001Good afternoon. and call to order. GCC regular board meeting. >> November the 12th, 2025, 4:45 p.m. Welcome everyone. Roll call. >> Mark Anderson >> here. >> Carrie Glock >> here. >> Bruce Mandre >> here. >> Mrs. Jack Turner >> present. >> Lily Camp present. All five board members present on the count. Thank you. [snorts] Do we have public comments. >> We have no public comments. >> No public comments. So with that, welcome everyone. It's so good to see you this evening getting ready for the winter vacation and rain and all of that. So welcome and welcome to those of you who are watching us virtually. Thank you for being with us. We have exciting information, good news, great things happening in GCC. So with that, we shall go into the superintendent's update to hear more
002positive good things happening at GCC. >> All right. Thank you, Madame President, member of of the board, and to uh everyone that's here tonight. So, I just want to first start off by saying good evening and welcome to tonight's board meeting. Uh today holds a very special day. Uh we don't have a lot of uh teenagers in the room so it may not land what I'm about to say but today is the 67th 67 day of uh school. So today we celebrate the 67th day of school. Yes it happened on a board meeting night and I couldn't be more excited. Uh people don't think I will say 67. Coffee. All right. So, I would like to start off by recognizing our incredible uh school psychologists uh for this week in honor of National School Psychologist
003Week. Uh I couldn't be more happy and I know our sites also uh for these vital individuals who do work every day to support our students, our famil family's well-being. So, uh just want to say thank you to our school psychologist for all that they're doing. November for us also is the month that we celebrate um really our core value of valuing people. So this year we have been going through each of our core values and recognizing one each month. November is valuing people. And what a perfect month to do this than the month of gratitude. So I just want to say publicly that I could not be more grateful uh for our staff and the work that they're doing every day. uh they're making a difference in countless ways that uh I get to
004talk about but really they are doing the work every day and uh I am proud of our 920 what is it Laura >> 92122 >> I think we like close to 9:30 now >> okay 9:30 our 930 staff members that every day they make uh Gateway Community Charters who we are so to all of our staff those who are here. Uh thank you so much for what you're doing and we're truly grateful uh for you. Uh this uh past couple of weeks I finally uh are recently wrapped up the campfish tours uh visiting HLA Futures Epic COA uh the virtual academy uh connections as well as Sava. Uh I will tell you it is always and you'll see a few of the pictures there. It is always energizing to see our schools in action. I
005really love being at uh the virtual academy and popping in and out of classrooms. Uh the studentled tour that uh Angie uh had her students lead me on was just phenomenal. So again, to all of our sites, thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to be on your campus to visit and to see the work that's happening uh every day across our schools. I did have the opportunity while I was at Epic and I just want to highlight one of our students I and I hope I get the name correctly. Our hen Gupalani uh who is a published author. So one of our students at uh Epic wrote Felix Fox Spy of the Shadows and has published his own uh book. So very proud of this 10year-old uh who has done this and
006uh I am going to I'll pass this around but I recommend at some point that we as a governance team the board recognizes this young man. That is a huge accomplishment. I honestly I wasn't doing this at 10 [clears throat] nowhere close to it. Uh I probably ended up in some books of what not to do but I was not publishing my own book. Uh but again for an IB student uh this is a huge example of creativity and leadership. So very proud of this student and I look forward to uh uh having him come to the board. had the opportunity to attend the CCCS Phoenix Fall Festival which really was a collaboration of all of our CCCS schools and that was led by uh Angie u excuse me principal uh Praxon Brionis who brought
007everyone together. Uh it was a wonderful event uh joint collaboration so again hosted by the high school but definitely was something that everyone participated in. Uh just a little bit a few updates in terms of our charter renewals. Uh Sava Sac City uh was recently renewed for another five years term. Uh great achievement and reflection of the strong work happening across Sava. Uh very proud of the work that they're doing and the work that they really did to get to that space. I want to affirm assistant superintendent Elliot who kind of led that charge uh at uh Savasak City as well as Sava El Grove and so really good work there. We are still awaiting the decision on Saba El Grove but we anticipate their board decision night being Tuesday. So we'll we'll report back
008to the board. Uh we have been in the season of oversight visits. Uh we have completed the Twin Rivers school visits, Sax City Unified, Grove Unified, Epic, and GIS. You'll see uh in one of the pictures, uh the Epic team came out with uh staff as well as board member uh YIP, and then GIS, the charter liaison, uh Brian Ger, he came out. And so, a lot of work has gone into these visits, and I just want to affirm our staff for the preparation. Uh I will tell you our oversight has changed quite a bit and that there is a lot more documents and information that they're asking for on a constant basis. So uh we're working very hard to uh really provide that information to them. But I am proud of the work that
009has gone into it and want to affirm Assistant Superintendent Dcoy uh for her leadership with our oversight visits of the Twin Rivers schools as well as Epic and GIS and Assistant Superintendent Elliot for his work with SAK City Unifi and Elgrove. Uh again, it takes a entire team to do this work. So thank uh both of them. Uh finally I or not finally but a few last things. I had the opportunity to attend the eighth grade rally that was hosted at Futures High School. Uh this was a really fun event where we brought all of our eighth grades from our seatbased schools to what I call their next high school. So beginning that work very early on to plant that this is your high school option. And uh the event was led by students and
010so it was fun, it was engaging, it was loud. I believe they had water everywhere. It was just a mess. Uh but it also was just a great opportunity to build a lot of excitement for the new school year and to begin to seed with our eighth graders that this is their option. And finally, uh we held our first superintendent student advisory council meeting of the year. I will tell you this is a lively group uh that we have this year uh of students and I anticipate that they're going to keep us on our toes but uh I'm excited about the projects and discussions that we have uh planned for the student voice uh and leadership throughout and that being said that is my report. Thank you so much, superintendent. Comments, board members, anything at
011all? You are very busy and uh we really appreciate all the information and all of the visits that you make and bring back the information to us. So, thank you much for that. Hearing no other comments, we shall move on. We are now into study sessions. And again, the superintendent thank all of you for the hard work. He couldn't do it by himself. It's you people who are sitting in these seats that makes his report so great because you're the ones that's doing the work. So on behalf of the board, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And now we're into study sessions. The very first one is GCC communication department update. >> Oh, that's you. All right, Miss Julia. So board tonight uh our communications department will present uh an update uh led by our
012communications specialist. Uh as you know every year during our retreats at one point we occasionally will share with you kind of what's happening with our marketing and outreach and communications. And so tonight uh we thought to give a very comprehensive look. So with that being said uh Julia Jimenez >> is this on? Okay. Well, good evening board members and superintendent Sample. Uh, tonight I'm excited to share an update on the work of the communications department. But before I begin, I do want to take a moment to recognize my team member, Amelia Curio. Um, Amelia is our communications clerk and she joined our department last year, which makes us officially a team of two. Um she co-leads many of our department's projects and is my thought partner on all things school PR. Um everything you'll see
013tonight reflects the efforts of our very small but mighty team. And with that, I will dive into my update. Um so to really understand our work, it's important to know our why. Our department exists to connect, inform, and celebrate our community. Our mission is to create clear, inclusive, and transparent communication that connects our student, staff, families, and community through consistent, meaningful, and student centered messaging. Right. There we go. Sorry. Um, we're often asked how our work differs from community engagement. And while our departments collaborate closely, we do have a distinct focus. Communications is about shaping and sharing our story. We develop messages that reflect who we are as an organization while ensuring that our mission, core values, and the portrait of a GCC graduate are at the center of communication in every channel and touch
014point. Our department's work is grounded in five core values: transparency, representation, connection, clarity, and responsibility. All of this comes together in the way we communicate internally and externally every single day. So a major part of our work focuses on how Gateway shows up externally and how the community experiences who we are. I want to highlight three key areas here. Public relations, marketing and branding, and digital engagement. In public relations, our focus is on shaping Gateway story with purpose so the public can see the real impact our schools are having on our students. Our visibility has grown over the years through features on Good Day Sacramento, KC3, Comtock magazine, and soon UCLA's digital journal. Looking ahead, we're building a more intentional media strategy focused on identifi identifying strong story angles. The goal is to proactively create
015more earned media opportunities that highlight Gateway's impact and strengthen our reputation in the community. To support this, we've partnered with CCSA's public relations team to update and expand our media contact lists so that we can connect with the right reporters and the right media outlets. We've also joined platforms like Quoted, a platform that connects journalists and expert sources. This allows us to position Gateway's leaders and educators as subject matter experts who can share their insights and perspectives in broader state and national um conversations. I do want to take a moment to recognize Mr. Scott Crocker who really helped us with our approach to media relations. uh he taught us a lot and coached us um last year and his mentorship really made a lasting impact on our department and he is very missed. Another important
016part of our external communications work is staying on top of current events. So we stay alert to sensitive issues that affect our students and staff whether it's immigration issues, education policy shifts, or unexpected challenges in the community. During the recent lapse in SNAP benefits, our team worked with leadership to quickly get food assistance information posted on our website and shared through parent square. That page ended up being the second most viewed page on our website after we shared it. U which I think really underscores the importance of timely information for families. Building on that visibility, our next area of focus is marketing. That's the work that ensures the public not only hears about Gateway but also understands the unique value of our schools. With open enrollment approaching, one of our top priorities is launching a
017six-month Gatewaywide marketing campaign with peerless marketing. The goal of this campaign is to raise awareness, get our schools names out in the community, and encourage more families to consider Gateway Community Charter Schools as an education option for their child. The campaign in Google in sorry the campaign in includes Google ads um which are a strategy where we use keywords to um elevate our website so that when somebody is searching best IB schools in Sacramento, our IB schools are going to pop up first. >> Um we are also using social media ads to make sure that when people are scrolling they're seeing our ads coming up, Spotify ads and they're listening to music. um along with updates to our website like a chatbot to streamline and improve the users and ex the end users's experience. In
018addition, we're supporting schools with our individual marketing needs efforts through a mixture of digital and print advertising that highlights each school's unique programs. We're also continuing to advertise in ethnic media to ensure more families are aware of our schools. We've continued our long-standing partnerships with Russian-American media, depamo, and aisha, and we're excited to soon expand our outreach through the Sacramento Observer. As part of strengthening our overall brand, [clears throat] our team has been hard at work leading Gateways logo redesign, and I'm happy to share that we are now in the home stretch. We've been intentional and thoughtful throughout the process and have been working closely with our rebranding committee, which includes principles Galin Rionis and Diego. We are now fine-tuning the details and looking forward to sharing the designs with the board very soon. The
019final piece of our external work is digital engagement and that is social media. Social media plays a central role in our digital engagement work and continues to be one of our most powerful story storytelling tools. Our team currently manages seven social media accounts across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Tik Tok. Our follower count has grown steadily, especially on Instagram where many of our followers are students. With the increase in engagement, we really want students to see themselves in our content and even more than that to become the storytellers. So this year, we took student engagement a step further by piloting a student social media influencer program. In partnership with Saba, we've been working with a Saba student Chris Dontes. You can see him there in that photo um with Superintendent Sample. Um he has been creating
020content for Saba's social media under our team's guidance and support. And we look forward to expanding this program next year to bring in more students. Of [snorts] course, how we communicate externally is only as strong as how we communicate internally. Given the size and complexity of our organization, it's necessary to have the communications voice at the table to maintain consistency consistency in our messaging and help alleviate confusion or misinterpretation. Our focus internally is on building systems that keep staff informed, aligned, and connected to Gateway's mission. We collaborate with departments like HR to share timely updates like open enrollment and soon we'll be working with the professional learning team to create a communications plan for the instructional strategic action plan. We're also responsible for helping communicate during crisis and urgent situations. The catapult emergency um alert
021system has really helped us centralize information quickly so that we can work with leadership to craft craft clear, steady, and factual messages. It allows us to get timely updates out to families in a way that really feels calm and reassuring. Last year, we launched the social media Oops, sorry. Finally, good communication doesn't just happen at the central office level. It's happening all across Gateway. Last year, we launched the Social Media Collaborative where we trained staff on social media best practices. This year, we transitioned that effort to more one-on-one support to help our school communicators strengthen their messaging and align the Pateway's overall brand and voice. We've also had the opportunity to mentor student interns who support our communications projects. They help capture photos, create content, and share authentic student perspectives while developing re real world
022skills um in media and storytelling. And we will be tableabling at the college and career fair tomorrow, hopefully inspiring some students to consider a career in school PR. Then there's the special projects. So, in addition to our day-to-day communications work, our department also leads several um organizationwide initiatives all centered on elevating student voice and experience. One of those projects is the superintendent student advisory council which we help launch and continue to manage. It's now entering it it's entered its third year and the council has been a strong platform for student leadership and collaboration. This year, the students are taking on some exciting initiatives, including finalizing the phone preschool policy and participating in a student lobby day. And I will um echo what Superintendent Sample said. They are a very energetic group and they are going
023to make this work, but they're really fun. Um, we've also kept in touch with many former ESAC members, many of who have gone on to college, and we are currently exploring ways to continue to keep them engaged with Gateway, even though they they've left our schools. Our team also launched and continues to manage the Gateway Sters drum line. This year, we have 10 student drummers representing HLA, COA of Sciences, and Sabintomus. In fact, one of our graduates, Mia Rice, who is now a college student at ARC, has even returned as a volunteer to mentor the new upand cominging drummers. So, it's really nice to have her with us. And finally, we're proud to have co-developed the cultural graduation celebrations um with Superintendent Sample. These events create a space for students to celebrate a milestone through
024a cultural lens. Um, in fact, last year, board president Campbell attended each celebration and saw firsthand just how meaningful they were for our students and families. This year, we're expanding those ceremonies and inviting more student voices into the planning process to ensure we reflect the full diversity of our student body. Um, these initiatives are really true passion projects for our team and we're very thankful to be involved in these types of projects. So looking ahead, um our focus is on strengthening the systems that support our schools, amplifying student voice, and deepening deepening Gateway's connection to the community. One of our top priorities moving forward is to conduct a communications audit to better understand how information flows across Gateway. We want to see how well we're reaching our audiences and identify where communication is strong and
025where gaps may be creating confusion or missed opportunities. We're also focusing on amplifying student voice and creative collaboration by creating new ways for students to help tell Gateway Story. This includes the social media influencer program, um, featuring student guest writers in our newsletters, and partnering with CTE teachers to create a student produced podcast. And finally, we're strengthening Gateway's presence by expanding the relationships that help us share our story, both in the community and within the school PR profession. This year, I've been able to participate in the Crescent Latinx Leadership Fellowship, uh, where I've been able to represent Gateway and Regional Spaces and build relationships with local leaders who care about education. And throughout our our California School PR Association membership, Ameilia and I stay connected to communications professionals statewide and really bring back bring back
026those strategies and insights back to [snorts] Gateway and our work. And with that, I want to thank you guys for the opportunity to share about our department and I look forward to answering any questions. >> Thank you so much, Miss Julia. Do we have comments from the board? >> Yes, Mr. Turner. >> Thank you. Uh very very very comprehensive and congratulations to your staff and to you. I have a couple of questions. >> [clears throat] >> We're com we're competing with with many other educational providers in the community. What what in your opinion since you deal with with PR, what do you think it makes the GCC stand out? >> I think what makes us stand out is that all of our programs are so unique. Um, you know, when we talk about like our
027logo, our tagline is it's really that students can find whatever option works best for them here. I mean, we have IB, we have CTE, we have comprehensive high schools. It's really um >> it's a comprehensive nature then of of what we offer. >> Yeah. Like we're not defined by by one specific thing, which I think makes us very unique, but sometimes also challenging to message at the same time. Um but yeah, I mean, every every school, every program that we offer is just unique. >> That's a that's a good point. I think that that pretty much meet the needs of anyone that you know what they want to find for their their [clears throat] child in education field. >> When when we get new students, do we do when a parent comes in or somehow
028we identify a new student in our in our schools, do we ask how they they found the GCC? How how did they listen to it on the media? Were they a opinion leader told them about it? next door neighbor, something like that. >> Yeah, I believe at the school site they they ask those questions. So, families as they enroll um we do hear a lot of word of mouth enrollments, but when we do advertise um say on Google or Spotify, social media, um we are able to track who's engaging with our content. So that gives us a little bit more insight into our >> you might want to try to collect that data from the sites to find out how they're collecting those to find out what are appears to be some of the best
029ways to message. >> Yes, absolutely. >> I want to thank you again. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments chair? Thank you. The department has really grown and very you're limited but you're mighty powerful. you're doing some great work. I enjoy the things that we have attended because of the communication department and we're in the community. We're not only in the community, we're statewide. You know, some of the things that we have attended, we just attended uh recognition lunchon dinner >> u the other night thanks to Mori that was very well done and um I enjoyed being there. And I want to go back to the cult of graduation. That's the first time we've done that. First time since I've been here and it was very wellreceived and very well done. I'm just
030hoping it will grow more. Uh everyone that we went to, they were so happy to be recognized and to have that special recognition uh in the code for graduation celebration. And I just want to thank you for doing that and the meals and everything. It was very well done. >> Just very well done. So, thank you again. I really appreciate your department for the work that you're doing. And thank you. Thank you very very much. Anything else from anyone, >> Mr. Superintendent? >> There we go. Uh nothing to to really add other than to just echo the board's sentiments in terms of you know this is a small department but I definitely think that they are are doing some great things to magnify or to amplify our voice in the community and and globally and
031you know they do a lot not only at the central level but on behalf of our individual school sites. So a lot of work's gone into that and uh Julia said this earlier and and it goes without saying and I echo that uh Scott Crocker did have a lot to do with the initial mentoring and and so uh definitely we feel his his fingerprint uh on the work that we are doing and that we continue to do. So thank you. >> Thank you so much M. Julia. Thank you. Thank you. >> Um and now we are ready to move into the second study session college and career readiness program update. >> All right. So, our chief learning officer, Dr. Gold, is going to introduce our next group. >> Good evening, President Campbell and board members.
032Tonight, I'm very excited and pleased uh that we're going to highlight some of the outstanding work of our college and career readiness department led by Director Ashley Madden. Mrs. Madden is going to provide you an overview of a key of a few key partnerships that she and her team have been working on developing over the past several months. Each of these partnerships directly impacts our students and strengthens the portrait of a graduate by expanding their opportunities for career exploration, skill development, and realworld learning experiences that prepare our students for their futures. And speaking of partnerships, they've partnered with over 75 college and career um vendors and colleges tomorrow. So, I'm very excited that they are here tonight because they have a huge event going tomorrow that we do invite you to and hope that you
033are there for. So without further ado, uh, Director Ashley Madden. >> Thank you, Dr. Gold. Um, good evening, board president, um, board members, and leadership team. Um, I'm excited today to be able to provide some context to twous that are up on the board agenda tonight and to explain some of the uh work that our department has been doing um to expand college and career readiness for our students. Um, but before I go into theus, I wanted to take the opportunity to recognize some of my team members here tonight. Um, Tim Sprinkles, our workbased learning coordinator, and Sean O'Neal, our new dual enrollment coordinator, are here tonight. Um, and I just wanted to give a shout out also to Katherine Day, our transition vocational coach, and Angelina Maznik, our clerk. Um these four individuals have
034been very hard at work like Dr. Gold said um working on our college and career fair tomorrow and we hope that many of you can make it um as we are leveling up quite a bit from last year. We had about 300 attendees for students. This year we are involving all of our schools elementary through high school and expecting um over,00 students to attend throughout the day. So, props to that team for being here tonight and um executing a really exciting event for our students. So, I'm going to dive in first to the our CCAPOU. Um there's a couple CCAP acronyms floating around recently, but this one particularly is our college and career access pathways. So, this was a program established through EDC code um a few years back. There was grant money attached to
035it which we've received two rounds of for all of our high schools. And the purpose of this uh this program is really to enable community colleges and K12 LEAs to work more closely together to create closed sections of college courses. And what that means is those those sections are specifically for high school students, which allows the college to know that they're teaching just high schoolers in that class. Um, it also allows us to have a a lot of supports built in at the at the schoolside level to make sure that our students are su successful in those college courses. Um, our current partnership is with Los Rios Community College. We've been partnering with them for the last three years. It's been very successful and we've expanded our offerings every year and increased student enrollment in
036those in those programs every year, which I'll show you some data on that in a little bit. Um, our new CCAP proposal is a to expand our offerings um by adding Allen Hancock College um through through some specific uh offerings for our ninth grade students. Um, and this this is really allowing we're going to pilot it with Sava and CCCS in the spring. And what this will allow us to do is have every ninth grade student take a early college and career planning class that will count for dual credit. >> Um, so this will really um help expand our focus on early college planning. So you might wonder what is early college because we hear that very often. Um but and there's not a real specific definition for it. So what we've done is we've
037taken the general um the general definition which is just a high school model where students complete a significant number of college units through a formal agreement like the CCAPOU. Um, and we've we've quantified it for our students and families. So, GCC's early college model is really to give students options. They can either complete 12 college units or one semester. So, they have um one semester of college already under their belt when they graduate and therefore get priority enrollment when they go to apply um after they graduate. Um what we are really focusing on this year is building out a program where students can graduate and get the completion of their Calgetti transfer certificate to a UC or CSU. And what that allows them is to complete all of their general ed requirements before they graduate
038high school so that they are able to jump right into their major when they um when they go to college. So it saves us saves the students money um because this is all free for the students and um it provides them a safe space to explore what college is like with a lot of supports. And then the next level is an associates degree. So this is um the the um transfer certificate plus um courses that would allow them to graduate with their their AA. So, all JCC high schools have recently received $250,000 um over the next two years to implement the middle early college grant and to do this work um for students. So, this um pilotou with Allen Hancock College is um like I said specifically going to be for a pilot with the
039spring. Um, we will be implementing the prod 301 life and career planning taught during our school day with our own GCC teachers serving as the college instructors within the master schedule. So, this [clears throat] is a a new model for us by allowing our by having our own teachers teach our students um and be vetted by the college. So in this pilot, all ninth graders at Sava and CCCS high school and we plan to expand to to include um this program to be all new enrolles at all grade levels by next fall. So really increasing the number of students who are taking this pretty much like the first semester that they enroll. The curriculum that we're using is called Get Focused, Stay Focused Career Choices. It is a vetted curriculum um for college and career
040readiness that is taught by over 130 high schools throughout um the state of California and um the majority of them being dual enrolled with colleges. So each in this curriculum each student gets to build a 10-year care plan for themselves. So, not just a four-year plan to graduation, but looking po like past post-secary into what careers they want to go into, what lifestyles they want to um they want to have for themselves, and what that's going to take for both what they need to do in high school and how they need to set up their plan after they leave high school. So why expand our partnerships when Los Rios has been such a wonderful partner? Well, there is um there's a huge surge in the number of students pursuing dual enrollment across the state and
041it's c it's tied to um the governor's cradle and career initiative and a lot of other other pieces where dual enrollment is really starting to um starting to become a part of what high school is. So, we're seeing that especially in our region, um there is a capacity issue with the colleges being able to offer all of the like all of the surrounding high schools the sections that we need. So, we're lucky to be able to look beyond now due to legis recent legislation, look beyond our um service area into maybe some more rural college districts that don't have as high a demand. So, it's allowing um our high schools to expand partnerships with specific pieces to be able to really um design our early college programs to what's best for students. We will of
042course continue our partnership with Los Rios um with our our other college courses. This partnership will allow us to really expand to provide more sections for all of our nth graders across GCC. And then of course more dual enrollment section offerings will increase our percentage of students approaching prepared and prepared on the CCI um on the California dashboard and move towards more outcomes towards the portrait of their graduate. So in this um in this pilot for our own instructors there are um some expectations that are needed by the college. So teachers must meet the community colleg's minimum qualifications and complete the onboarding as college teachers. um the course expectations, the rigor, grading, all assessments align to the courses offered that prod 310 and um the instructors are also evaluated by the college staff to ensure
043that expectations are being met. So in terms of fiscal and operational impact, um CCAP is wonderful for our students because there is no tuition or enrollment fees for families who take these courses under the partnership. Um materials cost per student for the get focus stay focus course is um 70 about $70 um which our schools currently pay for. However, um with thisou Allen Hancock reimbursement to GCC will be $1,000 per college unit delivered to cover instructional costs. This includes um the the curriculum and to staff stipens for doing the extra duties um because our teachers are not paid by the college. So, we will provide them stipens. Um so when you when you crunch the numbers it really is a wash in terms of the cost for for us because the amount of reimbursement will
044be able to offset the curriculum and instructional costs for our for our program. So a little data so you can kind of see how our dual enrollment um our dual enrollment enrollment has grown over the last year. Um last year we had 167 students across GCC with at least one college course completed. Okay. Many of these students who have been successful in in the the courses often will take more than one course. Um but we had 167 within the full year that completed college courses successfully. Now, if we look at this fall, the student count by school for enrollments, we already have 114 students enrolled in 145 different sections. Now, this is only this data only takes into consideration our current CCAPou with Los Rios. So there's also um the ability once a student has
045enrolled in in college the next semester they can actually enroll themselves in multiple sections outside of this of this partnership. So if they wanted to they could enroll themselves in a noncap section with a bunch of college students. We don't get that data unfortunately yet. So this is only um under the general ed cap that we have with Los Rios, but we anticipate that this number um could be about doubled and um we won't get that that data until we get grades and credits back at the end of the term in January. And if you wanted to see how uh what what different sections and courses our students were taking, um here is a breakdown with the majority of students taking the HCD 310 course, which is an intro to college success course. Um so
046it really sets up students for how to do well in college. Um and then the rest of these all fall under um the general ed requirements for the Calgans certificate. All right, moving into CCGIOU, which is the California College Guidance Initiative. Um this was established by AB3 uh 132 and EDC code aligning to California's cradle and career initiative. Um, and just more recently last year, SB 153 mandated that all California high schools establish a partnership with this organization by January to begin data sharing by June 2026. And this will be managed through the California Colleges.edu portal. So, what this is is um a portal that allows students to kind of have a one-stop shop for all of their applications for college, for most college. It's still being built out, but for right now, they can
047submit applications for FAFSA, for community colleges, for CSU and UC and DREAM Act in one place in a way that both the school and the parents can access and monitor and support their progress. So, it's really um it'll be great to be able to see where all of our students are at with these applications and not have to be looking over the students shoulders while they do while they do the applications. Um the portal also provides resources to support students with things like career interest surveys, um tools to match career options to interest, and then also specific instructions and guidance for these applications. Um and then this will also part of the piece on on us will we will have student level data sharing which is our transcripts which will go directly to CSU and
048UC applications in a seamless way. So we will just upload the student transcripts and that will connect exactly to to those student um applications for verification. So part of the benefits is there this um smooths the verified transcript process so students don't have another step to have to submit their transcripts. Um it will uh help us with CSU and UC eligibility planning and analysis for our counselors. So in real time they'll be able to see how students are progressing towards the UC and CSU requirements. Um, and students can autopop populate and initiate FAFSA um, with a lot of their information that's already stored in the system. And this will be all at no cost um, while it is state funded. So in terms of next steps for this uh thisou one if it shouldn't be
049approved um we will have all our our high school students um will sign up for an account with California colleges.edu to be able to access all the tools within. Um, but it will be really on our department to help refine and in our internal systems to audit and align our course codes, our A throughG lists and our course cataloges so that everything is aligned and seamless for our data integration. Um and we've already started that work two years ago actually with um revamping our course codes so that they are this the schools are have now have their own specific course codes list that match their UC um OP A throughG list so that they're using the course codes that align to their curriculum. Um, and we're also going to have um quite a bit of
050initial training and ongoing support for the utilization of the portal resources at the high school sites with the opportunity to bring that down into middle school as soon as this pilot with high school is successful. So just to show some alignment with both the CCAP and the CCGI um initiatives um both are um aligned to Governor Nent's CRA's career which is trying to streamline the data across education workforce and um community to improve student outcomes and the data sharing is a huge piece of that because without it we don't see what our students are doing on the college side. We use student IDs, they use social security numbers. So the systems don't currently talk to each other. Um so this this should should help us hopefully. >> Um and um this also is so it
051supports the verified data exchange and the college application process to smooth that for students. um and expanding our CCAP agreements really provides more opportunities for students to access dual credit opportunities. And the point of CCAP, why it was created was to provide opportunities for students who would not typically have gone to college. So really this this um the CCAP movement is to is early college for all. Um, and that's really what we're piloting and re and piloting this work specifically with futures and the VA, but with all of our sites to build out more intentional early college planning with our students so they have a roadmap to their goals and what they want to do postsecary. And with that, um, I want to thank the the board for the opportunity to speak today and welcome
052any questions that you have. Thank you board members. Lot of information, so I know you got question. All right, Jack, I want to thank you and your staff for this uh indepth presentation. Jason will be my witness on this. I've been asking for this information for some time and and I have I have a long list, but you've answered almost all the questions that I have. So just let me start out with one which is an overview. It's finally time that higher education woke up because they have a declining enrollment and this is a a serious initiative which they're finally saying you know we have to really work with the programs that that send the students to us. It's interesting maybe you know more than came out of the report. Alan Hancock is located in
053very small community college in San Maria. It's interesting that they somehow are the college the community college that's connected. So what you're saying to me is that uh all of the students will be enrolled in a career planning program through Allen Hancock. >> Yes. that will so they will have a transcript from Alan Hancock College but the courses will be taught by our GCC instructors. >> Okay. But they will have it that something that says Alan Hancock completed this course. That's that that's really a gift. One of my other question is have you been getting feedback from parents? How did they feel about this program? Is that part of your initiative to kind of survey the the parents? Yes, absolutely. I mean, it's a it's a it's a tricky line to to walk because when
054the students go to college, it is really the students responsibility and the parents are I mean on paper aside from signing their special admin and I'm sure Superintendent Sample can attest student in there >> with the grandson. >> Yes. um the the the onus for the student success is really on the student. >> Yes. So we um part of the work that uh coordinator O'Neal and I are working on is to find more ways where we can involve our parents and help them understand their role in this big picture because so much of this if of it is on the student. It takes a lot of um coordination at the site level for the student, the parent, the counselor to all understand what the expectations are and how to be successful in this um in
055these programs because we want students to experience this firsthand in a successful way. And if they, you know, if they do run into challenges that we are the safety net to help them get back on their feet and say, "Hey, maybe you weren't ready yet, but let's make it. Let's try again next year and see if you're ready then." >> Because every every career that you go to requires some extra training, whether it be college or apprenticeship. So the learning after high school has to continue. And so we want to give them a good taste of that before they leave us. >> I agree. I agree. And I just another observation which you stress throughout your program. Uh they have learned to reach down to the eighth and ninth graders. You cannot wait in these
056programs until someone's a junior or senior in high school, which has been the traditional model. And u it's impressing that they are now saying we're going to start at at middle school and our fresh the fresh sophomores and so forth in the high schools. So anyway, thank you and I look forward to hearing more about how this success of this program is in the future. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Mark. So, how many teachers u Ashley have we identified that's going to go through this training? >> We have identified six teachers um many of them teaching multiple sections because of the large number of ninth graders. Um so yeah, six six teachers who are currently in talks with Alan Hancock to determine if they meet the minimum qualifications which we've already kind of vetted that
057they that they will. So the training involved what what is what is what does that look like? >> So all the teachers already completed the train training with the curriculum um early in the fall so in August. So they've already done the curriculum um so once theou is is is established um the college will onboard them with the expectations that they need all over Zoom. Um so grading um meetings um rigor all of all of the expectations by the college is provided through their onboarding program which is operated on Zoom. >> Okay. And just one other question the 114 students that we currently have are are they part of this pilot? Is that what this >> No. So that's >> it would be additional. Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Yes. Mr. Block. Uh
058Jack asked answer asked most of the question I was going out in the thing that he talked about but I was just wondering uh are they able to go to the like uh Cal Berkeley UCLA USC? >> Yes. So it are you talking about if they complete [clears throat] the early college model? >> Yes. So if they complete their Alti general education requirements then they can apply to any UC or CSU as a trans or as a upper classman is what what the application would be rather than applying as a freshman they would apply as a 2-year college student. Yes. Which helps with the eligibility and the the acceptance rates um are much higher than if they apply as a freshman. >> Thank you so very much. Um, I think all my questions been answered,
059but I appreciate you're stating that parents don't really have much to say about college entrance. We went through that with Dr. My daughter and my grandson. You know, everything fell on him, money, funds, everything. and the mother was having them fit trying to figure out what was going on. So, uh, >> it's true. >> Yes. >> And you can work on a system where parents aren't involved. That's right. >> That's really going to help a lot. So, thank you so so much. We know we have theou on the board coming up later. So, >> I can tell you stories. >> All right. Anything else board superintendent? >> Yes, madam president. I just want to again affirm Director Madden and her team for the work that they're doing. This has been a dream of our organization
060for quite some time and it's just really exciting to see it all come to fruition under her leadership. So really want to affirm the work that her and the team are doing. Uh yes, as a enduser I get to see a different angle of what's happening but I I I couldn't be uh happier. So thank you so much. But I do want to publicly affirm the team for great work on this. >> And the board wants to thank the team too. Those of you who are here, thank you so much for your hard work and looking forward to more tomorrow. I can't believe the number of students that are coming and the number of vendors that you have. It's I was there last year and I was so so impressed. So I guess I'm making
061tomorrow. I'll be doubly impressed. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Bring your raincoat. >> Yeah, I know. Rain coat, rain boots, and everything. Thank you so much. >> Got it. All right, we now move into uh third study session, CAPS data updates. So, >> this presentation will be led by our assistant superintendent, Joy Dcoy. Uh and this is board our kind of annual look at our pass wellness state testing updates. This is superintendent. >> All right. Good evening everyone. >> I have the pleasure of going last. >> I know you've been sitting and listening for a while. So I'll try to make it as painless as possible. But I'm here to tell you I have a lot of good news regarding our CASP and state testing update. So a lot of good things to share
062with you tonight. So, I'll share with you an overview of our student achievement data, how our results compare across the state and our authorizing district, and the steps we're taking to continue improving academic outcomes for all GCC students. These results feed into the California dashboard, which provides data for determining our charter performance levels, which are used for charter authorization. So these testing results really do matter and they play a critical role in the life of our schools. So I want to give kudos to our director of academics, Miss Ashley Cal, who um really did much of the presentation tonight and does a lot of the work um surrounding state testing for our organization and for our schools. but um she's actually at the state assessment conference tonight learning more about state testing and assessments and
063also want to thank Missilia Abas our admin assistant um who keeps us organized and on track. So, our team supports curriculum, instruction, and assessment across all GCC schools. And we work closely with the data team, the professional learning team, as well as all of the ED services teams um to ensure we provide consistency and rigor and alignment across our schools. So, everything we do ties back to our portrait of a graduate. We ask ourselves and we ask the community, what do we want our students to know and how will we measure it? Our vision focuses on developing students who are academically ready first and foremost, who are life ready globally and relationally competent. With the California Common Core and state standards being the baseline for achievement, CASP and our other state assessments give us clear
064um definition of what we want our students to know and we work to provide measuring those outcomes for them. So let's start with a quick look at the broader landscape for reading and math achievement. Every two years, our nation um tests our students in reading and math. And in 2024, these results show modest progress in mathematics for fourth grade, maintaining mathematics at grade 8, and a reduction in scores for reading in both grade four and grade eight. On the bottom, you'll see the results for California as a whole for the CASP testing for English, ELA, and for math. California is seeing a more positive trend. So, the 2025 results show gains in both ELA and math, almost 2% in both subjects. And it appears that California's investment in early literacy initiatives, including including offering transitional
065kindergarten for all four-year-olds appears to be paying off. And if we look at how we're doing closer to home, both in Sacramento and Yolo counties, they also show growth in both ELA and math, similar to the state. Um that's the top English and then math. And then you'll see how are our authorizing districts doing. Twin Rivers, El Grove and SAK City Unified also made gains in both and math while San Juan saw a slight decline in math but grew in English. So across our state, counties and our authorizers were seeing a shared pattern of improvement, one which I'm happy to say is similar to GCC's pattern of growth in both areas. So, we do not have um a a dashboard or results that we can find online for all of GCC schools because we are
066not a traditional district. But we do um bring our scores together and create an aggregate of all of our scores so that we can see how our schools are doing as a GCC. And we've started tracking this data over the past three years. So, we're excited to see that in English language arts, our students went from 26% proficient to 30% proficient and in math from 15.6% proficient to 16 uh 17% proficient. So, we're very excited that this and think that this work reflects great things happening on our campuses and in our classrooms from teachers implementing highquality tier one instruction um to school leaders facilitating datadriven conversations and providing tier 2 and tier three supports when students need extra help. And this is what our test scores look like across all GCC schools. The red is
067represents each school's math scores and blue represents their ELA scores. And to the far right, you'll see the state of California. Um, across the board, everyone's doing better at ELA than they are in math. Um, but you can see GIS and futures are very close to reaching the state average in ELA and EPIC and GIS are nearing the state average in math. So now I'm going to go specifically into each school's highlights. Um, you'll see two charts for each school. The percentage in the middle represents how many students scored standard met or exceeded combined. So it's the blue and green number combined. and the yellow represents standard nearly met and orange being standard nonmet. Below that, you'll see a comparison data for each school which shows how that school performed over the past three years
068and how each significant subgroup of students is scoring as well as how they compared the school compared to the state and their authorizing district. I'm just going to highlight some key pieces from each school for you. As you know, Community Collaborative Charter School is a dashboard alternative school, meaning they serve at least 70% high-risisk students for high risk for a variety of reasons. Even so, CCCS saw growth in both Ela and math. I'll be saying that a lot tonight. Growth in both Ela and Math for a lot of the schools. Their economically disadvantaged students increased 3% in proficiency, which was higher than the schoolwide average for CCCs. Community Outreach Academy is of course combined scores for both the elementary and the middle school. So um the same way for community collaborative it was you know
069advocate of all of their programs together. COA saw positive growth schoolwide and in all subgroups. So you'll see in the change from prior year those are all positive numbers for COA. So that's really exciting. Schoolwide, they saw a four and a half point growth in both ELA and math. They also exceeded both the state and districts growth rate. By that I mean twin growth rate and their English learners outperformed the statewide averages for Epic Empowering possibilities. Epic showed growth also in both subject areas growing almost eight points in ELA. That's a significant growth for Epic. And five points in math. Another another very significant growth. Two subgroups show growth. Their English learners and their economically disadvantaged students. And their English learners also surpassed the statewide English learner average significantly. Futures High School made notable gains
070in ELA, growing over six percentage points. also growing in math. Their economically disadvantaged students grew almost three points and their English learners also surpassed the state average for English language learners. Gateway International School grew in math and maintained a strong ELA performance, outpacing its authorizing district in both ELA and in math. Both subgroups of English learners and students with disabilities made progress in both ELA and in math. For higher learning academy, they essentially maintain their ELA and job just in math. The students with disabilities group had significant improvement in both subjects at over 4% each. As you may remember, this site is currently following an improvement plan that you reviewed and approved in the summer. And the focus here is working to boost early literacy with a program called letters with the support of our
071professional learning department and basic math computation using student math program. Sava TR or Thomas remember SA is also a DOSS alternative school serving high-risisk populations. They show progress in math and for students with disabilities growing 4 and a.5% in ELA. SAC city saw positive growth for both ELA and math and for their economically disadvantaged students growing over two percentage points. And I'm excited to end on this high note. SA Elk Rove grew 14 percentage points in their ELA. I'm so excited and proud to share that with you and so proud of the work they're doing. >> So this had the highest percentage growth of ELA than all other GCC schools. And they essentially maintain um for math. They also saw even higher doubledigit growth in ELA for students with disabilities who grew 16.66 percentage points
072of their students with disabilities for ELA and their students with disabilities for math grew two and a half percentage points. They this site also significantly decreased the number of students scoring below proficient. So each of these school results represent intentional work by our teachers, by our administrators, and our support staff every day. And I just want to give them a shout out for their efforts and their dedication to serving our students. So this year, looking beyond ELA and math, we will have a color on our dashboard for science. It will not be considered in the accountability measures for charter performance level but we will see a color on the dashboard this year for the first time because we now have two years of data for science. So I wanted to share with you um the
073change from 2425 um for each school regarding the cast of the California science test. most GCC schools saw growth and I'm excited that our professional learning department has taken on the task to begin more workshops and training around nextgen science standards and supporting our teachers and ensuring our students are achieving at high levels on the science test and I'm sharing with you for the first time how our students are doing on the ELPAC the English language profic proficiency assessment for California. So these scores are actually um students who scored a four. So they scored at the proficiency level for ELPAC. These students will be the ones that we review to determine if they are eligible to no longer be classified as an English learner and to be classified as English proficient. So we want this
074number to continue rising. And also these numbers in addition to improvement for students who scored all other levels feed into the English learner progress indicator on the dashboard. Of course, we recognize um the challenges our schools continue to navigate post pandemic um that really never went away and have still just been exacerbated including student engagement and attendance, family engagement, um staff vacancies and new staff. Um however, we have some good news to share. As you know, it's been a focus of ours in reducing chronic absenteeism for our sites. And so, the chronic absenteeism rates across GCC fell from 24.8 to 20%. So, good progress there. We know getting them to school is the first challenge. And what are we doing to support um achievement moving forward? So our goal is is to continue elevating learning
075to even higher levels. We recognize that every school has room for improvement because we strongly believe all students can learn. And say it with me, Heather, all means all. This is our >> our motto. All means all. That we will provide supports and strategies for students relevant to their need. And so here these are some of the things that we're doing to make this happen for students. We are focusing on professional development and building capacity for our teachers with the professional learning department and outside vendors but especially focusing on literacy. Um letters training has been a huge success this year where teachers are leaving um Dr. Gold's her team's training and say this is the best literacy reading training we've ever been to. And so I just want to affirm them for that. Um, not
076forgetting our focus of professional development for English learners, a guided language acquisition design glad and our math professional development of building thinking classrooms. Something else we've done at GCC this year is to assign a learning champion from the central office to the sites to support learning cycles. So every administrator has a support champion that joins them when they talk about learning initiatives with their school site teams and is there to be an outside voice and outside perspective and help them navigate continuous improvement cycles for their school. We continue to focus on multi-tered systems of supports identifying essential standards and moving even deeper into now that we know those standards how are we going to assess them? What are our common formative assessments and how are we monitoring student learning and then support from for student
077engagement from our community engagement department has been very needed and very meaningful. They are there on campus providing support even for student behaviors for parent phone calls for making home visits. So, the community engagement department is a real piece of this support. And these are not just one-time or one-year efforts. Um, these represent a continuous improvement mindset embedded into our culture at GCC. So, in summary, Gateway Community Charters continues to make steady progress, measurable pro measurable progress on student learning. We're so proud of our schools. We're so proud of our staff. We're proud of our teachers. We're proud of our support staff and for the hard work reflected in these results. So, thank you to the board for your continued support of our schools, our students, and our staff and ensuring that our schools are
078leading the way in Sacramento. And I'm happy to take any questions you might have. >> You guys are leading the way in Sacramento. Comments, board members, anything? Yes, sir. >> I always look at you first. >> Joy, I want to again just thank you to you and your staff for the presentation of the the data. Um it it's really encouraging to see the growth of the movement that we've had and it would it's only conjecture to really say where we would be today if we had not had that learning loss because of the of the pandemic and we're just clawing back the trying to get those students to to get regain that material. Uh I also say it's also encouraging to see the chronic absentee rate numbers drop but still it's about 10 at least
079correct me on this. I think the preandemic was running about 10% and now it's running at 20%. that that's a very depressing statistic and and I know we're going to work hard on that. But again, thank you for the data and I and I think you're right. Your enthusiasm about where we're headed and we're certainly headed in the right direction. I want to say thank you. >> Thank you. >> And I agree with you, Jack. The enthusiasm is what's going to keep us going. So, as long as you stay positive and you bring that to the staff, we will continue to make progress. Um, Mark, >> I'm concurring. >> You okay? Oh, you're concurring. Anything else? Board members, thank you so much. Thank your staff. Thank everyone for the hard work that you're doing. I
080It sounds I just keep repeating myself, but I guess I do. All right. Thank you. Okay, we are now moving to consent agenda board members. Um, and I will read the ones that we have here so that everyone will know what it is that we are uh voting on. Approve adoption of GCC board meeting minutes 1014 2025. Approve personnel consent agenda. approve purchases over 30,000, approve board policy update, which is a new policy, and approve school field trip. Um, approve Sacramento Academic Education Academy headquarters sciences to field trip March 9th through the 11th, 2026 overnight. So, those are the uh consent agenda items that are up. >> Move approval. Second. >> Any other discussion on the consent agenda items? Hearing none. Seeing none, roll call. Mr. Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Harry Block, >>
081yes. >> Mr. Bruce Vandre, >> yes. >> Mr. Jack Turner, >> yes. >> Millie Campbell, yes. Thank you very much for approving the consent agenda items. And now we move to curriculum and instruction. And we have a public hearing on uh curriculum uh instruction. The board will now open the public hearing on the college and career access pathway memorandum of understanding. Do we have public comments? Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item? >> We have no public comments. >> No public comments. Um, any other questions or any concerns that you want to ask Miss Ashley uh about the presentation? Anything hearing? None. All right. I will close the public hearing. Uh, and now we will entertain a motion. >> So approval. >> Move approval. May I have
082a second? >> Second. Second. Any other discussions, any questions or anything? Hearing none. Seeing none, roll call. Mr. Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Harry Block, >> yes. >> Mr. Bruce Mandre, >> yes. >> Mr. Jack Turner, >> yes. >> Lily Campbell, yes. The MOU uh college and career access pathway memorandum and standing has been unanimously approved. And thank you again. and we are waiting to see the results of your work and how it will affect our students. Thank you. Thank you. All right. And now we are moving to approval the college guidance initiative David sharing memorandum understanding. Is that the same one? No, >> that's different. >> That's a different one. Okay. College guidance initiative data sharing memorandum of understanding. I will entertain a motion. >> So move. >> Second. >> All right. Any
083other discussion? Any questions? Anything on that? Hearing none. Seeing none. Roll call. Mr. Mark Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Harry Block. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bruce Mandre. >> Yes. >> Mr. Jack Turner. >> Yes. >> Lily Campbell. Yes. So that item has been approved unanimously. Thank you so much. And now we are moving into item 11 personnel. >> Madam President item 10 which is central administration the approval of the memorandum of understanding with the Sacramento City Unified District. >> Okay. Sorry I missed that. That's item two under the curriculum instruction approval of the college California college guidance initiative data sharing memorandum understanding a motion. >> I'm sorry again madam president it's item 10-1 approval of the Sacramento City Unified School District. >> Okay. What did I say? All right. Okay. Let's go back again and
084start again. >> Thank you. >> One approved Sacramento City Unified School District Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy SAU. Okay, there we are. >> Approval. >> Move approval. >> Second. Any questions? Any discussion? Anything on this? We had it. We got the information and we've all gone through it. So, any other questions, discussion? Hearing none. Seeing none, Mr. Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Harry Block, >> yes. >> Mr. Bruce Mandre, >> yes. >> Mr. Jack Turner, >> yes. >> Lily Campbell, yes. Okay, now we are moving to personnel and the island personnel is approved. The superintendent's employment agreement amendment 202526. Uh, as to this item regarding approval of the amendment to the superintendent CEO employment agreement, I am required by law to indicate prior to any vote that the terms of the agreement are changing
085as follows. number one 1.5% salary increase for the 25 202526 school year in alignment with the senior management position. Me too. I also note that the annual salary is in keeping with the compensation comparability study the board has received at the August board retreat and displayed on the screen. This increase is a result of the board's of directors positive evaluation of Mr. Sample. So that is what we're doing now. Approving the 1.5% salary increase for the 202526 school year based upon the positive evaluation of the superintendent. I will open it up for discussion, questions. It's my pleasure to move approval. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> And we have a second. All right. Fantastic. We have approval and a second. Roll call. Mr. Mark Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Harry Block. >> Yes. >> Mr.
086Bruce Mandri. >> Yes. >> Jack Turner. >> Yes. >> Lily Campbell. Yes. with accommodations, applause for your hard work and all of the things that you do at the schools and with the students. So, thank you. >> Thank you >> very very very much. Thank you, superintendent. Anything else anyone wants to say on this? All right. Hearing none. Okay. Board comments. Any board comments? That's the next item. Well, gosh, no comments. Keep on rolling. Keep on rolling. Well, we are going to be dismissing at this point for close session. And the close session would be anticipated litigation government code section 54956.9. And the second be closed section conference regarding real estate negotiations pursuant to government code 54956.8 and we will be coming back with the results of the code section. Okay. Announce for the next
087board meeting? Not now next when we come back. Okay. are back from close session. No action, just information on uh pending mitigations information only. And so board members, anything else for the good of the organization? Hearing none, seeing none, I will entertain. Oh, our next board meeting. >> Our All right. Our next board meeting is going to be December 9th and we are going to have a special board meeting at 2:00 for ethics and brown training followed by a regular board meeting at 4:45. Thank you very much. All right. And so with that, no other closing comments. Board members, I will entertain a motion for journment. >> We got second. >> All in favor? >> Bye everybody. >> I'm just going to pick one of you.