testing so fall is our August testing that usually happens in the first couple of weeks winter is our December testing um these are this this is Renaissance lingo we can change it to say whatever we want but August this is December and then when we talk about spring data we're talking about endof year data which is um the
015beginning of May uh so what you're looking at is what eighth grade students uh did on the fall or August assessment compared to the winter assessment and then the growth average and I've tried I've really been trying to figure out the simplest way to talk about growth um I we we made a little bit at the bottom of the page you'll see I have um kind of a glossery there for growth average um so growth average is the average all of the students SGP their student growth percentile uh combined the average of all of their sgps and um 50 would be meaning that out of the students in their peer group that they're making growth relative to 50 out of 100 students so the higher number the better um I I've heard it said that
016like speed uh thinking about like a car driving down the highway if 50 is the speed limit 68 is is going really fast it's a good it's a good thing in this analogy um so so TG bar with a growth average of 68 is a very high number that would mean that students are making more than a Year's worth of growth uh Renaissance would say that 50 to 53 is about a Year's worth of growth uh next the student population proficiency and we got some uh questions about this and and about on the cuss uh students too which I can get back to um so there were questions obviously that what stands out is the 0 per numbers that we have but again those are really low um data sample sizes so for instance with
017the American Indian or Alaskan native students if you even have one out of eight now you're at 12 and a half percent so there's going to be big Swings with those groups of students and in fact there was one student um I I went and looked this up that was really close to being at proficiency and had been at proficiency on the November progress monitoring um so we're really close to seeing that number be at 12 and a half per. not to say that there's not uh work to be done in all of our um student populations uh but again with our our low sample sizes it's it's hard to make kind of big big picture next steps or analysis based on that um I do think that our uh we do have a very
018large sample size obviously in our female and male and that was something that actually Stu stood out to me the most that our boys eighth grade boys came in higher in terms of proficiency and are actually outpacing females if you look at the growth average 53 to 47 um so out of out of that page that was something that stood up to me and then again as always I do a little bit of my own uh flavor on this bottom uh table and and so I chose seventh grade math here um just thinking about the idea that if we are going to get to 45% uh by 2028 sixth and seventh grade are going to have to be really good uh so that when students get to e8th grade they um are not so far
019behind that even a good eighth grade student wouldn't be able to catch them up so um looking at seventh grade as well um these are some of our just our top four schools in terms of growth average and you can also see some really significant swings in fall or beginning of the year to midyear proficiency um Greenfield stood out to me 14% to 35% um and then the districtwide growth average of 49 and just a note that 8th grade was at 50 board member Frank whitz asked about um students who were on the cusp um so we're at 12.5% for 8th grade um kind of based on the calculation of of what on the cus meaning students who were really close um partially proficient some of our higher partially proficient students that was about nine
020another 99.5% of students um so somewhere around 21 21% I thought would be a very best case scenario for asasa proficiency actually that 22% excuse me which is in fact our goal and then finally I just wanted to note too that out of the students who weren't at proficiency 30% of those students made what we would call high growth with an SGP number of 65 or higher so uh definitely some good celebrations in e8th grade math page three our interim goals um we you've heard me at this point talk about this quite a bit now our um our fifth grade student cohort uh came into the year uh slightly behind their uh last year peers um so so will did a nice will AR jeros and Community engagement did a really nice job of of
021this design here what we have is in the gray we're last year's cohort in the green is what's happening this year and then you can see that in relation to our goal so we wanted 30% of our students to be at Proficiency in fifth grade uh we have moved that proficiency number from 15.9% to 18.9% for interim goal number two it's to increase uh to 25% with our six grade math students and this is where we're seeing a lot of progress in a in a high growth average sixth grade has the highest growth average um out of all grade levels for Math and actually uh our students just took February progress monitoring obviously that just wrapped up and sixth graders are now at 21% for proficiency with a growth score of uh 53 so so
022sixth grade has our highest growth and and thus it would be no surprise that they're making that we're seeing more and more students creeping over that proficiency line and you can see there too that that's well pretty well above where our sixth graders were at this point last year so I just want to pause there that with that sixth grade we are on track um to to meet our end of year goal um which means that that sets us up even better for seventh grade for next year right and then better for eighth grade so um I some of your questions were about summer professional development so we'll get to those at the end but yeah that's something that we're really excited about that we're starting to turn this this um or or starting to
023flip um and hopefully still be not hopefully we will be um on track thank you so uh this fourth page we look at uh some of our combined scores across all of our upper grades this is especially for 4th through 8th right now now is important to look at as 4th through 8th makes up a and and we talked about this with the principles and instructional coaches as well fourth through eth makes up a big chunk of our report card score and our letter grade um so just as a reminder we looked at the uh report card formula very briefly back in January and uh the 50% growth score is all fourth through e8th grade students because it's students who have had to take the ASA and then comparing their growth to the next year
024um so looking at Fourth through eth grade especially in the next couple of weeks and helping students to prepare for ASA will be very important um and when we look at Fourth through eth grade what I think is different than just looking at one grade level a lot of our um a lot of our schools it's one teacher who teaches eth grade math so um when we're looking at that sometimes it can say a lot about the teacher fourth through 8th grade this is going to look more largely at at the health of the school the school systems obviously ALS so the teachers are a big part of that um the primary part um but this this does give us uh a lens to some of the comprehensive school systems and the vertical articulation that
025we would want to see um happening at schools so again we have their proficiency rate for Star winter and their growth average by school um and then finally um at the bottom is some of our uh next steps and what is working and I'm Dr ptio if you would like to take it over there uh to start and I can also be happy to chime in thank you thank you and also of course I'll invite Dr battle and U miss gueston or any of the executive team members to also um chime in but one of the things that we do see as working is that we continue to as as we do our district learning walks continue to see that increased use of our um our adopted curriculum um and we know that we've spent
026um some significant resources in um helping our teachers understand how to use um that curriculum as we plan for um the action plan section for this summer um professional development if you don't mind going up a little just a little bit um the other direction there you go as we plan for this Summer's uh professional development we're going to expand um the focus of our um Math teachers specifically um professional development to not only be focused on the uh on the curriculum um materials but also focused on helping them to improve uh the uh mathematical instructional strategies um math content and being able to break that down break break down the um the essential standards but then also um on building relationships and classroom management so we're going to continue to um pour into our
027our teachers um through the summer professional development work and now if you can make it small again thank you something else um that we see as working is again through our district um learning walk is that that we do see um more more and more teachers keeping on Pace um and that's important because we don't want to end up having gaps in our students learning and um the last thing is we do see um our teachers continuing to use those early release Wednesdays for uh work with their plts to create their math units um this year we moved away from having District um directed professional development on early release Wednesdays to really focusing that time more so um the ones that are are negotiated there's some that negotiated with our teachers union to be or
028our employee Association to be used for other things um related to teacher preparation and work but the ones that are left we decided to focus all of those on on really focusing um teachers on on pey work so we see that that's um that those days are being used for that purpose um pivot Points so one of the things that we need to do this summer is uh revise the pacing uh guide um because want to make sure that it's better aligned with the double ASA blueprint and then also with the essential standards that will be released from ad um another thing with that pacing guide work is that we're going to um be uh rolling out a um a job description so that we're ensuring that we have the best most qualified teachers working
029on those pacing guides this summer so they'll be invited to apply for that also uh as we are working with our budget and ensuring that we're being very thoughtful with the use of the limited resources that we do have we're adding an additional math coach at the higher level U math so that we can have one that focuses on more conceptual understandings at lower level and then our higher level um upper grade math coaches that will be supporting then our coaches on the campuses and our administrators and the rest of the teachers um in being able to to um to increase our our students our instruction and therefore increasing our students growth um one of the things under the leadership of Dr battle that we're doing is we are uh ensuring that we have um
030more um consistent uh master schedule across our campuses and also departmentalization and I'll turn it over to her so she can explain a little bit more about that work govering board president hjge Dr hjge and board members executive team I just want to make sure I commend our teaching and learning uh team and and their efforts as we've been very thoughtful and we're running fast and furious but very thoughtful and targeted in our area of improvement which means our resources so our master schedule has to have the structure in which we can find success and that we can take a look at our data and our instructional strategies and all to say what research says the value of the master schedule I want to commend our principles too as they've had input into what that's
031going to look like and their commitment in advance to adhering to what we all have decided is going going to be exciting so the master schedule um has been put in place we've got another principal's meeting on Thursday um Miss gson and her support is immense on that we're going to continue to build upon it we've had some meetings today it's on a different topic called Ela but um we look forward to utilizing that master schedule in a way that will sustain um any kind of challenges as well as building micro schedules within it and really being instrumental towards improving our instructional strategies but also our student achievement thank you Dr battel and and also through that master schedule what it'll allow is consistent um departmentalization which will then um from fifth grade through 8th
032grade which will then um help us to support our teachers and becoming more experts in less content areas right so that they can develop their skills and have uh less to plan for um but planning more deeply um to ensure that our students are are um learning at high levels and then also we're work we're going to be working with our principles and um our tnl division so that we have more intentional um planning across our campuses for all of our Math teachers to be able to better collaborate um in in PE with people that are doing the same work that they're doing um another highlight that I wanted to um point out is um on the up a little bit so I can see better thank you there we go is as we're thinking
033about what what needs more attention attention we know that we need to um work more closely with our instructional coaches to empower the teachers so we want to empower the teachers to be okay with seeing the kids have this productive struggle um with mathematics and that actually deepens their understanding of math knowing that we have to balance that there there has to be some facts practice right and kids do need to become um automated with some of those basic facts but we also want to move away from only presenting algorithms or having our teachers do the majority of the work and really allowing our students to productively struggle um is there anything else you think I you'd like to add what I fa to mention thank you Dr btio is that we increase the time
034on math so we're looking at 90 minutes more so that there would be a continuous effort to ensure that we're not only utilizing tier one very effectively but we can identify the students that are going to need intervention in a timely manner hopefully that same day uh but that'll also give students an opportunity engage more I appreciate what Mr oo and team have done is as they've gone out to take a look at teachers performan that are doing well and within that time then we can share with our teachers how to implement those strategies with support the learning Walks from the site as well as what we're doing as the exec team will be The Telltale um but I'm really excited about the additional time that everyone is committed to to ensure that we improve
035our learning performance in that I think the last thing to highlight here is um in the consent agenda today you you approved the salary schedules and then also the stien schedules and it's really um important to note um and I'll let um rhr executive director talk a little bit more about it Michel Alexander but um it's really important to note that we are being very intentional of um investing our money in making sure that we're attracting and retaining the most qualified staff and specifically to math I'll turn it over to her so she can share about that good evening board president Hajj uh members of the board community and exec team thank you so much um as Dr ptio mentioned on our board agenda tonight we have several salary schedules that we're presenting to you
036for approval including a stien schedule um specifically there not only math in our sipon schedule we're also excited to um present to you the opportunity to increase what we offer for our ESS teachers as well so we've increased that stiping amount to $5,000 we've uh built an additional $3,600 per sale in our salary schedules with my um without my calculator here but I look at Matt out of my side eye I believe that increases our teacher SK schedules up to about 5% um of an increase overall so yes big big clap for that um and that work has been able to happen through uh our the leadership of our superintendent you all as the board and certainly the collaborative efforts that we've had with our Rea uh Association now specifically to math um there is
037a stien that's there I know I was supposed to talk about math only but I got carried away go for it go for it don't mention science too while we're at it yeah I got I got carried away about all the other things that we are wanting you all to to look at improve for us but again it BR it brings in a different Workforce it makes us look a little more attractive than other folks who are maybe only looking at one stien and their stiens are less we did that work to see you know what how do we become most competitive and how do we compensate our teachers that are here for the hard work that you all have identified in these academic goals and and the support that we're trying to put out
038there we want to be able to compensate as we can um so what we've done for math in particular is look for um a way to compensate of of individuals who maybe come with high school math certifications uh so that we can now start to offer our students algebra uh and geometry so that's also on our stien schedule tonight uh for approval we continue to have our reading excuse me our reading endorsement um offerings uh and we looked at uh science as an approved area so those are all there uh for approval tonight that we believe will assist with our pipeline of bringing in great talent in front of our students thank you thank you so as we think about math um not only is our um salary schedule now going to be more attractive
039um uh to be able to to attract teachers and retain teachers but also with that additional stipend that's in addition to the heart to fill stipend so they'll receive the heart to fill stipend um which is remind me 2500 2 200 and then an additional if they have the approved area of mathematics an additional 2500 dollar so we're hoping that we um are able to attract the best teachers and again um knowing that um in our in a lot of our surveys and as we engage with Community they want the the young people to be able to be accelerated also um so we'll be able to offer this summer a a summer Institute for students um that are ready to be accelerated um to receive um that algebra and geometry and that's in collaboration with
040Phoenix Union and Tempe um Union High School Districts um but also as the year goes on we'll be able to offer our own courses um through our certified teachers and then prepare the students to pass the a the adq test adq the math yes ma the math equivalency test yeah the math equivalency test so that not only are they getting exposed to the subjects but they're actually getting credit um therefore they'll be able to go into ninth grade at a higher level math so we're very excited for those changes I wanted to um share some of the questions that were um submitted by the board and thank you for um for submitting those uh and let me see I do I want to stop Nick from sharing yes continue There we go so for some
041of these questions um I'll be leaning in also with u Miss Erica sander and then Elizabeth Susa who will support us with answering some of these questions the first one was submitted by Miss um Castro Coral so what is the Strategic timeline for monitoring our board goals throughout the year and how will each month's Focus align with specific grade levels and subjects um so um on WE emailed it to you but also in your documents today is the um approved progress monitoring calendar so that you will be able to know I mean there's sometimes minor changes that our board president I might make but um this is the schedule for what we'll be monitoring um and then as we work to support eighth grade students what strategic Partnerships or collaboration efforts exist with Phoenix Union
042to ensure a smooth transition and continued academic growth for our Roosevelt School District students so I'll invite Miss sander us up to the podium since she is the person that is managing a lot of that work in addition to her other hat with project momentum good evening governing board president Dr Hajj govering board executive team um part of my role this year has been fortunate enough to work with Phoenix Union um as a former Middle School principal it is so imperative ative that we are helping our students transition to high school and so we have a very positive collaborative um relationship with Phoenix Union part of that we start actually very early and it's I want to say probably September and we have articulation meetings so we actually have Phoenix Union and all of their
043feeder districts come together and when we first meet we really talk about the initiatives of Phoenix Union we talk about what we are working on and what um so for us it would be like project momentum or big initiatives we also do a lot of data sharing in our articulation um as well as share events of what is going to help with our in our promoting eighth graders so for example in November we have the Phoenix Expo um so our students in November get to attend a fair um I think it was at Phoenix College this year I was able to attend fortunately um where they get to experience all of the high schools and all of the programs and they get to learn where they really would flourish and so we also just actually
044had um our last articulation meeting where we share a lot of data so we can see where are RSD students are attending we can see how many students are actually going to um um to Cesar Chavez uh Betty Fairfax and even South and we talk about how can we help promote so we work very closely with our site principles we work very closely with our family engagement coordinators to really promote um those events and educate our community about how do you register and prepare for being an incoming freshman additionally they share information with us like we have a um we're going to start to promoted it's called the summer launch program through Phoenix Union where our eighth graders can actually attend in June um almost like summer school and they earn half a credit so
045those are great opportunities because then they learn what it's like being in a high school Ela high school math class um as well as learn about the acmy at South Mountain they get to learn about the different electives as CTE programs and things like that so we are very close relationship with our our our students um and our families to see how we can best promote and and continue to prepare our our kiddos for that eighth grade um experience once they leave thank you and the next question is I'll submited by board member Castor caral you you are kept us on our toes what are the objectives of the summer Intervention Program and which grade levels will be targeted could this program be strategically designed to not only support struggling students but also provide opportunities
046for proficient students to accelerate their learning and exceed academic goals and I'll um pass that one on over to Dr battle well I want to thank Miss sander too for her um facilitation with the Phoenix Union and also we've looked into some where our schools have gone without calling them out because we're not marketing for other people um but the most part where our kids go because that's what we want to do is promote programs that will help them to succeed so many meetings have occurred that allowed us to say what are we doing to prepare our kids for secondary opportunities um academically socially and really having high expectations so within that we decided to have an accelerated math academy and we've identified some of our own teachers that have high School certification um within
047that we know what we can do um with Miss gon's help we've been really brainstorming some quite Innovative strategies that we believe uh we can use our own staff but also taking a look at can we get our kids over to the high school but if not we want to have something in the summer that says you are prepped and ready to go you have at least been exposed to algebra and maybe some kiddos in geometry and then we'll work with Phoenix as it relates to if they have to take that test or not so the jury is out there um uh me Miss gson and I want to have a meeting with the chief academic officer over there to talk through some of these things so we want to exhaust all opportunities but this
048summer is going to be fulfilled lots of fun and learning happening at Valley View so we'll have this math acceleration kids will have been exposed and and really have gone through a whole A and B so high school is the a semester and and also the B semester all day and it's free to our babies so if we have any other kiddos that are not RSD students there will be a nominal fee I think we said it's 100 maybe 135 bucks or something along those lines but if they register with us then there is free hello how about that so there's that uh but with that said um we believe it's going to be quite attractive but hearing from our community when we decided to consolidate schools they talked about what can we do for
049some of our um students that may be ready to go so this is one strategy for all kids we're not identifying a certain group of kiddos for that then we're also going to have our Intervention Program also at Valley View and at Valley View we'll have um our move on when reading students that need support there we're going to continue to work on our EL support in summer as well um we've got to make sure it's at a different time so we're still working that thing out um and then we're going to identify back to the departmentalization a summer school teacher doesn't have to be a champion of all things but they'll teach either math or Ela and then we'll take a look at our data we've also taken a look at our Roi from
050previous summer schools and we're going to do the same here too so we're just not about going to school we want to be high performing students and we want to improve our craft and we want to improve our performance through our summer intervention programs and so um number of things we'll have a nurse we'll have actually we hope that you will support it's proper word right um principal for summer school and the dean POS or lead position is already in place thank you very much and So within that there's an opportunity to increase leadership capacity so one of our current APS who's willing to work during that time will be paid accordingly as a principal of summer school we'll still have our extended our esy special ed programs will be on a different campus but
051we'll have lots of hustle and bustle over the summer to improve our algebra um hopefully have geometry and then our regular Intervention Program students to improve uh student achievement so we're really excited about all that work and again I would go without saying number of people have been sitting in meetings uh with this lady right here to help us to be able to establish that and I I thank all of that thank you and that was actually also on the stien schedule that um was approved in the consent agenda today so thank you for approving that so we'll be able to run a a summer school program that is um in only one location but we'll have a principal a dean there um supporting that work and then also be able to run it uh
052more like regular school where um we'll have regular walkthroughs and ensure that there's high level um instruction occurring during the summer as well all right so next question how are Math teachers and math coaches collaborating districtwide to align strategies share best practices andure ensure that our Collective efforts are driving progress towards our board goals are there regular opportunities for the entire math department to meet reflect on data and adjust strategies to maximize student goals so as mentioned earlier um we as we are planning for next year we'll be working with our principles and the rest of our tnl uh division to ensure that um there's time set aside for them to come together so we'll be looking at release times to um to schedule those just a followup question there when we look at the
053data from this year and where our math coaches were used um do we have any data that connects back to where we saw the impact um I know that we weren't tracking it that way in that point but um is there anything that we can speak to around how they were used that correlates back to the data we just saw yeah so we had um one math specialist this year um at the district office and um that person um also wore many hats um so I think that um though they did um support our our instructional coaches on our campuses um our instructional coaches on our campuses did focus a lot on developing their skills in and supporting students in teachers in Reading um so we um were what we've learned is yes our reading
054scores have increased but we now need to make sure that we're we're pushing into math and also um ensuring that that person has less hats to wear and that we're really protecting the time that if they're hired to work specifically on developing math skills that they're hyperfocused on that um and that as we are reorganizing um our teaching and learning division we are taking away other responsibilities to ensure that again there's a hyperfocus moving forward to the next year um but we have seen some results with um the increase of use of the math curriculum and that type of thing okay so um let's move on next question oh submitted by vice president frankowitz so we are currently off track in both goals how is the superintendent's response measurably be measurably different based on this
055data from our Norm coaching and support protocols does this or how does this connect with what our highest growth scores are doing so and you can tag team this one Dr battle Yeah and um Miss Susa if you um if you can try him in also and add anything that you think that um we might have missed um So currently the tnl and data team um data and research team and us are observing the teachers who are gaining the most growth to understand what they're doing differently what we've what we've noticed is that there's a high level of student engagement in the in during the core math instruction for those teachers that are doing well so that engagement piece is the reason why um we are that's definitely informing our summer um planning also one
056of the things that you approved on the consent agenda today is the the calendar so the calendar um for returning teachers has been increased by two days and for our new teachers has been increased by two days um so rather than offering a professional development that is invitation only this is now they're going to have two additional days of course the original um increase for the um salary schedules was at $3,000 um for every every um sell on the salary schedule but now that we're adding these two additional days now we increase that to $3,600 to account for those two additional days so all teachers will be compensated and um what we are observing as we're walking through um with these um High performing Math teachers is that that increased level of student engagement so
057again that'll be reflected in the professional development also um we are looking to see which apps are giving the most return on investment so we have uh multiple um applications that that students use um on their iPads um to support and what we've seen is thatl and Freckle are the uh ones that are coming up highest do you have anything you'd like to add on that good evening Madam president members of the board executive team members of the community um I when speaking specifically about the uh teachers that are having the highest growth they not only have the stronger management as well in their classes so that they can focus Less on on managing the students and the engagement where it comes naturally to them but in addition they also have uh more years of
058experience with the curricular resources which allows them to be able in the moment to think of those interventions or perhaps a different approach to a Content or skill area um and that comes with um nurturing our our new teachers our our start of career teachers and and um honoring our veteran teachers as well to your point forl and Freckle we are also um launching a survey for our Stu uh excuse me not students our teachers that have uh demonstrated the highest growth and proficiency to ask them you know if you have this choice of apps which are you using in your classrooms that is leading to that uh growth and Proficiency in your classes what do you like about those apps your students like and that way we can make a a more um informed
059decision when we think about renewing or pursuing different um digital resources for our teachers and students thank you and I would like to say that this year our regular protocol um has been our accountability um meetings that we have with our with our school leadership and I'll um allow Dr battle to talk about that yes again with the support of everyone i' mentioned earlier and our principal we've tweaked our questions often because we also want to model that that's not just being stagnant but what does our data tell us so we've evolved from last year to this year and we're making sure that this next one the principles have received I believe this week or last week what to prepare for in those meetings so the exec team members are present as well as a
060few directors and the principles uh come with their instructional coach or other members of their um instructional cabinet and they share data as to where they are what they're doing to make a change um they talk about and give archive data about what supports our goals these goals the board goals and uh we have some dialogue and then we ask tough questions um of them um what they're going to do differently uh based on the data that they receive what are we doing with our instructional strategies to improve our our teachers the accountability uh talks is what we call them have been instrumental as we take that data back and we talk with an executive team what did we hear what resources do we need to provide what types of support will be helpful how
061can we tweak this process to um develop capacity but also um show more results I want to commend again um Nick puts a lot of that Ana speak in action and um and I I appreciate that and again the principles rise to the occasion and come well prepared also what Mr oovo does for those that want to attend as a session to prepare for their presentations and to have them think through their data and what they'd like to present not just for presentation but for the leadership of what they need to uh demonstrate on their sites Mr oal anything else U speaking to accountability talks first um I think that um what we have really seen is an alignment between what principal sites say they are going to do and then carrying it out and
062then coming back and and showing the progress the outcomes of that um so I think more than ever that I've seen in the district is sites being aligned on on their on their goals but also their their next steps and that and I mentioned this last month that that's why we saw uh principles really knowledgeable about where people are meant to be on the pacing guy as one of their next steps make sure that people are staying um with the pacent guides um so uh the data and accountability talks have have been helpful for us and I think supportive for the principles thank you and then the next part of that question is what is the response to this data in the short term and Miss Susa if you don't mind coming back up again
063um so they are her and her team are developing a short-term professional development structure sure uh uh well when it comes to teaching and learning as a whole we have uh supports in place for the instructional coaches as well as the the teachers we utilize a platform called Academy of mind for professional development which allows us to not only have inperson or even um live but asyn um Zoom sessions for professional development uh in addition to asynchronous professional development and through that we have several courses not just about our district adopted resources but also mathematical practices um and then we continue to involve a plans moving forward for our pacing guides and essential standards committees as well as involving the instructional coaches and our district uh math lead teachers in in developing the plan and
064identifying what supports are are most needed for those teachers thank you and then the next three questions are um a little bit more connected with um Nick's uh Mr oo's work so um one is um in addition it's the cusp question right that came up earlier so I'll let him answer that one first thank you board president members of the board and and I I believe that they tie together so I mentioned very briefly during the report about students that are on the cus that I would say that are high partially proficient students um combine that with the percentage of students that we have at proficient um the 12 and a half percent uh plus the um another nine and a half percent would be 22% and so that would be thinking about the question
065about uh how much proficiency is reasonable project I think 22% is absolute best case scenario um so not that I would necess we would be celebrating if uh on eighth grade math they got to that and um right now we're at 12 and a half% and I think just from what we have seen from our eighth grade teachers over the last couple couple of years that this number goes up so I would say 12 a half% um would be a very low uh low projection and I think that that would be very surprising to be somewhere closer to that which is why I thought 18% um as a as a very reasonable projection for the eighth grade math cohort next question so technical question um as we think about distance to go or is that
066that's kind of summarized with what you said yeah I think so and and um I I think that you uh got these uh answers as well so um just off off of um what we had shared uh we were able to see uh the domains for eighth grade it's uh e equations and uh equalities uh and then where we saw uh students in eth grade struggling was uh ratio proportions percents um and in terms oh thank you in terms of that success um or those gaps I think again I I go back to just overall we're seeing schools or teachers that are really successful across the board conversely um we're seeing um Schools teachers um struggling across all of those so I say that was one um on our Essa where we're seeing our our
067biggest gaps or we're seeing students who are not successful it's typically in our non- multiple choice questions and I know that that's like an age-old story but our um fill-in theblank Asa has these select two select three um answer types so sometimes it's an item type that we see for star and especially for Essa when you look at that uh data that item analysis the next question is about which specific domains are relative strengths for us and which ones are relative weaknesses yep yeah that was that one I answered that I'm sorry all right so I think that's that's it for Dr frankowitz questions then we have a few um that were submitted by Dr hodj so help me understand what was going on at Davis Chavis and quos this fall and who is growing
068the most thank you board president um again the the fall assessment put in another way is our August assessment our beginning of the year assessment um so they're taking these the first couple of weeks of school and uh I I read this as primarily indicating that students at these three schools started 8th grade behind grade level expectations um so we had students who came into 8th grade low I'm just going to pull up um their their numbers too so not I look at uh Davis really as uh and specifically a success that's a school that has now 7% but more importantly their growth average of 58 is um that's uh tracking well and actually Davis on the most uh recent February report hasn't even higher percentage which we would have expected I can tell you
069that real quick um Davis is now at 19% um on the February report uh so this is this is one thing that um makes our uh proficiency goals challenging is that we're uh we have students who are potentially coming in low uh we have a high student Mobility uh rate um so from um one year to the next uh the teachers I I guess I just want to take a step back and say that uh especially since the beginning of the year it's not an indication of that teacher uh that year um but we are seeing a lot of growth with that group cohort of students and then who is growing the most yes okay according to our star data uh TG bar is showing the most growth um if you if you look at
070uh this page two at the top um TG bar has 31% proficient on the winner their growth average is 68 that's really really strong again think about it like um speeding at the speed they're going so we would expect that with that kind of growth average that you would have a higher proficiency rate and in fact in February now our just most recent hot off the press data is that they're at 43% per efficiency now so that's really um really great stuff um seventh grade math Irene Lopez has a 63 growth average um again I mentioned Co Greenfield um they have a high growth average if you're looking at the bottom of page two and additionally Greenfield went from 14% to 35% proficiency so I see those as some of our bigest biggest success stories
071in seventh and eth grade math thank you and then the other one is what do we need to know about the American Indian or Alaskan native and our white students yeah I mentioned this again very briefly in uh our main report um that certainly I I certainly do get the cause for concern and um that's something to look at but again we're looking at a very small um sample size and again it's students that are spread out across our uh District so it's not like it's necessarily happening in one school or in one classroom but definitely something to Monitor and uh proficient proficiency ranges from 11.7 to 29% at schools what is working and how can we improve at a faster rate I don't know if you saw my responses but isn't that the the
072golden the Golden question uh board president great question um you know I I know that this sounds so not to oversimplify it uh but where we're seeing the most growth or uh the most proficiency is where we're seeing where we have really strong teachers um and the I mentioned the primary indicator of success um over all of our different data points that we have uh is the classroom that the student has is in uh makes such a big difference and that is something that is known nationally um this is not news um in terms of how can we improve at a faster rate I just want to um commend uh the superintendent and team they I they did not prep me to say this but the uh paying our Math teachers uh more that is
073um that is going to be huge uh our math the Math teachers are are like getting a really strong Junior High math teacher it's like a unicorn uh at the at the kind of try intersection of we talked about this already content knowledge and instructional teaching strategies that are effective and the relationship engagement management side um so uh it makes me think in baseball of show he Otani who can pitch he can hit he's like this worldwide phenomenon and we're looking for one of those in each of our our classrooms fortunately we don't have 200 million or whatever he got to make that he makes for that um but to be able to pay our Math teachers more because again not just here in Roosevelt but everywhere desperate for for Math teachers and ESS teachers
074know Miss Alexander got very excited but ESS teachers is also going to help our math scores additionally so it is it is connected in line I thought very appropriate to be excited about that the again uh board president all seriousness that was that that's I think the most important in seventh and eth grade math uh the content is challenging um the students let's just face it can be challenging um there's there's a lot um there's just a lot of value in a in a really good Junior High math teacher Ela teacher of course science teacher too but um where we're seeing it in in three schools in particular that we went and viewed have all of those three things and in classrooms um where that's where we're not seeing as much growth it's even I
075saw I went to three different uh schools um where there were not seeing substantial growth and and there were good teachers who were missing even just one of those things um I saw one where they were just missing the content knowledge there was one where it was missing the instructional strategies and and one where it wasn't the relationship as much I mean these were still very strong teachers we've got really good Junior High teachers across the district um which is what makes it so challenging that to have all three of those um attributes and additionally the professional development that uh the superintendent Deputy superintendent have planned for the summer is hitting all of those things that are in the uh teaching and learning piece so um being able to recruit and retain teachers and then
076and develop them is is going to be where we're going to see success yeah Madame President governing board members community and exec team also again just right hot off the press um Miss gon and I had an opportunity to talk yesterday that was Monday um about some strategies to develop our new teachers and staff I'm going put her on the spot a little bit can you share and unpack a little bit of how we're going to help support our new teachers with your content um coaches um for next year good evening Madam president members of the governing board exec team and Community uh this is very late breaking news um but what we really we want to make sure that we're doing is um developing a model for for new teacher support that allows our
077our content specialists at the district to be able to push in more directly with teachers who are teaching that content so for our our math coaches to play a role in in the new teacher coaching and support of of new Math teachers in the district and that's certainly going to be easier uh when we have that departmentalization from fifth grade on up um in order to really help them not just math but in in all the con core content areas uh so that's that's where we're where we're headed and we have a lot of fun work ahead in terms of developing out what that's going to look like for our for our district thank you very much and then lastly I would say we did a little trial in our teaching and learning meeting with
078a device that we are going to utilize to share our talents across the district and it's a swivel device and so a teacher can teach in a class and see the students but so can another teacher those can be recorded so we can archive good lessons and asly our new teachers then you just get to do what this great teacher is already doing too this young man told me all the time about golfers are just good are the core is just good well I want I want everybody to be good and so this this tool will help us to be able to offer classes that may some campuses may not offer but it's just a matter in in selective and creative scheduling as well as taking a look at this this device I think is
079going to be really instrumental to increase our our strategies in the classroom and I think overall um pouring into all of our teachers right because even though they're not teaching upper grade math which is what today's um presentation focused on um it's important that we pour into them that we uh that we develop them and um retain them um because we're investing a lot of a lot of resources into into them and they're also connecting and making relationships with our South Phoenix students so we want to keep them here um and again the increase in the salary schedule is one way we know that money is not going to be everything but um being able to increase um into the salary schedule and and again I want to thank Rea for their support in in
080those negotiations but being able to increase by about 5% when you consider um the uh the amount it depends on how much that person is earning right because it's a percentage of that but um for us to be able to increase the salary schedule by $3,600 per cell that's a huge um accomplishment especially given the times that we're in and the fact that um not very long ago we were having discussions about the finances that we're in right the situation that we're in so just reallocating our um our resources in that way is going to be something that's that's going to make an incredible difference um I know that um our CFO uh Mr Gonzalez has also been working um hard to ensure that we're being competitive and that we're also staying within the guard
081R of not overspending correct so one of the things that I wanted to mention and and he can probably add a little bit more color to this is that within our salary schedule we had um a number of people that were off the salary schedule but with the increase that we were able to make the majority of the teachers I believe he can have for a little bit more more detail of um how many will be left but since we have made this this um the amount of uh increase that we've been able to create to that to all of the the sales on the salary schedule we've been able to suck up most of the teachers that were off of the salary scale so as we move forward then we'll be able to remedy
082this issue of um having so many people off the salary scale and as we move forward giving increases then um since just about everybody will be on the salary scale now then we'll be able to continuously um give um um increases to everyone Mr Gonzalez can you explain that a little bit more how we're able to suck them up into the salary scale yes ma'am uh uh Madam president governing board members the um the increase of 3600 pushed we had I want to say about 30 40 teachers that we were paying them off of scale or schedule so even though we said a maximum uh pay rate would be 62,000 or whatever for a bachelor's teacher we were paying them 63 64 65,000 um so we've been just kind of accumulating these people that are
083off schedule the increases we did um into this year and the increase we're doing into next year year um now places all teachers but one in the schedule so everyone's now within our boxed schedule that you guys are approving tonight um so the increases that teachers get predominantly is $3,600 however if you were off schedule we're not increasing you further than that because again you're back off schedule so we're keeping you wherever you're at so if you're a little bit off schedule um you're going to get most of that money if you're pretty far off schedule you only get a little bit of that money um the lowest amount um that I again except for one teacher is $850 so the lowest amount will be $850 and that's a handful and then everyone else will
084get above um going stepping up from there um there was a handful at 1300 and then uh that that was nine so I believe it was five people were 850 um four people were 1350 everybody else is getting a minimum $2,000 so it's just about everyone in the district is getting or everyone in the district is getting um above that uh 850 except the one all the teachers in the district but um yeah so we're pushing them all into the schedule and it alleviates this problem in the future ideally thank you Mr Gades um and I would say that the biggest thing that is helping is outcomes focused governance so having the board focus on outcomes um aligns us to focus on outcomes aligns our teaching and learning division to experience the the reorg that
085we're working towards for next year um allows our aligns our our principles and the work that they're doing to focus on outcomes Focus governance and it really um has changed a lot of the conversations we're having as an executive team um and has forced us to uh ensure that we keep the most important thing the most important thing um as we are doing our planning so as you noticed in all of our divisions it's all focused towards the same goal so we're not working in in silos we're working towards increasing student achievement and I think that's one of the biggest um indic uh reasons why we're being successful it's not going to be um a magic program that we purchase it's really improving our daily practices and um this new Adoption of alcome focus governance
086has really pushed us all to to do that and do that quickly thank you so much now I'll open it up to the board to see if there are any additional questions um I just want to ask about um the summer program do we know which campus right now yes Madam president board members Miss P yes we're going to be at one location it'll be at Valley View yeah having one location will allow us to focus all of our resources and efforts there and we'll also be providing transportation from the other locations um and it'll also allow us to save energy um costs because we know in the summertime air conditioning costs are real at our homes especially here in the big facilities that we operate so that's why we've decided to concentrate um the
087services out of one campus available to all of our campuses all right so I want to thank our board members for submitting questions and then to our District staff thank you so much we know that this work is incredibly hard um and so we appreciate your attention and your efforts um it's also really great to see that our resource are are starting to align with our goals in particular um the superintendent Garo number three where we are allocating our budget resources um to our goals and so that's really nice to see that we're creating programs based on the data that we're seeing um and the gaps that we that we are seeing um so that's really great and so we appreciate that or I appreciate that I should say um the next item on the
088agenda is public participation and we do not have any tonight oh thank you so much sorry he was waiting for his favorite person asked questions clearly um my apologies thank you um there's no public participation um so we're moving on to the next item which is 4.01 the superintendent report and I'll pass it to Dr Portilla thank you uh Madame President uh members of the board executive team and Roosevelt Community um I don't have a separate report for today um but I do want to um present our top happenings so as we've been doing uh further work we've also decided to ensure that our top happenings are also aligned with our goals and our guard Wills which means that since this is the first month we've implemented um as we reviewed them we um only
089have uh two that we're going to be presenting for you today not that other great things aren't happening but we want to ensure that everything that we're celebrating that everything is aligned so we will find um another we want to make sure we celebrate those other things too and we'll be using our social media and other Communications forms to ensure that we're celebrating those other things but again the board meeting is focus on outcomes so you'll see um two that are here today and all right so student wellness thank you so student wellness and this is guardrail number two the student wellness Department held a bullying prevention poster contest with the eighth grade students from Pastor School winning um at her art I'm sorry a student from Pastor school one um her artwork will be
090displaced across displayed across the district the 2324 climate survey showed that 50% of students feel their school is Bully free the department also partnered with the Bush School to discuss self-esteem diversity and cultural experiences the lion club provided free eye exams and glasses for academic success and the SE seel um Department promoted uh literacy with books on kindness and self-esteem additionally social workers and counselors received grief facilitator training uh to better support grieving students and we know that we did have um uh a passing of a couple of um one one staff member um just want to make sure we honor that today um from Sunland school um Beloved Community of our uh Community member of our of our district so Miss Cynthia Arisa passed and um it's important that we have these student wellness
091teams prepped and ready to respond um in today's crisis um I mean yesterday they responded and as a crisis team and then today continue to support the staff and the students so I want to thank um our student wellness director um uh Miss Malik Wadley but also um all of the staff members that went to support our student during that time of grief the next one is um engaging students through taste tests so this is again um guardrail number two our child nutrition services has been visiting schools to conduct taste tests as part of guardrail number 2.4 creating a fun and engaging experience for students parents and teachers we love interacting with everyone and Gathering feedback on new items for our breakfast and lunch menus and students eagerly share their honest opinions and enjoy being
092involved in the decision decision making process I also want to note that um a couple of board meetings ago you did approve for our um uh our child nutrition services to attend professional development this summer um so that they continue can continue to work on that guard R number 2.4 and that's all that I have today thank you so much for that um the next item on our agenda is 4.03 which is Rea report Dr Martha Thomas oh sorry just kidding um 4.02 board member updates are there okay yeah so I'm Sor apologize Miss Miss Coleman I'll get to you in just a moment I got a little ahead of myself um so item 4.02 is our board member update any updates from board members I just like to um share that I didn't get
093to share this last month and it was so close to actually the date when I did it but um I was able to go attend sunland's Aladdin production and it was amazing um I've been ranting and raving about it since just telling everyone like this school is amazing um and and kind of pressuring us to make sure that we Market that school as the uh performing arts school cuz that's what it is really um but I just want to congratulate everyone who is part of that production all those students it's pretty impressive and I do want to see us uh help them get a better sound system as well um uh yesterday I participated with a reading Across America um at Bush school and that was really fun it was great to uh read to
094a third grade classroom took me back to the days when I used to be a teacher myself so um it's just you know it's it's been great and I'm I'm also really delighted to see what we're doing to really um step up as a district to bring competition that's the word I like to hear competition you guys so I really appreciate that that we are doing that and showing the community all that we can bring oh and one other thing this Saturday I do know that we are doing a combined activity with Chick-fil-A um and there it's going to be the dine with a first responder and so hopefully we'll get a lot of attention there they're going to have police um vehicles SWAT team helicopter and everything and that'll be a great way to
095be able to um talk to community members and see if they'll enroll their kids into real thank you so much Miss P any other board updates Madam president um I had the just absolute pleasure of getting to attend some of our campus showcases on February 12th so I got to go to the lasten conos um combo which was was such a delight I got to visit um a number of classrooms um and my favorite moment of the night was as I was leaving a little boy asked me he was coming from lasson and asked me if I was going to be his teacher at conchos and I said no you will have a much better teacher than me and he goes oh good and then ran into the building so just like families were delighted
096and both principles were so welcoming it was a lovely place to be got to talk to some of the teachers in the resource space about their wonderful students um and then when to Campbell and Bush and then um I had a wonderful student who gave me a whole tour of the campus told me about her older sister who she was so proud of who's going to college on a scholarship um gave me all the lowdown on who the cool teachers are so if you need to know um but just really exciting to see a place where students truly are um the advocate for and the voice of the campus um and teachers who are so excited to be looking at those new opportunities to have to bring those teams together I truly couldn't tell who
097was from which staff um and I think that was really reassuring to parents who are coming um and just getting excited to see all of the the new mix of staff and students coming to those campuses um and then just quick side note um as the schools I work at um I'm going to be teaching some eighth grade math as we get ready for ASA so tonight's presentation was definitely lit a fire for me um and also I might be coming to find our resource folks for a little bit of eighth grade math support so just appreciate that thank you Dr Dr vice president that sounds great um any other updates okay I'll go um I had the honor and the privilege of attending the namesake um celebration and recognition of John R Davis um
098during the last day of Black History Month um three generations of the Davis Family were present and we deeply appreciate their continued support um during the event a student paid a tribute to officer Davis's Legacy while another one shared her favorite memory community representatives are also in attendance including a student from the cies of South Mountain and one from the best high school on the South Side Cesar travez just saying it was truly a blessing to be a part of this this celebration as we honor a pillar of our community and it's also National social workers month so shout out to our social workers moving on um 4.03 Rea report now Mrs Coleman good evening Madame President Hodge been want to say that for a long time uh governing board members Dr patio exec team
099my ra and R SD colleagues and our South Phoenix community I'm Carol Coleman Rea exe Executive Board member substituting for president Martha Thomas and we also want to wish president Thomas a speedy recovery uh currently we have 357 members and we'll continue to visit our campuses as scheduled uh we would like to share some pictures of our couple of our events oh she said she okay uh the first we had is of our educational support professional Days event for all of our esps and we had that at the Highland Park on February 8th from 12: to 4: PM members and their families showed up for some awesome and great food uh members who attended it was a great event and then also we just wanted to update and give the results of our ratification vote
100uh 25 to 26 are members who voted passed with a 68% of all of our members accepting this concludes my report uh what questions might you have for me as I will try to do my best to answer if not we can all just wish and I'll do the best I can thank you so take it easy board um are there any questions no thank you so much all right thank you very much have a next item on our agenda is 4.04 reent Roosevelt um and I'll pass it to Dr Portillo as you set up um as a reminder we voted on December 5th to repurpose some campuses to close the financial deficit and provide additional resources to students the board directed the superintendent to provide an update at every regular scheduled board meeting we
101can see your notes thank you just need a moment so while they work on that um I do want to share that yesterday uh morning and then in the afternoon we repeated um the opportunity for members of the community to see um to hear and get updated on Reinventing Roosevelt and what the work that we've been doing um not only um with the operations of our district but then also as we're establishing a superintendent advisory Council to help us with that work yep so we might need a moment I apologize do you want to take like a five minute break okay let's take a five minute break and be back at 7 thank you e e e much for your patience as we take a look to a little break and I'll pass it back
102to Dr Portillo thank you we're going to go ahead and get started again thank you Madame President members of the board executive team and Roosevelt Community um as I mentioned earlier we were able to uh present to the community um yesterday um twice in the morning and in the afternoon um and then we will be scheduling further um other um updates so that we can keep everyone breast of all the work that we're doing and um I hope you're pleased with the presentation because there's there's been a lot of stuff we've been doing like like we're not sleeping very much but that's okay because we'll sleep in the summer or next week next week too maybe during spring break so um all right so first of all we just want to make sure that we're
103anchored in our vision so as we always um do at all of our meetings again we're a community United to create better futures for all through education and this was important especially in yesterday's presentation because we know that we're leaning very much into Community organizations to support us to be able to do the work of Reinventing Roosevelt and we invited everybody to get involved um also one of the slides was hidden here but it was a picture of all you all and me thanking you all for doing the hard work that you did that um Dr Hajj already mentioned earlier but um it was a very difficult decision to have to um to um resolve the structural it and address it rather than than continuing to kick that um that can down the road but
104it really has set us up for a more uh fiscally healthy uh financial future for our district which is allows us to reinvest those dollars then in the programs and in our the our student programs but then also into our staff um which um you you will hopefully be approving later on I know you've approved the the acceptance of the consent agenda but you got to actually approve the consent agenda coming up next next but um yeah we invited the community to ensure that um that they that they know um all of these different ways that they can get involved as well and all right so again we're um the uh updates that we'll be giving today is um really around the transition committees um the um the the um improvements or increases that we're
105being able to give to our Personnel um a little bit of update on the facilities use and then the facilities repurposing and then some of the future programming that we'll be able to offer our students so first want to um let you know that we have um sent invitations out to U members of the community some are our parents some are um staff members some are community members we have some religious leaders that we've also um invited we've um made sure that our original um Reinventing Roosevelt committee from the fall has also all been invited so that um they can continue to um if they choose to participate continue to support us in this work but also we've invited other members of the community that have um offered up their support um since we engag
106in this work we'll be meeting uh three times and the the role of this of this committee is to help advise the staff committees right because we have a number of Staff committees that are working on all the logistics um and all the moving parts of merging the campuses um uh help inform you know some of the the work that we're doing as we are welcoming um um students to their new campuses but then also as we are closing and honoring the namesakes so again um that superintendent Advisory Group of uh larger not just staff members but also parents and community members will then help to inform the work and drive the work of the staff committees all right so one of the meetings that we had uh most recently is the repurposing a a
107group of people that are coming together to help us repurpose Martin Luther King School um so the district leadership held a brainstorming meeting with the University of Arizona um and other thought leaders the University of Arizona has accepted to be the lead partner um in this endeavor they'll be supporting us um not only with their leadership and the the Deep knowledge that they have of early childhood but also with the relationships that they've developed already with um different partners um that are focused on Early Childhood um also we um are leaning on them um for some actual tangible support as well not only their leadership but they will be providing a staff to help um have a receptionist at that building and then also um to have a portion of their um director um supporting
108us there on the campus as um the director and the and the person that will be helping to to lead um a lot of the daily interaction amongst the um the different um partners and tenants that'll be there um other members that showed to that this meeting and I know we're expanding this group um but for this initial brainstorming meeting was uh members from the University of Arizona we also had um all-in education uh Valley leadership gather and grow and Booker T Washington come to this meeting again it was an initial meeting uh they will also be supporting us through the future framework um they'll be um supporting us to engage more so in community feedback they've already started GA gathering some of that data for us and they will also um be supporting us
109with um surveying the community as well like boots on the ground and actually knocking on doors and asking for input um from that that community so we're really excited for that and also working on anou uh with future framework and University of Arizona um one of the things that they have been able to um gain for us is a substantial donation um that will help us to have staff um housed out of uh Julian um to help be a a wraparound service um organization that will help um when families enroll into king or I'm sorry to Julian will be able to connect them and and and really understand what are the underlying needs of that family so that they can connect them not only with the services that are going to be offered at King
110but services at a larger scale throughout the city um so that um substantial donation is $130,000 each year for five years um and that's something that we're really proud of being able to um to work with the organizations um they've identified that we we need that support um and have been really hustling to be able to um to work with them to um ensure that they understand that we are a worthy um a worthy group to support right so um not only have these Partners engaged in providing us uh emotional support through all of this but they're actually putting um money on the table to help us be successful so I want to thank them and then also thank I know um that Miss Amy marks being over there right now and um also um
111Emily um have been helping us a lot to um be able to be to um to be connected with the everyday um work that's happening at the actual campuses so I want to thank them as well uh for serving on the future framework then we had a learning opportunity so different partners and uh members our of our executive team we had the opportunity to um go visit Glendale Elementary School District system of Care Center so a few years back um I think three years ago um Glendale Elementary School District also had to uh repurpose their campuses and consolidate schools um due to to their decrease in enrollment as well and um they are you know a couple of years ahead of us in this endeavor so they allowed us to um go and and observe
112and and get tours of their um their system of Care Center um some of the the services that they offer there are uh Mental Health Services Social Services Educational Services Health Services substance abuse vocational Services recreational Services Juvenile Justice they even have a a a laundromat there they have a um a closet a very nice closet large closet that has all kinds of uh formal wear as well as professional wear there's so many services that they are able to offer a of that that Center um it's also collaboration with the city so they allowed us to go and have an initial tour I I'm really excited to be able to take you all in the future and also members of the um of the staff members of the staff as as well as other partners
113um and also our Council women to be able to go and see the work that is happening there and how can we best um take that idea and then make it our own Southside idea right so we're really excited to go and and see that and I would love to have the opportunity to replicate something similar to that but again with our own flavor at one of the facilities that um that were repurposing um also um you all some of of you all were able to um go to the showcases um it was amazing it was exciting um I know at King there was um I had to park um in the street because there wasn't any space um for King and Julian it was full it was packed it was an exciting um kids
114were really happy um Family seemed excited as well I was able to also go to Chavez and um and see the work that they were doing there it was it was exciting it was fun um and I know that some of you VIs visited some of the other campuses but um this Showcase of schools is important because it's our opportunity to showcase all the great things that we're doing right we know that there's so much that we're doing and it's um sometimes hard to get the word out because there's so many things happening um but one of the things that I think helped us a lot is that we were able to um to have Miss Mar Rago um and she's in the center picture there um she was able to do FaceTime FaceTime live
115right mall or I think mongali stepped out FaceTime live and we we know that each time that we do these FaceTime lives with her we get thousands of viewers so um that was exciting as well um but the staff uh worked really hard for those showcases and um especially at the the schools that are combining we saw great turnout so I know um at uh Campbell uh we had great turnout and we were able to um to enroll how many yeah so we're very excited um it was a great event and um it's you know it continues to to uh be be a another way to get the word out um I did do a FaceTime um live yesterday with Miss Rago um also and then really emphasized um it was a a summary of
116the um updates that we did but then also emphasized um that it's important that families remember that that they need to reenroll each year um we don't drop them but it's important because that allows us then to be able to staff accordingly and plan accordingly um to how many teachers we need to have at that particular campus so anyhow um that's another way to get the word out then um yeah thank you um we want to just reemphasize again that um we're not only repurposing the buildings but it's really about maximizing each one of those dollars um so as we continue to um to um work towards towards improving services to students um some of the items that you have on your agenda today for approval is adding of Staff members um and uh our
117international baloria program we continue to work towards accreditation over at bar Elementary School um and uh one of the things that we need to do is to add teaching staff there um to be able to deepen that program and get through it accreditation and be able to use the IB uh logo and naming right um we already have many other the practices and continue to work towards um that accreditation but we would not be able to move into this next step if we were not using our our finances um in a way that's going to really help us to to remain fiscally um stable so we're not needing to um dip into so much into our reserves because of these changes we were also as we had promised um that we would have additional science
118um opportunities at Julian um knowing that their namesake is is a black chemist um we wanted to make sure that we um we uh honored that promise so we were able to add an additional um teacher steam teacher over at Julian and then also to expand those science programs and then also we've had a request from our principles for several years now that they wanted to be able to have someone on their campus to pull small group to provide intervention to our students and we have not been able to afford that so um thanks to the changes that we're making with how we're using our finances we're now able to have one full release teacher on every campus um and we'll be working um on on your agenda today as the job description for that
119position um and then we'll be able to uh delineate the parameters for use of that position so we ensure that we get a strong return on investment um as we work with our principles but we're excited to um be able to offer those changes and again we wouldn't be able to offer that in the past um another thing is um we know our English language Learners and continue to be a group that we need to help improve not only in their language acquisition but then also in their um academic success so we are able to then add another e elll specialist um at the district office so not only will we have one that works um with our um with our um uh our students that are are um the most struggling our newcomers but
120we'll also be able to have someone focusing on our students that are ready to be pushed um into or out of um uh into proficiency and out of um e Services um on the aella so we want to make sure that we're really targeting the um the uh intervention and the supports that we're providing and um we're able then to add this additional El specialist um and I mentioned earlier an additional math um specialist that will be supporting with the Upper Grade um and again those changes wouldn't have been possible if we weren't um being uh really smart with the use of our money all right and um another thing we talked about already several times is um that we are able then to offer this $3,600 pay increase right so it was originally a
121$3,000 increase but because we also are adding two days um to two professional days to um professional development days for our staff then it increased to $33,600 for every sale on the salary schedule um so we are able then to as we reinvent um invest money back into our teachers which is one of the promises we made to the community as we were considering the reinvention um and the consolidation of our campuses and we mentioned earlier that um teachers who have an approved area of math on their um certificate will also earn an additional $2,500 in addition to the heart to fill um um stien and um we also mentioned that our special education teachers will earn that additional $2,500 um again in addition to the hard to feel stipend um the um bringing back
122the twoe the the teachers back two days earlier than normal is going to be critical because again we can we can push into professional development um before they start the school year and then the the rest of the days um we've have um negoti it with our association that the rest of the returning teacher week um we have two days for teachers to really be able to set up their classrooms and plan right but then we will also have three days that we can more so um allow our except for the convocation because we have our our big celebration on the Friday before school starts but then the rest of the days our principes will be able to determine based on the needs on their campuses how they will utilize that time so being able
123to add these two days uh makes it so that we're not all competing for the same amount of time and then our teachers are able to know that they have those two days promised to be able to set up their classrooms to plan and be ready for that first day of school and also for U Meet the Teacher Night that Thursday before school starts um the pay increases are are designed to attract and retain our teaching staff um but also we want to um remind you that we are also on the on the salary scales are giving um increases to some of the hardto fill positions where that we've had to to Outsource in our classified ranks right so our our par professional um uh par professionals will now all be U par professional level
124three which means that all the ones that were below level three will now receive level three pay and then level three itself has been increased um by how many dollars Miss Alexander or approximately $2 approximately $2 um and that's that's a big increase um for those that were already level three and then even a higher increase for those that were not level three yet um our bus drivers and um are increasing by sorry I put him on the spot because this meeting is recorded you know I want to tell you the right number so if you give me just one moment Dr P well they're getting increases that are significant and um and then also our um as we look at our trades and we had to in the past Outsource um a lot in
125our HVAC our plumbing all of our trades um we're able then to also give um the uh the trades uh level three also a significant increase so we're really excited about that all right so we can come back and let Miss Alexander share um all right so then and re Reinventing Roosevelt also means redesigning these experiences for students right so again we mentioned earlier that we're going to be able to offer the algebra and geometry classes um we also um hope to be able to offer not only algebra and geometry but also um help the kids pass the um the uh high school equivalency test so that they can get their credits in high school um we talked about the master schedule redesign and then also as we think about the whole child we already
126offer volleyball soccer basketball cheer track and Esports as competitive as competitive um inter Scholastic sports but now we'll be able to add Flack football um and we're excited about that and then not next year but the following year offer softball and baseball so we're really excited about that as well and the next slide here so again um the other thing that we are we are Reinventing aside from our Sports our clubs extracurriculars um and their n academics is really looking at something else that our our community asked for which is um um care so additional after school care um and that is something that we're continuing to work on um we are just about ready to put out for our early childhood um a um pay for participation opportunity for our montor uh program and
127then for our um for our general preschool students as well as um as working on ensuring that we have some type of uh after school or before school opportunity at each of our remaining campuses one of the questions that comes out the most um during all of our listening sessions is um from parents is transportation so um parents not only of the schools that are combining but all of our schools have have questions and concerns regarding transportation and as you remember Transportation was also an area that we needed to pay special attention to according to the auditor general so Mr Kyle has been very very busy um he's been focused on building relationships with our community um the listening sessions um are have been are are are and have been critical um he's also um
128increasing that communication between the drivers and the schools um to make sure that we have clearer Transportation policies um he's also working on updating our transportation section of our district website to answer frequently asked questions um and then collaborating with the school administrators to ensure that safe um writing procedures um to and from school um the other thing is working hard on Route efficiency and planning so looking at any hazards or obstacles that are in the way um to ensure that kids are able to to get to school safely but then also optimizing the routes um so that we're um saving on costs but then also reducing delays and then ensuring those ontime arrivals um the other biggest transformation that we're making in um transportation is the use of ID badges the ID badges will
129be scanned so that we're able to track then our writers as to are they on the correct bus are they getting on um are they getting on first of all are they on the correct bus and then are they getting off at the correct spop um so that's a huge um Improvement and um and Innovation for us when it comes to um student safety and I think that's about it for that slide so again just wanted to remind you that the transition committees or that these are the staff committees what they're working on is they work they they're meeting bi-weekly so this is different from the advisory committee that is uh community-driven the operational committees are meeting bi-weekly and they're working more so on um Gathering input of course but um making sure that we
130have the appropriate summer support to make these moves um making sure that we are looking at all of our furniture that's still in good condition so that we're repurposing that furniture rather than buying new furniture and ensuring that any um anything that might impact students that on the operation side that we're being smooth and pre-planned for that um we have our principal's meeting on Thursday so I know that um they'll be presenting there some of the details of all the logistics of packing up and moving things over um the next thing is our facilities upgrades and refresh so um we know that there's lots of great effort going into ensuring that we have right learning environments for our students so some of the things that we're working on in that area is um uh on
131your on your consent agenda today is the uh job description or actually it was already posted right it was on the last month for the um construction um the construction manager to help us manage all of these program all of these projects will which will um take place at all of the campuses um but then also we know we have refreshing that we need to do new flooring new paint um updates to um the grounds there's a lot of projects and again we want to thank our community for approving that Bond but we also want to make sure that we have someone managing all of these construction projects so that we're able to do multiple projects at one time rather than um than re relying only on the leadership of uh of Bob who works
132really hard Mr Lucas Works incredibly hard but there's a lot of projects to be done so we needed that um IAL position so it's posted and we should be um should be um interviewing for that too but some of the prioritized um projects include uh restroom remodels classroom reconfigurations again the fields and the playgrounds um and then adding areas um areas for students to be able to be outside learning um so yeah we've had a lot of work that we've been doing in the last month um the last few months and we continue to work really hard um to ensure that that um we're returning on the promises that we made the community when we um proposed the the closures and the the reconfigurations of the campuses all right thank you um any questions from
133board members mam president I just have a quick question um superintendent I know we um had a number of community members when we had our open events and uh Community forums in December who said that they wish that they had known about some of these opportunities um how did we think about inviting outside of our normal kind of Parent Channel teacher Channel Community member um how did we kind of tap into that group of individuals who came um to those Community forums um were any of those individuals invited if just recap that that was great yeah so what we did is that we um were intentional about inviting um people that had come to the the um to the uh different hearings that we had in the different meetings um to yesterday's update sessions and
134we'll continue to invite them to those update sessions I act I also um personally requested that several of them push it out to their their networks as well um and then um we did select a few of them to add them to our our superintendent advisory committee um so that we make sure that we have all voices heard and representation um from different groups got it thank you thank you for keeping the community informed um next item on the agenda is the approval of the consent agenda items 5.02 through 5.16 is there a motion to approve the cons agenda items 5.02 through 5.16 as presented I'm make a motion I second all in favor hi motion carries um the next item on the agenda is 6.01 the purchase of the boiler replacement asor Travis Learning
135Academy with PBO mechanical and controls total not to exceed 1114 14,928 30th year of existence and also when we um initially um up changed and updated the chiller um first of all Travis is our only campus that works on a chiller system but when we um changed the chiller in 2021 we did not change the um Broiler so what we're requesting today is not only to um change the broiler but also all of the connecting pieces um and uh want to use this um strategy to um to um uh hopefully be able to push back the um the replacement of having to have a secondary or redundancy Chiller all of our other campuses have a redundancy meaning that um should the AC go down we're able to move kids to another part of the building
136and because um uh Travis operates on a chiller system if the chiller goes down we don't have anywhere to move the kids on that campus so we're we we're having to transport them to other campuses and that's a great interrup huge Interruption to them and then also to the other campuses um if we were to move now to replace the chiller without trying this um intermediary step we um would be spending more millions of dollars on that Chiller replacement so um the opinion of the um experts mechanical experts that came out to see it is that this should be able to um uh to um prolong that that change um several years I know that we have um to make priorities as to which buildings will be rebuilt um this um thank you so much
137we apologize for the technical difficulties mam superintendent do you have anything further to say about the boiler um no but I'll be happy to entertain any questions that you might have about the boiler um I believe that you were kind of in the middle of a uh important um portion of this when you talked about um the community asked about the the the the status or the um the maintenance needs of the schools during the consolidation sure thank you for that um yes Madam president members of the board and executive team and Community um we we are um in the process of prioritizing all of the rebuilds right and we know that um we want to ensure that we are certain of which campuses will will be rebuilt next with the existing bond and we're
138excited that the community approved that Bond um and know that we may be going out for a bond um within the next four years um so we want to try this um Intervention which again um the the mechanical experts that came out were able to tell us that this is a good step to take before we replace the chiller especially as we consider that if Travis is rebuilt whether within this Bond or the next Bond that we are unlikely to build a school that runs on a chiller um so again that's why we are recommending that we try the step first um and that we don't um invest in in having a a redundancy Chiller at this point um Dr B I'll just follow up with that also the current Chiller that was replaced in
139Chavez we said in 2021 do we know the long like how long that supposed to last for between 15 years yeah okay yeah so approximately 15 to 20 years so we don't we don't want to um at this point we think that this is the best solution um and then we will we can reassess after this summer um if it's necessary to move in that step but we've been we've been assured by the experts that looked at our system that replacing the broiler and all of the connecting pieces will then create the um the a situation where we will be able to um prolong the need to have to replace it and if we rebuild then we wouldn't be replacing it at all Madam president um and then just you might have said this and
140I just didn't catch it how long do we estimate that the the new boiler will extend the life of the CH how long do we sorry i' like to invite Mr Bob Lucas to the podium thank you hello Madam president uh new members of the board congratulations welcome aboard executive team um to answer the question it's it's not a matter of extending the life of the chiller what it is is we had the chiller rebuilt in in 202 21 and the boiler was left alone as one of the uh the prehistoric pieces and the problem with uh a boiler is it it runs on gas it runs on flames and as I get older it's just it's just burns and the system that's in there now on the chiller side we can control it we
141can monitor it we can change the settings and we can move things around the boiler is basically on and basically off at this point and we're having trouble controlling that temperature with it with the newer um control system that we have they don't really want to talk to each other you got the new versus the old so what we want to do is knowing that we have the the chiller replaced in in 2122 bringing the boiler into play making it more modern now that we're actually able to talk to it to control it to make it do what we want it to do instead of cooking the children inside the school we can actually moderate that so what that does is it brings it into a closer time frame with the chiller just a couple
142years apart that we can track that better instead of having such a gap like we have right now we have many different years like 3 years old versus um The Chiller is the boiler is like 30 something years old right now so we want to bring them close and this is at the best time to do that um as Dr Portillo was talking about when we get to that point if we get to that point with Chavez and we want to redo some of the buildings and rebuild the buildings we don't know what that is what that looks like so let's get the boiler on