Board Meeting 6 10 2025

001All right. Thank you everyone. Welcome to the Irvine International Academy uh regular scheduled board meeting. Uh today is Tuesday, June 10th. The time is 6 o'clock. Meeting location is 4782 Karen Lane, Irvine, California 9264. Uh we may have someone calling in via teleconference. Their address is 6833 Buswell Street, Richmond, British Columbia, B6 YOL 3, Canada. Okay, I'd like to start with roll call, please. Uh, starting with Molly, present. Felipe, present. Uh, Brett's present. David present. Miller absent. Okay. Next to like to move to the approval of the agenda for the regular meeting of the Irvine International Academy Board of Directors on June 10, 2025. It's recommended the board of directors approve the agenda for the regular meeting of the Irvine International Academy board of directors on today, June 10, 2025. Is there a motion? I'll

002motion. So, thank you, Felipe. Thank you, Molly. All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say nay. Hearing none. It passes. Okay. Next, we'll move to community input on closed agenda. Close session agenda items. Members of the public may comment on items listed on the closed session agenda only. Public comments, including email comments, shall be limited to three minutes per comment with up to 20 minutes of public comment. Do we have any public comments on closed session agenda items? We do. We have one. Okay. Okay, good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to comment on executive director public employee evaluation. On June 22nd, 2024, our community was afforded the opportunity to hear from Mr. Doug Houston, the written onepage board narrative for the executive director employee evaluation. In the spirit of integrity and

003transparency, it is my hope that the public will be afforded the same opportunity today or at a subsequent board meeting to hear the narrative for Dr. Kernan's endofear employee evaluation. I am taking this opportunity to share my feedback on Dr. Kernan's performance. Dr. Kernan stepped into her role last July with big shoes to fill and high expectations from our community. I would like to recognize and give her credit for her efforts in upholding the strong reputation of our school as one of the top performing in the state and in Orange County. I credit her for being approachable and maintaining an open door policy. I praise her for the improvements she has made to the board meeting agendas and for posting a look ahead schedule on the topics that will be covered at each board meeting.

004I appreciate her support of the board and allowing for members of our community to submit public comments via email to be read aloud during the meeting. I want to thank her and all of you for making the adjustment to the timing of the general public comments, allowing for greater public participation and and the understanding that it can be a sacrifice for members of our community to rearrange their schedules to stay all the way until the end of the meeting to share general public comments. While there are positives to celebrate and I wish Dr. Krennan well on her journey into retirement. I would like the record to reflect the challenges our community has faced under her leadership that we hadn't experienced to such a degree in the past two years. The decision to grow enrollment beyond

005what the IAA board had approved June 18th, 2024, beyond what our charter stipulates at full enrollment and beyond what had been an established fiscal tipping point was irresponsible. It appears this decision was made without being fully vetted by the board and was made for the sake of bringing in extra revenue that comes with increased enrollment. The decision was made with a high level of confidence that IIA would be granted early aortionment of state funds to reap the benefit of increased enrollment in the fall as opposed to having to wait until spring. This proved to be a short-sighted risky proposition which did not have a robust contingency plan when early aortionment from the state was denied in the fall in a period where we were supposed to have been cash flow positive had we just adhered

006to the June 18th, 2024 IAA board approved plan due to the excellent fiscal management of our previous executive director. We were abruptly and unexpectedly faced with the need to borrow urgently for fear of not being able to make payroll. Subsequent loans were then warranted to pay off the urgently borrowed money during a period where we shouldn't have had a need to borrow at all. This is a situation that could have been avoided had the IIA board just adhered to their approved plan. If there is any question about this being a conspiracy, my source for this information is part two of the June 22nd, 2024 IIA board meeting along with the fiscal statements publicly available from the 2324 school year. The fiscal and enrollment decisions made by Dr. Kernin caused strain to our community and warranted

007the entire field trip budget of $48,000 to be redirected to support more pressing fiscal needs. As a result, the parents and PTO had to shoulder more of the burden than we expected and then in years past, leaving a bitter taste in some of our mouths. It cannot be stated in good faith that our students receive the same highquality experience this year as in years past given the information I just shared. My desire is for this to be discussed in public forum, but instead it is downplayed, minimized in Dr. current success in fiscal management celebrated. How are you able to reconcile that with the facts I just shared? I sincerely thank you for taking this into consideration as you finalize her performance evaluation. I welcome the opportunity to meet with any of you individually to talk

008about this in detail. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Move. Uh next we'll move to close session for discussable for discussion of possible action where we will do public employee evaluation of the executive director. Okay. Thank you all for your patience. We are reconvening at 6:50 p.m. Okay. So we were able to complete the executive director's uh end of year evaluation. I would like to provide some comments on this. Uh the evaluation rubric is based on five key areas. Uh the first is uh related to academic achievement which is tied to our LCAP goal one. School climate which is tied to our LCAP goal two. Organizational leadership and fiscal management. Parent support and engagement which is tied to LCAP goal three. uh and the final is development, partnerships, growth and expansion. So these were defined at

009the beginning of the year and then we had a midyear review and then we just completed the endofear review. What I can say the vast majority uh of these have been completed successfully by Dr. Kernan. Uh there are a couple of uh pending items. We are still waiting on results uh which probably going to take still a few more months. Uh but I think what we can agree on uh amongst ourselves is that something broke this year where we clearly defined uh opportunities for improvement. I think there's more being demanded of all of us including with the ED but ourselves as board that more communication with our stakeholders is critical uh and that any of the areas uh that have been identified for improvement do get implemented in the next evaluation rubric for our executive

010director. uh and we will continue to improve as an organization. We continue to support each other. Uh that means uh administration uh the staff, the parents, the children, the families, the community. Uh and we will strive to do that. That is all I had to report out on the close session agenda item. Moving next is to the flag salute. Do you have any volunteers? Otherwise, I'm happy to lead. Please rise. Flag is to your right or left. Please put your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. I also stand one nation under God, indivisible, liberty, justice for all. Thank you very much. Okay, next we'll move to community input on agendaized and non-aggendaized items. Uh one point here before we had differentiated uh the community input on agenda items versus non-aggendaized items. The agenda items

011being at the front of the meeting here, non-aggendaized items being at the back of the meeting. and they have now been combined together in this section. The public may comment on items listed on the agenda, including the consent calendar, presentation, discussion, committee, and action items. The public may also comment on items not listed on the agenda that are within the legal purview of the board of directors. Uh we do ask you try to keep your public comments to three minutes or less, please. Do we have any public comments? We do. Um I'll call one at a time that want to receive people that are here. Thank you. So first we have Shiang Chen for June 1st PTO as a barbecue. We invite all the board members and school leadership team to join a lot of

012PTO board member. Thank you. And we feel like at the end of year we want to come here to say thank you all for all the work you did and thank you so much. But before that may I Stacy and I Stacy is a vice president of PTO and I'm the current president PTO. So Stacy has to leave earlier. May I ask to read the Stacy's comment first and then I make my own comment. Okay. So Graeme is going to read the St. Is it okay? Hold on. read it. Stacy, I grant will read it. Yeah. And I ask, do you want me to read for Stacy? I can read it. Can you read it, please? Yeah. Okay, thank you. So, um Stacy Conn was here. She did leave and she gave me a typed

013piece of her comment. My name is Stacy Conn. My two daughters have attended IIA since year 1. I have served on the PTO board for the last three years and this past year I served as vice president. I will be passing the baton to another capable parent this coming year. But before I go, as vice president of the PTO, I want to extend our heartfelt thanks to the entire IIA board for your unwavering dedication and tireless work in supporting our school community. Your leadership and vision have created a positive and enriching environment that benefits every student. We are especially grateful for the middle school teachers whose passion and commitment have truly made a difference in our children's learning journeys. My eighth grade daughter is now transitioning to high school and I can confidently say she

014has been wellprepared by the middle school curriculum. I also look forward to my younger daughter, an incoming sixth grader, having the opportunity to learn and grow in such a supportive and inspiring environment. Thank you. Right. So I made my own comment three minutes. So specifically I never come to the board meeting. One of the reasons that the kids's homework, you know, now I don't have a homework. You don't have homework. I can come. But I do every time I know your board meeting is long. You guys like sacrifice your time. I know Philipe did so much for the school. David doesn't have to be here. Brett did a lot. Marty did a lot. So personally want to say thank you for all the time you contribute you know it doesn't go unnot we appreciate you

015we also appreciate Amy and grant for their leadership I have been communicate to them on representative PTO we work together on a lot of issues and I find that they are so easy to talk to and they did a lot for the school too so we appreciate you and I know in quietness you guys didn't make too loud a voice but you have accomplished a lot and I know many times I can easily walk to your office Amy and Grant and anyone and you said no to me a lot of things too and I'm okay with that I'm okay with that but I know you did a lot very experience so we appreciate and my kids and many of our PTO they are doing very well school so we really grateful to you so just

016one word for Stephanie who is going to take over so we support you uh PTO and many parents we support the school we want the best of the school we love our Okay, that's my comment. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, our next public comment is Tiffany Craft. Hello again and thank you for this opportunity. I want to make it very clear that I have nothing but love in my heart for this school and this community. On May 7th, Miss Anilly and I escalated our concerns about IIA operations, not IIA teachers, to the county board level. We had spun our wheels following the proper internal channels. On May 20th, we were effectively punished for exercising our basic rights in the form of retaliation. During the IIA board meeting, three teacher comments were anonymously read into the

017public record by Dr. Kernan. Those comments, two of which exceeded the two-minute threshold enforced up to that point, named me and Miss Lily by name, referring to us as obstructors and disruptors, stating that we create a toxic and hostile environment for IIA staff. These are the facts. All three of the teachers taught our children who were in fifth and sixth grade. The first teacher comment alleged that I caused disruption by entering the classroom without authorization during state testing despite clear signage indicating that testing was in progress and restricted to authorized personnel. Since October, at the request of this teacher specifically, I have been volunteering in the classroom every Tuesday morning from 9:50 a.m. to 10:30. I sign in through Raptor anytime I'm volunteering on campus, and I enter quietly with civility top of mind. I

018was never told not to come on Tuesday, May 13th. I don't recall seeing any signage on the classroom partition, and I left as soon as the teacher told me I wasn't needed that day. The comments from the second and third teacher are related. In late August, a parent came to me unsettled about the shift in school operations from prior year and asked me to arrange a meeting with Mr. Freeman for the concerns to be heard. School site council did not yet exist. Two productive community feedback sessions ensued on August 30th and October 11th with PTO board member stakeholders present. Documentation was kept and a formal issues list created by Mr. Freeman who directed me to dialogue with Dr. Kernan and the second teacher. That teacher willingly engaged and now alleges I undermined implementation of PBIS

019and selection of the word pride as the elementary school moniker. All record of my communications with teachers 2 and three seemed to have abruptly vanished from class dojo. Yet my communications with teacher one remain. Teacher 3 made a promise publicly in May 2024 that IIIA culture would be preserved and protected in spite of leadership changes. A promise taken seriously by our community. Teacher three now alleges that I have been pushing a personal agenda and beliefs on the entire school community that undermined school authority. I held these three teachers in such high regard that I advocated for them to be supported in any forum I could throughout the school year. It's true I have raised questions about the selection of a sexed curriculum, but that was aimed at our administration, not the teachers. It's true. I

020initiated respectful dialogue with teacher 3 to better understand this teacher's experience administering a different sexed curriculum last year. I kindly request of the IIA board that a formal communication be sent out publicly clearing Miss Lily's and my name. May the truth behind what really motivated these comments be brought to light. And in closing, I ask for a meeting facilitated by administration between Miss Lily, myself, and the teachers involved to take place so that we can all have closure and move forward. Thank you. Thank you. Our next comment is Darren Parker. I'll do this. Um, I want to thank Brett because Brett took the time to meet with me uh one- on- one. I I think it was productive. I wanted to talk about the uh the OCE board meeting and the things that trustee Valdez

021said. Uh I heard I heard his strong language at the end of that board meeting and at the end of the meeting the first thing I went to do was to talk to him and I'm going to tell you exactly what I said to him. I said those are strong words and I believe I I told him how much I love the school and I do love the school. I want to see this school go on for generations and generations and generations. I don't know of anybody that wants to shut down this school. And I said I said to him, everything that that is happening right now, in my opinion, is correctable. And I truly believe that. I think it any of these problems are correctable, but no problem is correctable unless you admit you

022have a problem first. So, um, that being said, I wanted to say that just briefly, I don't agree with the teacher retaliation, and I'm going to continue to mention that until I feel and others feel that it's been handled uh satisfactorily. So, I um being that I love the school as much as I do, I wanted to uh just reach out to I I I want to say I would never align myself with anybody that wants the school shut down. I don't know of anybody within this whole framework on either side of this that wants the school shut down. We want it we want it to survive and we want it to thrive. And I want to reach out to any parent out there that's here tonight or board member that's here tonight uh or

023listening online or hears about this to uh to approach me and ask me um and I would be happy to talk to them about any things that I think are going on in the school that can be corrected. I I want to send that open invitation out. You guys have a green light to give anybody my contact information. Any parent that's associated with IIA, please talk to me about this. I will make time for you. Thank you. You too. Our next comment is Valerie Telford. My name is Valerie Cford. So, thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I sincerely hope that my comment not just be a soliloquy but will be words that would lead to dialogue, lead to discussions, right in the constructor. Uh, but first, it cannot be left on set. I

024really want to extend my thanks and my appreciation for Brett, for Stephanie in terms of what you guys have done, the stride that you've done to reach out to people, you talk, reach out to parents in terms of the uh the concerns and the time you spent having the dialogue, having the discussion that cannot be left on set and for that kudos to both. Uh second, IIA is holding in his head a magnificent innovation and I want to say that the reason I'm here is for that. None of us and none of including myself is here to remove that. We really are like committed and really excited about it. And I am I am a trian. I have three languages. I've I'm born with four different cultures and to provide my kids with this fourth

025one and the fifth culture will be something that you have in your hands that can be really a pioneer of what's coming up into the world. The world is no longer aomy. It's going to be it's two worlds now and I think this is something that is precious and kudos on on the nevertheless right there are still some questionable concern that I have right in terms of the board and the administration what we what have been raised before and lately probably some others and I want to illustrate a little bit. So bullying takes different forms, right? So bullying can be cloaked into any different ways, right? You can be dishonest, you can be manipulative to others, you can spread rumors that will erode trustworthiness, one of our pillars. You can be disrespectful, right? You can

026name call others. You can be physical aggressive or worthy aggressive. er road respect right you can act impulsively right we're not thinking you can blame others for your mistakes you can make excuses that will erode responsibility you can retaliate against parents you can nurture inequality you can create hostile environment that will erode fairness you can be indifferent totally indifferent cruelty. You can enjoy the pain of others that will erode care. You can encourage hate creating a false narrative that that will erade siz. These are our pillars. This is the thing we need to preserve. This is a this is as past is worthy for us to preserve. These are the things we should have jubilee. We should celebrate because that will be the reward that I will give. Parents will give back for your great

027work and that one is priceless. Thank you. We have one more comment um before we will be reading comments and that is from Jenny Z. Okay. Thank you for the thank you for your contribution for the IIA and thank you Amy and the new ED staff and also thank you Mrs. Mister always give warm greeting when I see you. So before um I will start my comment. My name is Jenny. I'm fifth grade um fre uh parent and I was a previous strategy kids after school program teacher. I stand here with my unbiased opinion. I want to express my concern regarding the recent decision to replace strategic kids with YMCA for our afterchool program. First, the decision making process lacked transparency and fairness. No parents satisfaction survey was con conducted. Strategy kids was not given

028an opportunity to present a plan or negotiation for the upcoming school year. Most importantly, there was no open bender selection process. Instead, it seems the new vendor was privately chosen without public review or presentation. I also want to share that the day before the February board meeting, I had a video call with the board member, Mr. Miller. I clearly explain my concern about replacing a program that we served our IIS school for three years and have been well received by families. Mr. Reiner assumed me that strategic kids would be given a try. However, when the vote take place again, no board member voiced aling objections. no brought my opinion forward and the change moved forward without future decisions. As a public school, every major decision is uh especially those that directly affect students daily experience

029should be granted in the principle that the best in interest of the students comes first. If this principle truly guided the recent change, one, we would expect a clear explanation of how the new vendor provides stronger education outcomes or student support. Two, lower cost to parents. Three, a teacher to student ratio of 1 to 10. Four, enrichmentbased program. I believe this will fulfilled by strategic kids and are perhaps a great conductor for IIA stronger academic score. Instead, your solution seems be higher costs, reduction introduction support with a teacher to student ratio to 120 and a shift from enrichmentbased programming to bas um basic daycare. Those change do not reflect a student first approach and do not seems to take parents voice in count. Once again this raised serious concerns about how and why the decision

030was made. We ask the board not to response with general or scripted answers but to address our concerns direct and honestly. Parents expect transparency and accountability from the board and the administration especially when decision impact our children's growth and well-being. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Okay, I have a few comments quite a few comments to read out loud. Um, I will only um state the name if I was asked to state the name. Um, just to make that clear as well. Okay, comment number one. Number one, volunteers. We got off to a very rocky start last fall because all previous year's PTO, classroom, and library volunteers were put on hold for over two months as new policies and and decision as to new staff member overseeing volunteers was determined and our volunteers dropped

031dramatically. Therefore, now that we have a new sign-in system in place, I recommend that the community outreach director, Civil, be placed in charge because she's already doing the job informally and quite successfully. Number two, library needs. In 2023 24, we had a well-developed library curriculum for all grades, taught by a credentialed teacher to teach the students how to use the library and act as a supplement to small groupoup learning. No provision was made for the past year, and it took a full semester before I was able to train TAs to check books in and out of the library. Unfortunately, only teachers in grades 1 through 4 even attempted to bring their students to the library. Grades 5 through 8 also missed out on the advantages of verifying and citing their online research with vetted printed

032information in the library. Therefore, I request that a credentialed teacher be assigned part-time to deliver 20 minutes of story times and library assistance and schedule monitor small groups or classes using the library when volunteers are not available. I also request that all students this coming year will have a regular classroom to attend at all hours. So, the library need not be turned into just a game room when there is not enough space. Number three, Tiffany Craft. Tiffany Craft has been the greatest supporter of the library I could have wished for. She is humble, discerning, technically skilled, and always pleasant to be around. She has been a joy in helping me connect with PTO president parents, excuse me, for book fairs and filling volunteer slots. She happily helps students using the library and as PTO treasurer

033has found funds for some of our desperate library furniture needs. When she doesn't understand something, she does the research ahead of time to find appropriate solutions. Number four, classroom sizes. I would request that we keep classroom sizes the same as last year, not to exceed 30 to 32 students in grades 2 through 8, 20 in TK, 24 in K, and 28 in grade 1. If that means hiring additional teachers, then we also need one to three portable buildings for the middle school. Thank you. Next comment. Dear board members, principal and director, I want to begin by acknowledging your dedication for your role, which comes with gratification and challenges alike. Yet you, Mr. Freeman and Mr. Sun in particular, have handled it well during a the healthy debate on topics of sex education curriculum. We are

034grateful that more lines of communication have opened and parent input are being valued. I encourage all the board members to continue with this open dialogue approach to rectify the error occurred during the May 20th board meeting. An issue that if left unressed could have significant consequences for the school. Taking steps to correct the error could help prevent further action by the OCBE w and would demonstrate your commitment to transparency and fairness. As leaders of an educational institution, it's worth reflecting on a core principle. When there is a potential conflict between employees and the people they serve, our families, what is the most productive way to handle it? Public confrontation or private resolution. The events of May 20th, unfortunately, learn lean towards the former with personal accusations aired in public setting rather than through structured confidential

035discussion. This approach has exposed the organization and by extension its teachers to unnecessarily reputational and potential legal risks. While I fully support the right of teachers and staff to express concerns, that right does not extend to making substantiated claims or personal attacks. If any of the comments made publicly are later proven false, which will happen with Dr. for Henry's fair investigation, the responsibility and consequences will inevitably fall on both the individuals and the institution that he allowed the forum. If your goal is truly to serve IIA and ensure its charter renewal by OCBE and its stability, then you must take corrective action. That begins with a formal acknowledgement of the missteps at the May 20 meeting and a commitment to ensuring future meetings are conducted with good faith and rightful governance. I also I also

036strongly support OCBE's recommendation to appoint an additional parent to the board. That level of balance is not only overdue, it is essential. This is a defining moment. You can choose to double down on a divisive approach or you can lead with humility, accountability, and respect for the community that trusted you with this responsibility. Next comment. I hope this message finds you well. Oh, I'm sorry. Dear Dr. Henry and school board members, I hope this message finds you well. I would like to submit the following public comment for today's school board meeting. I am writing to formally express deep concern regarding a teacher's conduct at IIA that I believe crosses critical professional and ethical boundaries, particularly in matters involving students. It has come to my attention that a teacher used science class time to encourage students

037to write anonymous complaints against another staff member. In a separate incident, the same teacher reportedly submitted a letter to the school board targeting a parent volunteer who had previously voiced concerns to the school and the and the authority. Taken together, these actions raised serious questions about retaliation, the misuse of C classroom authority, and the inappropriate involvement of minors without proper counseling support. These incidents are alarming, especially within an educational environment where professionalism, neutrality, and student safety must be held to the highest standard. Why was instructional time diverted for activities unrelated to student learning? Encouraging students to participate in anonymous complaints during class time is not only educationally inappropriate, but may also have lasting emotional consequences. Given the age and impressionability of students, involving them in such actions is coercive and places them in a morally

038complex situation they are not equipped to navigate. It undermines trust in the classroom and disrupts the respectful, secure environment that is essential for learning. Moreover, these actions have had a chilling effect on parent engagement. Now, parents are hesitant to speak out for fear of potential retaliation against themselves or their children. No parent should feel that advocating for their child's education might put them or their child at risk. I respectfully and urgently request the following. Number one, a formal review of the teacher's conduct in these specific incidents. Number two, a clear statement from school leadership affirming that such use of instructional time and student involvement do not reflect school policy and are not condoned by the school. Number three, clarification of how similar in situations will be prevented in the future to ensure a safe and

039focused learning environment for all students. With our new leadership, I believe that our school community can move forward or I'm sorry, can move toward transparency, accountability, and a stronger commitment to protecting student well-being. Sincerely, a concerned IIA parent. Subject: Comment on agenda item K, request for financial transparency. Dear Dr. Kernan, thank you for your service to the IIA community. Our family appreciates your dedication and wishes you the very best in your next endeavor. Likewise, Mr. Miller Jang, your long-standing commitment as the second longest serving board member following Mr. Freeman has not gone unnoticed. We thank you sincerely for your contributions to the school year over the years. To Dr. Henry and our remaining board members. I write today regarding agenda item K and would appreciate your respon your response to the following questions. During the

040board meeting held on June 22nd, 2024, a financial projection was made at the 5minute 202 mark stating that the school would become cash positive in October of that year. As we now know, that projection was not realized. Since that time, the school has initiated additional loans, including one in June 2024, a crowdfunding campaign via lend donate. And now you are considering approving a line of credit from Endeavor Bank. This raises important questions that must be addressed openly and clearly. What is the current total of debt carried by the school? What are the terms of each active loan or credit line? Is there a new projected date for reaching cash positive status? Can each board member confidently provide consistent answers to these questions? And will this information be shared transparently with the public? These are not

041unreasonable questions, nor are they intended as criticism. I understand the necessity of utilizing financing to support school operations. This is not about blame. It is about the principle of transparency and accountability to the community you serve. Parents, staff, and stakeholders have a right to understand the school's financial health and long-term viability. I urge you to provide detailed and accurate information to the public regarding the school's fiscal standing, especially when significant financial decisions are being made. We look forward to your response and to greater transparency moving forward. Thank you for your time and attention to this important matter. This is a response from a student that I've been asked to read aloud to the Irvine International Academy board. My name is Blink and I am a student who attended Irvine International Academy during my third through

042fifth grade years. I am writing this letter to share my personal experiences and observations at IIA, both positive and concerning, because I care deeply about the school, and I want to see it thrive for all future students. First, I want to thank the Irvine International Academy board for the work you do and for guiding our school through both challenging and growing times. I've been fortunate to learn from some amazing leaders and educators during my time at IIA. Principal Schmid and Mr. Fernandez are two great examples of leadership that stands out. They are fair, kind, and dedicated to making the school a better place for students, and under their leadership, I felt supported and heard. During my third and fourth grade years, I felt the school environment was especially positive and encouraging. Dr. Dr. Bean, who

043served as the executive director at that time, played a big role in creating a welcoming and well-managed school. Dr. Bean was a leader who listened to parents and students, address problems directly and thoughtfully, and helped maintain strong standards among teachers. My fourth grade home room teacher, Miss Fake, was a great example of this culture. She was kind but firm and she helped me learn a lot while also creating a classroom where friendships could grow. Because of her class, I became friends with students. Two students are named, but I've been asked to not name the students. And I really enjoyed coming to the school every day. One memory that stands out from this from that time is when I had a conflict with another student. Instead of p just punishing us or ignoring the problem, Dr.

044Bean invited us both to his office where we played cards and ate lunch together. He helped us talk things out and I left that day feeling respected and understood. That kind of leadership made a big difference to me. Unfortunately, my experience during fifth grade was not the same. After Dr. Bean left and Dr. Kernan took over as executive director. I noticed a lot of changes in the school climate and not all of them were positive. At the start of the year, the fifth grade was grouped with the middle school with the explanation that it was practice for middle school. This meant we suddenly had much more homework and for many students, including myself, it became overwhelming. In the first week alone, I received 10 pages of ELA homework, five sections of science notes, and four

045I Ready lessons. It was too much, too fast, and I had a really hard time coping with the pressure. I even had a nervous breakdown. In addition to the workload, some of the teaching I experienced in fifth grade did not meet the same standards as in previous years. For example, my science teacher, Miss Greenguard, often seemed disengaged and overwhelmed. Toward the end of the school year, she stopped giving lessons entirely and instead we spent class time on our Chromebooks watching YouTube or playing games on Pokey. In the last few days of school, she even brought a Nintendo Switch to class. I don't think that's the kind of learning experience students at IIA deserve. Another teacher, Miss Kaminsky, caused me a lot of stress. Her behavior in class often loud and aggressive, and it was often

046loud and aggressive, and it created an environment where I didn't feel safe or respected. One time, after Coach K let us in from PE a few minutes early, Miss Kaminsky yelled at us very loudly and made me feel scared. I don't believe teachers should speak to students in that way. In May, she asked us to write letters reflecting our on our experiences in class and promised they would be private. But then she showed what I wrote to my brother, which was very upsetting. In my opinion, this was a serious violation of trust. In addition, I was very upset to hear that Miss Kaminsky Kaminsky, Miss Greenguard, and Mr. Gibbons wrote negative things about two parents um who were both dedicated parents and only wanted to support the school. They even gave gifts and gift cards

047to teachers out of appreciation. I don't understand how people who cared so much about IIA could be described as dangerous or hostile. One day when Miss Tiffany tried to say hello to Miss to Miss Kaminsky, she ran away from her, which just felt strange and hurtful. I am sharing all of this not because I want to criticize for no reason, but because I believe I can truly be a great school again with the right leadership, support, and teacher accountability. Students deserve to feel safe, challenged in a good way, and respected. Teachers deserve support, too, but also need to be held to high standards. I hope the board takes these concerns seriously and reflects on what can be done to ensure a better experience for all future students. Thank you for taking the time to read

048my letter. I truly hope that you can make decisions that will bring back the happy, respectful, and engaging environment I experienced in third and fourth grade. Subject: Parent comment, retaliation, and concerns. Dear IIA board members, thank you for taking the time to read this comment. In today's world where many schools feel agenda-driven or disconnected from families, discovering IIA 3 years ago was a breath of fresh air. It felt like a school where parents and children were seen and valued where the administration genuinely cared and communication felt personal. While no school is perfect, the strength of IIA has always been its community of parents, the dedication of its staff, and the ability to maintain a small school feel. That spirit where even the principal responds to emails is what kept me committed even during a year

049filled with challenges. However, I need to express a concern that has deeply affected me and other families. Retaliation against parents who speak up. As a parent advocate, I've shared occasional feedback, always respectfully, often highlighting both positives and areas for improvement based on what my child experiences. Yet, these attempts at communications are often met with passive aggressive dojo posts or silence. I have never used hostile language. In fact, I've consistently shown appreciation to teachers with small gifts and kind words during holidays and teacher appreciation week. So, it was truly dishart disheartening to learn that teachers in the middle school submitted formal complaints accusing both myself and Tiffany Craft of being hostile or discriminatory. I hurt for Tiffany who gives her time tirelessly, excuse me, to support the school and students. To hear that instead of receiving

050gratitude, she was targeted in writing by the very teacher she supported is incredibly upsetting. In my own case, I've had less than 10 minutes of interaction with those teachers outside of open house and conferences. I've never made personal comments about them and always routed topic concerns through a through proper administrative channels, as is every parent's right. For these teachers to claim that I've been discriminatory or hostile with no substantive interaction is not only inaccurate, it's unfair and sad. Even more concerning is that these teacher complaints were then publicly affirmed and repeated by board member Felipe Delgado. That act, doubling down on the attacks, felt like a public punishment for advocating for our children rather than an invitation to dialogue and solution seeking. We are not trying to cause division. We are simply parents who want

051a safe, emotionally healthy, academically sound environment for our children. Most of us never intended to become parent advocates, but felt we had to speak up when issues became too concerning to ignore. No one wants to be on a school's bad list simply for sharing respectful feedback. I'll give just one example. In Miss Greenguard's class, Chromebook use was up to 2 to three hours a day, replacing meaningful instruction. In Miss Kaminsk's class, students were regularly yelled at, something many parents knew but hesitated to report. Now that the same teacher has turned to attacking parents, it's only fair that we be allowed to opt our children out of her class next year without stigma or resistance. Please know that I share this with a spirit of honesty and hope, not hostility. I believe IA has the potential

052to be the model school it once felt like but that can only happen when parent voices are respected not punished sincerely on and I was asked to read the name next dear executive director Dr. Henry, thank you for taking the time to read my comment. My family has had the privilege to attend IIA since the fall of 2022. I enrolled my oldest with apprehension, but with hope that we can call IIA a second home for my children. I choose these words since most children spend more time at school than at home. Not before long, my husband and I knew we had found a safe place and a wonderful school for our two children. From the beginning of the past school year and with the departure of Dr. Bean, I knew things would be different. This

053change was unexpected was expected, excuse me, expected and understandable. I saw as things changed around the school. And since then, as any cautious parent would have been weighing the pros and cons of these changes, I did not find myself with the need to speak up until I listened to the Orange County Board of Education regular meeting on June 2nd, 2025. I was deeply worried when I heard that two of our parents had been called out by name through dreadful emails read aloud during a IIA board meeting. I find this profoundly disrespectful and see these mentioned actions as deliberate and with intent to intimidate and shut down. I as a busy mom don't know if if anyone from IIA has give a response to such appalling actions. However, from what I heard in Orange County Board

054of Education regular meeting June 2nd, 2025, it was not appropriate behavior and should not happen again. I would like to know what my ch that my children attend a school where parents feel comfortable raising concerns regarding what they believe or stand for. I hope no other parent will ever have to experience such retaliation. Once again, thank you for your time. Best regards, Janet Munoz. Dear board members, director, and principal, I want to begin by acknowledging your dedication to your role, which comes with gratification and challenges alike. Yet, you, Mr. Freeman, and Mr. Sun in particular, I I already read that one. It's been printed twice, so I did read that one. Excuse me. All right, next comment. Dear IIA board, thank you for reading my comment since I could not be at the board member

055this evening. My two children attend IIA with the next school year being our third year here. My concerns about the school started with the sex education and the overall shift in culture that I noticed since Dr. Bean left to become superintendent. The only changes in the past year I've noticed have been the new principal, the ED, and increased student population. We still have the same great board and PTO. With that being the case, I believe what is missing is the strong leadership from Dr. Bean. We can regain this leadership within the board or admin that I believe should be focused on the community, especially the parents. My concern with parents is what feels like teacher retaliation against parents who speak up. I was referred to IIA from one of these parents. So I don't believe

056this mom has any ill will toward the school since she is the one who recommended it to me. I understand teachers are also part of this community. But if us parents can't voice our concerns for fear of retaliation, how do we feel safe in this school? Luckily, my children and I have not had anything bad happen to us personally. I did feel safe enough to tell one board member about a kindergarten teacher who yells a lot and called a student in my son's class stupid. I want you to know I want to know that I can bring things like this up without fear of retaliation. Luckily, this is a kindergarten teacher and my son won't be in kindergarten anymore. But how about teachers in the specialist classes who also yell and my children will be

057will be in their classrooms for many years to come. Please find a way to bring strong parent community and community focused leadership to IIA for this next school year. I would like next next comment. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the board members for considering my comments. My first year at IIA has been a truly positive experience. I've enjoyed working with the new staff members, the new administration, the wonderful parents, and the diverse community. This collaborative environment has been everything I hope for and more. The accomplishments of IIA over the past few years have culminated in a successful 2024 25 school year. IA is thriving, experiencing growth, and is recognized as a distinguished school with plans to continue its success in the coming years. This success is attributed to the exceptional teachers

058here at IIA. Their dedication to building connections with students, encouraging them to excel, empowering them, and fostering creativity is crucial to the to the school's achievements. Dr. Kernan and Mr. Schmid have been nothing but amazing leaders. What Amy did in her first year with IIA is truly remarkable. Increasing student enrollment, decreasing our school debt, implementing policies and procedures, establishing systems for staff such as a pay scale, giving our staff members at IIA an opportunity to be recognized through Orange County parenting teacher and employee of the year are just a few of the highlights that come to mind. Amy's departure from IIA will be missed, but I am happy that Mr. Schmid and his leadership will continue here at IIA. Mr. Schmid's accessible leadership style exemplified by his open door policy for both staff and families

059is highly valued. Mr. Schmid's primary focus is the service of the student, staff, and families. Mr. Schmid has been very supportive of me and the other staff members here at IIA. He is a leader that trusts his staff, a leader who does not micromanage and allows team members to take ownership of their work. Mr. Schmidter's demeanor, character, and leadership, and his support for others will continue to inspire and empower those around him. The parents and community here at IIA are truly amazing. It's like nothing I have ever seen over my 17 plus years in education. The commitment, dedication, love, and passion they have for the students, community, and staff is amazing. The amount of energy and quality of work that it is put in for events is above and beyond any other school I have

060worked for. It also makes your day easier when you have parents smiling at you, greeting you at the start of the day and thanking you for looking after their child. I am proud to work with a good group of people, not just handinhand with my colleagues, but also alongside the IIA community. A change in leadership can be hard for people. Growth and success aren't easy pills to swallow, but here at IIA, that is exactly what is happening. A positive direction and leadership. Growth not just in student enrollment, but in student success, a California distinguished school, IIA students participating in the state science fair, IIA popularity throughout Orange County, and all the beautiful things that await IIA. We must continue pushing forward and putting the interest of the school and students at the very forefront of

061what we do, not individual's own agenda. As I enter my second year here at IIA, I look forward to continued growth, success, and change that IIA will take on in the 2025 26 school year. Our new executive director, Don, Dr. Henry's leadership, the addition of new students, and the addition of new teammates, new families, as well as a qualified board member. who is well-rounded, motivated individual who put the best interest of IIA community at the forefront and not be motivated by their own agenda. Mr. Escalante IIA IIA board, I hope this message finds you well. I'm asking to kindly I'm writing to kindly ask the following comments be read aloud during tonight's board meeting on June 10th, 2025 at 6 p.m. Thank you for your consideration. I'm writing to express my serious concern about the

062false and inappropriate statements made about a couple parents by multiple middle school teachers during the IIA school board meeting held on May 20th, 2025. These statements which were read aloud at a public forum were not only untrue but were also shared publicly causing reputational harm, emotional distrust and undermining our trust in the IIA school board. I respectfully request that IIA school board provide a formal written and public clarification or retraction of the statements. Number two, investigate the origin and motivation behind the comments. Number three, review whether these actions violate any school policy, professional standards, or state laws regarding parent engagement, confidentiality, and defamation. Number four, take appropriate corrective measures to ensure this does not happen again. I would appreciate a written response outlining the steps the district plans to take regarding this matter. I am

063prepared to pursue further action if necessary, including seeking legal counsel to protect my family's name and integrity. Respectfully, yours. Two more. Good evening, members of the board. To begin, I want to express how grateful I am, how grateful my family is to be part of this school community. My daughter is currently in second grade and she has had a truly wonderful year. Her teachers have been exceptional, nurturing, dedicated, and effective. And we've seen tremendous growth in her both academically and personally. While it's encouraging to hear that the school plans to hire a third hire third grade teachers for the upcoming year, there are still ongoing concerns about overall staffing. With enrollment projected to increase by another 100 students and considering that staffing was reportedly a challenge this past year, many families are wondering how the

064school plans to configure classrooms and ensure that in educational quality is maintained, particularly in light of issues experienced in fifth grade. I understand that the original charter was for 440 students and we're now over 600. While I know this expansion was approved by OCDE, I'd like to respectfully request that we not exceed this number further. Growth is exciting, but it must be balanced with sustainability and quality. I'd like to raise a concern about the sex education curriculum used this year. Many parents, including myself, felt it did not align with our values. I would like to formally petition the board to consider adopting HART curriculum for the next year, which I believe better reflects the needs and values of our community. I want to address another concern regarding the public reading of of certain comments at

065the last board meeting that targeted two parents. While I understand the importance of transparency and open dialogue, I believe those remarks should not have been read aloud in a public forum. They were personal in nature and in my view unfairly damaged the reputations of individuals who have dedicated countless hours to volunteering for our school. These parents are known in our community for their integrity and commitment, and I hope we can find ways to address concerns constructively without undermining the spirit of mutual respect that should guide our school community. Finally, I want to acknowledge the positive shift in leadership under our new executive director, Dr. Henry. Since her arrival, I've noticed a significant, refreshing change. She's been responsive, open to feedback, and genuinely engaged with the parent community. She took the time to meet with a

066group of us, listened to our concern, and has already followed up on several issues. Her communication has been clear and consistent, and we're already seeing a positive impact. I truly appreciate this new direction and hope the collaboration between school leadership and families continues to grow. Thank you for your time and for your commitment to our children's education. Maria Bale, final comment. Hi Amy and Stephanie. I was wondering if someone could read out a message to the board for me during the board meeting. I would like to thank them for my time at IIA. I want to take a moment to say thank you to the board for your leadership and support you provided throughout my time at IIA. It's been an amazing three years. Serving in this school has been one of the most meaningful

067experiences of my career. I felt incredibly fortunate to teach in an environment where the values of education and community are not just talked about but genuinely lived out. I love our IA family and will forever appreciate the impact it has had on me personally and professionally. I wish you all continued success with the incredible work you do with heartfelt thanks Christie B. That concludes the comments. Thank you very much. Thank you for everyone submitted comments. Okay, next we'll move to recognitions. Good evening. Um, I would like to take a moment to honor two individuals this evening as it will be their last board meeting. First, I would like to take a moment to express our sincere gratitude to Dr. Kernan for her exemplary service to our school community. Throughout her tenure, Dr. Kernan has been

068instrumental in driving growth of our school, ensuring its fiscal stability, and upholding the highest standards of compliance. Thanks to her leadership, we have not only expanded our programs and student enrollment, but have maintained strong fiscal oversight, positioning the school for long-term sustainability. Her unwavering commitment to adhering to compliance guidelines has laid a solid foundation for our continued success. On behalf of our school community and staff, we extend our deepest thanks to Dr. Kernan and we wish her the very best in her future endeavors and we are profoundly grateful for the legacy she leaves behind. Thank you Dr. Kernan for your dedication and vision. I would like to know if the board Yes. would the board like to say a few comments regarding Dr. You guys also can you hear me? Can you hear that? Thank

069you, Dr. Kernin. I know it was a difficult year for you, uh, considering you had to start on the fly, you know, in a short term, get the school running. Um, thank you for all the positive things you've done for the school. Yes, Dr. can uh feel grateful for your leadership and your contribution to this school and uh you know making the school um getting better, stronger every day, every month. So you know really I feel excited um and also it's my privilege to be working with you uh in the past more than one year or so right and uh I wish you very you know well in your whatever endeavor going forward yeah uh we're going to you know this school hopefully we'll still be in contact with you and we're going to miss

070Um Dr. Kerna, I learned a lot so much from you. Uh I feel like I used it in the education system. I'm on this side and uh but since I've been on board learning so much I understand a lot more on the board side and uh you have shown me your dedication and you don't have your own agenda. you're the everything is for the school for the student and um so thank you thank you so much for setting good example and help us so much a a lot of things people don't really understand just like when I was on at a teacher I really didn't understand uh a lot of responsibility that the board would help but thank you thank you so much Yeah, I just would uh first like to say that was very

071well written. I think I think I think what you said was was very nice and definitely welld deserved. I would I would say that uh not easy coming into a new school, especially with a new principal, right? And I think we had um some new positions that had just been filled and you were dealing with a lot. So, thank you for doing that. uh you knew about IIA before you ever applied and uh I appreciate you taking a a strong interest in getting to know the school and uh helping in all the areas that you did and that would include increased transparency especially especially as it relates to board meetings uh certainly the fiscal management the looking at our ELOP programs uh everything from looking at additional sources of funing um being able to get

072um off of the charter school grow schools funding route um able to help ensure that we had a clean oversight report with uh with our authorizer. Uh there are certainly areas that we will build and improve on moving forward, but the school owes you a big uh thank you in my opinion. And uh we're grateful and and we're wishing you the uh safest of travels and and and may the u uh the road rise to meet you wherever you go. Thank you. And please feel free feel free to welcome your family here to visit here if you are ever in the area. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we have one more person that we would like to honor. Um, do you know if Miller has logged in? A couple of times, but Well, we'll go

073ahead. We would like him to be able to see this recording, obviously. So, we also want to honor Miller Jong for his service to the IIA board and community. Um, I will be reading his bio. I remember when I was interested in IIA and read the in applying and I read the bios of our board members, I was very impressed and so I feel like that would be a a service because although I have not met him in person um and I do hope I have the opportunity to someday, uh we do want to thank him for his leadership and dedication to the IIA community. So Miller Jung was born and lived in China until the age of 21 when he was selected because he was in the top 5% academically in Chinese students. He

074was allowed to go overseas to study after China's cultural revolution. After completing his college degree in Canada, he traveled to Venezuela and worked with Chinese immigrants for seven years. Now a fluent Spanish speaker, the Latin culture prepared Mr. Jang to help in his work with the 2008 earthquake survivors in Changdu. Government leaders honored Miller for the 10-year anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake. Mr. Jeang was the guest speaker. Um, and his training system is still being used to train generation after generation of teachers to recognize and help troubled kids. Mr. Jang is greatly respected in Beijing education and speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Spanish, and three other languages. Would our board like to say a few words regarding Miller? Yeah, I really appreciate Miller's effort here because he was here from the first year which was a

075real struggle and he provided the support during those times and uh he's continued to speak to us when he can when he can't participate always in a positive manner. Yeah. And I came to know Miller ever since I, you know, got involved with IA. Uh, ever since I had a lot of interactions with him, including one, you know, the one time I went to Canada, I met him in Vancouver. [Music] We sometimes we chatted, you know, chatted about his adventures, his, you know, other involvement in China and elsewhere. I was really tremendously uh amazed by his involvement and his contributions to the society uh at large in general. He really kind of dedicated to education. Uh you know sometimes I feel sorry you know he don't have him here but I understand because I asked

076him hey who's paying the travel every time every time you come down? He said I'm paying that myself. I just want you know some of the parents don't know and uh every time he made made a trip a special trip come to an to participate he's paying that out of the pocket and at one time I even proposed in the board meeting I said can we at least cover you know one or two trips uh to cover him and instead of having Miller to stay in some most time in Shun's house uh because uh I mean he you know there's no budget to pay for his uh hotels and local you know ground transportation so I really feel uh the school really should you know feel indebted to his contributions and personally that's a personal

077sacrifice uh so uh as a board member I really feel um grateful to me's contributions and involvement uh no matter what you know where where is I really want to say thank you um I got to know Miller when I came here and I know he loves this school um that's all he can talk about it when he's here he constantly going to the classroom talk to kids talk to teachers uh and I know he's so busy but he's still he um knows our schedule. He would try his best to come and visit and um I also um worked at Beijing before in China before. So when we talk about uh a school and you can tell he's a natural teacher and he loves his students uh he cares about them. Uh, and so it's

078it's just uh we we're so fortunate we had Miller on board for so long. And I know it's difficult uh that he's lived so far away. Uh but I know he will continue to think about us. He will keep up with what's going on here. So thank you Miller for being on board for so many years. I I I do believe uh definitely owes a big big debt of gratitude to Miller. I was one of the founding board members of this school and uh whenever he is here in person, he is very much here and I know he even likes to participate in the uh beginning of school when it comes to the retreat. I'm uh basically the onboarding for the year. Uh and so I say to you, Miller, thank you so much. Please

079don't be a stranger. You're always welcome. Uh we hope that you will stay in touch and uh please safe travels wherever you may be. Thank you. Thank you very much. Um it is very clear that I was built um on the backs of some very strong leaders. Um and uh so thank you again both to Dr. Kernan and um and to Miller for your service. We appreciate you. Thank you again for doing that. Uh next moving to items for consent. We've got two items. Approve the minutes from the regular meeting of the IIA board of directors on May 20th, 2025 and approve the personnel report. It's recommended the board of directors approve consent items A through B. Is there a motion? Thank you, David. Is there a second? I'll second. Thank you, Felipe. All in

080favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say nay. Hearing none. It passes. Okay, moving to items for presentation. We've got first uh school update, Principal Schmitter. All right. There we go. All right. You see that? Nope. Try it again. Oh, screen share. Share the other. Let's play now. display instead. All right. Thank you. Um, so we finished the school year as you may know. Um, so I want to kind of provide updates to on some things that happened at the end of the year and then kind of where we're at now and then what to look forward u moving forward. Um, so we did have a field day. It was a success. Um, the kids enjoyed it. They especially enjoyed a little dunking getting me wet. I think I was soaked from head to

081toe for about three hours outside. And of course it was a day that was actually cold. But the kids had fun. Um, they enjoyed they enjoyed it. And so, um, we're going to be kind of taking that and kind of building off of that, but not say, "Okay, well, we did it. That's done." We're going to continue to improve on that. Um, so we had that field day. And then our last day was a very busy day. We actually had three promotions, kindergarten, fifth grade, and eighth grade. And we had to pivot at the last minute uh that morning because we had planned everything outside with the stage and chairs, and decided to rain on us. Uh fortunately we had a staff that's very on top of it. We were ready to go so we

082were able to move it inside. Um so we promoted 90 kindergarteners, 49 fifth graders and then 15 eighth graders. Um and so our all our promotions I feel like were a success and again it's something to build off of. So we're going to continue to refine and improve. Uh but it was our first ever promoting class of eighth grade. So that is a kind of an accomplishment for the school considering that the school started with fifth grade. So now we have students going on into high school. So it'll be nice to kind of hear about their next steps and and their success and also what what were they prepared for, what weren't they prepared for so that we could take that feedback and improve as a school. Um so right now we're kind of in

083the mode well we've been in the mode but now we're truly in the mode of prepping things for next school year. um you know stu school ends the students um are gone but we're still here um but it's also nice to have this time to really focus and plan um specifically we have six uh teaching positions to fill um some are because some staff had left um and then but a lot of it's some of it's just general school growth um for those six positions we had 150 applications total so we we've screened through all 150 um we're now in the process of setting up interviews for those teachers um for those teaching positions. So, we hope to have somebody in with an offer that's accepted and onboarding uh this month. So, that way we

084are fully staffed and ready to go for August. Um so, we aim to be staffed for that this month. Um and then kind of looking at into part of our planning this summer, the big focus for us for this next school year is going to be timely and detailed communication. um staff, parents, just the school community as a whole. Um what kind of information our parents want, what kind of they they are looking for. The last couple weeks, we've tried uh to write a little bit more detail on things. Um I've gotten some positive feedback on that, but we're going to continue to work on that area in terms of communication to our families. And then just some important dates. So actually tomorrow our first ever IIA summer Panda pros program starts tomorrow. That's our

085summer program. We have a hund stu about 100 students um coming here tomorrow. They'll be here for about six weeks. Um and we are excited about that. Um we have our staff they they've been get getting ready to go. Myself working with our coordinator Mr. Gio making sure that everything's ready to go. Um but we're excited. They're going we're we're ready to go on that. So although it's quieter, there's still going to be plenty of activity going on. So we have about 100 students here during these six weeks. And then looking forward to is our first day of school is August 13th. So that sounds far away. We all know we're going to blink and it's going to be right here ready to go. Um but we'll we'll be ready. And I just want to

086kind of give you some of those updates. Okay. Any questions? I have I have something and it it's something that's kind of sitting there. I I've mentioned it before and I'm hoping that uh we can put something more definitive around it. So this point on focus on timely and detailed communication to parents uh I think this is great. I I'd like to see the detail of what that is, right? What what is the plan on that? And it's not just the outbound communication. It's our responses, right? and we get feedback what type of service level agreement we are going to define for ourselves that we're responding to parents within x number of days and I that we have some way of monitoring that and it be something that we try to communicate internally through the

087school so everyone understands the school's expectation on responsiveness because I one of the things I worry about is that because we're getting so many things sometimes times that some things are left unnot responded to and so people people feel unheard then that's not a good feeling to leave someone with. So can we look at really assessing what it is that we have already in place and maybe we're not enforcing it or we are enforcing it and we're just not aware of what it may be. But I love this point. I'm just wondering if we could put more detail around how we're going to address it. Well, Dr. Henry, we've already had some conversations on that, too. Um, she's kind of assessing what we're currently doing, what's currently in place, and then from there is going

088to identify areas that we're going to focus on specifically. So, we're working on that, and we can give you an update when we're ready. Is the idea to have that in place and ready to go before school starts? Yes. Okay. The idea is to get it ready in place as soon as possible. Yeah. Yeah. Like this month. Okay. Thank you. Two things. One, I heard that the eighth grade speeches that there was Arthur and there was another student there. Those speeches were rather emotional and there was a lot of people crying, which was pretty amazing. I think half that was because of their speech and half of it was because they're leaving, right? Obviously, friends. So, I have a question about the teacher positions. um you said there's a screening or first round of interviews

089have been scheduled that kind of thing. Could you explain a little bit more about how that is? And and I'll tell you why. So just so I don't blindside you, you know, traditionally at least I've seen in the past, maybe not this year, but the parents get a little bit of opportunity to input on the teachers, you know, or interview them. Is that something we're doing this year? I mean, is that still So, we haven't we haven't fully established our panels. We are going to be establishing our panels. And that's something that we're talking about right now. Who specifically is going to be on the panel because we have different positions. So, not all panels are going to be the same. And then at the same time, if they're going to be on the panel,

090they have to part be able to participate in all those interviews. So, there is going to be, you know, it's not explained here. There's going to be that opportunity for that input. It's going to it's something that I'm talking about with Dr. Henry and but probably a little bit more narrowed down to that teacher's area. Yeah, it's going to be spec wherever there. For example, Miss John is going to be sitting on our man Landon teacher interview, right? Example. Yes. Yeah. Right. I have a question uh not necessarily relates to your presentation but you know in general kind of a you know response to some of the comments. I know you know some of the nine agenda items um you know we're not maybe not this is not a situation time to address it but

091just want to ask you Mr. meter and you know some of the comments from the uh emails or whatever the written comments uh you know talk about some of the teachers yelling at students right uh I'm I'm assuming you have a mechanism you to address this issue have a communication channels open to the parents who raise the issue so yeah so whenever whenever we get feedback back like that. I I always follow up. I do address it. We do in terms of any type of complaints there's we document we admitted follow up on that. Now when it comes to what was actually done that's confidential with the school u but it does get addressed uh and is told to the parents that that it will be addressed. Yeah. I was also you know hoping in

092in the future because the you know kind of the board is not necessarily the best avenue to address all the issues all the comments you know from students from parents I mean if we get down to that level we're going to be kind of bogged down to a lot of issues so I'm sure you know school level administration level have a the channel the right a process yes we do to handle some of the issues and when it comes to handling things Yeah, it's hard because we as a school we do take steps. Um we things do get handled but it may not be known to everybody. It's known internally to the school. It's we we know what we're doing. We know what steps we're taking but because of that confidential confidentiality as you know

093as an employee. Um but we do handle it. We document it. Thank you. Thank you. Uh David that also helped me to think about something. Um we talk about transparency and also we heard about parents comments. Um so definitely working on the communication the path uh but at the same time I feel like uh we we talk about their new teachers. uh we have new committees maybe the parents need to know that we have these committees some we do involve the parents some we don't so I think maybe uh I I can see IA is a huge family the parents want to uh know get involved too but at the same time if we can let them um know ahead of time these are the things you know we want you to be part of

094it this part um we just want you to know what we're doing. So I think once we said it clearly they probably wouldn't say how come I was not involved how come I didn't know about it and then along with the the uh the complaints about the teachers um by the time we hear it it's almost like a little bit too late. So I totally agree with you. you know, maybe that's something you want to let the parents know. They go directly to you. Um, not that we don't care. We do, but I just feel like, you know, by the time we hear it, usually it's really huge. It's like, how long has this been going on? So, so, but I'm pretty sure they, you know, you already knew about it. Uh, yeah. I mean,

095there's there's things I do know, there's, but then there's also things that don't get reported to me. there. I mean, to be very honest and transparent, there's a lot of things that happen throughout the throughout the school year. Um, but I do follow up on all of them and we document that. But, um, and I I can I can attest to you that it we I'm not afraid of having those tough conversations if we have to have those tough conversations. Um, and they have happened, but in terms of, you know, what what how it gets handled, I can't really say exactly. I totally understand. Yeah. So I I'm just thinking about when parents bring it up that means that's still the problem. So absolutely that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Schmidter. Okay. Moving on

096to the local indicators. Dr. Henry. There's quite a few slides on this one. So, I'm going to stand a little closer to the computer so I can click um the button. So, tonight we will be presenting our local indicators which are required to be presented at the same board meeting where our LCAP is adopted which is later on in the agenda tonight. So for California school accountability and I have my slides just because um there's a lot of type here but for California school accountability the dashboard is the main mechanism to show how schools are doing. However, some of the state priorities cannot be easily shown through test scores or attendance or those kind of outside data sources that are collected. So the state requires us to present local indicators where we do almost like

097selfassessments in certain areas um to make sure that we are meeting all eight of the state priorities not just those that are reflected on the dashboard. So the ones that we are required to present are basic services and conditions, how we're implementing academic standards, parent and family engagement, school climate, access to a broad course of study, and then the last two are uh priority 9 and 10 are those are for county offices only. So we are not required to um to present on those last two bullets. The way that we are to address these other local indicators is um number one, we use self-reflection tools that the state provides for us to annually measure progress in these different areas. We must result uh report the results as a non-consent item at the same public meeting

098where we are adopting the LCAP. And then once um this is presented, we will upload our local indicators also to the dashboard so that they will be parents can access not only um the data such as academics and attendance and suspension rate and EL results, but they can also um see our self-reflection assessments in the dashboard as well. Once we have presented this So here are the eight state priorities. And again, I've already explained a little bit that some of these are a little harder to measure through a test score. So parent involvement is a state priority. And that one where we have to do a self-reflection tool, student engagement, some pieces of school climate, basic necessities, implementation of state standards, the fact that our students have access to courses and our students are achieving.

099And then there's some other student outcomes. Here's priority number one and that is basic services. And just to note each of these priorities, the reflection tool is a little bit different for each. So you won't see the same process for every single one. So for basic services, we just had to answer these five questions. So do we have students without access to their own copies of standards align instructional materials? And we had none. We also have to identify instances where our facilities do not meet the good standard repair and we did not have any in that area as well. We have to list our total number of teachers, our total number of interns and if we had any teachers working out of field. So I did a little research. This a lot of this was

100um completed before I came on board but we did have two um teachers that we did. It's called a dawn and it is a I wrote it down because I might forget. It's um a de declaration of need. So if we had two staff members that needed to finish we had one that had to finish the clad and then we had one that was finishing up the credential and we filled out this dawn. So we were within the requirements but we have to report them. And I am happy to say I followed up with our HR today and they have both been resolved. So we should not have any of those teachers outside of field for next school year. Priority number two that we have to look at is all about implementing academic standards and

101we have to rate ourselves in all of these areas. This is probably the longest tool and I won't get into all of it. Um but you'll see we look the first one is are we providing professional learning for our staff and we give ourselves uh most of those are full implementation or full implementation and sustainability. Um are we making progress with instructional materials? You'll see we have a rating of a three there because we have not adopted our social studies curriculum for our elementary school students. And you'll see something about that in my next presentation. The next is are we implementing policies or programs to support staff and it identifying areas where we can improve in delivering instruction. And so you can see here that in the different areas we have fours or fives depending

102on our progress in those u materials and instructional areas. And then we also look if we um of our adoption for our our progress in implementing all the academic standards adopted by the state board. Uh you can see that with the health education content standards we gave ourselves a three because we are in the initial implementation phase. You'll see more about that in my next presentation. Uh for physical education a three visual and performing arts and world languages. So we are in the imple um initial implementation for curriculum in those areas. Um just to let you know it doesn't matter what rating we give ourselves that doesn't determine if these local indicators are accepted or not. It's the fact that we go through the process. So they don't deny a school if they're giving themselves

103a little tougher rating to improve. They actually um appreciate that and appreciate the self-reflection process. Uh the last question for priority number two is um are we what's our success at engaging in activities with teachers and school administrators? So are we asking our teachers what professional learning they need? Are we identifying needs on our own when we visit classrooms saying you know we think we can provide this to our teachers and are we provid providing support on standards they have not yet mastered. It's a little bit of what you heard with your conversation just a minute ago with Mr. Schmid. So, we reflect on are we doing these things when our teachers need extra support. Priority number three is uh parent involvement and family engagement. And so again, this is another rating tool that we

104have and we rate our progress in developing the capacity of our teachers so that they can engage families. um our our progress in creating a welcome environment for our families. If we're supporting staff to learn about our family's strengths, cultures, and languages, goals for their children, as well as rating the progress in developing multiple opportunities for our families to engage and as well as two-way communication. Some other pieces that we're rating is about building partnerships for um student outcomes with our families and then also seeking input for decision making and you can see the subcategories there. Priority six is school climate. Um, and in this one, we are required to give a survey to our students where they self-reflect on the climate of the school. By doing that, we've met this standards. But you can

105see that we have um outlined some of the prompts that we are providing those surveys um about uh student are students engaged? Do they feel that we have a positive environment? Do they feel safe at school? Do they feel like they belong? um how do our students and staff and parents feel about our facilities condition and do our students like school? So you that survey came through I believe it's been called our LCAB stakeholder engagement survey and that's why some of those questions are in there because they meet the requirements of this local indicator. And then priority number seven is access to a broad course of study. So here we outline different um elective offerings that we have including steam and music physical education. We talk about supports for students that need extra help. We

106have a student study team. We have intervention available and then um you know that we discuss the wide ranging curriculum for that we have for students. So by filling this out and reflecting upon our practices, this is how we meet the standard for that local indicator. Do you have any questions for me? It's a lot of information. I'm a little concerned with the students liking the school. only 57% positive, but I think that might have something to do just in general. I I agree. Um, you know, because, you know, it seems like I know we'd like to see that all kids like coming here no matter what, but as I've always seen it, it sometimes it's hard in the morning to get them here, but then when they're here, it's hard to get them to

107leave in the afternoon because they like to be. And that's a data point. And as we're consistent with this survey, we can measure growth over time and see if we're showing improvements in those areas as well. Thank you. So for the for the student like schools that was a survey. So, all the students filled us out? No, I believe it wasn't all the students, but since I wasn't here, it was fifth fifth through 8th. Fifth through 8th grade. That might have something to do with the numbers as well for you, Mr. Delgato. So, sure. Actually, um I thought that one was kind of high. I have seen very low one. So, we should be like happy. Well, especially upper grade. So this actually was my experience from my old school. Yeah, it's it's high. But

108the lower grade usually it's if you give it to first grade up if they know how to do the survey will be up there. Yes. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you. Okay, we'll move on to the next presentation. Okay, next item is the curriculum view. Dr. Henry, Dr. Kernan's going to help me to change the presentation. We will miss your technical skills, Dr. Fernan. And um I'm happy to say that we have hired a tech um person who will help us with this. Thank you. So, the next presentation I have is a curriculum review presentation. uh we're really going to be focusing on the process of how we review curriculum and uh what that looks like, but there is there are several different specific curricular areas that are coming up on our radar. So,

109we wanted to give specific information about that, including two items that are on the board agenda for approval today. So just to um ensure or make sure everyone understands the process when we are reviewing curriculum or even considering bringing some new curriculum um there will always be a needs assessment where we're identifying the needs of our students the school making sure that the need for curriculum is aligning with our goals state standards and what our students actually need. We then will work with our staff to research and we will select some items or different curricular areas to pilot. It is different for each curricular area, but having three to pilot is usually a good practice. If there are those available, then we will work with our teachers to conduct a pilot or multiple pilots. Again,

110if we have three different areas, we'll work with our staff to do that. Um, our staff will give a final evaluation and recommendation. And one thing that we're going to add next year, it is written in our charter. So, we wanted to make sure that we had that was a curriculum review committee. So, we're going to form that and it will be comprised of of teachers, administrators, parents, and a board member hopefully. And uh what this committee will do is they'll only bring they'll be brought forward when there is a need. if we are in the middle of a pilot process and looking at a new curriculum. Um and so they'll kind of be brought along the way there. Um we will also and we have tried to stay steady to that have a parent

111review of materials and input that includes the curriculum on display. We will then bring it to board for board approval and we also want to look at the implementation and the professional development that goes handinhand with implementing any curriculum. So that's just a core outline of the process. But I will give you more specifics regarding specific curriculum areas. But because this has been a very important topic, I also wanted to share some communication strategies when it comes to that curriculum review process. So we are committing to give curriculum updates at each coffee with the principal if there are some. If there aren't any, that is that will be a standing item that we will talk about our curriculum and where we are in the process. Um I also would like to see a parent workshop

112to present on the curriculum as we're getting closer to the pilot process and the decision making. So, not only will we have a curriculum review committee with representation, we also want to have a parent workshop and we have those each month. We have a coffee with the principal as well as an area of parent education. Um, I saw this for the Mandarin curriculum um that Miss Young did a wonderful job. It was a wonderful meeting. I'm going to talk about that in my my board update. But um she presented the curriculum that the teachers had piloted. It was open for review. Um families were able to come and look at the different curriculum that was that is being recommended. It we also had it on display um since that meeting until tonight. Um, so that

113is going to we'd like to see that be a process in the future that there is a workshop that's available to all to come. Um, I would also like to see curriculum information as appropriate added into the weekly update that is um, sent by Mr. Schmid. As he said and as actually you asked, we are looking really closely at different communication systems we already have in place and how do we better utilize those. So really making sure that those items are there when necessary. Um we will notify parents when curriculum review or the display is ready and that'll be pertinent with um one of my areas this evening. I'll give you an example. Um we will add curriculum information in our annual LCAP stakeholder survey. So and that goes to our parents, staff, and students

114in grades 5 through eight. We were just talking about that. And then also um you know next year is going to be a very interesting fun year because we will be going through the charter renewal process. And um just not to get off topic but to speak a little bit about that. The goal is to start some very um intentional engagement strategies starting in September, looking at different pieces of our charter, bringing parents and families and stakeholders together, similar to what we did with the LCAP process, starting those and taking apart different tasks um in our charter to have input. So it won't be here's the whole charter give us input but it will be intentional activities hopefully monthly where we're looking at different pieces getting input on data different parts so that though that

115curriculum discussion it will also be part of that charter renewal process because we list our curriculum in um our charter. So those are some of the communication strategies we're looking at tonight on the board agenda. you will see the K through8 Mandarin curriculum. Just to let you know the process for that, three teachers piloted four different MA mandarin curriculum options during this school year. On April 30th, the Mandarin team reviewed the results of the pilots and the dated collected from surveys regarding each of the pilots. What both Mr. Schmidter and Miss Jongdu as when the teachers are piloting they have to answer certain questions and collect data so that all teachers can share and learn what the findings were from each of the areas. Um, after this process, our elementary teachers selected the Maju Chinese

116to use with grade K through five. And then our middle school teachers selected, it's called easy steps to Chinese for grades six through eight. But there's also an advanced Chinese option um that we couldn't have our students use as well. When we had this on display and also at the parent workshop, um it was great to look through these these materials were top quality. So the the recommendations for adoption were shared during our parent workshop on May 29th, 2025 and the curriculum was displayed and available for review since the meeting. Some I just wanted to let you know although we're not adopting this, but there will be some additional materials um approximately $5,000 will be purchased um at the elementary level so we can use those for intervention or enrichment depending on the need. So

117we don't have a number. Everyone will get the core curriculum and then the supplementary will come as we have students with need for K through five for our history or social stud um so social science curriculum, excuse me. Our elementary teachers piloted two different social studies curricula during the 2425 school year. They piloted SAVIS and TCI. Our middle school they've they use TCI so they wanted to see the alignment and then they looked at the SABS curriculum as well. Mr. Schmid met with teachers regularly and collected data score sheets from the pilots. The teachers are recommending SAVIS as the new social studies curriculum for 2526. But since the the teachers were given access to online materials through the company and we don't have the hard copy, uh we have requested hard copies for that display

118that we ensured you would be happening and so we are not bringing this one forward for adoption. Um hopefully we'll be getting those materials soon. Uh Mr. Schmidter will send out a notice to all families saying that the his the K through5 history curriculum is is up for display and um then hopefully we'll have it for the rest of June, July and we can bring that to the July 22nd board meeting for approval. But uh don't want to get ahead of myself, but that's that's how we're projecting the process to be for um our K through5 social studies curriculum. and then an update on our comprehensive sexual health education curriculum. We know this has been a very important topic to our community and so we wanted to share just a few steps that we are

119taking or a timeline of when these things will happen. So, um, based on parent input, we were asked to give a survey to our families, um, that either op in eighth grade this year that either opted in or opted out of the curriculum both to students and parents and their thoughts on the curriculum. Um, we have done that and we do have the results. Um, Mr. Schmid's going to put them out on the table. Um, if anyone would like to see them, we're we're very transparent with those results. Um, however, the the results will there will be a deeper dive once we start looking into this curriculum and bring a committee forward. We're also working on a county scan. The information is a little tough to get to, but I am working directly with the

120county how asking for their help to get a scan of what curriculum is used in the county. This is just one measure. This is not going to be how we decide. It's just one more information point that will be important as we move forward and get input. Also, over the summer, we will be working on a crosswalk of those um California Healthy Youth Act requirements, also AB329 requirements. It's the same um and a simpler crosswalk. I also shared with many parents that I would be looking at different curriculum in this simplified way of what meets, what doesn't meet. and I've already started to gather some of that curriculum for that review. We will officially start the process for the 2526 um either third pilot or looking at um what we're going to be using for

121the sexual health education curriculum in January 2026. The reason why we're waiting until January is because that charter revision and input session will be a heavy lift all the way September through December and then January we can start with the input on the ELCAP as well as on the sexual health curriculum and I feel it still gives us plenty of time in order to make some some good decisions before uh the full implementation. We are open to a third pilot, but we'll work with a group um and we'll have we'll have open meetings where people can come and we'll look we'll get we'll share the information, the survey data information, the crosswalks that we have. We can have as many of the curriculum as I can get. We can have that on display. Um and

122then we'll kind of look there. We will look for a third pilot if that's what we choose to do. um and work towards implementation of the curriculum in May 2026. Here is a curriculum review timeline of all of our curriculum areas because um you know it is a regular and ongoing cycle where we review our curriculum. So we wanted to kind of show where we are and where are we headed with different areas of curriculum. So again, our Mandarin um language curriculum is on the board agenda for this evening. That's June 2025. Our social studies curriculum um will hopefully be on our agenda in July, pending those hard materials and putting them on display for our families. We're looking at um starting to look at science curriculum for the 2526 school year with adoption being

123in 2026. mathematics, also looking at those areas this year. Again, I just went over the comprehensive sexual health, how we're looking at either a third pilot, but we wouldn't until after next year look at adoption until 2026 of what our final curriculum will be. We are looking at bringing a writing program in and we would start reviewing that in 2627 with adoption in 2027. And then English language arts would be up for review again 2627 with adoption in 2027. And there's one more item uh for curriculum that this um we had to bring forward to the board this evening. So, California in um in December brought forward four different assessments for students in K through two, grades K through two to identify students at early reading risks. So, they call it a reading risk difficulties

124screener. Um, and the the California Department of Education brought together big teams and came up with four that any school district can implement and eleas approve one of the screeners for use next year before the end of this month. So, we did bring together a team. The purpose of the new requirement is to identify students early on who need additional testing for dyslexia, reading intervention, or other supports. and parents can opt out of that reading risk screener, but we must have it available to all K through2 students starting next school year. So the process that we followed was Miss Brown held a committee that included Mr. Schmid, teachers from each of those grade levels. They reviewed the state approved screeners. Again, there were four. And they were looking at them for in all of these

125different areas. They were looking at the cost. Are they available in Spanish? because some are available in Spanish and some are not. Um the length of the assessment to give the avail availability of professional development for our staff to give the assessment. Uh reporting um options are there reports available are those reports available in multiple languages. Uh ease of use integration with our current systems and also administration protocols. So our team after meeting and I I got to look through all their notes. They did a very thorough job. Uh we are re recommending multitudes as our screener. The other three choices were air, roar and mclass. Uh the reason why this multitudes was selected was number one it's free. Um so there is no cost to IIA to use this screener and it includes professional

126development. If we choose to do additional professional development that would be the only cost. Um administration time is only 10 to 13 minutes per student. It is available in Spanish. There is a superior data dashboard and parent reports are available and translated into 12 languages so that they can see it integrated integrates with one of our platforms which is called clever which is how it kind of runs all of our curriculum. And then also if we find a student is exhibiting some troublesome data there is a follow-up test that we can give to further pinpoint if our students are at risk. I asked the question of our team about what okay so when we looked at these screeners three were available in Spanish and English and one was only English but what about Mandarin? what

127about all of these other languages that our students speak here at IIA? So, they were able to share a decision tree that CDE has put forward that they did review in the committee of looking at different types of data. if the student can't access the assessment in their home language. Um I'm also um under the impression from CVE that this is the first year of implementation that many of these screeners will be available in the future in other languages but right now it is only Spanish and English and then when we're looking at the reading difficulties we would use this decision tree in our decisions. And that ends my presentation uh for the reading risk screener. Again, that's on the board agenda. I know, Felipe, it's a lot. Um, is do you have any questions

128for me? I know. So, you know, I'm a little surprised that the risk of reading screener like assessments weren't already implemented. Is there a program that that it's replacing? No, there was already I already already checked. Sorry, I spoke. No, it's okay. But they're already checked for that for reading risk early on. There isn't a specific assessment that is given like a researchbased assessment to see if students show difficulties early on. There has not been. So a screener in general is universal, meaning you give it to every child. There are other assessments that if a teacher notices that a student is ex is um showing difficulty that they would go and give additional assessments but there's not one that you you give to everyone the board. Right. It's like a blanket thing now. Exactly. Right.

129So that's what I was kind of remember. So there have been other processes but um the state of California is committed to all students reading by age of three and so this was a component early on that they put in place. Um did I I said grade three right not when when is it actually uh given to the students in grade so this assessment is given in grades K through two. Oh K through two. Got it. And so once we have this adopted then we will start working I with Mr. Schmid on our process of when it it must be given I think it's 40 days or 45 days uh within the student starting school. So we're going to have to look at timelines and implementation and notice to parents. That would be our next

130step after um the board approves our recommendation. Okay. I'm probably getting a little farther ahead here. So now the kid is identified, I hate to call them kids, but student student is identified with an issue risk reading. What happens then? So, I love that you asked that question because uh people that have known me around the county know that that I I am a strong believer in really looking at how we use screeners because there there are screeners for different things, but if you're going to give a screener, you have to be able to um serve the students where they are and deal with the results that you get. And so, that is very very important. Um they did say in the legislation that this screener is not to be used alone for special education

131identification or anything like that. It's one piece of data. So it really would be looking at the results very carefully to see if a student needed additional assessments um through kind of that avenue or if it is more intervention. And then when we would be looking at our early literacy um intervention systems if we were to implement the science of reading for example has a great real great way to address um when students have reading difficulty. So really it'll be about once we give this assessment looking at our data and looking at our resources and what do we need to do because it's more like a first filter of all the students to just just I would imagine I'm just I didn't roll this out but if the right now the teacher identifies the student

132who's risk of reading they apply you know they'll direct them to this thing but now everybody gets it in case the teacher didn't identify them right so then they can focus on it helps so that don't fall through the cracks it brings it up to light sooner and then maybe additional testing would be you obviously tell the parent right additional testing then maybe what can we do what research do we have we don't to help them right that's kind of the the game plan for that which is all new okay absolutely thank you I'm not done I'm not done okay so also um I uh you talked about the Mandarin curriculum right and the assessment and um I did was able to attend some of the sessions with Tiffany Zang And I think she doesn't

133get enough credit because she's doing a fantastic job. You know, she's well informed. She answers to the to the parents. She has all the answers to the questions. She seems always prepared. Everything is rolled out. I think she's doing a terrific job. And she's really placed, you know, that's a part of the school that we've been missing for a long, long time. So she's really placed I I I say on the map for that particular function of the language skill you know of the Chinese language skill they call it dual immersion all that and placed our kids on the track they the ones that were uh graduating some of them are on the path for that they earned the sealed high literacy pathway award several fifth graders did as well actually a lot of fifth

134graders were so they're they're you know really identified that and and firm that whole uh educational path and goal for the kids because when they graduate high school, they'll get that seal and that's a big big plus. And then the last thing I have is I really appreciate that you're getting into the curriculum review process and the communication strategies. Really sounds like you're jumping in there with both your feet. So I'm really looking forward to the implementation there and I'll be watching. Absolutely. So let you know and I do know that those two things are huge that I can say all this but the really important thing is going to be doing what I say I'm going to do. Right. Absolutely. And following through. Okay. Yeah. I have a question regarding the risk assessment. Was

135that conducted in English? Right. Um so the one that we've adopted is available in English and Spanish at this time. Um again this is the first year. So of the four choices there were no additional languages. It was one was English only, three were English, Spanish. Uh we felt at least having the one option would be great. And then um the state did give guidance if a student is if English or Spanish are not their home language, which is often the case at IIA of how do we address reading difficulties in those students. And that was that decision tree I showed that the team would go through. Um but my hope is also that um as this rolls out for California Department of Education these assessments would be available in more languages. Yeah, because um

136you know my the question is really you know some you know the reading difficulties could be attributed to many factors right I mean language family hereditary I wouldn't say genetics but uh sometime do have a and when students have another native language it's harder to identify when there are real breeding risks exactly I mean you know how you can address that issue absolutely yes okay um another question you I I feel with the Stephanie John right Stephan involvement I feel I'm sorry Tiffany yes Tiffany yeah Tiffany's involvement I feel you know quite comfortable with mandaring language process because you got to I mean you got to say expert involved absolutely uh so for I mean I'm I'm sure she or the teachers have conducted uh uh comparative ative studies are benchmarking studies against other joy

137immersion programs um I mean in other places we've I've had those conversations with her I know so far is really kind of learning from and looking at other dual language programs out there um in my kind of uh director's report I was also going to share she's in she's become involved in some very important groups one is cabab California um for bilingual education and we had representation um of these groups at our promotions at our both our fifth grade and our eighth grade promotions. So really kind of aligning to these um these associations that support dual immersion programs um and other language programs. So yes, we're we're looking very carefully to make sure that we're on the cutting edge and um and really doing a good job with our implementation. Yeah. Because of all you

138know, social studies, science, maths, you got a lot of scores, right? Okay. And benchmark against Yes. Yeah. But but really uh the unique part for our school is dual language program and dual immersion. Yeah, the current administration brought in two um different assessments which is level learning as well as um the Apple assessment and they've allowed us to really dig deeper and see how our students are performing. Uh one of the pieces that I was very impressed by is it seems when students start with us younger, they're doing even better um on these assessments of grade level um proficiency in Mandarin. And so it's wonderful data to look at and that was presented as well. Great. Uh just one more question if you Yeah. Yeah. On the uh third questions really kind of uh covers

139um comprehensive sexual health education. That's because in last board meeting a lot of parents raise concerns issues over that. I I think we got to be particularly uh careful about the selection process and you you also mentioned the pilot process right pilot if I understand correctly meaning a trial period. Oh a pilot. Yeah. So yes the difficulty so with with the curriculum that we have let's say social studies or Mandarin it's taught every day so pilots are easier to give where you take a pilot from some curriculum but because the comprehensive sexual education units are very short um it's at the in May a few units in 8th grade only it's hard And this year we only had 15 students. It's hard to pilot multiple curricula at the same time. And so really looking at,

140you know, what we've had um we also know we have do have parents who lean towards one curriculum or another. And so kind of I think the my goal is to focus on process and I don't want to get ahead of that process and really providing information and getting input. Um and then we will make the best decision for IIA. Um not everyone will be happy with every decision that we make because we know that we have a large student body. But I think what I've heard loud and clear is that our parents want to have want to be heard. And you know, regardless if it's a third pilot, if we decide to utilize a curriculum that we've already used, depending on how the process works out, um the ability to opt your own child

141out is always going to be an option. So our families will always have that option. um even you know regardless of what we end up selecting. So people can make individual decisions. This process is for a school decision. Gotcha. That's a comforting. Thank you. Thank you. I just have two questions. One, when we're saying adoption, how long are we adopting for? Is that a three year, two year cycle? It it usually depends. Um and that's part of the process as well. Some of it's financial. Um so we can sometimes adopt over three years, sometimes we can adopt over six years. I have um if there were more concerns or more things to look at. I' I've done adoptions that are single-year adoptions. So I think that's part of that review process is looking at the

142comfort level with the curriculum and um the adoption cycle. Sometimes also the curriculum may have a what's the right word? An update that's coming out and they know it. And so we may say, "Okay, we'll adopt for two years because you're going to they're going to have the publisher will have their update and we want to review any updates before we maintain." So it's a lot of factors, but that will be part of what we bring to the board will be how many years or what the adoption is for. I think most of the time here we're doing um three-year adoptions is what I've seen. So, but again, we'll look at that case by case. Okay. And uh yeah, thank you for outlining the process, the strategies. Uh I think that's excellent. It definitely provides

143a roadmap for for future. With regard to the uh sexual health education curriculum, I think we're aware of the heart curriculum being uh uh recommended by some parents. They prefer that one in particular. So, as we go through our scan of what other schools are using, it would be good for us also to be very intentional to try to find out who is using hard curriculum. I'm only aware of one charter school, but we need to learn what they're doing and what they're supplementing it with. Yes. And maybe we can reach out to the publisher and maybe they would let us know what other schools are using their curriculum and what may be supplemented with it. So we could do more specific intentional research on that because that'll be part of that as well with

144that crosswalk. And also what's interesting is when we did use the heart curriculum, we only had seventh grade students. We didn't have any eighth grade students and there um the curriculum is different for seventh and eighth grade. Um and the other charter school that you're speaking of when I looked on their website, not I'll be calling them, but it did state on their website that they used the seventh grade curriculum. So, I'm not sure if we um have reviewed what the eighth grade curriculum looks like. I was able uh Mr. Schmid helped to get it for me, so I do have a copy and that again is going to be part of my summer. I have not had the quiet time to sit and read it yet. Um but that is what's you know coming

145with these summer days is um so it's not only just looking at I I'm going to look at everything and my hope is um just to share information of the findings. It won't be the end all beall but I really want to come in when we start our work in January informed and be able to share that information with our families. Thank you. Thank you very much. Right. Moving next to financial update. Mr. Jones, are you there? Yes, I am. Good evening. Thank you for your patience. No problem at all. Thank you guys. Um, so I I don't have a May financial update. Um, we're we're still closing out the month of May. Um, I believe I did provide the check register. Um, I'll give you just a quick uh update on where we are.

146So, um, we'll close out in May obviously um within the next uh week or so once we get all the reports and documentation that we need for that. Um and then obviously we can provide that if need be. Um but other than that um really and specifically we can dive into and I guess when that comes up the budget and all the uh other uh documents related to that for uh approval but um as of now it's bit early in the month only the first week here. So I don't have all the info to close out u made to provide Okay. Oh, we can move on to the next agenda item. Yes, please. Y no questions. Thank you. I think the next item is the uh BL cap. So that would be uh good. Uh

147moving on to items for discussion of possible action. Approve 2025 20226 local control and accountability plan YCAP. The local control and accountability plan and annual update provide details regarding actions and expenditures to support pupil outcomes and overall performance pursuant to California education code. sections 52060 52066 47605 and 47 47606.5 California Education Code section 52060 requires the governing board of each LEA to adopt the LCAP and annual update using a template adopted by the state board of education. ELEAS must also ensure that educational partners were consulted in the development of the 2025 2026 LCAP and were also provided information regarding the annual update LCAP goal action. All LCAP goal and actions funding source LCFF budget financial impact not applicable. It's recommended the board of directors approve action item A. Is there a motion? I'll make a

148motion, sir. Thank you, Felipe. Thank you, Molly. All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose, please say nay. I. So, I'm going to do one more time. They didn't hear. Sorry. I'm sorry. U all in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose, please say nay. Hearing none. It passes. Okay. Moving to uh B approve uh 2025 2026 school budget. I is required by law to adopt a budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year no later than June 30th 2025. The final budgets for 2025 20226 are based upon revenue assumptions outlined within the governor's may revise as well as school specific assumptions for revenue and expenditures and will incorporate expenditures listed in the local control accountability plan LCAPS LCAP goal action all LCAP goal goals and actions funding source all funding sources budget financial impact

149not applicable is recommended the board of directors approve action item B is there a motion I'll make a motion thank David, I'm happy to second. All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose, please say nay. It passes. Uh, moving to C. Approve 2025 2026 schedules and instructional minutes for California Education Code 462000 to 46208. Schools must provide minimum minutes of instructional time based on grade levels. Proposed bell schedules and instructional minutes adhere to these minimum requirements. LCAP goal action not applicable. Funding source not applicable. Budget financial impact not applicable. So recommended the board of directors approve action item C. Is there a motion? Thank you Molly. Is there a second? Second. Thank you David. All in favor please say I. I. You don't have like a discussion. time to discuss. You should have discussion

150before the book, right? You'd like to try to discuss it about schedule. Well, I was looking at this and I know that this year that any company grant didn't really they inherited the bail schedule from the year before. hear from somebody else that have you Stephanie had a chance to look at the bell schedule before we go through this because um I know there were some issues with the bell schedule and the way the I would say operationally with moving all those kids from one side to the other getting them out stuff like that that was a problem a little bit of a shape and so have you looked at this bill schedule and so yes it was sent to me and then we had some discuss question about specifics and I've had the opportunity

151to ask questions to better understand how this is going to work, right? Because I know it's changed from what I could tell. I can only really gauge it from my kids uh grade level. I haven't seen everybody, you know, there's the TK and the kindergarten, those areas, but they're happy with the bell schedule before we get through all this. Yes. Go down the line. seeing it like just wanted to double check with you because I know it was a it was a problem a little bit of a problem this year. We just inherited it and since our kids executed it was some we talked about why some changes were made and I think that was based on their experience right moving the kids around like they're coming in I guess the times changed a little

152bit Great to facilitate better flow of the drop off especially the pick up not having right now we have really long amount of time between the different grade level pick up time and that has created some issues even for parents trying to pick kids up and how they question. So based on that feedback even this year got a survey in November and wound up changing changing the bell schedule for the second half of based on hearing complaining about the bell. Good. Okay. So, we're going to I'm going to ask again, is there a motion? I'll motion. So, thank you, Felipe. Is there a second? Thank you, Molly. All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose? Please say nay. Hearing none. I was I No, actually I was thinking about something else. Okay, we're going

153to do that again. Do it again. We're going to do it. Sorry. Uh, okay. Is there a first motion? A motion, sir. Thank you, Philip. Is there a second? Thank you, Molly. All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say nay. Hearing none. It passes. Now, I'd like to say I just happen to notice the amount of uh instructional minutes, right? See it quite a bit, which explains why my fourth grader is going to be complaining. My my eighth grader too. So, no, that's great. I think the more time they have facilitate their education, the better. Thank you. That's all. Okay, moving on to next item D. Approve the job description for the physical education teacher. This new job description was created to outline the current job duties and requirements for the IIA

154K through8 physical education teacher as these duties and requirements differ from the regular elementary teacher position. LCAP goal action 2025 2026 LCAP goal one action two funding source not applicable budget financial impact not applicable. It's recommended the board of directors approve action item D. Any comments? This was just an additional job description to make sure that we had a job description specifically for PE teacher. We're not PE teacher returning next year as far as now. This is just kind of to make sure as Betsy was doing all of the job descriptions that we that we had an accurate job description because it is very than what a regular elementary or regular middle school teacher uh would do. And so we wanted to make sure that it really reflected the job of it. And our our

155returning teacher satisfies all the care. It does. Correct. So I heard there was room that there might be an assistant teacher. Yes. Um you guys actually when you were approving the job description during the last board meeting approved the uh the uh instructional assistance job description. So I just want to be sure this is different than that. This is different than that. So this is for a fully credential teacher and then that would I mean almost all of our classes have an an instructional assistant and with our you know our numbers growing but we wanted to make sure that instruction. So he is an instruction. Has that position been filled? I'm kind of going off the rails here but not not yet. So um that that position along with the other positions that Mr. Schmid

156was talking about uh will be filled in the summer. Well, but that one the assistant teacher I know that the the teacher will be like a panel that be reviewed. Will the assistant P teacher also be in that criteria in that will the will they have that will they have the opportunity to review who that person is also just like the curriculum teacher I'm going to call We'll teach the same process. It could be some different people. Yes. On the panel. And if you're asking will the teacher be not the teacher, the assistant assistant. Will the assistant P teacher also have to go through the interview cycle and parent input. We will have we will have a process for every position that we hire this summer. Including Absolutely. Okay. That's what I want to. Okay.

157Thank you. Any other comments? So, I have a question around this because I I know on our website we talk about our curriculum as it relates to the Chinese or the math for English uh for science these things. But we don't really talk much about what happens at PE. You know, I I hear it as a parent what they do in PE and it sounds like it's a lot of running. Well, you go ahead and then I'll jump in. We've we've So, we've actually uh been talking about this throughout this year and I know Mr. has been um working currently with with coach K to get curriculum maps completed around PE like we have for our other subject areas. I'm also working with our music teacher to do for music um as well as our

158steam teacher we work them to do that as well. Um so that we do have like for the other subject areas we do have an outline of the different types of activities that they do in relation because there are standards for PE as well. Um so how we're meeting those standards just like we would be for language arts or math or the other subject. So so for starting off next year that will be something that those other subject subjects as well. for starting that conversation. She answered pretty much everything I was going to say except um in those pre-ervice days I like to call them the week of welcome and yeah we'll have different activities and part of that is um really presenting the expectation of the scope and sequence and depending some of our

159subject areas be further along or grade levels be further along and some will need more time but um that is the work. Yeah, you know, physical activity being so important for the students. So, I'm also curious about what is our philosophy on PE here at the school too is you know we don't I don't feel like we talk about it much and it's an important aspect. The kids love to be outside and they love to be active at doing things. So how are we inspiring them with sport with uh group activities team oriented activities uh these things I I I engagement yeah I think I'm just wondering if we can so that's part of that alignment as well with because the PE standards do include all of those different things being instructed on different team

160sports as well as working as a team versus you know an individual all those things are actually addressed in the physical education standards. And so I think we'll be mapping that out and aligning to the standards and there's everything in there from gymnastics to you know soccer different all all different types of activities. So I think really aligning and making sure that we're hitting each one of those standards uh will allow for a lot more variety in our in our PE classes. um as well as just making sure that students are getting u exposure to a lot of different sports, a lot of different types of activities, a lot of um a lot of things to to really increase their engagement because I know you know I was not a kid who liked to run.

161Uh but I did like to play sports. So uh so you know I wouldn't have been as engaged if you were mostly running. I would have wanted to do other things. So I think just incorporating a lot of those different things and and to having it back to the standards will ensure that we're covering all system and utilizing that be a in order to break groups into small groups will allow for direct instruction and engagement. So we're we're hoping that with the extra support we'll come the also Thank you. So I'd like to springboard up a little bit that there. So when I look at the website, it's our website, you know, there is an entry for physical education, right? But it's very sparse here. I would like to see that once you get that

162curriculum or that architecture of all that that this gets updated because I think you're right, Brett, you know, we talk about a lot of the curriculum and language and all those other things that we cover. This is one section that I think this is the same uh page that we did originally, you know, back in the day. And so I'd like to see this, you know, informative to the parents of what's going on. And also I noticed that I mean the media sick program, it's also blank. So you're working on curriculum for the program. I'd like to see her. I think before we had like a a vision of the previous uh music vision of their plan except maybe something along the lines of what we were talking about earlier that you know something explain

163what they expect what parents or you can expect from the school it needs to be there explain so I know she's been doing a great job but she has a lot of kids to deal with right yeah with our new technology court specialist, their job will will also then help to update the website and make sure that you know part is a teacher to to put that on there, but the teachers will create it and then he'll be able to actually update. So the teacher will create the content and then go in here based on Yeah. and then and then you'll be able to update every every area of what we offer should be intentional. Yeah. Thank you. Uh I got a little question regarding the physical demands occasionally be a dog move 25 pounds.

164Is that a standard? It's pretty standard in most job descriptions. So it's You know, it's basically covering the fact that they may have to lift the whole thing. Not that not that. And there's not that much. So, they're really going to be most of the most of our major equipment is already built in. Okay. It's recommend the board directors approve action item D. Is there a motion? I'll motion. So, thank you. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, David. All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppos, please say nay. Hearing none, it passes. Uh item E, approved job description and work calendar for speech and language pathologists. New job description is created to hire a speech and language pathologists to provide special education services to I students. For their growing special education population, it's

165beneficial to have an in-house speech and language pathologist instead of contracting the services to outside providers. LCAP goal action 2025 2026. Cap goal one action two funding source general fund budget financial impact starting salary of $64,15 with a $3,590 stipen already reflected in the 2025 2026 proposed budget. It's recommended the board of directors approve action item E. I have a question. Uh so this would be a inhouse right hire that a full time that's a time job full time and versus uh in the past we contract out right what what is the annual cost contract so when we contract out yeah so when we contract out normally the salary uh is well it's almost double when we pay for an in-house person because we're paying for a company as well as that person so it's

166probably right now compared to it would depend on higher for this uh for this role, but we're paying about the same amount for a person for three days a week. So once you get above a two day a week contracted out person, it really becomes beneficial for us to just have an in-house person because then instead of paying the same amount for three days, we get that person for five days and they can help out with other with other areas. So u so at this point with our current education population, especially because the vast majority of our students who are receiving special ed services are are receiving speech and language services. Um, and this year our number of students who've been assessed and eligible for special education has more than doubled. So with that uh

167it is definitely more cost effective for us to hire an in-house person but also that person then becomes part of our staff. They can uh you know they they you know better part of our IA community. Um, and in looking at some of the different areas that we can use that person maybe to do some, you know, social skills groups during during the day or during lunch kind of helping out in other areas with with some of our students as well. Very beneficial to have that student. So, the projected demand is more than adequate to to kind of warrant. Yeah, it's going to be at least for next next year. Even if we were contracting out, we'd have to contract out at least four days a week. So it really doesn't make any sense to

168to not have her up. So reasonly half price as the volume school increase kids. So it's just economically just it's not that way. And I was going to bring up that other point. So so what else what other activities would this person have? is like let's say it's four days a week, right? So what are they going to do on the fifth day? So so again helping out with different social groups uh because they can they can help out with uh you know kind of how to communicate with other students and also like if we're have if two students are having issues. They can work out you know they can work with those students to kind of work on their communication skills even if they're not even if they're not special education. They particip like

169the after school enrichment program, right? So they can participate in that. I'm not exactly sure how, but I mean they're fulltime just like any other full time, right? So that's the goal with the change for strategic kids is to now have program. She could be Yeah. She wanted to run a group on whatever speech and debate or communication skills or something like that. She could run an after school. to your our current our current SLP is a she we have the same name. So then obviously that that particular subject could be you know that's available to us. So that's not in her job description. It just happens to be available. But as far as other activities with the school itself, like let's say we had her I fifth day where she doesn't have a class

170and you know her curriculum's already prepared and you know on that day what else would she do around her? I mean could she help out with activities like that? I don't know. like you know when the assembly when you guys have a new assembly can she help out the assembly just like any other full-time employee. So does that portion of the work need to be then decide that duties as assigned. Okay. But and and so just in any teacher or employee there's other duties that a lot of duties and responsibility as a sure she's going to be busy but she'll be very she'll be very busy with her own and maybe they're going to coach the board of members but but other duties as assigned could make her available to help out just like any

171other just like other so she's not just to to That's why we have that in all of our players. So, I recall we had somebody uh that was part we contracted out. Is that right? We did. It was um they were parttime but a part-time contractor. So, they weren't an actual employee. We actually switched that because special ed you can't really do that because you can't contract out with somebody who isn't approved by the state. Yeah. Um so if it's our own employee um then they don't have to go through that state approval process. So we that's why we switched special ed service providers this year was to make sure that we had um a provider that was approved in all of our special areas through the state. Uh and then this way this allows

172us to have an inhouse person. I have friends or speech and language pathologists. They they can always use their experty to do a lot of um social mention about social and some of the kids are very shy not really willing to talk. They can have special time with them and build up confidence will be very busy. It's not like I'm imagining that he's sitting around, right? But there's a lot of task, miscellaneous tasks at the school that, you know, they can always make sure that I would add, you know, free consulting service to some board members. Yeah. So, actually sometimes when when the teacher notice that the child for example can't really pronounce certain words and but They go through the testing identify they need IEP to do that. This person will spend some time

173talk to them because they're the work they have different ways to get kids and I presume they ask the parent first if they're getting services if they're getting services. So usually the teacher will will let parents know first give them the options sometimes during that process or or other things that that are not all the way. All right. Okay. Um on this particular item, is there a motion? I'll make a motion. Filipe. Is there a second? All in favor, please say I. Any opposed, please say nay. Hear none. It passes. Item F, approve revised certificated salary schedule and stipened descriptions. The certificated salary schedule and stipen descriptions have been revised to include stipened $3,590 for speech and language pathologist. And to clarify, type of units that can be used for salary advancement. LCAP goal action

1742025 2026. LCAP goal one action two funding source not applicable budget financial impact not applicable it's recommend the board of directors approve action item F any comments so this one pertains to specific yeah so it's really just adding the speech pathologist uh stipend on there because there would be on the regular teacher salary schedule um with that additional stipen and then based on feedback from staff We just wanted to clarify exactly that they were because there's difference between quarter units and semester units. Um and so we just wanted to clarify that when we look at salary placement we do it based off of semester units for their equivalent. Any more comments on this item? questions. Okay. So, I recommend the board of directors approve action item F. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion.

175Thank you, David. Is there a second? I'll second. Thank you, Philipe. All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppos, please say nay. Hearing none. It passes. G. We approve the instructional continuity plan. Senate bill 153, chapter 38 statutes of 2024 here and after SP53 adds provision to California education code section 32282 requiring local educational agencies leas to adopt a plan to ensure all students can access instruction during a natural disaster or emergency. The instructional continuity plan must be included in an LEA's comprehensive school safety plan by July 1st, 2025. A locally adopted CSSP must include an ICP to obtain approval of a form J13A waiver request beginning in fiscal year 2026 27. These requirements apply to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools. LCAP goal action 2025 2026. Capital goal two action

176five funding source not applicable budget financial impact not applicable it's recommended the board of directors approve action item G any comments it's just a requirement for us to add this to our safety plan based on our current some current natural disasters emergency started with CO that we had to make sure that every school has a plan for continuing education in any type of disaster Did who had who had input into creating this? Who was the So Mario kind of oversaw the plan, but then he was doing uh the updates with the the safety committee and other staff members. There's a lot there's here to go that that's part of Mario's function to do the or create new. So yeah, so he would be instrumental if this ever had to be executed. Yeah. And in his

177role in operations that makes sense. There's a lot here. 16 pages. 16. Any other comments or questions? Okay. Once again, going to test Mario a couple of things there. I want to see it. Uh once again, it's recommended board of directors approve action item G. Is there a motion? I motion, sir. Thank you, Felipe. Is there a second? Thank you, Molly. All in favor, please say I. I. Any post, please say nay. Hearing none. It passes. Item H, approve the proposition 28, arts, music, and instructional materials 2024 2025 annual report, 2023, 2024 final expenditure report, and 2025 2026 annual plan. On November 8, 2022, California voters approve Proposition 28, the arts and music at schools funding guarantee and accountability act. The measures require the state to establish a new ongoing program supporting arts instruction in

178schools beginning in 2023 2024. Local educational agencies, eleas must approve a plan, an annual board report and final expenditure plan in a manner determined by the superintendent. They shall be posted on the local educational agency's websites and that details the type of arts education programs funded by the program, the number of full-time equivalent teachers, classified personnel and teaching aids, and the number of pupils served. LCAP goal action not applicable. funding source proposition 28 funds budget financial impact $85,169 already reflected in the 2025 20226 proposed budget any comments so this mainly funds our music and teachers is supposed to really be used on on staffing so when we uh started uh this you know 2021 inaugural year this wasn't available. So in essence this helps you know after that to help fund yeah to help fun

179our music as well as the equipment related to that that's only 2023 started in 2023 23 24 um and I believe we only got about $25,000 here um last year we got about 46 or well yeah last year we got about 46,000 so that has been instead of the city. So, we'll get to $85,000. Yep. Please approve us to get it. It's recommended the board of directors approve action item H. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion. Thank you, David. Happy to second. All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppos, please say nay. Hearing none, it passes. Uh I item I approve the renewal of IAS's insurance through Charter Safe for the 2025 2026 school year. Charter safe insurance renewal proposal for the fiscal year 2025 2026 program year includes insurance coverage for

180general liability, excess liability, commercial property, workers compensation crime, excess crime, directors and officer employment practices liability, fiduciary, cyber liability and student accident. All capital goal action not applicable. Funding source general fund budget financial impact 167,437 already reflected in the 2025 20226 proposed budget. Any comments? Just have questions. Yeah, just a few questions. So when I look at the employee, it says I can't read it. 76 right? Is that is that who was that employee? I know it's employee, but include all of our full of part-time employees. So, uh, so that would be all of our IAS, our custodians, our teachers, administrators, um, office staff, anybody that that is employed here, anybody actually get a Yeah. to actually get and and then I looked at the cost obviously substantial, right? But there's a payment plan, right?

181Yes. We're not paying it all up front, right? No, we pay we pay it monthly. We pay the whatever it is. Oh, we pay monthly. Well, this year we pay monthly. I think next year we'll probably pay quarterly because we have a little Well, it doesn't, if I'm looking at this correctly, that's not an option. There's either a payment in full or deposit and then nine installments. Yeah, it's a deposit and then we pay monthly. So, us the deposit and then we pay the month. We pay the money. Okay. Because that's a free no interest loan. Yes, I did the math there. So, it's Yeah, definitely. You know, worth it. Okay, good. Just want to make sure we're doing that. Question. Uh do you know what we paid last year? Uh so, we paid about

182$20,000 less last year. So, that would be an increase in just overall insurance costs as well as the increase of the number of students and staff that project next year. And do we go to market for this? Usually we'll do that every three years. So um so technically um next year should probably be four uh and it it next year we're definitely I'm not going to be here but uh Betsy and I are recommending Yeah. that we um go out to bid for our health insurance and at the same time it would be good to go out to bid for for general liability insurance as well. So uh this is per year basically. Per year. Yeah. So I mean it's it's in line with what most other charter schools pay as a as a single

183entity. uh it, you know, our insurance is a little bit higher and then we had a you know corporation. But Charter Safe has has pretty good rates uh and and are considerable uh to you know what I've seen in in other charter schools even that don't use charter safe but it is a good good process to go to go out to bid next year for health insurance the general what I'll ask what what is the coverage talking about liability is such that so we're required to hold certain uh amounts of insurance to our charter as well as our facilities use agreement uh with the IUS and so this policy covers those requirements that they have um but there's also coverage like for our for you guys as as board officers um and that over the

184last couple of years we added in cyber security because of you know the world that we we live in now. Um and then it does cover general student accident insurance, workers comp workers comp insurance and then just our general and excess liability. What is the total liability? It changes based on what 55 million. I think it's the total. Yeah. Yeah. So, we're kind of we're kind of guided by what our authorizers and our and require million. That's about a lot of annual. Yeah. This is the one. I mean, so Dr. Henry, if I could so I can see something visibility of all the vendors and what we're going to go to market with them, how long each contract is for, and maybe we come up with a schedule as to how often we want to

185go through this exercise, you know, and how far in advance We need to do the exercise in order to make sure that we don't lapse in coverage. I see this is for July 1. Just so this this is tough here, but uh it it's worthwhile. I mean, we have a broker, right? We have an insurance broker. We do for um for our health insurance or our general liability insurance charter is our has always been and we've never used a broker. There are brokers. There are insurance company. We don't use broker. We don't use a broker but uh there are brokers that could go up to market. There are we would just we would put out the bid um and then different different insurance companies We've been on it for our regular but we do currently

186use a broker for our health. Okay. Yeah. I think it would be helpful to have to just to get some visibility. Maybe we can just discuss it at least a meeting and talk about how often we should do it. Please. Oh, I was going to say also with our switch to uh CSMC. I know Mary Beth that was one of the things that I kind of noticed coming in is that we don't have a really comprehensive list of of vendors. Um and so that's she's been working on already with CSMC to have a list of vendors also more of a vendor packet that vendors have to fill out. Um and then along with that uh kind of looking at you know when do we look going up to bids to different vendors. So even the

187school school food services or health insurance I know hasn't been kind of just had the same stuff since the beginning. I didn't want to make too many changes too many different things this year, but but that's definitely something to look at for next year, especially working back office provider. Okay. Yeah, that's great. Thank you. Uh, you know, maybe you have a a comparison. So last year we worked with different human. So this is the same the same. Yeah. The same same years. So the reach is pretty much the same. Yeah. Yeah. More 20,000. It's more it's more because we're in we've grown and just students and more students more staff more students more staff building yeah by 2000 yeah this same company forast It is we compared to other insurance provider. This is a broadcast.

188And usually they start going out to bid in November, December to have enough time to make sure we stayed with them or switched to another company. Uh they don't provide us insurance update until they gave it to us two weeks ago. Um they're quotes. So, so we would want to kind of go out to get those quotes a letter. So, what's our policy state on going to market? Um, we follow the normal uh bid process. So, it's part of our fiscal our fiscal policies and the state of California for for nonprofits has a has a bid process that we follow. But in terms of for contract sizes of certain size, we need IIA. needs to go out to bid. Well, so as a charter school, we technically don't fall under the rules of having to

189go out to bid at a certain amount, although we usually will follow what normal public schools do. Uh so that we are going out to bid if it is for a side contract like insurance for facility or something like that. But I'm I'm just trying to remember back if we had some policy where the contract size was over a certain dollar amount that we that we don't specifically say that we will go out to bid over a different over a specific dollar amount. That's something that you know to add into the fiscal policies that isn't right now. We would just follow the the what the the state of California has to others. I know I got a lot of questions. A couple more. I know it's late, but I got So, when does this policy

190actually go into effect? July 1. July 1st, it goes into effect for the 2526. Yeah, that's our So, it's part of the 25. The cost is part of the 2526 budget. Yes. And it's already been added into the budget. Okay. Very interesting. It's in the budget that you guys that we presented last week. Yes. Okay. It's recommend the board of directors approve action item I. Is there a motion? I'll motion, sir. Thank you, Felipe. Is there a second? Thank you, Molly. All in favor, please say, "I." I. Any opposed, please say nay. Hearing none, it passes. Uh, moving on to item J. Approve the renewal of the contract with Fresh Start Healthy Meals. IA is entering into a contract with Fresh Start Healthy Meals to provide breakfast and lunch from July 1st, 2025 through June

19130th, 2026. A capital goal action applicable. full funding source general fund budget financial impact $228,239 already reflected in the 2025 20226 proposed budget comments we did actually go out to bid for this uh before this year we were using uh rep foods and then uh it was changed to fresh start prior to this school year so we've we've had it for for one Uh so could technically it would like you know for three years that we would wait to go out to bid. So this is your this coming up would be year two. Okay. Do we know um families are happy? It's kind of I mean from kind of anecdotal it's split more choices um and and poor breakfast choices and have had somewhat positive feedback um as far as the taste of the meals.

192They're maybe on our back side. They're they can sometimes be a little more difficult to work with than ref boots. But as far as like outward, but it's it's lunches. It's never% positive. So, so I can give you a little bit of history on that. The previous years school lunches were more I would say the big difference between the two is the packaging of the lunch is better. This you know with this group because the previous ones had tend to be in plastic plastic bags. They're heated in that bag. You know, you don't just use hot air. And so like yeah, if you get it the first five, 10 minutes, it's all right. So, so getting it out of the plastic bag because the plastic was not on the food. Now they're like in little

193crates like little TV dinners. TV dinner kind of things. And so at least they're not getting that plastic on it that's eated and stuff like that. But you're right. That's good. But that's because of the nutritional requirements, right? That they have to stay within. So they obviously cannot be This is a new window. It was only last year. But this this year was so this year that was improvement. Now I personally notice I think it's better to end the year seem to be creative with it. So that's my personal it. So I don't know. We definitely have to keep an eye on this. Yeah. So, we can let them know that, you know, next year we're gonna go out that because I think the quality, you know, we got to let them know that we're

194watching for the quality as much as we can. I also noticed that the ordering process, but the ordering process improved quite a bit. We don't have so many leftover things. Yeah, Jamie's been doing a really good job of really kind of keeping track and and trying to make sure that teachers, especially like if a teacher's going to have a class party that we increase the number of meals that we have for that day and and really keeping track of that so we don't this excess that you're trying to get rid of the day or whatever, something like that. I would recommend though, you notice that the field trip meals that sometimes when we provide the field trip meals, those I would like to see that the field trip meals is it the same vendor? It's

195the same vendor that when it's a field trip meal that that needs to be improved a little bit because I've been on the field trips with the kids and then they end up with a lot. Yeah, they don't they certainly don't appreciate it, but I don't think that feedback gets back all the way to here. Right. So that's something I think they need to talk to and then next year let's look at our kids deserve that. So I did a calculation. So you got a increase of 4.7%. But for the food or the food so that would also uh relate to the increase in the number of students that were projected. No, I'm talking about price increase. So it's price increase. It so the the prices are regulated by the state. Okay. um per student

196meal based on how much the state is willing to pay uh for the meals. And so we don't really have much to do with that. We can get reimbured for those for those student meals. So the the contracts aren't uh and any price increases are actually done at the state level. Okay. Any other comments, questions? It's recommended the board directors approve action item J. Is there a motion? A motion. Second. Flee. Happy to second. All in favor, please say I. I. I. I. Okay, we're going to do that again. Uh, all in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose, please say nay. Hearing none, it passes. Thank you. Okay, moving to item K. may approve a draw from the Endeavor Bank line of credit for $375,000. In order to pay the loan from lend donate

197and not incur an additional 2% interest charge for extending the loan, it's necessary to draw 375,000 from the endeavor credit. Although we're projecting a 500,000 positive operating income for the 2024 2025 school year, we do not get all of our state and federal dispersements until the end of the summer. 375,000 is also projected to cover any budgetary shortfalls at the beginning of the 2025 2026 school year while we wait for the larger aortionments that are dispersed in February. LCAP goal action applicable funding source endeavor revolving line of credit budget financial impact 9% annual interest rate for length of draw on the line already reflected in the post budget comments. So, this is I mean, as we talked about at the beginning of this year, uh we don't get the majority of our funding until later

198on in the year. Um this actually allows us just with the the 375,000 Delano and I did a the cash flow projection that was part of the the budget at the last board meeting. Um and this should not only cover uh what we have to pay back for the lend donate loan um until we get the rest of our funding for this year um at the end of the summer. But it will also cover any budgetary shortfalls so that we won't have to take any more um anymore or shouldn't have to take any more loans uh throughout the year next year uh and be able to end uh be able to pay it off pay this back uh and not have any draw line of credit by the end of last year. Actually based on

199the budget that we presented at the last board meeting u projecting about 2 million positive operating income at the end of the next school year. So uh so our our projected positive operating this year was a little bit more than we had actually presented at the beginning of the year when we revised the budget in November. Um but then again we're projecting anything an even greater positive impa so that we won't have to unless and we want to do some sort of big projects or things like that. Um we won't have to draw on the line of credit or take any funds. So, we're out of out of someone way out of that way out of that way out of that situation. And I just want to make sure that Stephanie the budget and you

200looked at it closely so you understand that she's been a transition you feel comfortable doing. So, I've been in the last few weeks in the budget meetings. I was in this specific meeting as well with Delano. Uh we were determining how much again not not wanting to overpull. We looked at all the finances and what would be that kind of magic number um and came up with this. So I've been watching carefully. We are transitioning to our new charter back office. So I've also been in those meetings as well. So transitioning learning. I've been paying attention to the budget presentations. Um when I came to apply for this position, I had gone back. So I have a decent understanding moving forward and work hand back office. Okay. We're going to we're anticipating the what August

201payment for the August receivable. in August. I covered this when we pay back anticipation. Yeah. Our anticipation is that when all of our receivables come in for this year, we'll be at about $500,000 income, but it won't be until the end of the summer. And if we take this now, we we will save ourselves the additional interest that will be charged if we pay out. And uh how long we projected to use the money? 375,000. How long we use it? Um oh, just approve the line. We're actually going to you're going to approve. We're going to take to draw it, but then we can start paying it back as we receive our receipt as we start getting our receipts. Um it likely we will have to keep some of it drawn uh until February. Likely

202not all of it. because that's we have that shortfall usually at the beginning of the school year because we don't get the majority of our receivables or the larger amounts of our receivables until the spring. So, this actually will kind of cover both uh getting us through what we owed this year uh until we get all of our receivables for this past school year as well as covering uh the shortfall in the fall of next year. So it would just be one draw on the line. Um and then as soon as we start receiving those receivables, we can start paying it back. But it should become it should just be a one time thing. That's what you're minimum of six months. Um probably six months. Although we can start paying it back um next year.

203We won't have to hold the whole 375,000 um for the fall of next year. Uh we'll have to kind of look at our at our exact cash flows as we start next year, but we should be able to pay back probably about 100,000 of it early before that before the February date. Oh, okay. So, six months. So, we are taking this calcul,000 if we were taking all of it until February. Oh, yeah. So, I by six months of creation, it's about $17,000. Yeah, I think going from now right now until I think I calculated it would be a little over 18,000 if we held a whole Yeah, it's going to be 18 by 18,000. Yeah, it was like 18 or so. All right. So, uh, we had a we had a couple public comments around

204what was communicated last June and that we weren't going to need to go out to uh, let's say, sell more receivables or try to get in additional monies. Uh, can you maybe speak to uh, why that situation have changed. I don't know that it changed. Um when I when I got here, we definitely did not. We had still we sold off all of our receivables um I believe until November um prior to me coming uh and so we weren't receiving any money at the beginning of the school year. I think Dana's on as well still he can talk about a little bit but um there was really no way to uh to make payroll uh when I first got here without selling additional. So I I was not here when whatever statements were made uh

205about us being out of based and we actually cut some of the expenditures uh after I got here to try to to try to recoup some of that money. Um I think we were projecting to have an additional two or three teachers hired um as as kind of extra teachers that were in the budget. Um, we actually didn't hire those additional uh positions because we didn't need them, but the number of students that we had um to try to recoup some some uh some revenue or decrease some expenditures. Um, but there really were was no way to uh I mean our financials are very public and and transparent. Uh we had already taken out so many or sold off so many receivables that that's why the we needed to to sell off a couple of

206more receivables because we just weren't getting any income for the first couple of months that I was here. Luckily, we were able to find the uh find the lend donate option that provided us sort of a way out of selling off of off those receipts and they've been great to work with and a lot of our families actually donated to that to help us. Um so that was amazing that our community stepped up and other outside people stepped up so that we were able to get that money kind of as a bridge low to to get us from the point of selling off receivables to the point where we're actually able to just have a normal credit. So instead of uh spending several hundred several hundred,000 in loan fees we're able to just you know

207spent less than $20,000 to bridge that gap between our funding now. So we have a right now we have like a 50 something days of catch. We do 50 days of catches. So when do we actually If we don't take that off, um why are we going to run two months, right? We would run out of money in in about a month just with because when we're looking at summer, we have a lot of startup cost for the next school year. So although it's that 51 days is is or I think it's at like 56 days right now, that's based on an average per day cost. Um, but we know that July and August are sort of more expensive months because we're buying materials for next year and getting ready buying books and things like

208that to prepare for next school year. I mean, uh, is it possible we can take just draw the line credit as as we go? So, we're projecting that we'll need $350,000 to get us through paying off the lend donate flow right now until we start getting till we get the rest of our receivables. Once we do that, then we can start paying off the line. Uh but as of right now, that's what we're projecting that we'll need uh based on the fact that we have to pay back the lint donate while we start getting while it uh June 20th. June 20th. Yeah, we took a it was a million dollar loan. So, we definitely, you know, we've gained a lot of that back and we're able to pay off vast majority of it. This is

209just to to basically cover that difference between that and when we get the rest of our money at the end of the summer. So my my calculation is we're going to pay a bill of baseline credit 375,000 uh at the end of February that's going to cost 25 22,000 about 100 interest but luckily we'll be able to pay off about 100 of it early so I think when I calculated it out it was about 18 186 or 188 that's eight months sucks. But even that is better than three or 400,000. That's that's a total cost. Okay. Any other questions? It's recommended the board of directors approve action item K. Is there a motion? Thank you, David. Is there a second? I'll second. All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose, please say nay. Hearing

210none. It passes. Uh, item L, approve adoption of multitudes as the IIA reading difficulties risk screener for California Education Code 530008D on or before June 30th, 2025, the governing board of an LEA serving pupils in kindergarten or grades one or two must adopt at a public meeting one or more screening instruments from the list adopted by the reading difficulties risk screener selection panel after review of the adopted reading difficulties. These risk screeners by the IIA reading risk screener committee multitudes from the University of California San Francisco dyslexia center was selected. LCAP goal action 2025 2026 LCAP goal act goal one action 11 funding source not applicable budget financial impact there is no cost. Any comments on this other than what has already been presented? It's recommended the board of directors approve action item. Is there

211a motion? Thank you. Happy to second. All in favor, please say I. I. I. Did you Did you vote? Yes, I said I. You did. Yeah. I All right. Let's do one more time. Sorry. Uh, okay. Uh, is there a motion? Motion. I'm going to second. All in favor, please say I. Uh, any opposed? Please say nay. Hearing none, it passes. I like Yes. Thank you. I like good input. Okay. Item M, approve adoption of Majou Chinese for elementary Mandarin. New Mandarin curriculum was piloted during the 2024 2025 school year by our Mandarin teachers. The teachers selected Majjo Chinese for students in grades K through five as a core curriculum for Mandarin language arts instruction. The curriculum was shared and displayed at a parent workshop on May 29, 2025. It's our first adoption of a

212mandarin core curriculum. LCAP goal action 2025 2026 LCAP goal one action 11 funding source not applicable budget financial impact not to exceed $9,000 already reflected in the 2025 2026 proposed budget. Any further comments? What are the major changes? That's what they call Chinese. I saw the the is actually textbook, right? Yeah, it's actually a full curriculum. All right. They're very well done. Just curious. All right. Recommend the board of directors approve action item. Is there a motion? I'll move. Thank you, Felipe. Is there a second? Thank you, Molly. All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose, please say nay. Hearing none. It passes. Item N approve the adoption of easy steps to Chinese for middle school Mandarin. New Mandarin curriculum was piloted during the 2024 2025 school year by our Mandarin teachers. The middle

213school teachers selected easy steps to Chinese which includes levels for grades 6 through 8 as well as an advanced option. The curriculum was shared and displayed at our parent workshop on May 29, 2025. It's our first adoption of a mandering core curriculum LCAP goal action 2025 20226 LCAP goal one action 11 funding source not applicable budget financial impact not to exceed $7,000 already reflected in the 2025 2026 proposed budget any further comments recommended the board of directors approve action item and is there a motion thank you Is there a second? I'll second. Thank you. Felipe, all in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say nay. None. It passes. Okay. Executive director's or I um I'll go quick. Um, I did want to share that, um, I was able to respond to all 17

214comments that we had at our previous board meeting and, um, I will continue, uh, with the comments that we have tonight, adding them to, uh, a log that I'm keeping in order to kind of monitor communications and making sure that we're doing a good job of following up and being responsive. Um, that was a side note. I do want to thank all of our staff, students, and families for a really positive end to our school year. So, our promotions uh were amazing. Um, very moving. Our eighth grade because it's so small, it was so personalized. I was actually when I got up to speak, I was kind of brought to tears for a moment. I do want to thank um Brenda Foya from Cabab um coming the bilingual association as well as Cecilia Gonzalez Lemus-Lis

215um also attended from OCDE because we had so many students that qualified for the pathway awards in both fifth grade and in um 8th grade that they attended to celebrate our students as well. So that was wonderful. Uh we started a new tradition I'm very proud of that. Uh we had we knew that whatever we did for our current eighth graders was was going to become tradition because they were our first and we had a clap out uh that so exceeded my expectations. Even we the eighth graders um all of our students in the entire school went around the whole school while our eighth graders walked and the kids in all the grade levels cheered them on. They had personalized signs for them. It was it was a wonderful thing. We have videotapes um of

216that too and share that. Um again, Tiffany held a wonderful Mandarin workshop. It was so informative. I could tell she did so much work. I did want to give her uh a little shout out. And then actually that same evening uh there was a cultural experiment in our um partnership with the Bashum School. Um, and it was we had it over Zoom and it was a school in China and it was it was pretty neat how they coordinated it because they they were each school our our students presented about Memorial Day being our patriotic holiday and they had their presentation and then each team walked um the other school through like a hands-on craft. So I was even making things with clay. It was it was really well done and what a great opportunity. We

217had a wonderful spring concert. I'd like to thank Miss Shen for her work. Um I was Felipe and I were hanging out and our students are so talented. It's amazing. It it was it was amazing the talent that we have. Um, we did have a donation that I did want to thank. Um, that we had a donation by Chrissy Yoko of they're called Biddy Bow Books for every student, 246 books for all of our students in TK through 1 to take home over the summer and practice their Mandarin. So, um, we did have that. We wanted to thank them for that generous donation. Um uh the staffing update we've already um talked about a little bit, but I am very proud of 150 applications um for the positions that we have opened. I have I

218haven't seen that before and that says something about people wanting to come and work here. So I'm very proud of that number. And that's all I have for my update. Thank you. Dr. Would you like to say anything? Yes. No pressure. Well, I just want to thank everyone for my wonderful time here at IAA. U working with the board has been wonderful. Our staff is great. We have the best um the best students. So excited to to come to school every day. Although some of them said that they don't like to come to school. Um once they get here, they all have an amazing time. and um and you know definitely don't want to go home at the end of the day. So that's a really huge testament to our our staff and our teachers

219for just making it a wonderful a wonderful learning environment for them. Um and I know that Dr. Dr. Henry is going to do a great job um as the new ED here and be able to kind of keep moving I forward and making it, you know, just continue to be such an amazing um such an amazing place. Um again, I you know, a lot of the things that Dr. Henry talked about just we had such such an incredible end to the school year with all the different activities. Um there were, you know, fifth graders and and eighth graders crying because they're not going to, you know, see each other. Although the fifth graders are going to see each other, but uh but I guess not for a couple of months. So, um just that, you

220know, tight-knit community and and how much the students, you know, love going to school with each other and and just love being here at at IAA and with the with their different teachers. Um, and I just am excited to see what the what the future holds for for the school and um and you know I know that it will be it will continue to thrive and continue to grow. Thank you. Okay, moving on to the director's reports. uh directors. I just want to thank Amy for all the hard work that you've done during this time. I know it was really difficult to come in cold and hit the floor running and that you had the new staff and everything that you had to deal with and then the students and everything and the board. I

221know they can be a problem sometimes. So, really appreciate the hard work. Yeah, it was a lot of work. I don't think people realize just how much it is. Um, also, uh, I know Grant's not here, but I I want to really send out some kudos to him because on the field day, he endured being in the dunk tank the whole day. And I can remember being a student and, you know, dunking the principal. That was a big, you know, the highlight of my end of the year. So, really appreciate that he put himself out to do that. And um Tiffany Dang, of course, I can't say too much about her. You know, her I kind of missed the there was a little bit of talk about the Apple assessments and all that, but she's

222coordinated and stuff like that. That's a big plus for the school, you know, that's a big deal. And she I was in the meeting with her and she's just on top of everything and she's a huge asset for the school. Very fortunate to have her here. Um I do have one item that this is for Stephanie. You know we did that um Baso school uh program that we tried to do. One of the things I noticed was the audio video uh our hardware and all that. Maybe that's I know we've got a lot of different things going on, but if we're hoping to do more of that, I think we definitely have to have an improvement there. And I really don't have the solution for that. But I think even on their side, it was

223a little marginal it seemed to me. But I think we need to improve that if that's something we're a program we're going to continue maybe not just with them, but in other other areas. So we've had discussions with our new techn issues since the programs are so great. Yeah. and that that especially with that one because of the time frame, right? They need to be available to help out that situation. That's all I have. Yeah. First of all, I would like to thank Amy for your great work. Yeah. in the past year again and especially during the transition period recently give some time for Stephanie to uh to kind of fully understand what's going on the process everything I mean you know every time I'm sitting here just reading through sometimes I read prior to

224the meeting but sometimes I couldn't finish everything and just just sitting here very quickly. I'm a fast reader but sometimes I just think just to prepare all the documents is a huge undertaking. I mean we we're gonna we do this every month, right? That's a huge undertaking because I'm a business guy and when I when I read this gosh just too much to read and you're going to have to understand all that and uh and you're going to have to prepare and we just have a easy job to sit here to read you know for you you're going to have to work with contractors lawyers to prepare all the documents and really that that's that's not easy, you know, to I I want people to know that because that's a huge huge work, a lot

225of details. You know, we're just readers, but they have to prepare it, execute it. It's just not easy. So uh for that especially when after you came on board okay I think on the documentation side we we did a much better job I mean just being very straightforward okay we got a lot of more documents and prepared well prepared okay I I really like that not I like reading but I like the process all right so I just want to comment as as a professional uh I I think that you know you demonstrate leadership of prof professionalism to great extent that's not easy um and uh you know today again you know we are sitting here I heard a lot of comments talking about the transparencies which almost everyone talk about transparencies I think we

226actually just to supplying all the documentations everything make this available I think everyone has access right that's a part of the process to make the whole thing trans yeah as transparent as possible and uh I I doubt everyone will bother to read through everything maybe uh Tiffany Tiffany probably read it I actually yeah I commented you on So it's not easy. Yeah. Not everyone. Okay. And uh truly I I even you know my my comment will be heard by some of the parents. I really do encourage them to read through the documents and be more open and talk to uh from NA to Stephanie and to to Grant Mr. Um you today I was sitting here especially when I was listening to some of the you know students uh writing letters fantastical letters to the

227board I you know I I felt uh warmhearted right I think the kids are pretty mature demonstrated their maturity uh they care about the school that's great um you know I when I was a kid I never wrote a letter to the principal and to the board members. But uh you know happy to to hear some of the comments, feedbacks from the parents, from the students and uh um but we you know asked Grant about it. We needed to have like a process. I'm sure we have a process. We have the right channels right to address some of the concerns, questions, issues raised. I mean some are you know pretty uh serious accusations you know teachers are yelling at the students of the others I think it's just understanding uh sometimes it's just a communication

228issues right but I'm sure with Stephanie's came on board I mean you really uh understand what's going on a lot of audience I know you you are reading that you're taking care of that already. Uh so hopefully in the in the future board meetings we don't have to listen to all that. I'm not saying you know I'm going to we're going to shut up but the board meetings board meeting doesn't mean we're going to be here to address 100 comments 100 emails that this is the purpose of board meeting. That's just my uh suggestion comments. I don't think there's a better use of a board meeting with so many comments. I mean, what if you know you have 100 comments and everyone write, you know, write a beautiful fantastic emails. You're going to read take

22910 minutes to read it. Are we going to hear sitting here to to listen to all that? I don't know. I mean, we just need to have a better process to address and deal with this. Because otherwise, you know, we're going to we have a four and a half hours board meeting today. That's unprecedented. You know, I I was in company board meetings. We never had four hours 4 and a half hours of board meetings. Uh Brad, just yeah, that's my suggestion to you as a as the president of the board and maybe we can, you know, really kind of screen some of the uh questions and not necessarily to present that to everyone and uh because you never know how many iron agenda atoms. You never know. I'm not saying to shut down I'm

230not saying to shut down that but I I don't I think there's got to be a better process, right? So um Dr. Again, I I want to say that your expertise, your knowledge, uh like what David said, really helped us um this year. And um you're so organized and you're so knowledgeable and there's so much even though we're on the board, but some of the detail about school organization, business on the school side, uh you were so knowledgeable. So thank you for sharing that and I also feel like because of your knowledge and you you always look ahead because all the things you have done in this short a year really prepare us uh to protect our IA so we won't get into trouble in the future and you also taught us how to set

231the follow the guideline and so thank you for both being so transparent and so helpful. And I also um Dr. Henry, you were only here what, three weeks, but I feel like you've been here almost a year and you feel like so I so both of you work so well together. Thank you for taking your time, you know, um get uh Dr. Henry, you know, familiar with the situation and work together. Um, so I really look forward in the next year and and uh yeah, both of you are just amazing. And I also want to, you know, um, thank Grant, the principal. He's always uh so patient, so wise, so gentle. Uh I I uh saw a couple times that the way that kids walking by him, they they just they feel safe and they

232know this principal is very kind and they, you know, smile at each other. Um and so approachable. Uh so I I feel like you know we should give him more credit for it because he just so humble and quiet and also um thank um Tiffany Dong. Uh I came to the the year end meeting. She did a beautiful job. And we also see how the Chinese uh curriculum and uh and also our Chinese teacher and the um uh English speaking teacher. They work so closely this year. I mean, and so I want to thank uh the teacher, thank uh Tiffany Zong uh for getting them together. And uh it it's wonderful to see this year the this year and you know um teachers are happy. I walk around I asked a lot of teachers and

233the TA they said they working well together. So um look forward to next year. Right. Uh thank you everyone for your patience for this uh this board meeting. Uh just a couple announcements on my side. One, I wanted to announce the board recruitment process that we had opened up uh starting last month. Uh it's been paused until further notice. And uh I just wanted to end with a special thank you to the staff and the parents for your support during the past school year. We had our first eighth grade promotion and it's an amazing achievement for us, right? We started out as TK through fifth grade, just been creeping up and we just had our first. So, it's really, really exciting. I'm so glad we could start that tradition with the first graduating class. I

234think that's really tremendous. So, thank you all uh for your participation. you give your time tirelessly and uh we really appreciate it. Thank you for your expertise. Thank you both for all that you do. Dr. Henry, you definitely have come in and just just taking the bull by the horn. So, thank you very much. And uh we appreciate it. Uh for those in the audience, thank you for being here and for sitting through and listening to us talk for hours. Okay. With that, we'll move on to adjournment. Recommend the board adjourn the regular meeting of the Irvine International Academy board of directors on June 10, 2025. Is there a motion? Motion. Thank you, Felipe. Is there a second? I'll second. Thank you, David. All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say nay.

235Hearing none passes. Meeting adjourned at 10:30 p.m.