001okay we will call this meeting to order at 5 pm the mvusd board of education is holding a regular board meeting tonight and we invite participation either remotely or in person directions on how to participate via Zoom are available at mvusd.org board the Open Session part of the meeting will begin around 7 pm Item B public comment on closed session items before going into closed session the board is available for public comment on closed session agenda items Mr Michaels do we have any public comment on closed session agenda items there is no public comment on closed session items right seeing that there are none the board will now adjourn into closed session see you around seven all right good evening my name is David T Gracia and this is the Napa Valley Unified School District
002Board of Education the nvusd board of education is holding a regular board meeting tonight and we invite participation either remotely or in person directions on how to participate via Zoom are available at mvusd.org board interpretation in Spanish is available for tonight's virtual board meeting our interpreters are Paul huertas and Vanessa Cardenas one of the interpreters will now translate the directions on our English Channel so our Spanish-speaking families may hear the instructions Graces thank you can we please start with an attendance roll call from Vera Morales executive assistant board member Gomez is absent tonight trustee Gracia present trustee water present trustee ricer present trustee shu present trustee jinkowitz present trustee heart present trustee Gonzalez Mares present Quorum present thank you thank you all right and then um we are on to the next item which is
003thank you for joining us tonight for our nvusd board meeting uh item E1 trustee Riser do you have a report on closed session items hmm respect to every item of business to be discussed in closed session pursuant to Ed code 35146 and 48912 .20 government code section 49060 and 49078 in the family rights and Privacy Act student matters um we will do the roll call votes is that correct now we have to make emotions also okay so you're reporting the recommendation oh I'm writing okay I'm sorry so as to matter d1a1 the board recommends for the expulsion of student03092023a move to expel I'll second the motion all right first fight trustee two second by trustee jankowitz uh Ms Morales you can have a roll call vote please trustee gracio hi trustee water aye trustee ricer
004aye trusty shoe hi trustee jangowitz um trusty heart aye trustee Gonzalez Mares aye motion passes thank you and for item d one a two uh for the expulsion of student zero three zero nine two zero two three B the board recommends the expulsion a move to expel second the motion first by trustee Choo Second by uh trustee jankiewicz Ms Moross and we have a roll call vote please yes trustee Gracia hi trustee water aye trustee Reiser aye Christie shoe aye trustee jankowitz aye trustee heart hi trustee Gonzalez Mares hi motion passes thank you and uh for the third case um in this section D1 A3 uh the board recommends the expulsion of student0309-2023c move to expel all right Emotion by trustee two a second by trustee jankowicks Ms Morales may we please have a roll
005call vote Mr Gracia hi trustee water hi trustee ricer aye twisty shoe hi trustee jankowitz fine trusty Hart hi trustee Gonzalez Maris aye motion passes thank you and for the matter of d1b readmitted expulsions the D1 B1 the board recommends for the readmitted expulsion of student one two one two two zero one nine D move to approve whole second first by trustee two second by trustee jankowitz Ms Ross please give us a roll call vote Christy Gracia hi trustee water hi trustee Reiser aye first issue hi trustee jankowitz hi trusty heart aye trustee Gonzalez Marez aye motion passes thank you that's all we have all right uh now on to E2 flag salute trustee Gonzalez Mars would you lead us in this like solution absolutely we can all stand I pledge allegiance to God and
006to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you all right uh E3 announcement this meeting is live streamed and recorded via zoom and will be archived on the district's YouTube channel for detailed review of any meeting agenda item the archive video can be referenced on the district's webpage at nbusd.org the process for public comment can also be found on the district's webpage E4 approval of agenda move to proof a second verse by trustee Chu second by trustee Gonzalez Morris all in favor aye motion passes E5 approval of minutes e5a February 23rd 2023 a move to approve oh second first by trustee Chu second by trustee Gonzalez Mars we need abstentions here because there were absentees proving of minutes okay interesting heart all those in
007favor aye aye abstentions aye motion passes all right E6 recognition of visitors and employee organizations Dr massetti do we have any visitors yes I'd like to welcome the president of csca who's on tonight Mr Hector Gallegos Mr Gallegos would you like to address the board this evening yes uh good evening board members uh Dr massetti uh I see Mike and Dana and Rob good evening good evening everybody uh just uh wanted to say um I guess thank you guys for uh whoever participated in the bus ride with the students uh you know as you guys got to see what uh you know students the routes that the students uh take and you also got to see the classified staff do your work so I encourage board members to to participate in you know outings like
008that I'm pretty sure you guys have that in your uh future agendas but as it was fun uh I guess for me just to see the the pictures on social media and the fact that you guys got to experience you know something like that since I'm pretty sure it was it was interesting fun and kind of cool at the same time so uh again you know um hopefully you guys could do uh something um of that sort more often uh down the road so thank you guys for for doing that and now at the same time you know safe travels for for some of you guys that are after this meeting have to travel to to get home safe so thank you Hector yeah um only Mr Gallegos is here tonight so thank you so
009much for being here and representing csca all right on to item F recognition of students of the month uh F1 Valley Oak High School well Joanne Clark please present the students of the month for Valley Oak okay good evening everybody um thank you school board and district for making space on your agenda to honor my students tonight we are from the Valley Oak class at American Canyon High School so we are a unique class of 25 kids um who are together all day in a self-contained classroom and I have the just extreme privilege and honor of introducing you to two of my kids who you need to know their names these people are amazing and write their names down because you are going to be hearing from in the future so we have Dex Calderon
010and we have Myra Gonzalez Sierra so first I'll introduce Dex thank you okay um this is Dex Calderon and he is being honored tonight for um several aspects not only a 4.0 GPA 100 attendance and being an amazing writer um Dex is being honored for his artistic ability and um he will be a featured artist at achs in the office in the next week so um I do invite all the board members to please come and come to our classroom come visit us and um just see what we do and what we're about but Dex has been in my class this year and he is graduating a pentemester early due to um just rapid credit recovery and I'll let Dex talk about himself but I couldn't be prouder to know this person okay Dex Europe
011you can do it good evening I'm Dex and starting off I would like to thank my parents my Educators Miss Clark and our less along with the school board and the Napa Valley Education Foundation for this opportunity today I have gone my entire primary education through mvusd starting at Napa Junction American Canyon Middle School American Canyon High School independent studies and now at Valley Oak the way I got into Valley Oak was by not being academically motivated throughout the Copa 19 quarantine period because of this I didn't really have a high school experience I got to where I am today by refocusing my mindset and having the determination to graduate After High School I set my sights on attending either Napa Valley or Solano Community College to pursue my artistic interest or a form of
012Cosmetology and experience I am proud of is my ability to overcome my mental challenges and be able to attend class every morning to the best of my abilities because of the environment and my motivation to graduate early and once again I would like to thank everyone and I look forward to my future education that's all I have to say you're amazing that's that was awesome that was awesome I know that wasn't easy for you look at you on Zoom I'm so proud of you okay good good um next up we've got Myra Gonzalez Sierra and oh look at her look at her little face um so Myra is a junior and she is the First Student in Valley Oak not only at American Canyon but at Valley Oak Napa to um achieve 4.0 GPA 100
013attendance and zero tardies or behavior infractions for her entire Valley Oak career with me um so it is a huge accomplishment Myra is also you know a junior graduating in April a whole year and a pen semester early and um Myra's also on our leadership team and is responsible for um really helping me do team building and organizing our food Friday activities and Myra's in charge of all the fun stuff because there's nothing fun about Miss Clark like I am all about business and work and standards based learning and Myra's like no no no we need to have some fun here so Myra is in charge of that so I will let Myra um just talk about her amazing self and um I'm just so proud of you sweetheart so you go ahead we can't
014hear you no is the volume on your computer oh no luck Miss Clark no um the only solution I can offer you if there's not a tech solution is do you have her um cell phone number or no I do you want to try calling her and putting her on speaker and we could hear her speak Mario is that okay okay thank you Dr massetti no problem anytime I can provide a tech intervention I'm here for you I like it I've been trained by the best they might give you another responsibility so don't act too proficient okay are you there okay can you guys hear we can Miss Clark don't mute okay sorry you've got it yep you stay on and and stay unmuted so we can hear okay go to work Mida I want
015to thank my parents the school board in the Napa Valley Education Foundation for having me today in the beginning of high school it was rough and I needed to learn a lot to earn a lot of credit due to missing a lot of work throughout the years then I got into Valley Oak American High School to earn back all my credits that I needed and now I've earn enough credits needed to graduate and I'll be graduating a year early thanks to my wonderful teacher Miss Clark and Carla for help for learning for helping me learn and making me want to go to school every day After High School I want to go to Napa Valley College and study culinary pastry in most part of my experience at Valley ill and my teachers were helping me
016along the way in ordering typically and do the best I can and overall just the best high school experience good job okay thank you everybody you're welcome you're welcome welcome thank you all right we're going to move on to F2 new technology high school will principal Dev please present the students of the month for new Tech High good evening nvusd Board of Trustees president Gracia and Dr massetti congratulations to Ms Clark in the season of the month winners at Valley Oak my name is abhinav Dev and I'm the interim principal at new technology high school only a few weeks away from Spring Break and the new Tech Community is busy at work our multilingual Learners are gearing up for the Alpac test next week and our staff is getting ready for the professional development day
017tomorrow at American Canyon High School this evening though I'm very grateful for the opportunity to shine a light on some of our amazing new tech Penguins tonight I'm happy to introduce you to two young men who embody our core principles of trust respect and responsibility both these students have shown strong academic results given back to their community and have focused on their own personal goal growth throughout their time at new tech our student of the month for January is Paul Bell Paul is a junior at new Tech High and has an incredible future in front of him Paul is a very unique had a very unique start to high school as did the rest of the class of 2024 we first met on a zoom screen I was his second period teacher in the AM
018cohort a year later we finally had the opportunity to meet in person and politic High School by storm Paul is the epitome of a genuine friend to all as he's the first person to say hi to everyone on campus every day his teacher shared that Paul is a very creative and always follows through with his ideas and projects one of his strengths is his persistence and his willingness to help when he sees a problem Paul is immediately drawn to help Paul is very active with the Friday Night Live club and contributes valuable ideas to the prevention efforts his digital design group was also featured they had an installment featured in the lighted Art Festival this past month congratulations Paul Paul is here tonight and is excited to share a few words um thank you um
019good evening everyone thank you for having me here tonight I am really I was really surprised to be selected student of the month but here I am um I am very honored and thankful I would like to thank all my teachers in new tech for supporting and encouraging me throughout my years in new tech uh their support made me very happy and reassured thank you Mr Dev for welcoming me as your director of science teacher because like you know high school did not start as I thought it would be in my first year because Cobin but I was able to grow and adjust to the changes and challenges that high school had to offer I'm very grateful to be part of new tech um where I was able to expand my passion for motion design
020and computer hardware like I said I'm grateful and I'm glad to be here um thank you all thank you Paul and congratulations under a student of the month for February congratulations to senior penguin Taylor crunk Caleb is a bright welcoming respectful and kind person to everyone on campus my first year at new Tech High School the class of 2023 went on a team building outdoor Ed trip to Alliance redwoods I was immediately impressed by Caleb's curiosity and all the activities he engaged in with his new peers as well as the sense of peace and calm he brought to all around him that's something he continues to today Caleb's teachers shared that he's empathetic kind and always willing to serve the community with Grace and accuracy his flexibility hard work and diligence as a part of
021the yearbook committee is truly appreciated he speaks thoughtfully and advocates for his peers Caleb is excited to graduate in just a few months congratulations to Caleb unfortunately Caleb was not able to be here this evening as he Volunteers in the emergency department at Queen of the Valley hospital on Thursday evenings and is very committed to his role he did share a statement that I'm pleased to read now thank you very much for this great honor to have been awarded the student of the month I feel so fortunate to have been lucky enough to go to a school like new tech my whole experience at new tech has been uplifting from the teachers to the community thanks to new tech I've been able to explore so many opportunities I didn't think were available last summer I
022was engaged in an internship in the hospitality industry and I'm actively volunteering at Queen of the Valley Hospital in the EB even with my schedule being more complex down UTech has helped me to see what I'm capable of and that I can go even further beyond what I thought I could do I'd like to give a very big thanks to the new tech Administration even though they're in their first years they've done an amazing job you can see how much they really care about our school through their interactions with every student and how much of a comforting safe environment they provide congratulations to Caleb and his family have a nice evening thank you all right on to item G public comment on non-agenda items trustee Reiser did we receive any public comment on non-agenda items
023via email no public comment on non-agenda items were submitted by an email before 8 AM this morning right on to item H reports H1 Board of Education and student board representative trustee Gonzalez Mars would you like to start yeah um I think just a couple of um events or meetings that I participated that my fellow trustees also joined um on Sunday was the CTA Napa and Solano school and college board education member branch and it was just really great to um meet board members from outside of the area um and you say outside but they're within our area really I mean these are our neighboring counties so um just really a great opportunity to talk to to folks um about education in general um in our schools and then um yesterday just held a really
024a great meeting with um in-person meeting with the city of Napa um and USD and that concludes my report thank you trustee Hart um I have actually been out of commission for the last couple of weeks so I don't really have anything to report and that's the conclusion of my report thank you professor jankowitz yeah uh last week Dr musetti and I attended the California collaborative in San Jose the California collaborative for educational Excellence was established to provide support to school districts in achieving the goals that Fort and their elk set forth in their lcaps nbusd was invited to discuss governance Dr masetti and I were asked to address a number of issues I'll give you a brief sampling of some of the questions what are your priorities as a district how do issues of
025equity connect to these priorities what are the priorities and Norms that guide your work together how do you respond to the pressures from outside the governance team inside or outside the district to consider or address new issues that may not be aligned with your identified priorities there were more just giving you a sampling um I had the pleasure of reading to a third grade class and a darling Kinder class at fishy for their read Across America day which coincided with pajama day and I was dressed in my normal clothes but got asked by two kindergarteners that my pajamas were not really um in rhythm with theirs um I attended the Northern California percussion Alliance the American Canyon percussion team elevated their performance by Precision moves and an intense focus on their percussion sounds I can
026Envision them performing at Pep rallies school events or any other opportunity made available to them they were excellent it is important to Showcase their talent as well as share it I too attended the CTA board brunch the coffee with the superintendent at Super I cannot speak Superintendent at Canyon Oaks Elementary um I participated in the nvis WASP visit I attended with director ready the Napa FFA advisory meeting um the finance advisory committee meeting the city of Napa and nbusd Joint meeting a brief nod to yesterday it was International women's day a day to celebrate the social economic cultural and political achievements of women from all around the world and I want to acknowledge all women but some special recognition to all the strong women in our nvusd community nod to my peers on this board
027um I listen to the Oakland School board meeting for a while last evening um later this evening we will hear from assistant superintendent manguala and I need to state that nvusd has exercised astute Financial leadership made hard decisions but the right decisions and it is made ever more apparent by listening to the struggles of districts that were not early and brave and lastly I love the pictures in the boardroom if there was ever a reminder of our responsibility and what inspires us it is the faces of our nbusd community right trustee two so I spent a good portion of the last couple of weeks um just I guess visiting with um students and our community just seeing our why right what we do why we do things on the board so I went to two
028acms drama performances one on the 24th of February and one on the 25th these are from two different drama classes at the middle school and they actually performed at the high school and they learned within one day how to operate the high school Theater which was really really impressive they did a wonderful job and thank you to miss Grant who was the Drama teacher for having the students showcase their talents at such a young age um on the 2nd of March I also I was participating in the read across America's at Canyon Oaks and I read to two fifth grade classes and two fourth grade classes a book by Kelly Yang who you was one of our Napa County reads a couple years ago and her book was um was a picture book you wouldn't
029think that fourth and fifth Traders would be interested but the subject the title was yes we will Asian Americans who shaped this country and in the end of the book there are little excerpts of all the different people that she highlighted in there and these fourth and fifth graders got really involved in asking questions and a lot of teachers were asking them who would you like to meet and they all knew who of course a lot of the people who were in the book were so I got to read a little bit of expert excerpt of several of those uh very famous people to them and really engaging half hours with each of those classes um on the second of also on the 2nd of March I attended the Napa High School performance be more
030chill along with the trustees to my right because we all ended up there um wonderful performance the lead was assistant superintendent data Pages daughter wonderful really great um to see to see that performance and the pit what was it the uh student Orchestra did all the music for them really fantastic and impressive um and then of course on the fourth as trustee jankowitz um mentioned I also attended the achs winter percussions competition it was a second competition put on by the Northern California percussions Alliance and achs placed second in their division out of 12 schools so congratulations to them and I also met with a few parents at two different meetings one with the coffee with the superintendent at Canyon Oaks that just happened on Tuesday so thank you to principal Stephanie Vasquez and the
031canyon Expo for putting on a really nice event for us to listen to all the parents and that evening I actually attended the achs acms elac meeting and I wanted to thank uh Cindy Ramirez who is the president of elac of achs and acms but also the d-lac president um for inviting me because I ran into her on that morning um where they the parents and it was a full house at achs library um they received a presentation from aldea about alcohol and drug prevention for the community um this was a subject that the parents asked for so I'm really happy that there's a space for that Community to ask for presentations that they need um very very informative I think for the broader Community as well and apparently that night there was a choir
032concert which I was happening at the same time so I wasn't able to go but I did watch some of the videos that some of my constituents sent and it's amazing when all of the American Canyon schools choir programs all get together at the high school and perform in the gym which is fantastic really wonderful to see and looking forward to their future concerts um I also attended the mvis wasc visit via zoom and also the CTA brunch and that concludes my report thank you trustee Reiser thank you um a lot of overlap here but I'll start on the 24th I had a really informative meeting with assistant superintendent Andrew Jennings and director ready we had a really good conversation about um sort of generally vapa programming but specifically the musical theater programming across our
033comprehensive high schools and all of the um factors and staff capacity and booster funding and other scheduling things that that come into play and in the decisions about how those programs are run and so I appreciated them taking the time to um answer my questions I also attended the Northern California percussion Alliance winter competition at achs at the Wolf Den um I wanted to to point out two things that my fellow trustees jankowitz and shuh who were with me um didn't cover one was um just to shout out the parent participation that really makes these kinds of of um outside of the school day programs run so we have a die-hard parent who who is an Alum parent um Steve green and he is still really showing up and advocating and supporting that program and
034those students even though his his son has graduated and moved on um to bigger pastures and then we also I don't have their last names but the two parent participants that really you could tell were making the thing happen um Priscilla and Alexis it was great to chat with them and I just want to say that their involvement and dedication I mean we were there a long time and they'd been there they were their hours before we got there and hours after we left helping clean up so the parent involvement or the things that really keep these special experiences for our students um kind of going and it was so great to see and the other cool thing was that after the competition but before they announced the winners of the competition there was a
035clinic put on by the head percussionist of the San Francisco Symphony and so he sort of talked about how he'd gotten his start in Drumline in high school in Iowa and and it was just really neat to have him share his experience of how he went from from that discipline of you know being in the line and learning the choreography and the um precision and dedication involved and that now he's a professional professional musician who was getting on a plane to Paris on Monday morning to go perform in Europe for two weeks so that was a really cool part of the experience um and I can only imagine how that landed with uh with students who are thinking about their Futures and passionate about music um I also had the pleasure of visiting a few
036elementary schools in the context of read Across America I got to read in a first grade classroom in McPherson Elementary School and four classrooms at Vichy um and it was always my one of my favorite parts of being an elementary school teacher so it is a real treat to have a have a little shot of that and even read stories that I used to read as a teacher and it was just very fun um I attended the be more chill opening night performance I will Echo the um amazing uh review of assistant superintendent Paige's daughter Shelby in the lead role she killed it and it's very cool to see the way the kids work together I love that it's a student pit Orchestra it really is a student driven performance and I know from my
037experience with my kids being in other musicals just what a memorable and transforming experience it can be to have that opportunity so if you're listening and you haven't been to the show yet there are still four more performances I think this weekend so don't miss out I think I'm gonna go again and see the other cast because it's a two casts I also attended the CTA brunch and agree it was really nice to have a chance to interact with trustees from neighboring counties and districts um attended the coffee with a superintendent at Canyon Oaks um and I will end on a solemn note which is just to say that today's the fifth anniversary of the pathway home shooting at the Yountville veterans home and I spent some time this afternoon with a someone who's become
038a dear friend who is a survivor of that shooting um and I just want to say that it's difficult an anniversary as it is and I'm going to say the names of the um four people that we lost um Jennifer Golick Christine lober Jen gonzalezaruba and her unborn daughter Cece um but I do want to focus on the positive and say in the five years since that tragedy um our community aranapa Valley has made good progress um in educating the public about State Firearms storage and the availability of things like a red flag law that if you are aware that someone is in mental crisis and you know that they have access to a gun there are things that you can do legally to help them from hurting themselves and others and that law was
039on the books at the time of the pathway home shooting and the people did not know about that law so law is only as good as the number of people who know that it's available to them so um this concludes my report thank you trustee water well um let's see last Thursday the second I attended a zoom meeting put on by the Jewish community research Council and it was about ethnic studies it was really fascinating enlightening and after that I spent some time um you know looking at the state framework and the uh Anti-Defamation leagues resources all online and then that night I too went to see NABA High School's production of be more chill yes um it was amazing and student run and I was you know just very proud of all the students
040um the next let's see on the third I uh went to the brunch that our Union the union president invited us to it and I had a good time talking to uh a school board member in a county to the south of us that is uh suffering um the school district is suffering uh the vicissitudes of too many schools not enough money and this person told me that he wished his superintendent had thought uh thought it was valuable to uh make all of the board members do the Masters in governance course um the way we have done and I told him it was very helpful and then I I too was that um the uh independent studies uh wasp meeting it was a zoom meeting and I went to uh coffee with the superintendent at
041Canyon Oaks it's always a pleasure to go to American Canyon and uh the families down there just so engaged and supportive of the schools and then on the the day after that yes I got up at the crack and um rode the school bus uh with the superintendent to Napa Valley Language Academy snow Silverado it's all sorts of classified employees out you know greeting the students also a couple of um I believe I saw Yes Ms Christopherson there as well and uh I was um uh actually uh I guess I wasn't surprised let's just say I enjoyed how well faved all the students were um including the famous demographic of middle schoolers they were great they're great they're terrific it was fun and um our bust I will always say our bus drivers are the
042best they're the safest drivers they stop at all the stop signs they're very conscious of the precious cargo so good job bus drivers and then that day I went to um a finance meeting and you'll hear about that and um and then after that a meeting with the city of Napa that was um really good and I think that's just about it I too am looking at the pictures that are decorating this room and thinking why didn't we do this before I mean this is great and I would like to close um I had a former student get in touch with me we've we've remained in contact um uh she's uh went to college got a master's degree married her Air Force husband so she's done some traveling and she was a very good student
043at Napa High who uh I would say every sling and arrow that fate could hurl at that kid was thrown at her she had a she had a hard luck um upbringing just just everything you can think of um and you know what she got into veterinary school which was her dream and I am so proud of her and I need to tell you it's harder to get into veterinary school than the University of Virginia law school so I was so thrilled to hear from her and I thought that's it yes and we did it we made it happen for her you know helped her with her school and she was a good student she's on her way thank you so on the 27th I attended the open house at Napa High School it was
044primarily focused on incoming freshmen and a good presentation and a lot of tables in the gym I particularly enjoyed the science table where they exploded a balloon that was fun yeah on the second I too attended opening night at Napa High School's be more chill production it was well done on the fifth I went to the CTA luncheon I think in order to be a brunch you have to actually serve breakfast so that was yeah um and then on the seventh I attended the nvis WASP visit uh on the 8th I did the finance committee meeting and then the ninth I had a meeting with my csba board of directors mentors so those were the things that I had then we are on to H2 board representative reports h2a special education advisory committee the special
045education Community advisory committee has not met h-2b city of American Canyon liaison Representatives you have not met h2c city of Napoli is unrepresentative we met yesterday H2 D town of yonvillia is unrepresentative we have not met H3 superintendent and executive staff Gracia so good evening nvusd trustee staff and Community you will hear some echoing here regarding some of the reporting that I'm going to do this evening it's phenomenal to have a highly engaged School Board that's so present out in the community and am able to share many moments in our schools with all of you so thank you so much for all of your engagement and participation I want to start off by thanking all of our School site support staff teachers and assistant principals and principals for persisting through the necessary modifications in school
046operations during the ongoing Reign students are having to spend an increased amount of time indoors as the rain persists this requires lots of patience and adaptability on behalf of the students and the staff so thank you as we continue to prioritize student safety during these unusual weather conditions for the month of March I also would like to remind everyone that approximately three years ago we held a special board meeting to close our schools for what we thought would be a temporary closure in response to covid-19 right here in this boardroom we repurposed the March 2020 spring professional learning day which is our 2023 day is tomorrow to provide teachers with the time to draft lessons and assign work that students could use at home we had no idea that we would be closed for several
047months and convert our entire system to remote learning and then hybrid learning ensuring all students had one-to-one technology so that they could use technology in home to engage in school in addition to serving thousands of curbside meals and embracing many of the functions that have historically been managed by public health reflection is important so I just want to take a moment to pause we have learned so much since then and although we continue to navigate the post-pandemic impacts of covid-19 in a variety of forms in many ways we are stronger as a community and organization because we survive such difficult conditions together so thank you to everyone for their collaboration through that difficult time um so to the present it's been a very very busy couple of weeks since the last board member uh board
048meeting I'm sorry board meeting um we are gearing up for um strategic planning I'm very very excited about this work I've been working closely with our communications director Julie bordes as we prepare to select a partner who will help us with our strategic planning process which will be launched next year we're excited about launching a deep engagement process throughout the 23-24 school year in order to create what will be a graduate profile an employee profile assistant profile and then a five-year strategic tactical plan that will provide us the Strategic foresight to ensure that we are offering equity and excellence in our school district um you know Loosely calling it right now the path to 2030. so we'll see what emerges as we engage with the community but we are looking to Define our journey between
049now and the goes out of this decade for our school system I want to thank trustee jankwitz for joining me as she mentioned at the convening of the California collaborative for district reform where we did have the opportunity to present to researchers policy makers philanthropists and colleague superintendents from across the state about how a school board can create coherence and Alignment in a school district by having robust effective practices protocols and commitments so thank you for being exemplary in terms of governance practices trustee jankwitz you represented the school board so well everybody from the collaborative has reached out to me and say they were incredibly impressed in your participation as a panelist and in the several groups where problems of practice around governance were being addressed so thank you for joining me those two days
050in San Jose I also want to thank the six board members who were able to attend the CTA Branch uh Gail president of MVA Gail young contacted me after the brunch and she said that she was just so proud to be the um leader of the teachers union here in nvisd and to have such a strong collaborative relationship with the school board I think many of You observe that many of the union leaders may have been there with one or two board members she definitely said that she won the prize for most board members attending um and that she was excited to have the presence of six of our seven trustees there so thank you again I know these things take up a lot of your personal time thank you for taking the time on
051a weekend to be present and engage with the California Teachers Association I know it was really really important to her I've also conducted several School visits over the last couple of weeks since our February board meeting I was at Phillips Elementary where I had the opportunity to observe principal Julie Jones lead her staff through an activity called shout outs or the teachers and support staff get together to celebrate their progress on school-wide goals that they have established as an entire school team so this is including all of the classified support staff the teachers and of course the principal they have established goals for themselves as grounded around attendance efforts parent engagement efforts student achievement behavioral and academic interventions and teamwork I want to just congratulate Phillips and principal Jones for serving as a model where
052an entire staff is involved in impacting school-wide improvements I just love to see that intention intentionality so it was great to observe I also enjoyed visits at American Canyon High School where I presented to upperclassmen alongside city manager Jason Hawley on the state of the city there in American Canyon thank you to achs teacher Elizabeth goth for the goth for the invitation to participate I visited Pueblo Vista Redwood Middle School and again as you've heard many times hosted our first spring coffee with the superintendent at Canyon Oaks and also got to be at Canyon oats twice in a week because I also was able to read in Miss Pruitt's fifth grade class read a book called a different Pond which was about a Vietnamese immigrant family and it was great because there were several Vietnamese
053students in her class so much of the story resonated with them which was always really really powerful thank you to principals Roca and hartnick for their time and attention during the visits at Redwood and Pablo Vista they were fantastic visits and I also want to extend um a warm thank you to principal Vasquez and the Canyon Oaks PTO because they created such a welcoming inclusive very cozy environment for the coffee with the superintendent it was one of the most well-attended coffee with the superintendent since we started conducting those events also I want to congratulate Napa High and Duncan Cooper and assistant superintendent Paige I guess she's like dying of embarrassment I'm sure but it was great you know as a as a colleague to experience I sat with her during the show and it was
054just you know we worked together closely in a professional manner of course but it was just great to be there too as a superintendent but also personally just as a fellow mom watching her beam as she watched her daughter star in the be more chill spring Musical um I also want to take a moment to congratulate all of our Juniors who took the sat on Wednesday March 1st all paid for by the Napa Valley Unified School District and it was hosted at our high schools which is always an excellent um the SAT day I think is an excellent event because our high schoolers get to take the s.a.t a very familiar environment in the natural setting of where they attend school so that was great and then of course the highlight of the week it
055was mentioned by president of CSEA Hector Gallegos trustee water the highlight of the week was the bus ride also got up at the crack of dawn trustee water and I were at the yard before 7 A.M and we Departed the yard at 7 20. I was so grateful for the staff there pairing us with the driver Maria Soto who is absolutely amazing talk about calm confident and centered she is all that and then some um she took us on the route that was described by trustee water so we have great opportunity to be with elementary students we even had a kindergartner who celebrated her fifth birthday we sang our happy birthday onto the bus and she had a happy birthday Tiara so that was really fun um and then had a great experience with the
056middle schoolers it was great to see our Harvest Transportation Hub in action the kids were there waiting for the several buses that come and do the pickup at the Harvest campus and and shoot off to Silverado I want to give a shout out to director Marianne Christopherson who often gets up early to be there and make sure that that is running and operating smoothly so thank you so much for that effort saw her in her former principal mode I'm very she's very comfortable amongst large packs of middle schoolers so that was great to observe and then I just want to let you know that Maria drove so well and was so great has a phenomenal relationship with the kids and I know I'm spending a lot of time on this but I think it's really
057really important when I think about our work around the ecosystem of Carino I think Maria was a an example of what it means to on a daily basis she knew every student's name she greeted them with a smile you can tell they have such a strong relationship with her it kind of gives me goosebumps is really really special she's also I want to shout out to her I can't say enough about her she has five children who are all mbusd graduates four of the five have graduated I'm from a four-year University Sac State and um UC Davis there you go shout out to the Aggies on the board here um and then I want to congratulate um Scott Marsden um we need to celebrate him he's veteran and vusd teacher current American Canyon High School
058economics instructor who was honored with the 2023 California Council for the social for the social studies economics educator award at the annual ccss conference held this year in Santa Clara so that is a a tremendous honor so I want to recognize that and as trustee janquet said I also want to wish everyone a Happy International women's day which was yesterday I know there are many women working hard in our district and communities at large to make the world a better place for our children so thank you so much for your contributions as the first female superintendent of the Napa Valley Unified School District I thought it was important to make sure this day of honor and recognition is elevated and mentioned this evening I look forward to our spring professional learning day tomorrow that is
059happening despite the torrential rains and I just want to thank assistant superintendent Andrew Jennings all of her instructional team I know the technology department as well all of the different departments that have to serve as sort of the backbone of that day thank you so much for creating an exceptional day of learning for our nvusd staff I know that many many people will appreciate it by the end of tomorrow so thank you so much for your hard work with that I'm going to introduce each of the assistant superintendents who will report out on the work that's happening in their divisions and we'll start out with assistant superintendent I'm Dana page Shelby Page's mother who oversees the Human Resources Division thank you very much good evening president Gracia Board of Trustees Dr massetti first thank you
060Trustees for all your support of our students activities throughout the district I know it means a lot to them and and the many employees who put a lot of effort into planning them and your attendance means a lot and also thank you for your kind words about miss Shelby page this evening I'd like to celebrate several recent accomplishments under goal 2.2 of their strategic plan around growing supporting and celebrating a talented and diverse Workforce on March 2nd we held a training for 36 new Duty supervision assistance and I'd like to thank Sarah Knox who presented the content which focused on topics like systematic supervision social emotional learning best practices and emergency procedures next I'd like to highlight a collaborative effort with the HR Communications and transportation department to create a bus driver recruitment video thank
061you to the stars of the bus driver stars of the video they were bus drivers specifically Ramiro Ramiro Hernandez Danielle Hicks Mike Tyler Bridget Williams Sonny Shaw Gabrielle Soto Jamie Connors and Anna arostegie they were incredible spokespeople they talked about the work that they do and why they love it and you can view the video in English or Spanish on Facebook when we plan to share this video far and wide to get the word out to potential drivers about this very rewarding career earlier this week we learned that nvusd was awarded a teacher residency program expansion Grant this will support the program for growing our own teachers for another five years as a reminder this is a partnership that we have with Sonoma State University where we host student teachers who are going through their
062credentialing programs they stay with us for a year of residency where they experience the flow of an entire school year alongside a master teacher and they get to complete their coursework and their student teaching requirements it's incredible preparation for future teachers to have an entire year in a classroom they also receive a small living stipend which helps to make teaching an accessible choice for a lot of people who maybe otherwise would have some Financial barriers to doing their student teaching so we're so happy that this with this additional Grant we can continue the program for another five years and I'd like to thank Pat Andrew Jennings who actually started this program five years ago and Gene and DeLuca who's picked up the Baton to get the second round of funding approved and last but not
063least our newsletter featured Lourdes Martinez in the staff Spotlight Lourdes has worked for nvusd for over 20 years she's currently the head custodian at new technology high school where multiple staff members nominated her for the staff Spotlight and they highlighted her incredible work ethic and positive attitude her nominator said Lourdes is incredibly helpful to all the staff and students at our school she greets everyone with a smile every day Lourdes maintains our campus in spotless condition and makes it a welcoming environment for all Lourdes brightens our campus in so many ways thank you and this concludes my report thank you miss Page next we have assistant superintendent Mike Pearson who oversees operational Services uh good evening president Gracia MUSC Board of Education trustees Dr massetti student board Representative Sam Gomez who is not here but
064members of the NBC Community who are I'm honored to be sitting next to Shelby Page's mother who is a star of be more chill I did have the opportunity to see Shelby in action uh this past weekend so I do appreciate that and I was looking at Shelby I have not actually met her or talked to her but I kept thinking where's Dana and I could see Dana in her several different times that was really an honor to be uh to be there uh tonight my comments are going to focus on strategic plan number four tactical proactive and efficient Asset Management before I get into that I do want to recognize that the people at division Elementary School where I went and participated and read Across America so thank you to second grade teacher Jen
065bunker and first grade teacher Shari Costanza for allowing me to come in and spend a couple minutes uh reading a story to each one of your classes in Food Service March is National nutrition month I want to highlight that our food service department posts nutritional standards and allergens for our breakfast and lunch items on the MVC website for anyone who is interested in learning more about the nutritional information on any of our menu items uh and continuing on this topic food service is now piloting offering Strauss organic milk for students and staff using our new milk dispensers uh we did we were piloting this at unidos and Browns Valley elementary school right now so really excited to offer this to our to our students additionally Food Service continued to meet increased student demand during breakfast
066and lunch for the month of January of 2023 Food Service saw 49 increase in the number of breakfast breakfast items consumed by mbhd students when we compare that to January of 2022 and for lunch the increase was 22 percent When comparing the same month but different year total income for the month of January was 800 a little over 874 thousand dollars this is now the sixth consecutive month the Food Services posted double digit increase with breakfast and lunch when comparing the 21-22 to the 22-23 school year so clearly mbsd students are choosing to eat our delicious food offerings and clearly there is a need to feed our students again custodial uh tomorrow actually on this right here in this room uh there we will be participating as part of the professional development all head custodians
067we'll be uh participating in a leadership training to recalibrate their important role as the chief steward of their for their campus we'll be focusing on safe School environment assigning work coordinating after school and weekend use providing and arranging for maintenance and inspecting custodial work for Quality director of operations Gloria Aguirre and I are looking forward to this important work in transportation we have highlighted the the trustee water and uh Dr massetti who participated in the uh the the bus ride um on Route T4 that wasn't missing I'll I'll put that in there uh I'm with Maria Soto and this route does transport students to Snow Elementary School and then it picks up students to take them out to Silverado Middle School and so on behalf of the transportation department we thank both of you for
068for uh participating in that bus ride and we would like to encourage all other trustees and any other staff here to climb on a bus at some point and there will be special bonus points offered to anyone who rides the bus serving students in Lake various it you know you it's it's not you don't go backwards you have to do it now okay uh and then and good try in facilities School planning construction staff along with a select group Elementary principals has been participating in presentations to select a vendor to provide uh furniture and Furnishings for our TK classrooms next year and we hope to make a selection in the very near future and then uh finally under high school and middle school athletics the winter season wrapped up last week with the conclusion of
069the North Coast section and CIF playoffs the spring Sports season practice began in February in games and matches and meets Etc will start in Earnest very soon and weather permitting with Middle School athletics students will have a chance to compete in badminton soccer track and field while in High School athletics we offer several opportunities for students to participate including softball baseball boys golf boys tennis badminton boys and girls lacrosse swim dive track and field and boys volleyball and American Canyon High School I'd like to encourage everyone to come out and support our student athletes uh sometime on this spring and that concludes my report for tonight thank you great thank you and next we have assistant superintendent Pat Andrew Jennings who oversees the instructional services division um good evening president Gracia board trust board trustees
070Dr musetti oh and student representative Gomez is not here and the nvusd community the instructional support services division is geared up and ready for the district-wide professional learning day tomorrow at American Canyon High School the entire instructional division has been actively engaged in planning preparing for this day for the last few months I want to express tremendous gratitude to our admin team directors coordinators academic Specialists and support staff who have worked to create an engaging and well-designed professional learning day focused on an emphasis of creating an ecosystem of cranio for our attendees I want to thank the custodial staff at American Canyon High School especially Kelly Holmes who helped us unload five pallets of materials this afternoon that we needed for tomorrow's professional learning day we really couldn't execute this day without their assistance and
071support later this evening we will be providing a report on the development of our ethnic studies course so I'll keep my staff report brief thank you that concludes my report thank you assistant superintendent Andrew Jennings and next we have assistant superintendent Rob manguala who oversees Business Services thank you very much I will forego my my report tonight I'll be providing a long presentation on on the budget thank you thank you Mr Manuela president Gracia that concludes staff reports we do we will have the um facility so I'll let you facilitate that onto H4 facilities and bond program update yes president Gracia let me introduce our program manager for our measure H that would be Kelly Jorgensen who is the vice president of Van Pelt Construction Services Kelly all right well actually I'm here today for
072A2 it's our first A2 report on activities with the new Bond program so it's pretty exciting um we just wanted to give you a quick update on what we've been up to getting ready for the A2 projects we're going to touch a little bit on implementation plan development uh scheduling the projects for the new Bond program what we'll be up to for our summer of 2023 and where we're at with Bond oversight committee applications so first of all we've been working in school planning and construction on the development of the implementation plan for A2 some of you may be familiar with the document here this is still in a draft form but we're assigning budgets and scopes of work and getting a little bit more detailed on the projects for each of the elements of
073A2 so this will be coming to board at Future meetings for approval right now it's in the draft phase we are also working on scheduling and prioritizing the projects in terms of when they're going to get started and when they're going to be completing um so we'll be updating a document that eventually will get shared with the public that has the names of each projects um when we're going to get started planning and when the estimated construction completion is done as well as some links to sources photos and documentation of the project so that we have a lot of transparency with the community moving forward with the new Bond program over the summer we're targeting to do a painting project on the exterior of American Canyon High School we are looking to do Furnishing improvements
074at the Canyon Oaks Elementary School library and we also will be doing the pre-construction planning for one of the biggest projects in this new Bond program which will be The Donaldson Way new multi-purpose room and the conversion of the existing multi-purpose room so we're going to be starting the pre-planning and design work for that and then we are also um getting the word out for applicants for the citizens Bond oversight committee for measure A2 so we're looking for engaged community members at American Canyon to join our committee we've been working closely with the communications team at nbusd with Julie and Chris to get the word out to the residents of American Canyon that we're looking for applicants so far we've gotten one and we'll keep the board posted as we get more applications and take
075them for board approval in the meantime we'll be starting to develop a meeting schedule and working on bylaws for approval as well and that concludes your first measure A2 facilities update just a point of clarification Van Pelt is our bond program manager for measure A2 I apologize for saying only measure h uh old habits die hard it's been H for a while so we'll let a slot this time all right on to measure I approval of consent agenda background information on these items is provided to the board prior to the meeting common motion takes action without discussion on a roll call vote less discussion of an item is requested by board members second burst by trustee jankowitz second by trustee Chu Mr Michaels do we have any public comment on this item Mr Michaels uh
076sorry about that uh there is no uh public comment thank you Ms Morales can we have a roll call vote please yes trustee Gracia hi trustee water hi trustee Reiser I trusty shoe I trustee jangowitz trustee jankowitz I trusty Hart hi trustee Gonzalez Mares aye motion passes thank you thank you all right on to item J presentation and discussion items J1 Business Services j1a second interim 22-23 presentation foreign for the record that's a little better a little easier on my voice too so good evening again and thank you for the opportunity to update the board about our second update to the budget which is called our second interim next slide please so this slide is an overview of our gross domestic product so gross domestic product is equal to the value of all the goods
077and services in our economy we've actually I've showed this slide at different points in the air something important that you see again huge flip you saw as a result of the pandemic and then after the pandemic just the enormous expansion that was just not sustainable just going back for example to Q4 of 2021 seven percent so pretty much unheard of for our economy and then a small drop off but then you see that it's already recovered and so what this data shows is just the strength in our economy right now and especially the strength of the consumer and so what we're starting to hear is just that no matter how much uh costs go up people are still spending so if you use oil for an example a lot of the oil corporations are actually
078not a lot lowering rates for for gasoline even though cost for a variable of oil has gone down so corporate profits are way up but people keep spending so the economy is really strong next slide um this slide shows uh you can't see the bottom very well it's it's a little bit grayed out but the top is consumer confidence and the line on the bottom is is referred to as headline inflation and so headline inflation is more volatile it includes the more volatile Goods like goods and like food gasoline um and you can see that inflation's gone up dramatically um over nine percent started to come down but overall consumer competence is still exceptionally strong which is why the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates with their heart set on and causing a recession
079essentially next slide so in this slide you can see the stock market and the impact of of increasing interest rates have had and so this is an important slide to know because a lot you can say the vast majority of the the dollars that we receive in education come from high income earners and they have choices when they decide to generate income and that main choice is by selling stocks or other assets and so when the stock market is down high income earners do not sell those assets and so you see a lot less revenues going to the state which impacts us directly in the state budget next slide so this side again shows Napa being the winner of a prize and so the winner of that prize is one of the only counties in
080the state that saw enormous price appreciation and so when you look at the last year at the median home price in California it's essentially been flat if you look at it on average it's it's gone down by point six percent but in Napa County it's gone up by 29.4 percent and so again this this is median home price this is not assessed value so remember assessed value is just generated when you sell a house so yes the home values and Napa Valley and Napa Valley have gotten very expensive this impacts our ability to attract families to come and live in Napa and then also just for our employees to live next slide please and so this slide depicts uh the yield curve and so what it shows is an an inverted yield curve and so
081when you look at the slide you'll see that when you go up on the left you'll see that it's interest rates going up and when you go across over it's over time and so if we think of your a mortgage or any other debt that a consumer would typically have the longer the term of the debt the higher the interest rate that's almost always the rule except when there's a pending recession and so what this slide indicates is there is a pending recession that's coming the reason that you see that is if you look for example at the two-year treasury at four point four one percent and the 10-year treasury at 3.88 something odd is going on so what you see is that there are higher interest rates for lower terms two years and and
082less interest rates for for longer terms so essentially what the market is pricing in is that the Federal Reserve has to be close to stopping raising interest rates and when a recession starts they'll have to lower interest rates so it interest markets are generally very far looking next slide so in terms of recession most economists believe that there'll be a mild recession in 23-24 but again there's always the unheard of thing like the pandemic that happened three years ago right so you never know um but again likely the recession will be mild but again even without a recession State revenues are far short of expectation so the governor's budget is way too Rosy there definitely will be a reduction um in the budget for Education how that lands we're really not sure um there's there's
083lots of um questions right now because a couple of things have occurred one is the state tax line has been has been extended along with the federal tax deadline so it'll be very difficult to even predict exactly what revenues will be I anticipate that we when we adopt a budget it will be just like last year where the state puts forward a placeholder budget but then continues to make changes over the summer and we really won't have a good idea of what's going on until school starts next slide please so the economy and what's what's negatively impacting the economy so there are a number of things very persistent inflation we've talked about some of those reasons why inflation is so high again the consumer is still pretty flushing in cash from covid a lot of
084that's been spent down but their spending habits have not changed so I would imagine there's some borrowing going on the Federal Reserve is determined to raise interest rates until they see some indications of a Slowdown on the economy I.E a recession potentially there's still some supply chain issues the stock market is still very volatile we're starting to see some layoff meaning that the industries that are highly dependent on cheap money they are starting to lay people off which is the technology industry we haven't seen that a lot in other Industries we're still seeing a lot of employee shortages especially in the education industry next slide please so there is a a fight coming up and so the legislative analyst office is is typically a lot more conservative than the governor but right now you say
085they're exceptionally more conservative they made an unheard of statement and basically said that there's an 80 chance that he's wrong so it's a pretty strong statement to say that hey by the way your your Revenue projection is there's an 80 chance that it's going to be five billion dollars less than you think so really what it's going to come down to is again cuts will need to happen meaning that revenues right now are not coming in at where they're projected and so just as a reminder when we look at our budget they're looking at revenues going back a year the current year and a year forward next slide so I think we've seen this slide before it's just a reminder about another yay we won kind of slide so Napa County is is will have
086the ninth largest enrollment decline in the state so it's over the next 10 years so very substantial enrollment decline I think we've talked you know at the great length about some of the reasons and so then High housing costs is a primary driver along with um low birth rates I slept so there are challenges ahead next slide and again so enrollment decline continues to be one of our greatest challenges so enrollment is anticipated to decline by 904 students over the three-year budget cycle so it's a pretty significant number there's also some impacts on the charter so we know that the charter was was approved by the state their their enrollment is projected to be 180 students which will directly impact us and eventually get to 360 students so that that will definitely have a very
087negative impact on our budget the district will need to reduce staff in response but we'll likely need to have to over over staff for the immediate term because you know it's we're having a very hard time attracting teachers right now especially and so we can't be in a position where come the fall that we don't have enough teachers if they don't have 180 students so we're going to have to you know take the hit in our budget potentially those teachers and then just adjust the following year another big challenge that we have that we we are seeing Statewide is that attendance rates have dropped in 90 and they have not recovered so we you know this is something that we saw during the pandemic that the attendance rates were much lower as a reminder our
088funding while enrollment is a factor we're only funded when students go to school so when attendance rates are low we get less of that so again it's a pretty significant amount to go from 95 to 90. um that is an assumption that I ended up using for all three years going forward hopefully we'll see an increase but we have not seen any increase at all this year next slide so then again this is a just a graphical representation of what the enrollment decrease looks like and so again we'll need to really focus on reducing costs to offer the best programs and continue to attract and retain employees so the biggest challenge when you have a challenge with your budget especially when you have a high high housing cost is we need to attract and retain
089all of our employees which means we really need to focus on compensation next slide in terms of our lcf revenues you really see the impact of um increased colas and fixed Ada and so when you look between 2122 and 2223 the district and all the districts in the state were essentially over funded they were they received fixed Ada based on prior to the pandemic uh it did not decrease or it does not reflect declining enrollment and then also what you see is you see a three-year average baked in but as you go through time you can see the impact of the three years falling off and you can see when you look at 23 24 to 2425 it's less than a million dollar increase so even though there's cost of living adjustments in the background
090we're we're getting something less than a percent which we'll see in the next slide next slide please so this slide shows the ad the proposed cost of living adjustment and then it shows what we would actually see due to declining enrollment so you can see in 2324 it's proposed to be eight percent um but if the things in the projections hold true based on declining enrollment we'd receive approximately half at 4.54 when you go to 24.25 you see the much larger impact where the three-year average falls off and all the you know increase Ada due to cope due to covet falls off we have a 3.54 percent proposed cost of living adjustment and then we're only actually going to see a net increase of 0.39 and so that's where we really start to see the
091impact of declining enrollment next slide so what are our greatest challenge again the greatest challenges attracting and retaining employees um it's very very important we know the number one thing uh for a successful student is a successful teacher high quality teacher high quality support staff um there are a number of vacancies for certain positions certain positions we have over a 50 vacancy rate for some of our classified positions in special education so we might need to look at not only just compensation as a whole across a district being important but then also adjusting salaries for particular positions that are very hard to fill next slide so this is a summary of of our budget you can see there that are these are anticipated reserved just just kind of point out this is not what it
092is today this is what it's projected to be at the end of the year so there's always going to be changes in terms of our reserves we're sitting on a reserve of about 24 and you can see it flattening off so yes we do meet our Reserve requirement and our board requirement so again we'll have to watch this very closely um we do um have deficit spending next year we have some work to do when you know one of the commitments that the district has had is to adopt a budget that does not have deficit spending when you come around it to budget adoption so we're doing everything we can we're tightening up our models we anticipate that by the time we get the budget adoption that we will not have to have suspended next
093slide so what are the assumptions that are kind of built in the background so again covet Ada based on a three year average which is inflated for all districts including our district a very positive impact but it's starting to kind of fall off at one third every every year additional funding for TK it will be funded at the 24 students per classroom with two or two adults and so I know when we spoke about the budget at first scenario and we're concerned that they're going to bring it down to 20 and we wouldn't be able to attract the teachers because we're having a hard time finding TK teachers and so as of right now the governor has made a statement and said that we will not go down to 20 to 1 just given how
094hard it is to find teachers but things could still change um the budget assumptions that assume a funded Cola of 6.56 5.38 and 4.02 along with funding for nbusc's compensation formula so we do put aside funding every year again we're not really sure if it's going to come at eight percent we'll have to watch the lcff calculator which is the tool that we use produced by fikmat has these numbers baked into that so they they have not put in the eight percent yet so it's one of those things we'll just have to watch as we get closer to budget adoption when they when they produce their their final lcff calculator for Budget adoption uh next slide please and then what are our recommendations and next steps so approve the budget with positive certification both certificating
095classified Cuts will need to occur but again most likely it'll continue to be based on our natural attrition we'll need to continue sure that the number of our facilities matches the number of our students again we will as we start to decline have some smaller elementary schools um TK enrollment is increasing like Kinder enrollment is actually starting to decrease so we actually hit the peak of TK if you combine TK and K in the next couple of years so we will see in you in three years that that group together is actually starting to fall again um we need to continue to be fiscally conservative another a positive note here is that we will not need to borrow money to meet our payroll so this is the first time um in our recent history that
096we didn't need to borrow money last year we needed to borrow I think 35 million dollars to make payroll so it's a big deal to not have to borrow that money it actually saves US money um that money that we the interest we pay comes out of our general fund so it it does save us money it's a combination of reasons it's it's our reserve and then also we have some one-time money so we'll just have to watch our cash flow closely next slide please and with that I leave it to questions before we take questions from the board Mr Michaels do we have any public Summit on this item uh we do not have a public comment on this item you know just teach you so we're always cognizant of the decline in enrollment
097in our LCL lcff funding um at what point does the school district get to a point where we become basic Aid because although we think of basic Aid as what we would see a valley it really doesn't mean the same sort of benefits when it comes to a district of our size right where if we are just like a dollar over we we don't get the benefits of being lcff we no longer qualify for certain supplements or whatever other grants that is possible so at what um do we have an idea of what population that might be for us sure absolutely so um there are a couple things that if I could just address some of the questions out of order so like being basicate all that means is that you receive more money in
098property taxes than you would receive from the state and so we receive our funding for schools through a combination of factors so if we look at our unrestricted funding It's a combination of property taxes and then along with money from the state when you use the lcf calculator it gives you a total that you're guaranteed so in our let's just call out a number 160 million of That 160 million maybe 130 of it comes from from property taxes and then other 30 million is made up by the state we have a large proportion that comes from property taxes but you know there would have to be a large a number of series of events for to make that actually occur all that would mean is again you receive one dollar more than you would get
099from the calculator so or or just the combination of the two so if you use ten thousand dollars as as a common reference it's probably closer to eleven thousand now so I'll use eleven thousand eleven thousand dollars per student maybe it's eleven thousand and five students oh your basic Aid that hasn't solved your problem you're just getting five dollars more per student if you look at the up ballet districts which I think it's correct me if I'm wrong Dr Mercedes because you actually get this more correct than I do I think in Saint Helena that gets about thirty thousand dollars per student so they're basic aid but they're deep into basic Aid they're so basic Aid that it's actually triple what everyone else gets so for uh for us we we will now I'll just
100I'll just say it I'll take a risk here a big risk we'll never get thirty thousand dollars per student from our property taxes ever that will not that day will never happen here because their enrollment is so much smaller and they have a lot of value value in their property there now what could happen here to make it space again if suddenly a bunch of wineries suddenly sold and they're all reappraised that can certainly help us but it would have to be that with a combination of a decrease from the state so if you recall and you go back I want to say three years ago like right right prior to the pandemic when when when the governor said we're gonna have to make an eight percent cut we were like right on the cusp
101so if we have a cut to the budget an enormous cut to the budget and property taxes go up we could become basic aid but that doesn't mean that we're getting more money does that answer the question actually would we lose the benefit of have being an lcff I mean there are certain benefits right of absolutely there actually are benefits like for example the TK funding there are other benefits too so again I I do not anticipate that I've modeled this with the counties at CBO because the question has come up enough and we built a tool to look at it I mean there's different scenarios but you know you basically have two factors that are going up at a similar rate so you have the increase in money that you're getting from the state
102and then you also have the increase in property taxes right or I should say assess value so assess value like a number we commonly use when we looked at our assessed value for a bond it's probably about four to five percent but then again the state revenues are going up at about the same time if if you look at the last couple couple years it's been much higher than that so the Gap is going up more on the total number than it is on the on the lower number great thank you trustee jankowitz what would a budget presentation be without my two-minute monologue that barely changes um as you stated in your presentation um our financial stewardship remains a priority in order to prioritize programs and services but we cannot deny that slide 17 number
10317 aptly shows us in an operating deficit next year and year three we need to reiterate that while we have a healthier cash reserves than we did six years ago as we continue to repeat one-time monies have specificity they are allocated to student need and do not and will not fix long-term issues such as declining enrollment facilities decline lower birth rates and a lack of access to affordable housing and Napa that impacts future Ada funding for education is still volatile and economic indicators and realities impact District budgets the goal is financially resilient State funding uh that is not our reality so we have to continue to make decisions as you stated being mindful of inflation potential recession continued national state and local declining enrollment all to ensure that we remain financially stable we need to
104understand that even with cash Reserves at current levels they are not high enough to hedge against any large Revenue swing physical impact from the previous three years impacted districts differently based on their poly policy choices and we have been very purposeful but there is no guarantee that the May revise will not have any educational Cuts an introduction of a charter school will have real Revenue impact our local control funding formula money is used for core educational purposes unrestricted funds will not be able to increase as you stated the same rate as the cola because of this issue this ever pervasive issue of declining enrollment and the decline in our attendance rate even at the current percentages my takeaway is always the same and while we are in the top 10 declining enrollments in the state
105budgets really are our priority statement we prioritize our students we will continue to assess and make the right decision so there is financial equilibrium we cannot operate with deficit spending we cannot ignore the local impact of declining enrollment we cannot depend on the state to deliver on our financial needs and we must continue to sound like a broken record on maintaining our financial solvency as our most important consideration because it is all interrelated and without money cannot educate kids thank you uh so I had a question and then some comments my first question was about uh some of the budget assumptions um deep in the report um on page I think was 96 you indicated that between first and second interim our Ada agree increased by a whopping 4.3 percent despite the fact that on
106subsequent Pages enrollment is projected to further significantly Decline and the size of the decline has increased by half percent in each of the two out years between first and second interim these two things don't seem to fit together logically what is the basis for the projected increase between first and second interim and Ada well that's a very good question and I commend you for spending a Sunday looking at that all the way through there I don't know how much time it took for you to find that but it's a really good question so um it's actually it's it's very connected to what we do in the business office and so what what it is is when when you adopt a budget you don't really know what your enrollment is going to be you have a
107projection right you also have a projection on what you think in terms of the percentage of students that actually come to school are going to be so when you adopt it you say this is what I think the Ada will be just an example would be the enrollment is 10 000 your 88 is 90 that means you're going to use an 88 of 9 000. and so that's true when you adopt the budget it's also true at first interim right so when I provide you with the update on first interim we don't actually know the data yet when we get to second interim we have what's called P1 where we certify our Ada and we submit it to CDE and so it gives us the Opera it's the first actual look so if you think
108about it here we are in March it's our first actual look we have certified um Ada numbers which is based on enrollment and so what we do is at the second interim is we make a correction to our projection and so what that shows is that we were conservative we're off by 4.8 basically so on the conservative side got it thank you um so I wanted to highlight the little piece of good news that we had which was that we don't need to use a Tran this year in order to cover payroll and that is good news it saves saves the district money uh and indicates that we're in pretty good Financial shape at least as far as that can goes um everything however is not Rosy uh the legislative analyst office certainly has casts
109a lot of Doubt on the validity of the governor's budget and it looks like as a result of their analysis that the colas that were projected by the governor are unlikely to be achieved either in the current years or in future years in fact there's likely to be clawbacks even of monies that were projected in previous budget years to be distributed um so I do also share Trista Jenkins concern of the deficit spending in years two and three uh I hope that we keep our eye on that and see if we can't reduce our deficit spending in those out years as when you hear budget adoption we'll do our best thank you just say one thing president yeah so I just um want to take a moment to Express gratitude on two fronts first I
110just want to thank the school board for all of the challenging decisions that they've had to make over the course of the last few years I know I can express this on behalf of you know me as superintendent but our entire District leadership team um also you know in collaboration with our labor Partners um it is very different uh to lead and implement this work in conditions where we are feeling financially stable and knowing that we have systems in place to navigate the financial volatility that's been illuminated by assistant superintendent manuala and reiterated by trustee um jankwitz and president Gracia so thank you um for all those difficult decisions we know many um uh College school districts across the state are just confronting the declining enrollment dilemma and conundrum we've been at it for a
111few years and it feels good to be in a stable spot right now as we prepare for what can be the next sort of financial tidal wave with with the recession potentially right around the corner so um thank you for that and um secondly I just want to um you know always say I know the budget cycle there's all these milestones in the budget cycle there's a lot of work around for Center room second interim um uh budget adoption unaudited actuals so I want to thank the business services team assistant superintendent manuala for leading that work um presenting the data so clearly and I also want to recognize executive director um Jenna Burroughs who I see is online this evening and recognize her she's a a critical piece to executing on the budget milestones and
112so thank you Miss Burroughs for your work as well what you uh took over my closing speech so I'm going to say the same thing I was just going to say sorry it's all right no I also wanted to thank Jenna burrows for all of her work on this we could just couldn't do without her and in the entire business office team so just the timeline I mean I'm sure everyone's busy but just the timeline to get second interim was always a crunch and so they've worked really hard to get that done the board would like to express their gratitude to Jenna as well we we recognize her input during the finance uh meetings and thank you Jenna thank you thank you okay on to J2 instructional Services j2a ethnic studies update it's been brought
113to my attention actually that it's time for our break so we will take a quick break and then go on to the j2a instructional Services j2a ethnic studies update good evening and again president Gracia board trustees Dr massetti and the nbusd community I'm excited to share information on nvusd's approach to creating an ethnic studies curriculum tonight along with director Monica Reddy director of curriculum instruction and English learner services and Kelly Miller our secondary academic specialist we will share an update on our progress with the Implement with implementing ethnic studies and nbusd it's still on not User it's not user error okay next slide please over the course of the presentation we will review the background and context of the ethnic studies graduation requirement provide a review of the California ethnic studies model curriculum and share
114where we are in the process of developing and adopting an Ethics studies course we will end with our next steps and opportunities for questions next slide please the beginning of our presentation will provide context and background to ensure an understanding of assembly assembly Bill 101 and the California Department of education's development of the ethnic studies model curriculum thank you on October 8th of 2021 uh California governor Gavin Newsom signed assembly Bill 101 an education bill that requires every student at a public high school in the state to take an Ethics studies course the bill included a one semester ethnic studies course as part of the requirements to earn a high school diploma in California starting with the high school students graduating in 2029 23rd actually 2030. the intention of the courses to broaden educational opportunities
115and teach students about the diversity of communities throughout the state of California Additionally the musd board passed board policy 6146.1 in February of 2023 requiring students from the graduating class of 2028 to meet that requirement our strategic plan adopted in December of 2018 highlighted the importance of providing responsive relevant and engaging learning experiences to our students as identified in strategic plan goal number one the development of an ethnic studies course serves as a critical component to meeting that goal by providing our students with opportunities to explore their diverse perspectives and lived experiences within the context of a class during the school day goal number five of our strategic plan expressed the value of express our value of diversity equity and inclusion the development and Adoption of an ethnic studies course exemplifies our commitment to this
116value while providing students with an inclusive learning environment lastly in June of 2021 the school board approved our diversity equity and inclusion plan that plan was developed in partnership with the organization promise 54 along with our District's Dei committee the student practices domain of our Dei plan identifies specifically the needs for for us to examine and broaden the curriculum to include ethnic studies courses and units that reflect the diversity of the community we serve the Dei plan also includes the expectation that we would develop guidelines and Clarity around the process for staff Innovation and engagement with Dei content and efforts and lastly the plan identified the need for Equitable and inclusive classrooms and and schools for our students I will now pass the presentation to director Reddy who will provide an in-depth review of the
117California ethnic studies model curriculum thank you assistant assistant superintendent Andrew Jennings and good evening board president Gracia Board of Trustees and Dr marcetti uh the MUSC course is grounded in the model curriculum from the state of California for ethnic studies and this allows us to create strong routes so that our local course can grow from that given that I'd like to provide a brief overview of that model curriculum to ground us before we look at our local coursework so you'll see here that the model curriculum really starts with a strong research base in ethnic studies and it moves towards providing for US state guidance and then District guidance and for districts that choose I'd just like remind us from previous presentations that we had four options for a particular course and the option that we
118chose was creating a local course so that local guidance is relevant to our course design and development so it provides guidance when districts do do choose that option and we'll go over that this evening next slide please so the model curriculum provides a rationale and purpose to start off with regard to ethnic studies that's rooted in research and we'll go over some of that research tonight one aspect that stands out in light of our local and state and National challenges historically and more currently that we've faced is that ethnic studies is rooted in bringing students and our community together this part of the model curriculum really highlights that so I'll take a moment to read that ethnic studies help spring students and communities together this does not mean glossing over differences avoiding difficult issues or
119resorting to cliches about how we all basically alike it should do so by simultaneously doing three things addressing racialized experiences and ethnic differences as a real and unique building Greater understanding and communication across ethnic differences and revealing underlying commonalities that combined by bringing individuals and groups together ethnic studies is designed to benefit all students so this is not for some but for all in our graduation requirement shows that a key part of our district mission is transforming the lives of all students and I think the rationale and the model curriculum really aligns with that well next slide please the model curriculum also calls for us to ground ourselves in the history of ethnic studies we know that there were philosophers and researchers that came before the third world Liberation but they've called out our attention
120to include the third world Liberation as a key part of our design so the third world Liberation launched very locally so United student strikes in 1968 and 1969 out of San Francisco State College now San Francisco State University and later UC Berkeley I think it's important to note that the three demands that students had then were shared by assistant superintendent Andrew Jennings when it comes to our goals and parties as a district and our still needs that are real and relevant to our students today so equal access to public education increase in faculty of color and a new curriculum that Embraces a history of all people including ethnic minorities I'm hopeful that what was once relevant in 1969 is still very relevant today and we can address that through this course as well as our
121dress address our board priorities and our strategic plans next slide please so what does ethnic studies exactly there is a core section that defines and has the core tenets of ethnic studies in the model curriculum from that staff have developed a short definition part of ethnic studies it's really important like any course is making sure that you have the language and the tools and so from developing their understanding of ethnic studies they have taken that and defined it and this is a course description that will be put forward ethnic studies is an interdisciplinary study of communities of color emphasizing their social and cultural histories and contemporary experiences students analyze systems of power and participation in Civic engagement to address issues of race privilege and power histories of ethnic communities and their movements for change historically
122are often underrepresented in school textbooks exploring these histories will provide students with a powerful way to understand race ethnicity nationality and culture and how these Concepts shape the history of the United States and continue to inform contemporary policy so they've woven the history social science framework in the ethnic studies model curriculum and wrote that as a teacher team next slide please there are many benefits to the inclusion of ethnic studies these are outlines in the model curriculum Christine Slater and Miguel Zavala but mainly Christine's leader to the top research in this field her early work was supported by the National Education Association and some of the benefits that she has shown through her research some of which are very local in San Francisco Unified School District are that students develop a strong sense of identity
123agency and academic motivation putting this course in ninth grade as a transition as I look at our Junior data right now seems incredibly important to our students it reduces stereotypical stereotype threats increases youth Civic engagement and community responsiveness and you'll see that in our unit four as we look at solidarity and an increased attendance standardized test scores GPA graduation rates and college enrollment rates as we have board meetings and in conversations and instruction that focus on chronic absenteeism and our test scores I can't help but think how important this course will be for us next slide please principles of an ethnic studies there are core principles of an ethnic studies that are really grounding our work those four foundational disciplines are listed above really focusing on for our African-American Chicana Latina and Native American and
124Asian American and Pacific Islander studies within that providing the histories culture struggles and contributions that are had to American Society of those historically marginalized peoples also knowing that because it is a local course that we have the flexibility to deepen and augment that for our local context next slide please as we move down to State guidance our eight outcomes that they look for within that and when we're reviewing our local framework develops thus far you'll notice we call attention to many of these outcomes which are District academic specialist Kelly Miller will call attention to later but those are the pursuit of justice and Equity working towards greater inclusion or inclusivity self-understanding and better understanding of others you'll see a rise in unit number one as we focus on identity recognizing intersectionality the combination of race
125and gender within those identities also is a foundational part of what will be in unit one to really provide students a lens in which they can understand who they are and who others are promoting self-empowerment for civic engagement you'll see a rising in unit 4 as we look at solidarity what it means now that I have this information what am I going to go do with do with that within my school within my community and developing the interpersonal Communication in order to engage in these kind of dialogue or engage in this kind of coursework they have to have the interpersonal communication and we have to support them with that next slide please as we move down to the guidance for districts um the committee and instructional team are attending to these core recommendations so policy
126and definitions as you saw in our course description also within our units tending to core academic vocabulary that's so that students have the language to engage strategic planning and funding ensuring that as we decline in enrollment and as we have this course that we have the funding necessary and we have the sustainability to really support not only the curriculum but also the professional learning and students engaging in this work curriculum and instruction making sure that we're strategic about the design and implementation of our curriculum instruction which you'll see throughout the course of meetings as we bring that finalize that and bring it forward as a recommendation and then our focus on the pilot next year will allow us to do a program monitoring looking at data as you saw in the decision has been an
127integral part of this and we'll continue to look at data and receive feedback that will drive revisions that we have over the course of this design next slide please because we are developing a local course the local guidance is incredibly important so we've assembled an interdisciplinary team as you'll see in a few minutes and provided them for the professional learning through strong partnership engaged and ensured administrative supports our principals and assistant principals have been an interval part of this as well as the support of our district office staff engaging students in community in the curriculum development process so early on in the steering committee process we brought in students parents and our local community and we'll continue to do so as you'll hear later on from assistant superintendent Andrew Jennings and then use a state
128board of education framework as you're hearing tonight next slide please so with that we'll dive into where we're at with our current development of our local course and we'll first start with the research and the data next slide so our current progress we're in 2223 so we're developing the course we are still in that process and so this is an update on how that's going as well as a professional learning next slide please our committee is composed of middle and high school English language arts and social studies teachers as well as High School administration District academic specialist Kelly Miller and myself within that having Middle School teachers involved in this process is really to support that transition from eighth to ninth grade we've spent time in mathematics talking about that articulation so it's even more
129important as we look at some of the social emotional aspects of this work and some of the alignment from the history and also the literacy components as we transition 8th to ninth graders next slide please and with that I will turn it over to District academic specialist Kelly Miller who's been an integral part of supporting our staff with this process thank you Monica so uh the journey so far has been really enlightening I've been on it since the beginning it's been a delight and we started last year with Community panels listening to students listening to community members doing our research finding out what is part of the model curriculum what does the state recommend this year we have been engaged in professional learning we had teachers here before the school year started so that we
130could have solid time together to build a strong Foundation as the year has continued we have been researching learning and starting to build a course that can be piloted next year next slide the professional learning as I said has been a joy it continues to be great we have a strong partnership with Dr Dale allender he's an expert in the field he brings lots of experience he also has written about ethnic studies he works with students he works with adults he I cannot speak highly enough of his partnership we also have really taken it upon ourselves to build on the foundation of school sites it's ethnic studies in title might be new for a course but valuing the cultures and the ethnicities of our students is not new we have pockets of Excellence all over
131the district and so as we're building our course we're looking at what are schools already doing what kind of culture do they already have what kind of understanding can we build upon it's been really great to have collaboration between schools I don't know if you can tell from the picture but what we really enjoy is that often literally teachers are looking across the room to someone who teaches their same grade or their same content area at another school across the district and they always walk away going that was so great to collaborate with somebody else in our district who does the same thing I do at another site and that's been with us from the beginning we also have middle schools and high schools with us as Monica as Dr Reddy mentioned and that has
132been important because at times High School teachers go can ninth graders do this and we have 8th grade teachers in the room to say yeah they're ready I'm working with the ones who are coming to you next year and that's been really important for us we thought we've also been building an awareness of our own positionality um that might sound like a big word let me explain we come into the world with our own backgrounds our own biases our own families and unpacking some of that is important not only as we learn to teach this to students but as we learn to grow ourselves so in that we are practitioners and we are Learners and we are teachers this has also been really full of reflection and feedback it's a very thoughtful process that we're
133undergoing next slide we have been doing a lot of reading this year what you see in the photo here are some of the books that we have been using to educate ourselves about ethnic studies we are not only looking at things that are big picture looking at the state looking at the world but we are also looking at a local context as you'll see in our next slide there we go um it it has been really wonderful to look at the big picture of ethnic studies what is the history behind it and what do we need to know as well as who are we in Napa Valley what does American Canyon look like what histories and what stories do we need to tell based on the people who live here now and the people who
134came before us so as a result Our Community Partnerships have been really informative the community panel we brought in last year of who did we have we had Parents we had people who grew up in Napa Valley we had people who had come here and were raising their families in Napa Valley and hearing about their different experiences was so formative as a result anytime we can find local history that especially tells the stories that we may not catch in a typical history course we're quick to gather those in so we can include them in our ethnic studies course next slide so what are we going to teach right now we have a semester-long course that we're developing with four units the first one is a very simple question who am I it's a unit about
135identity and all the different layers that that might involve our second unit will be thematic around land the driving questions will be where am I where do I come from what is the history of this place where we live now unit 3 will look at systems so we're kind of going from small and inner and going outward how am I a product of where I come from systematically and our final unit will end in solidarity the driving question is what role do you and I play in the transformation of ourselves our community and our larger society overall as director ready mentioned that is the time where we want to make sure students understand you can do something with this information and how is it going to shape you moving forward next slide we want to
136get to the very nitty-gritty teacher details we're making lesson plans and units of study this is what they look like every unit will have a title so that it's very easy for families teachers students to know okay what am I learning about what's what's it called time frame the standards that we're using to develop these units are rooted in history and social science language arts and also um social justice standards we're using all of those together we're not making this up on our own we want to make sure that this is truly rigorous and it's aligned to what professionals and experts have developed we'll have driving questions the tools that we'll use in every single unit will involve a core text so when you think core text think like the primary book or the primary
137resource that people will be looking at we will also use supplementals and the reason we're using supplementals is because of that local history and local context sometimes there's thinner pieces of work or more contemporary things that we need to be reading that's where the supplementals come in we will also be utilizing our community resources and every unit will have some kind of a final demonstration of students learning it might be a product it might be a project it could be some other kind of demonstration we're still working on that part next slide so as I mentioned earlier our primary instructional materials will be a core textbook followed by local contacts for supplemental so that we have some flexibility especially as things change new things come out we want to be able to be responsive to
138that next slide and with that I'm going to turn it over to director ready thank you Holly so we're currently in registration season and so students are registering at Napa vintage and American Canyon this course is offered as an elective course it is aligned to a semester of Health which we're also designing and so we will have students who choose to enroll we may have some students who it's their second or third option and we'll end up in ethnic studies we think that that will be a true experience knowing that all students will take it and so we will have time to Pilot this as an elective receive feedback from our staff from our students from our families provide them Support over the next year and so we should have about one to two sections
139at each of these Comprehensive High Schools next slide please at Valley Oak High School we currently already have ethnic studies having some of our staff from Valley Oak in the room and administrators to help with this process as I've already implemented and have some experience has been important it's also important for us to acknowledge that students come to that school in 11th grade and so continuing that course and honoring the nuances of of in depth of understanding that a student may able to engage at the 11th grade we'll continue to do so new Tech High School being a smaller school we are looking at dual enrollment or co-teaching through Napa Valley College for ethnic studies through the pilot and moving forward and this is an opportunity for us to maximize our resources and that partnership
140that new tech has so well established with Napa Valley College next slide please so we'll wrap up this evening with next steps we'll continue to develop and review and make a recommendation so we're still working on the course of study tonight you saw a skeleton of that and some of the bigger Concepts we look forward to providing more details our curriculum Council will review and make recommendations similar to the updates that we're giving you we're continuing to give these updates to our curriculum Council it is a weighty topic and so we don't want our curriculum Council to hear that right as it's coming in for review and then we plan to later in this year bring forward to you a recommendation for a course of study and instructional materials during that time it does go
141over to board meetings as I'm sure you're aware and so there will be time for Community viewing during that process and with that I will turn it back over to assistant superintendent Andrea Jennings foreign as we conclude our presentation we would like to share how we're going to oh next slide please how we're going to engage with our community during this development process as you heard earlier from director ready an academic specialist Miller we have Incorporated various engagement points during the development of our local course given the importance of this course to the community the course creation and adoption process varies from our typical curriculum and instructional material adoption process with the creation of creation of a local course the California Department of Education recommends Community engagement opportunities to ensure the course is culturally relevant
142to the community that it serves in the next few weeks we will share similar presentations to the one given tonight at the superintendent's parent advisory and our District's English learner advisory committee also known as dlac because student voice is essential to this process we will also hold student sessions student sessions during the school day to provide our students an opportunity to share input in the course development lastly we will provide an opportunity a community information session on April 18th as well as presentations at the superintendent's teacher advisory meeting on April 20th I like to finish with the note of gratitude director ready and Miss Miller have worked intentionally to create a development process that is inclusive engaging and thoughtful and I have confidence that the end results will reflect the beautiful diversity of our community
143thank you that concludes our presentation and we're open for questions thank you before we take questions from the board Mr Michaels do we have any public comment on this side oh we do uh first speaker is a Norma Ortiz go ahead please hello thank you um I think it's important to take special considerations to the intersection between teachers student identities and perspectives in terms of race ethnicity what might the components look like in terms of the minorities is it also age gender race class and so forth just to mention some the understanding of resistance um the empowering youth the communities that um these two aspects work interchangeably in terms of the integrating and understanding component um other considerations social movements that have impacted or brought in Innovative changes for instance women of color I find
144highly important motivational learning for those students who might feel discouraged in some way also to address the lack of attendance and in terms of the discouragement in the sense of the journey and identity of the individual hiring considerations teachers who have an extensive background in and um and the cultural differences and why not bilingualism multilingualism and female perspective may be also special education Specialists and teachers the possibility of exploring foreign policy as it pertains to this topic an invite to world history teacher perspective Napa Valley Unified School District Napa Valley College are other local community colleges like the Solano Santa Rosa Junior College to get the faculty perspective the the the ethnic studies departments Humanities and programs to get that robust engagement and collaboration and why not students majoring in Mexican American studies to um
145also the the collaboration with the dual immersion pipeline teachers from Latin American Latin America that come and perhaps teach here that used to happen in the past I'm not sure if that's still the case responsiveness in the Latino Latina X Chicano Chicana X and the navigation of systems of privilege and oppression the feminist perspective the assessment of discrimination across multiple intersecting social statuses dynamics of power exploring those components Community activism in terms of how it has been serving minorities and I like the part oh I really like the part of the indigenous peoples the supplemental curriculum or handouts and the transformation of self-community global as a citizen thank you thank you Mr Michaels do we have any further public comment on this item uh yes we do next speaker is Karina cervente go ahead please
146thank you um great presentation I'm a little concerned about um some of the points uh a lot more often than than not um Latinos are clumped in one group and they're not really uh um view as a very diverse group is often assumed that all Latinos here in Napa County are from Mexican descent or from Mexico and and that's not the case uh the migrant migration patterns from the past years have have been really um taking an uptake of uh Central American and South South American migrants um so I'm really interested in in learning hearing and maybe um being on some sort of support to the district to identify this um uh these students um my student is going into high school at ACA test and um tell the truth having uh he hasn't heard
147anything about um it hasn't received any surveys uh I haven't received any surveys about you know this um this new class and it makes me wonder are we really being inclusive and that we're really looking at all of the uh you know for for being a six months um class there's a lot of stuff um so yeah I commend you because it's a it's a big uh um undertaken but uh but I I really worry that you know that you really do a good service to our students uh they're perhaps they're not in Napa but in the American Canyon where it's even a bigger uh the um we're more diverse here in the American Canyon so um I I want to make sure that you know that um my students really gets a good ethnic
148studies class that covers most of the ethnicities in his community so um I would love to have a follow-up on on this and have a little bit more of understanding of how is this going to be uh taking place thank you thank you Mr Michaels do we have any more public comment oh we do not there is no further public coming trusty water um uh Mrs uh Cervantes makes a very good point I was amused after the um a November election when the uh right when the people who you know try to figure out why people vote the way they do said well you know what all these Spanish-speaking people actually come from different parts of the world um gee like Cuba is totally different from Mexico which is different from Guatemala which is different
149from different countries in South America Etc so she's making a very good point and I have confidence that our um I mean in my in my uh class when I taught I had people from Mexico lots of them and also from Guatemala and also from El Salvador so um but I'm sure that our staff is aware of that so um even if the reporters weren't so and I believe your family came from Cuba correct correct thank you and um and my father grew up in the Standing Rock reservation and so he was already here uh and so you can't leave them out either you know what I I enjoyed the presentation because I uh what I liked was when you say we're not going to have these cliches not saying we're all basically just alike
150because in my experience the people who say that don't want any ethnic studies programs and um we are the most diverse state in the country and we should have a class that that reflects that and [Music] um you know I I'm just going to say that um anti-Semitism is very real in this community and I was driving to my um grocery store a uh the person who put this up is not school age but perhaps if he'd had an anti-semitic sign on a main brag leading into one of um or Premier neighborhoods and I believe that if he'd had an ethnic studies course he might not have such anti-social ideas about people so this is what we want we want to produce citizens who uh respect each other's differences Embrace each other's differences work together
151in spite of the differences realize that our differences enrich us give us different perspectives and we want to make the world a better place that's that's my idea of helpful activism and and I don't want to sound all starry-eyed and optimistic like our governor who you know I just love but um we just finished up talk about money um uh director mongolo gave us uh you know a sobering presentation I mean as I said to the superintendent just think where we were three years ago you know with coven we're frightened stressed out and here we are we we have come through it uh um and then when I first came on the board uh financially we were in a very distressing situation and we're doing better now but now I want to spend some money
152um I really uh I would love it if we looked at field trips and we could take our students to the Oakland Museum which is the Museum of California and I think they would learn a lot more than going and it's close and not too far away and they would learn more than going on a trip to Disneyland which is expensive and far away what yes okay so that's I would I think that that would be an enrichment of um the curriculum and uh it's just a great museum it's a great museum and they can go eat in Chinatown afterwards right yeah thank you for bringing that up it has come up around that local context and deepening around um having and having a course that students across our ninth grade can have some of
153those signature experiences whether it's a field trip or bringing in speakers who can enrich the class um those have been discussions that we look forward to looking at more in detail well you can count on me trustee Jenkins um I really appreciate how purposeful and meaningful the framework was I'm really looking forward to how you populate this with content that provides a space for all students to explore their racial and cultural experiences and certainly differences especially in light of shifts and National narratives and local narratives um I say this because I've received a great deal of communication from our community so I just have one quick comment in response to those emails um as I received these questions regarding the curriculum I just want to reiterate that we have stated the why we're doing this
154you did so in your presentation but I would like to reiterate that this our work is consistently grounded in Dei work SEL practices are district-wide focus on the ecosystem can you please say it Dr musetti with your of Karina because I would not do well our intent is always to provide comprehensive cohesive and continuous dialogue around the creation and fostering of Equitable and inclusive curriculum classrooms and schools so this framework supports cross-cultural understanding and it's going to help students value their own cultural identity while appreciating the differences around them and I really appreciate the thoughtful approach that's been applied to the work thus far so thank you and thanks for explaining the funding piece when you said on the slide guidance for districts funding is it are is the anticipation that it will have uh
155funding needed is greater than a normal new introductory class so the state is actually this is a funded mandate the state has actually I know I know that's why I'm not familiar uh so they have provided funding that's allowed us to pay for the partnership the professional learning and um the the work that we're doing one time it's funded mandate it's one time um but it does help with the implementation aspect of it and then beyond that the maintenance of the course is similar to any other course that we would have and when you you talked about the matriculation and the importance of the dialogue between 8th grade and Ninth Grade will some of this be woven into the um eighth grade social studies classes so that it there's it because there is structure already
156in those social classes there might be an overlap of some course content I don't know but will that be a dialogue you have with the Middle School social studies or no those discussions have come up uh they've come up all the way down to some of our elementary teachers as they've heard some of these presentations through our superintendent teacher advisory and currently We Are Tonight We were finalizing a recommendation for Core curriculum for history social science our last adoption was in 2004. so we're letting our staff bring up to date our Core Curriculum and then we'll see as we Implement ethnic studies impact that we'll have so I think there will be opportunities for us to explore this and it will have an impact but we're just we're not sure yet okay thank you let's
157do riser thank you thanks for the presentation and for showing us how um deliberate and conscientious and strategic you're being in the development of this course there you can just see there's a lot of Integrity in um in the process and the stakeholder meetings and in particular elevating the student voice I I just am always happy to hear that highlighted um it's going to be very important not only in this front loading and development of the course but I'm sure that that will be built into the pilot year with those students will will be a really rich resource for us about how the content is landing and what discussions you know and what what additional resources all of those things I wanted to say how smart it is and how appreciative I am that you're
158doing the alignment with the Middle School teachers I'd sort of asked a question about what that looked like and um it really makes a lot of sense and I I appreciated the way you framed it as high school teachers might think oh there's no way an einth grader can do that and it's the 8th grade teachers that can actually say oh no we're working with these kids and they can handle it or I would imagine the flip side of that of like oh you're going to take that on and I'm not sure a ninth grader will be ready for that so both sides of that coin are really important um and I guess the other thing that I wanted to say was I really appreciate the Civic engagement emphasis and the way director Reddy you
159said okay you've given us this information now what do I do with it um so I just appreciated that um that there's going to be that tie-in to the social justice component that it's not just this is the reality that we live in and there's nothing that we can do about it but more this is the history of the way in which these groups and others have been have experienced being in our country and that is not a static thing um and I guess my last thing I'll say is that I am encouraged to see the um referencing of intersectionality um because you know there are other groups that are oppressed that are not racial and ethnic groups um and so I'm happy to see that it seems that there's going to be opportunities to
160um highlight you know the intersection in the intersectionality of sexual identity and race or gender you know I mean we talk about well those people that have an intersection well you know every woman of every race you know every woman is is also part of an oppressed group as we talk about International women's day yesterday so I'm hoping that those um additional layers of experience will also be able to be worked in um I know we're in the planning stages so um so it's all you know to to be filled in but I I have a lot of confidence in in the you know you've shown us all of these things are on your radar and um you're doing an enormous amount of self-education and you know learning and preparing for that and I'm excited
161to see what what you bring back to us and and this really is an iterative process and um so we'll be seeing what you bring and then we'll be hearing how it goes in the first year and um I think it's it's um just evidence of great thoughtful work so thank you all right trusted too so I am a big proponent of ethnic studies um I may have jumped the gun and maybe hopefully brought a little bit of that into the classroom when I did read Across America um where I read Kelly Yang's book on yes we will Asian Americans who shape this country and I can tell you that the overwhelming response was that these kids really wanted to really were um took hold of that connection with some of the people that were
162highlighted in the the picture book and it was amazing that a picture book was about a diverse Asian culture I mean to to uh Mr renty's point you know Asians also are very diverse and so it was it was very um enlightening to see that a lot of these kids really wanted to see that connection with themselves to this book and I know that uh trustee water said you know it's not about like what was it the um well this is how we are the same but when you start showing the diversity of the cultures that are out there I had I had um students who were not Asian Americans said oh my gosh I didn't know this person you know had done this or that and some of them were very social justice you
163know kind of um figures and so it was it was really affirming to me that this is what we need in in our schools I wish it was down in the elementary school age um maybe one day we will have some supplemental material to to you know do that um I I think we we're getting there I hope um and I think trustee uh Gracia had mentioned well maybe if we integrated it into some of the other curriculum I would love to see that integrated all around because I don't think one course can really touch on everything I mean this is going to be just a survey course and a survey course is not going to be able to touch on all of the diverse populations just in American Canyon alone I mean we have
16438 languages spoken down there there's no way um but I do see that there are a lot of other courses that are offered at Napa Valley College so my question then is how does how do the Napa Valley College courses that are very much more specific right I just pulled one up on um there's one on Filipina uh American studies which is very relevant to American Canyon there's also one on African-American studies also very you know relevant to my community so how do those um align with the work that we're we're doing here is can it take place if the students wanted to take a class that's that course are they able to or is it the second step after they take our ethnic studies class what what's the um I guess what would be
165the relationship between our course and what it's possible through dual enrollment I appreciate you describing it as a survey course so a semester of course is about 80 to 100 days depending on the semester that the students enrolled will definitely hit the surface and allow them to engage and those courses that you mentioned at Napa Valley Junior College will are more in-depth courses more topical in nature to specific identities and so we are working with our College Partners right now to talk about how do those how do those allow students go deeper some of our students are already taking those courses their ethnic studies Department was recently redesigned they have a new person in charge of their Department who actually is a former teacher from American Canyon High School so it's a great partnership for
166us to have we are looking to have courses taught on the AC campus potentially that focus on Asian American studies next year so we can get a taste of potentially as we finalize that CCAP agreement what what students enroll in in the popularity of that but any student can enroll in those courses and hopefully with a foundation of a survey course they'll be able to go more in depth and choose those as options we'll continue to explore how we can bring some of those to our students on our campuses or with our teachers as we develop that agreement thank you trustee Gonzalez Mars sure um I think I'm I'm just really I'm really excited I'm actually sitting here feeling anxious at the same time just because the topic of ethnic studies is just so seen
167on such a Negative light and I think this is the opportunity um for the education system not wait till college or a four-year University to get to that but start embracing that early on and I know we are already with our rainbow kids right um and we're touching in some of those ways topics about diversity and and inclusion um but then you enter the space of our high schoolers where we're asking them to do a lot of critical thinking and um when you go into a history class or econ class or a science class you carry with you who you are everywhere you go and there's implications in each one of those classes in whatever way where you as the person takes place in there and then the environment around you and and how you
168receive the the information from the instruction side to your peers it's it it affects you and so um this doesn't solve everything right but when you have a place like ethnic studies where you're looking at um these units and it starts with really reflecting on your history what you bring how unique and special you are um it starts to I feel like level the playing field for everybody we start to see each other's as um celebrating versus um fearful of not knowing who are you or what's what is it that you do or you bring to lunch or why are you wearing that or how is it that um so those in this and it's being curious right but just setting up a space I think with curriculum right with books and instruction I mean
169I I just um growing up you know multilingual and um in having to move across countries it makes you realize also more and more how much more are we responsible of of creating um that space for our kids to be Global Citizens We're not asking them to be just here in Napa or in California in the United States but also think globally um and I think when you amplify that mind in that way it just takes you beyond right and you can read that in books and all that absolutely but there's nothing like having a good conversation around that and I think ethnic studies um provides that it provides the materials for you to read about it and discuss it and do that critical thinking um and it's such an amazing opportunity for our students
170to just grow not just intellectually intellectually and academically but also on the personal side which I think is a lot of what we want from our students to leave our our campus and graduate feeling like they know a little bit more of who they are and what they want to be and what kind of person are they going to be out there with the values that they carry out out there with them and so um you you know it's unfortunate that it's 2023 and just coming that's the part that I'm most sad it's like oh my gosh 1968 yes can we have gone back to that time yeah yeah it's it's it's um it's um it's gonna be you know it it it's complex because we're human beings and I've always say this over and
171over we're very complex um into the question that um Karina asked it's it's a question um that it it requires its space it requires it to be heard and just know that uh you know Karina you are heard because it's it's a it's an ongoing topic how can you Encompass again the world into this right now what it is a six-month um curriculum but I think we can certainly you know try our best this is to get it going um it reminded me of a podcast that I was listening to um because there's the first national museum of the American Latino that is now um gonna gonna happen um by the Smith uh smithsonian's Institute right because they have most recently the open the national uh Museum of African-American and history and culture just beautiful
172place um with its hardship and pain of the history but there's there's a recognition there and I'm so excited that this museum has started and one of the things that they're dealing with right now is what's Latinos in America what you know what what what's the discussion are Cubans Puerto Ricans apparently they kicked off the Brazilians right now so they might Advocate to come back so it's so interesting it's so interesting and it's you know it just but that's part of it right and so may our kids not wait until they're 20 something or 30 or 40 to start asking those questions may they find this support and the place to do that like an education institution like your public education to offer this so this is you know it's it's going to come with
173its challenges um because the world is complicated like that and people like to challenge things um and rightly so but um here we have the evidence and the support and the legislation to say we're ready to move this forward so I'm really excited I am looking forward to the next update um I did have a question um one of the things that you talked about was that there was going to be a community engagement piece on April 18th I think it was I was wondering two things one how are we advertising that so that people are aware that this is coming and two have we considered the possibility of a second Community engagement as there may be some trepidation out in the community and having just one opportunity may not be quite enough to allow
174everyone to become familiar with what we're presenting so there are going to be several ways that we sort of communicate the opportunity for people in the community to come and engage with us and hear information pretty a very similar presentation to what you heard tonight we'll send out through our typical parent channels and provide that opportunity to make sure that it's on our website we've had some Community interests from different or from different Community groups and we'll also contact them and make sure that they're aware of of the fact that this is being held and and we're going to do it in person and provide that opportunity for them to hear from us in person so that was the first question and the second question that you had had to do with there's another question
175in there so there were two one was how are we advertising the one day that we have the 18th and then are we going to have a second well typically when we are in the process of adopting a curriculum the materials are available to the public to review so we will have that Community engagement or Community information session talking engagement Community information session that will allow uh people to hear from the community here directly from us and we will also have the opportunity at the next board meeting or the board meeting that we present the actual presentation of the course as it's adopted so the community has an opportunity to engage during that time and provide input and because we're required to also publicly display the materials um the community will have an opportunity to
176contact us and schedule a time to review that so there will be multiple opportunities for the community to take a look at the curriculum that's been developed the course that's been developed and provide public comment I ask a follow-up question to that is are you also bringing it down to American Canyon to have it be viewable in person we have not typically done that with any other curriculum materials they've always been available or on this on display at the district office sometimes we've provided like a link to the information parents could some parents can view it sometimes or community members can do it you know electronically especially if it's a published curriculum often you know that's not that we're not able to do that because Publishers don't necessarily want their materials out there so that's
177a challenge as well so we have not considered whether or not we would do a community session in the American Canyon yeah I know that we definitely will provide opportunities for the students of American Canyon and Napa to see the work that's being developed and provide input and and we know that that's our primary target audience are the students and so we'll make sure to ensure it makes we'll ensure that we have that so we bring it to like open house at the middle schools or you know that that's an opportune time to catch parents I think we'll have to consider the timing of it um it's still in development and so we are hoping to bring it to the school board closer to the end of May and then it will go the second
178time for adoption um I don't know if you want to speak directly to that I think that also speaks too to the graduation requirement shift so part of the task of our graduation requirement committee is connected to this and really looking at communicating with our Rising families who will be coming into ninth grade in 24 25 to make sure that they have the opportunity to learn about the new requirements and learn about the courses that are involved in that so there's the immediate pilot group and then I think there's intentionality around that particular group of about 20 stakeholders within our system to learn about it and additionally I think internally it's really important so we've had a communication internally to all of our staff throughout our all divisions every single every other week our staff
179receives updates as well as our administrative team weekly through those updates so those are some of just the ongoing pieces that are I think it's important for internal staff to understand to as their conduits in our community of messaging I would encourage staff to at least consider the possibility that a city of Napa engagement one and a city of American Canyon engagement night may be appropriate so that we have the opportunity for him I would agree with that okay thank you we'll um take that into consideration as we we plan and then uh I noticed on the slide um I forget the number now but that there are potentially benefits um outside of just the benefit of taking the class that that we also might see increased attendance increase on test scores and uh increase
180GPA um I would like to see as we pilot this and then as the course becomes uh standardized for all students if we are seeing any meaningful movement in those areas as we move forward so hopefully that will be something we can review in the future um thank you that is something we definitely will take a look at Dr massetti yeah thank you president Gracia I just um I want to make a few comments this is such a important topic in California Public Schools I want to thank all of the board members for just your Rich reactions to this as the governing body that's going to be taking action around implementation of this and the curriculum now we've heard so much from you just as trustees and representatives from various segments of our community thinking
181about anti-Semitism intersectionality um you know the the unique diversity Rich diversity of American Canyon across a variety of ethnic groups the rich question brought forth by Miss Karina cervente and elaborated on by trustee Gonzalez manes around the diversity of the latinx population um you know thank you for Illuminating I'm Cuban and married to uh an afro Latino male with biracial children who identify also um as latinx so yeah our our histories are complex in that way and I'm glad that we're creating an opportunity in public schools for everyone's Rich identity to be explored the ethnic studies graduation requirement brings in exciting opportunity to California public schools and its students and I'm very grateful that youth will have the opportunity to explore issues of diversity power privilege and identity it's also phenomenal um to see the
182histories and experiences of marginalized peoples elevated now formally and systematically before often that was often contingent upon maybe a staff member that might be on staff that are first at a potential school so this course will make it formal and systematic and my hope is that this elevation will lead to a more social justice and disruption of the status quo that we've seen around oppression for future Generations um so yeah I'm glad that that work started in 1968 like you said at the University of California San Francisco State Berkeley San Francisco State didn't I see UC Berkeley up there oh they were second okay we're usually number one but I guess we were second about this so um and then in addition to that um I just want to thank assistant superintendent Andrew Jennings director
183Monica ready Miss Miller this is a ton of work um and I've I've been in different venues around the state I know you all were at the csba conference and um I can say that we are very very organized around the preparation and planning and the execution of this and this is because of the efforts of of the three people before us um I appreciate two specific elements of your approach to this work um first I want to appreciate how you've combined two key pieces which is the research base paired with the local context and you've created um four units of study I know we're still flushing that out I really enjoyed coming in briefly to the session and seeing the teachers do the work that Miss Miller alluded to but you really have grounded
184the work in four high quality driving questions they are simple but those those driving questions for the four units of study are going to elicit a lot of deep learning in our classrooms second I appreciate that you have facilitated collaboration that you've made facilitated collaboration Central to the process I know right now I was commented that we haven't surveyed parents and gone out we have to remember that this is a curriculum this is a curriculum development process and there has to be some professional expertise that this work is first grounded in right and um so we we have educational experts that are first working on it and then of course there's this element around Community engagement I know you'll do facilitated collaboration with them um as As you move through the process so when we
185lead such an important change this is a historical change it's a structural change and when we lead it with the degree of care that you all have demonstrated over the course the last few months I know it provides me um as a superintendent and I think I can speak for the board on the reassurance that we are taking the work very seriously and that we're organized like I said and that we're doing this all while being open and transparent um and you know we're making sure that the community can be represented and empowered right through how we do the work and then what the work is about because this work is about impairment so empowerment so thank you so much for all of your hard work before moving on to K action items K1 Business
186Services k1a second interim 2022-23 move to approved I'll second okay I was like wait who was that first I trustee Riser second by trustee jankowitz uh all in favor aye motion passes K1 B purchase of cogat licenses for 2020 324 motion to approve I'll second verse by trustee Choo Second by trustee jankowitz Mr Michaels do we have any public comment on this item uh we do have public comment uh the first speaker is at Norma Ortiz go ahead please Norman thank you um in terms of the licenses um I would like to know more about that in terms of the student placement um and how the decisions around that and how will it be implemented is it encompassing K through 12 um in terms of the Alps um maybe perhaps it might be a good
187idea to kind of um elaborate more in this aspect and maybe in a future newsletter because we've been hearing very minimal at least I've been trying to be on top of reading all the newsletters but I've I've heard probably not much about Alps how the programs uh the the well before uh kovid my daughter was in the program and since then I never heard back I reached out a couple times never heard back in terms of um how these um how this program is going to continue providing those or address and support those talents and also challenge our students learning um so I would like to know more about that and uh just to touch up on the ethnic studies aspect the newsletter would be a great source also the Napa Register thank you yeah
188I do thank you Mr Michaels do we have any further public comment there's no further uh public comment on this side thank you I have a comment or an ask so um thank you Miss Ortiz for for highlighting what maybe what parents might not understand what Alps is going to become in the future so I was wondering if it's possible in a future agenda item that we can get an update on what the program is going to look like we we're identifying with kogat which is great but what do we do with the students after I know that each school has different programs so maybe an overview of what it is that how are we supporting these students as a future item yeah um yes uh our board presentation calendar is is very full um
189what did we say yesterday in our meeting are we down at five five meetings yeah uh five meetings um but what we can do is potentially bring it first to um board curriculum and student support which are public meetings so for anyone who's interested in that you can look at the agendas for that and the committee times for that and then maybe we could bring that um as an item um early in the fall next year that sounds good thank you doctor and said we actually have it slated for a board uh board curriculum and student support advisory right April it's great persuaded to be done so we've had several questions regarding it it's already presented um on that day thank you further discussion okay seeing none uh I think we can yeah okay all
190those in favor hi motion passes uh K2 Human Resources k2a resolution 23-25 release of temporary certificated employees second first by trustee jankowitz second by trustee Chu Mr Michaels do we have any public comment on this item there is no public comment on this item right uh Ms Morales can we get a role called vote please yes trustee Gracia hi trustee water aye trustee ricer aye trustee Hugh aye trustee jankowitz aye trustee Hart hi trustee Gonzalez Mares I'm motion passes thank you thank you uh item k2b resolution 23-26 non-reelection of probationary certificated employees move to approve a second first by trustee two second by trustee tinkiewicz Mr Michaels do we have any public comment on this item there is no public comment on this item thank you Ms Morales can I get a roll call vote
191please yes Tracy Gracia hi Christy water aye Christy ricer hi Tristan shu hi trustee jankowitz aye trustee heart hi trustee Gonzalez Mares I'm motion passes thank you thank you K3 instructional Services k3a contract with Universal Health Services of Provo Canyon School Inc doing business as Provo Canyon School move to approve a second first by trustee Chu second by trustee jankowitz Mr Michaels do we have any public comment on this item there is no public comment on this item all in favor aye motion passes item k3b supplementary instruction material adoption for Middle School move to approve second first by trustee two second by trustee Hart Mr Michaels do we have any public comment on this item there is no public comment on this item all in favor aye motion passes K 3 C new high school
192course of study for mathematics I'll move to approve but I have I would like some discussion on this okay that mean first by trustee Chu second by trustee Riser Mr Michaels do we have any public comment on this item oh we do uh conference speaker is Karina cervente go ahead please hi yeah thank you I'm a little concerned about um getting rid of honors calculus and um and put in in its place the AP calculus um I'm wondering has the there been any thought or any um uh surveys for the lack of a better word to to see what the parents want because when it comes to AP classes the tests to you know get that credit they're extremely expensive um I'm for one come from a family that is in that middle um class
193that Working Poor we don't get any benefits but yet we have to pay full price for everything um so I um I I wouldn't be able to get um you know the benefits of free and reduced lunch and not uh pay for this test for my for my uh incoming high schooler so um honors class gives my high schooler the advantage of getting the those extra GPA credits um but uh you know um doesn't break the bank so has it been given any thoughts about it because um I just don't understand why you know we don't have more honors classes and um some time ago I um overheard a conversation that a lot of the students that take this AP exams don't even pass the exams so they don't get the credit so I'm like
194very confused it it doesn't take that much uh uh you know being um a very educated person to see what um what's a better deal for us customers or uh parents and students so um yeah I would like you to think a little bit more about this this change thank you Mr Michaels do we have further public comment on this item uh yes we do next speaker is Norma Ortiz go ahead please yes just um I was taking a look at the document and just a little bit curious on the question about what is the plan for a sustainability of this course over time I'm curious about that and how it might continue well not continue but how might if well once it's implemented how will it um effectively address uh [Music] the AG requirements
195and the common core standards I'd like to know a little bit more about that thank you thank you Mr Michaels is there more public comment on this item we have no further public comment on this item interested so um I guess my my questions are somewhat related to what um Mr benty had mentioned is that there's a when students take AP classes they are expected to take the AP test at the end so we have I mean some students may or may not take it at the end but the expectation is they would is that going to discourage some students who are ready for that rigor of an AP class or an honors class whatever you want to call it um from taking the the class at all and how how does that maybe you
196could explain um what is the expectation for a student to take this class given that the honors class never had that expectation thank you so just to go back a step so that everyone has Clarity around an honors course is a locally developed course and so although it provides a bump in a GPA and that level of rigor it's not as nationally recognized as the College Board and the College Board has developed particular syllabi that can be adopted as model courses for advanced placement that are nationally recognized known by colleges so the replacement of the of the advanced placement with the honors Physicians are students on more of a national scale for although universities recognize the the grade bump they may not have as much Clarity around really what is a locally designed honors course
197so that's that piece of it the the second piece is that students aren't required to take the advanced placement exam they're encouraged they're prepared for it but they they don't have to take it if they can't afford it we we will cover that cost um even if they're not pre-reduced price lunch each of the high schools has a process for students who cannot afford assessments and to be able to access that um and so that's in place and we have funding for that um the weekend as we implement this course like any course look at and see if there are barriers to it um but it does position our students we think that the benefits of positioning our students to take the assessment at the end and potentially earn college credit is not afforded by
198an honors course but that that says it's the same level of rigor so we feel like it positions our students better while also giving them the option our students oftentimes when they get to senior year especially those that have taken so many advanced placement courses choose not to take some assessments because they know where they're going especially in the spring they know where they're going they know what credits will apply and what won't and so we'll continue to honor students who do not want to take that assessment at the end but I think it's important to note that part of the advantage of these courses goes beyond the GPA and the actual assessment it's really about students being able to engage in a rigorous course in high school and the benefits that we see when
199students go to college having been immersed in that level of rigor early on college board has shown that that just sitting in the course taking the course with their peers in a supportive environment in high school enables them to be more successful in college isn't it true though that if they don't take the course they don't get the GPA bomb the test um no so it's an it's Advanced course so it has a higher when it calculates in the in the GPA it's higher even whether they take the assessment or not I have uh mixed feelings about the AP uh courses although I absolutely reveled in teaching AP Literature that was you know a wonderful experience for me and I hope my students enjoyed it I had fun but one of the advantages of the
200AP course you may be paying for a test but it can pay off if your child passes and not having to take the course in college and um uh articulated that way yeah there are some colleges that there and there are some colleges that don't accept and depending on major and depending on Majors right but um you know I my daughter was able to finish up in the first quarter for senior year and go off and do a paid internship and you know it worked out very well financially but you know and I know that um the UC prefers the AP courses because they felt you know when we made the change from honors American lit to AP Lit they felt that um a lot of the so-called honors classes were really not were homemade
201and they weren't particularly rigorous the one at Napa High was extremely rigorous and I might add that it's was actually harder than a lot of advanced placement literature courses um the old days but uh that this is what UC wants and you know we are uh we we um the Napa Valley Unified our students take more courses than the state requires because we want people to fulfill the a through G requirements of the UC and the CSU I want to repeat that so our critics can hear it um our high school students graduation requirements are significantly higher than the State High School graduation requirements I have one more question but I think we may need to extend two minutes but yes I'll take a motion too I'll motion to extend for 30 minutes we won't
202take 30 minutes second all right first by trusty two second by trustee Reiser all in favor so my second question is so when I when I was in high school way long ago we only had regular pre-cat words there was no honors there was no regular pre-calculus people to calculus because by Design pre-calculus is an advanced course it leads to you being prepared to take calculus and in my case it was Calculus BC so why are we offering honors or AP whatever it is that you wanna be accelerated versus a regular pre-calculus class what is the distinct what makes it so different why not just offer one and because by Design pre-calculus is Advanced usually if you don't want to continue on in math you just stop at integrated math three so mathematics is one
203of the areas where we have what's called acceleration and so oftentimes another subject matters you have advanced or honors and Mathematics is actually a place where we use acceleration so when we redesign our math Pathways there's three Pathways an accelerated pathway a student starts on in eighth grade and that starts with math one it's not honors we don't have honors course in middle school but they are accelerated because they're taking a year and a half worth of standards in one year that continues them on that pathway so they have honors courses along that pathway honors math 2 honors math three in preparation for advanced placement uh pre-calculus which is a new course not just to us but also to the College Board that prepares them for AP calculus or an apple or a dual enrolled
204calculus course students who would enroll in a pre-calculus course would be on that traditional pathway so a student who takes math 1 as a ninth grader math two as a 10th grader math three as an 11th grader and then engages in pre-calculus positioning them for when they do go off to that post-secondary education whatever they may choose being prepared to take calculus probably in their post-secondary Journey we do have the option for students to accelerate later that was a pathway that we added last year to accelerate the late acceleration pathway and that junior year when they accelerate late they they take a course that we call Accelerated math three or honors math three it incorporates some of the standards of precalculus so that they're prepared to go into calculus later they've shown later on that
205they have the Readiness that they have the skills and the knowledge to be able to accelerate late and so they would not take that pre-calculus course without AP calculus course because those standards much like you see that compression in eighth grade of eighth grade standards and math one standards in the junior year of honors math three you see that compression of trigonometry Algebra 2 pre-calculus standards into one and then they go into into calculus so it's more of our our general our College Prep calculus course will remain and it'll remain for our students on that traditional pathway who who have that post-secondary journey into calculus so will AP pre-calculus then better prepare the students for the rigors of Calculus BC AP Calculus BC or it's still going into well I guess the other the alternative
206is a b so students who take AP Calculus are because of the alignment of the College Board are probably better positioned it's a new course that hasn't been implemented yet for college board so we'll see they would they would go from AP Calculus AP pre-calculus to apcut typically AP Calculus a b and then BC follows um so we offer a b some of our calls some of our students who take AP pre-calculus will go into Napa Valley College dual enrolled course of math 120 math 121 so it is that advanced pathway that accelerates in there thank you okay so you know further discussion we will move to vote all those in favor some passes onto item L informational L1 General Services l1a curriculum and student support committee there was a meeting the notes are attached
207do we have any discussion Mr Michaels is there any public comment on this item there is no public comment on this item all right item l1b facilities and Technology uh there was no meeting so we'll move on to item l1c finance committee moving on to L1 D the policy committee did not meet moving them on to item M additional suggestions and comments from board members and superintendent see none move on to item in future agenda items I will just reiterate my desire to see the data on whether or not the students are performing better in those categories that I asked about during the Dei presentation uh and then on to item o adjournment I move to adjourn second first made by myself second by trustee two all those in favor um passes we are adjourned
208another great