001And so I keep looking. Oh, print your card here. I printed printed a new card and send it to Yeah, it's sort of surreal to, you know, get up in the morning and just the kids and do yard work and go to lunch. I ran into Menboro at the at Luigi's last week and I hit him up about the federal money and he says he's not worried about Okay. Well, Gavl Gavl got crowd tonight. Welcome everybody. I'll call this meeting to order at 4:02. And I want to welcome Oladoni. And I want to welcome Charlotte and Wyatt and Stanley. Although he probably doesn't Well, he did kind of look over here though. I got told that a lot when I was in school. Sit. Okay. Um, Oladonia is going to do the flag salute for
002us. Is that correct? Okay. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible for all. Thank you. and adoption of the agenda. I need a motion and a second. Second. All in favor? I public comments. I think I saw something going over that way. All right, come on up. Good sir. Good afternoon, uh, board members, admin, staff, and audience. My name is Joe Bono. I am uh the RTA vice president, a fifth grade teacher at American and also a parent within your district. Uh but today I'd like to come and talk to you as the chess club uh uh teacher at American elementary. Uh thanks to the EL ELOP funds, we have started at chess and I've taken third and fourth graders and
003we've gone from having very little to no understanding of chess to now they can play games, they can use the clock, they can write down their notations and kind of like an end of the year activity, we are holding a chess tournament on May 3rd on Saturday that we would like to invite you to attend. It will be from 10 to about four o'clock. They play five rounds and uh win, lose or draw, they get to play all five. And uh prior to the uh COVID uh outbreak, we had a very strong tradition at American with uh chess. And so we're looking uh to bring that back again. We've contacted the same tournament director who used to hold tournaments throughout Kern County and he is very excited to uh get some uh chess started up
004amongst our youth. And so we thought that it would just be a great benefit uh for all involved and we'd like to also extend that invitation to other chess players that might be in the Rosedale School District or throughout Kern County. And so we'll be sending you a entry form if you could send that out uh Mrs. limit to the uh principles for any that are interested and just uh to have a really fun day of uh in front of the chessboard. So, I thank you for your time and uh hope that uh we'll get to see some of you on that Saturday. Thank Thank you. That used to be a pretty big deal over there at American. What was her name? The lady that ran it, she was at our church. Deborah Taylor. Debbie
005Taylor. Yes. uh any walk through uh during that time of the awards cabinets and uh you could see just how successful that that uh program was. We hope to build it back up to something approaching that again. So does that mean you're a chess player? Uh yes, actually when I was in fourth grade, my uh teacher decided that uh end of the year they would do a fourth grade uh chess tournament in the class. And then when I started teaching, I did that and it kind of had snowballed into uh becoming uh somebody that I just really enjoyed chess. I tell my students, I can teach you in an afternoon and you'll spend the rest of your life uh trying to perfect it. And I've seen students that struggle in the classroom that put them
006in front of a chessboard and they just blossom. So, it's just really exciting to see. You never know who gets uh bitten by that chest bug and just uh blooms. So when teachers do stuff like this, it makes me proud to be here. So thanks for going above and beyond. And for all you other teachers and principles and staff that do the same thing. It's not just about that classroom time. It's about just being with those kids and rubbing off on them and encouraging them. So thank you. Thank you. That's the kind of public comments I like. Yes. Yes. We'll take more of those, please. In fact, you don't even have to sign up if you have something. Okay. So, now we have our student council presentation by Oladani Turner and she's from Rosedale North.
007Wait a minute. Okay. I apologize for that. Forgive me because I know school spirit means a lot. All stars Almondale and you are up and your presentation's up. So, thank you for being here and taking the time to share with us. You're welcome. Welcome. Welcome to Almondale. At Almondale, we at our school, we are respectful, responsible, and productive. All slips are given out by teachers when kids are caught showing one of these attributes. Every Friday we do a drawing during announcements and students are chosen to get prizes. Randomly, Miss Papford would do live announcements and call one student from each grade level that for an attendance award. At the end of the at the end of each quarter, teachers also give a awards to students that have demonstrated these attributes. This this year PTC held
008a family dance and chose theme under the sea. If you're into reptiles, so is your family member, you most definitely take them to reptiles with dad to see all the reptiles. At our school, we host a trunk or treat instead of walking on door, you get candy from a trunk. At Almondale, there are many ways for students to get involved. By participating in these events, students work to earn our almondell letter. Lastly, we hold school events after school approximately every two months, including volleyball, walk across America, and cheerleading. First graders in this event, first graders play hands-on math games. classes do experiments and make observations. Third grade. In this grade, third graders take a field trip where they explored nature and took a short hike. In fourth grade, fourth graders lived like 49ers for a
009day. They got to gold pan for and play pioneer games. Fifth grade students determined the consumer and producer roles in an ecosystem. During my time at camp, one of my favorite things to do was the tide pools. I especially love the sand dunes. At Almondale, we always give back to our community. So, at least twice a year, we strive to give back to less fortunate. We filled four boxes of toys for tots. For the wild LA wildfires, we collected 774 cans. Members of the student council get to make decisions on how we can benefit the school. We also participate in running the games during our quarterly pep rallies. We fundra by selling grams like boo grams and holiday grams to help raise money for our school. Each year, people of Almond vote for the next
010student council officers. Third through fifth are able to run for position on the student council. Believe it all [Applause] stars. Okay, so now we get to ask some questions of you. And here's my question. Is there is there something that your time at student council that you've done that you're really proud that you guys did? I think something that I enjoyed doing and I'm really proud of our school for doing is definitely donating the cans for the LA wildfires. Thank you. Anybody else? Yeah. Tell me a little bit about Magic with Mom. Um I would guess because I did not go to this. That's okay. That's all right. It's coming. Okay. All right. Next time I see you out and about, I'm gonna ask you about that. Um, I attended um trunk or treat at
011Almadale this past year. And do you have any idea how many people were there? I do not. Does the boss 2,000. A lot. Over a thousand. Over a thousand for sure. That That was an amazing evening. Did you participate in trunk or treat? I did. That was fantastic. Thank you. Yeah. That was a great evening. Thank you. Okay. Well, thank you very much. We appreciate hearing from you. And now we're gonna hear from her activities. I appreciate that you call it a clicker because I call the remote thing at home a clicker. And Pete, my family is always giving me a bad time. And I saw it on Seinfeld the other day. I was watching super old one. He called it a clicker. So I copied that and sent it to the whole family. So
012keep going with that clicker. I feel better about that, too. Clicker. Thank you for having me today. uh trustees, Superintendent Lemon and our Rosedale administrators. I'm going to go over some things about Almondell this year and I have for those of you that like to be frontloaded, I have three short videos so you know what's what's coming the way. Um we're going to start by talking about multi-tered systems of support. This is shortened MTSS. We love to have abbreviations. Um, the reason we need MTSS is because there is no onesizefits all in education. Every child needs something different in their academics. They need differentiation in other areas, too. Students have differing supports to help them be successful with behavior and social emotional needs. Um, so MTSS provides layers of support to students when they show
013a need. It partners with PBIS. We are in year eight of PBIS and we took a break for COVID needs and jumped right back in. We are in year three of MTSS for behavior and academics. So we as we learn more, we can do more. And that's what that's what I want to talk to you about today. So Doney told us some things I'm going to repeat. Allstars are respectful, responsible, and productive. And the MTSS and PBIS starts with how to be an all-star. We tell the kids when you are an all-star, when you are at school, we are respectful, responsible, and productive. And what does that mean? Those are big umbrella words that have no tangible meaning. So, we make them make sense to them. We explicitly teach across the multiple settings of school.
014Being responsible in the cafeteria looks different than being responsible in the hallway looks different from being responsible in the restroom and from the classroom. So, we teach those different areas. Much like we have to behave different at a sporting event or at jury duty, we teach students what it looks like in all of those areas. We do this for consistency because no matter what students learn in their home or outside of school, they learn the same thing from all of us. We can't assume they know what it looks like to be respectful, responsible, and productive. So, tier one is the first layer. Every student gets that the behavior expectations. And then we explicitly teach during our regular day all day long about growth mindset. We don't know everything we're going to know. I talk about
015that in the morning announcements. If I make a mistake, I hop on the morning announcements and say, "Oops, I made a mistake." I do that on purpose because I want the kids to know it's okay. Everybody does. And in the classroom, I know Miss Gitton is continually telling her kids, "Kiss your brain. You made a mistake. It's all right. You learned something." Um, we teach character education and I'll talk about other things in the next couple slides. And then tier two means some kids are getting something different. And so that's what I want to talk to you about. So I need to know if you love triangles because you're going to see a bunch of them. The blue triangle means everybody in the school gets it schoolwide. And then the green means it's just in
016the classroom. And so that'll be important in a second. So, schoolwide tier one is that top part of the triangle, and it's bigger because everybody gets it. I know the triangle's inverted. That was a thing, too, but we're inverting it today. Um, in there, you've heard of SEAL, we have our behavior expectations, and then of course all of our academics. Every student gets all of that tier one. But that's not enough. So, inside the classroom, there's another triangle inside tier one. And so because every student doesn't get what they need the first time, those students get a little bit more in the classroom. I'll describe that in a few minutes. And then some kids need even more than that. They don't maybe maybe we do. I'll do it for math. You you teach a math
017lesson on geometry. Um 80% of your students get it. It's not enough. The other kids 10% get small group and then they start to get it. And then five percent still don't. So we need to do more. So that's what I have called a smidge because I don't know what it's called but it's less than a few. And so those kids those kids get something al different and more. They get more. Tier two is some of the students schoolwide and then tier three. And so we're going to go through these triangles. So right now um triangles are all together. Academics and behavior and seal they're all together. But in real life, there are different triangles. And we have about five different triangles at our school. We have students that need more help in academics. We
018have students that need more help incl. So there's a lot of moving parts and a lot of moving pieces. And we have to know our kids well. And I think we take pride in that. We do. We know them well and we know what they need. So for tier 2 schoolwide or behavior only we have added in the last two years social skills with our BIA our behavior intervention assistant which is wonderful and um check-in checkout through our teachers um our staff and our BIA. And so those parts are tier two when students need a little bit more that's what we can give them. two tier um tier 2 check-in checkout uses a facilitator which is the BIA or a teacher that meets with the student before or after school. So to paint a picture
019we have probably 10 um fifth grade students right now and maybe 15 sixth grade students right now that are assigned a primary teacher that's their person that's their facilitator. They go in the morning they check in with them. How you doing? You're going to have a great day. Do you need talk to me about anything? Go get them. They give them their check-in checkout folder. That folder has uh the teacher gives them a zero, one or two for how their day is going for different hours. And then at the end of the day, they go back and check out with that teacher. And the teacher can say, "How was your day? If it wasn't perfect, you know, tomorrow's a new day. I'm here for you. I'm another person that's rooting for you. And if it
020was great and they met their goal, that's great, too." Students in tier 2 do work for an incentive that is exttrinsic because the intrinsic motivation and all of the tier one that we're doing isn't reaching them. So we want to give them what they want to work for. To find out what they want to work for, we have them take a forced choice assessment, which is 40 questions. Would you rather have a bag of chips or get 100% on your paper? And then would you rather have the team choose you first or would you rather have independent time? It asks them 40 questions and comes out with a rating of what they might like best to work for and then each student gets something that will we'll meet their needs because every every one of
021us likes something a little bit different. This is a blue triangle all schoolwide. What it looks like a little uh specifically in all of those areas. We take the first weeks of school to talk about all of the areas of of the campus and how to be an all-star. These are posted on the inside of every classroom door. And then we have classroom expectations that look different. How does it look like? What does it look like to work with a partner? That has to be explicitly taught. What is it? What What do I want you to do when you're lining up? What is responsible and respectful? We can't just guess that the kids are going to know what we mean. So, we teach that to them. Here's third grade also for another example. And over
022the past two years of work, it's been a lot of work to get all of this nailed down. And we've done a lot of crafting and and reddrafting of things. We want to be sure that we are rewarding students who are doing the right thing. And PBIS, Juny talked about our all-star slips. They're the little boxes on the bottom are the grade levels. And during announcements on Fridays, we pull winners. Those kids names get called, but also we also say why so people can just check the boxes there about what they did. Uh and then also they can write something in. Once in a while we'll do live announcements. And one Friday we were doing live announcements and we had a Wi-Fi issue in my office. So we went into a second grade classroom and
023we said, "Can we do live announcements from here?" We had to move our location and you're here again. Miss Gayton said, "Yes." So So I went into Miss Gayton's class and we set up a table much like this and the kids were the audience. And we don't normally do it with an audience, a live audience. We normally do it in my office with when we go live. Um, anyway, I didn't know that in her class every time a name is read the students cheer and it was really great to hear that and I don't know how many classes do that because I'm not in there, but it made our live broadcast that more that much more special to hear that going on. So, I was I was glad we had the Wi-Fi issue because then
024something good came of it. It's no surprise. Um, so in January we did the first behavior passport experience. We took every class to parts of school and we tried to teach them what to expect in that area. I was in charge of what to do at parent pickup. And the rule is, you know, how crazy that is. Expectation is you're going to stand on the red line and wait for your ride because if they're on the red line, then parents can walk on the other part of the sidewalk and then we know where they are. So I I created the red line rap and then can you play that for us? Mrs. Can I do it? Okay. Mrs. Wmax first grade class is singing it for us today. where you're supposed to be. They did
025such a great job. They had they had fun doing that. So that's we're going to use this video then in the fall to teach the kids next year what you should do. And I'm expecting to hear some Redline rap as we go through the rest of the couple years here. So until there's a better song for um for the behavior passport experience. It took a long time, but it was worth it. The kids and the teachers both felt that the students got more out of it than an assembly because they went to each area. We also did a bingo during that. So, so kids could um pay attention to the words a little more. Oh, she just said red line. Got a bingo. That was fun. Um engagement and positive referrals. We talk to kids
026a lot about goal setting and focusing and we try to keep engagement. I'll talk about that in a minute. Uh, one of my favorite things is one of my favorite things to do as a principal. Probably my favorite thing to do is your favorite positive referrals. A positive referral is a link that um teachers or any staff fills out to celebrate growth and achievement. After students are nominated, uh, I I will call them up to the office or Mrs. Luchonia, our vice principal, or Miss Richard Zardine. They read the contents of the nomination form to the students family. Frequently when we call, we have to start off like this. Hi, everything's great. It's Almond. Everything's great. We start with that because you know that number strikes fear. And then many of the students who I
027frequently have to call will say, "Hey, pretend like I'm in trouble." And and and some of the parents I know well enough to goof around a little bit with, but most of them I say, "No, we're not doing that today. They don't need that. They don't need that." So, um, they're really glad to hear from us. If they don't answer the phone live, we leave a detailed voicemail so the student can listen to that with their parent leader. They get to ring a bell in the office after that. It's like a little school bell. It rings and then the office cheers for them. So, everybody that's in the office yells, "Woo! They get a little candy or a mint and then they go back to class." This year, in order to visualize a goal, we
028put out a WOW board so we could get at least 100 positive referrals and we have almost all of the squares filled out. I think we have two more now after I took that picture. But it is the best part of our day when we call parents universally they say, "This made my day. Thank you for making my day with my kid." And they I tell them, "Thank you." Because we want to make sure that they understand we're looking for the the good and then we see it. So we we try to make way more positive referral calls than otherwise. Engagement is something that we're work we're working on with attendance. So we had dress up day. Today was neon and camo day. I was wearing a pair of camo pants earlier. Looking good. You
029might see that on social media later. But we but the kids are into it. It's the week before spring break and they want to come to school so that they can dress up. So we'll do what we need to do. Those are some other ways that we increase our engagement. And here's some pictures of the pep rallies that Junior was talking about. We have games and we highlight student growth and achievement. Another part of engagement is Stanley. And I'm going to go through the slides quickly so that you can read them. I wanted you to see how we teach the kids about how to act when Stanley walks around. So this is I'll let you read those and I'll I'll I'll go through those. This is what the kids get to work on with with
030their teachers. You take it really seriously because they still ask me sometimes if they can pet him. That's good. It's one of his best pictures. and they like to know all the facts about him. So, he does go into classrooms. He was doing sixth grade masts with me. You can see he's calm right now, but he will walk around when there's a lot of excitement and and let the kids at him. They'll call him over to help. He's in the office a lot. He walked with a class to the mailbox when they mailed their Valentine. And there was a rainbow when he was wearing a hat. So excited. I was so excited. I don't know. He didn't really like that outfit, but he did anyway. So, he is he is engaging. There are kids that
031really don't maybe want to come to school in the morning, but he's by the by the front gate and they'll come up and pet him and on they go into school. So he has helped. I want to thank our ELOP funding for engagement. That has made a huge difference. We have kids that come to school for different reasons and one of them is ELOP. Some of those ELOP teachers are with us today. I'm going to show you our pep rally with our cheerleading. [Music] Fire. They did a great job. They were they're really scared, but they did a great job. And all of this just helps with our attendance and chronic absences. We have less absence issues when we have students that are engaged and they know that we care about them. So, here's a
032little video just to end about some of our great things happening. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you so much. Okay, you were um bragging on Miss Gton for a minute and she's a good one to brag on because I'll brag on her daughter who was in my junior high group. She's now a college kid and that was one squared away young lady and thank you that you're as good a teacher as parent and we appreciate you being on the team as well as your friends but I just love your daughter and I have a would you rather for you because would you rather be out at the end of school pickup on the red line or be at the lunchroom during lunch? Oh, I know the answer to that one. I'll pick the former. And why? Um,
033there's so many reasons, but but I will say that it's fun for me to hang out with the kids at the end of the day and just get to talk to them when they can be who they are waiting to get. Great. Thank you. Anybody else? Well, I love the check in, check out because I know with a lot of kids, um, most kids are happy for the most part, but if they just had a little, maybe they got up late and they had a rush, um, I just think checking in is so wonderful because it really does set the tone for the day. And then knowing that somebody's still thinking about them at the end of the day, I think it's really important for them to like, oh, you know, you're still interested in
034what I was doing. I just think and you can see that. I mean, Almondale is my neighborhood. I know how respectful and responsible the students are. I see them. They obey the traffic laws. Um, they stay on the sidewalk when they're walking. And on a clear, calm day, I can hear the most beautiful sounds coming from the playground where the kids are playing. It's just terrific. So, keep doing what you're doing. It's great. But it's nice. So I think it's just nice. So the the check-in checkout intrigued me. They're going to a different teacher. Am I correct? Right. I love the fact that they're seeing more than just one teacher every day. Um, more touches is always better, I think, and and they know that the whole school community cares about them and I know
035they get that feeling. That's a that's a fantastic uh program. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, we have them set up in teams. So, Miss Shepard is absent one day, her next door neighbor will will be that person. So, there's always a backup in it. Good deal. Is that it? Well, thank you very much. Thank you for your presentation. Okay, we uh now have some uh science fair people here and we're going to leave from up here and go out there and watch, but it we'll have them go in the order unless you change something. Francis, Charlotte, um, Severson, and then Wyatt Stanley. And we really want to see, so we're going to go out in the audience. So, come on up, Charlotte. What grade are you? Let me interrupt. She would probably start all the
036way at the beginning. I'll give you a hint. Hi, my name is Charlotte Sever and I did effects of light on vitamin C. My project is about how if I put different types of if I put vitamin C under different types of light of how it would affect the vitamin C. My hypothesis was if I put the red if I put vitamin C under red LED light that I believe it will decrease vitamin C. But I thought if I put the vitamin C under blue LED light that it will increase vitamin C. Uh my data shows that uh my hypothesis was incorrect. Not only did red LED light decrease vitamin C, but also blue LED light did. Um, I did a background research on how vitamin C is good for you and if you don't
037have enough for it of how it can cause diseases in your body and um I also did research on [Music] how how vitamin C is also good for you. I think my research would be good in the future. Um if, for example, someone was buying a new light for their fridge, they could see my data and um see what type of light was good for their fridge. If they I think if they didn't look, then they wouldn't be and if they didn't choose the right light, then they wouldn't know that they consuming less vitamin C than they thought they would. Um, I think that's all. [Applause] Excellent. Thank you. I got first place in my category. I go to Centennial Elementary School and I am in fourth grade. Hi, my name is Wyatt and I've
038been doing the science fair for the past two years. I'm from Centennial Elementary and each year I keep doing a soccer project building off of last year's. This year's soccer project is um panel effects and my purpose was does ball pattern affect ball flight and distance. So I'm testing to see if the panels on the ball like the stars and circles on these two balls will affect ball flight and distance. My hypothesis is that a ball with a tighter pattern with will have more stitching and will weigh the ball down causing the ball to not go as far or and have it go straighter. So therefore, out of the three balls that I'm testing, I brought two today. And this one right here, I think that this ball will go the least amount of distance
039with the with less curve. Um, we use these three soccer ball, these three soccer balls, and I built this with the instructions from my papa. And we change the launching mechanism each year to have the same force on the ball. So, one ball doesn't get more force than the other one to make sure that it doesn't go as far. These are my results. And this part of my results shows the total distance the ball traveled from the launching mechanism. So, we would put a pole under the pendulum hammer and we would pull the pole back and the pole would go straight forward and hit the ball in the center of the ball and where we would put a cap and a mark so it would always hit the center of the ball. Then we would
040measure how far the ball went and on average the this ball went the most amount of dis with went the farthest on average. This part of my This part of my results shows how far the ball went offline. So, we would put a vertical measuring measuring tape straight from the launching mechanism and and we would see how far the ball went off that line. And the results showed that this ball went the straightest, but the ball right here was the most unpredictable because it had the biggest range. So, it was all over the place. And these two balls were pretty similar in range only in handle. I did some research and it showed that a ball with a tighter pattern like this ball with more stitches when it flies to the air or rolls on
041the ground, the air catches the grooves on the ball. And that when the air catches it, it's called air drag. And a ball with a tighter pattern, the air there will be more it will be sides. So when the air catches it, it will be more equal on both sides, causing the ball to go straighter. And a ball with not as a ball with less panels has less grooves. So when it flies through the air, it can catch it one way, causing the ball to curve or go side to side. I think that my results did didn't support my hypothesis or research because this ball because we didn't I I think I didn't put enough power behind the ball to see the effects of air drag. So, if I had to do this project again,
042I would put more force behind the ball to see the effects. I can use this in real life because I know if a game goes down penalty or I take a free kick, I know a ball with um with more panels will have more grooves and I can aim for a more precise spot in the goal and a ball with less panels will um I can I should aim for a bigger shot because if I aim for a precise spot it will it might take the ball off path or off the goal causing the ball to miss the goal. Thank you. That is my project. because these balls were all I needed to explain. And thank you. Excellent job. Wonderful. Uhhuh. [Applause] Thanks for being here, Charlotte. I have an idea for you. Well, thank
043you both very much. That's always fun for us to see. We appreciate you taking the time to come in. Okay, so we are going to move to staff reports now. And that probably means some of you would like to leave and uh any of you students, any of you teachers that have work to do, families to feed, yep, things to do. Thank you all for being here. Thank you students for spending the night or the time with us. And now it's lonely in here. Best part of the meeting. Okay, let's go to staff reports. Guys can move up. They never want to. Yeah, they never want to. We can't hear what they're saying under their breath. But back there So I I believe I'm up first. Um so um at the last board meeting, you
044guys had some questions in regards to kind of um what's happening at a federal level and how that could po possibly impact um our district. And so um at the last CBO meeting and um and superintendent meeting um last week um they gave us some some updates from where they're at. There's not a ton of information at this point, but what they do know is that um that um obviously there is a um uh you know presidential executive order um in regards to um the United States Department of Education and dismantling that department. Um and so what that basically what their purpose is or their stated purpose is um to kind of reduce the overall um costs involved in in running that department and then um increase efficiency within that department and utilizing um that
045staff to to to do other work. Um, and so and just really kind of um pushing those um um the things that the c the the state or sorry I I always want to go back to state because I'm so used to using state information. Sorry. So, but pushing back the the federal that federal level um pushing it back to states so that the states u can control what they do um you know at statebyst state level. Um and so that's the purpose behind it. um we still don't know a lot of lot of information but at this point um there is um programs basically will be shifted to other departments. So while um the the federal department would typically be the ones that are in in control of IDA um those are individuals um
046with disabilities education act um I any student on IEPs that's typically over overseen by that um would be pushed out into uh just different departments that would be uh covering those things. Um but no at this point no reductions in in um what monies they would send to us. Um ultimately there's potential for there to be with, you know, paying less people to do the work. Um there could be potential of more money coming to the state level to be dispersed by the state. Um and so what that really looks like, we don't know yet. Um so, you know, I I always kind of prepare for bad news before I prepare for good news, but when the good news happens, we'll be super excited about it and be able to utilize those things within our
047district. Um and so really, that's just um that's that's kind of where we're at right now. Um there there are some things with title one programs and things of that nature, but at this point once we know more information, I'll be able to give you more. Um but it's it's really um anything moving forward from this point outside of the executive order would have to go to Congress and Congress would have to vote on dismantling that that department. Um right now he it's within his his uh purview to be able to reduce force um but not dismantle the the department altogether. And so, um, as we know in more information, we'll be able to bring more information back and what that looks like, um, in our, you know, future CBO meetings and things of that
048nature. We'll we'll keep you guys as updated as we are. Thank you. And then next up is me. So, a couple of things in regards to um, enrollment. So 6,236 currently enrolled 84 preschoolers for a grand total of 6,320. So that is up 20 students from uh last month. Um but we are still a little bit behind you know where we were uh this time last year. So in April of 24 we're about 27 students um lower but then um not quite as low as in June. So we lost some students uh last year between April and May. So, we're still hovering, you know, around the same size. We wouldn't say that we're growing, but we also wouldn't say that we're declining. So, um just kind of a little standill. Um when we look at
049projections for next year, when I give, uh projections, that's without preschool. So, I just wanted to do some comparison of numbers there. So when we did uh projections last Friday with bringing in and it's primarily looking at incoming TK and kinder and those trickle in throughout the year. You know I I wish we could get everybody to come in March and get their students registered but it just doesn't happen that way. So but uh 5,839 is uh what our projection is right now. But if we fulfill all of the spots in TK and Kinder, we get a projection from the state, then we'd be uh 6,180. So if we can kind of compare that to where we were this time last year, uh projections, uh right about, you know, the same number. Um and then
050um our opening number was 6,149. So just I feel very good about staffing and and where we're going based on those projections. So good numbers. Um in other news, um we are getting ready to start on that enrollment and boundary study that we talked about. Um this is going to help give us some direction on what to do over the next five years before we can really um build another school. We do need to address some of the um enrollment at Patriot. So, um, they are still looking to be over 900 again, you know, next year. So, and on that team, um, well, right now we're working with a company and they're called Walpert. Um, and it is a company that, um, cooperative strategies that we've used with RNR before. So, they have uh, most
051of our data. We should have that in about nine weeks. They told us we'd have a study there. Um, we've uh, just finished up our LCAP planning. So um we are working on taking all that data and bringing some recommendations to you next month. Um we have started state testing. So most of our schools will be doing the bulk of that after spring break. But with uh the science and how long some of the performance tests take, our middle schools did start a little bit early and some of our other um department started a little bit early. So we are in the midst of state testing. Um again, registration, we're uh still registering students for 2526 and we are still hiring. So feel feel really good about where we are. Um so just upcoming dates,
052uh state testing continued. Um middle school will have their get together, their get connected night. So that's bringing in our incoming sixth graders um on May 1st. So both middle schools will do that at the same time. Um staff appreciation week is May 5th through the 9th. and then we'll see you at the next board meeting of May 13th. It's going to be here before we know it. Um just a couple other things. Um for those of you that signed up for the ethnic ethics training that is April 24th, um it's not too late. If you would like to go to the um ethics training by KCSOS, we can get you registered, but that is in the evening on April 24th and they are serving dinner. Um, we will be conducting vice principal interviews next
053week for the vice principal opening at Freedom. Sorry, not next week when we return um after Easter break and uh end of year activities. We are uh currently gathering all that with the principles and we'll get those to you so that you can sign up to attend some of those. But I think you already have a Saturday one for May 3 that you know about the the chess tournament. So, thank you Joe for sharing that. And that's it for me. Thank you. Okay. So, we'll go to 3.6 uh resignations and retirements. And we thank all of those people for their service to our district. And then 4.1, consent agenda. I need a motion to hire a bunch of people here. I I didn't see the um principal. Oh, was it not in there? Not in
054the packet. I couldn't find it. Sorry about that. I'll make a motion. Her application second to approve these. Okay. A second was Lean. Okay. All in favor? I uh 4.2.1 approval to surplus three school buses to be taken to auction and one to be taken to the scrapyard. She's too far gone. I had a police car like that one time probably from when I went to school. Um so what we would do is any money that we would generate from the auction of those um it's probably not going to be a ton of money to be honest with you. Um but we would roll that back into our um transportation budget and they would use it to probably fix something relatively small on one of the other buses by diesel. Yeah, probably fuel. Yeah, it
055it'll get used up about 25 different ways. Great. Thank you. I'll make a motion to uh Okay, a second. I'll second. All in favor? I speaking of the principal uh 4.2.2 is approval of the appointment of Whitney Derxy as a principal of independence. She is here tonight. Welcome. Where is she? Exciting way. Hey. Okay. You have any questions about her application? Now's the time. Well, first meeting, you should have been in that front row. Thank you for being here. Welcome. Um, one thing I always say is discipline is huge and we've got your back when it comes to discipline. We understand that there's many ways to bring up these kids, but we don't want to neglect the discipline and we that comes in positive form as you saw just moments ago and sometimes negative forms,
056but if you got to go there, you got to go there and we got your back on both. Anybody else? I need a motion. Motion. Second. Second. All in favor? I. Congratulations. Welcome. Welcome. Okay. Uh we are 4.2 2.3 approval of the declaration of need for fully qualified educators for 2526 school year. Motion so move. Second. Second. All in favor? I. 4.2.4 approval of provisional internship for Mark Lamus Jr. a single subject social science teacher at RMS effective August 4th 2025. A motion. A motion and a second. Second. All in favor? I approve of 4.2.5. 2.5 approval of the uh same for Denise Marquez mild to moderate support needs effective August 4th, 2025. A motion. So move second. Second. All in favor? I 4.2.6 presentation of the 2526 initial proposal for reopeners between California School
057Employees Association and its Rosedale chapter 508 and the Rosedale Union School District. and it is an information item only. 4.2.7 Quarterly report on Williams uniform complaints. No complaints and board member items. I have one. Um, my pastor at our church was the coach for girls, seventh grade girls at RMS. And he wanted me to to make sure I knew that the gentleman who maybe he's over sports at both junior highs. What's his name? Mikey Rebe. Mikey Reebe. How appreciative he was of him. He has done these things. Our pastor's done these sporting things before in the past, but he this was remarkable. This Mr. Urebe must have gone above and beyond. And so that should be noted. And I just want to thank you guys for having him where he's at because you put him
058there. Anybody else? I had a um grandmother of students at Patriot call me and she just wanted to express how wonderful the office staff is there. And I told her call the office and ask for the principal and tell him that also. But, uh, I just love getting those kind of phone calls and and I know I think the office staff at every campus is fantastic. But, uh, it's neat to get a phone call um, from a parent or in this case a grandparent and they just wanted to take the time to express how wonderful of a staff there is. So, I'd share that. Well, and I'd like to say I can't believe that it's almost over for the year. It's It's gone so quickly. And it's also been so great that we haven't really
059had any major anything this year, flare-ups, which is I mean, it's just been so smooth, which is so wonderful. What a blessing. This isn't real wood, but I'm gonna Yeah, it is. It works. But it uh No, it but that just says a lot about us. It really does. So, it's just a reflection of all the good things that we do every day with all of our students, staff, and and families. So, great. Great job, everybody. Okay. Well, if that's it, we need a motion to move into close session. Motion and a second. Second. All in favor? And I would like to ask Miss Dery to come up so we can shake your hand and welcome you to the team. We do appreciate you. Is this