001foreign oh yeah thank you sorry [Music] all right welcome everybody to Continental schools call to work of course we'll do the Pledge of Allegiance this is America and to the Republic for which it stands one Nations throughout thank you you could have our rope off please [Music] here this is Dearing Mr mcgibbon Mr ulery here Mr I'm here just make a note for the record Mr McKibben is here by telephone um [Music] so not just to approve the agenda this is a motion item the agenda I'll check this will be a discussion yes guys yes this is Allen yes Mr mcgibbon yeah Mr Robert yes Mr Austin I'm very anxious for this one Mr Peru papers which has been a very supportive member of our community our School especially and he's got some I'm not
002going to swirl into your thunder man just go just go yeah all right let's get it tell us when tell us when okay I'm real quick here uh start okay thank you Lord it's great to see you thank you everyone will be here [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] thank you forever to create the letter it's 85 feet long and more than 50 feet wide and it's not just about breaking records there's a lesson behind it so here to tell us about it a man who started this project please welcome author and literacy Advocate Karu patlua you don't understand foreign [Music] that would yeah a small desperate branch of Arizona and it was like coming back the way that was my granddad and ranch when I grew up again and the most fascinating was I started writing
003letters out there that started creating the story The Storm became a book that you know came out but I discovered the power of what it was to write a letter and what's amazing is when you run a letter you put your tile into it yeah actual give it goes into the page you give that to somebody and they give you the gift of time and you receive it so it's really an interesting thing and so you're a romantic alcohol I like it it's really sad I love writing letters I'm actually really into it personally writing them I do it all the time do you all like writing letters most people just stick to your phone I guess nowadays again and they make the kids write letters too which is so hard you know yeah it
004is the gift of time it's they're taking time out of their day to make you important and like send you something that's so nice so how did you get involved with the school what am I someone went to school there yeah so that was really cool and a big shout out to the school because we could not do any of this there's later stuff to the students to the teachers to the superintendent and all that so what was really cool they didn't allowed me to do these things and it brings hope and positivity yeah so much trouble they've got too cold and all this and we do this through letters and so the first thing to teach them about running a letter is you pull it from the heart remember it and you're getting them
005away from all the tech they're up in the tech world right now yeah because objects is not over teaching the patients and we're teaching them gratitude yeah because when you're ready you end up giving that to somebody yeah how it will work so it's it's such a cool thing that does not work that I gotta thank you know all you guys all you guys have come out and do the fun stuff for the big letter year after year and all the letters you written to the community and the support of the parents it's part of the board the support of the teachers to go are you kidding we have to do this again uh thank you to this guy over here who goes oh my gosh I have to do another one of these and
006he complains about it with me lots of love and uh to gosh thank you for allowing me the opportunity to do this with such a wonderful lovely incredible school and such and and to give back to the community in this way so thanks guys you can say now that you've been part of the Kelly Clarkson show at Mrs Cuevas we need to tell you what is the girl's name that was up there with Mr Fabrics yeah Elsa Elsa that's the voice from Elsa from Frozen you got to meet Elsa if you want Elsa's autograph we want to thank you for helping us always include fun and um just building character like our vision statement and our vision statement state to build good character to not forget the importance of writing letters of being thankful and
007being grateful and for really getting positive um getting us in the media in a positive way and for the world to see the difference that kids make and the things that are going on and we're just a little like we say a little school with the big huge heart and I'm just really proud of our students our parents our staff and just thank you for your big crazy ideas and um I know I promised my team we're gonna tone it down a little bit now that we made it onto the show so well today's show called up so I'm gonna have to talk oh no well you could just go to Mr Navy thank you very much thank you okay guys now it is time for The Cult of the month never mind I just
008uh Miss Rico's presentation then the two guys but we still have pizza if you want to come and get more thank you so I accidentally skipped the approval of the minutes because we're excited for it if uh I'll leave to 30 minutes of the November discussion this is guys yes Mrs Allen yes Mr mcgibbon Mr ulery yes yes all right sorry about that people okay the superintendent okay not too much to report um for December even though it's been busy it's a short month for us so again vision and mission statement is there boys and girls I hope you're practicing it board members remember we're going to try to see in January when we have our curriculum board meeting to see if anybody has it memorized for special prizes okay to memorize the mission and
009the vision enrollment update we're steady holding at 642 students pre-k through eighth grade we have 10 new students who will be entering in January when we come back from winter break 5th 6th and seventh grades have the lowest enrollment and of course you can see that of the um no new students are in fifth grade coming in in January which is where we'd love to have them um class sizes remain with 18 to 24 students in the classrooms with two classes at 25 and 26 which are in fourth grade Continental letter grade oven a so we received a notification foreign grade will be going from a b to an a the Review Committee is going to be submitting the recommendation to Ade at their board meeting on December 9th so it's not truly official but
010we have um the email from the Review Committee so again I'd like to thank staff for all their hard work and ensuring all of our students are progressing we celebrated with staff on Wednesday November 30th because we couldn't keep it a secret and we plan to celebrate with our students next Wednesday on the 14th so stay tuned because we are super super proud of our students because they are the ones who have to show what they know and um just very very proud this is the goal that when I came in as superintendent the goal was to get back to an a better grade and to become an aqua school which we will be applying for next year so just thank you so very much bunch of teachers that are here parents just staff kudos
011to all of you for all the hard work because it does pay off Transportation update we've had the biannual bus evacuation so all students and teachers pay a participated and have to evacuate the bus in under two minutes so everyone has done a great job so far middle school will be finishing up this Wednesday and the next drills will occur in the spring kind of surveys please provide us with your feedback so we only have 52 responses parents on the climate surveys student surveys have increased to 302 staff surveys are 28 and we have over 100 staff members so we truly want your feedback for planning and preparation in order to make necessary changes for school Improvement and we know that we're do we have a lot of great things going on and are doing
012a great job but we do want to hear there's always room for improvement in different areas so please give us your feedback more good news like if we can take more good news right um hot off the Ade press which is Arizona Department of Education just got an email today that we are no longer identified as a TSI school which identified us as needing Federal Improvement for additional targeted support and Improvement and when I um was here at Continental six years ago we were identified in 2018 which was shortly after due to our English language Learners and our special ed students lack of achievement we were identified as a school that needed needed targeted support Improvement so we had additional funds with that and that we really ordered more material provided more training for our
013teachers we have now a special education director which we didn't have in the past Ms Staples here and she's our El teacher and coordinator so I'm so happy to a report that we're off that radar too so we won't be getting additional work to do from Ade we just have to stay in the course so proud of our student staff admin team and our parents for being supportive of our school Improvement Endeavors so Colts Rock thank you to Miss Shelley price thank you for your service and contribution to Continental we all wish you well and we know that you'll stay in touch this is Mrs Kaiser's last board meeting so we really appreciate her participation in the board and really her ability ability to expand our thinking and the ways of doing things and making
014us look at things differently has been good for all of us here at Continental so thank you foreign board meeting please um plan to attend don't miss our meeting it is going to be Tuesday January 10th we are going to have a complete curriculum overview with assessment data and discipline Behavior updates um students will be here to show off their data binders that they've been compiling so we're excited and they are excited to talk to our board members so we're going to have board members come in a little bit early so that kids can show and discuss their data binders with them also our newly elected board member Ruta Maria's will be joining us along with members of parent advisory thank you okay so thank you have a great evening that concludes my report and
015happy holidays to everyone even though we'll be seeing you all within the next couple of weeks as well thank you is it a nice devil yes we've had great news because we've got good people and great students so with that uh we're going to turn over to Mr Layton and Miss Cuevas to our introduction of the special reviews of the Colts of the month all right guys that's why you're here besides pizza great books of the month if you could come up and start lining up bring your little yellow cards with them here [Music] thank you [Music] so Jesse's teacher writes Jessie's very kind to his friends especially the little ones in our class he's extremely responsible in the classroom making sure he follows the rules he's an excellent role modeling class keeping himself in
016other safe congratulations Jesse my holds make sure you head over to miss Nyan to get your ultimate t-shirts and if any of you have any students who are full to the month this year we will be Distributing their T-shirts because we got our orders in here my name is Victoria and I'm in kindergarten so Victoria's teacher writes Victoria demonstrates kindness safety and responsibility in physical education and health education Victoria's kindness shines bright when she interacts with others she's always willing to help friends makes safe choices and her smile is contagious keep up the great work and she was nominated by our elementary PE teacher Miss Kohler so congratulations thank you [Music] great Layla's teacher writes Layla is friendly and kind to all of the children she follows all the rules in class and that research
017she stays safe and always turns in her assignments and homework on time and this shows responsibility she's a happy learner and is a true role model to her peers in kindergarten I love being her teacher for Mrs Gracia kindergarten [Applause] Dahlia's teacher rights Dalia is such an awesome Continental Pope Dahlia is kind to her teacher and her classmates she listens well pays attention and always participates in every activity Dahlia gives her best efforts each day she has a very sunny attitude and it's just a pleasure to teach I'm so happy she's in our class this year Mrs Orbison congratulations foreign [Music] Georgia's teacher writes Georgia is a kind friend and a good listener she cares and is kind to others she Creations responsible and organized I'm very proud and glad to be her teacher Mrs
018medley foreign Peter's teacher writes Peter is kind and caring student he's always eager to learn and has excellent participation in class he's very responsible and consistently puts forth his best effort to succeed Peter is also very considerate of others and is always willing to help his classmates we are very lucky to have him in our class congratulations Peter yes Indonesia [Music] 's teacher writes so he always comes to library ready to learn she is kind to all her classmates respectful to the teacher and almost always remembers to bring her book each week she participates during a reading discussion and is willing to help her classmates when reading thank you Siri for being such kind safe and responsible Library friend and this is she was not really our librarian Mrs Lathan congratulations foreign [Music] to everyone
019she meets and interacts with me she's quick to help anyone who needs it and tries her absolute best every single day we can go back congratulations thank you my name is Ethan I'm in fifth grade so his teacher aide Stephen is new to Continental this year I've Loved getting to know him his smile lights up a room he makes new friends easily and is kind to everyone I can count on Stephen to stay on the task complete his work and ask questions if he needs help Steven is great addition to our proud family and this is Adams congratulations foreign [Music] was nominated by the middle school team of teachers as a middle school team we would like to recognize Audrey Khan as our November pulse of the month time and again she's made good honest
020and responsible choices she's caring and always strives to do the right thing she treats fellow classmates with integrity and helps create a positive funding environment wherever she is we're very proud of you Audrey keep up the good work Middle School foreign months to please come back up here while we honor two of our employees I'm ready as well so while parents take pictures real quick I want to introduce what the Golden Horseshoe award is that's like the employee of the month that we have for our staff something unique this year that we're doing instead of us is Administration picking it uh their peers so all the staff gets to vote every month of who they feel represent and so the individuals and how we used to speak in the years past about the our staff
021members we'll still do that because we're up here and we can't um but the the comments we've read are actually from the employees uh colleagues so that is what the Golden Horseshoe award is great so our first one that is going to be giving out is to the lady samolina and what he says it was able to be here tonight she's a little under the weather but bloody semolina she's our attendance clerk at the front office and her colleagues write Clarissa always has a smile in the front office and is always willing to help out when we need something done but he says jumped on board and has been a huge help she's always so helpful to parents students and staff and we're very lucky to have her here with us at continent foreign [Music]
022and her colleagues write as a colleague Mrs Abel's always considerate of others she's professional she's detailed and organized and provides the students with the utmost attention and dedication to learning resulting in positive academic achievements Mrs Abel's always going above and beyond her own job expectations we appreciate her in all that she does she is our ell teacher and it's been really really challenging over the last couple years because it seems like every six months to 12 months the state department changes what the expectations are um and so she's coming and learned the first way then the next year had to relearn everything because the state mandated change and she's done this while loving and and caring for the students first and foremost but it has been a lot of work on her part it's been
023a privilege to work with her and I want to just you know throw the some accolades out there of one of the students that made that change that Miss Rico talked about um was due to the work that Vince staple did with one student made that difference in that change and so if it wasn't the love and compassion she has for her subject um we wouldn't be in that boat where we are today so thank you for your hard work for dealing with all those kiddos thank you I just wanted to say thank you Mrs Abel for all of your dedication and the passion that you have it has been have a crazy few years with all of the changes but you're so dedicated there you go ready everybody stay cold [Music] well thank you
024very much Miss Sabo how long have you been at Continental um oh I knew you when you were a puppy then yes very good way back when yes thank you so we're gonna move on to some more business items you guys are welcome to have another piece of display or grab a slice and go um we'll take like a minute recess just for a second to nothing's calm down hit you guys thank you thank you to the kids [Music] okay let's get started again we'll start with a consent agenda this is a motion item okay any uh discussion I had two questions on about church but I've received answers from Mr sugar thank you yeah just for the record I asked a handful of teachers that came to our Christmas thing that they should be
025watching and I'm sure they did not read the agenda so I will attempt to read this to some degree so here's the raises coming up January that's part of the roll call because yeah okay unless I got it wrong yes okay sorry okay so certified staff seven percent raise classified staffs under 14 an hour we'll get 8.2 those over 14 will get seven administrative staff will get 8.4 and with the remaining budget this will leave us with 196 000 of undercovered funds so this is going to go into effect the first paycheck on January 13th it's really exciting we have all really fought with this we really don't want to leave money on the table and there's a certain amount we have to keep in reserve to add a new teacher this that and this
026whole silly who really call that with the state with their the funds that they need to approve the override but that said is you know it's I think it's unprecedented correct me if I'm wrong mid-year to give raises like this to this cool stuff have you seen that before so we typically districts will give the raises up front but we've been conservative and also trying to make sure to wait for the aggregate experience to see what we're going to to do before we give out raises at the beginning so believe that staff know that you know once we see where we are at midpoint then we'll be able to instill raises but it would be nice the aggregate expenditure limit is corrected to be able to give raises and let teachers know in the fall
027what their raises are going to be and um with that means that I know we've talked about performance pay for teachers so that's something that I'm looking into so that we could bring something to the board by February March so that at the end of the school year when we do see that we do have extra funds that we are able to give performance pay for teachers as well for increased youth achievement okay with that this is guys yeah Mrs Allen yes Mr mcgibbon yeah Mr ulery yes Mr absolutely with that we have the uh District financial report unfortunately Greg's not here to talk about it he's recovery from um surgery which I hear he's recovering very well thank you so do we have a motion to approve the district financial report coming to approve
028the district financial report second thank you any discussion [Music] okay Mrs guys yes Mrs Allen yes Mr uluri yes Mr mcgibbon thank you all right the calendar okay so before you um you have the new calendar for the proposed calendar for next school year it mirrors our calendar for this year we've also worked with um again making sure that our dates coincide was how it is so the number of dates for students staff and on Wednesdays are all the statements this year's calendar okay we have a motion on next year's counter I'll move to a perfect calendar oh second my only comment is I wish Sarita would implement the Thanksgiving week I think we do I mean they get off kind of a half day Wednesday before Thanksgiving and nothing happened giving my son goes
029there you know Tuesday and Wednesday there's nothing going on none right go anyways with that up be quiet and go for a couple Mrs guys yes Mrs Allen yes Mr mcgibbon yeah Mr ullery yes Mr ostrich all right the next one is the asba delegate assembly which is occurring in December 15th on Phoenix um we need to have a delegate I was a delegate last year and I'm more than happy to do it again um so we needed to make that an action item just to make it all official I moved to approve that you propose asba 2020 political agenda it's called the meeting occurred in September and then there's going to be a weather for me in December right in that community is attached as well so you're willing to continue so Kelly just
030move into that it's not stated very clear with the recommended if anybody else wants to go over there are we moving to approve Steve go specifically on the one on December 15th so we need a representative from the board to represent us at La is being December meeting I nominate disease to be our representative thank you Steve discussion we we didn't submit anything this year for the global agenda yeah but I can certainly take told me no it doesn't quite how that works well we submitted last year wasn't included at all anyways well isn't that what the motion is to approve the political agenda for the asba it's the it's the proposed draft and so it is there in your packet it was attached yeah again if we want to have discussion about it before
031so that Mr Austin could take back some information but there's the changes that work provided by asba so yes they are asking that we approve the draft because then there's going to be discussion at asba and then I'm assuming that after the discussion they're going to bring it back for a formal discussion in both recovery boards that's what they've done okay so we're just technically approving that we've received their draft and that will review and send Mr Austin would be happy it's kind of interesting they give you a little electronic thing to vote and then there's people get up and get their opinions well we have two motions on the floor we have a motion to approve Steve osterly as the representative and that motion was made after the motion which was uh the approval
032of the proposed asba 2023 political agenda you're right so then is that uh the approval of Steve osterley was not in new business so okay we can um to prove the agenda and then we can have a Zoom meeting to approve the income if that's do we need or do we I don't think we need to approve you okay no it's just a discussion a discussion it's put some straws out and see who gets the short one I don't know I figure since I'm already going to be there okay so but if the political gender is going to come back to us for final approval um why is it necessary to improve the proposed agenda because our approval or disapproval of the proposed agenda is what we're asking Steve to take to the asba meeting
033okay so if there's I just speaking on the cuff if there is something that we would want me to you know because it's an open forum to talk about whatever I'm more than happy to do that I don't think we've all delved into it enough to do that [Music] so anybody can according to the rules anybody can attend uh but then each member has one official and that's what stabilities that's correct okay okay so the motion on the floor was the approval of the proposed asba 2023 political agenda it was uh moved by member Allen and I don't think we have a second so if there's not a second I think we had a little maybe this motion or item was not presented right right well Mr omary did you I think I checked it
034the nomination of him to be our delegate right but Mrs kais mentioned that that specific item was not as indicated as a new business item on the agenda so we're going to go back to our our first motion which was the approval of the proposed as B8 2023 political rejected by miss Helen foreign we need a second to move it to discussion to all six okay any discussion oh okay I you know I I struggle mightily with the usba um political agenda um four-fifths of it is funding funding funding funding funding um and while I absolutely support Advocate funding of our Public Schools I also I remember recommendations that we made last year especially as far as simplifying the the school Finance system which I think is the most convoluted misunderstood ununderstood by the public
035process that I've ever seen anywhere and that was never included whatsoever in the political agenda of the asba so I struggle with with this agenda follow the question Mrs guys no this is Ellen yes Mr mcgibbon no Mr Ellery no Mr Oster yes all right now to the fight club coordinator motion to approve the industry Mr President appointed the information could you repeat what the motion is that just the motion wasn't failed was for us to to support the um the the proposed political agenda delicate assembly thank you so if I'm hearing that right I'm in being advised based on our board notes to both know but they vote on each individual item it's not just a vote of it and I think that's something representing Continental you could go bring that up at the
036meeting and express the conservative report online that's why it is important political agenda okay is that good okay coordinator looks like uh Mr Vance wants to produce a mountain bike more power yes so we currently have one and there's the Russian now Mr Nathan has requesting that the board of proof um an additional mountain bike club sponsor because the club has grown and for safety reasons we really need to have two adults there in the lead and reading up the rear with Fight Club gears good so that's 325 I've moved to approve the additional Fight Club second can you discuss me is this guys yes Mrs Allen yes Mr mcgiven yeah Mr ulery yes Mr osterdam okay so we voted for the need of it yeah I'm sorry yeah so now we're building on or
037Mr Vance to be the coordinator and so we need a motion for that I moved to approve and Mr Vance as cannot fight but we're here all right my only comment was I need to come watch Mr Vance on the mountain bike so let's see what happens we'll be well supervising change with Mr Curtis who is the originals yeah okay he'll be fine okay go golfers this is guys yes this is Ellen yes Mr mcgibbon yeah Mr ullery yes Miss Jordan yes okay our events it's a busy December I don't know if we need to go through is there any that you want to point out that are bigger events than others no to start concerts and our choral concert and now we're um winter musical programs just come on in if you're here please
038make sure that you let us know because we do like to make sure that we do operate reductions of our board members when they're in attendance so if you can flag Deanna down or Mr Nathan to make sure we know you're in the office okay Joe could you get Lathan to come interesting okay with that we have our information so we'll go around but I do want to wait until Steve gets in so we went to share this earlier the Steve if you want to come up with share this please so I won't talk too much about important basketball team this is just the highlights it was a rough season they ended up oh and seven um with only one eighth grader that was on the team for the entire time so it was very
039challenging for our sixth and seventh graders um to go out there and for the most of the time the tallest boy on our court was about here and then on the other team they would have two or three in my height um so it was rough as far as that goes um the athletic directors and the coaches vote every quarter is you're aware for sportsmanship Awards and although our boys um really got some meetings most of our scores averaged around like eight to sixty um 60 plus was the end result of scores our boys never ever ever quit a game so if you wipe the scoreboard clear and walked in you would think that our team was probably winning because of the effort that they were putting forth and guess they never gave up diving
040on the floor getting every ball that they could um and trying their best to get it to the other end of the court and try to get a shot off before it got taken from them again but just rappers and really good kids and the other coaches and athletic directors noticed that effort and at the end of the game they'd be there with smiles on their faces shaking their hands of their opponents that just showed them no mercy and so they were selected sportsmanship of the year for basketball so as you guys know because I've done this a long time with all of you I cherish this we're going to do a first place trophy so although we had a record of Owen seven um all of our boys and coaches are winners of my
041book because I came home with the most important Hardware that I'm super proud to put in our trophy case so they're not here but if you're watching boys thank you so much for your videos and Villages for bringing this home in Continental so once the first time foreign any other discussion Shelly well I just um I want to say that um I was thinking about the board and and this being my last night and I think many of you know that I am probably off to Italy so want to set up um I am very excited but I was thinking life is like a box of chocolates and you never know what you get until you unwrap it and this board has been a little bit like that uh you never knew what you were
042getting with any of us till you started unwrapping us as much as you tried the yes and naughty ones uh as much as you try to wrap it back up and put us back in the Box probably not possible but here's the deal I've been on the board now for three and a half years and I will say that it was as difficult for me not to run as it was for me it would have been for me to run because I knew I needed to go do other things I met one of those new decades but the things that we have done as a board and as an Administration although not easy to get done have been phenomenal um I say this a hundred times keeping the school open out of 16 counties and
043and Pima There are 16 districts in Pima County was nothing short of phenomenal and just served our children so well returning a million dollars to the taxpayer phenomenal you don't see that at TUSD you don't see that at Sunnyside um going from a b to an a again phenomenal getting sportsmanship Awards those are the great things that should be measured in a district and so I'm just I just want to say it's been um an honor to serve on the board it's been mostly a pleasure um I there have been times when we've had to make very difficult discussions and we've had them and we've come out the better for it and so um again my my gratitude to all of you thank you so much it's been a pleasure and I look forward to
044seeing you guys succeed and most of all doing the fun stuff now so thank you very much um thank you very much for everything you've done for the board I've really enjoyed um being able to glean as much experience for me as possible to taught me a lot I've had a lot of fun inspiring with you and I really appreciate your patience oh I will I will uh first of all I'd like to congratulate the Administration and the staff for being gay School grading I think it's fabulous with people by real estate in this District they look at things like that and that's a major flower in our hat and and my my congratulations I know it's a lot of hard work to to do that and and improve that I would also like to
045extend my thanks to to Mrs kais For Her counsel her guidance her contributions to this board I think they've been invaluable and I would just like to this is a special time of the year and I just want to uh wish everybody a Most Blessed Christmas and to our Jewish friends a a very happy Hanukkah and just a wonderful rest of the year and let's just have a great 2023. Mrs guys thank you so much I I really did learn a lot from you and it opened my eyes to things that I've never thought about so thank you for that and you know what we've got a great future in front of us you guys all know it so let's make it happen good thank you thank you so thank you with that we'll take
046a recess to sign some paperwork she's sick you're right he was going into an area with no signals so he got disconnected stuff