001e e okay well good afternoon and welcome to the Colton Joint Unified School District Board of Education uh board meeting this uh this afternoon on February 20th it's already February 20th um we'll call this meeting to order and we'll start the meeting as we do each meeting with a roll call of board members present so miss Medina if you'll please conduct our roll call Mr iara present Mrs Haro pres Mr Fuentes present Mrs Flores present Mr Flores present thank you and we will just uh make a note of the absence of board member Thor NOA and board member sandal so uh we do have interpreted services available tonight for anybody that me may need Spanish language interpretation uh we have with us tonight Miss Cynthia Bueno who can provide those translation interpretive Services thank you
002boort forid Flores good evening [Music] thank you for that Mrs weno we will do our uh conduct our Pledge of Allegiance and tonight I've asked Dr Mooney if you would please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance so if you'll please stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance i al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you Dr Mooney okay our first item on the agenda tonight for the board to take action on is item 1.3 our adop of the agenda we do have some requested amendments uh from staff the first one is amending Clos session item 9.4 Personnel Public Employee this is our appointment uh discipline dismissal release item uh
003to add a classified uh head coach this is head junior varsity baseball boys four volunteer coaches include band baseball two for boys and then track coed as well as 25 volunteers of which 23 are General and two are observation classroom observation volunteers are there any other requested amendments to the agenda Dr Miranda do not have any all right uh is there a motion to approve the amendments to the agenda I'll Mo second I'll second okay thank you we have board member har with the motion board member fent is with the second to amend the agenda as requested by staff all those in favor say I I any opposed any opposition hearing none it is so ordered okay our next item is the school showc case and tonight we have our student leaders from Silver Mountain
004High School so I'm going to ask principal fjo if she wouldn't mind introducing our student leaders oh they haven't arrived yet not a problem okay we'll we'll put a pin in that no problem they are in route they probably hit some traffic coming from yes you as you all know the 10 freeway um I'm sure they're sitting in traffic so we'll put a pin in it we'll come back to them um what we'll have to do next is public comment on the agenda so we'll go ahead and jump into public comment and we'll work through that and then when our student leaders arrive we'll go ahead and work them in so we're going to go ahead and go to public comment at this time we do have a fair number of public comment speaker slips
005just a reminder to all the speakers uh the podium is here if you wouldn't mind addressing the board with your questions or comments uh it is a three minute limit per speaker we do have to hold everybody to that three uh three minute limit just to get through everybody uh know that we as the board cannot necessarily respond engage in a conversation or dialogue that's per the brown act and uh government code but trust that we certainly hear you uh Dr Miranda and his team we take notes and we will follow up where appropriate so there'll be a timer uh and a little bit of a buzzer once you hit the three minute Mark so that'll keep you on time and again we'll jump into it starting with our first Speaker Miss margarita harez members
006of the board we stand before you today not in anger but in deep concern for the future of our students we are here to address the unjust decision to interminate Mr Aaron Campbell the Beloved band and choir director of Colton High School a decision that directly harms the students of this District Mr Campbell is more than just a teacher he is a mentor and inspiration in the heart of our school music program his education has built thriving band and choir programs offering students not only to creative outlet but also sense of belonging discipline and teamwork the decision to remove him has caused widespread distress among students and parents alike as you can see from the many gather here today this is not just an isolated concern it is the community crisis we have gathered over
007300 verified significations for students parents community members in the strong support of Mr Campbell yet this decision was made without consulting those most affected our students the sudden loss of such an influential educator creates a void that cannot easily be filled on that threat both of artistic and emotional well-being of our children the impact of Mr Campbell's leaders ship is undeniable under his guidance students have excelled both musically and personally removing such dedicated Mentor is not just unfair it is distri Dental to their success in closing the decision to terminate Mr Aaron Campbell is a grave dis deser this to the students of Colton High School we strongly believe that decision was made in error and we respectfully urg the board to resign it and reinstate Mr Campbell immediately this is not just above about
008one teacher it's about the future of our children thank you for the for your time and consideration we ask that you listen to the voices of the students and parents here today and make the right decision thank you right thank you Mrs Wes our next speaker is Genesis rella good evening honorary Board of Education my name is Genesis Rella I'm currently a senior at Colton High School and I'm the drum major and in my four years of being in band I can confidently say that we have accomplished the most under the direction of Mr Campbell Campbell has helped many musicians grow and mature and has done everything he can for the CHS marching band I fear that many of you don't understand what is what dismissing a band director does it is not as simple
009as replacing a science or algebra teacher band directors usually have to take a whole year to plan for competitions field shows and parades so having to constantly take a year off sets the band back a year behind everyone else this decision is disappointing considering everything Mr Campbell has done the Cha's marching band was in a sense 15 years behind every other band we had no props no modern uniforms and even our marching techniques were considered outdated to other schools it was honestly embarrassing and this is simply because of the lack of resources we have compared to other schools our uniforms were in were in terrible conditions considering they were over 30 decades old we were long overdue for uniforms and Mr Campbell has been the first to take care of that despite all these issues
010Campbell's always found a way for there to be no disadvantage for us when competing against other schools he has done everything in his power to help us improve and we and we have dismissing Campbell unfortunately cancels all the plans that we had for next year in terms of taking first place advancing in our musical level Etc overall the decision that the board of education has chosen will impact the students and I fear will be the end for the music department and chn considering many students have expressed that they will quit if Mr Campbell is gone Campbell currently has 333 signatures in the p in the petition if the Board of Education goes through with with their decision there will be no doubt anger amongst parents and students I know that many people can attest to
011these good claims past student Juan Bron says during a single year Mr Campbell was able to help him rapidly develop his skills from playing in the CHS marching band Juan now plays for the UC Berkeley Wind Ensemble and he constantly credits Mr Campbell for this with all this I plead to the board of education to please reconsider their decision about Mr Campbell's position here at Colton High SCH school thank you thank you Genesis our next speaker is Ezekiel isaris uh good evening my name is Ezekiel isas and um I'm currently a sophomore at Colton High School um for the year leading up to my first year and Co in high school uh I believe that it would have been hard to adjust to the new Wind Ensemble considering how there was going to be a
012new teacher and um new classmates however during my time in Wind Ensemble I have never enjoyed myself more than um than any other class with Mr Campo he is one of the best teachers if not the best that I have ever had had in my entire 10 years of being in school myself um I'm sure my peers can say the same and um he's done so much already in these past two years that he's been with us he's made such a huge impact for all of us and um like previously stated he fixed a lot of issues within the band itself and um our performances this year have exceeded uh all those previously such as starting field shows again and winning some trophies um but we have been able to do a lot with Mr
013Campbell such as improving our both our performance and social skills because of him um such as myself with the aid of Mr Campbell and um another teacher Mario I was able to learn other lessons outside of Music such as how to line a field and prepare it for a show and how to load a truck um I am a I'm pretty sure a lot of people were antisocial during that time but Mr Campbell was able to get them out of their comfort zone and actually talk to more of their peers so this these two years Alone um the entire band has been able to communicate very well with each other and they have actually been able to get along better than the past years um I have never has had much fun and learned as
014much with any other teacher than with Mr Campbell himself because he's more than just a band teacher for us he's been both a mentor and a role model for all of us um he's been encouraging us through tough times and aiding us when we were when we were needing it and um all of that that really wasn't necessary but he did it because he shows that he's trying to care for us in a way um so and that's all I have to say thank you thank you Ezekiel we appreciate it our next speaker is Miss Ava Dias in Colon High School um Mr Campbell has been a great addition to Colton High School he came to the program as a seasoned professional at time when we needed him most the program was flailing and lost
015without Direction he has worked hard along with the students to rebuild the music program which in the past couple years has suffered with low student participation numbers and no stable director he has made quite a good impact on the students as well as in the community he knows how to take a challenge and how to encourage his students to grow and be better he is always willing to work with the band and build the relationship between the community and the band he has received acknowledgement from the community for the marching band's participation in community events such as City parades local business openings and home sporting games such as football and basketball as well as the competitions the band has been involved in this year he has big plans for the band as well as the
016music program we as the students have worked hard these past few years with Mr Campbell and we're excited for the future we deserve to be given the opportunity to keep growing and succeeding and being able to keep Mr Campbell as our manand director he will continue to help us and help us grow and push us towards our goals I know personally I was excited and looking forward to my senior year which proves the good nature and character of who he is not only as our teacher but as a mentor and a person Mr Campbell deserves the chance of stay and continue to grow the band and the music program and help it flourish into something great like the music program used to be in such a short time he has proven what a great band
017director he is and we have come so far he has made he has helped us learn to be a team and to help communicate with each other to help us grow I know personally The Freshman wouldn't want to keep going with would want to keep going with Mr Campbell as a band director instead of having a new band director because me personally I had two in just my three years and I don't think it's fair that he's let go so unjustly thank you thank you Ava our next speaker is Jeremy Navas good evening dear members of The District board my name is Jeremy tenorio Navas a 12th grade student former member of kar I am here this evening to mention the importance that our teacher and band director represent for for everyone I speak for
018my classmates and band student who attended five period of the school day as well as the S sentimental affection that we have for him band director Aon kampbell is an exemplary teacher who has been supporting all the student who attend his class I speak personally knowing him as a charismatic charismatic teacher who has helped us continue to improve a lot with a foreign dedication Mr cample has contributed correctly to the school standard mentioning the victory in the past band competitions allowing the school to give his recognition sorry his recognition mentioning the B sorry his recognition with the student for and the motivation of the part of the on the part of the band director Mr cample with this and what and what has been said we hope that you Tak into consideration the decision that
019has been imposed to Mr cample insisting insisting that he continued teaching at colon High School I can simply say that Mr cample has been a teacher who has inspired us to follow the path of music and demonstrating of skill 10 management and most importantly showing up without further Ado I hope that our opinion reached the District board and is certain and understood thank you thank you Jeremy uh just a quick note to the board that was our fifth speaker so that is the 15minute mark on any single subject um however as many of us know we can opt as a board if we'd like to allow for the other speakers to speak on the subject it does look like we've got I think three more and they do appear to be students and given that
020they're here um I think that would be appropriate to allow the students continue to speak so just by way of note uh board policy does limit the overall subject uh to be discussed to 15 minutes uh so we've hit that at five speakers but since you're here and we certainly want to hear from the students we're going to go and continue so that was just a point of uh point of order from our point but I'm seeing nodding head so we'll continue all right our next speaker is uh anesta Perez good evening Board of Education my name is Ana prz and I'm a senior here and knowing him the past two years Mr Campbell I have seen the work that he has put in to be able to make band the best to me band
021isn't just a program it's a class where you feel welcomed by not only by your teacher but by students to me it's more like a family the teacher we had previously he was different from Mr Campbell when Campbell came to band for the first time I saw a teacher that cared for everyone he became the teacher that we needed Mr Campbell had been nothing but supportive kind and caring for every single one one of us he does not deserve to be gone because not only that he has a family at home even though he has had experience leaving schools he doesn't deserve to be kicked out again he belongs here at Colton we have been nothing but kind and respectful to our teacher Mr Campbell he has been nothing but respectful to every single one
022of us looking back now you have no complaints about Mr Campbell and doing this standing here to support Mr Campbell is proof that we deeply care about him and nobody wants another band teacher we've heard of course from other students that he has been a mentor as well thank you thank you Nessa our next speaker is Diana Gutierrez you'd like the other student to speak okay um just so we can continue with our students and allow them to have the opportunities Joselyn Lopez here it's next speaker Joselyn please good afternoon this uh School Board my name is Joselyn Lopez and I'm graduating this year I had the honor uh to be band president and I would like to take this opportunity to speak about Mr Aaron Campbell who has been tary support to me throughout
023this school year Mr Campbell has been more than just a band director to me he has been a mentor in a source of inspiration during during my tough times he was there to offer guidance and support one of my most valuable lessons that I have learned from him is health issues should never be the reason I should give up but instead they should be they should motivate us to keep pushing forward even when Mr Campbell wasn't feeling his best he still showed up to guide us through competitions this lesson uh really stuck to me because I also have health issues sometimes this makes me question where I should continue my curriculums or school work Mr Campbell has taught me to take a break taking a break is okay but giving up is not he encourages
024me to to let my health challenges be the reason I strive to work harder and do better under Mr Campbell's leadership the culton high school marching band has achieved retical success to it has been a decade since our band competed and brought back first place under his guidance we managed to bring back first place twice this achievement is a testimon of to his dedication and hard work and positive impact he has in all of us thank you for your time and thank Mr Campbell for everything you have done for me and the man thank you JN our next speaker is is it Kenny Diaz kayin I'm sorry kayin uh ladies and gentlemen esteemed faculty and fellow students my name is Kaye Diaz and I stand before you today to talk about a man who has
025made a profound impact on my life in the lives of countless others Mr Aaron Campbell our beloved band director was wrongly released from his position and we are here to tell you that this decision was not only unjust but also a devastating loss for our school Community Mr Campbell was more than just a teacher he was a mentor role model and most importantly a father figure to many of us he saw potential in each and every one of us and even when we didn't see it in ourselves he pushed us to be our very our very best to work hard and to never give up on our dreams under Mr Campbell's leadership our Band program flourished and most importantly we became a family united by our love of music and our passion for excellence Mr
026Campbell's dedication expertise and enthusiasm inspired us to reach New Heights and we achieved greatness together but Mr Campbell's impact went far beyond the band room he taught us valuable life skills such as discipline teamwork and perseverance he showed us that with hard work and determination we could overcome any obstacles and Achieve our goals Mr Campbell's wrong wrongful release is not only a loss for our school but also for our community he was a shining example of what it means to be a dedicated educator a compassionate mentor and a true leader so I ask you the Board of Education please take into consideration of these students as we we have a lot to say and we will miss our Campell thank you thank you Kaye appreciate that and then I have Diana Gutierrez here good evening
027my name is Diana guz members of the board we have um heard powerful testimonies today stories from students whose lives have transformed by Mr Campbell's education from parents who have watched their children Thrive under the guidance and form community members who recognize the individual role he plays out Colton High School each of these voices along with the 300 plus individuals who signed our petition affirms a single undeniable truth Mr Aaron Campbell is irreplaceable he does more than teach music he Fosters character discipline and a deep sense of belonging his impact extends far beyond the bad in choir room shaping students into confident capable individuals with skills that last a lifetime the stories shared today are not just and synon there are sorry about that there are evidence of profound difference one educator can make Mr
028cble has built an environment where students feel seen valued and empowered to reach their full potential his absence is not just a loss it is a set back to their growth the decision to terminate Mr Campbell has caused unnecessary disruption and heartbreak we have heard about the emotional toll on students the uncertainty for families and the Deep sense of loss within our community we have seen it in their faces we have felt it in their voices we understand the Board of Education must made difficult choices but this is not about budget cuts or reconstructing this is about investing in our children's future it is about recognizing and retaining a teacher who goes above and beyond one who has poured his heart into the program and these students we urge you resent the decision to terminate
029Mr Campbell reinstate him immediately this is not just about saving a job it is about protecting the heart and soul of our music programs and most importantly presing the wellbeing and educational opportunities of our students we trust that you will listen to this overwhelming call from the community and make the right choice thank you thank you Mrs Gutierrez our next speaker is Alicia Hester eatman um I'm the mom of a senior at gr Terrace High School sorry um and uh there's a huge concern going on among a lot of us parents within the district um I'm a member of different committees and my son's on the wrestling team and I try and be involved in the community as much as I can and tonight I'm speaking on behalf of our immigrant families because as far
030as I could tell I have three kids in three different school districts my other two kids uh on their District websites it says very clearly what protocol each school is to um is to use in the event there is an ice visit to uh their schools and I've not found one on the Colton website nor has any other parent we've looked extensively so if there is one that wouldd be phenomenal we'd really like to know and if there's not we need one now because this is a huge pressing issue that's really really got a lot of people scared um it's your responsibility this is uh commitment that you made when you ran for office and you guys were all elected officials and we're counting on you guys to protect our kids because we can't do
031it alone although there are some of us who are willing to stand outside the school if we have to and take shifts but um it's also imperative that our kids know what their rights are uh their constitutional rights like for example they don't have to uh answer any questions that are addressed to them by Ice agents they do not need to respond to anything and it's your thanks it's your responsibility to protect our students when we can't that's part of uh a big part of what your job is so um I really urge you guys to do this because the next step is for us to not have our kids go to school because that's the only way we can make sure that they're protected and given the amount of English language Learners within the
032school district that's 18 and a half% of the entire School District that's over 3,000 students which would cost $143,000 per day if every single one of those kids decided it was safe or parents decided it was safer for their kids to remain home that would cost you guys or uh prevent about a million and a half dollars every two weeks from being available for the school so I really want you if that's the only way you can look at it is financially go ahead and crunch those numbers and um see if there's something you guys can do like yesterday about this please thank you thank you Miss hman and and there is actually a policy in place we'll have Dr Ortiz connect with you to to share that information um our next speaker is Miss
033Lisa via good good evening my name is Lisa via and I reside in Colton I know you were probably upset that I was unable to attend the last school board meeting but I did listen to it online and found out I found it disheartening at How concerned you portrayed yourselves with the public comment speakers that spoke that evening you reassured them that you were concerned and gave them positive feedback never once in all the years I've been coming have you been concerned for the facts that I bring to you it's unprofessional and it's clear that my facts don't even fate you at this point I'm only here for documentation purposes in case God forbid something does happen on your campus that it's documented that I told you as I've said before the security department is
034the most segregated and divided Department in all of the district there is no protocols or consistent policies the security managers just wing it and play it by air it's unsafe also it should be a red flag to you that the employees in your security department are abruptly retired ing transferring to other jobs transferring to other departments within the district and straight out quitting yesterday at your community cabinet meeting it is not okay to have every single security manager as well as the head of Security Department in the attendance in such a crucial time of our campuses which is lunchtime I know for a fact that the schools are short staff when it comes to security but instead they were over here hanging out and mingling them of all people should be at the front lines
035using their presence as a deterrent for bad behavior I personally would like to see their patrol cars driving around during actual school day at all the campuses within the district I never see them I only see pool cars parked on the high school campuses locked inside I honestly feel that their office should be at the a centralized Elementary School within the area that they work in the secondary schools have a resource officer already they are supposed to be mobile mobile and ready to go not locked in a campus and not and ready to go at any given time it also it makes no sense sense also I did hear Mr castel's Wellness presentation that he gave at the community meeting yesterday and I hope and pray that the security managers were listening to his facts
036about what kids go through on a daily basis and how to use PBIS skills to this day past students ask about a couple of your security managers that currently work here because they have unpleasant feelings towards them because they these adults were so disrespectful to them when they were students they didn't try to help with Student Success they were too busy trying to tackle them and preper spray them they did not help students be successful successful and you promoted them to be your managers I was being taught to tackle kids and pepper spray kids when I worked here which was one of the reasons I could no longer be a part of a department that I did not that did not care about Student Success and although I truly missed the students that I served
037in my community I could no longer look the other way thank you uh thank you Miss FIA those are all the speaker slips that I have Miss Medina do you have any speaker slips all right so we'll go ahead and close public comment appreciate those of you that came out to speak uh particularly the students it's not easy to get up and speak in public you you spoke very well so we do appreciate that okay uh is the Slover Slover students here the Slover okay great I'm going to go ahead and then we're going to jump back to our uh School showcase since our Slover student leaders are here principal Freo would you please introduce our student leaders for the presentation good evening board president Flores board members superintendent Dr Miranda and members of the
038audience um thank you for being so gracious for us um so but I want to introduce our kiddos they're up here to give their student showcase for you and batter up kiddos good evening board members my name is Adan Vias I'm in 12th grade and I'm ASB president at SL Mountain High School good evening everyone my name is Julian Venegas I'm in 12th grade and I'm leadership in ASB good evening I'm Lea Del Cruz I'm 12th grade and I'm ASB leadership we would like to share some of our academic accomplishments since our last showcase we have six students who graduated in mini quarter 1 mini quarter 2 we have four graduates we also had our mini quarter 2 award ceremony and it was a packed house with families celebrating all of our accomplishments we also
039had a surprise slob Scholars getting together and practicing for only two days to perform form some gidos for Miss for us miss FR announced them as groupal Slover everyone loved them we had 13 students to receive perfect attendant Awards one student who receive English profession Awards 13 students who receive student of the month from teachers and counselors 31 students who receiv received honor War Awards 33 students who receive principal's honor War awards for mini quarter 3 we had 11 graduates 10 students who receive perfect attendance Awards 25 students who receive student of the month awards from teachers and counselors 36 students who receive honorable Awards and three students who receive principal honorable Awards we also had 26 Scholars who return home to their home schools to graduate Slover has also had Maps assessments elpac assessments
040and we have our upcoming C assessment we are looking forward to our cast Spirit Week theme level up your cast score with 80s themed retro games to inspire us and Achieve our goals we have also had San Bernardino Valley College come and share with Scholars and families a dreamers resource presentation and financial aid application Workshop our families and students had the opportunity to visit San Bernardino Valley College Vaper programs and discuss the road to College and Career Readiness Miss farho attended the black college expo at the Sofi stadium with some of our Scholars and other cgd high school students the Expo had many colleges to visit along with historically bad colleges giving away on the spot scholarships we also got to see the Battle of the Bands the Marines came out to Slover during lunch
041and they are always a hit with Scholars testing their strength on the pullup bar SL Scholars also have been participating in the San Bernardino County student advisory panel they've been working together with other schools in the county sharing their ideas on Behavioral Health chronic diseases and in injury prevention their ideas will be shared and elected officially and Community leaders to drive positive change in the region Slover Scholars also participated in the California Community School partnership program form Slover was able to share their thoughts on academic needs health related issues and social emotional needs Slover had 30 students attend the Whitewater Reserve enrichment the lesson included activities to learn about Wildlife physical and biological stream monitor and thanks to our science teachers for planning this event a whole year prior Miss farho also received an email
042from a volunteer at four years of the Whitewater Reserve enrichment he stated quote what a great group of kids every student jumped right into all the activities where willing participants had intelligent questions of their own were fun and funny we had the very best day working with your students this is surely a credit to themselves their teachers and the administration at slver mson High School slver has launched the real world entrepreneur mentorship program in partnership with the Hispanic Coalition of small businesses hssb brought guest speaker Richard monz of Fredo he is famous for the Flaming Hot Cheetos M Mr monz shared his story about resilience and never giving up he also bought and signed some hot Cheeto bags for us every holiday season Slover sends out a Google form to all students called the Slover
043wish list students are to share who they would like to give a gift to and staff help getting getting Scholars those wishes these are some of the scholars who receive their wishes Roop child development class hosted holiday SL land event with Bloomington headstar and ASB staff at Slover donated Candyland uh games to the Kos and Head Start so they were received a wrapped Kenny land board game gift Roop child vment class hosted the Valentine's event with Bloomington Head Start and ASB students made the Valentine cards and were fed heart pancakes as they finished their Valentine's ASB Scholars read books to Head Start the scholars our softball team won the Inland Empire Alternative School League Championship Slover literally knocked it out the park by swinging for success and came home with a gold trophy this year
044Slover has joined forces with cooking clubs gardening clubs and we also have created our slower wellness club The Wellness theme logo integrates our School's mascot it features a circle symbolizing balance with green and blue accents for calmness and growth the elements of heart hands and plants represent well-being and support special shout out to Miss Hernandez Miss Baka and Miss bshop UC Master Gardener program and sbcss cow fresh team for providing wring the items necessary SL Mountain High School has been partnering with sabba from designing schools Slover is an AI pilot school and is learning how to teach students how to use AI with ethical decision-making the inquiry question is how might we leverage cell phone technology in the classroom to enhance student engagement and better prepare students for college and careers using AI driv portfolios
045for Slover Scholars Slover is excited to see the outcomes for students success using AI Slover has hosted parent workshops in Zumba moving for Fitness effects and prevention strategies for student in drug use and the Latino family literacy program Slover is grateful for the parents who have attended and is looking forward for more parent participation ASB has been very intentional with celebrating all cultures and being inclusive ASB has been hosting Spirit weeks and celebration of different cultures and also completes morning announcements with recognition of culture celebrations this month during advisory teachers are sharing Black History Month lessons resources shared by our African-American parent advisory committee these are some of the events coming up at Slover wasque College and Career Fair Inland Empire blad gr grad ceremony grad night at Universal Studios senior Sunset Colton High School
046elementary school visits Gran Terrace High School elementary school visits and Bloomington High School elementary school visits senior breakfast graduation practice and the graduation ceremony please follow us on all our social media pages so you can see all the events happening out Slover thank you maybe answer any questions or you like to give us any feedback uh that was a fantastic presentation and I'm just in awe the variety and breath of activities that you have going on so I'm sure there's some questions and comments so let me let me kick it over to my board members uh for questions comments please yes board member Flores please I would love to give you feedback you were awesome thank you so much for giving us an update on everything that you're doing I specifically um like the AI
047you know getting ahead of the artificial intelligence we know it's here and for you to take it on that's amazing you know I think as we get older we get a little more uh hesitant to try new things and I just really my hat goes off to you because you're you're embracing it and you're learning so I will be learning from you in the future also um the celebration of cultur cultures um I really commend you on that activity because we as a district we celebrate diversity and we anytime that we can celebrate what everybody brings to the table everybody that walks through through our doors um we want to celebrate the culture and the diversity so uh thank you for an excellent presentation and I'm looking forward to what you're G to show us
048next time thank you so much board member Haru um I to want to congratulate you and especially you know normally we have a female and male present presenters and this is the first time we've had all male rep presenters know but I I I I apologize no you're cool you're I I don't blame you but thank you I just want to I want to just congratulate you guys on a wonderful job and I want to thank you for a wonderful presentation because um we love this is always one of our favorite things at a board meeting is listening to what is happening out in the schools and a big part of it is that um that you're engaged you're engaged because of all the different celebrations you're doing I saw you guys are going to
049have a video game theme week where you guys are going to dress up like your favorite character and and do video games I mean all of these things enhance your education and um make it more uh engaging for you and just a little tidbit for you um you can tell I'm wearing Disney because I like Disney but I want you to uh you were talking about the gentleman that came out uh from Fritos and I want to give you a little tidbit of information so that you know a little something you know um we all love Doritos and Doritos were created at Disneyland there used to be many many years ago there was a restaurant there called Kasa the Fritos and they noticed that the uh tortillas were getting thrown away because you know they
050weren't perfect and so they decided to make tortilla chips and that that that's where the birth PA of Doritos was was it Disneyland so you have a little T extra little tidbit of information so I just wanted to share that with you and thank you again for your wonderful presentation we really like I said it I know all of us it's our favorite is to hear our students talk and see everything that's happening yeah board member first of all you guys did an awesome job very awesome job Julian love the hair brother looking good cuz in the picture you hardly have any hair you know we we we look at those things no I'm kidding brother it looks good it looks good so congratulations you guys are doing an awesome job every time I head
051out to Slover I'm excited to go when I get those invitations and it's on my calendar I want to go because I know there's things happening there uh also congratulations to the boys softball for being the Champions man that trophy looks really really cool I love it I see it here and so congratulations to all of you and everything you're doing with the child development program there through cryrop and all of that I could see the kids are are excited working with with the young the youngsters the preschoolers and those preschoolers are cute they always have the weird questions and stuff you know I I don't know if many of you know but I dress up as Santa Claus and one of the questions was Santa Claus do you shower and so I said yes
052every day and uh so and every day and twice on Sunday that's right so but we we love those three-year-old four-year-old and you know there's they're amazing kids and I know that I know that at Slover they work with those kids and they make positive things like the Valentine's the Slover land all of that so I'm very excited to hear all the great things that are happy Slover because you can't spell Slover without love and that love is there since Miss Tiffany was there miss Hampton was there and it's all about love and that's what makes the difference so thank you thank you thank you for coming out this evening you guys did such an awesome job bar and I just want to add to everything that's been said first of all I just want
053to say you guys did a wonderful job you guys were articulate very clear you were commanding of your topics that you guys all three of you spoke about and that that's a really good skill to have and it's a skill that you will take with you no matter where you go in your careers continued education Etc also want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you because as representatives of your school you are some you're the leaders you're the ones who help make a lot of these uh exciting events happen and one of the things that that happens when that happens is that students want to come to school students love going to school you know of course we love to have them go because they want to learn that's number
054one priority but they also know that there's other things going on that they could be part of and because as you spoke about all the different events and opportunities and experiences that students could have at Slover you know what you know that's just what it's all about the experiences that you accumulate in high school will Define where you're going to go and how it's going to help you and as you guys grow and you're you're sharing it with all your student body so there's no uh reason why I don't see why students want to go to Slover want to stay at Slover and want to graduate at Slover because over the years and I'm the one who could say this I've seen Slover grow change to what it is today Far Cry from when I
055first saw it and so I just want to commend each and every one of you for the fine job you do being the leaders there on campus so I just want to say thank you and good job thank you Dan you know to add to that that it's an award-winning school man that's all I could say it's an awardwinning school so congratulations uh great job great job presenting obviously not easy to get up in front of a big crowd and to speak you did fantastic and again I'll just Echo what's already been said I think what's most impressive is you look at the presentation and just the variety of things that you're you're exposed to that you're doing I absolutely love I've been to White Water myself what the wildlands Conservancy has done there that's
056Hands-On learning that's not just stuck in the classroom you're going out and experience things firsthand uh I've had the pleasure of listening to Mr monz tell his story he's incredibly inspiring and motivating that's phenomenal and then of course um you know all the activities that you do with the Head Start you're fortunate that you have those little ones there and that you've Incorporated them into your curriculum that's fantastic so you're getting an education unlike any other education uh around we'll put Slover up against any school I'm not talking alternative schools any school secondary uh High School in in the region and you should be very proud so thank you so much for that and again we're um we look forward to more to come all right great job all right this takes us to our
057administrative presentations for the day oh yes we'd love to shake your hands please awesome thank you for that thank you again our next item on the agenda is our administrative presentations the first one is our daac needs assessment so I'm going to ask Dr Peterson our assistant superintendent of ed services to please uh kick off this presentation good evening board president FLA board member superintendent Dr Miranda um ed services has two presentations tonight and so our first presentation um as you're aware part of our lcap is that um as part of our lcap process is that our um English learner program um that we do A needs assessment each year um with with that program and so it starts at our site Ela English learner advisor committees um finding out their needs and their wants
058and providing data on that and then goes to our daac um and then daac puts together the needs assessment for presentation tonight so it's my pleasure tonight um to introduce our language support services director um Dr Wendy Moore who will begin the presentation and introduce our other presenters good evening board president Flores board members superintendent Dr Miranda and members of the audience um as Dr Peterson mentioned tonight we are here to present the daac needs assessment which is presented collaboratively um with our district English learner parent advisory committee known as daac and language support services department before we begin I want to give an opportunity to our our parents to introduce themselves as well good evening uh thank you for having us today today um I appreciate the opportunity to come and talk to you
059about um this program my name is her hako I go by Alex I am a parent of two kids at Gran terce Elementary both of them are in the dual immersion program learning English and Spanish at the same time uh my oldest daughter reclassify as a fluent English speaker now uh my little one wasn't English only but you know um e uh English Learners are really dear to me I am a product of Colton hi so I graduated in 2008 uh I had the opportunity to come back and work for a couple of years as an English learner counselor and now I'm serving as a counselor at crafting Hills College in Yuka [Applause] blomington California for [Applause] gra she says the work we do together is it it builds helps us build leaders to the
060Future and the future is our children hi my name is Claudia aralo and I'm a mother of two children I'm a I'm a homemaker and and a rep representative of my school SCH and the D committee and ccs and Zimmerman school I am a mother and I'm very proactive in the things that matter to my children's School the things that the school requires uh I love to I love to give suggestions to the school and to know that in my school that I have a voice and I can advocate for the needs of my children and of the community being a part of this committee for the many years that I have has taught me to learn uh and how to support our children that and support our children I have also learned about programs
061that uh otherwise I would have ignored I wouldn't have known about and it's good to have this program I invite others to be for to form part of these groups and I can guarantee that they would help you grow they would help in your growth and to help us uh support our Future Leaders it is not it's not necessary to be a member of these committees but the important thing is to be a members of the same community of this uh Community uh this community of our students thank you uh so I'll begin tonight's presentation by sharing how we've been improving um instruction for our multilingual English Learners in our district um this is the second year of implementing research-based approaches to professional development collaboration lesson delivery and program evaluation in regard to teacher training
062thus far this year 928 teachers have completed their integrated ELD training and 439 teachers have completed their designated El training not all teachers teach designated ELD at the secondary level which is why there's a difference in those numbers for that professional learning 5 hours of training is focused on integrated ELD and four hours of training is focused on designated ELD as we know effective research-based professional learning must extend beyond a one-day event and in-class support is that extension each of our teachers receives five hours of in-class support focused on integrated ELD and 3 hours of support focused on designated El lastly I'll highlight preparation via lesson planning and feedback on ELD strategy implementation through our District's walkthrough tool lesson plans are submitted on a weekly basis to site administrators administrators then review those plans and
063provide feedback to teachers via Google Classroom daily lesson plans include ELD standard language objective ELD strategies and uh how teachers are going to to differentiate instruction based on students linguistic levels walkthroughs are conducted on a regular basis two times per month administrators provide feedback focused on the effective implementation of ELD strategies to give you an idea of how many walks our administrators are doing last year they uh completed a total of 3,175 walkthroughs and so far this school year there's been a total of 5,100 walkthroughs conducted the next slides will cover our current student population languages spoken and performance data in cgsd we serve a total of nearly 18,000 students 3,141 of those students are multilingual English Learners 1,422 are reclassified fluent English proficient who are being monitored so after students reclassify we monitor them
064for four years to ensure that they're continuing to make progress and then 1,624 of those students are reclassified and they've exited so they're no longer being monitored well the overwhelming majority of our multilingual English Learners identify Spanish as their first language as you can see on the graph to the left the graph on the right shows the additional top seven languages that are spoken in our district and there are a total of 25 languages represented in our district this graph shows our graduation rids um we recognize that this is an area of growth uh graduation rate is an area of focus for language support services the ed services division and executive cabinet as a whole this graph shows our reclassification rate from 2019 up until last school year uh you can see that reclass rates
065are trending in a positive direction last year we were um proud that we were able to match the prepandemic reclassification rates looking at dashboard data you can see the same positive trajectory with um our LP which is the measurement of students progress on their English language proficiency we want to highlight that last uh column where you can see that 48% of students have progressed at least one level on the Alpac this last school year continuing with dashboard data the graph on or the image on the left rather shows the state of California and then the image on the right is cjusd um results for English learner progress show an increase of 1.4% so as I mentioned before we're at 48.2% of students making progress and this is cons considered maintained so we're in the yellow
066there across the state there was actually a report of a three uh three-point decrease um and our surrounding districts also showed that same decrease and so we're really proud of the fact that we're continuing to show progress when we look at distance from standard you can see that um every group in our district is um has decreased in terms of negative distance from standard which means again we're showing Improvement in all areas including our multilingual English Learners this slide shows the percentage of students who met or exceeded the standard for ELA on the Casp exam um a point to highlight here is that our reclassified fluent English proficient students actually outperform our English only students um which speaks to the power of multilingualism so you can see 6.2% 2.5% of English only students met exceeded
06733.3 7% of our EOS and then 45.9% of our rfps met or exceeded um it's also important to note that once our El's reclassify they're no longer in that El bucket right so now they're in the reclass they're in the rfet bucket um and so then that that percentage will will always be lower uh significantly lower as compared to our EOS and our rfbs but you can see that same pattern in mathematics where you see our English learner students are at 4.82% English only at 19.87% um I'm going to hand it over now to our deac parents who are going to share the results of our needs assessment thank you Dr Moore and on the screen you will see the results for the survey um just so you know I'm going to read the information
068in English and my partner is going to read it in Spanish we're going to be saying the same thing in different languages um so we have uh the survey in English and Spanish for the Spanish responses we got 72 and for the English responses we have 20 we have participation from all different levels Elementary with 6 63 responses middle school with eight responses and high high school with 21 responses from now on every slide is going to have two different graphs one of them is going to show the result for the English survey and the other one is going to be for the Spanish survey as Dr Mo mentioned it before we have more languages other than English but uh for those uh participants they have to fill it in English because probably they don't
069understand Spanish so the first question is I feel welcome and included at my child's school from the English respon we got 85 % of the respondents agree or strongly agree while only 15% strongly disagree for the Spanish response we had 93% agree or strongly agree while only 7% disagree or strongly disagree the next question reads I have an understanding of the Daily Language instruction my child receives in English language development or ELD 80% of the English respondents strong L agree or agreed while only 20% disagree or strongly disagree for the Spanish responders 86% strongly agree or agree while only 14% disagree or strongly disagree the third question is my child is receiving adequate support and acquiring English in Reading Writing in mathematics for the English response we got an 80% that says they agree or
070strongly agree while 20% disagree or strongly disagree on the Spanish responders we got 92% agreeing or strongly agreeing while only 8% disagreeing or strongly disagreeing next we have I am being informed of my child's progress on the English language proficiency assessment or lpac for the English responders 75% agree or strongly agree while 25% disagree or strongly disagree for the Spanish respondents 92% of them agree or strongly agree but only 8% disagree or strongly disagree the next one reads I know who to contact if I need help with school problems or issues 85% of the English responds agree or strongly agree while 15% disagree or strongly disagree on the Spanish side 88% of the responders agree or strongly agree while 12% disagree or strongly disagree last one so this one is a little different because because
071we want to know what is the preferred method to receive school information or the communication as you can see in both surveys English and English and Spanish the results were pretty similar with the most preferred method being text uh messages or email Communications [Music] and now we're going to go the feedback on which programs for multilingual English Learners or male students should be maintained revised added and or eliminated we have any eliminations here so to maintain uh maintain the dual immersion and tutoring uh of course I have a personal bias on that because my daughters are in this program and I can see the benefits of keeping that so please keep it uh we also have maintained the teachers professional development to enhance their act uh abilities to support the multilingual English learner students to
072add add additional support and resources for parents and students add career classes to support students in career exploration add math support add resources for struggling students like extra English classes and some recommendations to revise improve the communication and resources for at home support and also improve the collaboration between parents and the teachers m for um so I'll conclude our presentation with our findings and recommendations so while we're pleased to see that 85% of our respondents feel welcome we know that this is A needs assessment and um our focus is to identify areas of improvement um and so you'll see on the left side the area that we're focusing on and then the right side the recommendation from deac so while 85% of respondents strongly agree or agree with feeling welcome the 15% of respondents strongly
073disagree I want to asked how can we ensure that we create a welcoming environment uh the recommendation is to offer employee training to ensure that there's translation and or interpretation for events and to ensure that families feel welcomed at school functions and assemblies in regards to ELD understanding we saw that 20% of of English respondents and 14.3 of Spanish respondents stated that they did not have an understanding of their child's eeld instruction so how can we increase parents and fam's understanding of ELD the recommendation was to explain testing information uh to offer information in different formats and then to increase communication from teachers as they felt that they were the per the Personnel that's directly connected to students in terms of content area support 20% of English respondents and .6 of Spanish respondents stated that
074their child is not receiving adequate English development um support and content areas so this is our Focus for integrated ELD which is a large part of what we focus on for professional development the recommendation is that uh we would guide students and expect Excellence the high uh high expectations that we would offer tutoring um and that we would continue to support students in those subjects in regards to building Awareness on the lpac 25% of English respondents and 8.7 of Spanish respondents stated that they did not have an understanding of their child's lpac performance and so the recommendation is that we continue to communicate the advantages of resources that uh sites and District offers and that we ensure that students and families understand the importance of the exam so I know our department in particular has
075been doing a lot of um elpac awareness as we just opened up the window for elpac assessment this month um the next area is family and parent support with 15% of English respondents and 12.8% of Spanish respondents stating that they did not know who to contact if they needed help with a problem or issue the recommendation is that we inform families where to go and who to contact if they need help so just being proactive with pushing that information out and it was recommended that that be done with bulletins emails and text as the parents had have mentioned the preferred method of communication so for language support services our next steps are that each site would have the opportunity to share this delac needs presentation with their site elac as that's where the data came
076from initially as well as their staff because it's important for them to be informed of what parent voice is um LSS will then partner with District departments to address the specific recommendations that are offered by daac um and then obviously we'll go back and provide an update to deac regarding um the recommendations and the the work that has been put in place to address system sorry and that concludes our presentation for this evening thank you Dr Moore a lot there a lot to digest and lots of questions so again I'm gonna I'm going to start off by kicking it to our board members for questions comments for either Dr Moore or our parent parent leaders I go for it birthday Jump Right In I'll go first you know high [Music] school I'm just um congratulating
077Miss um Munos for her presentation and for the point points that she made to improve the the um the education of our English Learners and uh her Beth ja hako he was a student at Colton High School when I used to you know be a director of language support services and I am just extremely proud of you uh you know for where you are now and for giving back and coming back um um your quote is very well received we the kids are the students are our future [Music] um our main goal as a school board uh is to provide the best education possible for all kids including our English Learners who have such a potential to succeed um so anyway I just wanted to congratulate you as parents we cannot do this without the
078parents the parents have to be involved if they are not involved there's a missing piece that we that you know in order uh to do what we want to do um okay so uh on the I was going to call Wendy Dr Moore uh Dr Moore I just want to um go back to a few slides like slide 18 um let's see okay uh slide 18 shows the uh graduate graduates um it shows 68% of uh multilingual learners are are graduating and 87% of I'm sorry uh 68 of English only and um am am I right yeah uh 68 87% English only um uh my question is um just so that the the audience understands too is um we talked about buckets where we have the reclassified that are monit and reclassified that are have
079exited so in specifically the the ones that are have exited that are no longer um there where do they fall thank you for that question that's a great question they would actually fall in the the EO bucket in the EO bucket oh okay okay thank you for that so they they'll stay in that bucket for for gradu for this actual graph for graduation rates yes they're not counted on the E it's strictly El students that are on the on the blue side okay okay thank you and then on slide uh 21 uh it shows that uh 48.2 are making progress um the state is we're actually higher than the state yes that's correct yay yes but that shows that's as I believe is a result of the instruction that is going on in the classroom
080and the focus that our teachers are are um the F having on intent ELD lesson so that's wonderful um and I believe um let's see I was taking notes like crazy I think uh number 39 I believe let's see oh the um the way you laid out this um this presentation is very very helpful for us because because it shows the findings and then it shows the recommendations so you know there's no ambigu ambiguity there I mean we know exactly what our plan of action is going to be and so we'll probably be talking about this uh the recommendations and the progress that we're making so um you know I'm sure we'll have more uh more you know more conversations about this so um Dr Moore thank you so much for for this presentation and
081I'm very very excited about where our English Learners are it so thank you other questions comments please board member FES thank you Grimes no I'm kidding I'm kidding so I just wanted to congratulate both of you for your presentation all the information that you've given us today the surveys are very important to know uh where we stand at you know if they agree disagree and it does make a difference everything uh Miss Flores uh asked was some of the things I was going to ask about also the graduation rates and all of that and uh I just love the way you guys brought it to us it's clear it's and I just want to congratulate both of you for bringing that information uh Miss uh Dr Moore thank you uh for bringing the information out
082here we're going to be looking at all these numbers looking at everything the survey uh with a lot of heart I remember when I was young my dad would tell me or my mom would say don't be embarrassed to speak another language and because you will have success when you speak two languages and uh speaking two languages is a key to a lot of jobs today and a lot of jobs they'll take the person that speaks another language doesn't matter if it's Spanish or Vietnamese Korean whatever they'll take you because you are bilingual so again I want to thank you for all the information that you brought us God bless you thank you any other board member comments questions couple of quick questions Dr Mo since you're there um let me jump back to the
083presentation here um the let me translation services has always been a challenge it's not just with us as a school district having worked at the county uh most public agencies it's a challenge what have we done or what are we doing to improve access for translation services for our parents and our families uh I'll say yes it's certainly at the events and activities such as this but I think it's also the bigger challenge is just the daily uh thing somebody calling the school to get information about an event or an activity an attendance issue uh and if there's not somebody on the School site that speaks in the office that speaks Spanish for example which is the most uh predominant second language what do we do how do we handle that is it on oh
084um and so we obviously we are constantly recruiting staff to fill the Gap um but we know that oftentimes having that human resource is a difficult is a challenge the honest to be honest with you the the blessing has or the the benefit blessing has been AI um and also a lots of translation services that are are improving um we I know that PPS has also purchased a program that helps with translation when they're doing um IEPs and things of that nature and so we face that same challenge in our department um we have a translator in our department and there are district translators at well as well that are constantly working to support the sites um but we also have uh numbers that we can call in and because we also have other languages
085right um that maybe we don't have a person that speaks that language um but they they're definitely a lot better than they have been and so that they're able to provide lifetime translation for um for our families I appreciate that and I was looking to see if that's in fact what we are utilizing I know that you can call into services and they'll get somebody on the line instantly to start translation uh and it's proficient it's confidential and it's something that you can get instantaneously so that's that's great to know that we have those contracts the other the other really I'll say pleasant surprise is to see that in many instances when we surveyed um our our parents that those that are uh part of our English learner Community uh they seem to be they
086seem to be more engaged certainly a greater understanding of what the curriculum is and what their students are engaged in I mean I just have to ask what do you think it is why that we have a higher level of Engagement there than say General general student population this is a conversation that we've had with our e counselors um just looking at where that Gap is and where what we can do to improve on it um I honestly feel that it it's the like daac is is highly intended right and so then parents are getting those that information on a regular basis who attend DC I for our department we've set a goal to be more intentional with reaching out to our English Learners who don't speak Spanish right so what are the other languages
087on that graph um and how can we be intentional with making sure that those students feel welcome that they're being acclimated into the culture and that we're finding ways um to support them and reach out to their families so that's where we feel the Gap is yeah fantastic thank you thank you so much all right we look forward to working with you and being a partner thank you great job did very well Dr Peterson I believe you're still you're still on Deck right absolutely so our second PR presentation this evening as you know um February is Career Technical Education Month and as a district we partner um with our friends Colton re jipa Roop and so tonight our director or excuse me coordinator of data and assessment and CTE coordinator um Paul Lucero as well
088as um the director of ed services for cryrop U we'll be making the Pres Melissa dicks will be making the presentation tonight and so I welcome them up to the [Applause] podium good evening board president Flores uh superintendent Miranda board members members of executive C cjusd staff students parents and members of the community think I got everybody uh my name is Paul lero and I'm the coordinator of CTE and cgsd tonight I have the privilege and also my voice is going away uh the privilege uh to address you to shine a light on all of the great work that cjd is doing in Career Technical education I assure you that the state of Career Technical education in Colton is strong where's the oh there it is I got it this time all right um to
089start off with uh I'd like to introduce a team of people who work timelessly to bring CTE programs and opportunities to our students uh I was a former history teacher so I speak in stories sometimes so I'm going to give you one I before I was a teacher I was in construction um I worked as a construction site surveyor and if you don't know what a construction site surveyor does many of you probably almost ran me over at some point um it's the people who stand out in the middle of the street with a thing that looks like a big camera it's actually a laser and uh we find points on a flat piece of ground to tell people where to build uh just a fun fact we're usually the first people on a job
090and the last people to leave a job but we're never seen we're not quite heard from very often and we're always in high demand uh it's an amazing career U I will say though that the view U from my office back then was gorgeous right uh early morning seeing the sunset or Sunrise excuse me seeing the sunset over job sites and then seeing these buildings be built out of nothing uh you know from nothing excuse me is an amazing thing and uh many of the people on my team for CTE they remind me of those days as a construction site surveyor um we're uh the first people here uh we're the last people to leave many events and we're not seen or heard from very often um but we are in high demand so I'd
091like to introduce uh those folks to you tonight um so you can see them and they're all part of a CTE team I do want to make sure that we understand CTE is that umbrella that Roop that work experience that all of that lives under right Career Technical education so um Ken soulman is our program specialist for the school district he takes care of everything curriculum right so all of the uh course descriptions all the things that we we bring into the classroom Ken's in charge of that he's in charge of being uh our go-between with teachers as well when they want to bring new things and new programs to us so uh just a huge resource there and again somebody who's not seen very often but uh is very important Doris Hernandez and aelia
092TZ both are work-based learning technicians um these ladies I can't stress how much they do for our CTE program and our school district how much they care about our school district um they they are are bridge to the community for all things work based right so when we bring in the unions uh the Carpenters Union ibw when we bring in all the people for our steam Expo our CP event all of our community members you know the the city of Colton works with us there's just there too many to list right uh but these two ladies are are tireless they go out they um are fearless as well um they go into the community they bring all these Community Partners to us and they care right uh they have uh students uh who are School
093aged uh some of them in our own school district and they want to make this program great for their students so I just want to highlight them and then of course uh we have Melissa here tonight from cryrop uh uh our cryrop team uh is the folks who bring the majority of our programs to us as a school district we wouldn't be able to do this without them their expertise and um everything that they bring to us so uh tonight we have Melissa here uh she's the director of Educational Services there and we'll be co-presenting with me so I just wanted to point out all those folks um and I we'll get into to highlighting the beautiful buildings that we build with CTE uh in the the students and the programs that we have later
094but I wanted to show that uh this team does work for you and and with you to bring these programs so thank you for that and I'll turn uh everything over to Melissa now who's going to give us you an overview of what CT is thank you Paul and good evening everyone it's a pleasure to be here and I'm actually serving tonight in place of our program manager Elena Hernandez she is our cryrop program manager serving the Colton district and she does um send her hellos to you and sorry she could not be here um but cry rot for about 54 years now has proudly served alongside cjusd also and ukpa school districts to provide high quality CTE programs for so many students in our communities um currently through Partnerships with the district and cryrop
095there are 30 CTE programs available in the school district both at the middle and high school levels um that includes 30 teachers and nine linked learning Pathways one of the things we're really proud of at CT in CTE and that a lot of people aren't aware of is our teachers not only credentialed through the state um credentialing commission but they're also the industry exper expert so every teacher in a CT classroom has lived that work and often still sometimes does live that work in um coinciding with their teaching so they bring that industry expertise into the classroom to provide that relevance and that rigor to truly prepare students both for career and college opportunities postgraduation so you got the data guy here too so I brought you some data points as well tonight excuse me
096uh so the first data point I bring is our enrollments currently at all of our high schools um for our Pathways so uh this doesn't include our middle schools because our middle schools don't have Pathways they have our Paxton Patterson Labs so there is CTE there however uh we would like to highlight um all of those enrollments so you can see them there and just uh the the big portion of is that 45% of our high school students are currently enrolled in a CTE course within Colton Joint Unified School District so when you think about that uh just think back on the uh 30 programs 30 teachers right and uh think about how Dynamic that is right uh Dynamite comes in small packages CTE is fairly small in a district our size with 30 programs
097and 30 teachers however we service a wide uh amount of our students okay so on your school dashboard we saw some of that information with our El students um there's also what we call our college and C indicator on the dashboard and CTE is a big part of that so what the state looks at as far as how CTE contributes to the dashboard is pathway completion and currently that's defined for students to complete a two-year pathway the first course you'll often see a course like auto technician one that would be um called the concentrator class which is kind of the intro to the pathway and then the second year is known as the Capstone in order to receive that pathway completion designation the students do need to pass their concentrator and receive a c minus
098or better in their Capstone program and again that's all part of um that also includes a through G and um other College opportunities like dual enrollment and articulation with our community colleges so some more data for 2023 20% of our CCI ready students were pathway completers um we know that that's a point of growth uh as you just heard from daac right we need to grow our CCI if you're wondering uh what color our indicator is on the dashboard it's actually yellow I didn't put it here but I saw it in the previous presentation so I figured I'd bring it up um we were low the year before that which would have been orange so we're yellow now so we have grown um one of the places that we've taken taken upon ourselves as a
099school district to look at um growing is within our African-American students and our students with disabilities we noticed that students were participating in our Pathways at a lower rate previously and over the past year um in both of those student group populations when you look at our data they both increased by 50% so um that that shows the work that we're doing and uh what we need what we need to continue to do as well and then uh as far as our CCI so there's two ways that CCI is looked at by the state there is ready and then there is approaching um so the 20% of the students that were CCI ready were pathway completers 47% that we're approaching were also pathway completers so CTE is all over the place uh within the CC
100CCI component all right going once oh my going twice I don't know sorry there's a video embedded in here I don't know we can pause it if you want um I didn't realize the video wasn't better there thank you uh so we we uh do some compliance ISS uh things within C CTE one of those is to comply with Perkins we need to have a CP event or a CT partnership event um this year we had that and the year previous we had that in October um this year we had over 60 Community Partners there um we had over 100 student students participate as well and 18 Pathways show up to that event it was a great event that was me that you heard in the background um doing a drawing for some of the
101things that were there for students and uh it's just a great event for our community to come in and partner with us and give us feedback on how our CTE programs are working okay if you haven't noticed through pictures and other presentations you've seen and been in our classrooms CTE and preparing students for future careers is expensive um so one of the benefits of your partnership with us at cryrop is that we go after those big dollars that are available at the state for CTE um so those include um the CTE incentive Grant or C and also the um K12 strong Workforce pathway program which is also a partnership between our community colleges and our state board of education at the state level um also a newer Grant this year was the Golden State Pathways
102which is onetime funds to help kind of bridge that um the academic with the CTE and preparing students students for postsecondary opportunities so I'm going to say in the last 11 years we have provided millions of dollars both directly in dollars and indirectly in equipment teacher training student work-based learning activities um for students um directly to Colton district with our CTE programs including your middle school programs and our Auto EV things and other pictures you'll see as we go through here tonight me again um so we're going to touch a little bit about our Pathways you're going to see them here we'll talk about a couple and then um through the pictures you'll see some additional things um so at Bloomington with our Bruins these are the pathways at our at our site there just
103a couple highlights under Business and Entrepreneurship our famous Virtual Enterprise program where students get to um create their own business and learn how to run that business in a virtual world with competitors not just in our state and in our country but internationally with students that have that same entrepreneur mindset um also exciting is veterinary assistant that is not a common program at the high school level nor at the college level locally so we're really excited that our students get to explore careers on helping our furry little friends um including a new partnership we have with the county animal shelter in D'Or where once a month they're bringing um shelter pets adoptable shelter pets by the way um to Bloomington High School for the students to socialize with them and groom them and prepare them
104for their forever homes and we have a video of that happening here uh this is Buddy and if you don't know buddy was adopted um actually this day here uh from that uh that moment in time um so the adopt of buddy was actually Elena Hernandez at at cryrop so um buddy has has moved up in the world big time from V vet assistant at Bloomington High School to hanging out in Elena's house and just getting all the love in the world so there you have it and we have a few more pictures just to show you um that that are on this slide uh to give you an idea um I know Melissa mentions this over and over again but all of these classes the learning that goes on in there right Bridges everything
105because it's Hands-On so you don't see anywhere in these pictures where students are are just uh well education's being done to them right instead they're active in that so super important to put that out there and uh we'll move on to the next one all right um next Wednesday the shelter pets are back at Bloomington just saying um next at Colton with our Yellow Jackets just some examples of some programs under product Innovation and design is our newest pathway or a revised pathway which is our mechatronics pathway um if you have never heard of mechatronics it's because it's kind of a newer and emerging industry but really what that is is it's looking at um Automation and all of the people that need to help the robots do their work um so our steam shop
106at Colton High School is now mechatronic which um along with our Auto programs provides pre-apprentice opportunities and Industry certification opportunities for our students um another one to note here our graphic Communications program um crosses the The Divide between graphic design and the Arts and Manufacturing where students create digital um print work and then actually print it out and they do many projects for the community including yearbooks for some of the elementary and middle schools here in the district so just some quick pictures again uh just proving the these Hands-On things uh we also have a welding shop that I believe is second to none so if you go and view that shop it's pretty amazing um even we had uh the Carpenters Union uh come over during our steam event and they went and looked
107at our welding shop and they were impressed for sure by that and then uh we have auto diagnostic and repair that's there um something near and dear to my hearts since I'm a bit of a gear Head myself and did work in a shop for a little while um it's really great to see these students learning diagnostic component to this because that's all problem solving right um so yeah yeah and we are bringing that EV component this year as well um the little EV car is there it'll be assembled and disassembled years and years to come so uh on The Cutting Edge there all right uh Grand Terrace High School are Pathways that um are there we have six Pathways offered um some of the highlights from that we have emergency medical responder at that
108um School site and they have partnered just this year um through our work workbase learning technician actually one of them aelia knows the chief of fire over in Colton and uh they were a little bit reluctant to head over to the Grand Terrace side of things because it's County right but we assured them that there are plenty of students in the Colton ZIP code that go to Grand Terrace High School and uh just this year they partnered with them and uh we have quite a few of those students in the Explorer Program which is key right because um emergency medical responder a lot of people just think uh paramedics right um but confire is starting to work uh with the EMR uh program to bring in paramedics and um into the firehouses so we need
109to be firefighters first in paramedics as well so uh having that explore program and the students being a part of that has been huge this year and something that Lisa comic loves because um she's a firefighter at heart right um and then our engineering and design program at um at GT um Project Lead the Way distinguished site and if you haven't seen their new drone show it's pretty cool right um they just used that the other day uh during one of their assemblies and it was really cool to see um some pictures to go with that you can see everybody in the classroom um our care pathway which also includes the patient care always uh getting certified so stop the bleed um CPR there and these pictures many of them are from our steam Expo
110where uh people come in and and just make appearances and our students get to interact with industry over and over which is what we want Slover Mountain High School still oh right they're still here um we have two Pathways at slver Mountain High School information support and services um I want to impress upon you a lot of people think that uh Microsoft Office has gone away since we use Google mostly in education it surely has not um industry needs that and they will hire people with certifications in those uh areas in a big way so um we still offer certification in those um courses and we have students who do very well in that that program that program is also at Colton High School as well and then you saw um a lot of pictures
111from our child uh child development program at slver Mountain High School and the amazing work that they're doing with not only the um preschool or Head Start program that's um at that site but also um with the students who are there and gaining certification through that Paxon Patterson Labs at U all of our middle schools we have our Paxton Patterson labs they they uh explore modules which are connected to the pathway programs at the high school that these middle schools feed into so that's that idea uh of having that bridging happen from middle school to high school and allowing students to explore what their passion is and what their interests are um we also have this program at Washington High School and it is very successful there as well and they participated in our steam
112Expo um just a month ago and uh it was amazing to see them there so again all these programs are aligned with our high schools and feed into those programs our steam Exposition a month ago was extremely successful we did have to move it two days before the event happened uh in a fairly tumultuous week um during plenty of uh immigration raids and things like that however uh the community showed up we had over uh 250 sign-ins from our own students and then um the uh tacos were served there and uh the vendor who did that for us said that they served over 500 plates so um huge huge event that partnered with our um science fair to bring all of these industries to us and you can see in some of these pictures um
113some of the industries that we don't necessarily have Pathways for but they do want to partner with us right Five Star Barber is right there u in the middle um Jr over there has been great at bringing some of our students in who are interested in that work experience side of things and I would be remiss not to mention our work experience program we do have two work experience teachers who work within the school district they're split in different cohorts and they do bring that that work experience program to our students in the school district so um plenty of career exploration that went on there and uh cry also showed up and supported us on that day and Elena brought buddy along with him I think that was his first field trip so uh it
114was a good time for for that pup um our internal internships um we brought these uh last summer so summer of 2024 open them up um we partnered with cryrop and we also had uh tomorrow's Talent help us kind of frame what we wanted to do with these internal internship programs um we had about uh 14 15 students um participate in the internal internships what you see on the slide are all of the divisions or um uh departments within our school district that we brought interns into from our high schools um so it was a extremely successful program um I say that not only because I loved what happened there but um the folks who were involved in it also loved what happened we couldn't pay them unfortunately however they were paid through credit right
115so we gave work experience credit work experience credit earned for the students who were a part of these programs and I believe there's a video so I'll stop talking and let the video roll should I Advance the slide let's see we're excited to announce we're bringing back our summer internships for the summer of the 2425 school year these internships are when our own high school students go out and work alongside our departments within our school district and build their skills to go out into the real Workforce I heard about this opportunity by the CTE team coming into one of my classes and giving us a presentation on all of the different opportunities that we would have during an internship over the summer I got to work with a lot of cool people I got mentored
116a lot in what facilities was cuz I was stationed the facilities department so I got to visit construction sites I got to see what made facilities tick we were really fortunate to have Ryan to join us and our facility family he just has a lot of the the great qualities that we look for in a great employee for our directors to offer internships to the students means the world to our community we want to be authentic about our care for our community and what other way to prove that you care for the community and to bring their children into your department and show the professional jobs that we do in our school district I'll definitely recommend this summer internship cuz you get to work in a professional setting get to experience real life skills and
117work with a team that helps you grow yes I would recommend this lendship program to more students because it teaches you how to grow up you learn to work you learn to do your job and you try to do it well I definitely would recommend this in ship to Future students just because it did open my eyes to new careers and it did give me a fun way to spend my summer and I got to experience things that I wouldn't have been able to without this internship I feel honor and privileged to play the role that I play in the district and to contribute to the building program and and create a better environment for our students and I thought this is a great opportunity to get back to the community and share some of
118the knowledge that I've gained over the years so uh again we're going to be running these internships this summer um last summer we only opened them up to students who were going to be in that Capstone course for their pathway right so it was open up to those Juniors going into their senior year um we wanted to do that to test the waters and see what was going to happen with all this because honestly it was an unknown quantity right um we got overwhelmingly good support I mean I've never been a part of something in education that got more positive feedback than that program so so we're going to open it up this year uh to any of our 16 and older students who want to participate in that over the summer and uh tomorrow
119we're going to have a meeting with some of the division leaders to see if uh people would be interested in taking on interns for this summer as well we'll offer the same thing that we did last summer which is that work experience credit um for the students who participate in it but it was just uh an amazing program and as I said in the video uh just a truly authentic way to show the community that um what we do and how much we care about bringing students in so um that was my video and I know that um cryrop also has a video um celebrating CTE month so introduce it let's see so happy CTE month again um so the video you're going to see is showcasing our students from this year in some of
120their programs and it is narrated by one of our student ambassadors so one of the things we're really proud of at cryrop is not just preparing all students for college careers but we take those ones that are nominated by their teachers to be our student leaders every year that we call our student ambassadors so they work around um developing their leadership skills further outside of the classroom and then they help us promote programs from everything from down to the Middle School level to get those students excited for the high school Pathways to working with our board members and the district administrators parents and community members getting them excited and give them the knowledge about CTE as well so that's what you'll see here in this video [Music] I think it's just hard to have hands
121on experience because you should think the par off the things out of high school a lot of students don't know what they want to be in college for me personally I had no idea what I wanted to do um I joined welding because seemed like something fun something out of my comfort zone RFP has prepared me for my future career it's because like not only is the teachers really good mentors but they also really gives a lot of knowledge they really go in depth we we do hands on in class Roop has prepared me for my future career by giving me hands-on experience in class and in my [Music] Fields thank you for letting us address you tonight and uh there's our contact information on also follow us on social media we're cjusd CTE on
122everything uh aelia takes care of that too so um she's uh definitely into that and wants more followers right um so please do that and uh any questions or feedback questions comments from board members great presentation yeah fantastic I'll go first Mar bar please okay first of all I want to thank both of you for a wonderful presentation I I think that uh it's important for parents Community students to to know what we offer at each one of our sites and and the Excellence of the courses that we offer that can lead to potential careers down the road um you mentioned this earlier we couldn't do this without cop cop has been a excellent partner with Co Joint Unified school district for years now and and the strength that they bring and the expertise that
123they bring and is excellent uh opportunities for our students to not only take a look at potential careers but also get a feel for if there's areas that they may be interested in the future um I've seen it grow over the years where it gets to a point where a lot of parents ask me you know can they get regular uh units for this and I remember when we made that effort to make it a through G requirement and that was big because then a lot of our students who were College Bound wanted to take some of our communication classes wanted to take some of our welding classes and they were able to do that because of the efforts of cryrop and and the staff there so but uh as we take a look at
124you know I remember going way back where they used to have the old wood shop the old you know that totally left I still hear people in the community say oh it's a shame we don't have Automotive we do and and when I do share that and I think some of my other colleagues we share it we share it very proudly because of the work that both of you do and you know and what it means to to our students and the opportunities and experiences that you bring so you know I have for years highly recommend cryrop CTE courses to our students who are interested and for I can tell you for the top of my head I could think of several who have been very very very successful just because they took that opportunity
125and enrolled in these courses so uh I just want to say thank you for your report you know I I enjoy hearing it and it's something that I think we need to continue sharing on a you know every year basis Mr superintendent and uh I think that uh the support that we need to give needs to continue to be uh given you know for as long as we can so I think it's important for not not only for the District but mainly for our students so thank you very much other comments yep board member FES please I think uh Mr I kind of said everything uh it's so important for our students to have that alternate education uh educ techn Prof I love that I love seeing it in Spanish here too but uh as
126part of the cryrop board also I'm one of the alternates on the board and I've been on that board for since I've been a board member here seven years and there's a story prior to becoming a board member of a young man that was going through difficult times at Bloomington High I won't mention names but I remember this young man having to go through work uh work development the whole thing through uh cryrop and ended up getting a scholarship through cryrop and now is one of the I don't know what what to call them I guess supervisor directors for the AutoZone warehouse and uh because he loved to work on cars mechanics and all that he he got that scholarship got through certification and all of that and now he's making six figures uh and
127doing very well and so I know there's success stories in CTE Pathways all of that uh you know as the board chair for the foundation when we give those scholarship to those students is for them to move on and become successful and like we do here C excuse me as we do here at cjusd is we want our students to succeed we want them to have that career we want them to live well and that's what we do what we do and why we do it and like they said I think one of the slides in the uh daac presentation it takes a village and it takes a village for us to be able to bring these opportunities to our students and our students have a lot of opportunities we have 30 Pathways throughout our
128district and hopefully sooner or later we'll have more as we start to partnership with the uh Carpenters with the electric uh the the uh Iron Works all these different opportunities construction all those things that are out there I get excited and you know when I saw the Expo and we couldn't we didn't fit in the multi-purpose room there at Colton High School I knew that we were doing something right so thank you Paul thank you Melissa Elena the whole team uh for what you do every day to make sure that our students succeed and that's why we say cjusd cares thank you um my colleagues have said a lot and um I talk about CTE all the time because it's it's my colleagues and I and our board we're very proud of what we do
129for our students and what we offer our students um it's just I can't say enough about the opportunities that we're giving our our students because um there tremendous they're walking out of there you know knowing this is for me or this is not for me and that's okay not everything is they're going it's a chance for them to try these uh possible occupations and if it's not for them then they can try something else but at least they know and they don't waste money going to college and getting a degree or doing going to a trade school and getting spending all that money and they already know that no that wasn't for me but I want to do this so I'm I'm it's just a a program that that um that what we offer is
130just it's just amazing that the kid the kids what they're doing uh welding I always say my my father was a welder for 45 years and made a living at it and a good living at it and so I know that that pathway for sure is is a is a is amazing I love walking in that classroom and seeing what these kids are doing I mean they're so articulate and they tell you about what they're working on and that's the same all across the board at all of our high schools that are taking these classes the kids are engaged in what they're doing as you said you don't see them sitting at a desk they are engaged in what they're doing and that's what we want we want them because to be engaged because if
131they're engaged in that and they're learning things like you know they're I know in automotive they're learning why is math important you know because a lot of times you say what am I going to use math for you need that in Automotive you need it in other skills and they're learning that so it's keeping them engaged in their other classes as well so um I know my colleagues and I we we always are very proud to talk about CTE so uh thank you for your presentation and thank you Melissa for being here today um I'll see you at the next meeting board meeting thank you thank you board member har please board okay um one thing that um that I noticed that these students have in common these kids throughout the school day and when
132they do out and do presentations they stand taller they're they're confident they're um proud um they have a purpose they're engaged so there's so many positive things that come out of this um to form their character and uh and prepare them for Life uh I also noticed that they bond together as students um and it's just the recipe for Success um I I give you all the credit Melissa and and uh and Paul and I see uh Ken over there hiding over there so um your team your CTE Team all you um you care for our students and you do everything possible to open doors so thank you so much thank you for the presentation um loved it particularly loved the internships internally as I often say we're preparing these students uh and we're trying
133to convince business owners and uh all the employers that are out there that they should hire our students well then we should walk the walk right if we aren't willing to bring them in ourselves and expose them and give them those opportunities then how can we really in all Earnest say hey we we think we have the best um students that are ready for for work uh for education for training today so I love that piece of it and we look forward to to more opportunities to work hand inand with you so thank you appreciate it I just wanted to add um it is a wild thing to see what we do with it so I just want to commend the board and all of the leadership in our district to be able to partner
134with Roop and a school district and the work experience and the work-based learning and all those things that work together right I haven't seen that anywhere yet I know that I'm young in this thing I haven't been around uh very long in this job um but I I go to other District districts and I try to find that you don't see it you you'll see you know one component of it really strong either a strong Roop like cry's there there's not a lot of the work experience or the work based learning happening um districtwide um or or you'll see you know focus on work experience and not not the classroom necessarily so it is an amazing thing to be a part of and uh like I said earlier you know it's just it's good for
135my view right I I get it I'm the surveyor I come in and see it all but man I get to see it just buil up and get to see what those kids are doing NAA was one of my former Avid students so I'm taking that yes and just running with it so I appreciate um you giving us the opportunity to to do this a quick comment if you don't mind you I shouldn't prolong the you up there Paul but I just want to mention something to the school work I think it's important that uh you know this recently uh I had Paul come with me to the Carpenters Union Training Center incredible facility and I'll tell you we visited we talked about the relationship with him and bringing mentorship uh mentorship programs here uh
136and I had to leave but Paul stood there I I think you were there all day and and you made a great impression so I just have to say that uh as our CT coordinator he represents this district with uh integrity and he's always thinking about our kids uh so I just mentioned that and of course the relationship with cry but uh and you know just uh it's incredible what we're the relationships again that we're doing with our folks around here so anyways thank you for that we appreciate it thanks so much all right this takes us to the action session action items for today's agenda uh do have a couple of items that we would like to pull for separate consideration first one is item 5.6 uh that's an item that we'll have to
137take up for separate consideration regarding our csba csba delegates uh but there's also a request for uh to pull 5.18 just for question and uh additional information from staff so I'll pull that one as well so any other items that board members wish to pull for separate consideration just uh to make a comment on a few of them okay as we take a look at uh 5.2 art uh Education Month and youth art uh month and music in our school month read Across America women history month we just want to just make note of these uh excellent uh uh events that will be going on throughout our district uh also just want to make note that uh uh board member pataro to my left has a lot to do with keeping our music programs our
138science science programs our art programs going and you know uh we I truly appreciate the efforts that she's made over the years to uh to ensure that we have solid programs throughout our district so just want to say bring that up and make that a mention that so that's right thank you absolutely um I don't know 5.18 yes yes we are going to pull that one for separate okay and 5.28 5.28 great okay we'll pull those and thank you board member bar for making note of those programs whenever we can celebrate the diversity of our district um the equity of our district and the inclusiveness of our district it's a good thing right it is a very good thing excellent um all right so what I'll ask for is an a motion to approve our
139items 5.1 through 5.35 with the except of 5.6 5.18 and 5.28 a motion motion by board member uh Fuentes is there second oh second okay second by board member iara uh all those in favor say I I any objections any extensions hearing none those items are approved so we'll go and take the others uh that were pulled for separate consideration and Order uh the first one is item 5.6 this is our nominations for California school boards Association delegate assembly I'll first ask if there is a motion well actually we let me lay this out because we do need make some um selections here so there are six candidates for essentially five seats so we as a board need to decide which five up to five we don't have to pick five but it's up to
140five uh that we would like to select as our um candidate for the Colton Joint Unified School District you'll note that they the aster denotes who are the incumbents um and so I'll simply open it up now for I'm making a motion to accept it uh with the five incumbents okay I'll second that wonderful I've got a motion by board member har second by board member Fuentes to uh approve the incumbents the five incumbents all right any other questions or considerations there if not we have a motion and a second all those in favor say I I I any opposed any extensions hearing none it is so ordered thank you for that and we will go ahead and submit that Miss Medina uh next in order is 5.18 uh did ask that that be pulled
141and I'll go ahead and make the motion to approve if there is a second I'll second okay we have a second by board member Fuentes and I would like to turn it over to Mr frm to give us a little bit more background uh there was some questions about how this contract with is related to security service is different separate and apart than our traditional uh office of Security Services the the department that handles Security on our campuses yes this is a requirement in the leases of tenants that rent in our buildings in the 850 and 900 and the cost is put into their lease so the cost is paid by the renters of our buildings here in the 800 850 and 900 buildings so there's no cost to the district at all for this
142and it's to go around and just look over the Open Spaces during business time hours and that and just to clarify this contract is exclusive only to this this C these buildings they will not be at any of our School sites or any of our other campuses correct as long as we have leases here outside of our district this is a requirement once we occupy all these buildings then they won't be here we will have our own security patrolling here uh Mr FM what are the business hours in these buildings 7 to 5: pm. thank you any other questions all right yep great so we have a motion and a second to approve the item uh all those in favor say I I any opposed any abstentions hearing none it is approved all right and
143our last item for separate consideration is item 5.28 uh approval of and Adoption of resolution uh 2574 uh to non-real to non- reelect temporary certificated employees um is there a motion for approval go ahead all motion and and I'll say motion by board member Fuentes and uh second by board member Ibara um questions comments board member Haro no I don't have any questions okay no questions all right we will go ahead and then take action on this item item 5.28 we do have a motion and a second all those in favor say I I I any opposed any myself okay and then uh no extensions so the item is approved with board member Haro dissenting okay great and that concludes our action items for uh this evening's meeting so we'll jump into our administrative reports
144are there any questions with uh respect to item 6.1 or 6.2 are dispersements or approved change orders all right we do not have a facilities update this evening uh so we'll jump into our Ace update I do believe I saw miss parach here do we have no update tonight from Ace all right CCA Mr gu Arma good evening board president Flores board members superintendent Dr Miranda and members of the audience Anthony Gua csca chapter president Colton 244 uh just a quick update on our transportation department in September of 2024 I was approached by assistant superintendent Greg Greg FR and the director of Transportation Jessica Kahu regarding a student that required specialized individual transportation that apparently we did not have the capacity for and the student also needed to be transported to a non-public school in
145lever which we were not able to accommodate my team and I talked it over and I was extremely hesitant because as long as I been with the district which was a little over 17 years we have not had to contract out routes and have been able to handle everything inous not only that I'm I am strongly against Contracting out when we have not ex exhausted all other options I voice these concerns along with the fact that as the title of the book goes You Give a Mouse a Cookie it's is going to want some milk I was assured that this was a one-time unique situation against my own gut instinct I agreed to anou that would allow for an outside company to transport this one particular student surprise surprise fast forward to Mid late mid
146to late November and I'm notified by some Transportation employees that there are more routes being contracted out I notified Greg that we needed to meet and during that meeting I was told there were five to eight more routes approximately 26 students being contracted out and according to Greg we have to do what we have to do this is not the response I was expecting because as I pre previously mentioned I was assured that the one student we agreed to was a unique one-off case this is how trust has broken down and this is how relationships begin to deteriorate but I own this one I went against my own better judgment and I believe I believed what I was told but that's you know look where we are now and back in December I presented an
147mou to Greg from and the director of trans transportation that would increase bus drivers and transportation assistance to a full eight hours to address bus driver shortage last week action item 6.26 was approved which created a new classified position titled bus driver training and I'm kind of circling around where I'm going I'm not sure if you were explaining what the plan the what the plan was but I had a lot of questions that initially went unanswered the quick breakdown that I was eventually given went something like this we're going to pay people that do not work for our district to get their bus driver certification and hope that they stay with our district when they are done how is it that we can afford a program like this and pay the expensive cost of Contracting
148out routes but can't guarantee our own bus drivers and transportation assistance eight hours when they're already working eight plus hours regularly why can't we invest in our own first and then we wonder why morale begins to drop and attendance becomes an issue working 8 10 12 hours then having a routes contracted out and paying non-district employees for a program that may or may not work I have a semi serious idea that I might be proposing in the future just kicking it around but I think whenever an assistant superintendent director supervisor whoever may be begins Contracting out work their salary should reflect that reduction in work think about it if 10% of the transportation routes are being contracted out that's 10% less work that the assistant superintendent director or supervisor of that of that department is
149doing as it stands now the director is directing less routes but making the same amount as before just food for thought another quick note about transportation and this one has been talked about for the past few years few years with no follow through the metal shed over by Colton High School where buses and fleet vehicles are repaired there's not adequate heating or air conditioning in the winter it gets freezing cold and for those of you that do any type of mechanic work how much fun it is is it to smack your knuckles when you're working with a wrench especially when your hands are freezing cold and in the summertime that building can get over 130° both which subjects our mechanics to unsafe working conditions and lastly on a note CSC has started discussions with Dr
150Miranda Dr Ortiz and Dr D regarding IEP transl translations and we will keep you updated as these discussions uh progress uh thank you all and have a great evening thank you Mr Guama uh do we have a Mac date this uh evening good evening board president Flores um board members superintendent Dr Miranda and members of the audience happy New Year from Mac it's been a while since we've presented but we wanted to make sure that our members and everyone is aware of some of the upcoming opportunities for professional development engagement and creating that culture of connection is this sorry next there um so we wanted to um recognize ize and celebrate Black History Month and we know a lot of our administrators and sites are currently celebrating and there's great opportunities for our students to
151be engaged and connect to uh our cultures and diversity amongst our campuses so we want to just um give them kudos for those uh things that they're doing on their campuses and we want to continue to see these things to support our students in addition we wanted to uh bring some attention to the AXA uh lunch break break there's a legislative lunch break that's featured um each month for AXA so some of our members may not be familiar with AXA or they may not know that um these um updates are available for you on YouTube they are recorded So if you missed the lunch break don't worry they are recorded you can um check them out this most recent recording uh pertained to Dei and the last recording pertained to immigration so they're very um
152informative for our school leaders and I highly encourage our leaders to listen they sometimes take about 30 minutes but it's great to hear from um legal and different Representatives that they have as guest speakers there is an upcoming uh women and Leadership networking opportunity on March 3rd from 5: to 7:00 at Sierra Lakes Golf uh Club it is a $10 fee for those of you who are axom members a $15 fee for those who are non-members but we highly encourage our um women and Leadership um team members to please join participate learn and grow together uh they're going to also have a learning and reflection with Dr Trudy araga um who will be presenting as well and the link is there for you as a bitly also um wanted to share some information from kelsa
153kelsa is a sister organization to AXA so we want to um highlight some of the opportunities that they have through kelsa as well they are beginning their mentoring program cohort number 22 is now available if you're interested in joining uh the mentoring program you'd like to get a mentor for your leadership um growth those are available for you there's a QR code so you can register and it does uh show some of the information for upcoming information sessions there's also a leadership Circle that's going to be um hosted soon so we encourage our leadership members to join if you'd like for those of you who are not familiar with kelsa that's the California Association for Latino superintendent and administrators so um we love for you guys to join and you don't have to be Latina
154Latino you can be an ally and join as well I also would like to take some time to thank our um board as well as our superintendent and cabinet for approving for me to present at the apod conference for kelsa uh recently in uh San Francisco it was a wonderful experience for me to continue learning and growing as a school leader as well as sharing and highlighting the wonderful things that we're doing um in Brewing country at Bloomington High School so my topic was on empowering campus branding and effective leadership for for a a future ready culture and so some of the things that you saw in the CTE videos uh some of those backdrops and some of those um murals are at Bloomington High School and so we do have a strong focus on
155future and college ready career Readiness at Bloomington High School and there's a lot of branding if you've come onto our campus you'll get a chance to see some of those things in the classrooms and outside of the classrooms on the walls so thank you very much for your support and I wanted to just close out with a wonderful picture that we recently took at our most recent principal meeting uh of all of our Mac members and administrators uh this just goes to show you that we are a true team and we um continue to learn and grow together it's a wonderful uh School site and District to work for and we're just really thankful to have everybody uh be a part of our Mac membership we will be uh wearing our Mac shirts at the
156next um management meeting so we want to encourage all our managers to wear their Mac shirts um from last year this year and um or previous years thank you very much for your time tonight have a wonderful evening principal ran that's great presentation great job uh Roop update do we have an Roop update we do do great um I just want to uh we had our we didn't have a meeting in January but we had one all last week and um I know Melissa already talked about the veterinary program hold hosting their first visit with two dogs from handlers from the San Bernardino County D'Or animal shelter and this is a new partnership for the um Veterinary class and it's also going to help hopefully get more dogs adopted or cats too um we have
157a student a 2019 Bloomington High School graduate and formal former criminal justice student from Miss gourlay's class and they have started in uh this March in the San Bernardino sheriff's Academy and then Slover Mountain High School students they were yesterday at Community cabinet showing us their garden box and uh we were very proud to host them because it was really cool talking to them about their garden and then we had um Colton High School students competed in the skills USA competition and we're waiting for results we'll hear that at the next meeting I'm sure and then gths is having their career fair that's taking place and uh actually I Sor I apologize for that they already had it but um great things are happening at C up we also had our cry up Foundation meeting
158and uh just a couple of things we're going to be uh giving our students a little more money uh for their scholarships so we're going from $200 to $250 uh for those students and so we're going to be incrementing that there will be some new things coming uh to our uh evening of Excellence that we do every year is it evening yeah it's the evening of Excellence yeah evening of Excellence so we'll be uh doing some new things there and uh bringing some new things to the table but we did have our cry Foundation meeting and if you'd like to support us just look us up on online and there should be a donation button there and we'd love for your donation thank you all right thank you for that update uh next is our
159superintendent communic thank you uh board president board members uh members of the audience uh here and and out there virtually uh short uh communicate this evening I want to start off with uh the elcap the elcap survey uh your voice matters so uh District uh as you note uh is committed to ensuring the best possible support for our Student Success that's part of our vision so we need your feedback and your honest feedback so please participate in the annual alap survey uh which is open throughout February and will close on Friday February 28th uh so this survey just to note is confidential and we deeply value honest and constructive feedback uh we encourage students parent staff and community members to take a few moments to share their thoughts uh if you haven't taken the survey
160yet uh please visit our website uh where you'll find you prompt to access the link let your voice be heard all right so all we talk a lot about Slover Mountain uh continuation high school and the proud principal and former proud principal are here this evening so I'm glad Tiffany Hampton here uh because uh Slover is a model School uh and there just were uh notified and there's going to be a huge recognition so again we have it's with great pleasure uh that I announced that silver melon high school has been recognized as a model continuation high school for 2025 by the state superintendant Tony Thurman can we give a round of applause come on so yeah absolutely uh the model continuation High School uh recognition program honors schools that provide exemplary educational programs and
161creates a resource list of successful programs for school visits uh this recognition is a true Testament to dedication Innovation AI stuff that's happening over there and it's not stuff but it's important work commitment uh that the staff has that's low Mountain High uh so that students reach their full potential and that's what we want uh so congratulations uh Adina uh and the team of course uh just uh well-deserved recognition and achievement and I know you guys are celebrating so whatever we can do to support that so again one more time for Slover all right La last slide uh as noted earlier we have read Across America uh day uh I don't know if the date was stated but it's March 2nd uh and that uh is very exciting day so I'm excited to share that
162I get to go out and visit schools to read a lot of uh you do that too uh get your favorite book uh in uh it's so fun to read to all the students uh so that's coming up so uh thank you to all the schools that have invited uh not just myself but the bo the board cabinet uh administrators for set celebrating the love of reading uh I love reading I all of us love to read so I'm really looking forward to engaging with students and helping uh helping them Foster this passion that uh they read that they have La last year I got a chance to go out there with Ace president miss parach and she read to students uh did an incredible job she's a former kindergarten teacher so I couldn't beat
163that I tried but I couldn't beat that anyway so looking forward to and uh if miss parach you want to come out again with me let's go uh uh and also invite over there CC president Mr Anthony G wama i' be like to get out there and read to our students uh it's a great day honestly get out there and read to our kids so uh just uh it's an awesome day anyways so that's my communicate for this evening uh and back to you board president all right thank you for that Dr Miranda we appreciate hearing the updates and uh our next item is our board member commment so we'll go ahead and start this evening with board member Fuentes okay that's different we're rotating so keep it fair we had a great time at
164the community cabinet on wedes Wednesday if you weren't here you missed out I was here for the first hour and a half or so and it was just amazing to see what our students are doing out there talked about Wellness we talked about our Wellness rooms we talked about our Wellness Department Antonio costra our director talked about the opportunities that Wellness has for our students and I've always been one of those that I want our students to be well when they're in school I want them to have feel safe I want them to have you know nutrition food all of that and and you know Dr Miranda I always tell them about are your students going to be fed are your students going to be fed because I know that when our students don't eat
165or don't feel safe or or they're not well they're not going to do well period but when we have those opportunities those Wellness rooms or somewhere where they can go speak to somebody and just share their thoughts and even I sometimes have to share my thoughts with somebody you know because I think we all need to sometimes and so I was so excited to uh be here at uh for the community cabinet the first half of it and uh I'm very very excited and I'm going to end with one more comment here know that your children and every student on our campus will always be safe if our managers our sro's are here for a reason at an important meeting like a community cabinet meeting they are here to learn about what's going on on
166the campuses we talked about Wellness our managers our SRO are here because they want to know what happens on campus especially through our Wellness rooms the wellness opportunities if if our community cabinet is based on workability or work-based you know activity and some of our directors or Managers from safety are here they're here because they want to know what what's going on they want to understand what they can do in their position s know that your children and every student on any campus will always be safe it doesn't matter if a director's here a manager's here your child is in a safest environment ever I will put my hands in fire if I have to but our children will always be safe I'm a big Advocate on nutrition also you know I get out there
167and I want our kids to be fed and that's why we have the programs that we have here at Colton Joint Unified School District But please understand sometimes we hear comments we hear things and if we don't do our due diligent which is researching finding out the truth then sometimes comments will hurt instead of help so understand that your children are in the safest place we have the most awesome staff teachers you name it custodial staff nutrition staff anybody and I can tell you right now they will fight for your child to be safe you know slob Mountain always says you can't spell slob Without Love and I can tell you that that goes for every school in our district from our adult school from our preschool kindergarten your children will always have that love
168and they will always feel safe and I can guarantee that because like I said I will put my hands in fire if I am not saying what is true know that your children will be safe so we want your children to have that education and without having the safety the nutrition all that other stuff that goes with it our key is to educate them because we want them to succeed like we saw today in the presentation with uh CTE and cryrop we want them to succeed I've had my daughters go through this district and they're going to college they're successful right now my oldest daughter is a quality control supervisor for Amazon and going to uh Riverside City College I'm proud of her very proud of her Sharon the one that just graduated last year
169she goes to Valley College she's in the nursing program so we want our children to succeed I know uh Mr flores's children are growing up in this District he is a product of this District he's sitting here because he cares for his kids and he cares for all those 19,000 plus kids that we have in our district so please understand and know it's a big passion of mine I I apologize if I got a little out of hand but my passion my my passion is our students and I even though I don't have kids in the district anymore I do I have 90,000 kids that every day when I go to sleep are they fine are they okay did they get the education they needed those are the things that go through my brain every
170day of my life as long as I'm a board member here and I can vouch for my colleagues here we will fight for your kids no matter what thank you very much have a great night I love you all thank you board member FES uh board member Bera Flores um this week we I um Dr Peterson and I went to visit classrooms uh we visited two two sites at uh Middle School ruo Harris Middle School and Lewis Elementary School um what I enjoyed and was very helpful to me was we really focused in on um what we were visit what classrooms who were visiting uh we at Ruto we visited uh every seventh grade and eighth grade math class and uh so we were able to see the strategies that were consistent throughout uh throughout
171the those grades um and one thing that we was very obvious was the strategies of building thinking classrooms and um if you if you haven't seen those in action um that's what we need to be doing for our kids to do to do the uh you know to to learn math math Strate math uh language and math conversation so um it was very good to see that at uh Lewis we focused on early lit literacy strategies and we F we visited every first and second grade classroom and we observed what was going on in those classrooms we saw the what the strategies from uh University of Florida uh from letters um and El strategy um so I I really appreciate you know the time that we spend in those classrooms um the principal uh principal
172G making time to um you know walk us around um and I'm looking forward to I think we have one more at at the end of this month I'm looking forward to it um and read Across America invitations are coming in uh from different School sites please keep them coming because it's a big event for us and I'm looking looking forward to coming to your school sites thank you very much have a good evening thank you board member Flores uh board member Ibara thank you Dan earlier today we had a couple issues that were brought to us and like to see if through correspondence if we can get some uh some answers first one was the fact that as we all well know it's nothing uh that's not out there we know that there's concerns
173having to do with immigration and ice and uh I know that our parents students are very very concerned and I know that uh we have uh things in place at each site my question is uh is uh how are we getting this across to the parents to know that their children are going to be safe uh it's important for them to know that is it in our website um last time I looked there's nothing there you so uh the the young lady who came up did make a a a valid concern and uh we just want to make sure that we get an opportunity to reassure our families that uh Co Joint Unified School District's prepared for this so uh just want to see you know in cour respondents or however how can we resolve
174that because if not we're going to get more than one person next time and it's might might add up and we could by being out in front of it we can make sure that uh we you know don't get people who are coming in concerned and and so forth and we need uh their students in school and I'm not saying for the money but we need them to come so they could learn and that's our our key Focus uh the second issue is that uh we just heard the concern of our csca president having to do with Transportation I would love to get in correspondence of the district's uh response to that concern um you know uh you know I don't know what goes on between discussions but I don't like hearing that you know
175bad faith I don't like to hearing things that you know that are being said that uh puts our district in in in a position that you know we renig on on what we're we originally said so I don't have answers I can't say what exactly happened but uh there definitely is a concern coming from csca and I would like to be sure that the board is aware of the position of the co Joint Unified School District on this issue because I think it's important for us uh and uh for variety of different reasons so uh if we can get those uh things and I hopefully I could get the uh consensus of the board on those two issues uh that uh I think it's important for us to at least be aware because you know
176we don't want to create any we have good relations with both the unions we want to continue doing that so so absolutely okay thank you thank you verying so Dr mirando you'll ensure that we get that in all right thank you very much thank you Mr bar uh board member Hara thank you Mr ebar for bringing up the uh concern that the parent brought up about the uh knowing parents knowing about the immigration issue and what we're doing um I sat in on one of the uh meetings that uh um Dr he's did and I heard I heard the meeting but our parents were not involved in that meeting and um and I'm I don't know because you said I'm not sure I couldn't find it on the website and I'm not saying it's not
177there but I didn't see it and I think something like that needs to be like not hidden like you got to click this to get to this to get to this it's something that needs to be in the Forefront right now of what what are what we're doing because when parents go to the website they don't know to click all over the different pages they want to that's something that need I know right now that the homepage is about our Arts uh initiative and I'm grateful for that don't get me wrong however this is this is something that parents need to be you know easily accessible that when they turn on the page they going to see that there that CJ we say cjd cares this is a perfect example have it in English and
178in Spanish what are we doing or what are you know what are we legally doing that we can do to us so our parents know um and so thank you for bringing that up because I was going to bring it up as well um um I just wanted to uh let everybody know that this Saturday is an event at Bloomington High School and this is the fourth year that um it's being done it's the Festival of fairy tales and it started out as a very small event with with um not a whole lot of attendance but it's grown and uh there's singing There's dancing there's uh the costumes have gone from very mediocre to now like extravagant and um it's just a wonderful event and um for staff if you have little ones they love
179it they do crafts they do you name it they do it for the little ones and it's quite an event now and it's at um 10:00 a.m. and then it's also again at 100 p.m. and I just wanted to uh I told Miss Richardson that I would give a shout out to that event because it's it's always a fun event and um my quote for this evening it's by Mother Teresa I can do things you cannot you can do things I cannot but together we can do great things Colton High uh col Colton Joint Unified School District we do great things so thank you to all our staff M Haro uh and I don't have any comments tonight I just want to thank everybody for being here of course and a lot was presented and
180um there's a lot of great things happening there's even more things happening behind the scenes and future presentation so thank you for that we will go ahead and adjourn at this time into our closed session Che e e e we will call to order session CL session items 101 and 10.2 there is notion agenda we'll jump to item 10.3 uh adoption of resolution number 2572 to release and reassign certificated administrative employee in close session on a motion by board member Ibara and seconded by board member Dan Flores and on a 41 vote the board took action to release an assistant principal and reassign him to a teaching position for the 2025 2026 school year the board directed the superintendent or his design to serve notice on the affected employee the roll call vote was as
181follows uh board member Dan Flores abara Fuentes and Bera Flores voted I board member Haro voted no okay great and then item 10.4 on a motion by board member Fuentes and seconded by board member Bera Flores and carried on a 5 vote the board approved the following one classified management position uh information services manager one classified uh coach Junior head Junior excuse me head JV baseball boys uh four volunteer coaches ban baseball track and volunteers and that is all we have to report out from close session so we will adjourn our meeting