SSD Board Meeting 08/12/2025

001ready. >> Ready. >> Calling this meeting to order. Today is uh Tuesday, August 12th. It is the 5:30. Could we please stand for the pledge of allegiance and we will have our new board member, Miss Annaya Das. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Roll call. President >> present. >> Lorena clerk >> present. >> Christina member >> um she she said uh she's not she's not able to make it. Uh she's actually being presented uh you know at her with her board uh as she got a promotion. So she wish she wishes she could be here but she does send her congratulations Miss Annaya. >> Thank you. >> Lisa Areola

002member >> present. Glad Annaya member >> present. >> We have a quorum. >> Thank you. And we did have a 1.1 which was a c ceremonial swear in of uh of Miss Annaya today. Um unfortunately our county superintendent Tom Hurt um kind of changed changed the time of it uh to like 1:00 I believe. So this was very last minute. So that's why we uh she went ahead and did it earlier. Um, so that's why we're not going to uh we're not going to go going to go through it right now, but I mean this was very last minute, but like always we we adjust and adapt. So, uh, but we still wanted to celebrate you u Mrs. Annaya earlier today. We had a mini reception just in your honor and just really expressing our

003gratitude for for you selecting Summerton as our board. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, >> thank you. Um, so do we have any comments from the audience, mayor? >> We do. Okay. Uh, under comments from the audience, the public may address the board on any subject not listed on the agenda. An individual may only address the board once under this item. Five minutes may be allotted to each speaker, but can be extended by a board member if so desired. The board cannot act on non-aggenda items and cannot respond to issues other than to provide general information or giving direction to the superintendent to add to a future agenda or for the superintendent to follow up with speaker. The individual shall state his or her name and address before addressing the board. And we have Araeli Huarees,

004Chief I think everybody can hear me. Good afternoon. For those of you that haven't chief of police, I know a lot of familiar faces. I'm happy to be here today. Thank you, uh, sir, for the opportunity to speak. Um, I just want to say a couple things real quick. Uh, we have been struggling a bit with some of the SRO positions, but our best intention and our our purpose is to I don't know if it's working. Our purpose is to make sure that we continue to provide safety for our community, for our schools, for our students, and our council has been very supportive and making sure that we fill these positions as soon as possible. We have been working hard at it. We are out in the mornings. You saw the officers in the tricycles

005in the morning last week. So, be patient with us, but we're here. There's plenty of officers inside of the office that are ready to respond in case of an emergency during the dayshift hours. Uh, we're very glad to serve. We want to reiterate that we're here to work uh and continue to work with the city of Summerton school district and of course a high school and thank you for being patient with us. I know we get calls. You guys are very very uh always willing to to work with us. We also get a lot of invitations from the school district to collaborate with you. Thank you for the opportunity to be here and for address uh a couple minutes. Thank you, sir. And Miss Anna, congratulations. >> Thank you, Chief. We we appreciate everything. Um,

006any more comments from the audience? >> No. >> Thank you. Moving on to uh superintendent uh current report 4.1. Mr. Duron. >> Good afternoon everyone. I'll keep it brief. We have our uh schools administrators uh doing a presentation to express how it went the first couple of weeks of school. We did have our 10th day yesterday. And so with that, it's our opportunity to review the numbers of enrollment within our district and also to see if that garnishes additional FTEES for our schools. So we will be setting up those meetings uh pretty soon with our administrators. Um just wanted to welcome everyone back. This is really exciting to be back in uh in action. Although it feels that we never left, I do want to express my gratitude again to the administrators of our district.

007They worked really really hard over the summer. We started with an amazing data summit really to uh center us in and the data that that our students produce which is a great way to um you know circle back and and create those um strategic uh goals for our students. So, I appreciate all the work that you did. That included all the principles, all of our uh directors and coordinators. And so, it was a great um experience having all all of you guys together uh for the same purpose, right? For really centering in what we have to do to ensure that our kids really meet those academic uh goals. Um we continue on with our new teacher induction. I want to thank everyone again, everyone within our within our leadership team was very much involved. So,

008thank you so much for that. And then we continued the party on with our three-day conference, right? This is something new that we brought in a three-day um conference style training for our teachers, which um it was really successful. We read the uh feedback that was left by all the teachers and so obviously we took the uh feedback that's constructive to ensure that we make it better for next year, but a lot of it was very very positive. So we were really happy for that. Um and then you saw the pictures and the videos of our welcome back. I hope that you also had the opportunity to enjoy it and of course I want to thank the board members for being there as well. Uh Mrs. Saya um buckle up. You're going to see a

009lot of great things happening in our district from this perspective and so again we welcome you. Thank you board members. >> Thank you Mr. Don. Any comments or questions uh from the board? >> No. Moving on to uh 4.2. Miss >> All right. Welcome back to a new school year. Um, I just want to say you rocked the first couple of weeks. We made it. It's hot, but we're making it through. Um, Miss Anna, I want to welcome you, uh, as well. It's going to be a really good team and we appreciate your support and your leadership. So, this good. >> Um, so just a couple of good things. I know you've heard of, um, the stuff the backpack fair that we had at TDS. So, I want to publicly thank Miss Felix and Miss

010Sullivan for allowing us to use their campus for that. um Summerton Rotary um was able to um serve about five over 500 students. We had them lining up from 8:00 and it was opening at 9 and everything was just about wiped out about 9:45. So, we were looking at everything and I looked at my wash, I was like, "What? It's so fast." Um that everything was gone. So, we kind of have some ideas on what we're going to do better next year and what supplies we're going to get more of. You know, those kinds of things. but we targeted 500 and we were able to meet that goal plus a little bit more. And there's like some straggler things left over like there's a whole bunch of extra crayons and things like that. So, those

011are packed up and they're going to go out to the schools. You guys will be receiving them this week so that you can give them to the students as they need them. And then we also had a United Way that um supported um back or not backpacks, not backpacks, um teacher baskets for all of our teachers. um K6 and so they were able to have those and Sergio went and picked those up and made sure that they facilitated and got out to all the elementary schools. So just a little extra love for our teaching staff to have more supplies than what they need. So that's that's a good thing. So just a few good things and we're ready to rock the year. >> Awesome. Any questions or comments? No. Thank you, Miss. So uh moving

012on to uh 5.1 board member reports and uh board attendance. Miss Areola >> um is it on? Yes. Okay. I want to uh thank all the schools and the welcome back was so energetic. I did miss the fact that they would go in the front. I missed that because I felt the excitement last year. Of course I did. I felt it this year. last year. The fact that they would go up and show the cheer and it's so empowering. That's the only feedback I I have. But the spirit is there and just being part of the the ribbon cutting. It was so empowering. I almost felt I wanted to go back. No, not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. But thank you guys so much for everything that you do for our community and

013our kids. I know this is not an easy job, but it takes a special heart and you guys have it. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Aola. Miss Allaya, >> I'm excited to be here. Welcome back to the school year. Drink lots of coffee. If you ever need a a word of advice, you can give me a call or text. Are we allowed to do that? I'm still getting familiar with the policies, guys. >> But no, I'm excited to be back. I see a lot of really wonderful, beautiful, familiar faces, and I'm excited to meet the faces that I don't recognize. >> Thank you, Missa. Miss uh >> so I too want to congratulate everybody for their I see you here. Two weeks went by. You haveund and how many more days to go? I'm sure

014you're counting. Come on. Let's be realistic. >> 70. >> Um thank you so much for all that you do. As Miss Areola mentioned, the welcoming was so energetic. Um, it was great to see how you guys came up with whatever you needed to do to be in your place and SMS. I I can't I'm sorry, but my vote was for you as well. And I mean, you guys just blew it out of the park. The other schools, too, but it didn't go all the way up. Just kidding. But you guys did amazing. So, thank you to all the schools that that participated and did the best that they could. Um, I think we need to get you a better little trophy than a little tape measure. >> We need to change that. Um, >> I

015like it. >> It's a lot of work. >> Yeah. And um, I want to thank the Rotary Club and put it on the record for for all their help and and consideration. And I know they belong to Summer 10, but it still takes a a whole village in order to um, support our staff and and our kids and the district. And so I want to thank the rolling club for doing that. Also um as a new school year is um has started I would like also like to see um you both uh attend our council meeting every quarter >> um just so we can notify the community what's going on in the district even though I know our meetings are virtual and they can see it on YouTube but just to inform council the mayor

016and the council you know what what's going on within our district. >> Absolutely. Um, I also want to thank the district as well for collaborating with our parks and rec. I heard that um, you know, that the school district is on board and and ready. And I and I want to congratulate and thank the the schools that are going to put that into their plans and and participate in whatever um, activities that the the city has. It's a great thing to see our kids, especially when they see the transportation department, you know, go by and see their bus driver and Maria and everybody there. And so, you know, to see their their teachers or, you know, their the families sitting out there waving whenever it's a parade. So, thank you so much for that. And

017welcome. >> You guys can do it. We're going to follow the same trajectory. You guys have great leadership team. >> Um, if you don't have a great leadership team, then there's just kidding. But, um, >> they do. They do. >> We we I trust that you do. I've seen it. I've you know we are from the community and we hear from everyone that that not talks to us and we've heard great things and so thank you for all that you do principles thank you thank you for what you do as well I mean yeah you might not be in the classroom but guess what you're the ones that are responsible for every single person in your school and so thank you chief thank you for coming today it is important um the communication that you

018have with administration and and I appreciate what whatever your plan is to keep our kids safe within the schools. Thank you so much for that. And that's all I have. >> Thank you, Miss Elio. Um and just welcome back. You know, I also I I felt the energy at the welcome back uh breakfast. Um it felt great. Um, you know, I am going to say that uh I I think the majority of us are going to be attending the law conference in about three weeks uh in in September. So, uh you know, thank you board members uh uh for for going. Um it's an opportunity for us to grow professionally um and um you know, get get up to date on on any changes on policies, anything that's going on. Um the the data summit

019day, I was present here for for a full day. Um, that was an amazing uh day that I was here. Um, I got to see how you guys dissected data. Um, how you really dove into the the the the factors and then you broke them down to really understand um the letter grade. Uh, you know, I do understand that the letter grade is not going to define, you know, our hard work, but, you know, if if if, um, if we take care of of those sections, those those factors within the letter grade, that means that we're taking care of the needs of our students. So, I mean, those kind of in a way go hand in hand. So, uh, thank you for I want to thank the whole committee that put that together. I mean,

020I'm pretty sure there was a lot of work that went on behind uh uh behind the scenes. So, that it was amazing to to to be a part of it and and see it in action. Um the ribbon cutting also was amazing. I love the energy and everything. A beautiful building. Um and uh Miss Annaya, they can call you. >> They can call you as long as you just here and you don't give direction, >> you know. You know, yeah, they can call you. um you know uh as board I mean we're here to govern not manage and and I think we strive on that uh you know uh and and I I let Mr. Dro know that you know it's like hey here he's a superintendent this is why we we uh pay him

021the big bucks for the dayto day so so um so other than that I mean that's that's all I have so um we're going to move on to uh 6.1 reports presentation by administrators uh Mr. Moreno. Mr. Moreno with an A. >> Right. With a school. >> Thank you. Uh, welcome guest U. President Castillo, Madame President, Miss uh, Degado, Mr. Dron, say everybody here. Congratulations. Uh, congratulations, Miss Annaya. So, off the bat, uh, how excited I am to start year four, um, at the elementary level. As you know, I did 10 years of high school, 12 years of middle school, and now I'm on four years of elementary, starting my fourth year. And what an opportunity to stretch myself and grow me. Uh, it has been, especially at BTS. So, right at BTS, um, with

022the learning and the team that we put together, we went ahead and changed up our mission and envision a little bit to change the path of how we impact it. So, uh, our vision, uh, I'll read it off the top, is just as empowering every student to rise through purposeful teaching, academic growth, and a love for learning. The mission, which is one thing that we really changed and looked into with our staff when they came in, is at BTS, we are committed to every student's success through purposeful instruction and collective responsibility. Our focus goes beyond the data. We embrace the moral responsibility to ensure that every student learns and grows. And we definitely take that to heart. And a lot of our decisions go through this mission and vision and some of the of our

023belief statements that we have, Tony. And on that mission and vision, I get to work with this beautiful staff. We're small but mighty. And uh I love working with that staff. And what an opportunity we've had to build community, to connect, to collaborate, and put our best foot forward to ensure our kids are getting what they need uh not just academically, but also um as uh individuals and grow them in every aspect that they have. Uh I think our count today we dropped about four kids. So we were at 229 226 something like that. So somewhere around there. Uh we have about total 30 staff members uh at our school and um with our small but mighty staff we take a lot of pride in building connection, collaboration and community. Um our next slide with

024that once again um I always say kids well they might remember what you taught them but they really don't forget how you made them feel. And so one of the things that we take a ton of pride is making sure that we connect and we are excited to say that for the second year in a row we became a showcase school for capturing kids hearts and making collaboration connection uh above all our cornerstone of educating our kids. So we're very proud of uh this recognition and also what it's done for our school academically. The growth that we made from year one to year two to year three has been amazing and I attribute that to the staff that we put together and the connection that we choose to make together. Tony and of course with

025capturing kids hearts right off the bat uh our goal was to build community, build connection, make sure the kids felt safe and I had to give it to my specials teachers. We went out there, we did specials the first day and I'm like Mr. Cortez, make the kids feel at home. And so we had them build some pretty cool towers. So you'd go in the into the classes and I had to take some pictures and these kids are amazing at putting things together. The way they collaborate, the way they engage, the way they naturally fall into leadership roles and cheer each other on was pretty amazing. So uh that's one of the activities that they did in our specials and all they're doing is stacking up cards, but you don't understand the energy when they're

026like at level 10 and they go to level 11 and they cheer each other on and they say you can do it and no wait and then when it collapses it's just amazing. So, uh, our staff definitely did a great job of embracing the connection and now we're getting ready to continue with our high standard of academic excellence and get kids to grow from where they're at. And with this video, I'll leave you. Tony, are you able to play it, >> going once, >> going twice? So, there was a lot of videos that I was taking. I'm like, "Oh, this one." They're all great. Just the energy and you can appreciate the way the kids cheer each other. I always believe as adults behave like elementary kids, it would be we'd be able to solve

027a lot of issues because they just cheer each other on. They support each other. There is no competition. They automatically fall into the roles and they embrace it. So, if we can get the video, if not, I can tell you it was an amazing >> We feel it. We feel it. >> Oh my goodness. >> I feel it. >> And as he's getting ready, please, you're welcome to join our school anytime. I'd love to have guests over and um it's always good when we get people out there and give us some feedback and check out the vibe and you know we're always open to guest uh joining us. So you're more than welcomed to walk through our doors and greet our kids and meet our wonderful staff. >> Thank you. >> And if the video

028plays, we'll watch it and if it doesn't, thank you very much. Any questions for me? >> Questions or comments? >> Are you fully staff? >> Oh, there it is. Okay. So, here's the video. That's really cool. >> And these are our fifth graders to let you know they are just as Oh, there it goes. And so it's just great class after class. You should see the kinders just work to that. Your question uh Yes, we are fully staffed. Uh we do have one long-term sub in on our staff. Yep. >> Any other questions? >> What grade? >> Third grade. >> She was a certified teacher, is not certified no more. There's a couple things, but yeah. So, she's been with us before. She's been with the Summerton district probably seven years >> as a long-term

029sub. >> No, she was certified. There was a little issue, but that I just want to let you know that she has experience and has been even with us, uh, last year. >> Thank you. >> Couple hiccups she had. >> Thank you. >> Anything else? >> No. >> Thank you very much. Hopefully I didn't take more than my 3 to 5 minutes. With that, I pass it to >> Mrs. Scalante, ladies and gentlemen. >> Um, good evening board president, uh, board member, Mrs. Anaya. Congratulations. It's nice to, um, have you on board, Mr. Dor Miss, and everybody in attendance. So, we started our school new, uh, our new school year. Uh, like Mr. Moreno, this is my fourth year as principal. of uh Encanto learning center. So we hosted our open house. Uh we had

030a good turnout. We gave out backpacks. Maria Variel was there with transportation. Migrant group was there as well. Um like Mrs. Se noted. We had um United Way of Yuma donated 15 boxes of school supplies. So that helped our students, our teachers, especially our special teachers that sometimes they don't get supplies, you know, they don't ask for supplies. So that was really helpful. And then of of course National Bank donated 10 um backpacks as well. We currently have 390 students. Um my maybe two more because today I know Miss Carla was enrolling so maybe 392. Yes. Um and this school year uh we welcome two new teachers uh two IAS and two custodians. Mr. Garcia and Mr. Sparsa are in third grade. Um our lead secretary, Miss Laala Kamacho, former third grade student of mine.

031So yeah. So it's good that they're coming back. Uh former uh Sun Dragon. So I know we I know she's good. She is good. She is good. Um Miss Ree as part-time IIA. Uh Miss Gera as our librarian IIA. And then we had some movement in our custodial team. So Miss Brenda and Mr. Marco, our part-time and full-time custodians joined um our home. So ELC home. So yes. Um so and then the next slide. So this week uh special started we just finished dibbos Galileo HMH testing uh we had a meeting today with Miss uh Fonka for 21st century it'll start on the 25th we I have PTL elections and our title one meeting on the 26th so at 5:30 we're all you guys are all welcome to attend and then uh our educational focus

032this instructional focus this year is to rise elevate and shine and we'll be hosting D d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d da d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d on the 20th after I meet with Mrs. um Fernandez, Mr. Duron and U Betsy from NIT. Um and so this year we're just targeting and having intentional interventions. Um we're looking of course at ASA as Dibos Galileo more in depth. Uh as you know grow my grow our proficiency maintain our growth um but also with that comes a relationship. So like

033CKH and PBS PBI is still enforcing it. Um like it's a non-negotiable or social contracts as you can see one teacher well most of them already started it but I took a picture of one of them. So um so those relationships so that then instruction can flow and be effective as as always and much better. So yes so that's that's it. >> Thank you. And you guys, you guys are also welcome to my house. I mean, my ELC. >> Oh, yeah. You guys can come to my house, too. But just let me know so I can clean. But I always say that, but no, you guys are always welcome. Um, at ELC, home of the stars. So, I'm supposed to be a star. Yes. >> Any question? Any questions or comments? >> Any questions? >>

034Mr. >> Are you fully staffed? >> Yes, we are. Yes. >> Anyone else? Thank you, Mrs. Scal. >> Thank you. Thank you, >> Mr. Mos. >> Good evening, uh, governing board members, uh, board president, vice president. Congratulations, Mr. Annaya. >> Thank you, >> the Mr. Dron. Miss, how ironic. Um, lately I've been getting a lot of compliments on social media. I've been called many names, but never tict. >> Uh, yet I'm the only principal without a PowerPoint. >> Thank you. >> Just wait a few seconds. So the first days of the 2526 school years at Sun Valley Elementary School has been marked with enthusiasm, growth, and community engagement. This report right here highlights the key successes from our opening days and reflects the dedication of our staff, students, and families. So first of all, I

035want to target the social media outreach. We've used strategic use of Instagram, Facebook to promote an increase in student enrollment. I believe we were at 260. I think uh Jesselle said 256 at the end, but I thought it was 261. So, we're at the end. Right now, we're at 323. We actually enrolled another one. So, I think we're at 324 and I think we're expecting two more either this week or by Monday. So, we're we're getting close to the, you know, 330 is kind of where we're at right now. Um, we've increased I asked my secretary as you're getting enrollments, ask them where they're getting their information from. Most of them said the social media. So, it is working. At the same time, I know we've reached over 20,000 uh San Louis family members through

036social media. We also paid a little bit for to promote it just in that area. But just as far as reals and everything, there was one we didn't even promote and got 16,000 reels. So, I don't know. And that's the one we didn't think was even going to go anywhere, but either way, that's what happened. Um, we had our grand opening also celebration of our new five classrooms providing the expanded learning for our Cardinals. I want to thank all of the departments that helped with it. I know that the food service, the custodian, Martin, uh, Sergio, um, the cafeteria, Mr. Kando, everybody was a big part of that grand opening that we had there. Uh, we had a lot of people there. Uh so I just want to thank all the departments for for helping

037Summerton um us right there at Sun Valley be able to be successful as we are. Uh our open house was packed campus with excited parents eager to connect uh teachers uh we're getting calls even from the Gatston school district saying hey can we go to your school and we're telling them no you cannot go to our school. We we have a section that we're still trying to fill up right there, but we've gotten at least I told Mr. Don, we've gotten at least four or five parents from the Gatsson community that live in that area that also want to come to our school. So, they're hearing about about everything that's happening, you know, at uh at SPS. Our welcome back assembly, I encourage you to look on social media. I think we have it there

038on Instagram. It was energetic. Our first day of welcoming our students back, it was energetic. They were they were so happy. And at the very end I told him u a slight exaggeration. I said I called the president of the United States. I had a conversation and in my dream I did you know I kind of did. It was vicariously uh and I told him and I told him we needed a mascot and he said well we're going to get you one over there. We're going to take it. So I told him the mascot's coming and we did. We ordered a big mascot and it should be here and I told it's going to go. You should have seen the cheers of all the students. I mean they were so energetic. They were they were

039proud. So, we're looking forward to our next assembly where we have it districtwide. We're going to show off our mascot right there. So, watch out, Eagles. Um, another thing that I want to do is that I really want to thank I really want to thank uh Miss Areola. Uh, I know she has supported us. I know you live in that area. You've supported us. And the reason why I'm saying that because I got a call by Mr. Duron and Mr. Mo, I just want to say that you're getting a donation coming your way. I said, "Really?" "Yeah, it's going to be a stage." I go, "What? A stage?" He goes, "Yeah, uh uh Miss Reiddell and the engineer, they're going to be going over there." So, when they came over there, I started talking to

040to Miss Redell, and she said, "Yeah." She goes, "Mr. I've been here several times." She goes, "And and every time I looked at it, I said, "There's something missing. There's something missing." And she goes, "And then the other day, she goes, "Miss Arola said, well, I guess I'm going to have to start a donation." And then she said, "Well, what are you going to start a donation for?" Well, she goes, "For SVS." Well, for what? She goes, "The state." She go, "Oh, that's what's missing." She goes, "No, you don't have to start duration." She goes, "I'm going to do it." So, so thank you, Miss Aola, for planting the seed. Um, so they're already working on it. I know Martine has also been in contact with the engineer and they're already drawing up the plans

041and it's going to kind of resemble ELC the way we have it there. So, we're very excited about that. We're also very excited. I appreciate Mr. Duron for approving this project. Uh, and Martine also for sending us crew out there. It's about 90 95% completed. our much needed stage. >> Oh my god, we're already filling it up. It's not even done and we're already putting everything in there because it's just I mean the only thing it needs I think is just the finishing touch in the door, but we said no, we can't wait. We're taking everything in there and it's such a big relief. So, thank you Mr. Guron for and Mart also making sure that it's happening right away. Um so again, things are happening at SVS. I really encourage you to go where

042parents are really excited. uh our ESS classroom is going from maybe six, seven students last year to now we have 12 13 uh where we're asking for support because we need it. But parents are literally knocking on the door. Uh we have parents wanting to come in with their ESS students. Now here's the beautiful thing about it. We have students that I I'm being told were were we're were not being cared for and and I don't want to go into detail because this is just hearsay but they're saying that the difference that they're seeing from our teachers from the staff from the ESS classroom is night and day and if you go in there and you look at our ESS which is our self-contained and it has different levels different levels of autism level one

043level two um and then you see what the teachers and the IAS are doing there is just incredible. So, I really encourage you to go and see them. I told her we're going to also do a real and she said, "Oh, the parents are asking for a real also." So, everybody's asking for a real. So, we're going to try to make it real. Um, but we we're on our 10th day. And on our 10th day, we have 323 students. You get to see uh the grade levels right there and the numbers that are attached to it. I think fourth, fifth, and sixth. We're filling them up little by little. They're trickling in, but classrooms are about at 17 per classroom. And those only those fourth, fifth, and sixth. Everything else you could see right there.

044We're already at ratio or above ratio right there. So, but we really want to appreciate the support of our board members, all our board members, our superintendent, assistant superintendent, all of the departments. I mean, together, thank you very much because without you guys, uh we wouldn't be there at at SPS. So, thank you very much. Any questions? >> I have a question. >> Okay. >> So, we're at 323. How much more capacity do we have? Well, our ratios that I came up with were if we go by the two teachers times the ratio, it's 350. So, we're a little bit beyond. I know Mr. Don came up with a different ratio right there. So, we're going to be meeting or talking about that, but I believe he said capacity was at 375. >> Yeah, >>

045375. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Even though my capacity is 350, but he's going to talk about that. >> Any other question? Thank you. We'll we'll come up with a medium. >> So, Mr. Munoz, congratulate you for being our social media star and um I think we need to add it to his contract. You cannot be um going to another school district to be their star as well. Um thank you for all that you do. I think it's shown. I I went in there on the links that Mr. don't sent us and um you know there's some schools that the that their likes are less but yours are in the thousands and so I was like oh my goodness and so you know it does work it does work you know even though we we

046might say that you know social media can not be as good as we think but >> you know some sometimes we have to take advantage of it and so thank you for what you do >> are you fully stacked >> yes we are >> that's great I also want to publicly thank Miss Raal for her donation And um a stage is important. >> Oh yes. >> And you know when we see it at at the other schools here in our district just to highlight that and the you know parents are able to see their students and stuff their children. So thank you very much for >> You're welcome. And I'll leave you with this. U my daughter has a dance studio right there and she just started again this past Wednesday and she had a

047packed house but one of the her clients went up to her and said uh she said, "Oh, how's it going?" She go, "Oh my god." She goes she goes she's a teacher. I didn't know she was a teacher. She goes from gas. She goes, "Oh, they're making us do reals." >> So, I guess we're influencing them a little bit, >> right? >> Thank you. Have a great evening. >> Any other questions or comments? >> I do. I do. I wanted to thank Miss Ryel for, >> you know, for her donation because it is going to make a difference for our school, you know. So, the fact that she took the initiative and I was like, let's start a GoFundMe because I know we needed that stage when I went to the graduation. So that's what

048I was going to start. When she said, "No, we'll build it." She I'm like, "Really?" And it was on Mr. Duron's birthday. I was like, "Really?" I was so excited. So excited. And when she got her team right away up there, it was a blessing to have her donation. And I just wanted to thank her personally here publicly. So, thank you, Miss Ryel, for that donation to our schools. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. And thank her on behalf of the board. I mean, we really the board and the whole district. We really appreciate her generosity and and everything. >> She was really, you know, flexible and she's like just you ask what you need and we'll make it happen. Uh her engineer came down and met with Mr. Munoz Martin and really starting setting things

049up to to hopefully have it ready. This is what she said. We need to have it ready by the Christmas program. So I'm like, okay, that'd be awesome. So that's the plan. >> That'd be awesome. And and it's my understanding that it's not the first time that she has donated to us. So she's also donated bikes and everything. So >> she donated over 115 bikes for Christmas uh or last Christmas. Yeah. So >> yeah. So just let her know on behalf of the board and our district that we really appreciate her generosity and everything. >> Absolutely. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Don. Moving on to Miss Felix and Miss Sullivan. >> Good evening everyone, our guests and Mr. President. Um, Mr. Duron and Miss and everyone else in attendance. I also want to welcome

050Mrs. Annaya to the school board. I know that you're going to do an amazing job as a caring mom and a former teacher. And I just realized that we do have four educators on our board and Miss Clark who's also in the trenches in a different capacity. So, that's a testament of of why, you know, what it's like to be in the trenches. So, >> pretty a board of educators, right? Um, I know that uh they said short and sweet presentation. So, believe it or not, Miss Elean and I did try to uh stick to that. Um, >> and I know that uh I usually at the end when we have alphabetized so thank you Mary for squeezing us in there. And uh you know I get jealous. I don't know that's the best word

051because I'm like oh I could have said that or I could have added that. What I can tell you though is that you won't see any videos yet. I'm working on my skinny angle. So m Mr. Luron can keep my Mr. Lon Mr. um Mos can keep the views for now, but they'll but they'll come. Okay. But uh we do want to share just some highlights and I'll share the microphone with Miss Sullivan. We have our numbers there. Uh I won't read everything on that slide, but I can tell you that as of today, we're at 586 students. So, uh Miss Sudron spoke in his uh report that we might be able to add some teachers. So, we might be candidates for two new teachers. So, if you know anyone sitting at home that's looking

052for a teaching job, right, preferably HQ, we will recruit him. So, uh I did put the number of teachers per grade level there and I highlighted where our class sizes are the largest. It just so happened to be that it's kinder first and second, which we do want smaller class sizes in those grade levels. Uh we are uh currently fully staffed. We have one long-term sub in an ESS self-contained classroom. Uh but other than that we have a large staff and eager to start this school year. So um next okay uh this uh we do want to highlight and I know that many of us will mention it or have mentioned just the beginning of the school year for not just the del but just our whole district. Uh I know that our teachers didn't

053say it out loud but I know when I send out the agenda that they would be at the middle school for three days. you know, as a principal, I'm like, I have two days and I have to do X, Y, and Z. But I see just the the benefits of having our strategist prepare not one presentation, two presentations, some of them up to five presentations. So that in itself is uh really developing their style and their presentation and their skills, but really our teachers are the ones that benefited from uh getting that information from either colleagues or strategists. So I know that as the site principal I did hear a lot of positives. You can feel that positiveness of starting all at one site and being able to share with others on those three days.

054So thank you to Miss Hermanis and her team, Mr. Duron and Miss for for that welcome. And then speaking of welcomes, we uh are also the hosting school for those welcome. Those games were fun. You see the competitiveness on that end. Uh Mr. Rasone, we did uh kind of just brought the sea level this year. So, uh you awoke the beast. So, so uh we will continue. But congratulations to that that >> Oh, Mr. Felix, I gave him the cheat sheet. So, uh uh we did continue with that just positivity in our school year. We have our positive behavior intervention and capturing kids hearts assemblies. We had our hula hoop competition. um our students, it's just amazing how they look forward to those um assemblies and they just become part of TDS and um just

055an amazing feel to start off the school year that way. And then our next slide to um we do have our focus and Miss Sullivan will show a little bit more about this. >> Welcome everyone. Thank you. Uh yes, we are very proud to announce that this past year our school became also a capturing kids hearts um school uh showcase champions and so we were very proud of the effort and the work that goes in behind that. And it's really neat to see those processes carry over to the next year is um this year we're happy to say that we have our leaders, our ambassadors in our school in the cafeteria this week helping with our kinder students opening those milks and opening those pieces and they're excited. So we already have a lot of

056volunteers wanting to be part of those programs. And along with that, of course, we also are PBIS. And so I think the great thing about either one of these pieces is regardless if it's part of a process or anything that happens, it's those characteristics and those values that we share, we don't need the program to be these things. And so it is who we are and it's the way that we do business in our school and it definitely is a representation and something that we truly value. Tony, thank you. Uh along with that one, we have our school safety team. So, we have Miss Andrade as our school counselor. We're happy that she is back with us here now for the remainder of the school year. And then we also have our SSOs and that

057program has been working really really well. We've been able to very consistently have our um deputies. We're we're learning the difference between an officer and a deputy. Our deputies uh coming into our school, they're always kind of amazed when they see how much bigger we are and they kind of have this like, oh, wait a minute. But then once they get the feel and they learn that we're a giant octopus and you just have to follow the tentacles that they know their way around and it's been really awesome to see them coming in and being consistent. So in terms of like their days that they have off that they're coming in on those days to sign up for our school. When we talk about what are we most proud of you know definitely we are

058can always say as a school is our students but uh in the forefront is our teachers who are going to make that work happen. So this is some of our pictures when we were having our professional development and uh something that we're proud of is when we talk about retention of teachers and what that does to a school. You know definitely will welcome any new faces but I know that having uh retaining our teachers just you know we know that it's consistency for students stronger instruction. We also know that it creates a positive culture and the trust of our family. So a lot of benefits with that. So as we embark in the journey of instructional clusters, that is what we're more most excited about as that naturally keeping your teachers and having that uh

059protected time for instructional conversation. It's going to naturally bring that vertical alignment and that's what I feel is going to take the deloul at another level. Not just definitely in the learning of each individual student, but also the growth of our of our staff. So, uh, that's what we're looking forward and I we get to to brag um a little bit about when we talk about a positive culture. Uh, we Miss Sullivan and I were surprised last week. We were called to uh the library and we were just didn't know what was going on. And the person who was getting me uh to come over, I'm like to the point where she was like little hyperventilating. I'm like, well, you need to tell me what it is, right? Do I need to take the radio,

060the the what do I take with me? Right. So, no, we walked in, we had our our school counselor who was standing in front of the whole staff and they had a PowerPoint going on and they said that our our library, our offices needed some new decor. So, we'll share with you and this is what makes me proud of our teachers. I know it's a little bit on the funny side, but that's just humor is where, you know, we can have lighter days, right, and move forward. So, uh, what they did is without us knowing, so that makes me question my supervision. I'm just kidding. But, um, that's hilarious, >> Tony, if we can say. So, their title was we're happy to be at TDS. So, I want to invite you to look at some

061of these faces, um, of how happy they are to be at TDS. So, we'll scroll on some. and they were able to capture everyone uh from our ESS support staff to our so if you guys have seen anything on social media I guess it's a thing where you have your J C Penney uh poses so there's somebody uh but they just kept telling me and I still I think I was like what are they talking about and they just kept playing these pictures so >> uh there's group >> the hands >> and They said some poses were just they didn't make it to the cut. Okay, so these are just some our school nurses in our front office. >> That's so funny. >> So, um definitely uh evidence of our teachers and our staff uh

062having that love for TDS and we will they did uh actually print it out. Miss Annayia thought this was her gift and you don't get this. This is for my office. So, it has all the pictures from this JC J C J C J C J C J C J C J C J C J C J C J C P Penny uh photo shoot. Okay, so cute. >> Uh we get to keep it. Okay, >> thank you. So, uh we do want to share that as we talk about our mission and vision. Uh it's under construction. Uh but we did come up with a model uh that will carry on for years to come hopefully and it's dragon pride always rising when we think of individual goals for adults and students that walk in

063through our doors. So, wishing all everyone an amazing school year. >> Yeah. >> Questions or comments? >> Are you fully staffed? >> Yes. >> I'm sorry. Did you >> And waiting for two more. >> They may need >> possibly. >> That's what she Thank you guys. >> Anyone else? >> Thank you, Miss Phelix. Miss Sullivan. Uh, Miss Middleton. Good evening board. Um, Mr. Don and Miss A and everybody here. I'm so excited to get to share how Orange Grove Elementary has started the year and the exciting things that we have planned for our students and for our staff. So, the first thing that I want you guys to look at is this is Oh, go back to the first slide, please. This is our model for the year. You'll see it everywhere. Um when we

064showed up for the district um morning, we all had our matching shirts. And so throughout the year, our our goal is focused, balanced, and unstoppable. And that works not only in academics, but it also works in the way that we want to outreach into our community and into the home. So when you come to our school you will see this and all year everything that we have planned it is to make sure that we are focused, balanced, unstoppable and that we are giving our students at our school the very best opportunity to shine. And this is our great staff. We have about 55 staff members. Um it's kind of fun because now as we grow and grow, you can see it's a little harder to take our staff picture. We're like where can we take

065it? Let's go outside. But um super excited to be back. On the next slide um oh I put this one but the next slide after this one but we on the next slide it talks about um our new staff members that are here in our staff. So we're at about this said 400 but it's 420 if you count our preschool and our ESS classrooms. And we have about 20 students that will join us between now and um December. That'll be our migrant students. Um, we have a large migrant population at our school that we love and most of them are starting to trickle in now. So, we're excited for them to get here. We have six new staff members. Um, three teachers, which I'm excited to say three teachers. Um, couple years ago we were

066at six teachers. Last year we were at one teacher. So, we've been able to um um keep our teachers with us and less teachers are retiring and I'm trying to teach them to go to onto the retirement plan but come back, right? So, they don't leave us. So, anyways, we're staffed. One thing that I'm excited about and I want to thank Maria is our buses. Um when you come to visit us, you know that we are a real school. So we have five runs that we do in the morning and afternoon and then we do two of our runs with our ESS students and we have about 250 students that get on the bus every morning, every afternoon. And so um she's great to work with and she makes sure that we work close together

067to make sure that our kids are safe and that we are being respectful on the buses and that a little tricky because sometimes our little kiddos don't have their teacher there, right? And so using our capturing kids hearts and those things to empower kids to be the leaders on the buses. So we also have our taxi and our taxi is where parents pick up students. That's about 120 students and we only have 30 walkers. So you can see we're very different than a lot of the other clientele um in our district. And this is our new staff that's joining us. We're excited because we have a new specialist teacher on top, Miss Aando. um we haven't had a steam specials in a while and she's just rocking it. So, if you guys get the opportunity

068to come in and see um the different activities that she's doing with the students, they're having a blast. And on the bottom, I put my custodians on there um cuz a couple days before school started, I got two brand new custodians um that were not at my school and my custodians were placed somewhere else. And Mr. Cesar and Miss Daisy are doing an amazing job. So, I want to give them kudos for that. I know it's not easy to come into a school that you don't know and a school that's, you know, has 400 plus kids and they've done a really good job. So, I just want to thank them for everything that they've done as they've come in. >> Awesome. >> So, off to a good start. Like everybody else, our focus has really

069been about relationships, procedures, and routines. Um, our specials in our ESS classroom started this week. PS, PBIS lesson plans, capturing kids hearts lesson plans, setting those structures so that we can be super positive because our goal is a self-managing school so we can teach, right? And so we're setting all of those things up. We have spent quite a bit of time um with our data digs. We've already come up with our goals. We're a little short for the A. We know it. And so we just wanted to really make sure that we go back and we address and we stay focused and balanced and unstoppable and do what we know we need to do. Um and part of that is our data dig. So the next slide is just our goals for the year. So,

070we've already looked at all of our data um from ASA, Azela, um the different Galileo, the Galileo, and the ones that we've just taken. And we've just looked at goals, and the goals really are not huge jumps. It's just small jumps to get us to where we need to be. We know third grade is a big focus, so we're going to be focusing on them and then bringing up our proficiency to where um we know it can get. So, we're super excited. We have a goal and the teachers help us come up with this. So, it's one team when we're making it happen. So, this is the slide that I'm always most proud of. If you go to our school, you will see this posted everywhere. And this is what it is. And it's who

071are we? And this is our when you see this, this is us right here. So, for those of you that know us, we're the best and the brightest. Sorry, I know we all want that name, but only Oregon is the best of the brightest. No, I'm just kidding. Um, and then we have our commitments. So, every time we get together, we always make sure that we are staying the course with our commitments. Our Tiger leadership four years came up with this. We decided that we needed commitments written down so that we can stay the course and make sure that we are doing what we feel is most important. So when we make our commitments then everything we do we go back and we look at the commitments. So um our commitments of course this is

072our sixth year being a showcase school for capturing kids hearts. It's the heart of our school relationships is the heart of our school. So even our tiger leadership wanted our commitments to say to um to spell cares. So that just kind of tells you how our staff is. Um so the first one is collaboration and teaming aligned to essential standards and instruction that all students um that all staff is invested in every student. Respect, responsible and safety. E everyone will create a positive learning environment through capturing kids hearts, mindset and tools. And the S is student achievement is our number one priority. So everything we do goes back to, of course, at our school, we always say that we want to be able to compete with everybody, not just schools in our district, but with

073our community and with our state. You'll see our vision and mission. Our mission has been this mission for a good 15 years, 20 years. It hasn't changed. Um the students say it every morning when we get to school. Um it's memorized, everybody knows it, and then our vision is on top. So, this just kind of tells us who we are. We're super excited for a year, a new year, and uh yeah, we're just ready to have fun most importantly, and do a good job. So, any questions? >> Questions or comments? >> Are you fully stacked? >> Yes, we are. >> Anyone else? >> Thank you. Mr. Rasone and Miss Castro. >> Good evening. Um, so we are the proud Cobras. um for our beginning of the year. Um well, we started strong like Mr. Gadio

074said with the with the strong spirit um and our our little motto within our school is we go big or we go home. So, we've been going big um this past year and starting this this year strong. So, we're going to start with a little clip as to um what happened over that welcome back um assembly um with We found out some some of our staff can actually move and they got moves. >> Yes. So, um this year we we adopted um last year our theme was on board and we did um the the plane that um I guess flew into our welcome back and and this year we're into our racing. Um the reason is is because we're we're back on track. We're we're now driven by commitments. Last year we were on board

075um to move our school together to the next level uh because of of where we were um regarding our letter grade. Uh we did a huge jump over this past year and a lot of it has to do with um working together as a team um building up the culture within our campus and really motivating our kids. Um this past year also social media munoz was was huge especially with middle schoolers. Social media was a big push um also to get our kids uh motivated and get them involved within our school. Uh we brought in a platform which is Minga which also gave him that feed or a sense of a social media platform within our school. We were using it intentionally for student safety, but again, it gave them that also that that uh

076ability for them to earn positive reinforcement through that application, but also kind of get a feeling of social media depending on different clubs that they were involved. Um so this year we're we're driven driven by that commitment to continue to push our co-bras forward. Um so that is kind of little our model for this year. Um for new staff, um we do have two um new teachers. We have Mr. Hunde with um our ELD reading and writing and then we also have Mr. Gintterero with our music um band program. Uh we have uh instructional assistance um for general population and then for ESS we have Mr. Garcia. Uh we also um have Miss um Gracie Perez which thank you Miss Escalante. Um we took from um Miss Scalante and she's one of our new secretaries.

077Uh when it comes to we're fully staff uh we do have um three um long-term um staff members. >> Good afternoon everyone. Um Mr. Castillo, Miss Gadio, Mr. Aola, Mr. Duron say Miss Anaya. Welcome to the best district in the Yuma County. Um thank you. So let me talk to you about um numbers. Um in school year 2425 we um ended our school year with um 700 students. So in seventh grade we had u 360 students in eighth grade 338. Um this year we continue growing as you can see by the data. Um so for school year 2526 uh the first 10 days of school we now have 747 students hoping to get one more FTE. Uh in seventh grade we currently have uh 374 students and then in eighth grade we have 373 students.

078So those are our current numbers for this year. If we can go to the next slide. Yes. So, uh the next uh slide it's uh the school projects that that we worked on this summer. So, in front of you, you see Ombberto taking care of our campus. Um you can see pictures of um the teachers lounge and then how uh the front office looks like. And it's just um you know, everyone's working together uh to keep our campus clean. So, thank you to uh Serio and Martin for making this happen. Can we go to the next slide for student safety? Um Mr. Rescone and I are pleased um and excited to share some important updates about uh the safety improvements that we have made at SMS. Uh first and foremost, we have enhanced our security

079protocols um by updating and adding more cameras on campus. We um now have three cameras in the um SMS gymn gymnasium and uh we also have cameras in the bus loading area. So if you go to our campus, and you're more than welcome to go, um we have emergency redbacks that you can see in front of you. everyone um received a flip book for quick reference. Um you know, we just need um we're we continue enhancing our the the safety for our students. Um we're also getting we don't have an SRO anymore, but we are getting an SSO every now and then. So, um if there's people hearing out there, we uh do need your presence on our campus just to make sure that our kids um do feel safe. Um again, we have our

080emergency response plan uh the flip books. We successfully conducted um our first evacuation drill last week, August 8th. I think it was Friday. So, um we got really good feedback from um our SSO on campus. So we know we're on the right track. Um you know it's one more thing that we have added this year. It's uh we have increased the presence of um you'll see more staff members during arrival and dismissal times. Um and they are easy to spot because they are all wearing a a neon vest. So um one more um thing that we are doing this year we did get we're getting an additional student supervisor. So thank you Mr. um Horge Kano and Mr. Duron for um working with us. Again, um student safety is our main main priority. And then

081lastly, um everyone's getting a radio. So if uh we do not have, you know, in case that we lose power or phone service, that's the way that um radios will be used so that we can communicate. And that's all I have. >> You forgot the umbrella. >> Oh, yes. >> Keeping keeping our staff uh from the sun. Um we're we also added an umbrella as part of our safety. Um so thank you Antonio for for sitting uh getting us those cameras and and maintenance for getting those installed. So thank you Martin. Um really appreciate it. It really does help us out with middle school. It's a unique population middle school and then being an open campus. So we really helps us not only with tracking where supervision is at but also helping um um monitor

082our campus throughout. Um on the next one we're going to be watching another little short clip. This one was when with our welcome back um assembly with our students. Um so you saw our staff and then we wanted to um transfer that same energy to our students and getting them into that mode. We really acknowledge um our eighth graders um and we also celebrated our now freshman's um who who left us from last year because they they did deliver when it came to their growth academically um based on the data that we received they they delivered. So, we celebrated the current eighth graders and then we pretty much challenged our seventh graders to keep that momentum within our campus. Um, so you'll see another snippet on a on a on a video. and kids got

083really competitive. We were we came up with that game on the back. It's um it's Connect Four. Um so they were playing Connect Four, but they got really competitive. Um, also we can't fit our all 747 kits in the gym. So, we separated into two different assemblies. Also, because of the AC, we wanted to make sure that they were still cool and and and and comfortable. Um, so it's getting it's getting big. Um, so we're hoping once the weather shifts that we're able to bring them all together and have that one one big assembly as as a as a as a whole team. Um, we have um wrestling coming up um um starting um soon and with our first match. And then we also have um uh softball um student council is coming coming on

084board with ourformational meeting. Um also we have um the district-wide umformational meeting for the band uh which will include fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade um happening tomorrow um at our campus at 5:30. Um and then there will be there's one more slide just to close off. Um, so we w we took the monkey. Uh, we did use AI. Okay. >> It as as much as I typed in tape dispenser with the monkey with um it just couldn't give me what it was. So um yes, we do need a trophy. I was asking some of the principles, what do we call this award? Um so it's just a Summerton um spirit award which which our staff took this year. So um our Cobras, our staff are ready to start our engines and and we're going

085to push forward as we uh take on this year. I have I have a question. Um, Miss Caster, you mentioned um that we have sometimes the SSO. Is that the school safety officer versus the school resource officer? What's the difference between them? >> So, um, they're pretty much on call. So, they come in whenever whenever they sign up for during our their days off. they sign up um on the um I'm not sure what the name of the application or >> I can add to that. Um in our safety grant um being that the officers that we had with summer TV need to be pulled back >> um we had to switch our grants to the SSO model because we didn't have any other staff any other agency that could actually support us with a

086full-time person. So we were um the grant supplied us with three full-time officers um this uh model then the two loft. So we put all that money into ODM it's offduty management system and so any officer that is off duty is off day um he can sign up he or she can sign up and then be assigned they can pick and they'll go to our empty schools that that need an officer for the day. So the SSO is the same as an SRO. They still have to go through the training. So they know that their duties when they come on campus are as an SRO except for they're not there every day. They're there when they're off. Okay. And so that's managed through ODM. And uh and then we have set it up so that

087the principles and everybody see the calendar and they can see which officer is uh going to their school or which school they're assigned to. But they choose that. So we've asked um ODM is there a way that we can assign so that SMS gets an officer every day. We can't do that um through ODM. So, what we have done is we've asked the agency that is able to support us with this right now to please prioritize uh the middle school first if they see that they're not on there. Um, we've had a lot of uh support and we hope that more agencies come on board with that if they'll allow their officers when they're off for a day to come that they have to approve them through the through ODM and then they have to

088go to the SSO training in order to be allowed to do that. We've had to ask them to add another training because all the other trainings were full. They had three trainings for about 1,200 officers in the state. Um they were full maxed out done. We asked them for more because we still have more deputies in this case that are willing to go to the training and support the schools. So that is able to support all seven of our schools at this point. We still have one deputy that is full-time at Orange Road and um so that's a county school. So that one is supported through the sheriff's department. Um but um that the sheriff are are very supportive. >> So, this is more like a temporary fix right now. >> It's a temporary fix

089and what we're hoping is that this is our third year in the grant >> and um like Chief Hores said, you know, they're trying to hire, they're trying to get people on board and trained and I know that's a process. >> So, hopefully in the next grant cycle, we're going to be reapplying in the spring. Um the the monies have been appropriated and we've been told we're going to continue to get the grant or the money is going to be there. we have to apply for it. So hopefully we get it again. >> And then um then the following year we're hoping to have more of the SRO's back on staff. >> And then maybe if we have a little extra money um to do the SSO model for schools that don't. Um but that's

090that's where we're at right now. And that that serves our three of our counselors and three of the SRO's now one SRO and the SSO model. >> Awesome. And and I know the city is doing everything they can to to recruit >> for >> Yeah. to recruit and everything. So, >> and and at that point, we want to expand. In fact, I was at um SOP meeting today and talked with the San Louis PD to support us in the one school at Sun Valley in the next cycle. And so, they're aware of it. We need to just continue to have those talks and hopefully get everybody on board in the spring to apply again. >> Awesome. Thank you. They're impressed with their promise. >> May maybe they should go apply to our Summerton Police Department.

091>> Thank you. >> Any other questions or comments? >> I have I have a um you know, it's probably just a a suggestion. When I was a teacher in Yuma, we too didn't have an SRO because of the shortages in in the city of Yuma police officers. And so what my principal at that time did was, you know, she put out uh a letter to the parents that were able to volunteer any officer like from the prison, marshalss, sheriff, police department that wanted to volunteer and come to the schools during u morning and um what is it? Um dismissal. >> Uh we had a great turnout. So, we had parents, you know, our kids' parents um that worked in those agencies that did um volunteer. Um they were off duty, but um they did come

092and volunteer just, you know, another set of eyes. Uh they didn't wear their uniforms obviously because they were off duty, but you know, they were introduced to parents and and and the community within my school district or my school at that time. Um so, I don't know if it that's just like an idea. Uh we have a lot of parents that work at the prison and a lot of parents that also work in law enforcement and other um at ADOT and so forth and so you know maybe they do want to volunteer once or twice a week that they're off um and be a presence as well because they can carry a firearm but you know they I'm sure they have to go through a process but as a volunteer you know if their child

093is is at the middle school maybe they do want to volunteer once a week or something like It's just a suggestion. It worked at my school when I was a teacher there. So, you know, just just a suggestion. >> And and just one last one, which um if I may, um we want to thank um Yuma Dentistry for Kids. Um they they did a donation. We went into a competition last year uh the best school within um within Yuma County. And we were we got second place and we were awarded $1,500. And that's where the little renovation project came in for our teachers lounge um to support our teachers. So, that was a project that we had over the summer. um also along with with Martin and then um also we have compasses back on

094this year they were funded as well so they'll continue to give our youth um classes uh every Monday during PE and then they will also be awarding us the the the $10,000 for for the school year. >> You said you had three long-term staff. What subjects? >> Um one of them is um seventh grade uh writing. The second one is eighth grade reading and the third one is um resource for seventh grade ESS. >> Thank you. [Applause] >> And we have Miss Arondo. >> Was it in ABC order? They should have been first. >> Good evening board members. Welcome and congratulations colleagues and community. My name is and I'm proud first of all is like my heart and so that's that's definitely very very proud to um next our current student enrollment is 391 students

095as of Friday we lost four due to the 10th day enrollment but we do expect about 15 to 20 students from my families We have total 25 certified teachers, 16 classroom teachers, four ESS certified teachers including our reading teacher, one instructional strategist, two teachers, one speech therapist and one counselor. They're all appropriately certified and we're fully staffed with a total classified of 28 staff members. Um, Mr. Sonora is very very proud of the hard diligent work that our teachers do on a daily basis. Teachers and staff. All of us together work very hard every single day. Um, it is really really difficult to grow um many many percentage points. But we do want to say that with all of our hard work, we grew to a 90% almost a 91% uh on our And uh

096we will continue to work hard so that you know little by little we keep inching and and getting you know our keeping our and so I just wanted to show you um you know um academic history of Desert Sonora. It's not a testament of what I do but it's a testament of what the staff does at Desert Sonora. The Hawks are mighty. They work hard every single day and it definitely shows for many many years um how hard they work. So I'm very very proud to be where I am today. We do have our 2026 goals for student achievement. Our first goal is to continue to maintain or increase the proficiency of all of our students. We have a growth goal which is minimize the number of minimally proficient students. We have focused on third

097grade because that really does make a difference. But it's everyone even our kinder kinder to second grade that really are learning to read. Um Dibbles is one of our indicators that we really need to continue to grow. Um we also want to increase the proficiency score in the AP accountability report from 19% to 22%. And that's that's difficult even though it's three percentage points, but we're going to get there. And last but not least, we want to increase the overall asella reclassification percentage from 18% to 25%. This is uh these are four goals that um I developed when I joined Desert Sonora and want to continue to focus on ongoing student recognition, parental involvement, also ongoing staff recognition, continue to implement district adopted curriculum uh and you know continue to work with the implementation to

098make sure that our students are growing and learning from what our district provides. and then also focus on our staff growth not only academically but also growing within each other. We are a community of learners and we continue to work every week on PLC's or cluster meetings and analyzing data on a weekly basis and providing feedback to each other. These are just pictures of the goals that we've established together as staff. We want to continue to recognize our students on a weekly basis. Uh we have a group um copying good students that are recognized on Wednesday and that's all about PBIS. And then the hawks of the week is all about character focusing on the character traits from CK. Also we want to continue to highlight our students during CTO. uh we've learned that it

099brings our parents, our community in as far as you know celebrating our students for their monthly achievements and then also celebrating our students through presentations, academic presentations. Every month a great level is assigned to present something that they're learning in the classroom. We also last but not least we need to continue to affirm each other and celebrate our staff on a monthly basis. We we select we. When we say we, it's the staff. Um we select the teacher of the month and the staff of the month. And last but not least, we want to continue to focus on our PTO growing. We do have a large community of Desert Sonora parents and families that join us every single month for the presentations and activities that we have. And last but not least, our staff is

100a staff of it's a family. They've been there longer than me and they're veteran teachers that love their school. They don't want to go anywhere. And so their their teacher retention I don't even have to worry about. I'm very very lucky and it's about us making sure that we celebrate each other on a monthly basis. Now we also work on our mission and vision the very very first P that we had with our leadership team. And so we learned that we did not have a vision. So a vision is all about where we want to be in the future and we decided together that our vision would be short and um working collaboratively we uh came up with learning today leading tomorrow. Now our mission also shifted a little bit to focus for us as

101to what we are doing currently to get to our destination and our mission is now at Desert Sonodora. We cultivate a deep love of learning and a relentless pursuit of excellence in every student. Here is the DSS family again um at that welcome back uh morning full of excitement and full of energy to start the school year. And then here is our staff on the bus heading in the right direction to begin the school year 26. Very, very excited. And um up next, we're going to have a video that is going to demonstrate what happened in the first week of school. But before you start, Antonio, I do want to go back to something Miss Delgado said. She said, um, we need strong leadership teams. And um I am very very surprised to see that

102I have most of my leadership team here supporting their school on the first time that we get together as a as a board and and as colleagues they're here supporting their school and that's just talks about their dedication. Please stand up. [Applause] That was a huge surprise and it just warms my heart. So the video you're about to see is about what we're all about. What does matter? [Music] How we feel? You always have someone to talk to. Great. >> Questions or comments? >> That was an amazing video. >> Thank you. Thank you. That was our teachers on the first week of school. >> So fast. I would like to make a comment and and just reiterate what that student said. You know, teachers are there um just just how they feel, not what they

103know. And that's so important because, you know, you need our students sometimes live a a difficult life that we don't know. And and to care about how they feel will not only help them personally, but I think it will help them grow education and and academically. So, thank you for that. And it was a great video. Uh, thank you so much. >> Thank you, Mr. Alundo. [Applause] >> So, I'm moving on to a consent agenda. Does anyone from the board wish to uh move something from consent agenda or anyone have a question or comment? >> No. I'll entertain a motion. >> So, move. >> Motion was made by Miss Delgado. >> Second. Second by Miss Areola. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to action items, discussion, consideration,

104and possible action to approve or deny the release teacher from contract FY25-26 effective 812. >> The recommendation is to approve the release of teacher from contract FY2526. resignation will be effective 812 2025 and there is um executive content. Any questions or comments? Need a motion. >> So move. >> Motion was made by Missio. >> Second by Miss Areola. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to 8.2. discussion and possible action to wave or fine 1% of teachers FY25-26 contract and again there is uh information under executive content >> so the recommendation is to uh find the 1% of teachers FY2526 contract >> to find yes >> what what subject is or what the teacher >> it's in I got Thank you, >> Matt. So, the motion is to

105find the 1%, right? That's correct. Questions or comments? Need a motion? >> So, move. >> Motion was made by Miss Delio. >> Second by Miss Annayia. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Nay. >> Anyone opposed? >> Nay. Um, let's do a roll call. >> Castillo, president. >> I clerk >> I. >> Glad I member >> I. >> Louisa Areola. >> Nay. >> So motion carries 3 to one. Moving on to 8.3, discussion, consideration, and possible action to approve or deny the release teacher from contract FY25-26 effective 812. And there's also a letter under executive content. >> Again, the recommendation is to approve the release of teacher from contract FI2526. Resignation will be effective 8125. >> Okay, questions or comments? Need a motion? So move. >> Motion was made by Miss Elgado. >>

106Second by Miss Areola. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to 8.4. Discussion and possible action to wave or find the 1% of teachers FY25-26 contract. And again, there's also uh letters under executive content. Again, the recommendation is to find the 1% of teachers uh FY2526 contract. Okay. And uh Mr. Don, I do have just a comment. Um these are when when the recommendation is to find is because we are following policy and and everything. It's it's it's based on what we've done traditionally in the past. Is that correct? >> That's correct. We al always uh cross reference policy to ensure that we fairly find if we have to or not. >> Thank you. Need a motion. >> So move. >> Motion was made by Miss Delgado. >>

107Second by Miss Annaya. All those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> I. >> Nay. >> Anyone opposed? >> Nay. >> Motion carries 3 to one. Do you need a roll call, Mary? >> No. >> Miss, would you like to elaborate on your name? >> No. Oh, okay. Moving on to uh 8.5. Request approval to close national bank account, student activities account. >> Um the business office is trying to streamline their processes a little bit and we currently have the student activity um funds held in a separate bank account. So, we're just going to be moving it from National Bank into our primary um account held with the county, which is Chase. So now all of our expenses and revenues will be in the same database. >> And now there is also a letter

108under executive content. >> Okay. Any questions or comments? Need a motion. >> Motion was made by Miss Delgado. >> I'll second the motion. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. 8.6. Discussion and possible action to approve the district pay stipens FY26. >> So the motion is to approve the district paid stipens as presented. >> Any questions or comments? >> No. Need a motion. Motion to approve the district page stipens as presented. >> Motion was made by Miss Areola. >> Second by Miss Anaya. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? >> Motion carries. Moving on to 8.7 approval of the reading for policy advisory number 9006-908. >> So this is the first reading. Uh we've were able to review them. some minor changes and um some of the

109wording has changed a bit but the message of the policy is still there. So the recommendation is to approve the first reading for policy advisory number 906-9908 as presented. Any questions or comments? Need a motion. >> Motion was made by Miss Delgado. >> Second by Miss Areola. All those in favor say I. I >> I anyone opposed? Motion carries. 8.8. Approval of the reading of policy advisory number 909-914. >> Very similar. The recommendation is to approve the reading for policy advisory number 909-914 as presented. >> Any questions or comments? >> No. Need a motion? Motion to approve the reading for policy advisory number 909-914 as presented. >> Motion was made by Miss Areola. >> Second by Miss Anaya. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? >> Motion carries. Moving on to 8.9.

110Discussion, consideration, and possible approval to select a governing board member to serve as a as a delegate and alternate delegate at the Arizona School Board Association ASBA Delegate Assembly on Saturday, September 6, 2025. And on on this one, um being that I am the ASBA Yuma County director, um I am required to be there so I can serve as the as the alternate. Um I did speak uh Miss Clark. She's she's been the uh the delegate I believe for the past what four or five years. Um and uh I spoke with her today and uh she will not be able to stay on Saturday. So, um, you know, Miss Areola, Miss Annaya, >> I'll be interested. >> You You'll be the delegate. >> Okay. And, uh, so uh, so just I just need a motion.

111>> Make a motion to approve for Miss Aela to be the delegate for um, the Arizona School Board Association delegate assembly on Saturday, September 6. >> With me as the alternate >> and to have Mr. Castillo to be the alternate. >> Okay. So motion was made by Miss Delgado. >> Second by Miss Anay. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Miss Eola, for for for uh volunteering. You'll enjoy it. >> I do. I do. It's a learning experience. >> And uh we're going to go to announcements because we do have an executive session. Uh we're going to go to 9.1. Um any recommendations from the board for future agenda items? And uh Miss Anaya, this is a this is a part of the uh of the board meeting

112where if you have any, you know, any agenda items that you wish to bring to the to the table. Um this is where you can uh uh um express them and and just kind of state them and then uh then we'll go from there. If not, you can always just send me an email maybe two weeks prior um to our board meeting because that's when Mr. Don and I uh get together and set up the agenda. >> Okay. >> And um on this, I do have Mr. Don, I do want to say now that we have Miss Anaya as our as as a as a new board member, see if we could come up with the uh >> with the retreat. Yes. >> To go over uh board rules and responsibilities, you know, things like

113that. So I don't know if you want us to look at a date. Um >> we had we had moved it just because of the change of um board members. So now that Mrs. Saya you on board, we need to figure out a date for the retreat. Do you want me to send you some dates on our weekly report and then go from there or do you want to do it right now? >> Um I I guess we he can send us some dates on send us some dates. Yes. >> And then we'll go from there. Um but I'd say the sooner the better. >> Okay. And um I also have um I know in our last board meeting we um we me I mentioned something about a policy uh where are we in a

114policy regarding >> uh when we have virtual meetings to have our make sure that our cameras are on. >> Um where are we on on that? Did we >> We're working we're working on the draft. We did some research. Miss Kim and I are really working on the draft to make sure that the wording is properly and then we're sending it to get it revised. Once we have that, we'll bring it in. >> Perfect. And uh I also mentioned uh pictures of uh you know uh pictures of students uh that are being posted on social media uh on on personal accounts. So I'm assuming we're on the same boat there, right? >> Yes. So, same thing, trying to do the research to make sure that we get the wording appropriately as well as I know

115that you might be asking also about the field trips. We're also working on that policy as well. >> Awesome. Sounds good. >> And um I I think that's that's all I have. I think last time, Miss Etera, you did mention that you wanted to bring some items um for f for our future board meeting. Um do you want to elaborate on them right now or I don't know if you sent an email to Mr. Don? No, we have more important things to worry about, Mr. Castillo, than worrying about board members sharing pictures on social media when we're at events. I think there's a lot more important stuff than doing those things. >> But no, I will if I have an issue, I would I'm going to email Mr. >> Okay. Well, thank you. And I

116mean I I think as as a board um every issue is important especially when it when it when we're talking about the uh the our students you know >> at public events at public events >> again on that mola I'm just going to go to 9.2 2 ASBA calendar of events 20 25-26 >> and >> that's um part of the uh my computer D so it's part of the uh um executive content >> okay and all that is um is just a a list of all the the events something that I do want to point out um if you want to save the date for September 30th we do have our county meeting we do our ASBA county meeting and we're going to be hosting. >> We're the hosting. >> Yes, we're going to be

117hosting. >> Our district is going to be hosting and as soon as I get more information on that, I'll pass it on to you all. >> Okay. >> All right. So, need a motion to adjurnn into executive session. >> Make a motion to adjourn and to enter. Well, we can adjourn. Make a motion to enter executive session. >> Okay. Motion was made by Miss Delgado. >> Second by Miss Haya. All those in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed? Meeting adjourned, but we're entering into executive session.