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2022 November Regular Session Meeting

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YouTube / Ajo Unified School District
Date
2022-11-17
Location
Pima County, AZ
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Transcript
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2,113 words · about 12 min
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2026-06-05

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001um this Duncan eye Mr Hopkins hi Mr Cruiser all right this Robinson hi um indivisible [Music] Warriors Mr Mr Mr Hopkins and Ms Duncan Miss Robertson and Mr curtnerage is wanted to make a few quick announcements then I'll give an update I believe you all have a hard copy and uh correct me if I'm wrong Angelina we also put for the governing board to see on board docs uh yes before I give my 100 day Plan update I wanted to give a few other um uh I first spoke to Mr Hopkins the last Thursday about it and I wanted you to give an update to all the board um we have planned a December 3rd and ausd beautification volunteer project we have set 8 AM to 11 A.M um uh Coach Q a color coach

002coach and I have been uh popular in the last few weeks just how to get something started and so we did a little walk through today of of the uh the gym and the area just uh Easton again just trying to focus on what we can what we can hit what we can Target to get to get started and so we've also been planning and talking about um recruiting volunteers having a liability release forms available as well it's going to be on a Saturday focusing on on just volunteers just adults at this time it's the first time we're doing something like this um and we really wanted to just to try and get a good idea of doing by doing a walk through today of what areas we can Target some ideas in mind just

003wanted to share that with you uh we're both excited we also going to work on on uh on sharing this information with the community with the staff also how we can share this information and see if we can get some people from throughout the community here it's going to be Saturday uh December 3rd 8 A.M to 11 A.M so put that on your calendar after you have your cup of coffee in the morning you're welcome to come over and pick up a rake and a shovel and it's our first time doing it so we wanted to see a we're very excited about it and I think she uh you know if she if she really was taking ownership of wanted to just beautify the gym so we think that's great Dr shaboltz and I and

004so we're talking about some other news that's this business focus on an area so when people come over we start right here in this area and then we can just see how it goes but that's just happy information and also uh like Miss Duncan I had product a few the other day uh from your comments about how we can get out some of the information more and uh into today's copper news there's a real good write-up that really broke down pretty much when Mr Casey was talking about and it showed all the the areas for employment but also where we need to do better so it was really good it really went into detail off of his uh his great presentation um I really like how it highlighted uh the partnership with Beyond textbooks so

005we've got to create professional developments with Beyond textbooks you need to do three more so this is a plus but it also broke down the letter grade and where we need to get that at the high school and the KA level so that being said uh you have you have in front of you uh you have in front of you uh a breakdown of 100 day Plan update I'm not going to read the days and then the goals but I have them there for you just to reference so I'm going to highlight several key uh key areas I really want to highlight um we really turned our focus in quarter towards we had all of our staff once we finally had all of our staff with us we really focused our office schools leadership team

006Dr shabok's Masada Mr Casey and I we would have our our almost on a weekly basis our meetings here in the board of conference room and we would have them even before we got our letter grades just changing our completely going through a transformation whether professional development and the focus turning to data so we really started to just have really in-depth targeted strategic data driven decision-making conversation so I'm just gonna I'm gonna highlight the PDS on October 26th you can see it's a follow-up to our October October 11th author School leadership team meeting where we started talking more and more openly about division and mission statement for for aqua Unified the data analysis uh looking at the data we had the Arizona academic State assessment measures of academic progress also the azella assessments the Arizona

007English language learner assessment so I want to really highlight that with you because if you remember from the presentation on Monday our 9 to 12 our high school had 46 points and of the ell there's 10 points we had five so if everything else stays the same but if we can get three more points on ell proficiency and growth we go to the Sea right there so so that's why I wanted to highlight the Zella that's why we were talking about it more and more in our in our conversation in our professional developments we're being a little more strategic as well just with uh Dr chapels and Mr Casey myself for taking different grade levels just trying to differentiate we share with our staff to differentiate the instruction of the students we need to model

008the same as Leaders with our staff and so um that's what focus on October 26th I want to highlight characteristics of effective leadership we started to have those conversations with our all of our staff and our groups um Mr Casey and I with our Pre-K six teachers and some resource teachers Dr shabolta Mr case and Minnesota Cohen had seventh and 12th grade and resource teachers because research teachers play a critical role as well so we wanted to get feedback on the characteristics of effective leadership gave us that feedback we're going to have that set up in our offices we're going to get that set up put that in the frame for us to use as a guidance problem just as we go through this transformation and develop re-establishing our vision our mission statement and moving

009forward uh go to the to the next page page two uh one of the Highlight October 30th uh it was on a Sunday but it was very productive part of the superintendent collaborative Network that I that I belonged to we met in Tucson on Sunday October 30th and just going over our 100 game plans with other first year superintendent so just wait for me to see other first year superintendents we met with our mentors and so just getting that feedback of what we're doing well where we can get there you see on November 1st once again we had a long schools leadership team where we talked in depth about Korean intervention quarterly reading intervention screeners reading interventionists we do have one advertised at this time and then this gave us a very critical update on

010mulano and reading so we're having a our professional development with staff but also as a leadership team the focus has really turned into Data analysis more and more just to really dig deeper in the data of I also wanted before I go into the next PD that we planned for November 1st if you see on November 2nd and November 3rd we had back to that apparent meetings which is very we felt very positive and productive the first one was with uh parents and classroom parent group that is led by Miss Montana Wallace and we've got to hear from a number of parents just on what they what they their expectations are facilities facilities improvements how would you make things look real good outside at the school very uh and just very Salient points it really

011just gave us a good input and and so how they can also help us get the word out more the communication we shared with them that we previously on Facebook we sent email but they're talking about applications what kind of communication apps we can also try and get you know try and work with them on the same page so that was very productive in addition to the school safety meeting November 3rd we have some community members and attendance uh just to get some some input from different different throughout the community you see some of the people there that that that are listed there a few include Deputy Lozano and fire chief Tibbett so um just good conversations giving updates on some of the threat assessment training that we're receiving and also an additional security measures

012that we're taking want to highlight of November uh eighth and 9th as you can see the leadership team and the professional development we change it up a little bit as far as you know how we're still working with pre-k6 here and Dr shiples Middle School in high school but this time of this one this article was a great Mr Casey goes with him and we had to focus on on the areas with each with each level of where we can improve and his group focused on the English learner debt the proficiency levels targeting again the next five of ten points if we get those three or four we're already at a c in addition to if we show both in other areas of our group here we targeted as you can see of the data

013from a data analysis aasa the map the quotery assessment to Zella and the reading assessments but we really wanted to focus on was in our pre-k6 group was identifying 10 students in every class who came here to six also our research teachers coaches we also wanted our resource teachers to identify to go for mentally proficient to partially coefficient because on the gay side our strength was growth 30 out of 50. well let's try and build on our street even more I guess we have an increased proficiency but if we have a strength of try making this stronger so as you remember from Mr Casey's presentation is our highest proficiency available so we really want to decrease that and increase the next highest levels that's going to help us increase our later grade as well in

014case so those are some of the discussions that that we've been having we also have some really good uh in both groups We Had Each every teacher fill out their vision card we've had this done by our classified maintenance team our professional special ed department but here we have our certified teachers each one of them putting down writing down to us what their region is so we can get feedback from every staff member of what what their Vision you know is for ausd then I like Coach Q again she wasn't in my group and then and we had several staff share their vision and and the theme was around learning opportunities relationships school safety um improved academic achievement and when we had the October 7th training from from bail assistant superintendent Kevin Carney on Beyond

015textbooks showed a poster to our group right coach and the comments from our teachers who are similar to what a sample uh vision and mission statement that Mr Carney shared with us October 7th with our leadership team from John Teslas that's from that's from a middle school unveiled about 10 or 12 years ago I believe that was an a school and so it was really good to see that our staff the vision that we have aligned to what an a school the vision of an a school in another District a middle school years ago so you know Coach Q made a very good point that the arrows are starting to go in the same direction which is very which is critical to getting our vision down vision mission statement Beyond textbooks that is the PD

016that Mr Carney gave us as a leadership team and so we're really we're learning we're working other districts and to help our district and so it's been very beneficial this partnership with Beyond textbooks that being said um the final uh the final uh information there we talked about on Monday as far as the 301 District collaboration we really wanted to highlight just the collaboration and transparency would just be involvement of Dr chabot's leadership committee on the 301 plan this event from the business management perspective Mr hooker from the New York Department perspective making sure that we're following auditory General guidelines requirements and so that being said that sums up the 100 Game Plan update and and that's all that I have but I wanted to make sure to share these three items um [Music] zero

017[Music] foreign background check my recommendation is the approval of the employment of Carlos Zamora as a maintenance worker okay Mr Hopkins Hood Mr Duncan and I miss Robinson aye Mr Cruz marriage um Mr President members of the board uh Melissa has been interviewed for the position of teachers Aid of Ms pompacti has received her IDP background check I recommend the approval of the employment of Melissa pompacki as a teacher's aide awesome second eye Mr Hopkins Mr Robertson hi Mr crosner rich personal item is the classified information Mr President members of the board uh David Tibbett has been interviewed in reference check for the position of campus safety monitor Mr Tippett is in the process of getting this ivp fingerprint card and will not start his first day of work until his car is received I

018recommend the approval of the employment of data debit as a campus safety monitor one second hi Mr Hopkins Mr Robinson says hi I'm Mr pearsonridge hi yeah which personal item is because [Music] Mr President members of the board for Quality intercession paraprofessional Amber Ortiz worked and substituted for another AIDS absence to pay Amber the board must approve her employment I recommend the approval of the employment of Amber Ortiz as a paraprofessional during fall break Mr Hopkins this is Robinson I'm stuck in I uh Mr courage hi resume no personal items extra paying position Mr President members of the board of the following employees employees that have expressed a desire to perform the designated extra pay positions for the 2022-2023 school year Roger cotton about girls head basketball coach Brianna Sayer assistant girls basketball coach I

019recommend the approval of the above individuals for the corresponding extra big positions Mr Hopkins Mr Robinson hi Mr Cruz marriage thank you the final person on there is the superintendent's evaluations uh Mr Hopkins and members of the board to comply with Arizona statutes ausp policies superintendent contractual agreements and to effectively prepare for a superintendent evaluations the asba recommends the board of superintendent agree on an evaluation instrument timeline and procedures cvie evaluation of superintendent this is a more decision the board can choose to vote on the above suggestions as a whole of the items individually yeah I'll make a motion to approve this three documents as presented the evaluation cycle and timeline the first year evaluation instrument and the evaluation of this instrument for the 2324 evaluation Cycles by CBE ID thank you Miss Ramsey so

020no discussion first oh I would actually like to find something so based on the conversation that we had on Monday I made some adjustments to the evaluation instruments and that's in the green and that's for clarity um based on Mr Guidry's questions and then I added the number two brief discussion between what numbers with us I don't want to point that out so let's just search yeah anyone else um Miss Robinson I'm Mr Hopkins the stuff and I uh Mr Cruz marriage hi password okay um Mr President members of the board a community made up of teachers representing a variety of grade levels and subjects taught reviewed and revised the attached prop 301 plan a collaboration with Dr chevoltz Ms Smith Mr Alford and myself 94 of the teachers voted to approve the attached plan

021I recommend the approval of the attached proposition 301 plan for the 2022-23 school year Russia I'll check it again okay uh Mr Hopkins um Miss Duncan Mr Robinson hi and Mr Krush marriage is it is anybody have emergency jobs [Music] oh okay I make the motion picture thank you Mr Hopkins Mr Robinson is done

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