BSC Principal Candidates Community Forum

001foreign I want to welcome the members of the community that are joining us [Music] online and I want to thank for our participants and interesting today and the price is right um no we we do have the honor having Mr Fox Uh current principal exploration school and also miss levo which is our assistant principal current assistant principal at the intermediate school and the purpose of today is to give our candidates the opportunity to continue to showcase will continue to Showcase there to be your plan all the answers that you respond today they were submitted via internet for the members of the community and staff you your responses will be timed and Miss Kinsey will give you the opportunity as our facilitator to give you more instructions on that I want to wish you both the

002best and I want you to be thorough with the answers be very specific and our panels they do have a rubric that are they going to be based to the category that they ask they will be checking well what is your plan and most importantly how is part of your three-year plan in in the categories that they will be asking you feel free to ask to reiterate the question but most importantly I want you to be clear and I want you to connect with the audience before us as well as the audience out in the community I'm very proud of all of you for getting into this point and I want to ask our uh our our panel I want to thank our panel uh members we have parents teachers and board member for continuing

003with the process and finding out their responses your responses today will be used uh as part of your process and Ruby's Court um let's go ahead and get started this point I'm going to introduce our facilitator for today's kissing which is supporting with the entitled boss can see is our district intervention method that has been supporting throughout the entire processity thank you for your support in Europe [Applause] so the way that this is going to go is we have 11 questions understand Ing we have 11 questions that were submitted through Google form from staff community members families who didn't collect their email information so we have 11 questions what I will do is I will ask the question then we will automate who answers the question first memorable as soon as possible because there are

00411 there is a little bit of trying to tell me how to hold the microphone okay sorry I'm speaking of microphones so there are 11 questions so we'll go back and forth you will have two minutes to respond we will time your responsibly start Ed um both of you have writing utensils and paper there as well so you can take notes our panel here while we only have four of our nine original panel members here in person the other five will be either joining us virtually or they will watch afterwards to complete the panel then there will be a discussion tomorrow where they will make their final recommendation as you both know any recommendation that the committee recommends we'll go to the school board and they will have the finals finals so all right be

005ready to begin yes are we ready all right here we go so let me find a better place to stay because I have to have a timer all right we are going to start with labor so I'm going to ask the question I'm going to give you 30 seconds to think because individual think time is important and then we will ask you to respond first all right so the first question is what are your core values as an educator because all right Miss Leva to you first so the core values as an educator I'm I'm going to start with the first one graciousness being grateful being thankful for the place we are in our lives and when I was in the classroom I tried to be gracious and practiced being gracious with my students I

006plan on doing the same thing as an administrator I believe that being thankful and being gracious in every aspect of our of our work is important the second aspect or the second trait I would consider is being transparent as much as possible obviously as an administrator there's information that cannot be shared but being transparent in as much as we possibly can and the last one would be being um I don't know if this is like modeling being a model for the expectation using the graciousness using the transparency modeling that for teachers as an expectation in school do I need to use it in two minutes okay thank you Miss Lady Mr Fox same question to you what are your core values as an educator okay well thank you all for coming and listening to the

007two of us I'm pretty straightforward my core values are everyone can learn and everyone wants to learn and it it's from birth until your last breath so I think that when we go into our classrooms into our schools into our communities into our workplace we have to remember that truly human nature as they want to learn so the core value is understand that work hard in order to hit multiple different types of Learners and that's a young young and old alike a plan to do that is to offer different types of curriculum to offer different types menu if you will a project completion another core value is relationships and Trust if the students if the community if you're teaching staff the stakeholders of the district don't feel that they can trust you or that you

008trust yourself in making the right decisions and we're going to have a tough time building the right relationships and relationships are the core element of learning so as far as transparency goes I think it's an open open-minded communication do what you say say what you do walk the walk talk the talk and the other cliches I can think of but the bottom line is the open be available have multiple ways to connect with the people you need to connect with via email the uh your cell phone or your office phone make sure you make comebacks so my core values and in conclusion are trust relationship building and knowing in your heart that all individuals want to learn they want to succeed and they want to be celebrated for that even if that is small thank

009you perfect timing it was like two minutes on the dot so we are going back to you for this one Mr Fox um both of y'all mentioned communication so the follow-up question is effective communication is crucial for principal how would you communicate and connect with staff parents and students about the challenges the school faces and the steps being taken to address them so again I will give you 30 seconds and then we'll come to you first Mr Fox all right Mr Fox first question to you okay well the value of communication is not just in the workplace it's not just in school it's not just in the classroom it is something that as uh humans that we do consistently and hopefully constantly but in the school environment your communication has to be for the life

010it has to be genuine truthful the person making that communication The Giver of the communication needs to be accountable for what they say what they do visible visible visible be out there be about be available for questions uh but one of the most important things I believe with communication is that it has to be constant ongoing and accurate how we would do this in the school is by again being visible being in classrooms walking the campus talking to people meeting them building a relationship with them so when you do have the hard conversations they're just a little bit easier again newsletters Facebook posts weekly reminders or Monday morning agendas those are all great but there are not more than much more in the paper and they're written on or the web page you're sitting on

011if you are not out in the community in the school giving your expectations expecting the same from others and uh being accountable and let's not forget non-verbal over 80 percent of communication is non-verbal so you can't say I really like you and have an ugly frown on your face so your actions and words need to match yeah thank you Mr Fox Miss Leva again the question is effective communication is crucial for principal how would you communicate and connect with staff parents and students about the challenges the school faces and the steps being taken to address them so um the different forms of communication could be written verbal meaning in person and examples of written are things such as memos newsletters emails and also you know new in our world today is social media I don't

012know if you consider that virtual or if we consider it written I consider it a little bit of both but using all of our available communication modalities is very important however another important piece is understanding when something needs to be done written when something needs to be done in person there are types of communication that sometimes require a face-to-face conference conversation with somebody because they need to see the sincerity in your face if it's you know a negative issue if it's something great they need to see the happiness on your face it's not always communicated written so I believe that knowing the difference between the two of them is is important um making sure that we are sharing information with the community is very important is something that I've learned from my mentor I am

013here serving a community therefore the open lines of communication have to be there parents need to be able to ask questions does it mean that they have easy access 24 hours a day no but they do need to know when it when we are available for them because we are here serving the children of this community and the best way to do that is to keep an open line it's what we do as teachers making those contacts with parents hey we're a team let's do this together now this is on a bigger level communicating with the parents of the majority of the students and being available and then being able to have those Communications with staff when things need to be discussed again whether they are something that needs to be worked on or something

014that they can continue to do thank you so again um third question we'll go to you first you will have 30 seconds to think about it the question is as the principal what action or actions would you take to help create a pathway depend on the Community College higher education and careers and what does this look like within their three-year plan I'm sorry so actions for higher education I'll reread the question as the principal what action or actions would you take to help create a pathway to Belmont Community College higher education and career what does this look like in your three-year plan all right let's leave it your time starts now so the actions of a principal at a secondary school those lines of communication like I said earlier need to be open with the

015Community College our students need to understand that there is a line directly from high school to college to their life afterwards whatever it is they want to do afterwards do they want to continue their education at a higher level four-year College do they want to take different classes of tlcc but students need to understand that there is a direct line and how does that happen it happens by having a communication with tocc um creating a plan I'm not sure exactly what the classes are that are available but the best way to find out is to go to the tocc college and find out what classes can our students take so creating that open line of communication being a lot more involved with tocc because the reality is that's where our students are going to decide

016what they do with the rest of their lives so we help them at the secondary find their passion get ready for college and then they move on from there having that open line of communication would be the final answer thank you Miss Lehman Mr Fox the question again is as the principal what action or actions would you take to help create a pathway the bonan Community College higher education and careers what does it look like in your three-year plan well the district already has a degree marriage with tlcc I've been a part of a few of the meetings and that we're trying to push with tocc and I think that um secondary campus and and Mi we need to figure out how to blow up dual enrollment in the ninth grade started in the ninth

017grade there's many many benefits that come with that with with with Staffing of classes but most of all it gets them into a college class that they can understand that they can see success in so I think we have to get dual enrollment firing on all cylinders um Edgenuity is a great opportunity for them to see how an online program works because many of our students are going to be going online for college many of our students in the very near future are going to be going online for high school that's the 21st century classroom so we have to get them familiar with that type of platform whether it became canvas Edgenuity or or Blackpool field experiences get these kids out of the school get into the mines get them to U of A get

018them to bank one Chase Field get them to where they can see what other people are doing for a living and all the just doors that are open for them and I think this is something that I didn't get to do in high school but I know my daughter did internships externship call it what you like ride along she spent six weeks at an equestrian Veterinary Center and she got credit for that I think that we have enough resources in this nation that our kids can t-o-pdto FD t-o-u-a and all the other opportunities that they have right here within their District to go and experience what it might be like to do that for a day so I think job shattering dual enrollment field trips that have meaning all right Mr Fox this one again

019is caption is what is non-negotiable student behavior for you student Behavior non-negotiable student Behavior here 30 seconds to think Starts Now all right Mr Fox your time starts now okay so my first non-negotiable with regards to student behavior is you've got to do something if you're sitting in class you have to do something if you choose to maybe not want to do your social studies well then the instructor the principal whoever's monitoring needs to go and redirect that young person and find something for them to do you don't want to read about George Washington drop me a picture on what you know about George Washington but keep them doing something inactive because that will also help with our our discipline and it will help with our students working towards something as far as non-negotiables short

020of bringing uh you know the school threat or bodily major bodily harm on on individuals on the campus we're human beings and we're going to make mistakes so to have a non-negotiable is kind of a very tight rope um three strikes and you're out is a very very slippery slope when we know we're going to make mistakes we're people our children our students are going to make mistakes so the one non-negotiable is be safe and secure in our environment and for lack of better terms it's worked for two years just be cool if you run your life and our students get the idea that I I'm not there to really be a pain in the neck I'm here to learn and I'm just here to be nice be cool be cool work because it resonated

021with our students but just be a kind nice person so non-negotiables I don't want to say that's a bridge across when we get there because there are some things obviously a law enforcement has to come in and do but I don't want to lose students I don't want to expel I don't want to suspend for long term for something that we need to work on an intervention with them so the non-negotiable is you will go to whatever intervention we feel fit is for the disciplinary fraction that you need thank you Mr Fox Miss lever to you what is non-negotiable student Behavior non-negotiable student behavior is first to students need to understand that by stepping on our campus they need to be an active participant in their education in their learning they have to be what

022that looks like for each one of them is why we have teachers in the classroom so that they can get to know their students so that would be the first non-negotiable you are here to learn maybe you don't learn like everyone else let's figure out what your learning process looks like however when we look at the school as a whole the job of everyone or all of those adults on that campus is that everyone needs to be safe at all times so that means that for a secondary campus with older students there are three non-negotiables that I think need to be in place no fighting if you put your hands on someone else that's a non-negotiable can we talk about three strikes and then you're out sure but the first time we're having a conversation

023and that that is a non-negotiable we do not put our hands on anyone else the second one would be drugs we we know that this is the real life and the students are exposed to this the reality is you cannot bring it on campus again because our number one priority is keeping these students safe and finally bullying it's a huge thing right now having a conversation with students about what bullying is and what it is not and then making sure that we follow the process and procedures and that there are systems in place so that we can address those issues if and when they come up but my non-negotiable for number one is always going to be you are here as a learner let's figure out what that looks like for you and then the

024three things you cannot do while you're here is fight bring drugs on campus or bully anyone else thank you Miss labor Ms labor this question will come to you first what is your vision for the secondary campus share one example of how this will be done or how this Vision will be met through your three-year plan your 30 seconds technique starts all right Miss Leyva to you first my vision for the secondary campus would be first and foremost creating a cohesive team of adults because we cannot support our students if we are not a team and so my my expertise is in building relationships I can sit back and get to know people and then work um really well with them based on those observations so my vision would be to create a cohesive team

025that supports all the students starting with the leadership team we need to be strong we don't always have to get along we don't always have to like each other but as long as our goal is our vision and Mission that is to help our students move forward then that's where we need to focus on so my ideal vision would be to understand what we are working towards and keep that as our North Star so to speak and then make sure that everyone is pointing in that same direction so that again if we don't all get along we don't all see things the same way we still have the same vision and mission of moving our students towards their success thank you Miss label Mr Fox to you what is your vision for the secondary campus

026share one example of how this will be done or how this Vision will be seen through in your three-year plan okay well we got a few Visions going on I'm quite sure this label myself do strong leadership is that obviously one of them um SEC my vision for secondary campus specifically teaching them in the middle school and moving them into the high schools to not have to worry about gaining credits about recovering credits um we can do this we can have students ahead in credits as opposed to the loan credits by making some kind of drastic changes um for example in a social studies course we could do a social studies course with 50 students in a large room on Ingenuity where they get to work at their own pace we'll caveat we've seen this

027done very successfully in the very uh very short path but get these guys motivated get them moving get them in those dual credit classes so that we do not have to worry about where these students are when they're getting approaching their senior year with that being said their schedule has to be different for the ones that are consistent that are currently there and they may be a junior but they have yet to do or successfully class pass Ela nine ASAP well they shouldn't be in a junior level class if they still haven't included a freshman sophomore level so the schedules my vision is a schedule that is geared towards every individual student and that will make it so that they know exactly where they are and there's no surprises throughout any of their High School

028careers thank you Mr Fox this one will come to you first describe your approach to fostering a positive respectful and inclusive School culture what values do you believe are essential for creating such an environment your 30 seconds all right Mr Fox your time starts now okay so in order to maintain or to establish a positive inclusive learning environment it starts with the principle and this could be one of your going back to non-negotiables it's we are a positive group we celebrate the wind no matter how big or small they are and we fix the stumbles and we do that in a more quiet method but again it starts at top the positive attitude the enthusiasm and as it starts at seven o'clock or whatever time that principal chooses to get there and it doesn't end

029until they go to sleep because they may talk to someone on the phone and they still have to stay positive inclusion that we just need to make sure that we plan strategically to have all our stakeholders all our students involved in some form of activity where everybody has a chance to take part and to excel whether that be lunchtime foosball whether that be pushings to classrooms the bottom line is that I right now have students in my school that range from sixth grade to doing statistics two they're all in the same room they all feel like they're included as opposed to excluded and they all feed off of each other's positive attitudes so when the adults and the leadership has positive attitudes and includes doesn't practice is what they preach you know why sky remarks

030no trying no clicks no teams there there's one team and that's secondary candies so positivity starts with and ends with the school administration but they're portray every single day thank you Mr Fox Miss lever again the question is describe your approach to fostering a positive respectful and inclusive School culture what values do you believe are essential for creating such an environment your time starts now so an approach to a positive environment at the secondary relative to where we are here where I am at the intermediate the secondary is a large campus here I have 60 teachers at the secondary there's many more than 16 teachers so thinking that I'm going to get along with everyone and that we're always going to see eye to eye is not realistic however if we create a goal that

031everything we're doing is for the same reason and we're all working towards it maybe we all have a different idea of how to get there but as long as we are working towards the same vision and Mission which is to help our students be successful that's where I would start and how do I build that I built that by being honest and transparent again an administrator can't share all the information but when they can they should because it leaves questions that people want answered and if I can answer it to the best of my ability and sort of stop that at the beginning that would be one way um again you're going to hear me mention this over and over having Grace we need to have race for each other we're all human beings we

032all make mistakes however when something does need to be addressed I am not afraid to go address it in the manner that I address it is going to depend on the person that I'm talking to because I'm going to allow myself the opportunity to get to know any everyone and it won't be 100 perfect every single time but as long as the team and I know that that's what we're working towards that's those are the values that I'm going to bring again always keeping our vision in mission in mind what are we here for what are we doing and how are we all going to get there together thank you Miss labor this question will come back to you how do you plan to integrate chemical into daily school life so again you'll have 30

033Seconds To Think all right miss Layla your time starts now so in order to integrate him dog into our daily school life the first thing I would do is go to the experts I did not grow up here I know some of the language but if I'm listening to a conversation I can grasp pieces of it so the first thing I would do is go to the experts what are some things that we can do in our daily lives that will show our students that they are respected they are loved one of the things that I have learned since I've been here is greetings asking teachers to learn greetings so that they can read them at the door we already want teachers to greet students at the door let's do it in their language so

034that they can see it's not easy to learn another language but look we're willing to do it so if we're willing to take that step we want you to take that step that that's taking him dog and putting it into our everyday culture and again I I know some I don't know enough and I would not feel comfortable addressing those issues without the support of someone in the community whether that be our culture teachers at the secondary whether it be members of the community that can help us understand it better but using the resources that we have available to us so that our students can feel comfortable every single day and be proud of who they are because that's eventually that's what we want we want them to understand that who they are is is

035someone to be proud of and to be proud about so so asking the experts thank you Miss Lady Mr Fox again the question is how do you plan to integrate chemical into daily school life okay I think we need to put a trust in our hematoc teachers I think as as Mrs blade alluded to we're kind of green horns at this so we need to get in there we need to take advantage of what our students get to take advantage of as well I do believe that we need to have extracurricular events stuff outside of school that brings the Elders of our community the Professionals of our community onto the campus and they in turn can give a lectures aren't fun but they can give a presentation on something close to them because when it's

036close to them they're gonna have a lot easier time portraying it to the crowd um language and food language and food we have in the past I've learned what human is I would have never known I harvested it I in the past we've got to make forgive me you folks I call them tortillas still but they call them something different that was close but I think that's where we need to go with this um the kids get a big ticket when I say okay that's one of the learns I think it's right I'm not even sure but they will correct me every single time every time they go I call them a Kong they correct me every single time they take pride in their culture whether they know it or not so it's our job

037as a district our job as a community to always heighten that always make them aware and proud of what they've come from where they've come from so food drink and fun that's how I think a drink meaning Dr Pepper and root beer and again really hitting our culture classes and trusting the professionals the folks that know the culture the best to teach it thank you Mr Fox this question will come to you again you'll have 30 seconds to think the question is how do you plan to ensure that high quality instruction is happening in all classrooms on a daily basis all right Mr Fox if your time starts now okay I think first and foremost is visit visit be in the classrooms be where you need to be as an instructional leader and see what

038actually is going on and these are unplanned visits these are Poppins Poppins or research shows they're the most successful way to observe the teacher you get the real deal so visits visits visits listen to your students what they have to say they are essentially our product they are essentially our customer in this business so we need to listen to them so put surveys out how do you think you feel how do you how does it feel to be in so-and-so's class in this class listen to the word on the street listen to what's being said in the cafeterias on the fields everywhere but necessarily in the classroom I think that you can see by uh how instruction is going by short cycle assessments by our benchmarks how many grades are being put into Synergy each

039week if someone's putting one or two grades in well how much instruction how much monitoring is really going on in that there should be three to four grades put into Synergy every week by every instructor and that's open for the parents to see that's open for the administration to see and the district to see so we ensure good instruction by going back to the communicating and the modeling and having the expectations that this is what we need to see as the professional adult in the room so and just to wrap it up because I think I probably I blurred a bunch of stuff together a number one thing is be in the classrooms and be visible have the relationship built with with your customers our students that they can come to you and feel confident

040that what you tell them is a safe place and that you will Advocate on their behalf and if you find their behalism worth advocating more then that's a whole nother conversation and it just it evolves into something else but the bottom line is it comes all right back around and if we have happy kids Happy Teachers happy principal happy boss thank you Mr Fox Miss Leva again the question is how do you plan to ensure that high quality instruction is happening in all classrooms on a daily basis your your um first and foremost modeling it through professional development if I expect the teachers to have less implants in their class to have agendas in their class then I should probably be modeling it the team and I excuse me should be modeling it in professional

041development and then like Mr Fox Said being visible in the classrooms you can't know what's happening in the classroom if you're not in the classrooms it's not realistic to assume that we can be in there every single day but every single day you can be in one or two classrooms and um you can follow up with the teachers um the other thing that I would suggest were that is imperative not a suggestion it is imperative is creating systems for teachers with lesson planning what does it look like when an administrator goes in and looks at your lesson plans what are they looking for what are we looking for in the classroom versus what your lesson plan looks like making sure that they understand what those steps are and what those what that system is and

042then using data effectively in plcs so that teachers can plan effectively for the following week because if we just continue it and this is very typical in education I did it myself we just plowed right on through to the next standard because we have a scope and sequence we have a curriculum map so do teachers understand that they can look at the curriculum map and make it and adjust it so that it's realistic for them in their students so those systems are need to be in place so when I talk about systems I'm talking about what does the leadership team have in place with curriculum mapping with lesson planning with observation feedback Cycles so that teachers understand exactly what our students need to be learning thank you Ms Lima this question will come to you

043first what is your view of an effective secondary admin team when it comes to developing healthy relationships with students and staff again you'll have 30 seconds which starts now all right Ms David your time starts now so my view of healthy relationships with students and staff is how do I explain this um there's a huge difference between Equitable and equity and it all depends on the perception of the person that's looking at it so in order for people to understand the healthy relationships it it has to do with the perception that other people have what I mean by that for example is um if someone feels that the principal or a teacher is being more favorable to one student why is that where is that coming from again it's the perception that that's being seen

044so in developing relationships with both staff and students I always want to keep in mind the perception does it look like I'm favoring the student and why or does it look like I'm treating this other student negatively every single time we have an interaction so it really starts with who I am and reflecting on myself and making sure that every interaction I have with every person I encounter on a daily basis is as positive as can be and again is perceived by others as being healthy and being Equitable or equal as however the other person wants to see it thank you Miss Levin again Mr Fox the question is what is your view of an effective secondary admin team when it comes to developing healthy relationships with students and staff your time starts I think

045the admin team needs to be genuine they need to be on the same page we don't have the same personalities and that's to be expected and that's to be really a joy because we don't want to be static but we have to be on the same page that we are a student-centered district we are student-centered campus everything we do is to benefit our students and it could and equitability is very essential sometimes someone in the flock needs a little more assistance than someone else that doesn't mean that we're treating this person better that means we are looking and knowing where we can best apply what we need um I think that we all have to again have that common goal that all people students they want to learn they want to be accepted and they

046want to be told good job we all want that so as an effective leadership team goes around and sees all the good jobs and says good job hey I like that you did that thank you for holding the door for everybody the little tiny things that may fall away once noticed will overwhelm some of the other deals so an effective admin team is one that notices one that's there one that's consistent but one that's not the same we're not going to be the same five or six human beings and we should be allowed our individuality as well as long as we do it in an honest caring and genuine manner to where we are definitely 100 percent unarguably putting the students needs first and sometimes those needs to have nothing to do with academics as

047we all know in this room can't get to the academics until you get through some of the other stuff that these unfortunate situations some of our our kids have seen so an effective leadership team is essentially one that cares and just does the right thing for you thank you Mr Fox this one's began coming to you first and the question is how would you ensure that students have the support they need to stay motivated to overcome challenges and to persevere in the face of obstacles we have 30 seconds to think it starts now all right Mr Fox your time starts now do you mind reading it one more time sure can thank you how would you ensure that students have the support they need to stay motivated overcome challenges and persevere in the face of

048obstacles they need an adult in their Corner they need someone on that campus that's a trusted adult it may be the principle it may be the groundskeeper it doesn't really matter they just need to have a relationship to at least one person that hopefully more than one but at least one person that they trusted adult you need to listen that's what that's what us adults we need to do for our students we need to listen to them we need to hear them and then when we do expound all of our knowledge and wisdom over the last 50 some odd years at least one of us has had we have to remember who we're speaking to and making sure that we're addressing the needs that they need addressed so I would ensure that we have a

049healthy environment a trusted environment by making sure those students feel comfortable speaking to someone we have to find the right people that can help solve whatever the issue may be that they're experiencing at that point that'll do it thank you thank you Mr Fox Miss Leva again the question is how would you ensure that students have the support they need to stay motivated overcome challenges and persevere in the face of obstacles your time starts now so the first thing I would do is I would make sure that I access the resources that are available to our students starting with counselors Behavior Specialists teachers sometimes it's you know people that you don't even think about creating a system that students are able to find someone an adult like Mr Fox Said on campus that they feel

050comfortable with just because I was their English teacher didn't necessarily mean that they felt comfortable coming to me so making sure that we create a system where students are going to the people that they feel comfortable with one of those ways is by training teachers on social emotional tbri [Music] so that teachers understand you're not expected to be an expert in counseling but we are expecting for you to be able to have the resources to guide the student to find the support that they need so it and it starts with the system it starts with the leadership team that models this and then moves on to working with the teachers so that students are able to recognize who on the campus they have created a relationship with it could be one of the monitors it

051could be a custodian it could be one of the assistant principals whoever it is allowing students the grace to be able to access those supports when they need them thank you Miss leaving our final question here again it will go to miss label first is what is your plan or recruiting and hiring teachers that are highly qualified so you have 30 seconds are in this label your time starts now Okay so um the the plan for recruiting and and hiring teachers starts with looking in the community working with tlcc working with Pima Community College working with the University of Arizona creating those relationships I'm a huge proponent of finding people that are right for the job based on their characteristics on being able to learn one of the things that I have learned in my

052career as a as an educator from all of the leaders that I've worked with is there are things that I can teach you as a person on how to teach in the classroom there are things that I can't teach you that you bring with you making contact with students being able to build those relationships those are things that I can find sources or resources to help people be better at but those are the characteristics that they bring with them so how do we find these people working with the community working with tocc with the University of Arizona and help get the right people on the track for being teachers so that they can be here to help support our students going out and doing job fairs using social media those things sometimes sound like oh

053well those are easy answers but that's really where we are in today's day and age using social media so we can get far and large out into the rest of the country and find people that would be interested in working our community Mr Fox the question comes to you next what is your plan recruiting and hiring teachers that are highly qualified it starts now I think the first part of that plan is to concentrate a retention of the teachers that we currently have as well I but as far as recruiting the new ones Ms lava said pretty articularly at The Universities at the colleges get out there but more importantly we need to Market our district we have the systems that are in place we have so many resources I've been to three different school

054districts within the last 20 years and this school district with the Beyond textbooks planning is done scope and sequence is done these are things we have to sell people coming to us is that we have ways to make you a much more effective teacher and take you out of all the legwork um selfishly I'm going to go ahead of my friends and TUSD Sunnyside and Vail I've been already approached but at my campus of course I don't have any spots to put anyone but I've already said this barbecue free have anything because the conversations going out and hanging with my friends that are also Educators I tell them how great it is down here they say that's the right son can I say no it's beautiful try it one day so there's already been some

055interest at a very Grassroots level that personally I would try to exploit because I we have those connections within our communities and they're just looking for a place to call home because they're not feeling it in some of these big gigantic districts in the Tucson all right thank you Mr Fox so at this time we will open for questions for all of our wonderful audience members here sorry if you're joining in online there's place where you can leave it in the chat um but if you are here in person and you would like to ask a question of both of our candidates for equity's sake you do have to ask and pose the question candidates but the structure will be the same so if any of our committee members or audience members has a question

056come grab this money or I'll bring it to you either way or I'll meet you in the middle there you go hello how would you create Partnerships between the other schools in the district wait hold on 30 seconds ladies first wait hold on 30 seconds we're going to continue this same structure so Mr Fox we will have 30 seconds starting now okay all right Mr Fox your time starts now okay so I think how we can incorporate and uh get a more communal feeling amongst all our campuses together would be a good example uh Mrs mcgay Lewis is what we've done here uh we have students that come over and read to some Miss pigay Lewis's students she always invites us to do things because of the proximity thing but at the secondary campus I

057don't know if there is yet if there's not there should be a Freshman Academy of senior mentors so that the freshmens aren't overwhelmed when they get there and then they have a group of seniors kind of like a Big Brother Big Sister type thing that can help them navigate through the obstacles I think that our community events are very very uh successfully bringing us all together but possibly planting those as less as a campus and more as a RCA team so that you have primary intermediate all accelerated ambient the secondary campus working cohesively together um so I I think that it's something that's very valuable and I do think it's very feasible to do if we stick our heads together and make a schedule of how we want how we want to see this thank

058you Mr Fox again miss Leyva the question was that I might be perfect how would you create Partnerships with the other schools in the district well I hate to brag but I already have a relationship with the intermediates I just have to work on the primary just kidding um I I'm gonna follow suit with what Mr Fox mentioned about RCA I I believe that RCA has been created at the school where it started at to be able to build those relationships with students and staff who don't see each other on a day-to-day basis so I believe that here at um in in our district using rchr benefit to create that those linear relationships the students at the primary with the students at the intermediate with the students secondary all isabindi alturismo [Music] what are the

059others Amistad and River so that students um if we as a leadership team create that sort of relationship that fund banter between us then students will see it so the best way is to just start building those relationships reaching out they're not going to know that we want to build those relationships just by seeing on each other you know at meetings once a month it's by reaching out and creating those relationships and then together creating events that allow those relationships with students and Community to be able to be built thank you Miss leybo I believe Mr buendia President buendia has a question and miss leyba this one will come to you first we'll do the same structure you'll have 30 seconds I don't know mine uh thank you thank you both uh very much for

060the afternoon I really appreciate it uh one of the questions that I had and I think you guys kind of addressed a little bit I want to give you the opportunity to kind of do that publicly now um I'd like to hear what your message would be to the Donald donation especially because you'll be taking one of the more one of the I I feel like a great weekend from the school district and at the helm which is the Bob Carey High School barbecue Middle School what that means to you as far as really rebranding and marketing that campus in a way that I feel like both of you could very do very well but what what your your message be to get across understanding though that it needs to be very clear understandable comprehensive

061and all those good things because you have many grandparents raising kids all of those generational differences so I kind of want to hear how you would address that should you be selected thank you for 30 seconds foreign your time starts now so my message to the community would be like um president Bundy I said earlier I did touch on it before creating relationships with the community we we have a large number of grandparents that are raising their students so I I want our campus to be the place that they go to to find support we're not here to tell them how to raise their grandchildren but sometimes they need the support they need some ideas maybe they just need someone to listen to them while they you know Express their frustration or even their happiness

062with the with their grandchildren that they're raising so my message to the community is that we are here to do this together I can't do it by myself teachers can't do it by themselves and parents and grandparents certainly can't do it by themselves so my message would be consistent we are here to work together as a team building those relationships with students building the relationships very importantly with parents and grandparents we're not always going to agree but I want them to know that we are here to support and we might not have the resources readily available but we can certainly be resourceful and reach out and help them find those those answers or even just again you know sometimes it might be a counselor or it might just be you know where can I help

063my child find you know support for us to be able to get them clothes for graduation you know again being a team and doing this together thank you Miss Lady Mr Fox it will now come to you again I'm gonna distill this down to a short question so bear with me and I apologize is uh what is your message the thought of the nation as you kind of Market your plan your goals for Bobby Hebert middle school and Bobby High School uh my message is if I'm an individual who is very competitive who wants the best for the people and himself where he works and bring this secondary campus specifically to high school that's our Flagship campus the high school is generally the flagship Campus of any District we need to bring that campus up

064to a spot where when people talk about Bobby high school and middle school the secondary campus that it's a safe secure place that these kids want to come to um take pride in Who You Are who you're where your culture came from where you came from as an individual and that to others teach that to The Outsiders teach that to someone like myself I have pride in my culture I'm not going to deny that and I want to give some of my New York Jewish culture to some of my students and teach them what a sheer is just like I want them to educate me on all the things that they feel is so beautiful and unique about the Autumn culture the Native American culture in general so my message to the to the nation

065is I'm on board I am 100 vested I've worked closely with tocc and the work to Honolulu Nation Workforce as well as the jdc and we're all humans under the same Sun we want the best for all of us thank you Mr Fox hello Mr Fox this is my name is Yolanda Pacheco I am the dean of student services at Donovan Community College the question I have is in regards to dual enrollment we would really like to have many more of the high school students participate in dual enrollment and so my question to you is how would you promote that how would you promote dual enrollment to the high school students but also um more importantly maybe is to their parents we would really like to see them not only get the college credit and

066high school credit but also to possibly complete agent Arizona general education curriculum and so again how would you promote that to the students this excellent opportunity but also to the parents is contaminate for good my 30 seconds that's okay or is that breaking procedure I would like to stick with it if possible it starts now it's perfect a dual enrollment is phenomenally oh I'm sorry no the 30's gonna wait time [Music] all right Mr Fox Okay as you can tell I'm a strike by the Iron's hot kind of guy um we have to take advantage of dual enrollment that is a no-brainer I do believe just as you had stated we have to give to the parents I had at least 17 kids who went through the initial process for th0106 the seven week summer

067course and they all got stymied by parental signatures and the whatever the parents had to do we even heck we had the parents come in I had two kids there we still couldn't get them in so I think the dual enrollment is there I think somehow or another I don't know how this is where we'd have to work together how do we streamline getting these kids in there how do we not bypass the parental Guardian units but just make it easier so that maybe it could be done online because we do know every kid has a computer um the dual enrollment needs to start in ninth grade it shouldn't be an option it should be just part of the schedule part of the scheduling of students is start them there and matriculate them through their

068senior year just as what you guys already had put together and tried to initiate prior to covet I think all of the systems all of the components are in place it's just a matter of us taking the lead and finding out how we get these parents to sign the day papers because it's not the student it's my in my experience these past four months it's not the students that aren't motivated they are very motivated we are great at motivating students I mean that's what we're here for it's when we hit where we can't control so if it was any easier for us to control that enrollment process to stream it down so that maybe it could be an online registration fully online I think that would go far but we can also get these guys

069right when they come in so you had a question from the dean of student services at Donald Community College Ilana Pacheco the question was how would you promote dual enrollment and also that end goal of having students complete their ajec to high school students and also to their parents your time starts now I would be sneaky and I would get the parents involved first is that they can encourage their students the way we would do that parent nights making sure that during parent nights we are inviting tocc to come to our schools and be at the entrance with whoever is reading at the door that's one of the ways that I can think of of doing it um through the Avid classes a lot of our students that are the majority of our students are

070in Avid because they have a little bit more of a focus of being College and Career ready so starting with those students having that teacher understand what dual enrollment looks like as an avid teacher when I was at the secondary I wish now like I think back I wish I would have had more information about how we can get our students in those dual enrollment classes so making sure that those teachers that are first hand with our students are understanding are talking the language or helping our students prepare how do we do that again by building those relationships with tocc all of us sitting down at the table we're not all experts in everything but tocc is an expert at what they do we're experts at our students how do we reach out to the

071community so that students are more aware what dual enrollment is and if we're talking about three-year plans I would say we start with our Juniors and seniors through the Avid class making sure that we have members from tocc coming into those classrooms and talking to those students and then giving them the information that they need and even modeling for them what it looks like maybe having our former students who are at tocc who may have been Avid or may have not been Avid but coming back and and showing them look I was in that seat that you're in and now here here's where I am and you doing the same thing so it all comes down to building the relationships thank you okay good evening everyone my name is Jay I'm the recruiter Community College

072and so my question is on behalf of our delivery coordinator so the question is what is your experience with working with higher education institutions help students learn all of their options when choosing or looking at secondary education all right Miss label this one will come to you first but you will have 30 seconds which starts now all right your time starts now okay so my experience working with higher ed is from being in the classroom again like I said before I was an avid teacher I worked with senior students and I worked with the counselor I worked with Miss Kinsey so that we could get our students to understand what they needed so what what are the tests that you need to take what are the grades that you need if you're if you're already

073looking at a specific career helping the students understand what the needs are what they need to have in place so that they can then want to hire education and understanding and being humble that I don't have all the answers but being able to go out and find those answers for our students can we create a program where our students not just in Avid but in all all of our Juniors and seniors what are we doing to help them understand what is needed so that they can go on to higher education my experience is limited to my personal experience as a student it's limited to being a parent with the child that was going to college and all that is required from you as a parent from your child so at at the least I can

074at least connect with parents on that level and then be in a position where I can go out and find the answers for them and again work with our higher ed that is available to our students tocc Pima Community College the University of Arizona bringing in all of those resources so that we can get the answers that our students need and understand why higher education is important for their future thank you Miss Leyva Mr Fox okay Jay's going to read the question again thank you is a question what is your experience with working with higher education institutions to help all their options when choosing a post-secondary education your time starts now thank you well in the past I've actually worked for some higher higher ed institutions such as Pima Community College Brookline College so I

075understand the process of enrollment and I understand the needs and and the motivations and characteristics that the individual has to have in order to be successful we all have those we just have to make sure that they're brought out by certain people um working with higher ed organizations is a it's hand in hand so that means Justice must lay the same have you guys at the events have college day we've taken our kids to your school and we've we've toured your pretty cool dorms and whatnot and I I hope we motivated a couple but the experience of working with them is just getting out and getting on their campus and meeting the players that are on those campuses whoever whoever they are whoever the organizer or the facilitator of the Mesa event at GCU it's

076get them there and then sneak off and take these kids around and let them see all the great things that there are um higher ed students adult Learners our high school students are pretty much adult learners they're much more mature than we were and they're much more immature than we were due to all of the influences that are coming in Via digital and media but they are definitely they are adult Learners they want to know what they need to do when they need to do what do I have to do in order to get this grade and we need to remember that when we when we're teaching them and structure in our classes because that's what they're going into that's exactly what they go into when they go into college what do I need to

077do to get this greater and when does it need to be done because they're thinking now on a little more mature level where they're actually strategizing on how to get through thank you Mr Fox I'm drinking Anna Marie Stevens I am the transition coordinator for Donald Autumn Community College I have a question to pick you up piggyback off the last question so it's been a complete year since you had a counselor to help students who are getting ready to leave the campus and explore different careers and colleges what are your plans to make sure that you are either hiring someone in this position or working with the staff that are on campus to make sure that those things are being taken care of for students because we do see are falling through the cracks your

07830 seconds starts now all right Mr Fox this one will come to you first okay let me paraphrase that real quick you want to know what we can do with the staff we have or the staff that's coming in in order to promote getting kids over to tocc or higher education is that correct okay that's our entire career in order into a career um communication telling them meeting our staff this is what we're going to do counselors this is what you're going to do talk about them non-negotiable there's your non-negotiable right there I think I went right to students non-negotiable should be as we're pushing this this is what we are doing and we're going to have a quota just like the old days I need X percent of ninth grade I need them in

079here 10th 11th and 12th and make it a requirement because the ball gets dropped many times by us like you said falling through the cracks maybe being stretched too thick but even if we're stretch too thin this is not the area to have a lapse this is this is the one area that's going to statistically data shows that when you get into that that post-secondary work at an earlier age well guess what you tend to achieve more at a later age you tend to be where you want to be when you're 25 30 as opposed to starting under 25 30. so I think that we work with our staff by saying this is it we're doing this and like miss lady said call the parents don't tell them don't ask them tell them you've got

080an incredibly bright young person here we're putting them in ninth grade into an art class at tocc and this is the program they're going to take and this is what they're going to get when they're done with it and we're just going to educate them on the benefits and strictly just the just the good planning the time management the efficiency the the cost analysis of what this district is actually offering these kids with tocc um so how we get it out there is we just we make it happen and that starts with the principle thank you Mr Fox um would you like me to paraphrase I sure can all right all right so the question was from board member Stevens um who's the transition coordinator at tocc and her question essentially when you boil it

081down was what are your plans to ensure that you are either hiring or completing the duties of a College and Career advisor within the campus so first of all starting by making sure it's in our budget I I know that in previous years we used to have someone that was strictly dedicated to a college and career counselor and that in itself we all know is a is a huge job so recruiting stealing people from other careers that enjoy working with students and then training them on the way you know we do things at Babu kiburi but also using the resources that are available to us so first and foremost making sure that I I don't know what the budget looks like but making sure it's still in the budget because you we can train our

082current counselors we can train our assistant principals we can train you know other teachers that are in the classroom but when you have three or four different people doing the same job sometimes the students get a different message they don't get all of the information so um I I understand why you're asking that question because that job is very very important there is so much that goes I honestly learned so much from our college and career counselor just for my own personal you know for my child so the fact that that job has been open for over a year means that we have a priority in making sure that we find someone that wants to be that wants to work with students and wants to help them move forward how do we do that we

083use what our resources are social media I'm not embarrassed to go out and steal someone from another company and say hey look you're this fits your personality let's how what do you think of coming to do this job because it can be a fun job it's not for everyone you're not in the classroom you're still working with students you know just using what we have available and in the meantime training people hello um piggybacking again how and when would you create those opportunities for the staff to train and have you know I guess lessons from their superiors to maybe learn these things I know there's a lot of Staff who have duties as needed added on their role as aside from what they already do how would you provide the training necessary for the for

084the staff in order to achieve the goals that you are trying to your 30 seconds to think Starts Now Ava it will come to you first clarifying question so when you talk about opportunities for staff to learn do you mean like the extra duties or to learn what they're currently doing right now like sorry so as on duties as needed they're already doing so much so then the training necessary how would you provide the training for them to complete the goals that you are trying to complete such as how they said for the guidance counselor how they already do sort of help the students but they also have a bunch of things that they already deal with aside from college career readiness as an example okay all right starting our 30 seconds no thank you

085all right Miss Leyva comes to you first your time starts now okay so um first and foremost we I would fight to hire someone first obviously um the idea of training like our guidance counselor and anyone else in the school would be as a as a plan B because the reality is our students need to have this information earlier I mentioned if you know if in my three-year plan we wouldn't start with all students immediately so we would start with maybe the seniors because those are the ones that are going to be going out into college the soonest so identifying as a team what are our priorities if our priority is just graduating students then that's where the guidance counselor needs to be but I believe that we need to take it to the next

086step and that is not just graduating those seniors but preparing them so that they can go to college you know get an associates go out into the workforce whatever it is that they deem necessary for themselves but as far as training provided for those you know extra duties it just comes with identifying our priorities so if if we decide this is a priority then we all need to come together as a team and say how much of this pie are you willing to help pick up so that we can get our students moving forward it's a team effort and that includes you know if if I become the principal that includes me as well thank you Miss lever Destiny I'm going to try to reveal your question but again yeah thank you um so Mr

087Fox um the question from Destiny Robles Lieutenant clerk at secondary campus was how and when would you create the time to train staff on the things assigned to them kind of those extra Duty things that are outside of their primary role okay well I think career and college is should be ingrained in everyday conversations with our students every day we should it should somehow or another you should work that into your conversation what are you going to do what do you like have them do a what's that like an aptitude survey a true color so to speak True Colors tells you what your personality type is and what careers you may excel in get them to know themselves first but as far as training and again ingraining this into the culture of the school is

088the principal's job but as far as training our or making them a little more at what they're doing if we subscribe and use with Fidelity Beyond textbooks after what I saw last week and after what I've seen it do for my own child and her teachers at the Bell School District there's an hour a day for planning that's just been taken away there's lesson planning gone there's agenda there's scope and sequence there's the yak it all goes away if you use Beyond textbook it's geared for our school it's built for our school and it is proven through years of use and many many a user that it works so we free up right there a 50-minute however long that scheduled time frame is for planning planning is now something that should be something of the

089past because use what works and don't reinvent any Wheels thank you Mr Fox I think John let's give it my hand please let's give it let's keep in the morning thank you non-stop answering amazing questions and mail another one by our amazing world my name is Peron my parent my grandparent and a staff member I would just like to ask how often would you come out to like monitor the kids during lunch because no no one is out there um would you have time to go out in one of those kids I love the questions how are you going to hold yourself accountable in the kids accountable in balancing your schedule great question 30 seconds Mr Fox it'll come to you it only took 13 shots all right Mr Fox your time starts now okay

090so um as far as monitoring goes it's a whole school job I think that um if anyone for some of you guys didn't know me the last place you generally find me unless the board reporters do is in my office I'm constantly out of my office I'm constantly sometimes too often on Miss McKay's campus but I'm always in one of our classrooms what I did spend a few months up at secondary last year as kind of a just a guest I was out there for passing periods that's what an administrator and their administrative team does they're in the cafeteria they're pushing the broom they're wearing the blue gloves and things and tables none of us in this room is above doing a little bit of work for the better of all the whole system so

091I think that your question towards the monitoring is you have to be out there in order to Monitor and you have to look at your campus and know your hot spots know where you might have some of the shenanigans going on you know where there may not be I don't I can't speak to the campus and their cameras but at a campus that large the cameras are almost just secondary they're almost approved what you think you saw and you're not going to see if you're not out there so the administrator all the principal the assistant principles and that that administrative iot instructional leadership team needs to be out during common times it's really really that simple I don't think we put that on our teachers if that's their lunch time they need to eat lunch

092so you're in the cafeteria you're on the field you're participating you're interacting with these kids that's what we need to do and if anyone saw me up there a few a year and a half ago a year ago it's exactly what I did because I didn't know what else to do so I was out there doing this stuff watching baseball practice cleaning cafeterias picking up with my stupid little picker upper picking up trash that's how you monitor thank you Mr Fox he said that um so our question from Miss Pearl who is a parent grandparent and also a staff member the question was how often would you be out and about moderate students at lunch passing period and during other activities how often I would do with everything if I could the reality is we

093can't always be there but every moment that I would be available I would be out there monitoring um I I understand that every school has security and monitors that that's what they do on a daily basis they are the experts but in order for me to understand what they can do on a daily basis the best way for me to know is to be out there with them it wouldn't be every day but it would be enough to understand that you know what they what they see every day what are they dealing with and work together as a team so that we can address any issues that come up so um I wish I could tell you that I would be out there every single day every passing period of the day because when I

094was over there and I was a teacher I was expected to stand at the door and it's just good practice as a teacher to stand at the door it would have been um you know the the leaders that that I got along with the best were the ones that were out there with us instead of saying you need to do this it was more of this is what how can we work together to do it and that's the kind of leader that I would want to be again could I promise you that it's going to be every day probably not because we do have things that we need to do on on you know on a daily basis to help run the school but as often as I possibly could I would be out there

095monitoring students need to know that I know them students need to know that they are seen and sometimes if they know that there that maybe today the principal will be out here maybe she won't be they might because they're still going to do it but they might reconsider it for a second and that's what we want we want them to know that they're seen and they're heard um not always you know for good reasons but that's where we need to be thank you Miss labor any other questions I just wanted to ask um in your time that you've been out here in the Zama Foundation what have you learned about the thought about the people and where have you been on the nation other than just on campus it'll come to you first all right

096Miss Ava if your time starts now okay so I have been out here since 2014 and I have learned where do I even start um I have learned that we have more similarities than differences obviously coming from a Mexican family I found many of the things that our family and our tradition did were things that are done here in on the Donna at the nation so we we have a lot more in common than we do differences when I wouldn't hear the language I'd be like sounds like a Spanish word and then you know so learning learning the language where have I been on the nation I've been to a couple of villages in 2021 I was I consider myself very blessed that I got to be part of a team of um staff members

097that went out to the homes of our students and presented them with their certificates so I think the furthest west we went was I I don't want to purchase any Google and then we went um up towards Casa Grande and we went to a couple of places that we pass on the way to Tucson I'm not going to say the names because I'm going to butcher them but um I I clearly I've been to topawa because that's where I used to go when I worked at the high school um I've I've also learned from our culture teachers why some of our students don't behave the way those of us coming from the city expect them to behave and um and seeking out that kind of information it has allowed me I'm gonna say to have

098a successful career out here because it's it's a beaut culture the culture icon promise is also beautiful but it's been a learning experience thank you Miss Lady Mr Fox the question from Miss Linda Carlos who is a parent she's also on a she's a Community member and she's also on her hiring panel here was in your time here on the thought of the nation what have you learned about the people and also where on the nation have you well I've learned that it's a beautiful culture filled with very very intrinsically beautiful people I come from Tucson I've worked at Tucson for well over 20 years and I mentioned it to quite a few of you in this room that these kids on This Nation very polite you guys may not think so go to Naylor

099go to Safford K-8 I'm very impressed by our student body from little itty bitty ones up to my 22 year olds they may not be the perfect people none of us are but I can tell you what I've learned is they're very conscious of what they say and what they do because they I don't think they really enjoy hurting other people's feelings that's my take from it maybe I'm lucky maybe they're nice to me all these young little people but I found them to be very very amiable and very communicative you can talk and have a very deep conversation with some of these kids where I've been on the nation I've Been Everywhere from Gothenburg to the museum right outside of Rocky Point um I have visited convo as well and the directions were amazing

100that I got take a left at the truck turn right at the tires and I got right there um I've been out to little Tucson and this is just visiting students and checking on them and bringing them devices or other necessities that may need um so I'm just happy as can be where I am and as a lifelong learner this has been an amazing experience for me and the fact that um I can now say good morning and good night in six languages just good morning good night though but I will get better at it so um I've learned that it's a great place to be with a deep deep rich culture that should be appreciated and exploited thank you so that was a great question I think that it's one of the questions I

101want to ask is what will you do to introduce the community to your teachers that work on the nation because the nation is pretty big how will you implement taking students or taking your staff out to see the community so that they can learn where the students come from foreign gosh that's as bad as that yellow submarine video would be quiet for one minute yeah yeah good all right Mr Fox this one will come to you for I think a perfect opportunity to do that as in our all diabetes that every school has is a couple three four times a year I also think it's imperative that we get out there we see where our kids come from um what I've also learned and I know that's the last question but it pertains to this

102is we are you are a beautiful community and a beautiful people but there is a lot of pain there is a lot of obstacles there is a lot of things that in 25 years of education I've experienced here more than any of the other 23 years and I don't think that if you are from not from this community if you don't experience and see where these young people live what they do to get to school to get up at 4 30 in the morning to walk down a dirt road to take an hour and a half bus ride that's admirable and our teachers who aren't don't know their students on a very intimate basis need to experience that they need to be taught that so get out there on PD days and listen to your

103kids when they come in late don't give them a hassle right away find out why they relate they probably got had done more work in the three hours they took him to get to school than that some of us are going to do all day so we have to just be conscious that there's a lot going on in these young people's lives and sometimes School takes the back seat to that and sometimes it actually needs to because you're not going to make gains at school until you make gains and Safety and Security thank you Mr Fox Miss Leva the question again from Miss Anna Ray Stevens The Transition coordinator at tocc um is how will you bring or introduce your staff to talk to them So currently I don't know how many of you are

104aware but we do provide a tour or we used to provide a tour this year where teachers but it's specifically for new teachers to the community and they get to go on a tour of the nation this is planned and executed by by and with our culture teachers so we already have some sort of system in place but I think that you bring up a really good question how do we provide that for teachers that maybe we're hired during the pandemic when we didn't provide these tours I know when I started back in 2014 I don't remember I don't think I had a tour so um maybe providing an opportunity for teachers that are already here either making it voluntary or mandatory depending on when we could do it my other suggestion would be we

105provide community events where the community comes to hard campuses would it be possible for us to reach out to those Villages and say Hey how do you feel about hosting one of our community events where we provide many of the things that are needed but we get to go out to their Village and get to see what they do so uh I I know that we already do it but we only do it for new teachers so we do need to open it up for um you know people like me who have been in the district that for some reason I didn't get to do one of those tours but then opening up those community events so that you know we wouldn't force it on them but we would ask if any of the communities

106would like to host a community event like the ones we do on our campuses and it gives everyone not just the teachers but it gives everyone the family the students an opportunity to see where their friends come from so that would be my suggestion all right so at this time we are going to wrap up so before we do that our live panel who's our community members about the right word is there but we will have them introduce themselves and their role for those of us who are tuning in online and then whoever is missing I will also enter by proxy so we're going to start right here good afternoon my name is Robert Russell I'm the school Improvement specialist at Bobby secondary good afternoon everybody and thank you for being here I'm Theresa Brazil

107I'm yes teacher and secondary good afternoon my name is Linda Carlos and I'm sitting in as a parent he will be back I assure you all right so those of our panel members that will be joining us virtually are run through the list here miss Aaron Martin who is a middle school science teacher you will also have Miss Amanda renegar who is a high school you will have Mr Travis listo who is secondary security you will have Miss Megan Haley who is the secondary guidance counselor and I'm missing one Mr Meese Mr coach Meese who is our secondary um he's a basketball coach as well as health and PE and then we also have President board president board President Juan buendia joining us as well he is here live in the panel so um let's

108give it up for our candidates [Applause] so the way that this process will go from here because we we did have some hiring committee members who were unable to be here live with us today for various reasons we are streaming this online online they will also have access to it after the fact and we are asking that all nine of our original panel members review and score our candidates based on their responses and then the team the committee will come together tomorrow to discuss and make their final recommendation from there that final recommendation as we all know will go to the school board and the school board will have the final say there will be an executive session where the school board will get to ask either of the candidates any questions that they have

109before making their final decision and I think that concludes our form for today so let's give our beautiful candidates all right thank you all so much for being here I'm gonna thanks for recording and turn this