001all right we are calling the meeting to order the nvusd board of education is holding a regular virtual board meeting tonight that all can participate in remotely you can join via zoom specific directions on how to participate are located on the board of education webpage on the district's website nvusd.org board the open session part of the meeting agenda begins at 7 pm public comment on closed session items before going into closed session the board is available for public comment and closed session agenda items mr bassinet do we have any public comment on closed session items there is no public comment at this time thank you seeing that there are none the napa valley unified school district will now adjourn into close session see you all back at seven thank you we are reconvened to open
002session good evening my name is alba gonzalez-mares and this is the napa valley unified school district board of education the nbusd board of education is holding a regular board meeting tonight that all can participate remotely you can interpretation in spanish is available for tonight's virtual board meeting to access interpretation from a computer click on the interpretation icon on the bottom of your screen from within the zoom application on a mobile device click on the more button on the bottom of your screen and choose language interpretation from within the zoom application this is a separate channel that will allow you to hear english to spanish translation concurrently please note interpretation services are not available when you join our meeting by calling in our interpreter for tonight are julie young and isidramenkos may we have one of
003the interpreters please translate these directions on our english channel so our spanish-speaking families can hear the instructions [Music] specific instructions on how to participate in the meeting are located on the board of education webpage on the district's website nvusd.org board can we please start with an attendance roll call from vr morales executive assistant yes student board member magana hi er president trustee gonzalez present trustee jankowitz is absent today trustee gracia president trustee reiser present rusty water trustee shu president trustee dooley present quorum present thank you thank you vera thank you for joining us tonight for a napa valley unified school district board meeting public participation remains virtual online only due to the kova 19 shelter in place order we continue in uncharted territory as we deal with the clovid 19 pandemic as trustees we have
004returned to the boardroom in solidarity with our staff given that our school campuses are now reopened for our students however in order to ensure access to our meetings without any limitations during the persisting pandemic we are continuing with online remote access via zoom for the public and guest i would like to thank our employees our families and the entire nbusd community for how you have supported each other and come together during these unprecedented times this meeting tonight is in accordance with the open meeting rules in the state of california per the governor's order i'm going to start tonight with some basic instructions on how we are going to be using zoom and involve the members of the community all of the board of trustees and the superintendent are in video throughout the entire board meeting
005from here in the board room other staff members are present by video members of the community will not be on video and will be muted except during public comment during public comment any member of the community that wishes to speak must raise their hand using the raised hand feature in zoom you will be unmuted and will be provided three minutes to speak there are two ways to make a public comment within the time allotted for public comment on an eligible agenda item the comment by video conference click the raise your hand button to request to speak when public comment is being taken on the eligible agenda item when it is your turn to speak your name will be called out you will then be unmuted during your turn and allowed to make public comments after
006the allotted time you will then be remuted instructions on how to raise your hand are available on the district's website at nvusd.org board to comment by phone you will be prompted to raise your hand by pressing star 9 to request to speak when the public comment is being taken on the eligible agenda item when it's your turn to speak then the last four digits of your phone number will be called out you will then be unmuted during your turn and allowed to make public comment after the allotted time you will then be re-muted instructions on how to raise your hand by phone are available on the district's website at indieusc.org board in addition committee members were allowed to submit comments via email a public comment at nbusd.org up until 8 00 am this morning public
007comment received after 8 am the day of the scheduled meeting will not be read into the record however the public comment will be announced as received after the deadline and will be become part of the meeting archive as long as it's received before the meeting is officially called to order for every agenda item i will prompt the meeting participants who have joined us via zoom for public comment please follow the instructions just provided when you would like to comment on an item we have been called to order and conducted our attendance roll call we will go forward with our agenda okay all right um i will ask trustee gracie to report on closed session items yes in closed session the board took action to approve the following staff recommendations d2a1 christopher reddy to the position
008of assistant director of communications effective 2021-2022 school year d2a2 jordan michaels to the position of director 1 technology operations effective june 11 2021 that is all for closed session thank you christy gracian president gonzalez um i think um both selected candidates are on and so i just wanted to officially welcome them um in their new roles they're both currently in the organization and they are shifting into these new roles and so we couldn't feel more pride um and so i just want to give them a moment to address the board so um mr reddy i see you online if you can promote him mr bassinet our new assistant director of communications thank you david gracia president elbow gonzalez mares dr rosana masetti and the board of trustees i'm honored and excited to be selected to
009support the district's efforts to provide robust communication to parents in the greater community i look forward to the unique opportunity to support all staff in the napa valley unified school district with the technical aspects of communication that provides me the opportunity to use my strengths to disseminate critical information to our community and share the amazing stories that play out every day in our schools among staff and students thank you chris and and welcome aboard in your new role i see um jordan's also here jordan would you like to take take a moment to address the board congratulations on the new appointment uh yeah i just wanted to say thank you to dr uh homosetti and the rest of the board of education and i'm just really excited to continue working with our awesome uh technology
010team and uh just want to keep it rolling we've been you know working very hard the last few years and uh excited just to keep moving forward so thank you so much okay congratulations again to the both of you yes congratulations all right um now i will uh like to ask our student board rep harlem again to lead us on the flag salute please to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] thank you carla um we are making an announcement that this meeting is recorded for live streaming and archiving on the district youtube channel for a detailed review of any meeting agenda item the archive video can be referenced located on the district's webpage
011on nvusd.org the public can join the virtual board meeting remotely via zoom participation instructions and the process for public comment can be found on the district's webpage now move forward with our approval of agenda move to approve before we um actually no there's no agenda change correct okay thank you trustee gracious first by trustee gracia oh second the second by trustee dooley student board rep hi all those in favor hi thank you approval of minutes move to approve first by trustee gracias second by trustee water all those um student board rep hi all those in favor aye aye aye anybody approached her i'm staying okay thank you in our recognition of visitors and employee organizations dr mustani anybody joining us today i just want to confirm i do not see um president of csca mr
012garcia i do not see miss young from nvea nor do i see miss walder from naps tonight so um they're not here but um good evening sure they're here with us in spirit always always yes they are okay um okay sorry about that that's okay okay good evening president gonzalez morris um dr musetti and board of trustees and i'm pleased to be here this evening i represent the maps map association of people services thank you is there anybody else nope i do not think i missed that okay all right glad you could join us with walder um all right we're now moving on to our next item which is public comments on non-agenda items this is where members of the audience may address the board on any school related matter that is not on the
013agenda the board will not take action on any issue raised during this section of the agenda inasmuch as board action is limited to posted agenda items speakers are requested to limit their comments to a maximum of three minutes before we open to see who's available on the asterisk degrassive there was any public comments submitted via email uh no public comments on non-agenda items were submitted via email at publiccomment nvosd.org before the board meeting thank you trustee gracia um all right mr bassinet do we have any public comment at this time we do uh first person will be sarah o'connor all right um good evening dr musetti nvusd board of education and district leaders i imagine that public comments and board meetings often voice criticism and concern perhaps at best the comments are made are maybe
014asks or requests rest easy the next nine minutes or so hopefully there are two public comments after me are about thinking and appreciating you exactly two years ago mrs jenny lamont and mr newton thomas and i stood in front of you that was back when it was in person and asked for your support and for your approval we were rewriting the curriculum of our english courses through a crush lens crushes the culturally and community responsive sustaining and humanizing work that we do at vintage while the rewriting of the courses and their units sat squarely with our english department professionals your approval of new culturally relevant texts was really what was required to bring this work to life two years ago you approved the books long way down i'm not your perfect mexican daughter the hate
015u give poet x and the best i could do these approvals allowed us to charge ahead and with the investment of many thousands of dollars of funds we ensure that all students at each grade level could engage in the text simultaneously a powerful community opportunity i am grateful to you as a board and proud to serve a district with a board that supports adoptions of books like these and the work of schools like vintage that are doing this work to ensure that teaching and learning is through a culturally responsive lens this change and these adoptions as you will hear from ms lamont and mr thomas in a moment have profoundly shifted the students experience in english and their engagement in reading texts in general but what i will also tell you is that the teaching
016these texts has that in teaching these texts through the crush english texts it's changed our english faculty too i saw a different newton thomas in the fall of 2019 than i had in years prior life and invigoration breathes back into the work it's really fun to teach these texts to students you know what though enough for me thank you so much now ms lamont and mr thomas to share how it looked and feels when they work in the classroom with students and do the great work they do every day thank you for your kindness declined sounds like we have the next speaker yes next speaker is jennifer lamont hello dr musetti and napa valley unified school board members we're grateful to you and to principal sarah o'connor as well for giving us license two years
017ago to explore plan and execute new units centered around these new texts recently we surveyed our 9th and 10th graders about which books from the last year were their favorites and our new book adoptions were consistently at the top of the list across both grade levels one such book is long way down by jason reynolds a book that is taught in ninth grade and speaks to many of our young men in both medium and message this book works beautifully in concert with our more traditional curriculum allowing us to make powerful connections between contemporary to classic texts like romeo and juliet using the heavy and destructive code of manhood that reynolds illuminates so effectively and long way down it also helps us reach our crush goal of giving students awareness and empathy for lives outside their
018own experiences this year these books combined with audio and text access on sora the online library allowed us to reach virtual students and gave way to important conversations that penetrated the wall of zoom in the future we envisioned the vh s english department using sora and the our voices bookshelves for example to allow students greater access to contemporary multicultural novel novels so they can exercise choice as part of a stronger better independent reading program that creates lifelong readers another ambitious goal of ours is to adopt contemporary books that pair well with classics to create in-class book clubs and workshops that work as satellites and critical lenses during a class unit on a more traditional novel finally we want to keep the ball rolling by finding tools and strategies for creating choice and giving students more
019room to explore expand and strengthen their voices enabling them to find and share their answers to the key questions in our crush curriculum who am i who are you who are we who do i want to be we also encouraged by napa high's efforts recently to refresh the core by adopting many great texts this year and hope to team up with them in their efforts the big challenge next year will be to recreate community and work towards creating brave spaces in the classroom after so much time spent in retreat during covid these texts seem like they might be particularly important in building connections between students by starting important relevant and critical conversations in the classroom they have already helped to align and reinvigorate our english department and brought new life to our teaching we're grateful
020to your trust and support in these efforts thank you next um speaker mr bassinet [Music] next speaker will be newton thomas good evening dr miseti and napa via napa unified board members um i want to just echo the the gratitude uh shared earlier by both jen and sarah i think the arrival of these books um and are ensuing professional conversations about them occurred at a pivotal moment within our department which was looking to make tangible a lot of what we've been discussing in the abstract for some time and your trust and support have been a huge part of our progress and the work we will continue moving forward i want to just share with you a few highlights from the survey that we that jen mentioned that we asked our students to complete as she
021mentioned write our new books ranked at the top of student favorites in both 9th and 10th grade i teach 10th grade and our two newest titles were followed closely by tequila mockingbird long the standard for english 10 classes having students themselves confirm our initial enthusiasm is reassuring and the survey obviously reflects a larger sample size about 250 responses than just anecdotal evidence from my own classes a few takeaways one student referred to what what they described as quote the raw truth of the works and while that's a difficult thing to quantify i think it reflects the authentic engagement with these newer books experienced by many students i've had a number of students share with me that some of these titles represent the first book they've actually read for an english class responding to excuse me
022the memoir the best we could do a student noted that it offered insight into an awareness of their own parents lives as children themselves and expanding that generational connection is one of the unexpected revelations the memoir has offered many many students have reflected on the relevance of these texts and their focus on social justice at this particular moment in our history as well as connecting them with more traditional texts such as to kill a mockingbird and i suspect that this recursive social justice theme also contributes to a sense of that raw truth one student who i'm assuming was a young man commented that these books have a lot of female narrators which i trust was meant as a criticism in fact i believe it is an important step forward in expanding the lens through which
023our students are reading fiction and memoir it's no longer just a bunch of boarding school boys trapped on an island and behaving badly obviously this past year presented a staggering series of challenges for us educationally i feel in some ways that these books offered a lifeline and i am anxious and eager to see their potential in a somewhat saner academic environment moving forward again thank you so very much thank you for your comment next speaker norma ortiz hi my name is norma ortiz i wanted to take the opportunity to thank mr hardnack for his follow-up email in connection with my public comment of may 2021 regarding the id tech coding summer camp registration confirmation on the other hand my daughter is a recipient of alps advanced learner programs and services accelerating student learning achievement access
024it is my understanding that during the last few months of the 2019-2020 and the entire present 2020 2021 academic school year this program got interrupted in regards to student active engagement during the present pandemic however i feel it is important that the district puts more emphasis on these supplemental services to further enhance among other items students critical thinking creativity strengths and passions i would like more information on any and any innovations and further supports this program this program will lead and provide students with as they return to in-presence on the august 18 20 20 20 20 21 20 22 school calendar year thank you for your comment next speaker diana dormie gourmet good evening dr mercedes and esteem board members my name is diana dorame and i live and work in napa county i spoke
025at public comment on may 27 and i'm here to speak again about the treatment of subs in this district and for you to decide whether or not we should be considered for a stipend based on working during the pandemic i've come to you again as i previously emailed miss dana page on may 26th and asking her when she would make a decision regarding stipends for subs and i've still not received response over two weeks later so as a brief update on what subs are asked to do i thought i'd share a couple of things that i've been involved in for example on my birthday which was a monday this year i was i was meeting a friend for breakfast i looked down at my phone as it was ringing and i was receiving a call
026from cecile hodge she was asking me if i'd go to help out at willow elementary who had needed a sub since the previous friday i said yes and went in person to the campus i cut short my birthday celebration because i knew it was important to be there for those of you who still in the virtual subs don't deserve or don't merit receiving a stipend i'd like to share a recent experience that i had i virtually subbed last week to the high school for four days that included two all virtual wednesdays as you're aware that's the way that the schedule goes i had classes that ranged in size from 64 yes 6'4 to 96 students for a 48 minute class these class periods had a mix of 9th through 12th graders i went through i
027completed the agenda but i would challenge any of you to continue with that type of an assignment i did i feel like i'm a professional i feel like the students deserve it and when i make a commitment regardless of the challenge i finish it finally i'm not here for myself as i didn't go on to school sites back in october when schools reopened because i wasn't fully vaccinated until april a few months after all others were vaccinated but i'd really really like this board to consider and to think about whether or not subs should in fact be considered in the stipends that were given to everybody and whether or not to include the virtual as well as the in-person substitutes thank you very much for your time thank you for your comment next speaker mr
028wessonette gladys castillo good evening nbsd board of trustees the following is what was stated in our email from our forming group challenging the narrative that was sent on the 24th of may to this board we request to you as trustees of the board that mbsd has talking peace to offer the following for any of the upcoming school years for its students and their parents guardians together with this school district staff including educators to be part of having these conversations as eric butler talking peace founder explains that go deep into responding to racialized harm a question and answer session following a screening of the documentary circles and a training in the three tiers of a start of justice this proposal came up when i as a former as a member of our forming group challenging a
029narrative was trying to figure out how to address the impacts of the experiences that already were faced by our own peers and ourselves as families in napa county these are experiences such as the micro aggressions expressed by the school just by the school district faculty here that were received by our children as students and us as parents experiences such as these microaggressions that arise from implicit bias having a cumulative effect on the mental well-being of our students of color and their families and households the memories of these experiences personally have and will have a lasting impact on us as an asian family in napa valley how much for the students having experienced situations such as these in any school district i am already aware that this district will have additional professional development training and community
030events in regards to diversity and inclusivity for mbsd faculty and community and the community if the district's new proposal plan is approved by this board i am also aware of nvsd having several wellness centers whose staff are trained to lead restorative circles but in addition to this please as our board of trustees consider having mbsd to specifically have talking peace and eric butler to provide opportunities for the students their households and families and its faculty to to converse about conflicts and issues around race with one another in small close safe spaces towards healing community and relationship building participants in past circles at several sites in mbsd led by eric butler have said they would still tr entrust eric butler to lead these uncomfortable but necessary conversations and talking peace has a trust from people in
031and out of california to vouch for their expertise and leading restorative circles specifically around addressing conflicts about race thank you for your attention and any of your consideration in having nbsd to implement this thank you thank you for your comment next speaker there is no more public comment for this item thank you mr rasanet all right we're closing public comment um now we're moving on to item h which is our reports but before we get started with the board of education and student board rep um we're going to do a little bit of a bittersweet moment it is our student board rep's last board meeting with us and everybody was saying is also like bittersweet messages of like are we doing anything um just because um you definitely have joined us carla in one of
032the most interesting hopefully once in a lifetime experiences um and you've definitely taken not only a front seat but almost on the driver's side over here as being part of the board and our student board rev um to see what it what it takes to manage something so complicated and um and to be here on behalf of the students and to hear your voice at the table which is so crucial as we're going through item through item and there there is a reality to all this work and i think when you know when i look over i see the thousands of students behind you right it reminds us that um our youth is here and um and we're here to support um you know them through all of this so thank you for for being
033that voice and for all your dedication and support and involvement you've done a lot um and you know you're communicating with our students uh throughout various processes so just really appreciate all of that and um sort of the board wants to share something before we uh recognize carl a little bit more but those are my words and um did you want to start also as well just you guys yeah yep uh i just wanted to say it's been great having you on the board you've really added a lot to our discussions and have felt very comfortable in jumping right in and i really appreciated the perspective that you brought over this past year so thank you and i'll second that carla it's been just wonderful to have your voice um i i've only joined in
034for for the second half of your term so i i wasn't here for all of it but um i just really have such respect and admiration for you and and the hard work that you've brought here to this board and also the um the amazing things that you've done out in the community i know that you're i think co-president of the teen connect council and just doing wonderful things and we're sure that you have such an amazing bright future ahead and and we'll miss you well i remember um interviewing you two years ago and he made a very very strong impression on us and um we thought let's let's save her save her in our hip pocket you know for the next year and tell her to apply because you know you're a bit younger
035than the other applicant and you've uh you've done a wonderful job it hasn't it hasn't been easy you know you've dealt with uh just like we have people who are not happy about about some of the decisions we made but it's all um it's all about learning and growing this year isn't it and i've learned a lot from you sitting right across from you you made me remember every meeting that the decisions i make affect people like you and i know you're going to have a wonderful wonderful time at college and do very well best wishes so i also want to say how highly impressed i was with your commitment to the board um staying long hours with us thank you because you remind us all the time that this you and you know your
036your fellow students are really why we're here and i really appreciate that you give them a voice and that you're not afraid when you speak to give you give your opinions and i really you know admire that and i also think you're going to do wonderful in your future endeavors so congratulations i will echo what everyone said i think um you know as trustee riser pointed out you have more experience than i do on this board and so you know it's [Music] um and and i don't mean that completely as a joke you i mean you were involved in on this board during a really difficult time um i remember the um work that you put in with uh speaking with student groups as we were reopening and the valuable information that this board received
037from your work has has made a big difference on this district so thank you um yeah carlos on behalf of you know the superintendent's office i know my executive team and all the staff at nvusd we want to thank you for serving in this important role i think i echo everything that the six trustees have said tonight and um yeah you will be probably for us uh one of the most memorable uh student board representatives given that you had to assume the role in what will you know be in history books one of the toughest years clearly for school districts are you know everywhere right but particularly in nvusd we dealt with some um difficult challenging issues on top of just like the baseline uh challenging issue of operating a school district during a pandemic
038reopening our schools i also just want to echo what trustee dooley said you made such a positive impression on me when we did the orientation and the training in the summer it was such a hard time ending your junior year there were so many unknowns in the summer and you you know it was all via zoom we i didn't get to have you in my office like i typically do when i onboard the the student board member representative but um you did it with a smile you did it with enthusiasm despite what our young people were kind of dealing with which felt sort of tragic ending last year the way we did and then knowing that we had to start virtual again and you just had such a positive attitude um some of you may
039not know that i had the pleasure and honor of working with mr magana carla's wonderful father he served on my superintendent parent advisory and he also had served on our 7-eleven committee a couple of years ago and he is just a class act in terms of a parent leader and the apple clearly does not fall too far from the tree because your father made such a positive impression as a parent leader and you've made such a powerful impression as a student leader and your work like trustee dooley said in the fall around being willing to go out at a really really difficult time and gather input and conduct focus groups was a game changer for us as we stop sought student voice in the reopening of our school district and i really believe i want
040you to kind of walk away with taking credit that it was gathering that input that positioned napa valley unified school district it was one of many variables that positioned us to be one of the first districts in the state of california to open on october 26th all 28 campuses tk12 so um you made a major contribution and you should feel a tremendous amount of pride and so we have some going away gifts um for you to um remember all that hard work um you know through through the the symbols that we're going to give you here tonight so um should we go ahead and do the photo op moment yes let's do that should i read what's on the plaque yeah why don't you go ahead and read what's on the plaque and um her
041gift her little without having the audience here i feel like i have to describe um so we have so hopefully your family is tuning in if not this is being recorded and they can watch it carla um so this is a plaque on behalf of the napa unified school district board of education given to carla magana thank you for your contributions to the youth of our community through your service to the napa valley unified school district as a student board member this tribute is extended as a great honor for the influence and effort which you have exerted in the cause of public education on behalf of the students of naba valley unified school district and the governing board of education we thank you for your job well done and there is a little um so
042you can carry us with you when you go to you know college in portland and that says that it's an appreciation and it mentions your year as a as a student board rep with nbusd and of course some flowers so a big applause to you god oh all right absolutely go ahead this is your time now i mean moments like these are are like the ones that remind me that everything that i've done over the years throughout the four years in high school mainly um or i don't know made it worth it i guess especially with this this year being so difficult for a variety of different reasons you know kovid etc but i i think every single meeting i took something away from from each and every one of you um i think most
043meetings where i didn't say as much or didn't um seem as engaged it was more so me um taking everything in and kind of uh taking it as a learning experience and just learning from each and every one of you because i genuinely look up to all of you and would would hope to be something like like all of you one day um but i'm very proud of the position that i held here and the work that i did and um just sitting alongside um along all of you and and for that i thank you and uh i hope i can come back to future board meetings and and maybe speak on a couple things and and just come back and um just remember all the things that i learned and the the everything that
044i took in so thank you you're welcome and i hope you do come back and that makes it full circle for us right it's our job is to have you go and be ready and off you go and without really with the hopes of making sure that you do come back to your community and to your school district so once again thank you carla all right back to business here on this side of our agenda so we are in item h1 which is the board of education and student board rep uh comments but i think we're i mean all i really have to say for tonight is happy pride month thank you kyla all right uh on 6 221 i attended the student board representative panel where we interviewed three very strong candidates to fill
045the job of student school board rep all three candidates were very impressive and we spent a lot of time debating which of the three to choose on the eighth i attended a virtual parent club meeting for river middle school they had a brief discussion around how money was going to be spent and the status of minutes from prior meetings a couple of parents mentioned they wanted to make sure the money was going to be spent on the students next year and after approving 170 expenditure to secure a mailbox they tabled the open session discussion of their bylaws and adjourned to close session to discuss bylaw changes on the ninth i observed the fit assessment of a few of the rooms at american canyon high school to better understand what goes into this evaluation i then
046toured new napa junction which looked amazing and i bet teachers and parents and students can't wait to move into the new campus i then viewed the ongoing construction at acms to get a feel for the progress on the site and was really impressed with how much had already been accomplished i believe the commons will make a huge difference on that campus and then also on the ninth i attended the virtual open house at mcpherson elementary [Music] thank you jesse reiser [Music] um on june 2nd i also participated in the student board member interview panel um to find who's going to fill carla's shoes and as trustee gracia said we were really impressed with all three of the candidates it was just so heartening to to see you know three intelligent articulate and empowered students wanting
047to be involved at this level um so that was really a nice experience um later on that day on june 2nd i listened in and attended the middle school boundary redesign community input session and just was happy to see another district example of getting stakeholder input on you know decision making and making sure that questions are answered and um you know things that are might be unclear clarified for our parents when when a big change such as the one that we're facing um is going into effect um at the same time that the student board member interview panel was happening i missed it live but then watch the recording later of the colloquium on grading for equity and was really impressed uh watching that video back to hear about the work that our teachers are
048doing in really looking carefully uh at their grading practices and engaging in really organic and authentic action research cycles in which they're you know really questioning what grading is for and who does it serve and how can we maximize the work that teachers put in in giving you know feedback to kids so that it makes the most meaningful impact and even more importantly how can we build students um sort of internal motivation um and understanding that their their learning is for their own um their own empowerment and it was we just heard some really really exciting things from the four teachers that pres that presented and i just want to thank all the teachers that participated in this round one of that process it's really exciting to see how our district is supporting educators in
049their professional growth and also how our district is engaging in um asking difficult questions and and making changes so that we aren't just doing things because we've always done it that way um so looking with a critical eye to you know better serve our students on june 3rd and 4th i attended the final two sessions of the california school board association's masters and governance course along with my fellow trustees so i am now a master in governance um the last session was focused on community relations and advocacy which of course is such an important part of my position here as part of this board and i'm grateful to the district for for providing us and encouraging us to to engage in that work so that we can better serve the community um and then today
050this morning i uh participated in the american canyon or not participated but was sort of an observer an ex-officio member as an elected official of the american canyon chamber of commerce government affairs committee and i just really wanted to give a shout out to the chamber of commerce president and ceo valerie zizak murray she is also an nvusd parent and she was reporting about um the amazing fundraising that they have been doing in american canyon that has benefited directly our nvusd schools um they've uh in particular she they stepped in um to fundraise because schools like acms was not able to hold their casino night which was their annual big fundraiser to fund their pto and so to date they have donated five thousand dollars to uh nvusd schools in american canyon um and trustee
051chu was able to break that down for me even further she said fifteen thousand dollars went to the acms pto and almost 7 000 to the american canyon high school vapa program so just a lot of gratitude uh for the american canon community for supporting their students our students in that way and just one more detail on that is that i think they've already had one but they um the president is uh is told us about a a series of street fairs called meet me on the block that are going to be i think there already was one already in june but they're june july and august with food trucks live music and then the chamber is selling beer and wine to raise funds for local efforts they also do other other community based local
052donations like uh restocking the food pantry shelves and um distributing ppe um back toward the start of the pandemic and they are um in the process of incorporating as a 501c3 to make a you know to start a foundation that will then be ongoing in those efforts to support uh the community and in particular our schools so that was awesome to hear thank you um i too went to the uh grading for equity um panel um well virtually and i and four teachers um gave presentations that were you know very very interesting i was particularly taken by kendra parsons she teaches math at new tech high and uh possibly because this is definitely not my field so i was you know really paying attention to her and um you know i thought it was really
053interesting because she was um it was clear that she was you know moving out and doing something differently from what had gone before um uh to the point of leaving off some of the things that had always been in their grading rubric because um you know it was perhaps uh grading on behavior you know things that had nothing to do with academics and i thought that was um i really appreciated it i thought it was very bold and um she was really and it was clear that she and the other teachers were looking really hard at their practices and you know for her to speak out loud about it and all that and um i haven't been to too many places i've been reading i did read internment and then it made me reread another
054um dystopian novel slanted for young people called after that you can have and um i thought a lot about that i've been doing a lot of reading and then i took a spin down to american canyon and it wasn't it wasn't formal or anything but um i like to go down and look at birds and and um and i took a look at napa junction and that is one beautiful elementary school we should all be very proud of it and i think i think that's it so i was the third interviewer for the student board rep for next year was very difficult choice they all came from very with very different strengths and we value all of those strengths so it was very um tough we spent much time deliberating so um looking forward to
055to that announcement um i also listened in on the community middle school boundary meeting on the second and also listen to the recording of the grading for equity which was just fantastic i have to say that that is i love that the focus on professional development because that really just makes our foundation of our school district that much stronger for all of our students and that i can say that my son so at acms the science department is working on grading for equity across the board and their department and my son's favorite teacher this year is a science teacher and i think it it's partly that the feedback that he's getting is really making him feel like that's where he wants to grow so i really appreciate the direction that the school district is going
056um on the 3rd and the 4th of june i also along with trustee reiser and trustee dooley attended the california school board master in governance course number five so happy to report that one of the highlights was actually uh and with actually also um tracy jankowicz one of the highlights was actually um us talking about the equity work that of our district um and that was very well received by other trustees because they were all trying to work towards having an equity policy having a resolution and we've been doing that all along here so um you know we're we're where we should be and we're going towards where we will be better um and yesterday i attended the participated in the board advisory finance committee along with um trustee jankowicz and trustee gonzalez morris and
057we'll report on that later and um on a personal note i signed my two kids and myself up for the napa county library reading program it's it's a wonderful program to really encourage kids to read lots of resources out there the school district provides soraa and all those online books so i highly encourage everyone to sign up for that um my third grade former third grade teacher here will will appreciate that my third grader is actually ahead of the game because you can actually in in the program you can basically have an internal ranking of everybody who's participating in your family so he's ranked number one right now probably because he's really into harry potter books so i'm really appreciative of napa county library system for having that especially for our kids and that's all
058i have to report so i uh on june 2nd i attended the colloquium on grading for equity and i you know echo what my fellow trustees have said it's been it was very great to see the the unique approaches that teachers were taking to address the same you know issues obviously in different subject matter uh courses but um i think the the process the way that this process is is is being approached by the this cohort of teachers is is it allows for experimentation um thoughtful uh approaches to how to assess growth and um and subject matter mastery and and uh but how to to get the students there how to to help them along that process and my my daughter's uh teacher was one of the um presenters and so um i got to
059to get some insight into um her her grading process uh as well so you know it was great to see that work being done i also was at the masters in governance courses the csba course number five and we graduated on the friday there was a graduation ceremony so i got to pull out my cap and wear it on the zoom screen um but i i you know as trustee two mentioned we had four members of our board at these courses they actually had to make sure that we weren't all in the same breakout rooms to avoid brown act issues but we our district is well represented and we were very engaged uh and i think there was a lot of um a lot of people were reaching out to us for information both about
060the grading for equity about equity policies and um you know i think now that we have an entire board of made graduates um you know it reflects not only the um you know achievement and and focus of this of the group of trustees but also the focus on good governance that we've put into place as a district so um i'm happy to be a part of that um and lastly i just you know wanted to repeat what student board magana mentioned about pride month it's a very uh a very important time to ensure that we are are a safe space for uh students staff members of the public parents to make sure that that they feel safe on our campuses in our um classrooms and i you know i i want to ensure that that
061feeling of safety is not just during june um it's it's it's a visibility uh month but it should uh it should follow throughout the year whether it's designated as such on the calendar or not so thanks thank you um most of my activities have been this this week um but in my mind i am thinking um right now about our high schoolers who will be graduating next week and man what a year it's been um and um and the only i think reflection i have is because i don't know what it's like to be a high schooler during these times i know for many years ago and uh and many of you know that i recently hiked the the grand canyon so i feel like i can summarize what maybe this year felt and this
06219 hour hike that i experienced and i felt like this one period when we were hiking seven miles and it was like 102 degrees that felt like maybe the senior year right like the hot box like intense where i needed my sister and my husband and water and the river i mean just all and then you're completely immersed because there's also no reception so you're you're in it with yourself you're in it with nature and you're just reflecting a lot and it was one of the most difficult things i've done in my life in in hiking and um and it was a great first day off and i can't remember the last time i took a day off so um i was just reflecting a lot about that and um and i don't know what
063it's like to be you know a student but i can certainly um empathize with how hard it you know life can be and um on something that you want to achieve right just like you want to achieve your high school degree it's difficult and just like i wanted to achieve this height in my life so it's just i commend you know you want me and i look at you because again as we're saying like through you we see many of our seniors and many of our students um getting through this through this school year um [Music] so that's one comment that i had and then uh earlier this week we also met with um latin latin and leaders uh dr mercede and i um to talk about um you know future plants with um discussion
064on the harvest middle school property um also with english learner programs um the audit that um we'll see you know later in our and on our future board meeting um about the middle school language uh academy um and then other program updates that we were sharing of the summer school programs and expansions and so on um and then any you know budget updates this was an agenda that um dr masetti thought like i can update on this and then there are really great questions uh one good question about our ethnic studies program right and um so it's just been a reminder that how busy of a year it's been that just the fact that we opened our schools it that in itself is a huge accomplishment that required all hands on deck and just the
065fact that we're able to do even more just still to this day amazes me because um we all know how very hard um the administration and our teachers and our are certified and classified all have worked very hard uh to get us where we at so but um something to put in our radar so that was good it's always good to check in with leaders and and have them remind us or or or just see or just more so just let us know um this is what we're thinking you know and what are some of the updates so really appreciated those conversations and then um as trustee chu mentioned um along with trustee jankowicz we were at the finance committee which we'll report later and i just want to um also do a just special
066thanks to dr maseni um and um assistant superintendent pat edna jennings with all their hard work and dedication and creating not only um as we have mentioned before we've had a resolution and we have our our our policies but that um how do we convert um pride into action right and um in in symbolic ways right such as very cool logo that we have um i think you know i've had people requested like because one of the things with with us queer folks is that we love the flag very much and we love the colors very much and we want to wear them all the time and so anything that um has us to wear something socks bracelets anything we will wear them and so and so you know i'm excited that we got this
067something in the future to think about because i think it just creates this amazing um rainbow um love that we all are seeking from each other and you know what better way than to um you know support all of us because it does include um all of us in this um whether you're lgbtq or or not um it's it's about inclusivity it's about bringing everybody together um so really um proud of our district um it takes you know time and it takes a lot of communication and takes a lot of learning um and a lot of listening from our advocates as well which i also would like to thank them um lgbtq connection as well as the rainbow action network and that it's a it's also a journey of learning um even in language one
068of the new things um in recognizing your privilege as well as an english speaker myself um a lot of our lgbt communities especially spanish speakers let's say in latin nexus is really um at the beginning seen as an inclusive word but something that spanish speakers cannot pronounce and in fact when you survey spanish speakers they don't even know what latinx means so it's an english language change that got imposed versus the other way around so it reminds you again even within the lgbtq community how important it is about inclusivity and so there's actually more research where um just very quickly with with um remote action network working with a student who's actually getting their doctorate degree on how do you make gender-neutral terms in spanish and there's actually a teacher i think it's uh in
069oakland who is practicing using the e so you use latine mexicane [Music] and so the e is easier to pronounce and easier to say than if you would if i asked my mom to say latinx she'd be like okay like i'm not gonna say that i don't know how to say that and so um so it's really interesting so it's an evolving language right and so that's something that um i look forward to um including um beginning to include that in my conversations as we look at pride month as also as a learning institution we can we always continue to learn um about each other so happy pride month um but as christie dooley said it should be all year round um it is for me and um so thank you to the board again
070for your leadership and everybody for for that leadership as well and one day we all will be celebrated i picked out the window because i had been out of town and uh it was nice to see the rainbow flag can't wait for a little bit of wind to see the american flag and the rainbow flag and everybody kind of showing their colors okay all right are we good with updates here all right okay right so now we are going to go and move forward with board representative reports so we'll start with curriculum and students and student support committee we have not yet met facilities and technology committee we have not yet met and then finance committee we met yesterday and we will have a presentation today um but i i want to say that i
071think we were all struck by the increasing special education dollars and it continues to increase even though we're having declining enrollment so that's something to keep in mind and as we as we're thinking about the budget yeah yeah i think interesting that the private primary agenda item was the budget which is going to be um presented later today so we'll we'll save those comments for them okay policy committee we have not met special education community advisory committee we have not met city of american canyon liaison representatives we haven't met we have not met not met okay and then city of napa liaison representatives okay thank you in town of youngville we have not yet met thank you trustee russia all right so now superintendent and executive staff great um thank you president gonzalez so um
072good evening nbusd board of education trustees and community at large it's hard to believe but we only have one more board meeting to go after tonight so congratulations tonight's agenda just like the last one has so many items that positions the napa valley unified school district to do great work on behalf of our students in the upcoming 21 22 school years you prove items that are really going to set us up for the upcoming school year which we're really really excited about because we're anticipating it to be in almost normal conditions as i've shared probably every board meeting since um i've come to learn that those will be the conditions um tonight i just like the trustees have many have mentioned i just want to pause take a moment and to speak to nvusd's commitment
073to diversity equity and inclusion as many of you know the napa valley unified school district raised lgbtq rainbow flags at district offices and its 28 school sites on june 1st we're very very proud about this initiative and effort in celebration of and in solidarity with the lgbtq and the usd community flags will be displayed through june 18th we also unveiled my as has been mentioned the new pride version of our logo which you see here tonight on display right it's been shown already on our t-shirts um raising the flag along with the adoption of the new pride version of the nvusd logo our actions aligned with the district's equity policy and non-discrimination anti-harassment policy as well as board resolution 19-30 that was adopted in june of 2019. this flag is not just a symbol but
074rather a powerful statement that says here in the napa valley unified school district we are an inclusive community who welcomes all no one should have to leave who they are at the entrance of our schools but instead should feel that they can bring their whole self to school and work every day and every time so in honor of that um happy pride month i'm just on a side note um related to this effort the district has also recently completed a comprehensive diversity equity and inclusion dei and talent blueprint that will be presented to the board at the upcoming june 24th board meeting so we look forward to bringing that plan forward as well in relation to all of those policies initiatives and work that we are leading i also want to take a moment tonight
075to thank the staff at river school for their time and collaboration yesterday afternoon assistant superintendent pat andrew jennings and myself met with the certificated and classified staff yesterday to discuss how to better support staff and school communities at large particularly middle school communities at large in the 21 22 school year as we prepare for major transitions at all of our middle schools to be implemented in 2223 it was helpful to listen and learn from the river staff as they shared feedback and suggestions for community building and the relationship building that will need to happen after experiencing the impacts of some of the difficult decisions related to the middle school redesign process again thank you to principal kathy adams and the river staff for the opportunity to have productive and authentic dialogue i also want to
076take a brief moment to recognize the instructional services division who are working so hard at work um who are working so hard i'm sorry get getting ready to launch our expanded summer learning program i feel like every time i run into somebody in the hallway these days um out from the school sites who are coming here to the ed center i'm like oh it's so great to see you what are you doing here and they say oh we're here working on summer school so um that's a really good thing um there's a lot of programming that's going to be launched after we get through graduations and closures of this year we really don't get much of a power down we we dive right into that summer school programming and i know that um the the
077leadership and instructional services division is working really hard to make that a a flawless opening so thank you for that this evening as we say farewell to carla i also want to congratulate our newly selected student board representative miss emily bitt she is from american canyon high school and the alternate jimena alvarez barra from napa high school i spoke to both selected candidates on the phone last week and i am excited about bringing them in for in-person this summer for training and an orientation we look forward to working with emily and ximena and like the trustees have mentioned who participated in this election process i'd just like to express my gratitude thank you to trustees riser chu and gracia who held the interviews led the selection process as they have mentioned it's always amazing to
078see our youth step up for these critical leadership roles in our nbusd community i also want to thank our nvusd maintenance and operations team and our high school administrative teams in particular i've been getting sneak previews of our preparations for our high school graduations next week and i am so excited this is my favorite time of year it's the why behind what we do being a part of those beautiful traditional ceremonies where our young people celebrate the incredible milestone with their families is one of the best aspects of our jobs i'm thrilled that our graduations will be taking place under almost totally normal circumstances so congratulations to carla to the whole class of 2021 and i also hope our eighth fifth and kindergarten students have enjoyable promotion ceremonies as well like has been mentioned i
079want to recognize that on this school board now through the completion of the masters in governance program by trustee janquitz chu riser and dooley last week we can now say that the nvusd school board is all certified trained graduated the california school boards association rigorous masters masters in governance program which equips school board trustees with the knowledge and skills to build and support effective governance structure trustees take courses that cover topics such as foundations of effective governance policy student learning an achievement human resources collective bargaining school finance and community relations really light topics and um you know i don't i just want to the community to know um you know i've worked with different compositions of school boards over the last decade and it is not to be taken for granted that you have seven
080trustees who are willing to take up their weekends and in addition to the hard work that they do um as a trustee you know just dealing with board meetings a couple times a month a month and all the activities in between to also um assume um the responsibility of completing this program um it just we cannot take it for granted so i want to express my gratitude i'm a very proud superintendent that i get to sit up here with seven school board members willing to make that time investment to ensure that they are educated on these critical topics that are involved in the governance of a school district so super proud of of all of you um on a personal note all the moms of college students might be able to relate i'm super excited
081my soon to be 20 year old sophia who's a sophomore at the university of chicago is coming home for the summer on saturday in less than 48 hours i'm not counting um before she leaves again for a year abroad in london so i'm really excited to soak her up and have her home the next couple of months as i finish up cancer treatment and get through surgery this summer so welcome home soph and with that i'm going to invite my assistant superintendents to share their reports about the important work taking place in their respective divisions so thank you for your time and i look forward to seeing everybody at graduations next week again so let's start off tonight with miss dana page our assistant superintendent of human resources good evening president gonzalez morris board of
082trustees dr mastedi and student representative magana staffing and hiring for next school year has picked up steam in june and i'm very happy to report that we were able to offer positions to all of the teachers who were laid off this year currently we are hiring from our temporary teacher list and will continue to do so as additional resignations and retirements emerge so we hope to have more of our temporary teachers back for for next year as well in other great news napa county office of ed announced their teacher of the year award and nbosd had two finalists we'd like to congratulate summerheart from achs and sheri blades from phillips elementary school and we look forward to celebrating with our teachers and the teacher who was selected for teacher of the year award from calistoga
083school district with napa county office of ed in an in-person event to be announced in the fall we also have our nvusd classified employee of the year recognition culminating this week we had 31 nominations submitted from all over the district and a committee has selected one individual in eight different categories so eight winners eight categories those are clerical technology nutrition services maintenance custodial instructional support transportation and in other category which just goes to show how diverse our classified employees are all those different types of employees and the different contributions they make to our district tomorrow director of human resources elizabeth gonzalez and myself will be out and about in nvusd to surprise the winners and we'll follow with the district-wide announcement and share the good news with everybody finally we are waiting with much anticipation
084as osha finalizes their regulations for employees in light of new cdc and california department of public health coveted guidelines once those are final and usd leaders in the district and with our bargaining groups we'll work together to understand the impacts of these guidances on employees and gina de luca our assistant director of hr who has done an incredible job interpreting and implementing guidance since the fall of 2020 we'll prepare a new summary and any other necessary plans and communications for our staff so that all employees can understand what the new regulations are from our friends at osha thank you and this concludes my report thank you miss page um next i'd like to invite assistant superintendent pat andrew jennings who oversees the instructional services division to share her report good evening can everyone hear me
085my internet is am i clear we can't okay uh good evening president gonzalez mars for trustees and dr masetti and student representative magana um congratulations on finishing um this last year uh student representative since our last board meeting i've had the opportunity to attend the laila showcase at napa high i had the privilege to observe two layla students share their work that they did with students um on how to be an ally for lgbqt plus students i was incredibly impressed uh with the work they did to prepare for their for their project they described their use of qualitative and quantitative data in developing the slide presentation they used with students um the also the data they used um was taken from the california healthy kids survey um and that's how they describe their uh qualitative
086quantitative data um the flying of the rainbow flag at our school site signifies that uh that all students belong and represents our district's efforts to create inclusive spaces for all students i want to thank the classroom teacher of the layla program at napa high stephanie trott um for inviting me to the showcase and i look forward to actually visiting the class in person next school year we are in the middle of planning for phase two of the middle school redesign process we are identifying a partner who will help us create a district-wide vision for middle schools also the newly appointed principal of the middle school language academy alejandra urubay has started reaching out to those with expertise in dual language to participate in the design process for the new language academy later this evening i
087will share the local control and accountability plan with the board and the larger in usd community i'm also excited to announce that the napa valley community foundation has granted napa valley unified 25 000 for our district-wide avid implementation so excited to get the funds to assist with that and finally as we enter graduation season i am thrilled to announce that we have 10 students who have worked hard from our alternative special ed program um who have earned diplomas so i'm eager to celebrate that with them um thank you that concludes my report thank you miss andrew jennings uh next i'd like to invite mr rob manguala assistant superintendent of business service to provide his report thank you very much for the opportunity to update the board in the community i will be providing a very
088a long comprehensive update um about the budget later on this evening so i will forego my update uh for other items thank you great thank you mr manguala and um next and last but not least mr mike pearson our assistant superintendent of operational services uh good evening president gonzalez morris mvsd board of education trustees dr mercedes and members of the mbsd community before i begin i do want to give a special shout out to carl magana our student board representative carla i've known you for many years i saw you as a future uh middle school first met you as a future middle school student then a future high school student um i could tell from those bright eyes the maturity the integrity the respect you showed that you were going to be a shining star
089and you have done nothing but but not but but achieve that goal so i i really wish you all the best in the future and i know your next chapter and lives are going to be really great so congratulations on all your on all your leadership uh thank you for an opportunity to provide you with a brief update on operational services uh maintenance and operations leadership staff has held several planning meetings with school skype personnel and and staff in preparation for seven uh graduation ceremonies happening next week on monday june 14th we will have the napa valley independent studies the valley oak high school and the new tech high school graduating students at memorial stadium and in the evening we will do napa valley education valley adult education students at the napa high school gymnasium
090on tuesday june 15th it will be american canyon high school's students graduating and finally on wednesday it'll be napa high school students graduating in the afternoon followed by vintage high school students graduating in the evening working closely with napa county public health all graduation ceremonies will follow a more traditional graduation-like ceremony which is incredible given the circumstances with the exception of no on-field spectator celebrations after each graduation and we look forward to helping create a more memorable experience for our graduating seniors the high hill high school athletic season officially ended last week after a very successful yet abbreviated season high schools will be offering summer conditioning once the school year ends summer conditioning will be following yellow or tier 4 guidance until the california department of public health health issues new guidance for youth sports
091and later this evening prestiges will hear a presentation from american canyon high school leadership about adding boys volleyball next year on wednesday june 19th transportation and food service completed their last home delivery of meals to mbsd families for the 2021 school year as a reminder mbst transportation and food service employees have been working collaboratively every wednesday to deliver uh meals to mbsd families who did not have transportation services and or extenuating circumstances that did not permit them to visit one of our curbside locations and over the school year meals have been provided to over 400 mbsd families on a weekly basis through this collaboration during the upcoming summer school food service will continue to provide mbu students who attend a summer school program a nutritious meal each day and in addition food service will continue
092to provide a curbside option for our mbsd families once a week curbside summer meal locations will be at american canyon high school and memorial stadium parking lot from 4 to 6 pm on mondays and lastly just a shout out to the food service department they provided 200 and over 239 000 meals in april over 270 000 meals in may and the total number of meals served through may 31st this year has been one million five hundred and forty six thousand eight hundred and forty nine so our food service employees are to be commended for their herculean uh effort providing nutritious meals to nbc students um this year and this concludes my report for tonight thank you we hope you heard those applauses um mr pearson impressive thank you okay we are now moving forward with
093approval of consent agenda move to approve second student board rep hi oh we need to do roll call vera please student board member magana aye trustee gonzalez aye trustee jenk witz is absent trustee gracia aye misty reiser aye thank you vera and just um for the public to know that the background information on these items is provided to the board prior to the meeting eight this is a common motion that takes action without discussion and roll call vote unless discussion of items requested by the board members um i will also ask if there's any public comment on any um on the consent agenda mr bassinet we do have a comment i have laura dooley hi board uh thank you for hearing me for a moment i just first of all i wanted to say thank
094you to um mike pearson and the food services and transportation that's literally life-saving work um and i work on two campuses for the district and i've seen it in action and it's very impressive um i would also like to um since we've been talking about pride month quite a lot this evening i would just like to reiterate my hope that the board and the school district would continue to fly the pride flag year round there is extensive evidence that when children lgbtqia children see acceptance and see allies in their daily lives they are far less likely to attempt suicide or to die by suicide and i think that especially with students coming back on campuses with us full-time next year it's a remarkable opportunity for us to really double down triple down even on our
095support for this community as a part of of the nbusd community so thank you thank you for your comment is there another comment on consent um agenda items there's no other public comment okay thank you all right we are now moving forward with [Music] um scrolling down here a bit one second scroll too far here we go now we're on to presentations items j presentations and discussion items so we're going to go with um we'll start with our first item j1a end of the year star assessment data hello can you hear me yes we can excellent thank you let me share my screen [Music] okay all right uh good evening president gonzalez morris trustees dr musetti and student board member magana thank you for the opportunity to update the board and the community on the
096star assessments our district work around assessments falls under our strategic plan goal number one student learning achievement and access specifically it falls under the college and career readiness initiative and the tactic describing the development of a robust and balanced assessment system you may recall that a few months ago california school districts were still expected to give the california assessment of student performance in progress or casp in both english language arts and math as we typically do even though we were in the midst of a pandemic we are very fortunate that the california department of education was able to work with the u.s department of education to allow school districts for this year only to give a locally determined assessment if that assessment was aligned to the common core standards and more viable than administering the
097casp the entire casp assessment takes somewhere between four and a half hours and five and a half hours administering the cast would have proven to be quite difficult in the middle of the coveted pandemic and so we are very lucky that we had access to star assessments which met the requirements established by the cde as a potential replacement for casp on behalf of the nvusd community i would like to thank the board for supporting and approving the star assessment platform back in august at this point students have taken the star assessment screeners three times i'd like to remind the community that we have had an extraordinary year we launched the star assessments while all students were in distance learning so students had to learn to navigate the platform at the start of the year with
098little support teachers and site administrators also had to learn about this new assessment and how to navigate its interface before we start looking at the comparative data i'd like to remind the board and community about some key definitions students who take a star assessment are given a scaled score based on the number of questions answered correctly and the difficulty of those questions and allows us to compare student progress over time and across grade levels students are also given a percentile rank indicating the percentage of other students nationally who obtain scores equal to or lower than that of the particular student for example a student in the 35th percentile in star reading performed better than 35 35 percent of students nationally in the same grade level of that of that student who took the assessment at
099that same time of year [Music] renaissance categorizes students based on their percentile rank students who score better than 40 percent of students nationally in their grade level at that time of the school year are considered at or above benchmark these are the students whose results are in green on the sample report students who score between the 25th and 39th percentile are considered on watch and close to meeting benchmark these are in blue students who score between the 10th and 24th percentile are considered in need of intervention these are in yellow while those who score below the 10th percentile below the 10th percentile are in need of urgent intervention and can be seen in red the national norming used to calculate the percentile ranks is based on historical data from renaissance from previous years and represents
100the expectations of students during a typical school year not during a pandemic remember also that students are expected to earn a higher and higher scaled score as they progress through the school year for example a third grader in the 40th percentile at the start of the school year needs to score a 482 scaled score in the star math test that same student taking the test in the winter would need to score a 523 an increase of 41 points in order in order to remain at the 40th percentile all students were required to take the star reading test except for our youngest students who are still emerging as readers typically our students in grades k2 these students took the star early literacy assessment here we summarized the participation rates for those two tests for the fall
101and winter our goal was 80 participation for the spring assessment we extended the testing window and asked for 95 participation as this is typically the requirement on the casp as you can see we did not have any trouble reaching that 80 participation rate and most schools were able to reach that 95 percent the participation rates that you see here and on the following slides are extraordinary considering the covet pandemic and i would like to acknowledge all of the teachers and site administrators for their hard work the star math test was required for students in grades 1 through 12 and here are the math participation rates this slide shows the percentage of students at elementary sites by grade level who were considered at or above benchmark in the 40th percentile or above for the fall winter
102and spring testing windows for the star reading test the group of sixth graders that you see here are the sixth graders at napa valley language academy again remember that students need a higher scaled score as the school year goes on in order to maintain their percentile rank if you see a drop it may mean that students grew in their learning but that it simply wasn't enough to maintain their percentile rank a student typically has to grow about 40 points between each test to maintain their their percentile rank for example a student who grew 30 points may find themselves with a lower percentile rank but still has progressed in their learning here we have the proficiency rates for star early literacy at the elementary level you will notice a downward trend and we attribute some of
103that to higher scores earlier in the school year when more students were participating in distance learning and took the assessment at home there's also a significant drop at the second grade level this is because most second graders and potentially some kindergartners and first graders typically have reading skills high enough to take star reading we are left with a smaller number of students who are still emerging readers taking the early literacy assessment we had about 200 first and second graders who took the early who took star early literacy earlier in the school year but graduated to the star reading test by the spring i want to celebrate these students who even in the midst of the pandemic grew their literacy skills and became strong enough readers to take star reading to put the second grade achievement
104in perspective we compare second grade star reading to second grade early literacy and include the number of students each bar represents you can see that the total number of students represented by star early literacy is much lower than star reading by the spring only 142 second graders took star early literacy 27 of them scored at benchmark and 115 out of just over 1 000 second graders did not achieve at or above benchmark this is approximately 11 of our second grade students which is fewer than this than the percentage you would expect to need additional support based on intervention tiers the vast majority of second graders have reading skills high enough to take a take a reading assessment or are showing that they are at benchmark on the early literacy assessment here you see the star
105reading proficiency comparisons for middle school the sixth graders here are from all of the middle school sites and exclude the ones at napa valley language academy and these are for high school and we now switch over to the star math test these are the elementary proficiency comparisons again the sixth graders on the slide are from napa valley language academy [Music] and here we have middle schools and the high schools at the last board meeting when i presented about star assessments there were some questions that came up around the performance of our in-person versus virtual students this slide illustrates the student performance between those two groups on the spring assessments the percentages are the students who are at or above benchmark as you can see our in-person students are generally performing better on the assessments than
106our virtual students the most significant exception are our elementary students taking the star early literacy assessment it is it is important to note that just because a student is an in-person student does not necessarily mean that they took the assessment at school similarly we had a small number of cases of virtual students coming to school to complete the star assessments when students log into renaissance they are asked whether they are at school or not this slide breaks down the student performance based on that self-reporting done by students another question that came up at the last board meeting was about how this data correlates to the casp performance renaissance groups students into performance levels based on two sets of benchmark cutoffs the national cutoffs compare student performance to other students across the country and are ideal
107for helping teachers group students for day-to-day instruction and identify students in need of additional supports these national cutoffs are what you've been seeing throughout this presentation the state cut-offs group students into four performance levels similar to how the state places students in four levels after they take the casp and serves as a predictor for how students will perform on the state assessment this chart compares the percentages of students who are nationally at or above benchmark compared to the percentage of students who are likely to meet or exceed standard on the state casp assessment finally i'd like to share with you my favorite data point available from the star assessments and that is the student growth percentile or sgp sgp compares the students growth to that of their peers nationally these peers are students in the
108same grade with a similar achievement history students are given an sgp score from 1 to 99 similar to a percentile rank for example a student with an sgp of 40 from the fall to the spring has shown more growth than 40 percent of their peers in the same grade level with similar scores from the fall students with an sgp less than 35 are showing low growth between 35 and 65 are showing typical growth and greater than 65 are showing high growth we often talk about students showing one year's growth in one year's time and the sgp allows us to truly see if students are growing as expected those with low growth are generally achieving less than one year's growth in one year's time and those with high growth are generally achieving more than one year's
109growth in one year's time the sgp score along with students proficiency levels can allow teachers to group students according to their combinations of growth and proficiency and plan for each group of student of students unique needs the professional learning this year about sgp and proficiency were very popular with site administrators and teachers these pie charts show the percentage of students making growth in the three categories for the star reading test sgp is independent of proficiency a student making low growth could be at or above benchmark and for star reading approximately a quarter of students who are making low growth are actually at or above benchmark and these pie charts illustrate the growth levels for star math just over half of our students making making low growth in math are already at or above benchmark i'm
110also proud to share that we are moving forward with a systematic approach to sharing star data with families after each screening window we are generating and sending out parent a star parent reports from renaissance for early literacy star reading and star math which shares with families a number of key data points included with our communication will be links to detailed explanations of each data point and links to the renaissance website for more information and we'll also be linking links to more information about lexiles and quantiles for any families that wish to dive even deeper into the results i'm proud of the work done this year by our site administrators and teachers to launch this new assessment platform even during a pandemic and i'd like to also acknowledge the amazing work done by the data and
111assessment team who set up this platform at the start of the year provided technical support to teachers and students throughout the year and prepared and analyzed the data after each screening window we look forward to continued use of this excellent tool thank you that concludes my presentation and i will open it up for questions and comments thank you um questions thomas kate christie gracia yep uh so my first question is do you have an explanation for why early literacy scores were better online versus in person and why middle school math online outperformed in person yes thank you for asking that question because that is um there's a big discrepancy there at the start early literacy level uh and um as we launched the assessment we actually have been getting some anecdotal feedback from teachers that
112students our youngest students who have been struggling with the technology at home have been getting a little bit more assistance at home in using the technology and potentially answering the questions and so we believe that the scores especially earlier on in the year have been a little bit higher for early literacy and we expect those to adjust a little bit moving into next year when all students are taking the assessments at school under the supervision of their teachers and why is at home literacy so much more successful than in class uh i'm sorry i thought i might have confused your question so i think that is the result of a similar uh situation where students that are at home um with their parents or are potentially getting a little bit more support um so we
113see that discrepancy for at home versus at school uh and also for the virtual uh versus um in-person uh students so we see a similar trend in both groups of students gotcha based on the student growth percentile i find those results to be rather concerning i worry that we're not adequately setting expectations for our students it appears we're not setting high enough expectations for student achievement which is preventing more of our students from growing at a higher level we had more than 40 percent of our students being at a slow growth rate and despite the fact that some of those might be meeting um the grade level standard they're still if they're slow growth not making one year's growth in one year's time so we lack adequate challenges apparently for those who have already met
114the grade level standard and i'm very concerned about those vast numbers of slow growth yes thank you for illuminating that and i i think that is that's something that uh we'll need to work with our instructional division on a little bit more as we uh dive deeper into that and and see um what we can do to support the students who are uh potentially not not making as much growth as we would like them to be making so thank you for that comment and on that same note i'd be curious just a little bit on the demographic breakdown of the student growth you know the sgp and um which of our students are the ones on the low growth uh percentile of that um i did have a question um also i saw that the
115um parent report is that also available in multiple languages yes thank you for for asking that question so we can clarify so the the beautiful thing about that report that comes from renaissance is it is uh able to be translated in uh both english and spanish and so um over the last few days my team has actually been in the process of generating those reports in the proper correspondence language and preparing them for being being sent out to families so we're really looking forward uh to getting those out to folks very soon great thank you um trustee water did you want to um i would prefer that uh the test scores were all you know 99th percentile uh but at the same time this has been a really peculiar year and i've i've even had
116parents say why are we even giving tests at all and i said well because the state wants us to of course um that's why we're doing it and you know you give a test you're going to learn something from the results but um i know that uh we have absolutely no idea what the circumstances were of many of our students and i i don't want to say let's ignore the results because you know i'm i am i am concerned but at the same time i'm going to say that we've never had a year like this before and uh when i'm looking at the percentage of people who took the students who took the tests i am tipping my hat at um at the kids for being such good sports and being so willing even if
117some of them did get a little a little bit of extra help at home it's not like they were trying to get into usc or anything i mean you know come on what have we learned about people in the last couple years and um so i'm going to you know file this away and i'm going to hang on to this and you know i'm going to compare it to what you know next year this time next year we'll see what we've got but i i just look at the numbers of the percentage of kids who took the test you know bless their hearts trustee dooley um i so i'm looking at the proficiency comparisons and i appreciate that uh this shows the level of at which our students are meeting the grade level um what
118i'd like to see i think in as we we look into next year as well um is looking at the um the other kind of performance levels being able to see how many students are on watch like how close we are to getting to the benchmark level how many you know how much what percentage are are in the intervention categories just so we get a better sense of where that where the bell curve peaks um if we're we're peaking at um the you know the the on watch level we know kind of how much we need to move that bell curve toward toward the grade level so um just kind of in in future i'd i'd like to see that that kind of breakdown as well but i i i agree with both trustee water
119and trustee gracia there's a lot of room for growth here a lot of areas that we can establish an expectation that that challenges students both from a you know both those students who are are at or above the benchmark and those who who um you know are in need of of more intervention services i think we we have some areas of growth there but we also know that this is a a strange year to be measuring our progress as a as you know as a district so um there's some caveats to looking at this data that we need to keep in mind so just eraser thank you um i just want to reiterate that context is everything when we look at this kind of data and um to to restate what trustee water has said
120and and what dr abud said in in his presentation um we can't just look at this like this is a normal set of data from a normal school year and not only were teachers and students navigating a new assessment platform altogether they were also all navigating new instructional platforms all together so the way that you become proficient is through your instruction and we asked by necessity our teachers to embrace and learn entirely new ways of teaching both with the materials the virtual instruction materials that we were lucky enough to provide for them that they then had to learn learn to use themselves and then teach the kids to use um and then also the other piece of the context is with the hybrid model um nobody had a full school day with in person instead
121with uh synchronous instruction all day so the fact that we had more than half of our students in language arts and math at all grade spans more than half showed growth is incredible to me it it i just i really want to underscore the the um that we can't look at these numbers as if these were a regular set of data um and uh to also add that not only was there only half of a day of synchronous time but um for the majority of our students that synchronous time was virtual so the number of sort of filters and hurdles that our students and teachers had to to go through together in order to achieve learning and growth were enormous and so yes i understand that that it's concerning to have low proficiency levels that
122this data reflects and i share those concerns but these are not concerns that we are not that we're dismissing their concerns that we are actively taking steps to address um and also we i think and correct me if i'm wrong dr abud but i believe that these proficiency percentiles are based on the data of a regular year so we don't actually have data to compare our students nationally to how other kids did this year with virtual learning and pandemic circumstances and all of the challenges and stressors and obstacles to um progress and obstacles to engagement also which i think is really um should be emphasized as well you know i visited classrooms in elementary and middle and saw teachers working incredibly hard to engage their kids via zoom and i have two children that spent
123most of this school year uh doing virtual school the for the whole their whole uh school time and i know from there and how difficult it is to remain engaged when you're sitting for hours with a laptop um and i just know personally from having done the csba trainings for you know they're even just four hour blocks that we had but it it's a challenge to maintain your concentration and your engagement and your focus and your commitment so i despite the fact that some of these numbers um are not where we wish that they would be i think that the context of the challenges the myriad challenges that our teachers and students had to overcome to finish this year at all never mind showing growth and showing proficiency and as trustee water pointed out showing
124you know their willingness to participate and and do their best on these assessments uh i also would have preferred that we not do standardized assessments this year in this extraordinary year like no other so um i just want to express my gratitude to the students for hanging in there tk to for the teachers for hanging in their tk to 12 and for our instructional team and assessment team for um really supporting and assisting them um and i i know that we will take the lessons that we need to take from this data moving forward um and i i'm just grateful that we have the the capacity and the um the the desire for for student achievement that we do on this board and across nvusd with our team so i have similar feelings about standardized
125tests this year as well i mean it's just kind of not fair for our students to be judged at this point um but i am very grateful for the fact that we do have this star assessment because without it we would be waiting for until fall to know whether our kids are doing well or not and that was the case in previous years when i would wait um you know about what what did my kid do are they at you know level or what can i help them with and i think that's something that i think the star assessment really excels and i'm really grateful that we have this tool this year i mean if i were looking at this data as a scientist i would say each and every time you took this the
126kids took the test it is not comparable to the next or the previous because the conditions of which they took it could have changed the population of students who took it online versus in person changed tremendously in the three periods so um you know we have to take that with a little grain of salt as well but um i am i am comforted by the fact that we do see growth and that was one of the questions i had last time is do we see the growth in these kids and i'll say that one of my kids did tremendous growth the other one and one subject not so well but that's okay because you know this year i give them a pass i think they did the best that they could and and we just
127go with the flow um i do want to ask one thing is um for the comparison with the cast state benchmarks and i think uh this number i pulled out from the lcap for all of our students in mbusd it was that for under would have been 42 percent for state benchmarks uh predicting the cast performance and 31 for the math i'm sorry 42 for reading and 31 for math do we have a comparison from the last time that casp was given because that would kind of give us an idea of what we might consider learning loss i guess it would be one indicator uh yeah thank you that's a great question so the last time that we have comprehensive casp data is from the spring of 2019 um and that's actually um that we
128can pull for you and i believe it's also included in ms andrew jennings lcap so um it is a couple years old but it could potentially give us an idea of how our students might be doing but it is from the spring of 2019 i think i see it here so um for the state it was 48 for reading and 34 35 for math and actually that difference is a lot less than what i would think would happen during this pandemic year um which is really actually good in my book i mean i was really thinking that the loss would have been a lot more so um i i think we're still continuing to provide instruction given this difficult time and so i i really think that it's it's okay and i think you know
129this year um as a parent i'm not going to stress about my kids test results and i hope the parents of nbusd don't either because i think they'll catch up very fast any other questions yeah one one more i i just wanted to follow up on requests for next year that mr trustee dooley had mentioned um next year we will have for the first time the ability to compare year-to-year data and watch a cohort move from grade to grade so i'm interested in both of those things how second graders this year versus next year do and you know then similarly how a cohort that maybe was in first grade is doing the following year in second grade so i i hope to see some of that when we see this next year thank you we
130can absolutely prepare the data in that way for the future it's a great suggestion i also have a follow-up to trustee gracia i'd like to see other groups broken down as well the kids that we might need to have better intervention if we could track them as well it looks like this is a great tool to be able to do that so if we could work on that as well certainly okay um i will ask from any more questions or comments do i have any comment from the public mr bassinet uh we do have public comment uh norma ortiz hi i was listening to the report thank you for sharing um just out of curiosity um under uh a parent perspective is this is the star that um the star assessment that is being used
131like more user friendly than the r i and mi [Music] in regards to the reports to the parent reports will they be easy to follow and something that perhaps i missed or i didn't hear much about was uh regarding the star spanish the focus in regards to the function uh the functionality in regards to like the dual immersion schools for bilingual students so understanding and like interpreting the students growth and achievement again under the parent lens so it would have been nice to kind of get more details on that and i also appreciate that mr abboud i sent him an email back in uh november of 2020 just to get more information and he also followed up with me on a phone call to give me more information about all the the star assessments and
132um uh just the tool itself as an assessment so i appreciate that just those highlights for now thank you thank you for your comment do i have another comment um mr bassinet there's no public comment for this item okay thank you all right we are now moving to our next uh presentation this is um the 2021 um thank you trustee it's good to be in person because then your fellow board member reminds you you should take a break cause i'm on a roll here um let's take a break and uh we'll be returning back in in five minutes so thank you all right we are coming back thank you everybody for letting us um do a stretch here um so now i'm continuing to with item j1b 2021-22 public hearing budget presentation and i will
133invite our assistant superintendent of business services rob walla please uh mr bassinet can you please start the presentation thank you very much good evening thank you for the opportunity to update the board and the community about our budget next slide please as backgrounds school districts are required to adopt a budget and two interim reports we're also required to certify if our budget is positive qualified or negative i will recommend a positive certification tonight next slide please due to the pandemic the revenue outlook has been like a roller coaster for over the last year one year ago today we adopted a budget with a historic decrease in revenues today we're adopting a budget with a historic increase to per pupil funding the national and state economies are on firm footing and indicate a v-shaped recovery which
134means that there will likely be a rapid economic recovery and we will not have a prolonged recovery like we did during the great recession however many sectors of the economy such as the service sector are still struggling however from the tax revenue perspective revenues are anticipated to be higher than they were pre pandemic next slide please gross domestic product or the total value of goods produced and services provided in the country during one year also indicates a very rapid recovery from an economic standpoint next slide please as we spoke about in the second interim assets in california such as real estate and the stock market have risen significantly during the beginning of the pen during the beginning of the pandemic this is a large driver of the increase in tax receipts next fight please we
135are also uh currently experiencing very substantial inflation as it can be seen in this graph the big question is how long will this continue or it would naturally correct itself this will potentially lead to increased costs for consumers and the school district eventually this will can and usually leads to the federal reserve raising interest rates or decreasing their participation in the bond market historically raising interest rates result in decreased stock market returns which means that there will be a decrease in revenues next slide please tax receipts have substantially improved or greater than pandemic levels as i mentioned in the previous slides the budget proposal includes a cost of living adjustment per lcff revenue of five point zero seven percent seven percent for twenty one twenty two two 2.48 percent for 22.23 and 3.11 for 23.24
136next slide again the the risk in the market right now for inflation is very real signals in the bond market indicate you know potentially inflation in the system and what are some of the causes the federal reserve has very easy money right now meaning that interest rates are low multi trillion dollar aid packages are working their way through the system um and again the our tax system is very dependent on capital gains we'll have to watch this very very closely so this is the challenge that we have from an economic standpoint moving forward next slide please so in terms of some of the highlights in in the budget again there are some very positive things um cost of living adjustments like i mentioned in the previous slides eventual for funding for tk for all four-year-olds
137next year will be a a planning year however there there is a proposal to bring tk for all four-year-olds over time um additional state funding for student meals and school kitchens funding for expanded after-school programming investments in educator workforce and to help build a teacher pipeline college saving accounts for eligible pupils however as as of today the june deferral is still part of the proposal next slide please uh this is a very busy slide but i i would like to focus your attention uh under 2122 mr bassinet if you just kind of take your cursor and put that other under 2122 there please up towards the left there you go so as you this slide what it does is it attempts to show a comparison of per student growth and revenues for ada versus expenditures
138so the per per student growth is about 534 dollars uh which includes a 5.07 mega cola however on the expenditure side you can see that that a lot of that in in some cases where you have a large special education contribution um the expenses actually exceed the increase in revenues so we have step and column which is an increase in salary that our employees get as they kind of progress through the south the salary scale um inc proposed increases disturbs emperors um an unprecedented increase to the rate of unemployment insurance and then increase costs due to special education next slide please so speaking of special education we do need to walk continue to watch our special agent costs very slowly it indicates that while special education funding has decreased over time our costs in our
139school district continue to increase at a fairly rapid rate and so we do need to look at this closely closely this rate of increase is not sustainable as a school district next slide so enrollment has declined at the district level and the state level and what this graph shows is it shows that even even though the state anticipated a loss of about 20 to 30 000 students the actual decline in enrollment at the state level was 160 000 students so again we are very anxious we're looking at the fall we we did have our demographer redo our numbers and and compare very closely to our numbers in aries um it's definitely a moving target we are seeing um rapid unenrolled we have students rapidly unenrolling in our school district and we're seeing a pretty significant
140number of families moving out of state so again we'll watch this very closely next time please so um this slide shows the decline enrollment that we have in our school district going back to 2016-17 and as a reminder it does include all known building in the area so this is not based on our projection again the going back 20 from 2021 those are historic historical actual numbers going forward three years for the budget cycle the these are numbers that our demographer has worked on and again has updated them as recently as within the last month and includes all known building including napa pipe and watson ranch next slide please so for this slide what this site attempts to capture is the true cost of declining enrollment and so when you when you look at declining
141enrollment and think about declining enrollment the cost of living adjustment can hide the true cost of declining enrollment and so when you look across that top row you can see that our revenues are anticipated to be 169 million 174 million 179 million and 23.24 if we held our ada or enrollment constant but then when you go down a row and you adjust to what we think our revenues will be based on the decline enrollment it goes from 169 million to 165 and then 167 so you can see there's a very very steep drop from 2122 to 2223 that's due to the whole harmless ada that's left over from the pandemic but in terms of actual loss revenues we're looking at an 8.4 million dollar loss in 2223 and then a 12.3 million dollar loss in
142or a total of 20.7 million dollar loss as anticipating due to declining enrollment over the this budget cycle next slide please so in this slide i want to talk about something new that's potentially coming up and so it's called the a reserve cap to uncommitted reserves and so i wanted to provide clarity to the board and so since the main revision estimated the total deposits to the state is it is up to 4.6 million dollars it triggers a fairly new law that originally attempted to kind of put a cap on district reserves delaying the language around that law was changed as you'll see as we kind of get down to my later slides there is a huge need for reserves that exceed 10 um again as a school district we have the ability to to
143commit those reserves and have them above 10 next slide so again the the reserve cap it only applies um to non-committed reserves so if we commit the reserve it absolutely does not apply um what we could do for example is we could commit reserves to help offset the costs or to create stability in a declining enrollment environment because again when you have this huge decline enrollment or drop in revenues you need time to execute on the policy um to right size the district or you risk going bankrupt next slide so what this slide shows is the average reserve for a school district so reserves during the pandemic across the state have gone up that's that's gone for a number of reasons but again looking at this slide you can see that the average reserve for
144a unified school district is 18.82 while reserves have gone up fairly substantially they are nowhere near 18.82 next slide so this is a historic analysis for reserve um you can see again in 2017-18 we're around 3.69 percent so we're hovering um right by the minimum we're on the verge of bankruptcy you can see how we've built up our reserve over over time in this declining enrollment environment due to the policy decisions we've made such as reducing staff right-sizing the district through you know through closure of schools and facilities and through other things the other thing that i want to point out too again part of the reason that our reserves have gone up substantially since since in this short time since second interim is due to again when you when you run a school district
145in a pandemic it is typically less expensive especially when you're virtual we anticipate that for this coming year all of its expenses will come back and then also as a reminder a reserve is one-time money once you spend the money it's gone next slide so uh we will be recommending that the board adopt a resolution in the 22-23 school year to commit reserves above 10 to lessen the impact of declining enrollment additional information about this will follow next slide so this is probably the most important slide this is the budget summary there's a lot of things to talk about on this slide again looking at the revenues going across the top line you can see that our revenues in in the base year 174 million drop and then pick back up a little bit so
146on the expense side you can see our expenses continuing to kind of go up uh and then you see this pretty dramatic decrease in fund balance so we go from not having deficit spending to landing in year two with a 7.7 million dollar deficit um this does impact our reserves where you can see the need for having such high reserves that being at 12 in the base year and then we literally dropped to four percent in year three or to put another way if we were the reserves that we're sitting at at second interim at nine percent we wouldn't have the reserves to weather the storm over this decline enrollment over the next three years so again what do reserves do it gives you time to execute on the policy that you need to right-size
147the district and so um we do anticipate on a positive note that with this 7.7 million dollar deficit we're looking at we do anticipate based on what we've read that there will be some policy changes to the actual budget that's adopted that will help address the 7.7 million dollars um i don't think at this point it'll take care of all of it but it will certainly get us within you know striking distance of having a balanced budget as we approach the the 22-23 budget adoption uh next slide please so what are the financial implications so declining enrollment will have a negative impact on revenue for the foreseeable future [Music] enrollment decline decrease due to covet 19 and again great deal of uncertainty we haven't had a pandemic for a hundred years so we just don't
148know what this looks like in the fall both certificate and classified reductions will continue to occur need to occur every year as long as we have declining enrollment we need to make sure and implement the closure of harvest middle school and 22-23 school year again like its second interim the the assumption that we'll get the over million dollars worth of savings is built into the budget so we do need to continue to follow up on that process in terms of school closure and recognize those savings um we may mean we can do to close elementary schools based on an ongoing evaluation of enrollment trends during this three-year budget cycle so again we'll look very closely at this point my recommendation for this item would be to wait to the fall we do need to wait
149and see what enrollment looks like we really don't know if it will how bad the actual enrollment decline will be we'll watch that very closely so again our reserves are below the board policy is 7.5 percent but it's still well below the average for other unified school districts in california next slide please some of the assumptions that go into the budget so we're anticipating an enrollment decline in the enrollment cycle of 1169 students or 331 students 370 students in 468 again the approximate savings from the closure of a middle school is about a million dollars no food services contribution for this year and the out years so due to additional funding so we're we're very happy that work and we're great that mr pearson has been leading up um doing great work over there ensuring
150to not have to make a contribution to food services along with some of the extra money that we receive this year and next year uh the again there's cost of living adjustment as i've mentioned also we put aside money for the compensation formula so napa valley unified has a long and strong history of a collaborative relationship with with our with our bargaining family and we have put aside compensation uh for the formula which again will run the formula in the fall so that will occur once we get the unhonored actuals and then we'll begin our discussions with with our um with our unions and come to a final number and at this point again we do anticipate having a positive compensation number coming out of the formula step and column is is projected to be
151at about 1.5 percent next slide please so on the reduction side we will need to continue to make cuts to staff to adjust for declining enrollment um these are these are numbers based on what we're seeing right now but again they could they could adjust up or they could adjust down depending on actual enrollment so we're looking at 12 teachers and 22 23 and 15 teachers in 2324 a continued reduction of 200 000 and classified open positions from the open position list annually a reduction in management due to declining enrollment and school closure uh and then contributions from the general fund to special education so of about 21 million 23 million and 25 million um as a side note average contribution to special education has increased by about seven percent during this period so again
152we do need to watch that closely that rate is is much higher than the rate of step and column and any compensation increase excellent so recommendations and next steps continue to address declining enrollment build build reserves to lessen the impact on student programs and allow time to execute necessary policy and right side of the district not not for this this budget cycle but for next year we i am recommending that we adopted more policy to commit reserves about ten percent and then also as a as a cabinet team and it's a school district we do need to continue to look at the one-time monies we have um they create great opportunities for students but then also some risky policies so we need to ensure that we mitigate learning loss in a sustainable manner um we
153will we will be adding additional staff but at the at the end of all this one-time money we will have to reduce that staff because we simply will not have the ability to take the staff that we've added with this one-time money and move them into the general fund we will not have the ability and final in terms of key steps would be i'm recommending a positive certification at that i opened any questions so mine isn't so much a question as as a comment um at second interim i was very critical and alarmed that we had moved in the wrong direction after first interim the projected deficit at second interim had increased and i had warned it first interim we needed to decrease it i am glad to see that the staff has put in
154the difficult work to find sufficient cuts necessary so that we aren't deficit spending here tonight at budget adoption rob and his team deserve recognition for all the hard work that went into making this happen i know it wasn't easy and that it came at real human costs our employees make up 85 of our budget expenses and so it is very difficult to achieve meaningful cost savings without employee reduction as long as our enrollment continues to decline we will continue to need to contract our workforce in order to keep pace with those reductions in funding there is a lot of deficit spending in years two and three which i am uncomfortable with but i realize those numbers at this time are somewhat speculative i will be much more concerned if they persist at first and second
155interim i am not sure that a deficit of eight million dollars can reasonably be closed and it appears that we need to continue to look at cutting our operational costs unfortunately that means we will need to continue to close schools it appears another round of elementary school closure will be needed deficits of nearly eight million dollars in years two and three will return us back to just above the three percent reserve we started at and that is not an acceptable result even closing some elementary schools will not be enough to maintain fiscal solvency in the district the sped costs shown to us tonight are alarming i know that we have a thick mat report regarding sped costs being out of control the fake bat report was commissioned by the previous administration as with so many
156things with the previous administration it appears that only a few selective pieces of that report were ever actually implemented we need to re-examine the recommendations made in that report in order to reduce our sped costs there is no way in a declining enrollment environment that sped costs should be increasing at the rate they have been and are currently projected to continue to increase if we don't get our sped spending under control then it along with the operation of too many schools will bankrupt our district while the enrollment has steadily dropped the fed costs have steadily increased we may need to fundamentally re-examine the way in which we provide sped services as they currently currently the way we are doing it is unsustainable other yeah trustee true thank you so mr mangual can you um enumerate
157what it what the um what we're seeing for special education costs with respect to declining enrollment in terms of number of students that we serve and um how that impacts what we're seeing despite declining enrollment sure trust issue so it's it's probably worthy of an entire study session at some point to kind of look at the data and so i can the intent of this presentation was more kind of big picture but in terms of the data that i've looked at around special education it does seem to appear that the identification rate is going up and the number of students in special education is is increasing while our enrollment is declining so um that that's something that we need to look at so in terms of the number of students that we are identifying um
158and then you know examining the services that we're off we are able to offer in the school district and the cost and the structure of the program as trustee crosby has mentioned other questions or comments i just wanted to highlight the number that i've heard before and we've heard it here before at board meetings but to just repeat it because i think it bears worth repeating or bears repeating that the state of california lost 160 000 students this year so i think it's important for any community members that are that are in attendance tonight you know there's a lot of commentary in the public space about students leaving our district through because of choices that we're making in programming or um or other you know sources of critique but this is a statewide problem the
159state anticipated 20 to 30 000 students to leave the state and 160 000 students left our state this year so this is not the doing of the napa valley unified school district that our enrollment is declining and i just wanted to highlight that because it is the source of our um budgetary woes because our funding comes from the number directly from the number of students that we serve thank you trustee roger it's true and i'm looking at the um the graphics um with the roller coaster and then the rocket ship and um actually i don't know whether to laugh or cry but um i also made a horrible mistake and was trolling social media and saw people saying look um gavin newsom is giving 5 billion 6 billion you know so many billions to the
160schools there's no reason for them to do whatever horrible thing we're doing and it's one-time money i repeat it's one-time money it's one-time money also you know we've got a lot of school districts in the state and uh it's not all coming to us in other words you know it's going all over the place including school districts that are meatier than we are and um we have to remember that but i mean just uh it i i mean i'm i'm happy that the money is coming in to help us get through this but again it's one time and uh i just can't emphasize that enough and we can't take one not one-time money and you know use it to hire staff we just can't do that uh chelsea water you did bring something out that
161i i didn't emphasize enough that i do want to address a little bit so um you know again this is a historic budget and there are there are historic revenues and the proposal as it sits right now while there are there are some increases in ongoing money there is the opportunity to do much more but the governor is proposing again lots of one-time money you know additions for one-time programs that that that very well are they're good programs they we need them but a one-time we would much rather see more money going on an ongoing basis than something that's one time where you need to hide your step up and then fire people it just it's not sustainable and the uh the graph of real estate in california is very striking and we talked about
162that you know a couple of months ago trustee dooley that's actually one of the points that i i that struck me the um that along with the capital gains and the um higher rate of tax taxation on kind of the the wealthier and california it it seems like a lot of the reasons why the tax the state tax revenue increased are the same reasons why uh the school-age population is declining the cost of um housing the costs or the the um increased wealth of a you know the already wealthy who generally have fewer kids and are generally aren't of um [Music] aren't contributing as many students to our to the districts around the state so there's there's a weird correlation up there um the other part that i wanted to mention is um the the
163budget both here and at the state is a is essentially a policy document it's a document that is it outlines where we are assigning the money that we get to to decide um and i think the the the issues that we're seeing where we have historic statewide revenues and yet we have schools across the state um struggling to to maintain reserves struggling to keep their budgets uh um manageable is really a policy issue for at a state level um you know we we have to to work within the the means that we have and what we have are um we're carrying empty seats that are increasingly emptying and and so those are the policy decisions that we have to make to manage what we're doing but i think we also have um we along with
164other districts in the state have an obligation to kind of advocate for the policy decisions at the state level um to really reflect uh um you know what we want to see for school districts and you know that this it's not the full discussion that we're having today but i think this is an opportunity to show how in a in a time when when you know state revenues are are increasing and there's money that that is being spent um that we're not seeing that reflected at our budget level because there's a policy disconnect um yeah that's a tough thing to handle so thank you chelsea dooley yeah i'm just agreeing with what everybody's saying so far and um yeah um when i saw that number of the 000 loss of students in the state of
165california also made me think of um you know one of my um folks that i work with um bought a house just behind mcpherson and the house next to them just went for 900 000. i mean that's just a neighborhood school where i'm just not sure how many families can um you know walk to school from that neighborhood anymore with that kind of housing price and so um makes me think of families are just in survival mode right they're in survival mode and not only um migrating from one country to another but from one state to another um to look for for a future and so um we know the pandemic just made that much more difficult um where i'm um just wanting to add to to the conversation or the discussion or observations here
166is the reserves um the 10 reserve um you know recommendation but more so on that on the budget summary slide where um despite all of the hard work that we've been doing very difficult hard work that we just we don't want to really but um this is a reality of of of our of our world um and the reality of not just napa but california of where we were going to be continuing to head and so we have to be very careful with our financial decisions and um and having a higher reserve amount is to me responsible um because it's it's lining up the the your budget for the future um and we want to be planning for the future and so just really fully aware that the decisions that we're making today it's not
167for just today uh these are decisions made for the following school year and then the following school year and the following school year it just it can have really long-term impacts and i see that as um a really responsible decision on our part to really take a close look at those reserves because if you just look at this year you're like great but then all that hard work pays off in a way because then what would have happened and we know what would have happened um in year three if we had not made these difficult decisions so it's an it's it's it's continuing to to to do that and it does it translates to human people yes you can't say both really but human people all of us folks um and um and it's you
168know it's hard um but um i think we are um full of a group of very smart dedicated board members here as well as the administrators that really care about our students and the families and the staff and we will continue to do so but um at this time it's really important to look at the numbers and look at the data and we can't deny it and look away so um so yeah no no question for me um but um more of a comment on our on our reserves thank you for your kids morris thank you um i'm i am going to ask at this point do i have any public comment on this item mr bassinet we do have public comment uh norma ortiz i was just wondering um in regards to the aspect
169of uh that was mentioned of avoiding risky policies um i would like like more clarity on what was meant by that thank you for your comment do i have any other public comment there is no public comment for this item thank you mr astonite all right so um we are now closing this public hearing uh for the budget presentation i'm going on to item j2 under instructional services so item j2a secondary world language basic instructional material recommendations introduction and presentation thank you very much um mr bastinet would you please pull up the presentation thank you good evening president gonzalez morris student board representative magana and dr mussetti and members of the nepal unified board of education my name is peter hartneck i'm the director of curriculum instruction and english learner services and i'm joined tonight
170by ms esther viajos who is a spanish teacher from napa high school and miss carmen arcos canette who is a spanish teacher at both american canyon middle school and american canyon high school tonight we'll be presenting the informational meeting for our secondary world language adoption particularly for spanish and spanish for spanish speakers next slide please the two selected curriculum that we will be um putting forth for adoption um for spanish is a foreign language um is que chevre which is from emc publishing or carnegie learning um this is the publisher where we currently have our french curriculum which receives very good reviews for both the content as well as its digital platform for spanish for spanish speakers or also known as heritage language we will be putting forward galleria which is from vista higher learning
171this is a curriculum that is also used at the napa valley college next slide please as a history teacher i always think it's a good idea to go back and take a look um at the history of where we are in these publications for spanish which includes spanish one two two honors three three honors and spanish four we use a text called buen viaje the publication date of buen viaje is 2 000. when we were not able to continue to purchase books that were printed 2000 we were able to purchase the 2005 update but currently we are not able to purchase any more books and our wonderful library services um guru kate macmillan has a wonderful line that says she draws the line at buying books from the goodwill uh and i would say that
172it's um at this point now appropriate for us to consider a new adoption um for spanish for spanish speakers um which covers spanish and spanish speakers one two two honors three and three honors um we have been using espanol para nosotros um this book had a publication date of 2006 which is the date we brought this course into um our district at napa high school um but this aligns with our the current reality also of the framework um for world languages the previous framework is from 2003 and the content standards from 2009. it has been very difficult for us to find replacement books which is why spanish language is very high on our priority list for language or for curricular adoptions a new world language framework was formally adopted at the beginning of this fiscal
173year july 2020. um next slide please the highlights of this new framework which again were adopted this past july um have to do with the focus on communication culture and connections these are the through lines through which the teaching of spanish as a foreign language and also spanish as a heritage language are being taught and assessed um in terms of some history and a timeline in july of 2018 the state board of education authorized a revision to this world language framework as a reminder this is the first revision since 2003. in 2018 to 2020 the state went through its process for framework revision um this had this included focus groups feedback cycles public comments and and eventually the adoption once this was adopted um and in this environment where um there has been an influx
174of of money and a and an inc in an increase in need for us to look at digital curriculum in addition to the the printed text that we have we began to a pilot of both vista and emc which is also carnegie learning to find a selection for spanish and heritage language and our hope for 2122 is to provide a modern curriculum and training for staff to support bi-literacy in naphtha unified school district we also note that we know that there is declining enrollment and buying curriculum can be challenging however with the growth of dual language and more immersion at the new school at the current river site um it will be important for us to have new curriculum to support students who are bi-literate and may need um either supports for spanish for spanish
175speakers as heritage language or for spanish as a foreign language next slide please we how did we evaluate these different programs the first thing we did was to create a district lens the district lens is the way and the the rubric by which we evaluate these two curriculum this district lens is based on our strategic plan the first thing we looked at was uh element 1d of the strategic plan which has to do with improving performance outcomes for all students and at least one year's growth in one year's time in all core subjects the criteria for this is how well the tech supports these shifts in the revised framework which again have to do with a focus on communication culture and connection the second element of our lens had to do with element one c
176of our strategic plan assessing students through a robust balanced assessment system that includes formative diagnostic interim summative and performance based data assessment tools to inform teaching and respond to student needs what assessments are included in the text publisher is the criteria that we look at in order to evaluate these how does the publisher assessment prepare students for standardized tests including ap and other um advanced assessments the third criteria has to do with section 2a of the strategic plan implementing inquiry-based learning grounded in state standards and utilizing high-impact instructional strategies the criteria has to do with does the pub text or publisher include activities and structures that support inquiry-based learning in our world language classes next has to do with element 2c the use of district-supported supported technology tools devices platforms resources applications to support student
177creativity collaboration critical thinking and personalized learning in this environment during the pandemic this became a very important element as we did our pilot in a digital setting the criteria for this element has to do with how well the textbook publisher resources interact with our current programs including google classroom google apps for education or does it provide its own robust program for student learning lastly we look at element 3c of our strategic plan ensuring the effective consistent implementation of multi-tiered systems of support for academic and behavioral intervention in order to provide differentiated student support for all what we're looking for is what resources are available to support teachers than for a chaining for different learning styles including our students with individualized education plans these were the ways that we were able to go through and evaluate
178the programs after a one month pilot for each next slide please our piloting process began in the fall of 2020 with our development of the district lens that i just walked you through which is again based on our strategic plan and the updated framework that was um adopted in july of 2020. we then went through a process of evaluating potential publishers based on this district lens for spanish for spanish speakers particularly there was very few options from which to choose and many of the options had to do with supplement materials applied to a program designed for spanish as a foreign language in winter of 2021 we chose two publishers to pilot these publishers again were emc publishing which is owned by carnegie learning and vista higher learning we first published uh we first looked at
179vista higher learning which had uh four spanish as a foreign language encuentros um and for spanish um uh for spanish speakers galleria we then went uh in the spring of 2021 began our pilot of emc which was quest for both but for spanish for spanish speakers they had an additional supplemental material called invos alta we then debriefed all the publishers in may 2021 and chose to recommend both emc for spanish language and vista for heritage language um i would like to invite now ms ester viejos who is again a spanish teacher from napa high school to talk a little bit about what it was like to pilot in a very different environment in the past where we're looking particularly at uh digital elements knowing that we will have the public the print elements available to
180us as well hello everybody this is esther village from napa high the process of piloting two different textbooks was overall very rewarding having students both in present and virtual made it seem a little difficult at first but the in-person students definitely went out of their way to support their virtual fellow students the main challenge that my students and i faced was to learn how to use two more instructional platforms since this school year we were already using so so many however they are very skilled in everything regarding technology so very soon they started feeling comfortable and making the most of them the main success for us was to be included in the decision making process i piloted the textbooks with my higher levels and they took it really seriously they are really good at giving
181feedback and that's something that i had already experienced this year because they tend to be very meticulous and precise that has been really extremely helpful since they are the center of the teaching learning process and we want to provide them with the best resources to help them be successful so i am very confident that our recommendations are going to improve our students learning of spanish thank you miss viejos um uh next slide please um as an aside we had eight teachers uh support us and our pilot and they worked with us for over a period of four months in order to make this selection one thing that was important as we made went through the evaluation process was to make sure that we record our thinking in the district lens go through and evaluate in
182each of those areas and decide which of the publisher had the the better element you then go through and rank them a number one or a number two and go through in a golf style scoring and find the one that has the lowest score and then have a discussion to make sure that that mirrors the experience and the general sentiment i would like now to to invite miss carmen uh arcos to join us again she is a teacher in american canyon both at american canyon middle school and american canyon high school to talk about the selection process and why for her case we looked at quest and why that stood out as the the the better choice for spanish as a foreign language well they are they're more members thank you for inviting us um
183spanish we realized it's an essential part of our curriculum as it is key for spanish speakers to build their literacy skills in native language to link with english as research shows as well as for english learners to acquire a second language both books we were piloting offered useful resources and standard based support for our students and teachers and as peter harnack has informed very well both textbooks meet the lenses applied therefore decision was tough since the first textbook encuentros offers a great aligned curriculum with a brilliant gradebook which makes it easy for students to practice our language at their own pace especially the oral skills so important in this subject on the other hand quecheveri the second textbook has gone beyond that adding a multiple variety of resources organized independently so it is possible to
184blend textbooks with any unit the teacher considers from african heritage unit to a project-based learning approach that is usually one of the main options at our schools so this text also provides authentic resources that enable our spanish speakers to develop their knowledge further by reading long texts as ebooks finally there's a flexible assessment tool that our chosen textbook offers which is called edulastic and it's standardized and it will give our students the opportunity to have great feedback for their learning so even if we light both textbooks capacity to adapt to our students needs cachability seems to be in more compliance with our district specific needs personally i am very excited for my spanish speakers to have at least one opportunity to become bi-literate so important in our district because of the population we have and
185they're usually the forgotten ones after their subject spanish for spy speakers was significantly reduced or suppressed at our middle schools with cachev teachers will have more time to devote to real differentiation through individualized feedback which is what students need to have the engagement and motivation to be successful although my hopes were drowned towards our spanish learners and special ed students having resources already made up is a step forward towards equity thank you board trustees and representatives for making this possible thank you very much miss arcos kenyatta um so we we do have um you'll notice in the board room we've set up the curricular materials so that you can peruse them um at your leisure um they will also be in the instructional hallway for the next two weeks and as a reminder this is
186an informational meeting and so there is no action asked for i'd like now to open it up for any questions or comments and thank you very much for your time any questions yeah go ahead twisty verse here so i do have a question um i'm i'm a little concerned about the process here because you've told me that you piloted two books and now you're recommending those two books so it i worry about whether or not we've adequately explored all the options what other books besides the two that you're presenting here tonight were considered but weren't piloted yeah thank you very much it's i'm happy to provide that clarification um for each of the two classes um we piloted two books so we piloted a total of four books through this process for spanish for spanish
187speakers in we started with vista higher learning and that was galleria we then went to emc publishing which was que chevre with an additional supplement called invos alta which provided literary [Music] supplements to the spanish language in order to provide the spanish for spanish speakers elements for spanish language we began with vista higher learning with a book called encuentros we then move to quest which is the main text for spanish language the emc offers okay i understand that you used one book from each publisher what other publishers if any were considered for piloting so for vista we used two separate books we used encuentros for spanish language and we use galleria for spanish for spanish speakers we we looked at other publishers we looked at hmh which is houghton mifflin harcourt which had a book
188called aventamos during the review of that it seemed like there was a couple issues with it including cultural representation which is one of the elements through both board policy and the california ed code that we have to make sure we go through and evaluate and the teachers did not feel that it had appropriate representation nor did it have appropriate advancement in terms of the new curricular framework did hmh get considered for both courses or just one uh alvin samos um had only a spanish language course one of the challenges as mentioned for spanish for spanish speakers is that there are very few publishers that offer a course for this we were one of the first districts to start a spanish for spanish speakers course back in 2006 and publishers are just now beginning to catch
189up with us um galleria which is the one that we are putting forth with vista is one that's being used in um higher education um for heritage language courses um and is also appropriate for um uh secondary education so was there a consideration for spanish for spanish speakers of a third source or could you not find one we could not find one that's correct thank you thank you other questions i just want to thank the teachers for doing the piloting it's a lot of work to um to pilot up a new curricular program and um in particular i thought it was great to hear the way the napa high spanish teacher said that she involved the students in really getting their feedback i think that that's invaluable to include the students and um i can
190imagine that they it sounds like they took that that role very seriously she said they were very meticulous in their in in the way they looked at it and participated and um that gives me um additional confidence that this is the right choice another question trust you too are there any online support resources from these publishers for these two books um absolutely i don't know if the teachers would like to to comment on this but um which is for spanish language um has a program called passport which is a fairly robust online platform um and galleria also has a very robust platform that includes assessments and other elements i'm not sure if the teachers would like to to make a comment hi hello again for what we have seen the online platform the instructional platform
191is a really amazing tool there is a huge variety of assignments and assessments that we can use to make sure that our students are learning the target language the way they are supposed to we are extremely excited because as uh it has been discussed previously with wembiache we didn't really have many options we have been creating a lot of new instructional material and now we also have the confidence and confidence of having this uh platform that is gonna make our job and the students uh learning so much easier and rich in so many ways thank you any other questions yeah i think just for me i think um just without having and i and i can see here in our boardroom um i kept clicking and kind of diving in and seeing some of the
192videos here just how also how diverse the spanish language languages as a a as a gikane i i read ketchup and i'm like um that's more for venezuela but i was like okay cool [Laughter] it's more like cheeto i think in mexico um but then i look at the cover the pictures of the covers and it's you could identify yourself in there as well and and then some of the pieces of the website it was like news from spain and i'm like i don't want to know about spain maybe maybe i do but you know but that it just shows again that there's a lot of diversity within the spanish language um but uh um and i do appreciate um um kind of diving into as as part of the assessment is also um the
193ability for our students to connect to it culturally um and um because it sort of taps into a little bit of your first put the spanish speakers a little bit of your identity there and then also for the english speakers learning in spanish they can you know speak to their peers and um i know that they're they're they're speaking the same spanish right it's the same term so um but uh and i also understand completely that there's just not a lot of um publishers out there it just seems like the market to our spanish readers united states is this i think the second after mexico number of spanish speakers and so um it's a market but it's it's like emotional market that hasn't been fully tapped into and so um and and definitely reflected in
194in terms of um i'm not surprised that it impacts um materials for for education as well um so i but i completely appreciate the process that um the the team went through and um and appreciate also trustee reiser's comment about like how implementing and testing that and piloting that um is quite difficult and so but um i appreciate that that was part of the process um i am now going to open to see mr bassinet if we have any public comment on this item there is no public comment for this agenda item okay great thank you i take that back norma ortiz just rose your hand okay thank you the same as you president um alba i was looking and in regards to ketchup and galeria the lengui cultura it it states um online that
195there's a program like a level one and two so um and it says something about um some sort of integrated skills so it looks interesting um so i'm not sure if or i didn't really understand is this something that is going to be piloted meaning taking effect for the next school year and if so how would how would these textbook textbooks support the ap classes thank you thank you do i have any other public comment there is no public comment for this agenda item thank you mr bassinet all right you know in in response to ms ortiz the um publisher uh of vista is the same publisher that you know one of the books over there is the same publisher they use in the ap courses so you know i think it would be the
196same quality you know we have excellent um we have a very good i know that the spanish department at navajo is very strong and the ap course has a very good pass rate so i i have confidence in this okay thank you tristy water we will now move forward to item j2b this introduction of career technical education basic instructional material adoptions for high schools good evening um president gonzalez mares trustees and uh student representative began and dr mossetti this item is up for adoption and i'm going to toss to director hartnick to see if he has anything to add to what's already been presented on this topic thank you um yes as a reminder these are career technical education courses which are provided for financially um and supported primarily in terms of curricular development by
197the county office of education because our students have access to these we do go through a process of formally adopting both courses and textbooks for these courses these particular textbooks are of the most recent educational research regarding teaching and child development in order to create a pathway for our students to become teachers and come back and teach in our own uh schools this will also support our our focus on diversity equity and inclusion we are very proud to partner with the county office of education to provide this opportunity for our students at american canyon high school thank you yes trustee chief so i just wanted to ask whether these courses were kind of a result of the coach for the future that the cte class had implemented this year yeah absolutely so um one of
198the elements and i'm glad you brought this up because it allows us to provide some clarity on how courses are actually brought forth there's always a partnership between the county office and the school with the muni the administration uh the students and also the community um to make sure that the the the career technical education classes are providing a need in the community and so this does come directly out of work that has been happening at the school in order to serve an identified need so i think this is an excellent example of how feedback and both community and student voice can impact the course offerings at schools have to reiterate what i said last time when i reported that my son had gone through the coach for the future it's a wonderful program i
199think the kids at the high school did a wonderful job and i'm glad this is going to be a formal opportunity for them to learn how to teach i mean they did a wonderful job teaching already to my third grader and other fourth and fifth graders as well so i'm looking forward to you know kind of fostering that within our community so that it builds our teacher workforce trustee riser yep i was wondering since we have a real quite a broad variety of cte course offerings but that they vary by site um if students would if there were students that were interested in taking this course um but it wasn't offered at their high school is there the option for cross registration um and if not if they're if we begin a new course at
200um one site and it becomes popular is is there a process by which we can expand that option to other sites sure i think the first part of your question um yes uh there are opportunities for students to take myriad classes um not only career technical education um at the different schools i think transportation becomes a barrier i think when between american canyon and the napa schools would be a challenge i think to fit it within the schedule um but potentially could be done um but students oftentimes go if there's for example an ap course uh biology which might be an example that's offered at napaha but not vintage one year um students can petition if there's room available to come over and and they can go ahead and enroll in those classes and there
201is a process for that um in regard to popularity of classes one one example might be the culinary class that was expanded from uh vintage high school um when american canyon was open because of the popularity of that course um i think uh there there's been because of declining enrollment a need for cte as well to sort of make sure that they're offering appropriate courses in appropriate numbers at all the schools and so i think they're at a point now where they have a pretty good balance but to your point yes i think the the district administration when they and also the site administration when they see success in another school will often work with the um the county office of education with guidance from the district um to bring those sorts of courses to
202their campuses as well any other questions okay i'm going to ask if we have any public comment on this item there's no public comment for this item great thank you mr bastinet all right we're moving on to the next item this is j2c local control and accountability plan and the lcap federal addendum public hearing and presentation president gonzalez mars can i make a motion since we're approaching 10 30 to extend the meeting to 1 a.m thank you chesty second first by trusty dooley a second by trustee gracia student board rep hi all those in favor aye hi anybody oppose great thank you all right assistant superintendent patrick andrew jennings you're on um well good evening again everyone um tonight i am excited and eager to share our local control and accountability plan known as the
203lcap for the school years 2021 and 2024. uh mr bassinet can you put up bring up thank you so much can you go to the very next slide please this presentation tonight will cover the components um include um included in this board item um the process that was used to develop the local uh the lcap goals and actions for each goal um the presentation will include the funding allocations and the metrics that will be used to determine the pro the progress on that goal next slide please the funds generated for the lcap are based on the percent of unduplicated students enrolled in our district the lcap describes how we plan to maintain increase or improve services for our unduplicated students and as we remember unduplicated students are those who are either english learners qualified for
204free or reduced lunch or are currently homeless or in or in a foster placement next slide please every district's lcap is required to address these eight state priorities they range from basic services such as teachers being properly assigned to um to courses all the way to attendance rates and or if students evaluating whether students have access to a broad course of study and then also looking at parent engagement next slide please the lcap documents attached to this board item include documents that look back into the 2019-20 school year that information is included in the lcap annual update and then the information for the 2020 2021 school year is included in the what's called the lcp update or learning continuity plan and this is all part of the annual process of reviewing the past year's action
205to determine the effectiveness of the work that we've done then we are also looking forward into this new three-year cycle of el cap for the years 2021-2024 so there are actually three parts to this year's lcap that's being shared with the board and then also included in the board items is the federal addendum um that is uh required um to show our efforts um with our federal dollars next slide please the goals were to develop with the end goal in mind which is to ensure the alignment of the lcap with our strategic plan we wanted to make sure to include stakeholder input and then also to make sure that we included our identified student needs next slide please the instructional service division began that work by reviewing data we examined overall rates of achievement in
206the areas of graduation rate a to g completion collagen career readiness cast data that we had available from the the 2018-29 school year star data as well as attendance rates and chronic absenteeism we desegregated the data by subgroup to look for specific groups we needed to target our efforts to next slide please we also held stakeholder meetings starting in january and went through march we met with various employee groups such as csea and ndea and naps we also met with parent and teacher advisory groups such as the superintendent's parent advisory as well as the teacher advisory group we met with dlac which is our district english learner advisory committee we actually met with them three times twice to get input on the creation of the lpac and wants to share sorry the lcap and wants
207to share uh the actual um plan for the lcab um we additionally we distributed a survey to parents students and staff we had almost 400 parents respond with 247 staff and 270 students who provided us input into the development of our lcap during the stakeholder sessions that were held with all the differing groups we asked participants what can we do to support students who are struggling socially emotionally and academically so let's take a little look at the themes we heard from them next slide please interestingly interestingly enough the themes expressed across all stakeholder groups was a need to address the whole child to not just focus on the academic needs more specifically they noted a need to increase mental health services at each level especially as students return back from hybrid learning or virtual learning
208and also to ensure that social emotional learning was integrated throughout the school day at all sites they spoke of the need to have resources at every site to support families particularly those families who speak a language other than english parents also relate the importance of making sure students were fully prepared for life after high school and they wanted to make sure that that that they knew that and progress was being checked throughout each school each school year and lastly this came up mostly out of concern for this past year of hybrid learning that we needed to make sure to extend academic support after school that was that was expressed in several different stakeholder sessions next slide please in developing our lcap goals we reviewed our strategic plan to determine which of these goals align with
209the purpose of supplemental funds although we constantly work toward each of the strategic plan goals um there are some that are directly correlated to the state priorities uh for the development of the lcap next slide please this slide you can see those areas of alignment across the top are the eight state priorities and our strategic plan goals are listed on the left side there's quite a bit of crossover in goals 1 three and five that these goals most correlate with the eight state priorities and so uh goal one which is student learning achievement and access which my division spends a lot of time working on goal three robust communication community engagement and advocacy goal five which is equity centered leadership and an inclusive organizational culture and so as a result these are the three goals
210that we focused on in developing nvusd's lcap next slide please with that in mind we were determined to create lcap goals that established alignment and coherence between the strategic plan goals stakeholder input and our data we wanted to mirror the picture on the left not the picture on the right as a result we have streamlined our lcap goals to four main outcomes next slide please we developed these four lcap goals students will graduate college and career ready students will experience responsive and engaging pedagogy families will experience robust communication community engagement and advocacy and students will thrive socially emotionally and academically the language from the lcap goals is pulled directly from the strategic plan goals um so we felt that there was good alignment between this nvsd strategic plan and our lcap goals and these are
211the priorities that we established to support our unduplicated students next slide please under the goal of students will graduate culinary inquiry we have four major tactics the first one is uh language and literacy this tactic encompasses the full implementation of our of a comprehensive literacy initiative that ensures that all students tk-12 read write and communicate proficiently that includes increasing the use of whole books to grow students love of reading and this goal also includes our intervention teachers the work that they do and really addressing the implementation of of strong a strong foundational reading in the tk through second grade level our current math data indicates a serious need to support the consistent effective implementation of state standards and math to ensure that all students can fluently and accurately calculate mathematical problems apply mathematical reasoning and
212be able to explain their thinking and in order to assess whether or not students are making progress in these two goals in the re in the literacy goal and in the math goal we needed to make sure that we had a system in place um to do that and so uh we have worked to establish a comprehensive assessment system and with the initial uh beginnings this year with the star assessment and the final tactic under goal one is focus on our work based learning efforts work based learning describes activities such as internships career career explorations and career career fairs digital tools such as naviance are used to support this work as well as our work-based coordinator amber cleveland uh next slide please we will measure our progress under goal 1 by examining our graduation rate
213our star assessment data the college and career readiness indicators that appear on the state dashboard cast our cast data when cask returns and our a to g completion rate one of the reasons we focused on these particular metrics was that when we disaggregated our data we noticed that there was a difference in subgroup and different subgroups in terms of their college and career readiness indicator complete like how many ap classes or if they completed a cte pathway and then also the a to g completion rate that there was a difference between our different subgroups and in terms of their a to g completion rate and we wanted to make sure to constantly assess progress and make adjustments as needed next slide please goal two focuses focuses on ensuring that students experience responsive and engaging pedagogy
214the funding allocation for this goal is directly to related is directed at providing professional learning for teachers on high impact instructional strategies such as checking for understanding or providing actionable feedback our purpose in this goal is also to ensure that english language development happens throughout the school day not just during designated eld time this requires training for all teachers in every content area to ensure that this happens next slide please there are two things we're going to look at to measure our progress for our english learners in this area one is our english learner reclassification rate and the other one will be looking at their progress on the state assessment for language proficiency called the elpac so we will be looking at those two items to determine our progress and we can measure on that
215progress throughout the year using the star assessment next slide please goal three is one of the most critical in that it is not possible to have a high-performing school district without a highly engaged commute a parent community this goal focuses focuses on ensuring that all families can actively participate at all levels of the district by ensuring that access to parent liaisons at each site and high quality translation at district meetings next slide please each year our district surveys families to determine how well we are doing to include them how well we're doing and including them in decision making in the decision making process also how well are we communicating with them around student expectations and district or school programs we will use the results of the survey to monitor our progress in this area next
216slide please goal 4 is focused on ensuring that our students thrive socially emotionally and academically this is the goal that is focused on addressing the whole child one key component of that is providing mental health supports and services at each school site and fully implementing a multi-tiered system of support that works to intervene and address students needs early accordingly the need to ensure that all students staff and families feel welcome and have a sense of belonging on our campus has resulted in the development of nbs's ndusd's diversity equity and inclusion plan funding for the implementations plan is included in this goal and lastly maintaining a safe clean and secure school environment is critical to ensure that students can thrive next slide please our progress on goal 4 will be measured using the information from the
217california healthy kid survey will look at school connectedness as a one of the prime primary measures we'll also review our attendance and chronically absenteeism rates as well as monitoring our expulsion and suspension rates for some of these metrics we will have to include baseline metrics from the 20 or look back at baseline metrics from the 2019 school year due to the uh truncated uh 20 19 20 school year i'm just to ensure that we are accurately reflecting a true school year worth of data next slide please this meeting is for the public hearing on our lcap the lcap will be presented for board approval on june 24th we plan to implement as as adopted and provide the board with regular updates on our progress on the metrics that we've established in our lcap that concludes
218my presentation are there any questions or concerns go ahead trustee gracia so under lcap goal one i wonder if these goals for student achievement are set high enough do they have to be reasonably attainable or can we shoot for the moon here that's such a great question we actually struggled with this a bit um we tried to aim for uh shoot for in between shoot for the moon and like reasonably could accomplish right so we kind of sort of put one in the middle it really is up to the the districts to determine what goal or how aspirational um of a goal that they set for each of the different uh metrics and so we tried to sort of shoot for something that was ambitious but we felt that if we were really focused and
219targeted we could get there so my concern here is that we can never achieve excellence if we don't aim for it i think it would be better if we had our lcap goals for student achievement adjusted higher because it's that old saying right that if you aim for the stars but only make it to the moon you're still doing pretty well okay um thank you so how would you rewrite it i would move the student score achievements uh much higher okay to improve where we want to be because i think that with all the mig training that everyone has here the biggest thing has always been the board needs to believe that every student is capable of achievement and being successful and so i think we do that by setting our lcap goals very high
220another concern that i had is that goal one doesn't seem to include returning books to the elementary and middle school classrooms that seems like an important piece in improving our literacy scores what are your plans in that area i did sort of uh allude to that a little bit in my presentation that the idea is that it's included in the um there's a lcap goal uh that's focused on um uh ensuring like it says correct providing curriculum and materials to support literacy and we know that that students get better at reading by reading um that's really the the key and access and and use of whole novels or whole books at every level is is important and i know that our current curriculum does not utilize that as a as a strategy and so uh
221part of the training that we would be providing teachers is uh support in that area of how do you do like book you know like a book uh not book clubs but like book groups in your classroom that where students have an opportunity to select a book and do like a little uh book club or study session based on some particular uh standard or uh goal that you were trying to achieve okay i wanted to move then to goal four i really wanted to applaud our focus on student wellness and the supports which are going to be particularly important for those students as they return back to campus post-pandemic i think those that focus is really important i have another part of goal four though that i'm particularly concerned about which is a subpart of
222goal four and it's regarding the suspension and expulsion rate i know that meeting this goal can be achieved simply by deciding not to suspend or expel students and that this practice was implemented by nvusd in the past failing to discipline students led to lawlessness and unsafe campuses we need to achieve a decrease in this rate by having less offenders and not by suspending our use of disciplinary tools i am also concerned that the suspension expulsion rate for the 1920 school year would be artificially low as the last three or so months of the year were all in distance learning so there were no expulsions or suspensions are we not setting ourselves up for failure here by using this low rate um no i think what we did do is we reviewed the data from the
223uh the suspension data from the from and um we were on a similar track um in 1920 with the 1819 data and so i don't um think that uh we have set the bar too low in this regard um and i don't think that we will work to accomplish it by not suspending or not expelling students um actually last summer there was a team of administrators who uh worked on a discipline discipline toolkit and we were you know ready to implement but given the pandemic that didn't really happen this year because of the discipline was uh not as big of a concern given that students were in class for you know two and a half hours a day typically and so uh the plan is to provide um even though site administrators have been trained
224with the discipline toolkit they haven't had a chance to fully implement it and i think that that is going to be um through the use of the discipline toolkit and the discipline matrixes that were developed for elementary and secondary um that there will be real clear um consistent um uh discipline um consequences at the school sites uh so i i'm pretty confident that the goal that we've set um is achievable we and we also know that as students come back from having been at home um and have only been in school part-time that uh it is really important that goal four is really important to provide that sort of caring nurturing sort of uh environment and making sure that students understand what school is like schools right now are focused on developing a really restorative
225start um and having students sort of be sort of reintegrated into the the school community and what school is like um so we're not quite sure what to expect when students return but we're prepared for to support them through the the return and to ensure that our discipline rates do not increase over the 20 19 20 school year so i would just like to urge vigilance that we do not slip back into the bad habits of the past of abandoning our discipline tools in order to artificially depress our rates here i'm my concern is that because we've set this goal so low that there will be uh pressure on school sites to cheat and forego their discipline tools to artificially meet this goal i'm expecting as we return to school that we will probably have
226an increase in discipline issues due to the emotional situations caused by the pandemic and the mass return of students who have not been in the classroom back to school so i urge caution and vigilance in this area thank you i agree that's definitely a possibility as students return back after having been gone and um and i you know we tr we use the data that we had in terms of studying the baseline so um otherwise we we would be putting something that we think might be artificially high and then it would be really easy to to meet it well i'm going to look on the bright side i really um i'm going to hope that our students are so thrilled at coming back to school and seeing their friends and sitting in classes and being
227with their teachers that they won't want to do anything to risk it because i do know they have missed being in school and they've you know missed their friends but yeah we should we should certainly be alert you know and um be ready for you know any signs of depression because it has been a tough year i'm i'd like to go back to um students will graduate college and career ready you know i welcome uh you know the return to um to uh full-length books and you know i'm really excited about the high interest books that have been adopted and it was nice to hear from the vintage high teachers but i am concerned about writing instruction and one of the goals of common core was reading and writing across the curriculum and i would
228you know love to see evidence that that is happening in the school district i know i uh you know when i was working um you know my life was uh pretty much defined for 15 years by um essays i had to grade i'd love to spread the joy you know to all the disciplines [Music] and look i mean you know i've known people for uh 40 years who uh graded the uh california bar exam which is congratulations gentlemen you passed it it's notoriously difficult and it is pretty funny because um it seems like for 40 years i've known people who graded those things and all they do is complain that nobody can write yet these are all people who are smart enough to have graduated college and gotten into law school you know past the
229um you know the uh what is that the um the test you know that uh like the lsat and that sort of thing and but it is uh i i just you know i think it's very important it's um it's it's uh it's it's absolutely necessary and the digital age hasn't replaced it people still need to be able to communicate dramatically i think i'd love for us to be working on that i mean it was frankly it was the only thing i liked about the common core and the fact that they recommended macbeth for 10th grade and they thought alice's adventures in wonderland was a challenging text which it is thank you trustee water i know that writing is something that's you know it's part of our goal it's not just the reading piece it's
230it's writing as well but my prediction is that people will come back to school and be overjoyed to be back and they will behave angelically david and i'll take you out to lunch if i'm wrong i'll probably take you out to lunch if i'm right but you know yeah on your same note there we'll shoot for the stars on this one with our kiddos um did somebody else have an uh comment yep trustee i think um you know i like that the you know the disciplinary goal is coupled with a lot of uh social and emotional support actions um you know the the those disciplinary actions are blunt instruments that i think should be wielded sparingly when there are other options for for kind of addressing the needs of students and well you know i
231certainly do not advocate um you know fudging the numbers and intentionally suppressing through kind of ignoring behaviors of students i think that the the actions that that lead to these types of disciplinary needs are symptoms of other problems that that can be addressed through much of the other actions that are listed here so i i i like the the focus on the whole student and the in wellness in general um and how these disciplinary goals are coupled with that and just as a note i think people who grade the bar exams we were told that they spend less than two minutes on each essay that we write so um you know that they they are good judges because of of writing because you know it's hard to to write those essays but they don't spend
232as much time as i know our teachers do on our on students essays so trust you right there um i just wanted to say my first impression when when reading the lcap report was just um feeling so proud of what is clearly an enormously um thoughtful and strategic effort on the part of the instruction instruction and curriculum team so i just wanted to highlight that um and and also one thing that stuck out for me was that emphasis on english language development all day instead of it being sort of a discrete 20 to 30 minutes that that um ticks the ed code box and i have taught those 30 minute fragmented segment lessons and it's it's um you know certainly you can be effective and and um help english learners with their you know listening
233speaking reading and writing skills and and help bring their language proficiency up but to to really shift the mindset strategically to help teachers you know make sure that they are i mean i don't this probably isn't a phrase that people use anymore because i you know but you know the sheltering instruction sheltered instruction really needs to be happening all the time and there are you know high impact strategies that like you've said miss andrew jennings and i'm assuming that that eld all day is really going to focus on you know those things that teachers just need to be reminded and trained and supported in integrating into their daily practice as a matter of course that they become not something that you planned out for your 30-minute eld lesson but just something you know like using
234visuals all the time or making little doodles and sketches on the board as you're talking they're just you know uh high impact um ways to leverage that eld all day and i'm sure that your team and that the um also working with the west ed evaluation of our eld services will will really surface that so i look forward to that um because i think it's critical to closing our achievement gap for our english learners so i'm really glad to see that highlighted and um and also as has been mentioned before just the focus on the whole child and the mental health and and social emotional learning um and i am concerned i think that we you know we are implementing the toolbox program for elementary and we're doing the programmatic redesign really thinking hard about
235how we can do that for our middle schoolers but i'm concerned about the high school level and you know the numbers in the california healthy kids survey about sort of the percentage i won't draw up the numbers but the percentage of students that say that they have a positive relationship with at least one adult at school um you know i see that that's highlighted as one of the of the benchmarks there in that plan to raise those numbers up and um i know i raised you know miss andrew jennings you said that what you're focusing on bringing more counseling support but i'm wondering about also just keeping in mind how can we support our our students and teachers at the high school level to engage in kinds of interactions that are going to lead to
236those connections and it's really really hard when you have um i can't do the math right now because my brain is very tired but however many students a high school teacher has through across one day and you know the the curricular demands are high and the class sizes are large um and so i just hope that we can look at that sort of holistically about how can we support teachers and students and other adult staff members on campus in to connect in ways that are going to feel emotionally authentic for our students so that they do feel like they have adults at their schools that they're connected to that they know care for them and that they can go to if they um for for advice or support and you know not to try to
237add more on to teachers plates but i just am aware that that that that's an area of need for our secondary kids trustee too so i agree with all the trustees comments about all the goals that they've been talking about um there's one goal that i want to goal number three about communication with parents and how we're focusing on translation i think that's very very important you know we we do see um differences in in how we can communicate with our constituents and our families when we are not able to provide that translation and i want to also encourage that if we can have the recordings on the spanish channel also record it and put online that would be wonderful so that our families who might not be able to attend meetings but that the
238meetings are translated if they can also be go back and watch those and get the information that they need i think that's one critical piece that we are missing so i'm hoping that part of this goal can go towards that yeah i um i i think um that had come forth uh earlier in the year and unfortunately technically well at least on zoom um we cannot provide a recording of the spanish translation that's happening on the on the channel is that what you're referring to trustychu yeah is there not other ways of having another device maybe streaming that second language that the spanish and then just doing like like a desktop video what is it screencastify that the kids are all using i'm just i'm just trying to think how can we work around that
239and still provide that support for the parents okay well we'll explore that um i'll just add a comment on what has been shared um i think what i really liked about um just the layout of how it was explained just how the measure how the progress will be measured um i think it was really clear here um i also appreciate the translation piece i'm glad that was mentioned by trustee chu and um you know i was looking back at my notes on um and especially um after hearing from our families from the survey i'm not surprised right i don't think we're not so we're not that surprised to see the need for or mental support and so on and i remember back in september which three of you weren't here at the time but the
240toolkit that assistant superintendent pat andrew jennings is talking about how our work group was creating a toolkit and working on disciplined matrices and how the district was not calibrated and had you know there was no coherence in terms of like how the staff was assessing um the various you know concerns with our students and um you know there was a task force that made a recommendation with these toolkits that had to do with of course our positive behavior interventions and support and so there's a lot of work being done with the tier one through three um and i know that a lot of that work was gonna go into play and of course pandemic mode and so on and virtually so i look forward to um [Music] the team you know being able to implement
241um some of these great um processes that were put in place which for me i'm always driving towards the prevention side of things and focusing on the how do we not get to the suspensions and and a lot of the the prevention side and i think allocating a lot of resources to the prevention side um does a lot of good so just wanted to highlight that that work um that has been a lot of work that went into it um and also like a discipline and data entry protocol as well like how is that tracked and um some in one of the training modules and schedules and so on so really a lot of in-depth uh work went into um from the team and so i think you know you know i was just trying
242to read my notes there pat i don't know if i missed anything but um just to kind of give trustee rise or chew and um julie a little bit of background on that work that has happened okay other than that um i am going to check for public comment on this item mr bessonette we do have public comment norma ortiz i am as a member of the dlac committee and following a previous board meeting public comment i made it would be nice um that i would like to know what improvements have been gained in this academic school year 2020 2021 in regards to the el uh els programs and services in connection with the master plan also out of curiosity perhaps in in our meetings too in our future meetings a discussion detailed report on
243how many long-term els have been exited and served this academic school year around the mental health aspect i would like to know how to how how this component is going to be kind of addressed or served in support with els and students in general in the path of strengthening their personal values self-identity self-worth and belonging with all the impacts trauma and other what progress gains have eos achieve using the lcap financial resources and supports this academic school year how is the district networking partnering in regards to the community building in our meetings year-round with outside agencies also a discussion and a presentation from west ed on their findings recommendations around eld els and other on how they will continue to work with our district the possibility with their guidance as a learning leadership tool for
244either elec and or d lacked meanings in regards to um the master plan goals for english learners to provide like more information to provide an atmosphere that effectively prepares els and students in general for the 21st century academic standards that will decrease the high score and college dropout rate of latino students also all-inclusive dlac elac training series to achieve effective and equitable practices to support our roles and our representation in our meetings and of course in our roles and i feel um that the parent and community engagement component or piece also aligned with goal three needs more work in my opinion so it'd be nice to see how that's going to be developed for the future academic school year and also i would like to see because the need is there that there be more
245orientations at the beginning of each school year [Music] with support of administrators and the community parent liaisons to to get all the information that parents need and should receive so they they uh could understand and better support uh children yes i'm finishing up my comments their um our children in regards to services and programs for els thank you thank you all right i've seen it's um a two-hour mark we're gonna take a quick five minute break nice stretch before we continue probably till one am hopefully not um regroup here um we are now on item j2d this is the sh cowell grant end of year report thank you very much good evening mr bassnet do you want to go ahead and put up my presentation please thank you very much uh good evening president gonzalez
246mahrez board of trustees dr mussetti and student board member magana thank you for the opportunity to present this evening and share with you some of the work that we have been doing this year as part of the sh cal grant i have monica reddy principal of napa high school and brian gardner principal of shear elementary school joining me this evening to share a snapshot of the grant related work that they are doing at their sites and the progress that they have made this year next slide please so the the sh cal foundation has been a long-standing partner of nvusd and on the move our nonprofit partner in this endeavor the foundation has invested in some of the schools and programs that serve the highest number about promise in the usd youth in june of 2020
247the cal foundation committed 450 000 to nbusd as part of a two-year grant and we are just completing the first year of this two-year grant cycle next slide please recognizing the need to strengthen the pipeline between silverado napa high school and their three feeder schools with the highest concentration of english learners nvusd sought grant funding from the sh cal foundation to shift the trajectory of our latinae students moving through those schools we set out to accomplish this by looking at what systemic and instructional changes needed to take place in order to achieve improved results this was five years ago and over time we have made some improvements and we have narrowed our focus and concentrated our efforts on these three overarching objectives one committing to use a high level of i'm sorry committing to use
248high impact instructional strategies two increasing student voice and agency and growing instructional leadership capacity tonight i will share what we have accomplished this year in pursuing these objectives next slide please i would like to highlight a couple of the high impact instructional strategies that we have committed to this improving this year a learning sprint first is a process used by a team of teachers to plan instruction and evaluate the effective effectiveness of instructional practices used in the classroom it is an example of a plan do study act improvement cycle process teachers plan instruction based on student data carry out the instruction using high impact instructional strategies analyze the results of their efforts using student assessment data and determine next steps based on this information having a common process for instructional planning is essential is an
249essential component of an effective teaching team the learning sprint model began at one of the grant elementary schools and resulted in significant early literacy student achievement gains learning sprints are now happening at five other elementary schools including three non-grant funded schools this year a team of elementary principals studied this model and has made a recommendation that a version of this model be expanded across all elementary sites ultimately a goal of this grant is to determine effective practices use them successfully at grant funded schools and leverage the knowledge and experience those site leader of those site leaders to influence other sites we are beginning to see that take hold teacher clarity is a high impact strategy for narrowing and focusing instruction students are provided with clear learning objectives success criteria so they know how to how
250success is measured and a learning progression that maps out a path to success in a typical year site teams would measure levels of student clarity by interacting in classrooms with students particularly in particularly english learners and asking them questions such as what are you learning how do you know when you have been successful and what is your next step prior to the pandemic sites have been gathering and analyzing data on student responses and we look forward to getting back on track with that practice next year when students are back on campus the new elementary report card that will launch next year is formatted as a learning progression and the creation of this document stems directly from the learning and applications of best practices started at these schools our new report card will bring much needed
251clarity to parents as well as teachers and students next slide please even during the pandemic the learning collaborative has persisted in its work to develop school culture where student voice is heard and respected this is accomplished by integrating high-impact instructional strategies that support student voice in the classroom and by partnering with on the move to engage elementary middle and high school students in youth leadership academies on all five campuses the elementary school leadership academies were conducted virtually this year and have served 90 students across the three campuses the students completed a total of 10 projects this year including two community service projects phillips youth researched and discovered the lack of language inclusivity on the napa city of napa webpage youth emailed the mayoral candidates to make this a priority and ask them to be inclusive
252of all individuals living in the city of napa they offered suggestions for how they can be more language inclusive on their web page i want to point out that a former group of phillips youth leader leaders advocacy at the city council level resulted in new lighting and sidewalks being added near the phillips campus and was the subject of a documentary film so i am confident that their efforts to make the city of napa webpage more inclusive will not go unnoticed youth leaders at mcpherson and shear helped to prepare students for in-person learning by creating a peer-friendly video to show students how to be covered 19 safe once they are on campus additional projects included virtual campus tours and a weekly news broadcast for the silverado youth leaders this was a year of laying the groundwork
253for strong student leadership as students prepare to fully come back on campus next year students spent the year developing as leaders by reading and engaging with the seven habits of highly effective teens this has been a year of personal growth for students and on the move leadership academy director eduardo rivera let me know that next year is go time for silverado youth leaders 104 youth across the freshmen sophomore junior and senior leadership classes at napa high worked on a total of 19 projects this year one freshman project completed this year was focused on it educating students about healthy relationships youth leaders developed presentations to teach their peers about healthy relationships they spent time educating their peers about good healthy habits and relationships and the signs of unhealthy relationships sophomores completed a mentoring project providing virtual
254mentoring sessions to fifth grade students from mcpherson phillips and sheer elementary schools youth were responsible for creating or finding the activity developing a lesson plan and facilitating the activities of the fifth grade students every year these are just a couple of the projects in a moment mr gardner will present on the high impact instructional strat practices being used at sheer and across other sites to increase english learner student voice in the classroom next slide please leadership coaching is a cornerstone of this grant and has been especially important this year as principals and their site teams have navigated pandemic learning conditions leaders at all of the grant funded schools benefit from coaching sessions ranging from one to two times per month depending on the coach working with the site team the purpose of this coaching is
255to provide leaders with the support and guidance they need to improve instructional practices on their sites coaches work with principals and their site teams to analyze student achievement data and determine what instructional shifts might be necessary at the classroom and school level to improve results i know from experience that this coaching is helpful in maintaining a rhythm and focus for data analysis and planning all of the grant funded principals were members of the west ed leadership the west ed english learner review leadership team and played a critical role in helping to facilitate the classroom observations and student shadowing they and the teachers they included in this process took part in the professional learning provided by west ed and have helped with the development of the nvusd vision for english learner success the principals and directors
256involved in the grant meet throughout the year with on the move leaders to assess the progress made in achieving goals and objectives of the grant together the on the move and nvus theater leaders make up what we call the leadership collaborative this year we were only able to meet twice but we will meet four times next year at these meetings principals share one key tactic they are focusing on and the student achievement results related to that key tactic they are provided feedback from other members of the leadership collaborative this opportunity for elementary middle and high school principals to come together and align around instructional practice is this structure that allows us to constant continue strengthening the pipeline i spoke about earlier and is an example of a structure we seek to replicate elsewhere i would
257like to introduce brian gardner who will talk about the work in progress at shear elementary school go ahead brian thank you mr manny first of all i'd like to uh thank president gonzalez madison our board of trustees dr masetti and our nwsd leadership for this opportunity to speak tonight and also for your ongoing support this entire year during these difficult times so i'd like to share the progress that we're making as a school community at shear as a result of the leadership coaching we received through the sh cal grant the objective or the goal that we focused on this year was to increase latinx engagement by promoting clarity and learning connectedness and voice in the classroom school and community all right for just a moment we need to move on to the next slide please
258mr westman thank you sure there we go right and so as part of this objective um our leadership team decided to focus on the high impact strategy of feedback and despite the challenges over the last year our teachers and instructional support staff have really focused on student voice and connectedness through this high impact strategy of feedback as part of the process our leadership team worked closely with the consultant michael mcdowell to grow our capacity as instructional leaders to provide greater student voice we first surveyed our third through fifth graders over 200 students to gauge your background knowledge and opinions of feedback we also surveyed our teachers to see what they thought of feedback and what the survey revealed is that most of our students preferred feedback to help them correct mistakes what the majority of
259our teachers said is that they primarily provided feedback to motivate students what this really revealed to us was an interesting story of both growth and engagement and with this deeper understanding where students are with respect to feedback we began to build their capacity around ensuring that students were provided with clear learning objectives and success criteria in order to provide them with accurate knowledge and skills and when students are clear on what they're learning what is expected of them to be successful this leads to more accurate feedback this fits into our school-wide mission in developing assessment capable learners or expert learners who can self-assess and know where they are in their learning where they're going in the learning and what's what their next steps are according to current research by john hattie assessment capable learners this
260particular strategy is a powerful accelerator of learning in fact it nearly triples the rate of learning in one year's time additionally as part of our instructional coaching we continue building our collective efficacy connected to improvement science through learning sprints which are designed to be data cycles that are two to three weeks in duration in which students set goals with their teachers and give and receive feedback while receiving intensive support during that time this allows for greater flexibility in teaching and increases student cognitive engagement it provides students and teachers with greater clarity connected strategies that have the greatest impact which can then be scaled up to other sites this also is connected to the cal grant but to better understand what our students need to do to have more ownership over their own learning and on
261average through our learning sprints this year 74 of our students demonstrated growth at the end of the sprints and those students not meeting the goal would then receive additional support through more intensive interventions through our mtss group and before i conclude i would uh first just like to say that i'd like to acknowledge our family resource center for all of their support this year and as a result we maintained a very high attendance rate under again difficult circumstances i'm extremely proud of our classified and certificated staff for their amazing work and their dedication and commitment to serving our community and my humble opinion i think they're really true heroes and thank you for this opportunity and now i'd like to uh toss over to monica reddy thank you brian next slide please mr bassnet good
262evening president gonzalez mars board of trustees and superintendent dr osana musetti as director manning highlighted napa high school's funding from the cal grant has strategically focused on one high impact instructional practice student clarity the key tactics we used to support student learning with this strategy started with professional development in both math 1 and spanish language both teacher teams focused on how we support students with understanding the learning goal by co-constructing models of success and they received professional development in these areas prior to implementing with students professional learning communities narrowed the learning intentions identified success criteria and models of success with the support of an instructional coach focused on student-centered goals when implementing in the classroom during distance and hybrid learning it became a challenge to know if students were clear in their current level of
263understanding yet this led to the strengthening of instructional practices and deeper learning for our staff this is where the power of support from instructional coaching and teacher collaboration came into practice the math 1 team developed common formative assessments using technology tools provided by nvsd such as pear deck google surveys and the zoom features teachers then gathered weekly in teams to analyze student data their analysis led to reflection on instructional practices immediate student intervention and support and a shift in grading practice that eliminated the 50 floor at the end of the first semester math 1 reported an increase in students earning a c or higher by eight percent during the second semester we implemented targeted after school intervention focused on addressing students who have not yet shown achievement on specific learning intentions students attend math learning
264recovery four days a week after school they received targeted reteach and individualized or small group support one day a week students meet with our counselor one-on-one for additional support focused on social and emotional well-being 35 students have participated and 22 of 35 students have shown growth in one or more learning intentions through this work specifically the implementation of professional learning frequent teacher collaboration focused on student data and coaching has led to the following outcomes teachers are reporting a positive impact on their instructional practice due to adult learning and coaching and sharing with our teacher leadership team students and teachers are showing increased signs of clarity and an increase in the use of formative assessment and feedback as a part of first-round instruction students are reporting an increase in confidence and engagement in their core math
265classes through their participation in intervention outside of school counseling is able to increase connections to families and teachers and counselors are partnering more often to provide services and finally we are showing a decrease in our dnf rate at semester and we hope for that during our second semester report the work in napa high school will continue in the 2022-20 2021-2022 school year as dr ainsworth transitions to the role principle and provides support to teacher leaders with leading learning sprints as you heard earlier from director manning and brian the nhs staff are grateful for the support of cal and the ability to articulate instructional strategies with feeder schools such as shear elementary that enable this work to occur thank you thank you very much next slide please i just want to take a moment to thank
266principal gardner and principal ready for their commitment to this work and continuing that work amidst the pandemic conditions and and uh thank you to all of the cal uh grant funded school principals for maintaining that commit level of commitment so this year our grant-related work has been conducted under conditions that are very different from what we expected when we wrote the grant in the spring of 2020. at the time the pandemic was a reality but none of us writing the grant at the time expected that we would be operating schools as we have throughout the year with the pandemic necessitating students spending a significant amount of time engaged in virtual learning the cal found foundation has been an incredible partner to us throughout the year allowing us to shift our focus ensure we and ensuring
267that we are meeting the most immediate needs of our students for example the holistic youth project was developed to support napa high school youth leadership academy students in achieving academic success during the pandemic learning conditions specifically earning at least a 2.0 gpa by the end of the year students have benefited from one-on-one academic coaching weekly virtual homework club support groups and personalized academic achievement planning support is provided to parents through case management referrals to frcs regular check-ins and support for siblings 52 napa high school students and their parents were served through this program and 29 siblings and other nvusd schools benefited from the family support we will analyze the gpas of participating students at the end of the year to determine the effectiveness of the program we plan to continue the program into the next
268school year and will adapt based on what has worked and what has not worked this year in the summer britain summer bridge project 25 students from the mcpherson phillips and shearer will be able to attend the on the move youth leadership academies this summer frc and parent university staff will also be providing parent education and support with summer school registration and attendance we will provide a comprehensive report to the cal foundation on june 30th as we do at the end of every school year and work with our program manager to determine next steps and funding priorities we are working with our program manager now to determine how we will update progress on academic achievement outcomes this will be included in our end-of-year report we are grateful for this particip for this partnership with the cal
269and the cal team's willingness to adapt with us this year as students needs evolved at at the same time i look forward to recommitting to those grant objectives that we could not focus on this year given the current conditions thank you again for the opportunity to to provide you with this overview of our work and what i would like to ask at this time if there are any questions or comments yeah trusty water okay i have a comment i just want to say that um i'd like to thank uh mrs reddy mr manning and uh mr gardner i like how this is um how this is vertically integrated i like how the new elementary school report card is part of this it fits into it it's coordinated i love the self-reliance aspect for the elementary
270students this will pay off later on and giving them the ability to evaluate themselves um instead of just saying oh that's great um uh you know giving giving them criteria and it'll turn them into active learners um i uh i'm a parent you know i the high attendance rate is you know music to my ears and by the way i know i've known eduardo rivera for many years and i am sure he's terrific in the program so i just thank you i'm very excited about this thank you trustee water jesse gracia so i'm a little concerned by this presentation um mostly because there was only a single piece of data in the whole thing you talked quite a bit about a narrative that sounded encouraging but i'm going to use another piece of knowledge that
271i gained from my masters in governance course that was passed on to me and so now i will pass it on to you in god we trust everyone else must bring data so where's the data indicating that the growth actually is happening where's the student outcomes that we can point to that we can measure and see where these things are actually improving or making any kind of difference on what's happening in our classrooms for our students i i'm not seeing and hearing that tonight the only data that was produced was that there was an eight percent decrease at napa high and dnfs which is encouraging but we talked a lot about growth but i didn't see any of that reflected in the presentation other than just what you said thank you for that input i
272appreciate that and i uh will tell you that this year it is challenging to present data because we have we have a very different data set that than what we set out to measure so um we were working with our program our program manager to determine how we will report back to them um some of the student achievement growth knowing that the conditions are just very different and we don't typically we would look at we would measure year-over-year growth and we don't have the ability to do that so we're working with our grant funder to determine um how best to report back to them and i look forward to next year when we do have solid data to be able to report uh year-over-year or at least beginning of year's end of your growth data
273under more under more normal conditions thank you for your input wanted to say i i um really love the emphasis on the the learning the small learning communities within the the targeted groups of teachers that are working together in that learning sprint format i think that that's it's so strategic and impactful and and then also the the focus on feedback the student feedback really brought back to me what what i heard in the grading for equity colloquium um you know numerous teachers talked about how they were changing the way they um gave feedback and and and the way that it impacted students and empowered students to be more invested in their in their own learning outcomes and um so i just was happy to hear that reflected again here and the projects that were listed
274i mean not everything comes down to a numeric set of data so to hear things about students you know student leadership opportunities doing you know meaningful uh peer education experiences like what is a healthy relationship and and you know that's empowering for the leaders doing that and then also just potentially life-changing for the peers that they're interacting with um and uh the uh i just think that the focus uh also the family resource center uh impact i have heard in in several pres different presentations and i just want to shout out my gratitude there for um for what they're doing on the ground and and connecting with families and connecting families to resources as well so i'm just really impressed with this effort and um it's okay with me that we don't have percentage of
275of you know improved performance data for this i think it's more qualitative than that and i think it has to do with the professional learning and that will will positive outcomes trustee so i i'm also um impressed with um what what's happening in this program i i really like the fact that um it is vertically integrated um i love the fact that the kids you're you're making the kids feel responsible for their own learning at a very young age and and that's something i think can really drive the learning for them and i think soon the data will probably show that it it does show that there is that type of growth that we're looking for in the kids um that said i i'm i'm very optimistic um about this this um the work that's
276happening um one of the things that um you mentioned um at the beginning was the hope is to have these grant sponsored work but be able to translate it into other schools are we kind of looking at it in that way as as you're as you're planning all these activities and and implementing are you looking at how can you scale it up to all the other schools as you're going along because i think that's very useful to have an understanding and have that lens from the beginning yes uh thank you for your for your input and for your question um so we are we are beginning to scale the work um the coaching is happening at other schools besides the non-grant funded schools uh i mentioned that the learning sprints are are being used at
277other schools beyond the non-uh beyond the grant funded schools and i believe um dr musee may have shared with the board some of the work that's happening with the principal um elementary principal communities of practice so that print the the principles are working together on goals and objectives that are very similar to those that are part of the cal grant and that's not an accident those are these are goals that are essential for all of our schools so principals are learning together now and we're beginning to see this work which really the cal grant is is provides us the seed money the funding to um ex to explore and begin to um refine our skill set at using these strategies we're beginning to see that expand beyond just the grand funded schools and we're leveraging
278the principal communities of practice at the elementary school and we'll begin to do some more work um as principal ready soon to be director ready comes on board in in her new role that's great because in this um limited budgets that we we are given i i think it's great to be able to leverage any any kind of successes that we have and be able to scale it up so thank you thank you trustee dooley um i i kind of keyed in on the um objective too about increasing student voice and agency the leadership academies and the focus on on leadership kind of has a it's kind of a two-way street where you know you you prop up a student to to use their voice and to be um you know to to be an
279agent in their own school uh educational process but you also have the opportunity to um engage with that student about what their learning style is what their what their passions are things that that help provide the instruction or help the instructor know how to reach those students so there's there's kind of a a feedback loop almost in that in that concept so i appreciate that that's um one of the the key objectives in this process i do you know i i agree with trustee gracia that you know when when we're dealing with with grant money there's always a a a need to be able to to show the impact uh in in in a measurable way um and uh you know the these goals and objectives are a mixture of um uh qualitative and quantitative
280uh uh approaches or goals and and so you know i think i think it i do recognize the difficulties this year of being able to to have apples to compare to other apples and so you know i but i do think it would be i'm looking forward to see the year two um kind of measurable outcomes thank you i do have one just follow up in that this is not the first time that we have worked with the cal grant folks we have been working with them for many years this might be the first time this year for this particular grant but i've been trying to find out for the last four or more years maybe it's been five or six i can't even remember how long we've been working with them to see if
281any of these programs are actually making any progress with student achievement and based on our previous casp scores it was clear to me anyway that they were not so i really am interested in the data and whether or not this is moving the needle on student achievement and that's why i am sort of pushing hard on this because this is not the first time that we've sort of done this rodeo and i don't want us to spin our wheels ineffectively thank you are there comments or questions i guess i would just quickly respond that some of the projects and efforts that have been outlined here may not show up on the casp score but that doesn't mean that they are not part of our mission to educate the whole child um you know i don't
282know how you would get quantitative data that would reflect that a student feels empowered and confident in using their voice and in engaging in their community to be a leader that may not show up in an increase in their caste score but that doesn't mean that the project is not um having a positive and meaningful impact um in changing their lives and helping them be you know more fulfilled as a as a human my response to that would be quite simply that you would do it the same way we do it for the lcap which is by looking at the healthy kids survey and other tools that we utilize so there are measurables that we can use to determine if we're being successful in those other areas um you know um in listening to all
283the questions and comments my my thought um with this is first of all to um just commend the team for trying to put in place a grant and mind you it's been you know several years of relationship kind of wearing my non-profit hat um there's like a beeping noise does that mean oh okay sorry just for if you're not in the room you're not you know there's a beeping noise which is wondering what it means um but um i'm gonna i'll continue okay and so um you know just being kind of wearing a non-profit hat and having multiple grants um to fund the work first thing that comes to mind is just the importance of diversifying your type of funding um to help um with certain work that maybe your current funding doesn't cover and
284it gives you a little bit of a flexibility to do other work a little bit of creativeness being innovative um and yes it may not have um the specific data you know um that might trustee gracia is looking for but um i think just making sure that we are allocating our resources effectively and efficiently i understand that but i also understand that there are um it you know funders come to you and in a way i feel like it's like the district side of this and then the funder side of this is sort of like what what are those measurable data um so really hard to comment when there's like a bp nice and trying to figure out what it means what if that is it's going to be okay um and so you know
285my response is that there's just um to me i appreciate that there's other funding coming through to help with really important objectives as lined up here and these are really key goals and i know there's a lot of work um in a way it's just sort of you know trusting um that really smart dedicated um skilled certificated educated folks are working on this and um and i agree just because the number isn't there the data point isn't there it doesn't mean um that really good work is happening and sometimes it's really hard to to um to really grasp that and see the data and see the sheet and see the numbers uh when many times sometimes the solution um is coming in a very different format and we may not see it for decades i
286feel like the work with um our you know that in the community and our spanish-speaking community it it's been going on for a while but it just it still feels like we're just getting started with the work and so and that is gonna take some time definitely a lot of time and um i'm just really grateful to be able to um see um this this work moving forward um and i'm looking forward to it um you know continuing its journey and um because these are really really important projects um so i appreciate the the updates and the outcomes being shared um and maybe you know assume we'll have a balance of of qualitative data as well as quantitative data um to show to us but um you know i'm really grateful to see this so
287also it's past midnight so my brain cells are leaving me so thank you um any other questions from the board or comments no are there any comments coming from public comment mr bassinet we do have public comment norma ortiz so within these objectives um it is interesting uh the focus in regards to an increase of latinx student engagement by promoting clarity and learning connectedness voice in the classroom school and community also the aspect of having students receive more accurate feedback and clear expectations of their learning objectives this in return can help students be more critical thinkers and active participants of their learning thank you for your comment any other speakers mr businet there's no further comment for this agenda item thank you mr bastinet um this is a presentation so just a report so thank
288you um to mr manning ready and gardner for um joining us tonight and now we're going to go into item g3 this is um under operational services j3a presentation of consideration of adding boys volleyball at american canyon high school yes uh thank you gonzales mottos i was going to president gonzalez mars i was going to say good evening but i think it's good morning now because it's 1205 a.m so uh yeah exactly so uh joining me tonight is uh the principal at american canyon high school uh with crystal lopez and the athletic director ms jill stewart to give you some background information before i turn it over to crystal and jill um a request was made by american canyon high school uh back in april of 2020 to add boys uh volleyball um and obviously
289given the circumstances of being in the pandemic and whatnot we had tabled that request at that time not knowing what the future uh held um and then american canyon then revisited uh this topic in uh march of 2021 with the with the request again and when a school makes this request um we then go to a board excuse me administrative regulation 61 45.2 which is uh the criteria for adding or deleting a sport um and there's a number of factors that that are there are weighed into that um one of the main ones that that is is weighed into that is that a meeting is then is convened amongst the school site principles within the school district along with the athletic directors and any other staff uh that is deemed necessary to be at that
290particular meeting and that meeting was held um and it was facilitated uh by marianne christopherson who was our athletic liaison within our school district um and then from that particular meeting um there they the proposal by martin canyon high school was was heard by the group and that group then made the recommendation of supporting the the addition of boys volleyball uh to american canyon high school and so um miss stewart and miss lopez are here tonight to share the rationale that they shared with the uh the committee that i just referenced to the school board and hopefully to carry forward a recommendation to add boys volleyball to american canyon high school so without further ado i'll turn it over to miss lopez and mrs stewart thank you mr pearson good evening dr musetti and nvsd
291board of trustees thank you for this opportunity to present our rationale for requesting the addition of boys volleyball through american canyon high school our athletic director michael stewart will present our request to the board thank you and uh crystal and good evening i guess as mike said um good morning um uh dr masetti and board of trustees um can i have the next slide please why do we want to add boys volleyball to american canyon high school our students have shown tremendous interest in boys volleyball for the last three years other than this year of course up to 25 to 35 boys have participated annually in our club and a student interest survey from 2019 shows that 55 percent of our respondent students that responded were interested in boys volleyball and then this was the
292same time in which napa and vintage high school presented and proposed to bring lacrosse to their two respective high schools and unfortunately at that time american canyon had an equity um issue so it was decided that we should wait and so that's why we are presenting today this evening um if you look at our 2021 survey that we recently did the respondents voted overwhelming yes once again and 49 boys showed interest in playing volleyball next year if you approve of volleyball to be a sport at our school and incoming um 18 seniors 23 juniors and eight sophomores and just monday night we had our spring sports fair where we bring in our incoming ninth graders we had an additional 12 boys very interested in playing volleyball for next year so i had 61 boys currently
293wanting to try out for a volleyball team and just a fun fact that boys volleyball is the second fastest growing high school sport in the united states you have the next slide please one of the main concerns always when you is athletic equity and we totally understand that at american canyon high school that we need to meet the needs of title ix compliance and so if we examine our proportionality which is our boys versus girls participation which is only one component of title ix but if we look at 2019-20 school year because that was our last normal school year you can see that we had 22 boys teams and 23 girls teams and our proportionality was a point four eight percent which is really actually very good because anything under three percent is outstanding and
294if you look at this year as crazy as it was for athletics um we had uh 18 voice teams and 20 uh girls teams and that was 38 and again we did very well with the um proportionality between boys and girls playing sports um could have the next slide please boys is a volleyball is an interscholastic sport so boys volleyball is a cif sanctioned sport in our section the north coast section has it um as a spring sport um as divine valley athletically which we are members of we're also members of the redwood empire conference and so therefore our student athletes will compete and be hosted in that conference by the most likely by the marin county athletically and the schools involved in that are nevada high school san marin terra linda and this happens
295in a lot of sports um in our conference because everybody doesn't always have the same sports such as water polo lacrosse things like that um non-league opponents that we can compete against that boys volleyball hercules high school canola valley alhambra el cerrito and i believe benicia will be starting a team in the next few years this next year spring 2020 which would be our inaugural season of boys volleyball we would be considered an independent school and the reason for that is because we missed the deadline to apply for a league through the north coast section but we'll still be able to find games and get the boys program up and going regarding facilities boys volleyball is a spring sport and our only other spring sport that utilizes our gymnasium is co-ed badminton so therefore we
296have plenty of a facility space to accommodate two sports or two programs and what we do with all of our sports is we sit down with coaches we strategize when we're gonna have competitions and practice so it's equitable for everybody regarding game schedules the cif uh ncs allows 26 competitions and that's the exact same number as girls volleyball allowed um the big item is transportation i know how do we get our boys volleyball team to competitions especially with a budget um keeping within our budget um there won't be any additional um costs to the district when it comes to transportation we've already uh strategized on how we're going to utilize vans parent drivers and on very few occasions the school or charter buses so what are we requesting from napa valley unified school regarding funding
297we are asking that you cover the startup cost which is approximately seven thousand three hundred sixty dollars and ten cents and that includes uh uniforms volleyballs and other equipment and then an annual paying of two stipends which are class pay class type in seven for the varsity voice position and pay class stipend number five for the jv boys position and both of those are the exact same in which the girls coaches received for volleyball staffing we already have two highly respected coaches um on our staff that are interested in coaching and i know that uh crystal's 100 percent on board because uh volleyball games begin at four o'clock like all our other spring sports and about 6 30 about the same amount of time next slide please um thank you i appreciate or we appreciate
298your time in considering our request to bring boys interscholastic volleyball to american canyon high school and i know um it's been the talk the last couple years at our high school and the boys are just waiting on pins and needles to see what the outcome of this appreciated any questions yes um tracy gracia so i want to just start by saying i am a supporter of boys volleyball i played in middle school i had a lot of fun doing that but i'm concerned about what the title nine numbers would look like if we added 61 boys and i'm not sure your proposal wasn't clear was it one two or three boys teams that would be requested at this point so i'm sorry about that it's two teams it's the university and jv level for boys
299volleyball and so there would be 61 boys are interested but there would be about 24 boys that were speaking of on a team for each team 12 and 12. similar to girls volleyball numbers okay and so adding 24 then boys uh to your roster of students participating what does that do to your title 9 numbers let's say if you were to start it in the 21-22 school year so i looked at that's a good question i looked back at 2019 2020 because that quote unquote was a normal school year and i added 24 boys for participation and we were at three percent which is still very okay when it comes to proportionality i also went back to when we first started doing this data in 2013 and we only had one year which was 2018-19
300where we were above we were at five above five percent we've always been in the threes that was our only year so so what i'm hearing is you would be pushing your numbers right to the sort of brink of what's acceptable no what um i think that trustee gracia i think with the with the proportionality that that that jill is speaking to is these are the the best practices that we're supposed to maintain and on an annual basis each school has to you know look at their proportionality throughout that but you are limited on you know if you have a certain if you have the sufficient number of students on equal sides to come out for the sports itself to to to play and as jill mentioned it's one of the factors that you but
301that we consider in into the title ix regulations there is no i mean there is there is no checklist that says if you don't meet certain things you can't have a certain sport but it is for school sites to be cognizant on on an annual basis of their title nine numbers um so that they do not want to get them out of whack with things such as the number of students participating the number of sports offered per sex it even goes down to facilities and other qualifications so i hope that helps answer that question i know that she tried to analogize to the lacrosse but in that instance we were adding a boys and a girls team and here we're talking about just a voice team with no offsetting girls team so i do have
302concerns about our title ix compliance in this instance yeah and i think if you do look at their what they offered in the in 1920 excuse me 1920 yeah they had 22 boys and 23 girls and then in the 2021 they had 18 uh boys teams and 20 girls teams so there still should be fairly close to you know with that with equal offerings um of the sports per per sex if they did go if you did use the 1920 school year and adding two boys teams that would put 24 teams on that and 20 23 girls teams but then another qualifying data point you use is how many kids are actually participating in the boys and then how many are participating in the girls as well so um you you know title nine individuals
303know you can never you're never gonna have it exactly equal among that along the lines of numbers and things like that but the the the the idea being or the goal being that you are being cognizant of this and that you are trying to provide you know equal equal court uh i say course offering sports offerings um for the for each of the sexes but i guess my concern remains that if we're going to push this to the 3 level and for whatever reason any girl sport has a slight dip in attendance we will be over uh the acceptable variance limit for title ix yeah that could be and that would then cause america canyon um if we had uh if it was our year to be audited by title ix and this was become
304a report a part of the report then um they would have to address that that particular con that particular issue uh for that for that year and that could mean that they have to look at you know either recruiting more kids in a particular for a particular sport and depending upon their sex recruiting either you know male or female students for that or they would have to look at potentially eliminating a sport if they didn't have sufficient numbers uh for that particular sport but it is an ongoing fluid situation uh just so you know uh with with title ix um i i wish it was sometimes more cookie cutter approach but it is a very fluid ongoing situation um i just want to um reiterate then um uh mr pearson and um principal lopez and
305and ms stewart it's it sounds like we have a commitment to monitoring the situation and addressing it um right so j because we bring on the 24 boys for the new volleyball team there we're aware if the board takes action to approve that tonight we're aware that we need to monitor for the impacts of that decision and um you know look at the numbers and adjust accordingly correct ms stewart does a really good job of as you can see maintaining those numbers over the years and as mr pearson said um it's it's more than just the participation rates also about facilities and also about number of um themes as well it's not just participation of your male and female athletes well if it gets completely out of balance i suppose we could add a girls
306volleyball team well trustee what are they they have a goal but that would be that would be the answer you're correct into eliminating or adding um something else to bring it back into proportionality um but you also want to make sure that you're accommodating the interest of your students on campus that's also part of um sort of the title ix intent well i know that title ix has been in the news a lot because uh mostly because of um you know horrible facilities for female athletes at um certain universities but won't they take the will for the deed i mean you know if if um it's clear that you're doing your best to uh have some sort of um parody i mean there are certain things are beyond your control you can't force people to
307join teams but um you know you can have them available and it sounds like uh that american canyon is um is doing a pretty good job correct access interest and facilities are are some of the the biggest pieces of title nine um and the facilities that we would be that we use are are um on par between male and female sport and and we provide access to um the same proportionality of sports for our both male and female athletes i mean they are they're definitely being given the opportunity even encouraged right so i'm sure um you know that has to be taken into consideration so this is this is this is the presentation um uh there is an action item to approve this uh later on in the in the agenda but if there are
308other questions um for uh miss lopez or mr be happy to answer those i have a couple um i i also um you know i am a supporter of boys volleyball it was my high school sport i got my varsity letter and boys volleyball and so my my questions are actually from that experience my my high school also played outside of its traditional league in the marin county athletic league and you know that experience was good but one of the issues we had um was it it raised there there was a cost i mean it's a nominal cost to being in a different league but um when we actually had to cancel our our boys volleyball team my senior year um we'd just on a personal level i never understood why it was never really
309clearly explained um but one of the hurdles was the fact that there wasn't an in league uh or there weren't any other teams in the league that we we resided in so i guess my questions are are there um is there a concern about playing first i guess as an independent team outside of a conference as or a concern about thereafter being a part of the uh an out of county league or an out of um a non uh resident league um from a kind of practicality standpoint um i don't think so the independent um playing independent would be just next year because we missed the date to be placed in a league but for the ncs guidelines and then at the following league hosted with the marin county athletic league they are in the
310same conference as we are and the league we're in the vine valley athletic league we host um teams from the mcal that play lacrosse we host them in the vine valley athletic league and the same thing with water polo our league hosts water polo for the all the redwood empire schools in that conference so trustee julie um schools it's not uncommon for schools in one league if there's only a certain they're the only team that plays that sport it's not uncommon for them to petition to join another league for this for the purposes that we're just talking about what ms stewart mentioned though is that they just missed the deadline so to compete next year they have to compete as an independent but going forward she would submit to the mcal which is the marin
311catholic uh not marin county athletic league uh she would jill would submit to them uh to be admitted into into their league and then hopefully be accepted uh for the season of sport for for boys volleyball um i i know for example when when when vintage and napa even american canyon when we were in the sac joaquin section uh davis high school uh in their league was the only one who had a badminton team and so frequently that we davis would petition to come into uh the meow which is the monticello empire league because that had the the that league had uh six or seven teams uh that played um that played badminton but they but davis did not so we accepted them in for the league play so i hope that explains that yes
312thank you all right are there comments or questions at this time you want us to put a net out for you and trustee dooley to show us your volleyball skills before we as fun as that might be it might take a little more time than we have this morning i agree um i had a couple more questions one was it wasn't clear from the presentation for the seven approximately seven thousand dollar startup cost um were you looking for us to fund that or is this more like the lacrosse folks who came with that money available this is i believe uh trustee grazie this is a request that the school district would help with these one-time costs these startup costs for the equipment and the uniforms there may be an opportunity for some of the school
313if the school has some asd funds that they could also put forward on this but this is not coming with a a a donation or a large sum of money from a lacrosse group or a volleyball or mind you a volleyball group with startup cost for this request and then my next question was i believe you mentioned a couple years back that you were at a five percent title ix imbalance uh what caused that imbalance i'm not sure i was not the athletic director at the time and i believe that uh principal lopez was on maternity leave there was a lot of transition at the school so i am not sure but since i've been back our girls athletic program and numbers have really picked up and they're doing a great job participation in competition
314yeah any other questions we'll ask if we have any public comment on this item mr bussnet there is no public comment for this agenda item great thank you okay we are now going to go into item j4 school planning and construction yes again thank you uh president gonzalez morris for the opportunity to introduce um our our citizens bond oversight committee chair mr kevin brooks who is going to go over the annual report for the fiscal year for the measure age annual report for the fiscal year 2019 uh 2020. um i one point i'm not sure if they're still on on the on the zoom but i do want to recognize that i did see richard beck and barb franco who are also members of the of our citizens bond oversight committee um as it's stated
315in the in the agenda this is a this is uh mr brooks will be doing a presentation of the of the cboc measure age annual report for the fiscal year 1920 and then pursuant to article 3.3 of the committee's bylaws and in compliance with the city of california's constitution the cboc shall issue an annual report covering the prior fiscal year and as a reminder also the purpose of the cbsc is to inform the public on the expenditure of bond proceeds review the expenditures of the bond proceeds to ensure funds are only spent for purposes set forth in the bond language and issue an annual report summarizing the cboc proceedings and confirming compliance in the use of expenditures and this is one of those three uh tasks that the cboc has to do uh mr brooks
316was uh was it was hoping he would be doing this on a gen excuse me on june 11th and his wish came true instead of doing it on june 10th so mr brooks without further ado i'll i'll let you take it away thank you mr pearson uh president uh gonzalez mahrez uh trustees dr mazzetti student member magna we'd like to present uh this morning the annual report as mr pearson mentioned for the fiscal year of uh 2019 to 2020. next slide kelly please so here's uh we have seven members of the citizens uh bond oversight committee all local to napa uh and american canyon um and we have uh 70 of our membership of the seven members have been on the citizen bond oversight committee since its inception and its charter in 2016. the oversight
317committee is supported by mr pearson uh superintendent magnuela and kelly jergensen with van pels construction services kelly uh is the program manager for van pelt and is the committee's primary liaison for the district next slide please so the bond oversight committee uh interfaces or interacts with nvusd's goals relative to measure h in outreach and communication with the community as well as the oversight of the measure age funds that are expended as part of measure h next slide please kelly so some background on measure h uh it was passed by the voters in june of 2016 roughly five years ago um [Music] it uh included two issuance two issuances of general obligation bonds totaling uh 269 million dollars currently with interest uh monies received from the state developers fees and things like that [Music] there is
318uh 269 million in measure h funds the total funds is part of the projects associated with measure age is roughly 293 million [Music] there's roughly five categories of measure h projects which we'll get into here in a little bit uh but in the bond language and in the bond measure um the projects consisted of uh you know seismic upgrades repair of earthquake damage for the 2014 earthquake fire life safety related projects uh mechanical plumbing electrical infrastructure projects and technology upgrades as of the end of this reporting year so ending 2019 through 20. um roughly 70 or 192 million dollars of the 269 was encumbered meaning uh contracts issued or monies committed and uh our report for this fiscal year the 2019 through 2020 fiscal year uh covers the uh updated implementation plan that was approved
319by the board uh in february of 2020 recognizing that the current implementation plan uh that is on the books was approved in december of 2020 however that plan is not part of this fiscal report so the various uh data in the report is based on the february 2020 implementation plan next slide please so again uh we are an independent uh volunteer oversight committee uh serving the citizenry and the students of the napa valley unified school district we are appointed by you all and here is the makeup of how our membership uh what buckets of our membership falls into in addition to having 70 of our members serving continuously since the inception of the bond measure we have two professional engineers we have two general contractors we have uh an additional uh inspector so we have
320three people with boots on the ground construction experience we also have a financial uh person involved in funding uh with the background in bonds municipal bonds so we are fortunate to have a committed group of folks dedicated to doing this work that have experience uh and interest and passion to do so next slide please uh we have uh we meet uh every other month and uh we have been meeting virtually since uh the world shut down last year and uh similar to this venue uh and uh obviously everything is um the public is welcome to attend all of our meetings our next meeting will be in july july 14th at 4 30 pm meetings are roughly 90 minutes next slide please so the bylaws uh section three of our bylaws address what our responsibilities are
321as a citizen bond oversights committee number one is to inform the public of the goings-on related to measure h number two is to review the expenditures uh associated with measure h expenditures and number three why we are here this morning is to [Music] present an annual report uh these three items are grounded in a california statute associated with bond oversight committees and essentially two foundational elements there one is to uh review expenditures uh and ensure or opine that they have been expended associated with the actual bond program and two uh opine that these expenditures have been economically are in the best economic interests of the district next slide please so measure h is the fourth bond measure [Music] for nbusd and the the four bond measures total almost uh 600 million dollars [Music] between the
322four aggregate bond measures measure h is by far the largest and probably the most complicated both uh in um size of individual projects as well as number of projects so it is a bond measure that involves um you know fairly large project sizes 30 million dollars ish as well as a host of smaller projects next slide please here's just a graph that um shows the uh timeline of the various bond measures the four different bonds normalized to uh cost escalation and um in our previous reports and presentations uh here uh we have spent some time talking about escalation which you can see took off at the beginning of the timeline for measure h and then uh calmed down a little bit and uh is now taking off again as we all know with material prices
323doubling uh next slide please so this is the february 2020 implementation plan uh which is essentially the annual update of the facility's master plan the facilities master plan was used as a foundational element in developing the measure h ballot language and again it's uh roughly uh five categories and uh there is roughly 293 million dollars total allocated uh 269 million of which is the is involved with the original measure h funds so each of these categories includes individual line items or individual adjusted budgets brought current uh with each updated implementation plan the budget is uh updated so comparisons of [Music] cost to budgets are are those are normalized with every update within each line item within each category there is individual contingency depending upon the type of project and then there is also a bottom
324line program contingency and the so we have seismic and emergency projects we have modernization aka renovation and new construction new build projects we have school safety we have technology and then we have capital uh improvement and management so that is the category for the program management administration construction administration of the projects in what i would call the soft costs this is where there's also a bucket of smaller type of projects what we call pm r projects plant maintenance and repair projects as well as the contingency fund that i mentioned earlier this is how it breaks down by those uh five buckets so um roughly eighty percent of measure h is falls between seismic and uh renovation and new construction projects roughly ninety it falls between those two categories plus technology and again the capital improvements
325includes a contingency fund it also includes essentially your management costs for execution of the bond program so this uh graph uh shows the uh essentially the cash flow or the uh committed uh monies of measure h over the past four annual reports uh so you can see here that the annual encumbrance has peaked with the 2018-19 annual report [Music] and in the upcoming next year's uh fiscal year next year's annual report which concludes here the the period for which concludes here in a couple weeks uh that is projected to be about 50 million uh with the remaining monies uh being uh encumbered in 20 in the 2122 so we are at the tail end of the measure h bond uh through this fiscal year which ends again in uh in a couple weeks we will
326have spent roughly 90 of the measure h monies and uh that is uh and that's an important milestone not only in what has been accomplished but also in uh you know adjusting to how uh the bond program will be managed uh in the coming the coming year the next fiscal year um so one of our goals was to [Music] be able to present this year's uh report to you earlier uh due to covid the third party audit was uh held up and that's what uh prevented this from being done earlier as a foundational element part of the annual report is based on [Music] a third-party audit uh shavin and associates is the auditor for the district and they audit uh the district's activities as a whole as a subset they also do an audit for
327measure h bond funds however their activities are are commingled together and not suffered next slide please so in past years this is our fourth annual report um and in past years uh in the past three years uh we have prepared a variety of specific comments uh roughly 20 of them uh in the in the past three annual reports uh this year after much um discussion uh the committee chose uh to update uh the existing comments uh in lieu of providing any new comments um so i wanted to or we wanted to focus on a couple categories of those here and i guess uh first of all we should do a shout out um i mentioned earlier that the technology portion of measure h was roughly ten percent uh because of that uh when the world
328shut down a year ago and we entered the pandemic uh nbusd found itself in a very favorable position in being able to react to that through leveraging measure h bond uh monies for technology to be able to provide the necessary electronic gadgetry to keep everything all the wheels of education moving remotely so that is a huge win uh the second thing i'd like to uh throw out there is um [Music] in you know one of the charges that we have as a as an oversight committee is to inform the public and to provide communication and outreach and um we had had a couple goals and a couple comments to that increased in previous annual reports uh it had also been uh an observation in the grand jury report that uh you may recall was issued
329in june of 2017 and we are happy to report that there has been significant steady progress in uh the level of communication and outreach relative to measure h that is available to people that want to partake in that so we back to the specific comments we categorized the specific comments from previous years into three buckets red yellow and green with red being generally closed items yellow bean items in progress and green being some open items and i guess without going into the um a line item by line item here and in the interest of time just wanted to talk about two buckets of comments um one related to um how uh bond monies are allocated to projects and that is not the cboc's purview to determine how those monies get allocated our comments were specific
330our previous comments were specific to the methodology by which those projects are evaluated um and as well as a consideration of uh what projects those monies are spent on those monies being measure h monies relative to things that we have heard here tonight such as declining enrollment closure of elementary schools uh american canyon middle school and all of those other items that we have previously talked about and there has been steady progress on that um [Music] that is always going to be an evolving uh effort and there will always there always be work to done work to be done in that regard the second category of previous comments um deals with what we would call procurement mechanisms um and one of our previous comments was ensuring that the district that nwsd retains the corporate knowledge
331that it has from the execution of the measure h bond program for future bond programs as well as uh evaluating procurement mechanisms for both professional services as well as construction services based on the economic climate it may certain economic climates it's beneficial to do lump sum or fixed fee other economic climates it's beneficial to do time and material or cost reimbursable type contracts that was our second bucket of previous comments this is an appendix to our report and also included with the report in addition to this appendix is a variety appendixes appendices as and one of those appendices i believe it's appendix c uh includes the financial reports uh from the financial program the third party financial program uh from key analytics that is the basis uh for providing uh the information that the oversight
332committee uses to [Music] evaluate expenditures uh in addition to that we will be working with mr pearson and staff for the coming uh fiscal year to uh provide additional uh breakout reports on on add services and change orders next slide please kelly yep so in um in summary then a consistent with um our ask as part of section three of our bylaws uh we find that in the in our opinion uh the district is in compliance uh with the statute here relative to uh the use of measure h bond funds for the 2019-2020 fiscal year and here is uh ways to find out more information about measure h uh obtain copies of the reports copies of the annual reports everything is on the district's website and here are ways to get involved the bylaws allow
333for as many as 15 members of our committee so roughly two times what we have now [Music] so we're open and willing to have more folks participate and with the world starting back up hopefully we will be able to present next year's report which would cover the 2020 to 2021 fiscal year uh earlier in the year thank you very much and uh if there's any questions we'd be happy to answer them thank you questions so i just wanted to first off start by saying thank you to you and the rest of the oversight committee for your service we truly appreciate and value your participation in this bond program we could not have administered this program without you as the committee is required by the ballot measure so thank you i wanted to echo what was
334presented tonight in the critical nature of measure h and helping us to be prepared for the pandemic and facilitate the purchase of the necessary technology to allow us to adequately educate our students during this covet time i also wanted to highlight one of the important findings and or recommendations made in this report there was a specific suggestion that we evaluate future school closures before we consider other bond measures so that we're not fixing schools that will eventually be closed so i would encourage us to critically examine the elementary schools in our district in anticipation that some of them will need to be closed before we consider another bond thank you trustee gracia other comments or questions well i'm not going to disagree with david uh on this one tonight um i i uh i agree
335and um the only thing that surprised me was the the chart number 10 [Music] the construction cost versus consultant costs i was surprised the consultant cost was so high 25.1 percent well i'm on um i'm on uh actually i lost it's pink and black chart yes yeah i i'm for i know what chart you're talking about the this is kelly jergensen page 17. yep um so typically in a given construction project and generally speaking in a bond program um we use the simple rule of thumb of the 70 30. um for every you know let's say for every million dollars that you spend 700 000 of it is going to be spent on construction and 300 000 of it is going to be spent on um all of the other services and goods that surround
336the construction project that aren't the general contractor um so actually um the percentages you're seeing there are are pretty close to average if not a little bit above average um every program slightly different um but it is 70 30 is the rule of thumb that we use when we budget okay thank you as as i stated earlier it's going to be incumbent upon the district to uh as as the encumbrances ramp down towards the end of the end of the bond program you know you saw the peak of the curve and now you're ramping down that um those um soft costs as we call them are closely monitored which is always important towards the end of a project or program so um mr brooks i just want to thank you i want to thank you
337for your presentation my goal was to have you do it earlier than you did last year and we we beat the record and um you know it just always falls at these board meetings where we have several presentations before the close of the year and going into the july recess but we know this takes an incredible amount of time and uh your service and um you know volunteerism in this role um and these two years where you for several years now where you've prepared these and presented them like just you know on behalf of the superintendent's office and the staff i know we want to give you um a big thank you for your time and effort and commitment to the school district and the community at large yes indeed well thank you and the
338committee thanks you and kelly thank you for all the last minute changes and it will not be later than this next year i promise mike and i have a bet i won't tell you who took up over and under it is a secret it appears that we may need another motion to extend our meeting so yes please move to extend till three oh second till three are you crazy yes my brain's trying to process that but um okay um there's the first and a second i forgot who seconded it let's see water dude yeah veera you probably got that thank you so first by trusty grass is second by trustee water student board rep hi all those in favor aye fine okay um we are taking again a quick break let's make this one short
339please like let's really wait did someone go get me a cup of coffee i'll wander around just two more minutes or something and then let's let's let's finish all right let's um get started i'm just announcing to everybody that um superintendent sunny will be joining us um via phone um and we are now moving on to um k action items uh there's no items for k1 under general services so k2 business services this is k2a contract with sprs solutions 2021-2022 so moved second moved by trustee gracias second by trustee dooling do i have any public comment on this item mr bassinet there's no public comment for this agenda item thank you student board rep aye all those in favor aye aye all right how do you abstain or oppose right motion passes thank you item
340k2b caltrans temporary easement agreement so moved second first by trustee grass is second by trustee dueling any public comment on this item there is no public comment for this agenda item thank you mr bassinet student board rep hi all those in favor aye aye what do you pose or abstain great thank you next item k2c this is the contract with steinberg hart so moved first by trustee gracias second by trustee water do i have any public comment on this item there's no public comment for this agenda item any questions or comments from the board discussion no okay awesome student board rep hi all those in favor all right anybody pose your string right thank you now moving on to instructional services this is item k3a this agreement between napa valley education foundation and nava valley
341unified school district so moved second first by trustee gracias second by trustee dooley do i have any public comment on this item there's no public comment for this agenda item student board rep hi all those in favor okay anybody pose or abstain great item k3b i moved to table this item until the next meeting first by trustee gracias second by trustee water student board rep hi all those in favor aye hi my dear poser abstain rip motion passes we'll see that item next meeting june 24th item k3c renewal mou between the city of napa and napa valley unified school district regarding school resource officers so moved first by trustee gracia oh second a second by trustee chu i have any public comment on this item mr bassinet there is no public comment for this agenda
342item any comments or questions from the board yes um so the the issue of school resource officers certainly is one that is controversial and there's you know dialogue in communities across our country about the appropriateness of having police officers present on campuses and so i did speak at length with dr masetti as a new trustee to sort of understand more clearly what the role is of these resource officers and if it's an ethical and effective use of our resources because it's a quite significant expenditure um so i i really did get a good understanding from her that the um she feels that it's really essential that they play an essential role in serving students um and that the administrators at the campuses also feel that their presence is incredibly beneficial in handling sort of a
343myriad of issues that come up and that it it really is um effective and and so beneficial to have a specific designated group of three officers that know our schools and know our students and know our administrators and know our campuses um and know other people you know within the community that that can you know really assist students that are um having issues and and you know maybe run-ins with the law um that's a weird way to say that but it's one in the morning so um anyway i i'm not going to object to approving this contract but the thing that i would request and and um is that before then the next time we have an sro contract before the board that that we um that the district staff really seek out the student
344input about their experiences with these sros because it's one thing to have um you know our district leadership say oh they're great for us and they really help us and it's or to have a principal say oh i you know they really help me and and even just to have the adults say oh i think these sros are great with the kids but i really feel that we need to hear from students who are interacting with the resource officers so i have requested that we seek out that kind of qualitative data you know to be determined how we collect that whether it could be anonymous because i have questions with a power dynamic that if a student felt that they that it was not a positive relationship would they feel comfortable to say anything to
345another adult in the administration of sight at their school so um i you know i have some reservations although i i this is not to disparage or you know any of the school resource officers that we've had or to diminish the contributions that they're making at our sites to keep our students safe and you know i understand they also are involved in prevention education and you know other services so i appreciated having a you know getting a broader understanding of what they do but i still feel that we in in our oversight need to hear from the students about whether they feel um similarly that their presence on the campus is is positive and supportive okay that's reasonable maybe that's something one of the uh one of the leadership students groups could do could take
346on okay trustee trustee raiser this is dr mr you have my commitment i'll work with um director mike manswear director of student services who oversees the program um to next year collect some of that uh qualitative data that'll be centered around student voice um and bring that forth before we adopt the next contract for the 20 to 20 school year thank you so much yeah i think there's definitely something um to be worked on um just quickly part of the first five commission work and doing designing for social systems um one group worked on the relationship between our law enforcement and our youth and one of the um intentional spaces created was having the officers and it wasn't in relation to the sro it's just a completely different project kind of i'm thinking like the
347relationship that exists between um a person that's of law enforcement and a youth and um it was really interesting to see the dynamic there was so much growth and learning and care then um that came out of that meeting then than not um and so but there was also a lot of um um um even participating in that setting there was you know coming from the families were concerned they're like what do you mean my child is going to be in front of a law enforcement there was a trust piece of it and then um as the event progressed then more connection was done so yes i think there's definitely something to be said there that hasn't been fully explored or dove into um so i i would i would agree with that so thank
348you dr mercedes for following up on that okay so we did have a first and a second motion is there another i just wanted to make a quick comment um i wanted to say that we do have some really great people working as sros in our district and they do a good job with the children i would suggest that this is an opportunity for students to have positive interactions with the police and really develop a positive relationship that they may not otherwise be able to experience outside of a school setting so i think it is something that's beneficial to the students agreeing and both right because i also think that law enforcement is interested in developing that as well okay so i did have a first and a second um is there any public comment
349on this item mr bustin i'm not sure if i asked that already uh there is no public comment for this item thank you student board rep hi all those in favor are you opposed or abstain great thank you okay we are now on item k three new high school course of study adoption for career technical education so moved second first by trustee gracia's second by trustee water do i have any public comment on this item mr bassinet there's no public comment for this item thank you student board rep aye all those in favor aye are you opposed or abstain great thank you item k3e new middle school fine arts course of study adoption so moved second first by trustee gracias second by trustee dooley do you have any public comment on this item there is
350no public comment for this item thank you student board rep aye all those in favor aye aye what do you oppose or abstain great thank you then we have renewal of agreement between nvusd and sonoma state university so moved second first by trustee gracias second by trustee dooley do i have public comment on this item there is no public comment for this item thank you any questions comments right student board wrap aye all those in favor aye aye anybody oppose or abstain great thank you item k3g contract between bay area education support services doing business with sylvan learning center and napa valley unified school district so moved first by trustee gracias second by trustee dooley do i have public comment on this item there is no public comment for this item thank you any comments
351discussion student board wrap aye all those in favor aye aye what do you pose or abstain great thank you um item q3h contract between bayer education support services and navajo unified school district so moved second first by trustee gracious second by trustee dooley do i have any public comment there is no public comment for this item all those in favor aye hi student board rep hi anybody opposer of saying thank you item k3i renewal agreement between naviance and napa valley unified school district so moved but i want a little discussion okay first by trustee gracia i will second to allow the discussion appreciate it second by trustee dooling so when we had originally approved the naviance contract a couple years ago now maybe we approved it for high school and middle school we dropped the
352middle school because it wasn't used it was brought before us with the caveat that vintage high school uses it extensively but that none of the other high schools really did and i was able to get some usage data that indicates that's still pretty true at the end of the day there's not a lot of use that seems to be happening at the other high schools in our district so i have concerns that we're not making full use of this program and we may not be getting our money's worth at the other high schools vintage still by far in a way has the most use assistant superintendent pat andrew jennings do you want to um address that yes i can address that thank you um yes i know that that's um it's been a little bit
353of a challenge this ongoing year around the implementation or the further future further implementation of naviance and um there has been an increase from last year to this year at american king and highway schools particularly in terms of their naviance usage and as uh director sarah knox continues to work with counselors on using um or aligning the counseling teams at the different uh high schools i there will be more use and also we're integrating it in with the amber cleveland and the work based learning component she's been working with naviance and working to integrate that more into the high schools at each of the grade levels um i think it's uh this is the third this will be next year will be the third year of implementation and i um would expect to see a
354much higher usage as students us begin to use it in 9th 10th 11th and 12th grade there is definitely still more significant usage at the 11th and 12th grade as students prepare for college and do college searches and use it as a tool for for um teacher recommendations and and items such as that so expect to see an increase next year okay i look forward to seeing that i do too uh trustee gracia it's not at 1 18 in the morning but yeah right okay so there was a first and a second student um mr wessonnet do i have any public comment on this item there is no public comment for this item okay student board rep hi all those in favor aye all right what do you pose or abstain great thank you item
355k3j agreement between dreambox learning and navaval unified school district so moved second first by trustee gracias second by trustee dooling do i have any public comment on this item there is no public comment for this item student board rep i all those in favor all right anybody oppose or abstain great thank you item k4 operational services k4a request for the approval of the addition of voice volleyball at american canyon high school so moved second first by trustee gracia and second by trustee water do i have public comment on this item there is no public comment for this item student board rep hi all those in favor all right anybody pose or abstain i just want to say i'm going to hold you to your title 9 compliance that you promised to keep up with so
356please don't let us down on that one well if they're out of compliance we can always cancel football that'll bring it make it even right no trusty water we're not going to do that i'm just teasing i just hate singing it's like i know i know i just look forward to watching them play san marin high in a couple years so all right we look forward to the invitation to the games too all right um okay all right congratulations american canyon high school you have a voice volleyball team all right um item k5 um school playing and construction k5a this is a request to surplus four uh relocatable classrooms at donaldson way elementary so move okay second first by trustee gracias second by twisting water any public comment on this item there is no public
357comment for this item student board rep hi all those in favor aye aye anybody oppose or abstain great thank you item k5b this is a request removed service provider for relocation of the stone bridge school it's all moved second first by trustee grass is second by trustee dooling any comment on this item there is no public comment for this item great thank you mr bassinet student board rep hi all those in favor aye aye anybody oppose or abstain great item k5c request for a move service provider for relocation to the new napa junction site so moved second first by trustee gracias second by trustee dooley do i have any public comment mr president uh there is no public comment thank you student board rep hi all those in favor all right anybody oppose or abstain
358great thank you uh item of information on um not nothing there are additional suggestions and comments from board members and superintendent i have a short one and it's very short and heartwarming and positive go ahead trust me okay i was at the uh kaiser vallejo last week feeling you know sort of down in the mouth and one of the tech people figured out i was from the school board and she could not say enough nice things about the nbusd opening schools doing everything they could um the handing out the handing out the technology and in particular she praised a miss sailey a math teacher at american canyon middle school who she said this lady told me in the pandemic her daughter's math actually improved because this lady this teacher miss sayley uh just worked so
359hard with her daughter to bring her up to speed and she i repeat she was very grateful and that that really cheered me up nice i have one quick comment um so back when i was a first year trustee former trustee um hurtado let me know that there's a informal board policy that during the summer months of june july and august that we dress less formally and so i'm passing that information on to our new trustees for me this is this is very informal okay just so you know okay um thank you trustee gracia um any other comments just congratulations to carla for your last meeting spanning two days on the calendar [Laughter] you made it we yeah we made you work for it the last drop thank you carla [Laughter] yes you have the
360plaque take it off hang take it and hang it up in your dorm your roommates will laugh at you but that's okay all right um any future agenda items no okay move to adjourn second trustee grace's second victory water student board rep hi all those in favor all right all right thank you everybody and have a good morning and a good friday