Governing Board Regular Meeting - 11/25/2025

001All right, it's six o'clock. I'm going to call to order the Apache Junction Unified School District's November 25th, 2025 governing board regular meeting. We will begin with roll call attendance. Mrs. Ross, >> present. >> Mrs. Williamson, >> present. >> Mrs. Garcia, >> present. >> Mrs. Lean, >> present. >> And I'm present. All board members are in attendance. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. remain standing for a moment of silence and remembrance of Officer Russell Duncan to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nationy and justice for all. Please be seated. On to item 1.3, approval of the agenda. Would someone like to make a motion? Madame President, I'd like to make a motion to amend the agenda and move items 6.7 and 6.8, executive session, to

002the top for action items. >> We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? >> Second. >> Mrs. Ross, >> I said second. >> Yes. Do you have >> Oh, yes. >> Okay. >> Mrs. Williamson. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Garcia. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lean. >> Yes. And I'm going ask that motion passes five to zero with we need a motion to approve the amended agenda. >> Madame President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the amended agenda. >> We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? >> Second. >> Mrs. Ross seconds. Mrs. Ross. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Williamson. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Garcia. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lean. >> Yes. >> And I'm Yes. That motion passes 5 to zero. >> On to board meeting minutes not previously approved. Um, I just

003want to have a little discussion. Um, I talked to Dr. Papalardo about our board meeting minutes and he agreed that it would be a good idea for our work session minutes and our regular minutes after they're approved that they be emailed out to the staff so that they are aware of um what's going on at our at our meetings. So, I thought that was really good that Dr. Papalto wanted to do that. Um, any other discussion on the minutes? >> Um, I agree with you. I know in the past we used to email them out to staff the next day, >> right? >> So, they were update updated on the right thing. So, I think that's a great idea to continue that, >> right? I think it's good way to make sure that everybody's getting

004the information. >> What behind >> it'll be behind once it's approved. >> Three weeks. >> These are October. being discussed now, >> right? So, would we be so they would have to be approved first before they're sent out? >> But at least they'll get them, >> right? They'll still get them, >> right? Well, in the past when we had the meetings, didn't we just do when didn't we have that immediately sent out to staff? Just explain. I'm trying to follow. >> We could do. >> Yes. >> Right. Okay. >> Mhm. was discussed the night before. >> Right. >> So, as long as we getting the information out to staff of what is occurring in the meeting, so we can work on that with Dr. Popla, whether it's a the full minutes or a summary, but

005I think it's something that we need to do. All right. Would somebody like to make a motion on the minutes? >> I I need clarification. So typically if we have a board meeting right now >> the very next day our PR in the past would send a summary out to the staff of what the board has voted on. Is that what we're saying or are we talking about something different? >> Well, we were originally talking about the approved minutes being sent out and I know PR was going to add those to her newsletter as well. Would we be able to have that out to the staff so they know what's going on or was there a reason? >> Do you want do you want it as the minutes approved or just a summary? >> It's

006a really good question, right? Um if the minutes are approved then they're accurate because they're they're always in a draft form before you >> say so. Right. Because we've had times where you have corrected it up here, >> right? It's better that they have accurate information as timely as that we can get it to them would be the preferred method. >> Okay. >> So, how could we make it to where we have the board meeting and then the PR gives the information to the staff almost immediately or days later. >> How could that take place? It have is we couldn't do that until it was transcribed and we'd have to look at the transcripts so we could make a summary. So >> how long does it take to transcribe? >> Two to three days. >>

007Right. >> So that's why I'm saying in the past we had the PR will do a snippets of what was approved and send it to >> the staff. following day. >> Correct. >> But it's not the whole minutes that we're sending to them. >> Right. That's what I'm asking of what was discussed and approved. Right. >> Right. Just the approval part. >> So could we do that Dr. Papalo? So the staff is a prize with our PR doing that. >> We can try that. It will be cumbersome to get that because there there will be lots of discussion and lots of things to cross out but we can try. >> I just think it's important because I know in the past when we've had that done with the summary >> staff is apprised of what's

008really happening with the board and getting accurate information like the very next day >> or days later and if we have our PR is she here tonight. Okay. So if she's here and we can talk about possibly that at least the staff will know what happened the night before, especially on important topics, and they'll just get the summary. >> Good. >> I just think it's important to get that information out >> immediately. Well, immediately or some one way or another so that staff is aware of what's going on in the minutes >> because if we're talking about something that's really important to staff, >> I think that having just a summary to them, just the gist of it the very next day or the day after with our PR that we should be utilizing. I

009think that's important. >> Okay. >> No, I agree with that only because as an employee, as a teacher, half of my emails I delete because there's a lot of junk emails. So, if you if we could because if if I got information that was a month later, it would it wouldn't make any sense. But if we could get a summary, that would be awesome. >> Well, and if we want, we could still send >> Yeah. Do both later. Yeah. >> You know what I mean? >> Yeah. >> So, we could do the summary and then when the minutes are approved, some amount. >> I I like that. >> Okay. Mrs. Ross, anything? >> Nope. Mrs. Williamson, any comments on that? >> Nope. >> All right. Would somebody like to make a motion on the minutes?

010So, do you want me to motion that um with summary? >> Okay. >> Approve the minutes. >> Madam President, I'd like to make a motion on October to approve the minutes on October 28th regular meeting, November 4th work session and November 17th, 2025 board retreat minutes. >> We have a motion with somebody like second. >> Second. >> Mrs. Ross seconds. Mrs. Ross, >> yes. >> Mrs. Williamson, >> yes. >> Mrs. Garcia, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lean, >> yes. >> And I'm a yes. That motion passes five to zero. on to information only items. 2.1 governing board members report. Who wants to start? >> Mrs. Rosson. >> No, I have nothing. >> Okay. Mrs. Williamson. Um, I actually was super excited that last uh week Friday, I got to meet up with Dina and we went

011to the high school and attended the Christian Courage Club. There was over 230 students there. was amazing. Um it was just really good to see just all the kids there and what was going on. I really enjoyed that. Um like to really give recognition to the student that stood up on the stage and actually spoke to these over 230 students because that takes a lot of courage. Um his name is John Beltron. So that was really good just to see how God is working in all these kids at the school. So, I I really enjoyed that. >> Thank you, Miss Williamson, Mrs. Garcia. >> Okay. So, first of all, thank you, Mrs. Kimell, for and Dr. Paplardo for allowing us. For um those of you who are not aware, when we did the honor of

012um Mr. Russell, Duncan Russell, he was a police officer back in 1983. Um his kids went to school here. And so since we did the remembrance for officer Fosio, I had asked that we did the same thing in the month of November to find it appropriate. Um he was an officer in Apache Junction and he served for five months before um his tragedy happened and all of three of the girls came to Apache Junction. So that's the reason why we had that up and just a little bit of information for you guys. Um and then I had the honor of doing senior interviews. I can't remember if this is my ninth or my tenth year doing the senior interviews, but I interviewed six seniors. Um, and I just wanted to kind of call out some

013of the things that the students pointed out about their teachers. So, I had two um students that were um in the drama class and a few of the students talked about Mr. Lanir. They said that they make him they made them feel he always makes them feel um special and that he um this year had made um homemade shirts for them for the play, the cast and the crews. And he's just always um fun with them and open and just really acts like he cares. And so I wanted to thank him for that because there was just a couple students that pointed that out and um some of them expressed that their sometimes when they're at home and they're troubled and they come to school and we have a teacher like him, um it really

014makes their day go better. So that was one of my notes. Ironically, he's here here tonight for student of the month. So that that was that was good. And then Mrs. Moffett, um Mr. and Mrs. Matlo and Mr. Reas, they also said that they're very kind and caring and always helpful and that they're um happy to be here at Apache Junction when there's students that are able to come to school with the teachers that care about them. So, I wanted to point that out. And other than that, I don't have anything else. >> Thank you, Mrs. Garcia. Mrs. Ling, >> I think we went to the East Valley School Board Consortium since last meeting, right? >> So, that that was my my um excursion this month. >> Okay. It was fun to watch like um

015the presenter and and to get to talk to the other school board members. So, >> yes. All right. And so from my report, I attended the Christian courage club with Mrs. Williamson and it was pretty amazing to see the amount of students there. I attended the Rotary fundraiser casino night. Was very fun. Um I won an iron which I'm going to be regifting that for Christmas. And what was nice about it is that all the proceeds that benefits um the Apache Junction youth programs and student backpack food programs. So that was really nice. Um I was also honored and privileged to be invited to the DIY London um by Dana from our panel county recorder um for public service of excellence. That was very it was an honor for me to be invited to that

016and it was at the windmill winery which is very nice. So that was exciting and that's all I got. So we're going to move on to the superintendent report. Dr. Clealardo. >> Madame President, members of the board, community, staff, and students. Um a few things this month. Uh attended the re-imagining high school conference last week. Attended the Boys and Girls Club of America Arizona conference. Um big shout out tonight to Peralta Trail Elementary School. Their staff um stayed with the kids because the US60 was closed has just reopened a little bit ago. Um serve them breakfast for dinner, but okay. So those guys will be late. Um high school sports, flag football, we have some all region second team members in flag football. It's Jade Schuster and Bell Win. We had a state qualifier in

017cross country, Wyatt Shively. In football, all region second team, we had Don Bringham, Luca Pape, and Male Hoffman. And for the first time in a long time, we have an AJHS cheer girls stunt performance team. They competed at the AIA championship and they're Elo Brennan, Kaden Broomer, Tinsley Stickle, and Sedona Steel. So, congratulations to all of us. That concludes that part of the report. So, now let's get on to the good stuff. >> The good stuff. >> So, we'll do the staff and student recognition. >> Okay. Let's begin that. Judy's got a delivery. >> Welcome. Is it working? >> Oh, she got it. >> Good evening, Madame President. Governing board members, Dr. Propolardo, family members and colleagues. My name is Aubrey Jackson and I'm the academic and behavioral interventionist at Four Peaks. With me is

018Kelly Stimson, our office assistant to the principal. I will be speaking on behalf of Principal Broxma, who is unable to attend tonight. It is now my privilege to recognize this year's Four Pinks Certified Staff of the Year, Manuel Marmal, also known as Manny. Manuel is a dedicated, hardworking young man who serves our night at nights as our night custodian and he has been an important part of our four pinks for nearly three years. In that time, he has become someone we can always count on. He is dependable, focused, and committed to doing his very best every single day. One of many examples of Manny's work ethic is his dedication to his work and his job. Mrs. Brockman tried to talk to him into taking the night off so he can enjoy this special recognition with

019his family, and he still chose to come to work that came here for just a little bit. That alone speaks volumes about his work ethic ethic and his loyalty to our school. Our staff describes Manny as he is always willing to help set up for school events and offers support to staff members. Another shared, "Many has spent many days working on his own and he does this without hesitation or complaint." Manuel, thank you for your unwavering dedication, your positive attitude, and the pride you take in everything you do. You are truly valued member of Four Peaks Elementary School family, and we are grateful for all the ways you support our staff and students. Congratulations on being named Four Peaks classified staff of the year. >> Once again, it's my honor to recognize this year's Four

020Pink Certified Staff of the Year, Patricia Hayward, also known as Trish. Trisha is the definition of dedication. She has served the Apache Junction School District for an incredible 31 years, pouring her heart, talent, and passion into every classroom she has touched. One of the most remarkable joys of teaching this long is seeing former students return to the district, not as children, but as colleagues. and Trisha has experienced that a few times. A testament to the lasting impact she has made. Trisha brings patience, creativity, and unwavering determination to her work. She is not only an exceptional educator, but also a trusted mentor and colleague. Over the years, I have watched her take on some of the most challenging situations and face them head-on with compassion, grace, and genuine love for students. Her colleagues describe her beautifully.

021Trisha has an extremely challenging class and handles each student with patience. Trisha, thank you for your years of dedication, your resilience, and the steady, caring presence you bring to Four Peaks every single day. You have changed countless lives, inspired future educators, and strengthened this community beyond measure. It is my honor to recognize Four Peaks Volunteer of the Year, Cody Huffer. This is Cody's second year serving on our PTO and our first year as president. She is the proud parent of two children in our dual language, kinder, and our first grade program. And her commitment to our school is seen in everything she does. Cody's talents are seen in action in many ways. She leads fundraisers, plans festivals, coordinates before and after school events, or finds new ways to bring our community together. Cody Cody pours

022her heart into Four Peaks to help our students, staff, and families together. Our staff describes her best. Cody goes above and beyond to make the staff feel appreciated. Another shared, "She is so talented and so helpful. She's always willing to lend a hand in my classroom." Cody, thank you for your dedication, your passion, and the countless ways you lift up our school. Congratulations, Cody, for being Fort Peaks volunteer of the year. I know it's Congratulations. All right. Madame President, governing board members, Dr. Paulardo, family members, and colleagues, it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you two of our Four Peaks outstanding students in character and academics. Our first student, I do believe she is sick and she won't be here, but I still want to talk about her. Giovano Ricabono. I would like

023to invite, well, she's not up here. Giovana is a fifth grade student at Fort Peaks. Mrs. Morton Mortonson says, "It has been such a pleasure to be able to watch Gia in advanced mathematics for last year and this year. She is always willing to go higher and higher with her learning. Never wanting a ceiling to stop her. Gia has such a strong foundational base of mathematics and can always be counted on to use that base to work on her higher order thinking math tasks. One can often find her sketching a complex drawing while completing her math task. She can do both to perfection. I am proud to see you with this award. Gia, congratulations. Mr. Shaw says, "Jia's enthusiasm for challenges knows no bounds. She embraces the process of learning, never seeking shortcuts and utilizing

024all resources available. Her persistent effort has led to massive growth despite already being in commanding position. With her mindset, she has no boundaries other than what she wants to decide to put in front of herself. I'd like to recognize Giovana for outstanding academic achievement in our recent AASA assessment. She earned a perfect score of 100% on the math portion of the test. All of us at Four Peaks congratulate her on this deserved recognition. I would like to invite Castton Tristelleri up front. Cash Castton Tristilleri is an exceptional fifth grade student who truly deserves to be recognized as student of the month. He is bright, hard-working, and consistently demonstrates strong academic skills across all subjects. Castion is not only an excellent student, but a leader on our campus, proudly serving as president of the student council.

025He approaches every task with positivity and maturity, and he is a wonderful role model for his peers. We are incredibly proud of him and grateful to have him represent our school. Mr. Shaw says, "Cashion is a cool cat in the game of education. I can never quite gauge his exact understanding in a given moment, but I do know with his gears are turning. He never ceases to follow through and impress. From continual improvements to test domination, he figures it out in the end. His combination of goofiness, patience, and brilliance make him someone worth pausing a moment for, someone deserving of this award. Congratulations to Castton for an incredible academic accomplishment. Not only did he earn a perfect score of 100% on the AASA math assessment last school year, but this marks his second consecutive year

026of achieving a perfect score in math. >> Castton's consistent excellence is a testament to his hard work, focus, and passion for learning. His achievement sets a powerful example for his classmates and shows what dedication can accomplish. We are so proud of you, Castton. Now, I would like to introduce the principal of the academy, Brett Berman. >> Thank you very much. um from fourth grade and the academy is Judith Breton. Come on up. Judith is a fourth grader in Mr. Weby's fourth grade class. Judy, as he calls you, this is all from him, is always the first to offer help, share a supportive word, and treat everyone with respect. We also see how um wonderful a big sister she is. Qualities in class as she is patient, leads by example and models a beautiful example of

027kindness and wisdom to her classmates. Judy is responsible and a natural leader who looks out for others. Judy is a smart, kind, and positive scholar in our classroom, and we are thankful to have her in our class and on our campus, and we look forward to seeing her continue to lead other students by her virtuous actions. Great job, Judy. All right, Mr. Aone, come on up, buddy. >> He is way too cute for all of us. >> Too cute. >> Hi, sweetie. You can stand right over there. Arone Gomez Bonito. He is a kindergarter in Miss Jones's class. Arone is a wonderful student who always tries his best in everything he does. He has made so much progress this year and continues to impress his teacher with his hard work and determination. Arona is kind,

028respectful, and always willing to lend a helping hand. He often helps his classmates and even translates for students who don't speak English, showing great leadership and compassion. Arone always uses his manners in class and sets a great example for others with his polite and positive attitude. He also excels in PE. His amazing athleticism and teamwork make him stand out. It's kind of like Mr. Bitterman. I stand out with my athleticism as well. We may have a future sports superstar on our hands. Arone is always the first to offer help when someone needs it and treats everybody with kindness. I'm so happy to have him in my class. Congratulations, Arone. Whoever I want. That's awesome. Uh, from Desert Vista, Miss Kelly Font. >> Thank you, Mr. Verman. All right, Madame President, members of the board, Dr.

029Papa Lardo, community, colleagues, and family. I am Kelly Famp, principal of Desert Vista. I am honored to present two of Desert Vista's exceptional second grade students tonight for recognition. And our first Mustang is right up here in the front row. It is Khesi Singleton. >> So, Khesi is truly a sweet and joyful Mustang. One of her favorite things about Desert Vista is all the playgrounds. She couldn't choose just one. Where she loves to spend her time playing and exploring in PE, she especially enjoys the rock climbing wall. If you haven't gotten a chance to see our rock climbing wall, come visit it. It's amazing. Um, she's also an avid reader. She loves using Epic, which is an online program to help dive into new books, and she loves that it can read the books to

030her. And she shared that she's excited to get a cell phone soon. And when I asked her why, she said the main idea is so she can call Papa John's. I'm just putting it out there. You might want to make sure she doesn't have a credit card attached to anything. So, uh, her sense of humor is definitely shining through with that. She's at home. She also enjoys watching Henry Danger. I'm getting ready to give up one of your secrets here, Kacy. And she joked that if she watches it before her sister, she blames robbers for doing it. That robbers are coming into the house and watching the show and nothing else. So, um, she's been a proud Mustang since kindergarten and her favorite teacher so far has been Miss Williams, which was one of her

031first grade teachers. And outside of the classroom, she stays active. She's been in cheer for three years and also plays basketball. And her teacher says that she stands out not only for academic excellence but also for her character. She treats others with respect, helps peers without being asked, and always strives to improve. It's students like Khesi who remind me why I do what I do in education. We are so glad to have Kesi as part of our Desert Vista family. So congratulations, Kesi. And our second incredible Mustang is Remington Nurick. It's going to be hard to see it right now, but Remington is fun and energetic >> once he gets over his shyness. Um, he brings a lot of joy to Desert Vista. One of his favorite parts of the school day, snack time, >>

032especially when his teacher provides the juice boxes. He also loves PE and his favorite game to play is tag. He was trying to explain to me this weird turkey tag thing that they were playing the other day and I was so confused. Um, and of course that's when he gets to run and have fun with his friends and actually put a smile on his face, which we're not going to do tonight. When it comes to reading, one of his favorite um picks is the classic Miss Nelson is Missing. If you haven't read it, read it, please. It's a good one. Outside of school, he enjoys going over to his cousin's house where the two of them love to roll down hills. I asked him, I'm like, "Please make sure there are no cactus or anything

033because that would make for a bad day." Um he has a loyal German Shepherd named Wyatt and he's been part of the Desert Vista since uh since kindergarten as well. His favorite teacher um was his kindergarten teacher, Miss Edwards, who clearly made a positive impact on him. And he's a true athlete. He's he stays active. He does baseball, football, basketball, making him a very well-rounded and spirited student both in and out of the classroom. His teacher says that he stands out for his kindness and willingness to help classmates. He's always trying his best, works hard on every assignment, and sets a great example for others through their positive attitude and teamwork. So, we are proud to have both of these remarkable students as part of our Desert Vista family. So, congratulations to you both. So,

034now I think I'd like to bring up Mr. Paperman, principal of Cactus Canyon. Good evening, Madam President, school board, Dr. Papalardo, families, students, colleagues, um, community members. Um, this is a fun time of the month. Each each month is doing students of the month. We get to see our not just the best and brightest, but the best leaders and the kids that are nicest to each other on campus. Um, so we have two students of the month. Um, the first one is Delaney Garcia. don't see her here. Um, so I think we'll save this to next month. Okay. And the uh second is Jackson Mulvi. So there's some messages from his teachers and then some a little bit about him as well. So his effort and respect for others make him a role model in

035the classroom. He's truly deserves the recognition as student of the month. Congratulations. All his peers in PE enjoy being around him, having him on their team and in their groups. He always comes to class prepared and ready to give his best effort. Great kid to be around from Coach Kim. Jackson is always such a pleasure to have in class. He is always willing to help others and leads by example. He has such a desire to learn and to be successful in and out of the classroom. Congratulations, Jackson. You deserve it. Jackson, sorry. A lot of teachers really wanted to write about him today. So, um, Jackson was a delight in my student teaching class, and to no surprise, he had continued to be a delight since entering sixth grade. He's a true role model for

036his classmates by Miss Chambers. Now, so some of some personal things about Jackson, his favorite subject in school is math. Um, he really feels like he does really well in that class. Um, his hobbies are sports like football and other out outdoor activities. Um, that also includes his extracurriculars. Um, he would like to be an engineer and his favorite food is chicken Alfredo with pasta. Congratulations, Jackson. Um, and up next we have the fabulous Misskin, principal over at AJHS. >> Thank you, Madame President. Dr. Papalardo, governor Board, hello community. It is my privilege to um share with you two outstanding high school students this evening and I will call up Janet Lampere first. Come on up. Janet is a 10th grader at Apache Junction High School. Her favorite subject is this year English because my

037teacher is great and I learn a ton. Hobby and activities. She enjoys sports such as cross country cheer and soccer. And I think you just came from soccer practice, right? Yes. All right. Hopefully you have a Kleenex in your pocket for this next one. So, somebody who inspires you and how she says, "My dad because he does so much for his job and our family. He just keeps going even if it's a crappy day. He's my best friend and truly the definition of a hard worker." A If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why? Either the ability to stop time or a t teleportation because I want to be able to be places or do things without the worry of time. I love that. All right. A hidden talent or fun

038fact about you is she can play many instruments and paint. Oh my goodness, we made you cry. I'm used to making people laugh, not cry. You did this. >> All right, let's me see if I can make it any more weird. Um, all right. Someone at school has made a positive impact on you. My boyfriend. Is he here? >> No. My boyfriend because he is caring and always uplifting. He is a kind person, not only to me but others. advice you'd give to other students to be successful. Do extracurriculars even if you think you won't be good and don't stress too much as well. All right, one teacher comment here for Miss Janet. Janet is a joy to have in class. She's always positive and attacks each day with a smile and enthusiasm, except right

039now. She is the type of student that others want to be around because she is an energy giver and they like to be uplifted by her and her positive attitude. You are a hard worker in the classroom and in your extracurricular activities. Congratulations, Janet. I'm proud to be your principal. All right. Um, next I'd like to call up Gabriel Mendoza. One interesting thing about the two students of the month that we have this month is they're bo both um extremely positive positive people all the time. Um Gabe is a 12th grader at the high school. His favorite subject in school is AP environmental science. Hobby he enjoys outside of school fishing. Someone who inspires you and how Lamar Jackson because he is the greatest quarterback of all time. All right. Favorite school memory going to

040track meets last year. We need a new memory to lay down for your senior year, right? This will be it. All right. One goal for this year was to gain a deeper understanding of the environment. Dream job or career would be an environmental job. an advice he gave to other students to be successful. Don't procrastinate. Get the work done. I love that. And then his AP environmental teacher happens to be the one I got a quote from. And he says, "Gabriel Mendoza comes to first period AP environmental science eager to be challenged each day. Even though it's first period, he comes in with energy and enthusiasm. He has a strong interest in environmental science and it shows. He investigates his lab work thoroughly and loves the challenge. Loved watching him play linebacker for the prospectors

041this year. As he brings the same energy to the grid, he plays with grit and energy. Congratulations. I'm also proud to be your principal. Um, Peralta Trail is not here because they had to stay for their for their students. So, we'll recognize them next month and I'm sorry about that that we couldn't do that tonight, but there was no way for them to get here from the 60. Um, so we're going to take pictures and then before we take a break, we have a special presentation by a couple of principles and we'll do that too. a couple principles and the assistant principles and interventionists that we'll do. So, right now we'll do picture time. Okay. Love it. >> Don't panic. Come on. trying to hide. >> I know. I should have just Congratulations. Dr. Okay,

042which one is this? >> So, what you have what you have here is a the second in a series of three series of relay and the professional development that we send principles and assistant principles to do. >> Thank you, Madame President, members of the board, Dr. community. >> Yes. Um over fall break. >> Is this one on? Good. Over fall break on October 2nd, our leadership team that is presenting tonight, principles, vice principles, interventionists, and academic coaches had the opportunity to to participate in professional leadership training through Relay Graduate School of Education. This experience focused on one of the most important parts of improving our schools, learning how to lead teacher teams and analyzing student work with clarity and with purpose. Relay once again provided us hands-on practical uh tools to help our teachers identify

043learning gaps, understand exactly what students know, and respond with immediate targeted instruction. It's strengthened the way that we guide conversations around students work so that those conversations are consistent and focused and ultimately beneficial for every student. I like this one better. The goal is simple to ensure that student learning is understood, supported, and accelerated. The training we received on October 2nd deepened our ability to lead teachers in that mission. We are excited to bring this learning back to our schools in an effort to support quality instruction and to keep student success at the center of every decision we make. I'd like to introduce the team that went with us. Um, and I think they're all here. One, two, three, four. Who's missing? Oh, Stephanie. Sorry, Stephanie. She got held up at Peralta as well. So,

044um, tonight with me is assistant principal of junior high, Tara Seymour. Um, Kendra Porter, who is an academic behavior interventionist at Desert Vista, Aubrey Jackson, who we saw so eloquently speak from Four Peaks, um, Stephanie Lucair, who is not here, um, both of those last two are academic behavior interventionists, and Melinda Oar, who is the high school assistant principal, and Mr. Russell Paperman. I believe he is principal. >> Let's get started. All right. >> Good evening. Um so we're just going to go through some of the slides with you. We're each taking a few. We're going to start with the objective. What was the purpose of this training? What were we there for? It was really just to help prepare us, the leaders of the schools, to be effective with our data meetings and with

045our teachers so that we they know why they're there and we can really help use that data to improve our lessons for our students and just the knowledge that they were receiving in targeted areas. So gave us it showed us just an engaging way to do a deep analysis of the students work of the data received not only from our testing scores but also from just data that's they're picking up in the classrooms over class work that's being done with those students. We identified procedures and conceptual gaps and how to do that with the material that teachers were looking at during the data meetings and then also finding ways to retach that's designed specifically for those gaps. Not just well we did this they didn't do well, so let's redo it all again. But those

046specific areas and those specific gaps of what they are missing so that we're really targeting down that teaching so that it's not just an overall again for them, but specifics to what this one is. We want to make sure that we're preparing for the meeting. So making sure that um we're coming ready, that we have student work ready to look at, um that we know what the lesson materials were, and that we know who the team we are inviting. Um that we know each and every participant's role in that meeting, and that we are well prepared for it. >> Um so we're talking about the principles talked about last time, the and show chart. We took away from that as well. How to unpack that standard, how to look into it deeper for students to

047understand what is truly to be taught. Um, and analyzing the state student work we really liked because it's bringing in samples into the meeting and able to look at it from each different levels of students to see what they took away from the lesson and what do the teachers need to do better for the future or where do they need to retach to close those gaps. All right, for the name it this especially for at the elementary level was our favorite part or take away from um the training. This is where you're going to close those learning gaps when you retach um what the students need to know. The no is what is the most important part of the standard that students must know. The show means what will I look for as the teacher

048in my students response that demonstrates their understanding and their mastery of that standard. And then going with that the do it. So you need to plan to plan out the retach. You need to close that gap by selecting the appropriate lesson structure that will include what your students need to know to be retaught so that they can give the correct response so that you as the teacher knows that they have achieved that mastery in that standard. Thank you. Sorry being so tall. Um, so the takeaways are identifying the gap from an unpacked standard. Uh, being purposeful with the retach strategy and following up with the retach data in the next meeting. This way the students will have any gaps that they are struggling with to be filled and then we can move on to the

049next part. So the most important piece, how are we planning to implement? Um we talked about we already have professional learning communities on our campus with our staff and that's the best place to implement these. We already have those meetings. So coming in purposeful, making sure our teachers are prepared, that they can identify those gaps with us, and that we have a discussion about what are we doing to move forward, how are we planning to address those gaps, and that we're going to follow up with those, meaning the next professional learning community meeting that we have, we're going to address, how did those retach happen um and and how did they grow and making sure that it's a full cycle circle. So um she said one word I think that I can highlight and that's

050purposeful and those are the discussions that we have consistently um the training provides us with with a scope that we need to try to stick to. Now yes we can be flexible. We can still have those conversations but going in with a plan and being able to really execute that plan being consistent and using purpose as she said. So that is our presentation. Thank you board. >> Thank you very much. >> And that concludes the superintendent report. >> All right, we're going to take a fiveminut break. That's okay, Mr. Cunningham. On >> to item 2.3, report AJ High School student council presentation. come on up. >> Good evening again. I am thrilled to uh introduce to you two of our outstanding student council members. Um the other two couldn't be here because of traffic. I

051know shocking right with this evening. Um so I am very proud to introduce um Lauren and Shay >> Walliano. I have two choices. Say it wrong or I'll let her say it. Um, these are two amazing leaders on our campus and they have adopted and grown this year with a new advisor. So, I'm very proud of them and pleased to introduce them. >> Welcome ladies. >> Can I like Hello. Hello. Okay. Um, like she said, my name is Lauren Quinny and I'm um, student council student body president at AJHS and and I'm Shay Gualaniano and I am the student body vice president for STCO. Um, so we made a presentation with just a bunch of like little pictures that we've taken from our events that we've done this at the beginning of this school year

052and also our upcoming events. Um, I don't have it. >> It's okay. We can we can just It's okay. >> Is it in an email? Can you send it through the email? >> If you send it to to us, we can pull it up. be up by mosquitoes at work because of the rain. My legs are itchy because everybody's >> I know. I'm like, >> I know. Well, I wore shorts yesterday because I did that workout last. do it. It's fun. >> We're talking about Zoom classes at >> Yes. >> Oh. Oh. >> Yeah. We got >> Okay. I don't know. >> Technology. >> It's not as easy as they think. >> It's okay. We can just like act it out. It's coming right now. >> We want to see the pictures. >> All right.

053>> Y Okay, we got it. >> Okay, so I'm going to be saying the recap of what we've already done this year. So >> Oh, I have that thing. >> Oh, okay. >> Okay, I did it. >> Okay, there we go. Okay, so our first main event of the school year was senior sunrise. And so, um, here's some pictures of the senior sunrise event. And so, basically, we got donuts and juice for all the seniors to enjoy. And we made all of the posters that you see up there. And so, everybody just came out to have fun and take pictures and watch the sunrise together. And it was probably one of the most fun events, honestly, so far of the school year. So that was definitely really fun. And yeah. Okay. Okay. So homecoming events,

054we had a lot this week. Um we had the spirit week, we had the um assembly, the football game, and homecoming itself. Um we raised over $3,000 in sales for the homecoming tickets. And so we have some photos from the assembly and the football game. And yeah, it was really fun. Very nice. And then the senior night um was on Halloween and so we basically made all the posters for the seniors and decorated the field and so it's just a great way to celebrate all the seniors. There's not a lot of people there though because it was Halloween obviously, but we were there. So yeah, and we had a lot of fun and yeah, it was cool. >> Okay, now I'm going to talk about the upcoming events. So, we do have a blood drive

055coming up on December 9th. So, the blood drive is not anything new. We've been having them for as long as I can remember. I think before I was born, think we've been doing them for that long. But, um I am the blood drive coordinator. So, basically, basically, um we just host the blood drive for the community and for the students, which is a great way just for um people to save lives. It's a really great thing that we do at the school. Um, our bonfire that we are planning to do on December 12th, we've done the bonfire in the past. Hasn't really been a big success, but we're hoping that this year it will be great because yes, we're super excited for the bonfire. But everyone comes and student council sells um s'more like packets

056things and the students can do that and then um yeah, it's a really just fun thing. Um and then our last thing is prom. Um, prom was really fun last year. We did a lot of things. It's like homecoming with the spirit week and the assembly. Um, we didn't really have that many pictures from the dance because we were partying obviously. So, um, but this is our lovely backdrop that we did last year and prom was lots of fun. We had it at um, where it was in Queen Creek. Yes, the Big Tin Cent. So, yeah, we're really excited for prom and excited for all the upcoming events that we've done. And that's it. >> Well, thank you ladies. Thank you. >> Good job. All right, moving on to 2.4. Apache Junction Library Report. >>

057Megan, >> I think she's stuck in traffic. >> Oh, she's stuck in traffic still from the accident. >> We'll go. We'll invite her back next. >> Okay, we're just gonna table that. On to public comments. I'm gonna read this to you, Jill, real fast. Speakers will have three minutes to speak so that everyone who wishes to speak will have the opportunity. PRA Ars 38-43102H prohibits the governing board from discussing items which are not on the agenda. If the item you are addressing is not on the agenda, please do not expect the board to answer questions or discuss issues with you. Comments need to be district related. Welcome, Miss Jill Brazard, our county superintendent. Come on up. Wow, I'm the only one. >> Yes. >> So, it was funny when you said, "I'm reading this to

058you, Jill." I thought, "What? Why is she talking to me directly?" Because I'm the only one. >> Well, good evening, President Kimell, members of the board, superintendent, um, and looks like staff that's left here, right? So, >> none of what I'm going to >> Okay, just none of what I'm going to say to you should be a big surprise. I'm Jill Brousarp, now county school superintendent, and I just wanted to come and give you an update on some of the things that really I came just to say hi, support you in your community, but um the things that we're doing in our office to to help support the good work that you're doing here in Apache Junction. Um and so just some of those highlights are going to be we've been out recently for some

059professional development um at your schools. We've done some co-eing um and I believe the focus on that was for teaching with resource teachers co-eing with resource teachers in the classroom um building better discourse and active the actively engaged classroom trainings. Um something exciting that I don't know if you're if everyone else is aware of your board has been instrumental in helping me develop more board trainings for your school board. Um I have We had two from ASBA two trainings earlier this year and then we held two here and we're I'm going to continue to do more school board trainings throughout the year but that's off obviously available to all the districts in the county and if we could just get the rest of the boards on board um that would be very helpful to a

060lot of schools out there I think um because a good board makes all the difference which by the way you may have the best looking or at least definitely the prettiest board all women on this board. Um, and I think you may be the only board in Penel County of all women. So, congratulations, ladies. Um, another big thing that we've worked with, um, our technology consortium. We developed a few years ago and we were able to get a $50 million grant that brought broadband out to all of the district offices for every school district in Panol County along with the libraries um because we serve the library districts as well. Um, and that was fiber optics. I had to make a note of that because that's a word I always forget. Isn't that funny? Um,

061but so now we've kind of helped initiate a little bit of a partnership with Apache Junction in your school district to get that broadband out to each of the schools here in Apache Junction. Not every community is that lucky. So, um, you've got a great community that supports you and and your your kids. Um, and then, um, I don't know if you know, but we got a new phone system here at Apache Junction, and I want to say it was over 300 phones. Probably not a number you know off the top of your head. >> Yeah, that's a lot of phones. Um, but we were able to leverage our um, relationship with I believe it's Zo and all the work that they did on the fiber optics to get free phone upgrades for all the

062districts in Panol County. So, that's just another one that we were working on. And that actually was all that I had. You didn't think I'd make it. So, good job. Thanks for having me. >> Thank you. >> All right, moving on. >> Okay, thank you, Jill. All right, on to uh information. Where am I? And discussion items 4.1, school improvement plan principles. Who's starting? >> Nikki, who's first? >> Let's see. >> My thing doesn't click. >> Desert Vista. All right. Good evening again, Madame President, members of the board, Dr. Papalardo, >> Dr. Brousard, yeah, all of us. It's been a long day. Okay. Um, so we all received our school labels and we were tasked to kind of look at um where are we at? Um, how can we continue to grow? How can we

063get to the next level? So, that's kind of what we're all kind of presenting tonight. am. >> All right. So, again, just to remind you of the goals that we came up um with at the beginning of the year, I don't think it's a good idea to change your goal in the middle of the year um because then you're not trying to shoot for the same target. So, by May 26, we will improve overall proficiency in reading by at least 10% as measured by our district pre- to post test through illuminate, which was what we used for our third through fifth grade, and math by that same percentage as well. All right. So, this is kind of where we're at so far. Obviously, um kindergarten through second, we used um fast bridge um either e-reading

064or CBMR reading for second grade and EMAT and AATH. Um we've only done the beginning of the year. We will do our middle of the year in January after we return. So, we don't have those middle numbers yet. Um we have done the preest um We just completed the November mimics. Um I know my third grade data, especially for ELA, is not quite right because we still had several students that hadn't had a chance to finish yet, but that was what we had at the time. Um we can see there um is a little bit of growth. Um our fourth grade ELA doubled, which is fantastic. We're definitely making some good gains there. Um we've had some backslide obviously in fifth grade ELA and math, and we're going to be working in our PLC's to

065determine what's going and how we can um turn that back around. Um I will share with you that we were um 5.57 uh points away from an A. >> Um so we were super super close. Um we were unable to capture points um for u for our EL students this year because we need to have a minimum of at least 10 students and we had nine. >> Oh man. >> So we were unable to capture any of our points this year. So it the luck of the draw. If we don't have the students, we don't have the students. Um, we were able to capture our chronic absenteeism points there. So, we did um we reduced from 21.91 to 18.38. Um, and we are on track to do even better this year. So, we're excited for

066that. Um and um we did not get our science points because we were we need to be at or above the state average and that's another area that we were working on trying to capture um those points because those students need to be proficient in that as well. Um we did have the max growth points though in our district. I was proud to say we have grew the most out of all of the schools. So I was very proud of that. You just need to work on that proficiency. Um, so again, we're working on improving that tier one instruction. Um, especially with that small group instruction, looking at our data. Where are our holes? How can we fill those holes and get them to where they need to be? We've got that leadership component with

067working on um student data tracking. We do have Molly coming back out for us um in December to do another half day with us because we have new staff and our special ed staff wasn't um they didn't get that last little bit of training because they were all at a meeting. So they'll get that they'll get that component too so we can strengthen that piece. Um we're introducing the six minute solutions in third through fifth grade. So that does help incre increase the fluency. Um we're all taking part in the AI leader. Um don't know a whole lot about that. We were just introduced to that. So we will have some upcoming trainings on that relay as the they presented a little bit for us working on those different pieces like we just did these

068guys just did the meetings that sort of thing and um I do I am fortunate enough to have on my campus so she's helping us with increasing that literacy component and getting our kids. Great. Good evening again, Madame President, school board members, community, Dr. Papalardo, and colleagues. Again, my name is Aubrey Jackson, and I will be sharing Principal Broxma's notes regarding the four peaks portion of the presentation. On this slide, you'll see a comparison between the 2023 24 school year when we earned a letter grade of an A and the 2425 school year when our grade dropped to a C. As you review the chart, you can see that our areas of focus are student proficiency in reading and math as well as student growth. On a positive note, we have been trending in the

069right direction in EL proficiency and growth as well as growth for the students with IEPs. Because of this growth, we are now officially out of school improvement status, which is an important milestone for our school. Slide eight breaks down proficiency data by grade level in math and reading. For example, our current fifth graders demonstrate a high level proficiency as third graders in the 23 24 school year. 76.27% in math and 39.06% in ELA. However, when they were tested as fourth graders, profic proficiency declined slightly to 39% in math and 42.42% in ELA. This data highlights the areas where we need to focus our efforts. On slide nine, you can see how our leadership team consisting of administration, coaches, and teachers collaborate to create smart goals for both math and ELA. Within these goals, we developed

070an action plan detailing what we want to do as a school and community to increase student growth and why this is important, namely to raise our letter grade back to an A. Slide 10 outlines our action steps in more detail. These include coaching teachers to improve instructional delivery, improving teacher practices, and providing meaningful leader learning experiences for every student by strengthening tier one instruction. Hiring a new literacy coach to work with our K2 teachers to strengthen literacy through the use of UFly, implementing PBIS to reinforce positive behavior and accountability amongst our students. In closing, we have a clear understanding of what we need to do as a school and staff. Moving forward, we are focused on bringing autonomy back to the school for targeted professional development, providing tier 2 support through tutoring, continuing to implement

071best practices as mentioned in the previous slide to support both our school and our students. We are confident with these strategies in place, we will continue to make gains and work toward restoring our school to an A letter grade. Thank you, Mrs. Sunny Broxma. Thank you, guys. Madam President's I don't know why. I wonder if it's an iPh. Oh, I got you. >> Thank you, Edna. All right, so um my initial goal was to just just meet the people, be part of the community, um make ourselves known, and try to make some partnerships. um gave myself a a goal of meeting at least two per month. Um it's actually simpler than that, but I'm going to slow play it so I look really good at the end of the year. Um I think the big

072thing is not only building the relationships, but then continuing those and reaching back out. So, um I didn't Oh, I did write the names down. So, all of the names on there, um I just continue to call back and say I just wanted to thank you again for everything that we've you've done for us. Um you can take a look at the list. Um Master Gardener Club um bottom right hand corner is going to start on our campus in January. It's going to work with our fourth and fifth graders. Um, I had a phone call just out of the blue when we appeared in the paper, um, from Highland's Latin College School, uh, that wanted to know what can they do to help us in regards to, you know, bringing forth some curriculum because I

073think I made a moment or a notion in there that, um, it's not quite the curriculum that I'd like, but what can we what can they do for us? So, um, working with them, um, they use Memorial Press, which I've, um, dabbled with a little bit. any well there the Latin program is quite well with them. Um a private donor today uh supplied my school with 20 pizzas. Um it's just just those little things, you know, you put yourself out there a little bit. The community is great. The community wants to support. Um we had a private donor for um four cartridges for our copers as well. So um little things strive for us to try to do better. um really look forward to well not really getting up to present about data and what

074can we do because I'd like to to meet that head on. Um for me that is great but having a consistent teaching model over and over and over and just doing those things and not putting too much on your plate while you're teaching is I think the goal to success culture and consistency within those processes. So um I do look forward to that. Um, I see it coming. I have one class that has testable um, numbers. As Kelly was saying, you need 10. Um, we'll have that. So, highlighting those fourth graders this year and hopefully I can get up and kind of share some information about them. But, um, I appreciate the opportunity to share that with you guys. Thank you. I'm not going to feel bad about the PowerPoints not working because I broke

075copies. Okay. >> Okay. So, looking at the PowerPoint, it's really hard to read. So, I created a data set with the the most recent mimics. Um the data set um is set to compare um where we are right now compared to where we the students were at the end of the school year uh during the test from last year. So if you take a look at the uh numbers on here um it's all really good. Um if you look at the numbers we are s e either equal or surpassing where we were at at the end of the year last year. If you look at the bold numbers those are all um in the top top two tiers. there's uh the um uh proficient and then the highly proficient, which is where we get our

076most points from. Um so all those numbers are higher this year than they were last year um at the end of the year. So we're we're ahead of the game by far already. Um if you also look at the minimally proficient toward the bottom, um that shows that um we're doing better by getting those numbers down significantly in each category except for one which was actually broke even. Exactly even. It was weird. Um, so we want to look at the uh pathways forward. Um, our total points for the uh year were 54. Um, we need six points for C to move up and we need 18 points for B. Um, if you look at the bottom right of the chart, um, that's got the proficiency, stability, and the growth, which are two biggest categories for

077every school. Um we have available right now 21 and 19 and we're extra points that we can earn for this year coming up or this year we're in right now. >> Um and we are already going to that direction. Um if we just attain half of those points extra um we'll be a solid B. So we're we're headed in the right direction. Last year we spent a lot of our time working on um school culture to try to get us ready to move forward. This year we're mobilizing moving forward. ask questions for this one, but you have questions later that are here. >> Okay. >> Um, so the schoolwide plans, we're continuing adding instruction in writing. Um, we're also uh we have the reading and math lab for students that are struggling. Um, we've incorporated

078interdisciplinary um requirements into every content area, including electives. So teachers are doing their content area, but they're having the reading, writing, and math components integrated into that. One way to look at is if you're teaching a history class, um, you're going to read primary source documents, you're going to write essays about it. So that's going to be covering both history and and English standards at the same time. Plus, they could also look at population growth, economics, things like that. But they're doing it very deliberately this year. So it's going to be integrating these things in every content area, including the electives. So it'll really help boost in real life scenarios. Um and we're also adding um we went schoolwide this year with um the AVID strategy. So we have wicker um things are being done

079in classrooms all across the campus. Uh action steps. Uh we have uh the PLC data dives. Teachers are looking at the uh the data they're getting and they're and they're focusing on the retach as well as um enrichment. Um we turn to a grade level team model this year. So um as you guys have already visited um we have a sixth grade building, seventh grade building, eighth grade building. There is a limit. There are some moving around just because we had to and then the electives. Uh but those teachers work as a team to just to um work with the MTSS team to look at what students need extra supports whether social emotional support or academic support so they can actually attack the problem early on. Um they've been doing more small groupoup instruction targeting

080that. Um we're still doing our afterchool tutoring. We also have partnership with Boys and Girls Club. They have tutoring and public library we have a partnership with. They also have tutoring. So there's a lot of opportunities for kids to get that extra help. Um that went over that. Um I covered that whole slide already. I'm getting ahead of myself. Um we're going to continue to build the PBIS behavior interventions. We'd like to go to tier two for second semester. Um right now we're the kids are familiar with um you know the positive rewards they get for positive behaviors and positive work. Um last year we dropped the out of school suspensions by 70%. So we're looking to continue with that trend. Um and we're dropping our truency rates as well. Well, hello again. Thank you

081for having me to talk about letter grades and school goals and all this stuff I love. So, please ask me lots of questions because I love this stuff. All right. So, I started off by um you can go to the next page. So, this is actually the wrong year that one. So, if you could go ahead of slide. That's it. That's 2223. So, when I first started as principal, we were a solid C. Um, and then go back a slide. That's 2324. And we raised up to a B for my um second year. And then now go forward. And one more. There we go. So, over the course of the three years, we've seen 20 points increase. Overall, we are still sitting at a solid B, but on one of the slides, I think I

082put yes, we're we're roughly six points from an A. And so, I'm going to review um some of these components that the high school was already dialed in on from our preliminary reports that we're we're going to continue our efforts of how to bring our letter grade even higher. So the next slide I just dialed in here on the last two years because the grading metrics did change from the year prior. So I just it made the chart messy and it wasn't pretty. So all right. So you can see from 2324 to 2425. That's right. Okay. Um our proficiency almost doubled. And so that's great, but it's still not high enough. it's not okay to have 13% proficiency. We want our kids to graduate reading and writing grade level proficient. And so that was where

083we started our year focusing was all proficiency. We do want our students to continue to grow of course, but you can see they were already at um we did improve that. They were already up at almost 18. So really we're dialing into proficiency. So our next area, you can see we received all Oops. Oops. Oops. We you can see we received all of our EEL points and that's tremendous. That's really great efforts by my ELEL teacher. So I'm proud of that. Four, five, and sixyear graduation rates. We got all of those points, but we're missing the four-year graduation rate improvement. So um if you get five points, that means your letter grades or I'm sorry, your graduation rate stayed the same. So, not a horrible thing, but if you improve that graduation rate one year,

084you get two more points. So, you would get seven. And then if your graduation rate is 90% or better, that's when you can get your 10 points for that. So, of course, this is a continual goal of ours to increase that graduation rate. The cool thing about Apache Junction High School students is they do not give up and they get those diplomas. as you can see in the one line prior with our four, five, six, and sevenyear graduation rate. Um, but we want to get more students graduated and for two years we've kept we graduated all the students on campus. It's our kiddos that we lose somewhere over the four years. Um, how the state counts that is if they are in your cohort and registered at your high school, if they don't reenroll at

085an instate school, they count for you. So if we had a student that came freshman year for us and then dropped out or say they went to Mexico to live with family, we still get dinged for their graduation. So we are working with a company called Grad Solutions and they take our W list um which is student withdrawals and they try to engage those seniors after they've left our high school. And so that is one way we're actively trying to recapture some of those kiddos that leave because we do graduate everyone on our campus, which is great. However, we've got to get all of the other ones earlier. And that also um there's a ninth grade on track success grant that we received not this year, last year for last year. Um that targets freshmen.

086that's nth grade on track because when you get students in ninth grade engaged and they don't fail those freshman classes, especially algebra 1, they're more likely to graduate. And so we're reapplying for that grant. Um and so we I do anticipate receiving that to help again starting with nth grade retain those kids longer. All right. So, college and career readiness report, we have only gone up 0.1, which breaks my heart in a million pieces because we are doing tremendous work in that area. However, there's a maximum number of points each student can earn. So, if a student has taken AP classes, they've applied to college, they've done their FAFSA and other things, you can only you top out, if you will. So, we have engaged this many students. What we need to do is reach

087more for some of those college and career readiness indicators and we're doing that. Um, as I told um I shared at a report earlier, our AP numbers continue to increase and we have many many of our students in AP courses uh more than the last five years I believe. So that is one way we're trying to engage and challenge more students and capture more of those CCRI points. Um, one particularly challenging part of the CCRI report is FAFSA. We get a nice little chunk for all of our kids that do uh complete the FAFSA process. That's a challenging report for families to go in and engage with. If a you're not a legal resident and you don't want to fill out this form, you don't have to have a social security number anymore to do

088it. and that's new, but you used to and it's very challenging for our some of our students that are very transient to get this filled out. You have to have tax numbers, all kinds of things. So, we continue, my fabulous uh academic counselors continue to engage families to try to get more and more to do the FAFS to complete their FAFSA. Um, right now I believe in panel county we were number three or four of public high schools on the um it's like the Helios report of how many completed FAFSAs you have. Um so we're trending in the right direction. We're trending up and we'll continue to pursue students and get this completed. I'm not even done yet. All right, you can see other growth there. Um, let's see. My next arrow that is bonus

089points. Okay, so you can get up to eight bonus points for the high school level. I believe I have the business rules right here. Um, one of these marks bonus points. But anyways, we're missing actually you can get nine. So we're missing four. We're missing one bonus point for college and career because you you actually have to increase the number of students entering a 4-year university and andor enrollment in military. So, we're working on those numbers, but we did not capture that one bonus point um last school year. And then there's three bonus points that you can earn on this science assessment. So that that one personally hurts my heart as a former science teacher, but we're going to look at and and continue rethinking science instruction. So I can talk to you about that

090all day. If you like, you just let me know, make an appointment. I'm here for you. So that takes us then now. Yes. Um you needed 82% for high schools for 9 through 12 traditional models this year. And you can see we received 76.39. So, we've grown a ton and I'm super proud of the work my staff has put in. Six more points and I have given you four categories where we are hoping to get um many of those points to get us up to the A. It's hard of course to maintain an A and that target keeps move or to get an A or even maintain a B, but I believe we're ready for it. Um, so the next page and this one is tiny. Um, we have changed our benchmarking at the high

091school and I'm going to talk more about that. This proficiency distribution, which I'm sorry it ended up so small I can barely see it with all my glasses on, but this was the first attempt at a a mimic exam, not an ASA mimic is which is what the high schoolers had been given on state standards. This is now an ACT specific mimic. So it revealed to us some great encouraging news. One of which was our reading comprehension was high across not high it was good across the different grade levels but our reading um basically our grammar conventions is very very low and if you talk to any one of my ELA teachers they'll tell you that um I'm guessing if you talk to any high school ELA teacher they'll tell you conventions are challenging right

092now. U but that is that data. They were still tweaking the math bands from this first mimic, so I didn't have that to put in here. Um, but we'll get that to you certainly in the future. We just took this a week or so ago. Um, all right, next slide. So, we will continue with our beginning of the year focus of improving tier one instruction. And if I can just brag a little bit, my teachers are doing a phenomenal job. We've um we've been using Avid instructional strategies in the classroom, but um thanks to some training by Panel County and your fabulous math teacher, Kelly. Um that I think that's his name, right? Yeah, he is phenomenal. He came out and worked with almost my whole staff now on student collaboration, student discourse, questioning strategies.

093Um this is a I'm not just saying this because you're here. It has been a tremendous resource free for my staff this year. So, we are tapping into that and it has really helped. Um, and that's also the instructional strategy training. I am so proud of them. So, some of my teachers that have only ever been um notes deliverers or what we call in education stage on the stage, they now are engaging students in other ways. They're using, for example, a jigsaw where each student is responsible for a piece of the information and then the students report it back to each other. And by taking that teacher, they're still there. They're still the guide, but the students engaging and owning this material is going to, I believe, help us increase our scores long term. But

094that is great news. I think Dr. Papalad, you can say that on your walkthroughs, we've seen less Sage on the stage lately. It's been really encouraging to me as a principal. So, next slide. Okay. Now, when we first saw our preliminary results, we knew proficiency was an issue. And so, we have taken our prospector period this year, which is remember is a 30-minute block of time every day by grade level for students. We do use that time for college and career readiness. But this year, we have introduced grade level intervention based on reading, writing, and math scores. And that can be quick checks. It could be this latest mimic. We have two teachers that work and they put these interventions for all students together. So one do you guys want me to stop talking? Is

095it too much? I can hear myself just going but I love this stuff. So um one thing we noted is when we we saw the um assay scores for eighth grade math which is pre-alggebra coming into our ninth grade. We knew this wasn't just a few select students in need of math intervention. We knew our whole ninth grade really needed intervention and that gave us this idea every grade level needs certain interventions. So one day in Prospector they might just work on grammar. One day we've actually been doing silent sustained reading um in class and some of our students have never done that before. >> Yeah. And so they're checking out library books, they're reading in class, etc. But these are all interventions that are happening inside of Prospector in addition to targeted tutoring and

096other structures we already had in place after school. But having it embedded in a school day ensures all students receive that extra support. We are going to look at expanding this model. Uh oh, too much Dr. P. Too much talking too much. We are going to start doing some rotations and some appointments and work some other things into that pro into that prospector period now that we've had a whole semester of inter intervening really interventions. Okay. So lastly, one more slide. I still got it. All right. So I meant like I'm still going like okay. Sorry. Okay. ACT and ACT Aspire. So this is the first year that we have given the mimic for readiness. So all of the statistics, all of the reports about post or secondary education will show you that you have

097to expose students to ACT questions for them to do well on the ACT. It is a very specific style of questioning. So yay. I'm so happy that we are now going to have mimic test several times a year where they are going to see actual ACT questions. It's awesome. It gives them early test exposure to the questions in addition to time tests with our quick checks and our other benchmarks. They weren't timed. So now we're timing those to put that pressure that they feel during ACT and ACT Aspire. And again, I mentioned it, but we are going to continue sustained reading and writing interventions because as we know what our data shows is our students do really, really well at first and they taper off. They don't have that endurance for reading and writing. So,

098we're going to continue to focus on those. And I think that's it. Is there one more? >> Oh my gosh. Okay. Um, so we're still going to continue to expose college and career paths. Again, increased AP classes and support for those students in there. And then if my FAFSA nights and support, so those are already covered. >> Do you want to share your your students who took the ACT test? >> Do I want to share them >> the information? Didn't you say they there was like 19 students? That's the PSAT. PSAT. >> Yes. So, um, our juniors at first semester, we were able to invite in some of our honor students to take the PSAT. So, you have to take the PSAT in your junior year to qualify as a National Merit qualifier. And so,

099that was something that wasn't happening when I came here or they hadn't done it in recent years. So, of our 19, I'm kind of drawing a blank. I know I shared it with you, but they Oh, now I remember. Okay. Sorry. Um they all scored above the national average the 19 um they were slightly below the state average but above national and I I gave you one more statistic I just can't remember it off hand but they did really really well >> and they showed that that that core group of our kiddos are um hanging in and they're doing really really well. We have kids we need to continue to encourage and brag about course. And you have the technical manual here if you have any specific questions. >> Okay. >> All right. Does anybody

100have any questions for either of the principles? Mrs. Ross? No. Mrs. Williamson? >> No. >> Mrs. Garcia? >> Mrs. Lane. >> Yeah. Are working hard. Mrs. Lane, >> no questions. >> No, I agree. I think you guys are doing a good job. I know you're working hard, too. And I know you're going to get there. I know you guys are overachievers, and we're going to get there. Dr. Papalardo, is anything you want to add? >> I think that that was a nice presentation for you, so you have a great idea of what every school is trying to achieve and how they're going to go about it. little different at every place. And now she'll send you the document in a way that you can have it and read it over. >> Okay. >> Um and

101study that. Thank you. Great job, principles. >> Thank you. Okay. Moving on to the consent agenda. Would somebody like to make a motion on the consent agenda? >> Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? >> Second. >> Mrs. Ross seconds. Mrs. Ross. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Williamson, >> yes. >> Mrs. Garcia, >> yes. >> Mrs. Yes. >> And yes, that motion passes 5 to zero. On to action items. Okay. We are going to go into executive session first. So would somebody like to make a motion to convene an executive session pursuant to ARS 3843103A7 to discuss the lease amendment with Grayson motion and 04 Peaks building and Boys and Girls Club and executive session pursuant to ARS 38341A1 to

102discuss the superintendent's evaluation. Madame President, I'd like to make a motion to convene an executive session pursuant to ARS38-431.0387 A7 to discuss the lease amendment with Grayson motion at Old Four Peaks Building and Boys and Girls Club. And also I'd like to make a motion to convene an executive session present to ARS 38-341A1 to discuss the superintendent evaluation. We have a motion. So I like to second. >> Second. >> Mrs. Ross seconds. Mrs. Ross. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Williamson. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Garcia. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lean. >> Yes. >> And yes. That motion passes 5 to zero. We're going to take We will resume our meeting and public on to action items. 6.1 approval of the gifted scope in sequence as presented. We went over this with Angie Thompson at the work session.

103Approval of this document will support cohesive program implementation and provide teachers and families with a clear framework for meeting the needs of gifted students. The gifted scope and sequence must be approved every three years and sent to the Arizona Department of Education. Somebody like to make a motion on the scope and sequence. >> President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the gifted open sequence as presented. We have a motion. Would have like a second. >> Second. >> Miss Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross, >> yes. >> Mrs. Williamson, >> yes. >> Mrs. Garcia, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lane, >> yes. >> And I'm yes, a motion passes 5 to zero. On to 6.2. Approval of the of Prop 301 performance pay. Um, we went over this also in the work session. Approval of this plan

104ensures compliance with state law, supports transparent allocation of funds and reinforces the district's commitment to recognizing and rewarding staff contributions to student success. All schools voted for this 100%. Any questions or somebody want to make a motion? >> Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the Prop 301 performance play. >> We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? >> Second. Miss Williams seconds. Mrs. Ross, >> yes. >> Mrs. Williamson, >> yes. >> Mrs. Garcia, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lean, >> Yes. That motion passes five to zero. On to item 6.3, approval of the principal and assistant principal's performance plan, which um we also discussed in the work session and aligns with the 301. Um, approval of this plan ensures a transparent and accountable process of distributing funds, pay, reinforce the students

105uh, district's commitment to recognizing and rewarding strong leadership that positively impacts student outcomes. Any questions on that? Anybody want to make a motion? Um, there was a rating of highly effective, effective, and developing. >> Madame President like to make a motion to approve the principles and assistant principal performance plan. pay plan. >> Okay, we have a motion. So, we like to second. >> Second. >> Miss Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross, >> yes. >> Mrs. Williamson, >> yes. >> Mrs. Garcia, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lee, >> yes. >> And yes, that motion passes 5 to zero. On to 6.4. Approval of the vendor public records requests. Approval of this fee structure ensures transparency, supports cost recovery, and aligns with allowable practices for processing extensive public record requests. So, there's a $500 per vendor request fee. We also

106discussed this at the work session. Any questions on that? Anybody want to make a motion? Madam President, like to make a motion to approve the vendor public request of $500. >> We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? >> Second. >> Miss Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Williamson. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Garcia. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lean. >> Yes. That motion passes 5 to zero. On to where am I? >> Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Okay. Approval of the contracted vendor to provide support for the technology department fiscal year 2425 in the amount of $35,76940. Um, does somebody want to make an approval? And I think this is because it exceeds the threshold of the $25,000 approval of this policy of I think this is the right one. >> That's

107not the right one. Okay. >> Any questions on that or would somebody like to make a motion? Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the contracted vendor to provide support for the technology department for the 2024 2025 in the amount of $35,769.40. >> We have a motion with somebody like second. >> Second. >> Miss Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross, >> yes. >> Mrs. Williamson, >> yes. >> Mrs. Garcia, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lane, >> yes. >> And I'm yes, that motion passes 5 to zero. >> Okay. Item 6.6, Six, approval of policy 132A, governing board meetings and open meeting law requirements. This is the change of the agenda which we've discussed. Um, any questions on that? Would somebody like to make a motion? Madam President, like to make a motion to approve policy.

108132.A governing board meetings and open meeting law requirements. We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? >> Second. >> Miss Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Williamson. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Garcia. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lean. >> Yes. >> And I'm yes. That motion passes 5 to zero. On to item 6.9, approval of the lease amendment with Grayson motion and Boys and Girls Club. Somebody like to make a motion. >> Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the lease amendment with the Grayson motion and the Boys and Girls Club. We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? >> Second. Miss Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Williamson. >> Yes. Mrs. Garcia. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lane. >> Yes. >> And I'm guess I'm gonna this kind

109of like a split. Should I abstain? >> It's not Yes. It's a four. Yes. And one. >> Yeah. So, I'll just abain. >> Well, it's just I can't vote on the boys and girls. >> So, you just abstain. >> I abstain on the grace of motion, but yes, on the boys and girls club. Okay, that motion passes four to one abstension for Grayson motion and five to >> zero. >> Thank you. You got it. Information items request for future agenda items. Anyone? >> Can I have sped be put on the agenda again? >> It's on the work session. >> Okay. Y and we have the uh donation, the auxiliary gift, all that. >> It's on there. >> Anything else? >> Yes. Financials, gifts, donation, and the three categories. >> Anything else, ladies? I know I

110I wrote some notes, but I don't remember where I put them. >> I can't remember what I wrote down, but anyway. Um, >> I know. I can't I'm a mess over here. All right. Would somebody like to make a motion to adjurnn? >> We have a motion with somebody like the second. >> Second. >> Mrs. Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Williamson. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Garcia. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lean. >> Yes. >> And I'm yes. That motion passes 5 to zero. were endured.