Regular Board Meeting - Thursday, June 18, 2026

001what he told me. We're good. >> I want to welcome everybody uh here and listening in to the June 18th regular board meeting. It is 5:02 p.m. and I call to order. Um, Miss Ellinger, is there any uh public that wants to address the board on closed session agenda items? >> President Cost, there are not. >> Okay. I'd also like to mention that Trusty Bruno uh is attending remotely. Uh it's as as posted in the agenda. Um Trusty Bruno, if you can hear me, are there any uh members uh with you at this time? >> No, there's no one here. >> Okay, great. Okay. So, with that, um, we convene to close session at 5:02 p.m. Okay. Okay. Want to want to welcome everyone re back to open session June 18th and it is 6:19

002p.m. we reconvene to open session. Um next is call to order and the flag salute. 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. >> Okay, the flag moved on us. We're back. >> Switched. >> Okay. Um, I'd like to uh there there is uh one report out of close session. Uh during the close session, the board of trustees unanimously approved an interim superintendent employment agreement with Craig Goldman whereby Mr. Goldman's salary will be $1,200 per workday for up to a maximum contracted salary of 59,550. Um, as a formality, we're going to go ahead and ask the board again to uh ratify the interim superintendent's contract now that we're back in open session. Um, do do

003I have a motion uh for the approval of the superintendent contract? >> I move I move that we approve the uh interim superintendent contract. >> A second. >> Second. >> Great. Um, can I get all eyes? Oh my god. All eyes. Can I get a vote? >> I. >> All those in favor? I I >> Great. Any opposed? >> We have Trusty Bruno. >> Trusty Bruno is on the and Trusty Bruno, can you hear us? >> I can. I >> Okay, great. Thank you. Um, with that, it it's passes 50. Um, so I would just like to again thank and I want to formally introduce Mr. Goldman who is here with us today. Mr. Goldman, how are you? I' I'd like to read a little bit uh for those. So Craig is a familiar face

004to many in our community, having served as BRSSD's chief business official from 2015 to 2020. During his time in the district, he was a valued member of the leadership team and developed a deep understanding of our school staff and community. In addition to his service in BRSSD, Craig previously served as superintendent of the Mountain View Whisman School District where he led a high performing district through growth, facility improvement, and academic achievement initiatives. Since retiring, he has continued to support school districts throughout the Bay Area in a variety of intram leadership roles, helping organizations navigate leadership transitions and maintain continuity of operations. Craig will begin serving as interim superintendent in mid July and will remain in the role until the board appoints the district's next superintendent. The board is confident that Craig's knowledge of BRSSD combined

005with his extensive educational leadership experience will provide stability and continuity while the district completes its superintendent search. Warm welcome, Craig. Yeah. Come on. Great. Thank you. We look forward to working with you. >> Okay. Next is item number seven, approval of the agenda and consent agenda. some cookies in the oven. >> Okay. Um, so with that, can I have a motion for approval of the agenda and the consent agenda? >> I move to approve the agenda and the consent agenda. >> Great. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> I Trusty Bruno. >> Great. Uh, all those opposed are none. So we uni unanimously passes 50. Okay. Now our next item is item number eight. Speakers wishing to address the board on non-aggenda items. Miss Ellinger, do we have

006any speakers for that? >> Yes, President C. We have two. >> Great. >> The first one is Lauren Chiang. >> Yeah. Hold just one second. Um, again, the board appreciates and supports stakeholder input into our meetings. Engagement by members of the public in civic matters is a cornerstone of our democracy. The board has established guidelines for its meetings so that we are able to conduct the meeting effectively and efficiently. Within those guidelines, members of the opportunity to address the board to submit a question or comment. Speakers are asked to complete the speaker card as you've done. Um, if you are addressing the board on a non-aggenda item, we will take the comments at this time. Uh, please be aware though that the provisions of the Brown Act prevent the board from acting on or discussing

007non-aggenda item matters at this meeting and you're limited to three minutes per topic. Welcome. Hello. Hello. Can you hear me? Um, good evening. Uh, my name is Lauren Chung. Um, I'm here as the father of Kylie Chung. uh sixth grader at NESBIT. Um last July, we submitted an intra district transfer request for Kylie to attend Rston Middle School for sixth grade and she was placed on the wait list. Um we trusted that process and we waited. Um she showed up to Desbit every day, adapted, made friends, and worked hard. Um but still hoped for a spot at the school um that's just a short walk from our home. Um, no transfer to Rston was offered to anyone on the wait list uh this year. Not one. District staff confirmed this to me directly. Um, in

008fe in February, we asked the district in writing to let Kylie's weight list standing carry into the seventh grade given the year she had already waited and given where she had stood on the wait list for most of it. uh we were told that under current policy the wait list does not carry over um and that we need to resubmit uh in July like uh any new applicant. We understand that's the policy. Um we are here tonight because we believe this is a case where policy and fairness are pointing in different directions. Um I learned from district staff that sixth grade at Rston is overenrolled. Um, what I don't know and what I'm asking the board to confirm and clarify is how that over enrollment is actually because that's what's been happening First, we ask

009the board. >> Second. If the board that is a fair standard, we ask that The last meeting at Boston Who is the next? >> And then we'll have Rahila Pi come up. would be confronted by many decisions about how to continue learning in a global pandemic. No worries. Um, the true measure of leadership is often revealed not during easy times, but during difficult ones. Dan's first years as superintendent required resilience, adaptability, an extraordinary commitment to students, staff, and family. Those years were a very challenging time, and as a board member, I had never felt like a politician until those board meetings over Zoom where um it felt like no one was ever happy with us. But through all of those times and constant change, he remained focused on keeping our community informed, our schools moving

010forward, and our students at the center of every decision. As someone who helped lead the process, I can say that Dan has fulfilled the qualities we hope to find in a superintendent. He has led with professionalism, integrity, and care for the last six years. He worked constructively with the board, respecting differing perspectives and never lost sight of the mission of public education. A superintendent's impact is not measured by the programs and initiatives. It's also measured by the culture they create. Um I still remember your first uh meeting with the staff and uh talking about the culture of a learner and just all of the different meetings that I attended with you. just was always impressed by how at the core of every um mission that you wanted to roll out or everything that initiative that

011you wanted to do, the student was always first and foremost. Dan, thank you for your leadership and partnership and your dedication to this to the students and families of Belmont and Rubber Shores. On behalf of those of us who had the privilege of helping bring you to Brier SSD, congratulations on this chapter as well as your next chapter and thank you for everything you've done for our district. >> Thank you, Ra. >> Thank you. Um the next topic is our board of trustees report. Um um Trusty Bruno just chime in when you would like to do yours. Um but if would anybody uh care to go first? >> I usually like to go first. Thank you. Um actually I didn't prepare anything for today, but I did want to take this time to also say

012a few words of thanks to Superintendent Duara. So, um, as you know, this district has been so fortunate to have a leader such as yourself for six years, which I know is also a very long time for a superintendent to stay with the district. Um, so I just wanted to to take the time to to make sure that you know that we really sincerely from the bottom of our hearts appreciate all the work that you've done for everyone in our district and the community at large. um you've certainly gone above and beyond staying incredibly late hours um early mornings and um I think specifically um just for me personally I really really appreciate all of the time that you took um in my first two years on the board. Um I appreciate all of the

013time and leadership and just explaining things more than once. Um, and now I I feel very confident in um being a board member uh on this board and and contributing. So, thank you, Dan. Um, I would echo an, but I'm not going to go and say all the things because she already said all the things and we don't want to be here until midnight. So, um I did just want to congratulate all of our fifth graders and eighth graders that promoted this past these past few weeks. It has been amazing and wonderful watching you guys cross those stages, get those lays, get those diplomas or promotion certificates, not diplomas, those your certificates and uh move on to this next giant milestone in your life. And good luck to all of you. I know you will

014do wonderfully because you have been supported and loved by everyone in this district including Dan. >> Thank you. Yes. Um so I did uh just want to recognize Superintendent Aguara. Um I believe maybe you'll have one more meeting with us maybe or not or that may just be close session. I so um if this is your last meeting uh Superintendent Aguara um in public uh thank you for all of your service um as trustee Deng mentioned um you've helped all of us as board members um join the board. I was realizing that when knowing that uh former trustee and former president Posi was was planning on attending tonight. um you welcome the former board welcomed you Dan and then you have welcomed all of us uh who are currently on the board and um so

015thank you for everything you've done to help us um and everything you've done to help the community directly and then helping us be the representatives for the community. Thank you for um helping us work together very well. We're uh we're we're really looking for somebody who can uh continue that that process. Um I think we work great together and um yeah uh again, thank you for your service. Uh we've really appreciated everything you've done. Thank you. >> I'll just I'll jump in. Um Can everybody hear me? >> Yes. >> Sweet. Thank you. Uh I'll keep it quick. Uh yeah, Dan, thank you. Uh you'll be missed. I know you'll miss me, too. Uh I'll miss your your your sayings or your looks. Um and uh and I hope you get to uh sleep in with

016your shorter commute. I know it's been some early mornings. Uh I appreciate you. Um, happy Pride Month to anybody that's important to and I'll see the rest of my time. >> Thank you. Um, yes. Uh, it's it's been said, but I would I would like to just say that um, you know, it's to represent the district and to come in as a new board member. I do appreciate everything that you've put into place for the onboarding, the mentorship, and just the the the kind of the countless conversations as we've grown into our governance roles so that we can do the best possible and represent the district well um and grow in our our ability. So, I thank you for the collective growth of our board and I thank you for my own personal growth and

017development. I really do appreciate it. And I do love the Danisms. Um full stop, full transparency. I love the Danisms. Full stop. So, um, in in terms of the of the trustee report, I would just like, uh, to wish everybody an amazing summer. It was great to be part of all the the different levels of graduations and and moving up in promotions and seeing all the smiling faces as they um recognize that they have the confidence to go to whatever that uh, next greater level is for them. Um, and I would just like to to remind everybody about the opportunity um as we approach and look for a new superintendent that we really uh want the community to be involved. We appreciate all those who have been to date and the there's still an opportunity

018with the survey link um to June 24th, correct? >> Uh yes. So June 24th, please uh take a few minutes and and have your voice be counted for the attributes and characteristics that we're looking for. We really value your opinion. >> President CS, if I could just add to my report. Um >> you may. >> Uh just wanted to remind um people that we also will have um elections for three of the board member positions in November. And although that seems like far away and of course uh the current board is fully committed um to finding a new permanent superintendent um the November will happen very soon. And if you would like to be on that ballot, you need to um according to the Sanonteo County um elections website, which is SMCARE acre.gov, of um

019you need to file by August 7th, so before the first day of school. So um again, uh go to the elections website for more information. Um but if you would like to run for the board, the deadline is August 7th. >> Great. Thank you, Trusty Northup. Um with that, uh superintendence report. >> Uh super. Uh I'll just start by saying, uh thank you. Thank you for all the kind words. Um, Raila, when you were mentioning uh rewinding six years, uh, so the first interview, I'll just say, uh, we weren't sure what we were supposed to do, whether or not we were supposed to shake hands or fist bump. Uh, by the time the second interview came along, um, it was clear that we shouldn't be doing any of that. Um, yet, um, part of the

020interview, um, process, um, towards the end was dinner. So, uh, by the end of that day, we all felt comfortable with each other, uh, to share a meal. Um, and I think that started a a great relationship. So, uh, nothing but, uh, really positive things to say about, uh, Belmont Redwood Shore School District. Um, we have an amazing group of people, an amazing community that we serve. Um, our kids are outstanding. Our parents um, step up. um our teachers uh work super hard day in day out. The support staff um all step in and we've historically been led by amazing trustees um parents in the district who step up to serve. Um and I think when you have all of those ingredients uh coming together, it's a pretty easy job to lead, right? Everything's going

021in the right direction. um you just need to keep it going in the right direction and and um I had lots of fun doing it. Yes, there was ups and downs and challenges along the way. Um, but it was uh truly fun uh serving um Belmont Redwood Shores community and I appreciate uh the confidence that the board had in me six years ago and uh know that um our community is going to continue to do amazing things and um I'm still not far away. So, I'll be I'll be checking in to make sure that it's it's going as I I would expect. So, thank you to everyone. Thank you to our community. uh wish everyone a wonderful summer and I will also note uh the importance of Junth uh tomorrow which was the end of

022slavery and a celebration via a federal holiday. Uh so um uh recognizing Junth, happy Junth and um I just want to say thank you. >> Thank you Dan. Um now the next part on the agenda is um item number 11 the parcel tax oversight committee annual report. I will do a quick introduction. Uh so as part of our parcel tax uh oversight as part of our parcel tax bylaws uh we are required to have a annual report uh by the chair of the partial tax oversight committee once a year. Um, we are very lucky to be joined by Dan Hardman today who's chair of our parcel tax oversight committee. I would also just like to very quickly shout out the rest of the members who are Ben Bartell and Stroello, um, Jeff Goldman and Megan

023Streiter. >> Thanks so much. Um, I have some prepared remarks and then I'm happy to take any questions. Um, good evening members of the board and superintendent. I'm Dan Hardman. Madam chair of the parcel tax oversight committee. This is my third time now appearing before you to report on the business of the PTOC. Uh the parcel tax oversight committee is composed of dedicated teachers, parents, and civic-minded citizens from within the district. We met three times in the past year to diligently review the financials as presented by CBO Rhys Matsumoto. Our meetings were held on May 14th, December 3rd, and March 31st. While we are not professional auditors or accountants for that matter, our thorough review process is guided by the specific mandates of the parcel tax measure and included in-depth discussion and deliberation on expenditures.

024Based on our review and our understanding, we did not find that parcel tax funds were spent outside of their mandated use. We confirm that to the best of our determination, all funds have been utilized in accordance with the guidance of the parcel tax measure. Thanks so much. And I'm happy to take any questions. >> Anybody have any questions? >> No questions. Um just wanted to um make a comment. Um just as Ree said, we just want to express our extreme gratitude and thank all of the members for all of your hard work. Um really appreciate what you're doing. Thank you so much. >> Happy to do it. >> Great. Thank you very much again. Okay, next is uh a public sorry >> well consent >> before this. Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. So, as

025part of the uh consent agenda, we have two uh resolutions that we um honoring uh retirees certificated and classified. and we'd like to read them out. Uh >> uh for I'll just say uh just to uh as part of the consent agenda today, we uh we have a a pattern of uh approving a resolution on behalf of folks who retire uh from Belmont Redwood Shore School District. Uh we had two um uh folks that decided that it was their time after um we did our our last board meeting. Uh congratulations uh to both of them. Uh but we would still like to honor them with a resolution. It was passed in the consent agenda, but it's tradition to read them uh aloud as well. So uh with that um our trustees, >> whereas Audrey Payne

026has announced her retirement from the Belmont Redwood Shores School District. Whereas Audrey has served as a school administrative assistant at Rston Middle School for the entirety of her career at Belmont Redwood Shores. Whereas Audrey has dedicated 23 years of service to supporting students, staff, and families, helping to create a welcoming, organized, and efficient school environment where all members of the school community could thrive. Whereas Audrey has been a the master of attendance, report cards, and cumulative records. Whereas Audrey helped countless families with enrolling and transition uh transitioning to Rston. Whereas Audrey has been the queen of school spirit and has festively decorated the office for different holidays and celebrations through the years. Whereas Audrey has built relationships with students and families. Be it further resolved that the Belmont Redwood Shores School District Board of Trustees

027hereby commends Audrey Payne for her 23 years of dedicated service to the students, staff, and community of the district and wishes her a well-deserved, rewarding, and fulfilling retirement filled with much joy. Yeah, >> this is resolution 2025 um resolution commending Robera Powers. Whereas Robera Powers has announced her retirement from the Belmont Redwood Shores School District. Whereas Roberta spent her career at the Belmont Redwood School District working at San Piper Elementary School where she taught both fourth grade and fifth grade students. Whereas Roberta has dedicated 27 years to the education and nurturing of young minds, inspiring countless students to achieve their full potential with a rigorous program while also incorporating fun and always putting her students first. Whereas Roberta has been a skilled natural leader for both adults and children, she has mentored several teachers new

028to the profession and has nurtured growth in her veteran colleagues. Whereas Roberta has served as a professional and meticulous planner whose profound mastery of curriculum makes teaching second nature to her. Whereas Robera has championed many activities through the years such as student council, homework club, conflict managers, colonial days, and Samaritan House donation drive, inspiring students with leadership roles, an epic hat collection, a love of nature, and a giving spirit, all while learning independence. Whereas, Robera brought joy into the classroom with a sense of humor that made even the toughest problems feel approachable. Whereas Roberta inspired students beyond the classroom by hiking countless miles at outdoor education, encouraging resilience, curiosity, and appreciation for the natural world. Whereas Roberta has dedicated her heart and soul to education, consistently building meaningful, positive relationships that have deeply enriched the

029lives of her students, family, families, and the Sam Ppiper community. Whereas the BRSSD community expresses its deepest gratitude and heartfelt appreciation to Roberta for her outstanding service, invaluable contribution, and the profound impact on the lives of students, families, and colleagues throughout the years. The district extends its warmest wishes for a joyful retirement filled with relaxation and cherished moments with loved ones. And be it further resolved that the Belmont Redwood Shore School District Board of Trustees hereby commends Robera P 27 years of dedicated service to the students, staff, and community of the district and wishes her a well-deserved, rewarding, and fulfilling retirement. And if Roberta and Audrey are out there listening, congratulations and we will uh give you your proclamations uh when we either see you next or we'll send them in the mail. >> Great.

030Thank you, Superintendent Duire. Um the next who will be um sharing information on this topic is CBO Matsumoto and it's the item number 12, the public hearing, the statement of reserves for the 2627 budget. Good afternoon trustees. Um so the next two items uh have to deal with uh mandatory required filings uh as part of the annual budget adoption. Um so the first one here we have is the balance in excess of minimum reserves. Um and it's a little bit confusing so let me try and explain this a little bit better. So whenever you file the budget um basically your balance within your general fund gets classified into a couple categories. Um good. >> Yeah. >> It gets classified into a couple categories and those categories essentially are um assigned, unassigned and committed. So assigned

031funds uh essentially are dollars that have to deal with specific grants. I will say. Uh and then you have uh committed funds which uh in this case mostly gets put towards our resolution I believe from a few years ago in which we try to put aside additional funds to get us to 17% of our reserves. Now everything that is in excess of that goes onto this sheet and the whole point of it is just to try and make sure that districts are reporting any additional money and how they they plan to use it in the future. Now for us uh this balance for this coming year is around $4ish million of which pretty much it's going towards uh balances for economic uncertainty or essentially you know giving us that runway to close our deficit over

032time. >> Great. Um sure we were going to open the public hearing and then uh are there any comments from the public to that they want to address this topic? Okay. Um, with that at 651, I close this public hearing. >> And do we need to vote on >> uh, >> it's an action item, but I don't >> action item. I believe you do need to or >> there's no I don't know what the the action is to approve it. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, so w with that, does anyone uh h have a motion to approve the statement of reserves for the 2627 budget year? I move to approve the statement of reserves for the 2627 budget. >> Thank you, Trusty Deng. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Trusty Tang.

033Um, all in favor of the approval, >> I >> Thank you. Voice of from above. Uh, passes 50. Um, with that, uh, the motion passes. What else? Um, the next item on the agenda is another public hearing and resolution 2025/2620. The proposition is Proposition 30, Education Protection Account. Uh, with that, I'm opening up for public hearing comment at 6:52 p.m. Um, CBO Matsumoto, would you explain this agenda item? >> Do we ask if there are any public comments first or >> We do. Okay, we do. There no public comments. >> Great. Thank you very much. Close it. Let me >> leave it open. >> I do my presentation, Chris. Great. Um, so again, this is the the second of required forms as part of the the annual budget process. Um, every year uh every district

034within California receives an allocation um as part of the education protection account. Uh, essentially these are funds um that get pulled out of kind of the minimum state guarantee um that are put put aside for teacher salaries. Um, basically this form/resolution says that we are to spend it on teacher salaries and benefits. Uh, the amount is 758,300. Uh, which pales in comparison to the number of teacher salaries that we have. Uh, and so we will be able to meet that obligation for the oncoming year. >> Great. Thank you. Um, since there are no public comments, I'm going to close the public hearing part of this. And now uh we h this is an action item uh where is that it is recommended that the board of trustees approve resolution proposition 30 education protection account proposed

035expenditures for the 2627 fiscal year which will be incorporated into the district's adoption budget for 2627. Um do I have a motion to pass the second? >> So moved. >> Great. Is there a second? >> A second. >> Great. All those in favor? >> I Okay, there's none opposed. So, this motion passes 50. Okay. Luckily, CBO Matsumoto is right there. And on to the next agenda item, which is this is also an action item. is the pro approval of amendment number two to the lease leaseback agreement um number 26-04 with Rodan Builders for the Fox MUR modernization project. >> Good evening again trustees. Uh back now on the construction lens uh for a few items here. Uh so this first one is for the uh GMP2 or basically the GMP2. So uh as I had

036outlined before, every construction project basically has a few ways that it goes through, right? The first thing that we approve is going with the vendor and pre-construction services which allows them to do the very minor, you know, scoping out of the area that they'll be in. Um, then we move on to the GMP1, which allows them to start the construction process before, you know, doing any nonDSA items while that gets finished up by our architect. And then we have the GMP2, which is uh what's getting passed today under the Fox MUR modernization project. Uh that's for basically the rest of the scope including all DSA approved items. >> Great. Um do I have a a motion uh to approve amendment number two which is the lease lease back agreement as written? >> I move to

037approve the amendment number two to the lease lease back agreement 2604 with Rodan Builders for Fox MUR project. >> Thank you. Do I have a second? >> Second. Great. All those in favor? >> I um all those opposed. >> It passes 50. Wait for >> Okay. The next item is the approval of a pool. No, approval of pool of DSA inspection firms. Um and with that, CBO Matsumoto to give us a little more detail. >> Good evening again. uh for the last of the construction items here. Um so the fun part about every construction project uh is that it ultimately gets passed through DSA, but you may ask who makes sure that everything's happening according to what DSA approves. Well, you actually need to have a DSA approved inspector on every single job site. Um

038given that we have a number of construction projects coming up, not only now, but into the next few years, it's impossible to just have one inspector oversee all the work. So what is helpful is you build basically a pool in order to pull from these approved vendors for when it comes time to actually do a project. Uh on May 22nd we put out uh basically an RFP asking for all qualified firms. Um we went through it with both our architects and also Telq who is our uh program manager for the bond. Um and they've selected the the following panel of vendors uh to be a part of our pool of DSA inspectors. How do we decide which one gets used for any given project? Does it matter? >> It it's um I will say there's

039not a lot of difference between all of them. Um they all are required basically by DSA and code to report on the same thing. So um ultimately it's just being able to have an approved list that you can pull from. There's only so many vendors in the space I believe. Um and ultimately we interview them to make sure that you know they're are qualified, they have all their licensing in check. Um uh that you know they have overseen similar types of projects in the past and have made sure that it's uh you know they point out the appropriate things not in terms of safety and everything else as well. >> So they it would just be we have this particular project and you go you don't have you don't have availability we'll pick another one.

040Uh essentially. Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Um quick question. Do we is there a cost associated with keeping these um firms on this pool? >> No, there is no cost. There's no like stable costs uh essentially. Uh it just allows us to create a pool of approved people uh that when it comes time we can just ask them to uh you know they can basically quote it but we can pull from any one of them whichever one we think is uh best value. >> Great. Thank you. Um, so thank you. So with that, um, do I have a motion to approve the pool of qualified DSA inspector of record firms? >> I move to approve the pool of DSA inspection firms. >> Great. Thank you. Do I have a second? >> A second. >>

041Great. All those in favor? >> I I Okay, motion passes. 50. Okay. Cool. The next item is item number 16 and this is the 26 27 uh budget adoption and this is an an action item to approve the budget for the upcoming year. >> Good evening again trustees. Uh this is the last of the resathon for tonight. Um but essentially if I had to sum up the whole budget presentation, so the last time we came to you at the budget uh was at the end of April. Um ultimately not a lot has changed. The only thing we've really done is uh try to estimate some of the reimburseables. So reimburseables are uh things like you know things that we pay for on behalf of the PTAs and the PTAs reimburse us. Um you know some

042of the coaching fees uh we have parents who reimburse the district for those things as well. So, some of the numbers have changed, but the overarching message is that the deficit that we're still planning to run for next year, which is 5.7 million, is still the same. Um, the big, I guess, non-update that I have for you is the the last time around, the big thing we talked about was Janentech, right? Um, and trying to get more news from uh the county's assessor's office uh as to whether or not, you know, that actual tax would be or the tax refund would be coming through or not. Uh unfortunately we haven't heard any additional updates for that. So again in the process of making sure that we're accounting for it and you know hopefully we get

043better news on it. It's still included in here. Again you know the hope is that we would run roughly a $5.3 million deficit for next year but when you include that in there it gets to 5.7. So that's overarching message here. Um I'll flip through a a few slides. Um again roughly nothing has changed too much but I'm happy to take any questions at the end of the presentation as well. Great. Okay. Um so overview of timeline. Uh again we at any given point in heir are working on basically three fiscal years at once. Um you close the year in the beginning of the year. Uh you're working on the current year and then you're starting to build the budget for the following year. Um so as of right now this is uh this represents

044the culmination of all the work um that we've done this year to prepare the budget for next year. Uh and again we went through all this process of moving up our budgeting timelines all the way up into December to hopefully get budgets in front of principles and site leaders sooner. Uh which means that we have a better sense of who we need to hire for the following year which helps us get into the job market earlier hopefully then giving us better quality talent to select from. So that's the whole point of moving up the budget process. Uh again uh as we think about some of the key inputs um you know the main thing to point out here is that uh we are basic aid which means that we aren't beholden to uh the state

045when it comes to their statutory increases. Uh I believe uh as of right now the state is proposing in the last governor's uh budget update a 4.31 uh cola that only applies to I believe the overarching LCFF formula but for all of the other programs and different grants that they're giving out uh they're only applying a 2.87% cola to those programs. So it's a little bit interesting. Uh again, we are not withholding to that, but I think it's valuable to know, you know, kind of how the rest of the state is fairing compared to us. Um as we think about our uh budget composition on the revenue side, uh big thing again here to note is uh that we've adjusted some of our our LCF or basic aid revenue um taking out some of that

046Janentech money. And then as we think about the expenditure side, um again nothing much has really changed. Um some of the services and other operating expenses have gone up a little bit just by the uh the reimburseables that I talked about. Um thinking about the other funds that we oversee as well, we have the cafeteria fund fund 13. Um, you know, important to note that, uh, we are currently budgeting for a the draw down from the general fund into fund 13 as we have in years past to support the program. Um, in terms of fund 21, um, we're still spending down that money as well. Um, even though it says that, uh, there's still a big balance in there that reflects as of right now, there's still a number of construction invoices that have yet

047to come in that will end up being on this year that will affect that balance as well. So that balance will come down. Uh and in terms of developer fees and school facilities, um those uh remain largely untouched as well. Again, our multi-year strategy, we've built up reserves over COVID uh and are now running strategic deficits in order to spend that down while also making sure that we give additional services to students sooner. And then the last thing I have for you here uh is we have a Prop 28 disclosure. Uh so Prop 28 is the I believe it's the arts and music uh grant that happens every single year. Um and as part of the grant, uh we have to do a disclosure on a board presentation. So uh I wanted to include this

048slide today. Um the main thing to point out is that you know realistically this only covers a portion of kind of the the music salaries and supplies that we put towards our school every year schools every year. Um largely our music program is covered by school force. So you know again I just want to spend some time and thank school force and all of our dedicated members who you know go out and fundra to make sure that we can offer the most robust uh music program that we can for our kids. With that, I end my presentation. >> I just have one question since we're on this slide. Um, what what do you think on a percentage basis that school force um generously um puts forth towards music and art versus Prop 28 funding when

049you say it's a a small portion? What is the Prop 28 portion of it? Percentage, >> I want to say that it's almost like 60 70%. Um, so really it it's quite a bit more as well that is just not covered that you know even though the state has put money towards this, it's nowhere near enough to run a functional music program in a district. So >> great. Thank you. >> Any any questions about the budget? Okay. Again, thank you very much. This is an action item and it's recommended that the board of trustees approve the budget for the 2627 school year. I have a motion. >> I move to approve the 2627 budget. >> Great. I have a second. >> Second. >> Great. All those in favor? >> I >> Okay, with that uh

050the the budget appro passes 50 for the 2627 upcoming school year. Uh item number 17 is um going to be given to us by assistant superintendent who and it is on the 2627 LCAP adoption and it is an action item for us. >> Good evening. So this again is part two. We were here last month. We presented to you the draft of the LCAP and in the midst we I mean we had already gotten county feedback but we also pushed it out to the entire community along with the survey just to confirm and and see if we miss miss any community feedback. So as a reminder we do do an annual update on our three priority goals. Number one is the maintenance of progress related to conditions of learning and pupil outcomes. Goal number two

051is a school culture and climate goal also maintenance of progress. And then goal number three is centered around community engagement, which is a broad goal for our district. These align to our strategic plan and help us ensure that we are able to operationalize the individual pieces of fostering belonging and inclusion, investing in our long-term future, etc. These are all of the engagement and advisory opportunities that have occurred over the school year. This is not different from the last time we saw you because we had already planned everything. Um, there were a few meetings that had happened after our May meeting, but they were already listed because they were on the calendar. And then the increase in improved services, oh, excuse me, there's a typo. Increase in improved services for 2627, not 2526 are continue to

052be the same as they were in this coming year for this year. We were able to look at our efficacy data and in the shifts that we made for 2526, we are maintaining actions and making small tweaks. So, we will continue to fund our reading specialists. We will continue to fund our school's counselors and we will continue to fund the teachers that don't round out to a perfect student group divided by 25. As we discussed last month, there's no extra teacher. We don't have more bodies than we need. We just don't have a perfectly efficient equation. And so, we're able to apply those proportionally through our LCF dollars. We are continuing to provide free and reduced lunch eligible students full subsidy for participation in outdoor education in fifth grade. and we are going to continue

053to pay for some additional coaching support for our counselors as they apply for their ramp certification in the coming school year. We were able to add a few highlights from the parental feedback forms. This went to the entire community and families who part it was mostly families who participated. I gave people the option to say what their role was in the community and 90% of the participants were families. Um there was some request to continue individualized tech support and reading clubs. There was an increased uh there was a request for increased communication about student progress and assessment information. There's definitely interest in providing instruction aligned to the science of reading. Um there is support for continuing our SEAL practices and how to teach students to respond to unexpected behaviors. A big part of our PBIS

054system is teaching kids how to how to respond in unexpected situations. And then also some requests to have to send home ways parents can support and reinforce at home. Those are the highlights of the comments that came in. You'll notice that these all align to different actions that are already in the LCAP. We've reviewed these with our principles as well in our end ofear principal um closeout meeting. So the LCAP though a compliance document is a living breathing piece within the work that we do with our principles. These are all of the new and continued actions from previous years. I bolded the items that were new in 2627 2526 and continuing into 2627. So we had a new reading difficulty screener this past year. We will be doing restorative practice training for our counselors coming

055up this coming school year. We have started our core and unbound ed professional learning centered around the science of reading for our literacy teachers and we have engaged in a partnership with Marzano that's going to launch into next year looking at our grading practices and our proficiency skills. Um so those are kind of the highlights and then you'll know that we had our public hearing here on May 14th and we are here today for the final approval and adoption. And that is the end of the LCAP presentation. >> Open it up for for questions. >> Okay, great. Assistant Superintendent, thank you very much for that presentation. Um, for therefore it is an action item. Uh again, it is recommended that the board of trustees approve the local control accountability plan, otherwise known as the LCAP

056as presented to us. Uh do I have a motion? >> I move to approve the 2627 LCAP. >> Great. Thank you, Trusty Deng. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Trusty Tank. Um all those in favor I I >> Okay, the motion passes. 50 from above. Um, thank you. Uh, the next next item, >> it's me again. >> Great. I thought it was math adoption. Dashboard local indicators. Again, we welcome assistant superintendent who to uh inform us. This is an information item only. >> Yes. So as part of the LCAP and part of our state reporting, we have compliance measures that are reported in the LCAP and we also have local indicators that we review on an annual basis at the local level. Hence local indicators. Both of these feed into the

057California school dashboard that are p that are updated and published every fall. Um they're bumping up the publication so from December to October in this coming fall. Every year we review our own practices and look at our own data. So we look to see that our basic conditions are met. Do we have the correct teachers teaching the classrooms? Do we have state board approved adopted curricula? We do an internal audit and we basically report out to you and the public that yes, we have met this local condition. We look at our implementation of academic standards. Our team of school site administrators complete an annual self-reflection tool for me and we monitor the progress we're making every year in terms of whether we are beginning to implement or implementing with fidelity and it's a range in

058between and as a local team we look at our results and we make plans to make sure anything that is kind of in this introductory phase bumps up next year. Um so I'm here to report that we have met that local indicator as well. Our parent engagement process is is a requirement. Um what we do every year is perform a formal survey to include everybody and share with our entire community. But we also know that you have very active school sites. Our parents participate in their local school site councils and PTAs and we our principles are basically our go-between for hearing and sharing feedback. So we have met that standard as well. We look at uh youth truth data, California healthy kids school survey data as well as PBIS implementation data to ver to monitor

059the the status of our school climate. That indicator is also met. And then something else that I do on an annual basis is I review all of the students in all of the very um advanced pathway classrooms that we have at the three middle schools and we look to see if there's any disproportionality between our students special education or English learners or racial um demographic makeup. And what we find annually and consistent again this year is that there's no statistical disproportionality. the students there's a there's a difference in the number of students enrolled but they match their enrollment in the overall population and that's really what we're looking for that there isn't one group over represented or underrepresented. So those are our local indicators. We have done a local assessment and we continue to monitor

060all of these on a regular basis as best practice. So as an information item I ask if you have any questions. >> Open it up for any questions. >> I have a question. Um, I think it's it's great that we monitor all of these information items. Is is the data available to the general public or is it just within the school system? How does that work? I do it internally with our principles. So, we don't publish the internal numbers. Um, some of our populations are small in number and like like all of the other public stuff that we see. If we have fewer than 11, we don't publicize that. And if we have fewer than 30 at a school site in certain demographics, we don't share that publicly. that we keep it internally to protect

061privacy. >> Got it. >> Great. Any other questions remotely or in person? Okay. Um thank you again for that information and update. We now move on to um item number 19 which is the math adoption. This is an action item and it will be presented by once again assistant superintendent who >> okay it was the recathon now it's theqing pai >> we're going to talk a little bit about math materials adoption um and hope at the end you will approve our recommendation so we've been looking at this process all year long seems to have gone to Uh just as a reminder of general adoption timeline and process, the state will adopt standards, then give you an updated framework and then curriculum that matches. So we got a new framework curriculum in fall of 2023 and

062new curriculum that were put out by the schools the state school board in November of 2025. We then convened our local adoption committee and we went through a long process of learning with the county office around the framework shifts and defining what our mission and vision and our local needs were with our school team. Our committee members represented teachers from all grade levels, from all school sites, led by our our incredible STEM coach, Narina Carpenter, who did so much behind the work, behind the scenes work to ensure that everybody had what they needed, answering questions, being the go-between, between the teachers and the publishers, doing some front work, leg work to review 50 plus programs to help Cole the list down to what might actually be viable within our district before leading the group through

063the entirety of the process. So, I want to say a huge shout out to Narina. I know she's not watching. I'm very glad she's on on summer vacation, but this is her baby. Um, and then our teachers from Central are Robin Fletcher and Gina Bruno. Cypriani teachers included Kim Sidam and Shan Nakamura, including the first grade team who utilized the materials but weren't part of the comm uh the formal committee. Um, we have Fox teachers Carol Raisner, Jennifer Puscer and Talia Carter, the principal. We had Nesbbit teachers Danielle Netska Tibs and Kyle Ting. Rston teachers David Williamson, Alicia Ferrario, and their principal Sabrina Adler. Redwood Shores teachers Katie Passion and Sarah Tele. Also, the fourth entire fourth grade team partnered with Sarah. Um and then at Sandpiper we have a large we had Margaret Watson

064we had Kathern Boschell Kathy Diko Melissa Tala Kristen Ozora and Valerie Gao. All of these teachers took multiple sub days to learn about the framework, give us their input about the programs, then attended trainings with the publishers, implemented the programs, and participated in coaching throughout the timeline of implementing and trying and piloting the materials. They together came up with a vision aligned to our strategic plan and prioritized the curricular needs of our students based on assessment data and then picked first down to six and then ultimately down to two per grade span. The major math framework shifts for the state of California center around providing connected instruction for students and and focusing in on meaningful problem solving. So not just wrote practice and not just being able to solve the most difficult problem on the

065page, but being able to communicate and apply to real life situations. And that is really what we were looking for when we piloted our different programs. The vision that our teachers came up with was that we would envi we envision our math classrooms where every learner is empowered to think, innovate and advocate. As a confident mathematician, learners embrace challenges, collaborate to deepen understanding and grow through curiosity and perseverance. Our goal is for all learners to become enthusiastic, proficient, and flexible problem solvers with strong reasoning and communication skills. In addition to the work that they put towards smmith this and really articulate what it was that mattered to our classroom teachers, we also identified a couple of non-negotiables as we were selecting our programs. Number one, whatever program we selected at whatever grades span needed to

066support the pedagogical shift to engage problem based learning for students, teachers, and families. It's one thing to have great tasks and another thing to have a curriculum that supports the teacher in changing the way teaching happens in the classroom and supports the families in ways that they know how to model at home and how how we can communicate too in an effective manner to families. We wanted to make sure there were opportunities for student choice challenge paired with strong assessment systems with clear data and adaptive supports that helped all learners, not just our students that were struggling and not just our highly capable students who are taking outside math courses. Our goal isn't to make sure those who are already high-f flyers have the most challenging, most rigorous program while leaving behind those who are

067system dependent, but we wanted to find curriculum that addressed both ends of the spectrum. The other component that was important to our team was a manageable scope and sequence. Something that could be taught in the 180 180 days of every single school year. something that provided for flexible pacing also for our AS math students and something that provided strong family communication tools and technologies to support instruction not in lie of instruction or be the end- all beall. So you'll see in the programs that we chose these are all met. So they piloted in nova math thinking math and imagine learning's illustrative math in grades K5. Our teachers piloted Carnegie Clear Math and imagine learning illustrative math in 68. Keep in mind too, our 68 teachers have been effectively piloting amplified Desmos math for the past

068two years because we were able to get advanced copies and knew that we needed something to support what was happening in 68 all along. So they ultimately had three programs that they were comparing. When it came down to piloting, Narina worked with each of the individual grade levels as well as each of the publishers to identify the appropriate units to be taught so that kids didn't miss instruction so that it fell within the scope and sequence of what they were already learning in this the course of this year as well as something that would highlight the strengths of the programs that we were trying. Each materials pal pilot lasted for five weeks long which included model lessons, collaborative planning, a feedback loop directly to the publishers and tech troubleshooting for all the grade spans followed

069following the 10 weeks of materials trial. Each of our teachers gave individual personal private reviews of the materials and then we debriefed as a whole group. We also sent the materials out to the individual schools and they were on a materials road show so the community could also look at the various options in physical print as well as the online samples that were provided by our publishers and give us feedback. This was the traveling pilot deployment calendar. You probably saw this at some point. Um but you can see every single school got multiple days with the materials. Um, and Narina was really good about sharing and making sure people knew where they could go. If they couldn't go to their own school site, where else could they go to see the materials? We did a

070robust staff debrief on May 14th. Um, I just wanted to give you what the session looked like at a glance so you could see what each each program was put through this. So, there were three programs at 6A and there were two programs at K5 where we reviewed the purpose and norms with our group. We had everyone review their own personal notes on the rubrics that were created prior to the materials pilot. Then we had them all share out and we could look at what the district patterns were showing. We looked at student work from each of the programs along with rubrics as well. We identified the strengths, the tensions and then the root causes of those tensions for each of the programs as well as the opportunity gaps before coming to consensus around which

071program would meet the needs of our students and our non-negotiables in the most meaningful manner from all of that work. And I just gave you kind of a picture of the various I mean we probably had 45 charts at the end of the day. um for a Nova mat. Here is a summary. This is an AI summary from our posters, but Narina is wonderful and she pulled this together. But this is these are the themes that kept coming up about what was good about Inovamat. You'll see that number one successfully met all the needs met the needs of all the learners. Um thinking classroom methodology served as a core instructional highlight, right? um curriculum framework matches the shifts. The warm-ups incorporated physical movement. There were high levels of student engagement. There was there were a

072couple of kind of hesitations that were indicated in grades four, five. So immediately after this, we pulled together our fourth and fifth grade teachers. We pulled together the publishers for Innovat and we shared our our concerns at which point they were able to already say you had shared a few of these along the way and here are our solutions already in place and here's what's coming up next. So leaving that secondary conversation, our 45 team also feels like this is the absolute right program to be able to meet the needs of all of our students in the range of those who need extra support all the way up to those who need additional challenge. Amplify strengths were also listed here um by our 68 teachers. They diligently reviewed the three programs that they looked at

073and this is the one that they've obviously there's a little bit of a an advantage because they've used it for longer. But if I were to be totally honest, they used a portion of the program for longer and they're super excited by all of the other pieces that are now released as the formal curriculum. and if they liked the partial program, they're going to love the full program come fall. Um, but high teacher visibility into see student work and exploration attempts in real time was something that they really loved. They loved the strong language scaffolds that were accessible directly within the lessons. They felt the depth of the content was both accessible across the grades but also really easy for them to pull from different places without feeling disjointed. This was a clear winner for

074our sixth through eighth grade team. And I only pulled the summary of strengths for the two that we're recommending just in the interest of time. From our community feedback, the families echoed the need for rigor both providing challenges but also meaningful engagement. There was um a strong desire to ensure that there were visual explanations that there was structured productive struggle and real life context and application. All of which we were able to see. For thinking math, our publishers have helped you know, they know their publication the best. We know our needs the best. And what we did was we put together a couple of sides for you, giving you the highlights of thinking math and how their curriculum for K5 supports our math vision. You'll see that under our goal of thinking, learners develop critical

075approaches to problem solving and clearly articulate mathematical reg reasoning. Thinking math delivers through open-ended tasks and Socratic warm-ups, building critical reasoning starting in kindergarten. students question, explain, and justify every step all the way throughout. Um, in terms of innovating, thinking, classroom methodology drives productive struggle, collaborative tasks are embedded throughout, and mistakes are learning moments. And then in terms of advocacy, built-in multilingual scaffolds, visual models, and movement based warm-ups ensure every learner belongs and contributes. A few of you were able to walk classrooms with us during one of our school visits and got to see Thinking Math in action and the level of engagement and the incredible amount of conversation that was happening even at the first grade level around um probability and throwing dice is just indicative and that was seen throughout consistently. I'm really

076very excited to see the new K5 math roll out next year. Another kind of plug for the framework, right? If we're thinking about the drivers of investigation, every single unit from Thinking Math opens with an exploration problem. Something that is real, something that is relevant, something that pertains to what the kids are exploring and not just a random word problem. The standards for mathematical practice really come to life in this new round of math curriculum. We've we've had the standards of mathematical practice embedded since the common core standards were adopted in 2010, way back when I was still a principal, but none of the curriculum really highlighted and pulled out the components. And it's exciting to see thinking classroom model this. Um there are structures around discourse, justification, and reflection. There's, you know, the K3

077curriculum matches all of the framework shifts. Everything that is part of this curriculum is built in and not a supplemental add-on that you have to buy or you have to know as an experienced teacher to dig into this lesson. Each of the teachers additions lessons point out really clearly this is the key point of this lesson. This is what you need to make sure you get to. There's a thousand different activities. It's a bit of an there are many activities and teachers have to make live choices. But when it is called out at the top of the lesson page, this is the key. this is the thing that they need to leave today with. It makes it much easier for the teacher to use their time effectively. And then with content connections, thinking math is

078a spiraled curriculum. So they will see the curriculum multiple times over the course of the 180 days. They have 180 activities, but they are really only seeing approximately 150 new lessons and then they get to review and repeat because we all know school happens and if we we've for years have heard from teachers, you cannot do a program that is scoped for 180 days. We just don't truly have that even though they're there with us. So, we're excited to see the problem based learning, the student choice and challenge, the really clear assessment data. Um, it's all stuff that we've purchased that all aligns and is going to be beautiful. the adaptive supports and then both online and offline. You can do this program 100% in workbook. You can do it online. You can do a

079blend. We really want to use technology in a smart way to support learning, not as the main learning. Um, and then here are the five pillars to Innovat's approach to math education. What's in I you can read this. I'm not going to read them to you, but what's incredible is the partnership from top to bottom, from beginning to end. Every single person that we have met with has a PhD either in math instruction or in in math content. They are all teachers and they love math. Their ability to hear the feedback from our staff. I've I've never I've really truly never been so impressed impressed as I was watching the team sit with our four or five teachers sharing their concerns and their ability to instantaneously hear what the bigger problem is, reframe it right

080back to the teachers and then point out what the kind of solution fix is. They are the people who are partnering with us. Part of the adoption comes with on with live coaching for the entirety of next year. And that is going to be a huge piece as we shift as you're looking through those shifts in the framework. And you're probably thinking, "Oh my goodness, what does this mean for the classroom teachers? How are we going to do it?" We're going to do it through consistent effective professional development and coaching. Amplify at 68 is the program that we've chosen. One of the pieces it comp I mean this is this is kind of their visual of all that they offer in their whole program. There's the core program plus the differentiation tools plus the MClass

081benchmarking and screening all of which we have included in our suite of purchasing materials purchase as well. One of the highlights of Amplify is that they have an AS scope and sequence. So they have a six, a seven, an eight and algebra. They also have a 6 AS and a 7 AS which helps us then bridge how do we get from kids from six to 7 AS. How do we get kids from 7 AS to algebra without missing the the eighth grade standards? How do we move kids from one to another midy year because there's a scope and sequence that exists. Sabrina and her team and Ryan and and um Gloria as well. It's a little bit less movement though. They will have as and regular as well at San Piper and Nesbbit. They don't

082have quite as much movement just because they don't have quite as many students. But Sabrina and the team will really be able to figure out how am I going to support the kiddos that are jumping levels so that they don't have to do everything on their own and they don't have to get it from outside of school. And that's going to be kind of the benefit that we see in a couple of years. Um, but they also have blended resources to support every single lesson. One of the things we hear a lot about is that kids are on tech too much and with the Amplify tools, they can do everything online. They can play around with the Desmos calendars and the sorry calculators and all of the different modeling as you can see on the

083slide, but everything can still be done on paper pencil. So if there's a power outage, if you have a substitute, it's completely parallel and you can go back and forth as appropriate. And then all lessons, like I said, can be taught with student edition while the teacher projects. Student devices um can be utilized, but you can always do everything in print. And this was something that I think was really important to our middle school teachers that they wanted the flexibility to go back and forth and not be 100% tight to tech. We know what happens when we are relying on the internet, when we are reliant on having power, when we are reliant on having charged devices. So this makes it such that just from a logistics standpoint, they don't have to worry. But they

084loved they loved the way that they could challenge their kids. They felt like there was more rigor in Amplify. They felt like they were able to provide for all ends of the spectrum through this program. And so with that, the teacher recommendations for K5 are ANOVA math thinking math and for 68 amplified Desmos math. questions before you adopt my recommendation. >> I have questions. Um ear in one of the earlier slides you had mentioned that it provides them with student choice. What does student cho What does that mean? >> Yeah. So for both programs they they function a little bit differently but the Innova Mat program on Monday through Thursday is kind of teacher guided and then Friday is their kind of fun centers day. And that piece, first of all, there's there's always choice

085in how you how you solve the problem, how you approach the problem. But Friday really is kind of the day where traditionally looks more like choice. It is going to be the individualized time of you're really far ahead. You're going to do these fun things. You need a little bit of extra. You're going to do these fun games. And so that helps drive. The other component that exists in the amplify is as traditionally teachers assign you, you get to do these extra problems and you get to do those and that's it. The way amplify and Innova math both have it set up now is once you've completed the next piece automatically opens. So maybe I came into the day needing a little bit more review, but as I'm going through the automated pieces, I'm experiencing

086a lot of success. I'm not stuck just because that's the worksheet you gave me. there is a bit of AI in some of the tech tools that will make sure that I too then get to the challenge and I think that's a huge piece in addition to all of the the choice that comes along with how do I want to demonstrate my learning do I want to be online do I want to do it paper pencil some of it comes in who my partner is am I working independently with a partner with a triad >> can I ask another question um when you say amplified that's amplified that's the des >> by desmos math >> right yeah >> and I know I was excited to see that it has the the 6 7 8 and

087the AS and the algebra, but I know Rosson also has geometry. How does that >> The geometry program is not changing. The geometry program that we have is currently aligned with the high school district. Okay. >> They use the same curriculum that is going to stay static for now. >> Okay. >> And we are going to see what happens if if any changes happen at the high school level. >> Perfect. And when you said it was the spiraling curriculum, what we're saying is that there's 150 days of new curriculum and the other 30 days during the school year for >> Yeah, there's still time for review. And even even with new curriculum, anytime something new is presented, I Oh, shoot. I I should have pulled there's this other beautiful slide that Anova Matt had for

088us that showed it beautifully that I didn't include. Um, even when new material is being taught, there's always going to be old material that's covered. And they have a beautiful map of every single grade level. So you can see when each of the concepts are being taught and rettaught. You can see which is really helpful for a teacher to know that this is the first time in this grade level this is happening or this is the fifth time and if if they we don't need to spend that much time on it or this child might need a little bit of extra and maybe this is going to come into their boost day on Friday but we're not going to necessarily do this as a class. >> The curriculum tracks that for you like >> there's

089there's a map of of of all of the lessons across all the days. Here are all the different mathematical concepts and here's you it's colorcoded based off how many times it comes up. Um it's it's hard to I'm sorry that I didn't put it in. I'm not doing it justice in explaining it, but there is a beautiful map for teachers which is always helpful because you pair that with the assessment data. Then you really do know what should I be spending my time on today over the next four days, over the next 10 days, whatever the unit is, who needs what? And and are we doing this whole group or are we doing small group? Because, you know, the the more we know upfront and the more we can strategize with our time with our

090kids, the more efficient and effective we'll be instead of guessing at this is what the lesson is and we're just going to do the lesson. >> Thank you. >> Anybody want to go ahead? >> Um, just a very basic question, simple question, but you mentioned that um the curriculum is available online as well as on paper. Um, and so that there could be a choice there. Is that just like up to the teacher if they want to provide paper or could individual students decide that they would rather do their work on paper? >> I think ultimately it it it depends on the grade level the student is in and a lot of the training. So we are already scheduling multiple trainings. K5 is is front of mind because there are so many going on. Um,

091we will be doing a grade level release day for our teachers starting starting middle of early late August all the way through September so that they're going to get their initial training in August and then before school starts. Then they're going to get to to apply a little bit and then they're going to have the conversations with the trainers. Part of part of the choice in online versus paper really is dependent upon the age and the developmental appropriateness. Innovat is meant to be done mostly hands-on in K12. There are online options, but the goal is to slowly up the tech usage as appropriate. And even in 678, I think a lot of our teachers have felt like they've been using primarily tech. But when we talk to the the PD providers and the technical team

092from Amplify, they actually only recommend that students are on the tech platform between 30 and 40% of the time. So that's going to come in the training to the staff so that they get more comfortable with going back and forth and then eventually kids will be choosing. But I I mean, >> yeah, I mean I I was I guess I was assuming that it was like they were gonna push more online and so I'm happy to hear that they prefer them to do it on paper. I would say from the trainers that's really what it is. I I do think that there will be some teachers who are very savvy and are going to be doing and letting children choose, right? Like we all have our kind of different personalities. Some of us like everybody

093doing the same thing in our classroom because that's our experience and and maybe we're working with younger kids that it's just easier to manage, right? I mean, you've got 25 children and some of them on tech and some of them on paper and some of them on a whiteboard is a little bit hard, especially if I'm a first year teacher. But I I do think ultimately we want teachers and students to be able to determine what makes the most sense for them with a heavy emphasis on what's what makes the most sense instructionally, not just tech because it's easy and I can just turn it on and it's right there. >> Thank you. >> Great question. I wanted to piggyback on that. That was on my thing around where you answered it. The percentage of

094technology may be in in teaching. So, I know we want to take advantage of technology, but I I fundamentally believe in what you're saying with kids on tech too much, you know, right? They're getting it at home. Uh they're getting in in the classroom. So, I like the fact that you're saying it's balanced. I was actually surprised 30 to 40%. I was assuming >> that percentage was going to a lot a lot higher. I'm glad to see that there is still that because also there is the ability to do projects, right? It's not just all on the screen. more like group discussions or whatever. So would you say that what do you think our lat our percentages >> you know roughly speaking have been in in technology and teachers really relying on the >> Oh

095I I I would say that's a really hard one to answer because it it really varies by grade level and by site and by teacher experience. I I mean we have teachers who do everything on slides in their presentation >> and then kids who are completely interacting in the same classroom kids who are interacting one-on-one with each other >> and then we have the absolute opposite as well and I I I wouldn't be able to give you a good >> So do you think that's a cheat I mean do you think that there might be obviously push back depending like you said where the teacher starting point is but is that 30 to 40% is that is that a reasonable ask you know to kind of for a balance America. >> I mean, I think

096I think it's reasonable and I think our teachers in the pilot team felt like these were the good programs. They liked how the program supported the shift to more problem solving, more collaboration, more justification of thought. I think we also recognize that the hardest part of any new adoption is providing the appropriate training and coaching and support so that teachers don't fall back to what they know but actually give the new thing a try the way that it's intended to be with integrity. So we have purchased we've spent a lot of money not just on the materials but on the corresponding professional development from the publishers to ensure that it's not one and done sit and get open your box and here's what you have. That's obviously going to be a part of it but

097there is going to be ongoing support and coaching at all levels of what does it look like? How should it how should we be doing things a little bit differently? And I think that piece is going to push the the change in instruction. >> Great. Um, so along those lines, I had a question about supplemental m material. Um, you know, I I've I've seen personally at home and and I'll be honest, I don't know if it was supplemental or part of the >> the the course, but it was handouts and boy, you read the questions and I and I was so confused. And I word problems confuse anybody, but these I didn't know what what they wanted from from from for my kid to like figure out. And so I I guess with this it's

098encouraging that it sounds like there's a lot of modules, a lot of interactive, a lot of flexibility. I I would hate though that that do the teachers feel like they have enough supplemental material uh just through this because I would hate for us to buy into this have it be vetted and then kind of them to to to get something that is confus like doesn't is not >> so I'm not going to speak to the 200 teachers that we have but of the 17 18 that were part of our committee they felt like these programs were complete and robust and they are on board with these are the these are the components we are using this is what we are scoping and sequencing. This is part of the work that we'll be doing with Marzano

099next year actually with John Hey, one of Marzano's consultants. But looking at the proficiency scales and mapping it back to our newly adopted curriculum and then talking about the instruction and utilizing all of the components of our curriculum. That's going to be, you know, multi-year work to implement with with integrity. Um, you know, one of one of the questions was asked is if I'm renewing next year and I'm not paying $40,000 for a math supplemental online tool that we bought as a supplement for the old program because it wasn't enough when we have a brand new program that comes with a bunch of bells and whistles. Now, in two years time, if we find that this is not working and it's not enough, we're not closed off to supplementing at that point. If we don't

100start the program with all of the pieces utilized as it's intended, we will never know if it's the program that's failing us or if we're failing the program. So the hopefully the supplemental materials will decrease come fall. We're going to continue working on our alignment through our grade level pieces and this is this is a community investment including our teachers and our principles. So this is what we're purchasing. People are really excited by it. We're going to provide great training and we're going to keep an eye on how the implementation is going and what what continued supports are needed to ensure that we use what we bought. >> Thank you. I have >> I mean not blindly, right? Like if it's if it's not good, it's not good. We'll we'll adjust. I don't think that's

101going to be the case. I think it's going to be a shift in how we learn to teach. >> Right. I'm encouraged by that. I have two more questions if uh one is just this the student input. So I know when you do pilots it seemed like a lot of teacher input so maybe I missed it but can you just kind of reflect on how you kind of captured the student input and there any any anecdotes >> you know about if they actually kind of liked it? >> Yes the two we we did poll all of the students who were part of the pilot those in the K2 we did we had the teachers do a class poll >> and then for three through eight they did individual surveys. We asked them what they liked

102about each program which one they liked better. It was a resounding ANOVA mat in K5. They thought it was more fun. They liked the games. They were the number of anecdotes that I got from teachers saying kids who hated math all year long. Then we tried a Nova matath. They were having fun and then they shifted because that was the first pilot. Then they did their illustrative math. The kids that went from hating math to having fun and and looking forward to math to saying, "Yes, we're doing math today." went back to I mean we only had 18 people there but I had multiple teachers sharing that that was the experience of their students in 68. They are very clear on what they want. They could tell you exactly what was difficult about Carnegie. They

103could tell you what they did not like about Illustrative and what they did like about Amplify. Um, it was also the 68 debrief was very easy and straightforward because the students, the parents, and the teachers were all on the same page. K5 was a little bit trickier. We were I mean, nobody was really in love with what was going on with 45. But after meeting with Innovat's publishers to hear and look at the shifts that were that had already been taken care of um and then our four or five teachers also were realized the unit that they asked to teach because it was in alignment with their scope and sequence was a review unit within an OVAT and it was not one where there was a lot of new teaching and was not one that

104had a lot of all of the great things because it was a spiral unit in there. They went and looked at other units from their grade level and were quite impressed. They just realized and our insistence on doing this unit because that matched where we were in the year >> was not necessarily the right thing to do. It's hard to pick up a spiraled curriculum in January and not in August and not know >> is this lacking because it's lacking or because this is the third time they've seen it and it turned out that it was a review unit. And so >> as they dug a little bit deeper, they too were like, "No, we're good." >> I I think our our teachers are are excited for the change. Um, but you know, the the

105devil is in the detail. We're going to continue supporting. I think we have a much more robust implementation plan this year than we've had in previous years because this is a big shift instructionally. >> And my my last question uh is just around is there any contingency? I I know we with the roll out and every other kind of district getting wanting from the publisher that we always do our best effort to get material in um before the school year and sometimes it doesn't happen and and there's has to be some some plan in place. Hopefully that's not the case or this but um is it the fact that some of this can be maybe printed out? I mean that it's not all online based like do >> please don't jinx us. >> Not trying

106to jinx you. We do have 100% online access if necessary. We can end up printing things. We did that for folks this fall when uh math expressions was backordered and but we do not want to have to do that. We have spent a pretty penny of our public money. Um and I'm hopeful everything that we need for the first month of school will arrive in time. >> So, so far so good. >> So far so good. I've had no indication that it's not going to be here. >> Great. Thank you for trusty Bruno. Feel free to chime in. >> All set. >> Okay. >> Great. >> Yeah. >> And my recommendation, it is an action item, so I didn't word it for you, but I would recommend that we adopt K5 Innova MAT thinking math

107and amplify Desmos math for 68 math. >> Great. Thank you for that recommendation. Do I have a motion to adopt Assistant Superintendent who's recommendation? >> I move to adopt the math adoption. >> I I move to approve the math adoption. >> Great. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Great. All those in favor? >> I >> Great. Now there is none opposed. The motion passes. 5. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. You're done with me now. Okay, the next agenda item is the superintendent search timeline. It is an action item. Can we pull? Um so again um at the last meeting uh human capital enterprises um we went and and said we would like to kind of create uh another timeline working off of the other s recommend recommendations and um this

108one um has an ending date of September 28th hopefully but it is a superintendent search timeline that I think Um, thank you very much, fellow board of trustees. I think I'm very happy with this uh timeline that it kind of conforms with and and gives us a little bit more uh breathing room and and bandwidth to to meet the the the milestones in a uh responsible and thorough way. Um so with that unless is there any um need need for conversation any discussion needed? Okay, great. Um, so will somebody like to let me go back to the phrasing of it. So again, this is an action item that is recommended that the board of trustees approve the superintendent search timeline as presented. >> I move to approve the superintendent search timeline. >> Great. Do I

109have a second? >> Second. >> Great. Thank you. Um, all those in favor? I >> I >> Okay, since there is none opposed, the new superintendent search timeline as presented passes 50. >> Thank you everyone. Okay. Now, the next item is the 2 by two Belmont Sequoia Union High School District debrief and uh Superintendent will uh will talk about the context of that. It's a discussion item. >> Yes. Uh so uh on May 28th um not that long ago but it feels like a long time ago uh we met with Sequoia Union High School District Trustees um with trustee Northrup and trustee Cos. Um I as I recall we spent um most of the time talking about superintendent transition um and how uh districts have approached that in different ways. Uh uh Trusty C, Trusty

110Northrup, uh feel free to chime in here. >> Thank you. Yeah, thank you, Superintendent Tagara. Um yes, um I think um I think it was a great conversation that we had um with the trustees from Sequoia Union and uh Superintendent Leech. Um including because um Sequoia Union had um gone through a process of um finding a new superintendent a few years ago. Um so we were uh kind of just asking them for their reflection than any advice um they would give about uh about the process. Um I don't think there was anything that was different from what's the path we're what the path is that we're on. Um and yeah, so it was just uh great to hear that and also uh from um Sequoia Union of um trustee uh Amy Coup was previously a

111BRSSD trustee. So um also asking her about her experience um when BRSSD uh selected Superintendent Aguara. Um so yeah, I don't I don't think there was anything different from what we're doing. just um you know make sure that we're uh listening to the community as we are with uh developing that um profile of the superintendent um and I'm probably not using the right terminology for that but uh superintendent criteria so it's kind of like the profile of a learner but profile of the superintendent superintendent criteria >> should apply >> yes um so yeah um That that was about it. >> Well said. Thank you for going first. You recounted it really well. Uh seems like a long time ago, but yeah, it very collegial, very we appreciate it. Um you know, their their perspective from

112all different sides and yeah, I don't really have anything to add. Thank you Trusty Northup for eloquently saying. Um okay. Uh so again, that was just a discussion item. Then uh the next item up is the district advisory committee update, middle school marketing and enrollment. Uh again, this is kind of an information item. Uh Trusty Deng and I are two of the members on on this uh committee. Um and I before I give it to Trusty D, I would say that the last time we spoke, we talked about being kind of divided up into the different subcommittees. Um, and yeah, I think we're all they're all doing their kind of respective work. I mean, I can just say that I know my marketing subcommittee has already met uh once this summer to kind of continue

113uh talking and kind of talking over some things. We're going to uh meet, I believe, again, and then we have another uh meeting of the larger committee. So, um I think the respective ones seems to be kind of plugging away at at at bringing some agenda items going. >> Um, yeah, thank you, President CS. Uh, not a whole lot to add. Um, we did hear from each individual subcommittee at our last meeting, so we were able to get a little bit of insight into what they were working on, the goals, and kind of a timeline of, you know, um, when they think they'll be able to to deliver some of the goals. Um I did want to also just let everyone know um the board obviously but also if anyone is listening um with Superintendent

114Doug's departure um we are graciously going to be joined by Director Eastburn um until there is somebody else that can take that over. So, we are very thankful to director Eastburn for her time and commitment in joining that um district advisory committee. Um I did want to open it up if that's okay to the board if there are any questions regarding district advisory committee. Um if there's any specifics that you would like um subcommittees to look into opening up for discussion. I think I just kind of want to go and see one. So, if you could just let me know when the next one is. >> Well, unfortunately, um, Trusty Tang, the next one is on June 29. >> Oh, here. >> Well, yeah, we also have a a board meeting. Um, but I will

115say I think Yeah, I think you would have to watch it. Yes. be very quiet. Just No, I mean I think >> can she be in person if >> uh I I believe you can um observe silently but you cannot participate at all. >> Right. >> I believe but we'll double check that. >> That was my understanding >> and I should say that's only because of Brown Act. >> Right. >> Yeah. >> Okay. that your mom had on and girls. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um, thank you for that. >> Cool. >> President C. >> Prison cost. Sorry. >> Yes. Yes. >> Thank you. >> Um, yeah, I um I think I I asked all my questions last time. I remember I had a lot of uh questions and just ideas uh last time, so I

116don't really have anything to offer. Um, but I uh wanted to just thank uh President CS and Vice President Deng um and uh Director Eastburn uh for doing all the work with this committee and um thank the parents for being on this committee and um continuing to meet and continuing uh to uh work to see uh you know how we can how we can um increase the enrollment at uh Sam Piper Middle School and Nesbbit Middle School. Um, and I think um I guess I do have an idea, but I'm sure you guys have talked about this is just I think uh I think there's there's more understanding now of um the benefits of schools within a school and um smaller uh smaller programs. Um, so, uh, I just think, um, in general, um, because,

117uh, Rston, uh, is well known as having a successful program. Um, sometimes parents may not know as much about Sam Piper Middle and Nesbbit Middle. Um and of course their programs have not last have not been in existence as long. Um but uh they can be very successful too and they are being very successful. Um and uh yeah I just you know just want to just want to point that out of um the the small the small school environment. Um the block scheduling as well for Sandpiper. um my previous job and my job that I'm in currently um have block schedules and um I absolutely love it. Um I think it's uh great for getting indepth into topics uh with students having time for um projects. Um I would I would personally be challenged going

118back to a 45 minute class every day. um or four days a week. And anyway, so I just uh just as I said, I know you guys have thought about it and everybody in the committee has thought about it, but um you know, there's uh there's new understanding, I think, of the benefits of uh the smaller school programs. Thanks. >> We we appreciate the uh insight and perspective. Um, item number 23 is the CSBA board policy update May 2026. Uh, this is a first read. Uh, and with a little more context, Superintendent Duara. >> Uh, yes. Before you tonight is the May uh, update for CSBA board policy. Uh, there are a number of policies that are updated. Um, oftent times when a law changes just slightly, it impacts a number of uh different policies

119and uh that is what we saw happening here uh with some of some of the small changes uh across the board with personnel and notifications uh and whatnot. So um it's first read uh if there's any feedback uh staff will receive feedback, make necessary updates uh before it's approved uh hopefully in August. Is there any um anyone for uh for conversation at this point now? Okay. Trusty Bruno, you're good. >> Good. >> I am. Thank you. >> Okay, great. Thank you. Um we now uh go on to our item, future board meeting agenda items. Um, and we have a synopsis there of August 20th and August 27th. >> Uh, yes. So, uh, full disclosure, I think I would focus on the two dates, August 20th and August 27th. Um, lots of updates still, uh, percolating

120through the agenda. Um, typically we would have a strategic plan update. Uh, we did, um, roll over last year's strategic plan. Each department, uh, committed to, uh, forward moving action items. uh a lot of what you heard today right from uh CBO Matsumoto's role it's a lot of instruction and bond um work from assistant superintendent whose perspective it's uh the math adoption and pushing that stuff forward um uh and uh from uh from director Eastburn it's staff relationships so uh probably some highlights there uh as always the summer is robust uh summer school uh PSY um summer programs uh assistant superintendent who will likely give an update there. Um August 27th is a board study session on the calendar. Now I might encourage the board to determine whether or not that still makes sense uh

121to maintain um August 27th uh with the transition. Uh that'll be time I think the board will be busy doing um lots of different reviews per the search timeline. Perhaps that time gets repurposed for some of that work. Um, uh, but other than that, showing you August 20 and August 27th. I will mention one other meeting, uh, special board meeting. It's not on here because I don't think we we necessarily confirmed it in time or actually it was confirmed via tonight's um, action. Um on Mon Monday, June 29th, there's a special board meeting uh to develop the search criteria for the next superintendent. >> Great. Um okay. Um I do not feel Yeah, >> I would I would like to take Superintendent Duara's uh suggestion uh and offer that um uh as we currently do

122not have a specific topic for the August 27th uh meeting and it is going to be in the middle of our superintendent search process. um that uh we I would argue for us removing that from the calendar um with the with the acknowledgement that we are adding a special board meeting on June 29th. We are also going to be having a closed session meeting on August 13th. Um and then we're going to be doing uh interviews in closed sessions. Um so we will be quite busy that month. Um, and that we will have had, sorry, I'm trying to look at my different my different open windows. Um, the the regular board meeting is just a week before. So, I I would recommend that we remove August 27th as a board steady session. >> Do we

123want to remove it or maybe hold it on the calendar just because we have space? I think we should hold it on the calendar >> because we have the room and it's booked and and if we need to repurpose it, I don't think we have to make that >> decision now. I I hear your point if um >> lots of things. >> Yeah. The other thing just to kind of play in mind is Yes, it's a very jam jam-packed. So, I I see totally see that perspective. I also know that sometimes we haven't done as maybe as much board governance uh work. We put that kind of on the side for some of the more pressing things. So, that still could be an opportunity, but um we might want to just keep it even more

124importantly, I think, to Trusty Tanks. Why don't we keep it as a placeholder? Um do we have to list it as board study session or what would you we just keep it as a place? >> Uh probably what I'd recommend is is uh just like seeing how things go throughout the summer. uh working with um uh Miss Ellinger to uh probably tidy up um our board calendar because we'll be adding some special meetings. Uh and I think uh by by probably early August, you're going to know. Um my sense is the meetings uh for the search are pretty firm and pretty set. >> So the likelihood of needing to add a meeting for the search is probably unlikely. I think because they've got a pretty set and robust calendar. I could be wrong. Um but

125um yeah, I think the board is doing a lot. >> Yeah, if you if you take a look at like the timeline we just approved, we have uh well, we just now have our special meeting June 29. So, we have a special meeting and then we're going to need to do the August 13 close session and then we have a full and then we have our board meeting on August 20. Then we have a full day >> of close session August 22nd and then um and then we need to do our reference checks. So I I feel like holding on to another meeting. >> So >> to have a meeting seems >> one thing that I encountered when I was doing my reference checks with the other school districts that were doing superintendent hiring. Um

126something that they had said is sometimes in the middle of the process you think oh this would be something we want to include that you didn't build in time for. I I just don't want to >> prematurely give away time that we already have that and I think that we can wait a little bit before we decide, oh, we don't need it. I I would rather be a little bit more conservative, have it on the calendar just in case. Hopefully, we won't need it. Hopefully hopefully we can get rid of it at a later date, but if it's on the calendar, we're not going to go and schedule a Broadway show or something. Not that you're guys going we're going to >> Sorry, I'm not I'm not sure of the uh our our requirements to

127the public, but I feel like which is not which is not uh not a fact. It's how I feel. um that it would be better for us to let the public know right now that we're not going to have that meeting and we're going to have these other meetings instead so that they can um come to the other meetings that we're going to have. So that's that's you know that's for the public and I'm I'm I don't know if there's like a time frame like if we keep this meeting on the calendar is there a certain point at which we are required to have the meeting because we listed it as a meeting. >> Uh it's a it's a board study session. Uh it's not a quote unquote regular meeting. Uh so I think it

128could change. Um, >> when would you advise if we uh if we waited a little bit longer and we decided that it wasn't necessary for whatever activity, when when when would be an appropriate time to uh to remove it if that's what we did. >> I I would make sure that we're adjusting our calendar and being transparent. Uh regardless, we don't have action on it today. Um but I think you know direction and letting community know we would want to make sure that we're updating the formal calendar on August 20th meeting um likely via consent is fine um but that that we're putting that on August 20th um I'll just I'll play devil's advocate as well um uh board study session governance always good to do governance work um you will probably want to have

129a governance team which includes the superintendent uh once they're on board as well. >> Um so um if you um have that, you'll probably want to add a retreat with your new superintendent as well. >> So um you guys are doing uh a lot of work in August and I >> um I I could argue either way. Um but uh there's quite a bit of work already happening. So, if we agree, then it sounds like that there's doesn't seem any downside to holding it on the on the calendar a little bit longer and that we could put it up for removal as part of the consent agenda on August 20th. If we felt, you know, through the summer as we get through some of these milestones, that's what I would recommend. And as we go

130through some of these milestones and we we are in sync with them, then we make a recommendation to to remove it for the on the August 20th consent agenda. How had >> I'm curious if Trusty Bruno has a any uh thoughts. Uh >> thank you. I I I don't have um any kind of strong standing here. So either way, Trusty Bruno, you would you if we went with the recommendation of let's see how the summer progresses and then on August 20th kind of vote to drop it as needed. Uh that would that would work for you? >> Yes, that would work for me. And maybe um maybe adding a community email to to kind of double tap the information. Mhm. >> You mean to let the community know that this was taken off? >> Yes.

131>> Okay. Great. I Okay. Okay. That Yeah. Okay. With so keep with that um we um there's no need to reconvene into close session. So, this meeting is now officially adjourned at 8:13