001we're live we're live [Music] you know I find that I got six here Order welcome [Music] everyone I PL Al to flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands Nation God indivisible withy andice thank you Mr osar Ro please all right Mr arano like he's absent Miss K present Mr Oly I'm present Mr Hy here Mr MCG right on okay thank you approval the agenda please I move that we approve the agenda for November 9th 2020 motion second pleas I'll please the conference number you are currently the only person in this conference we have a motion in a second discussion Mr President I'd like to remove the financial report from the consent agenda that and place itent after further changes okay please all right Miss K okay I vote Yes
002Mr ol yes Mr M yes passes Amed thank you's the minutes we have any call to the public that we know anyone on the call Super okay hello everyone we apologize to the scre are not so we at Dart over there okay so El update congratulations to our returning board members President Andrew MCG member sh and member Richard um looking forward to our continued work together and serving our Continental students staff parents and community and to thank you I have purchased little handy dandy Continental cult um face masks for you so please wear them with pride wherever you are thank you and I will tell you about the thank you cards a little bit later um proposition 44 override so apparently there's a glitch in the computer reading ballots ballots are being rescanned and we
003should receive information on Thursday or Friday um I received a message today that we have a webinar scheduled tomorrow at 10 o' with rad Nelson the director OFA County elections um on composition and 485 so I just heard from Mr Chuck wonder and he said that he heard it was going to have to be a manual count and so I guess we'll know tomorrow um apparently we are going to be able to be present to observe this process but I will have more information um after our meeting our board member wrting results are expected after November 13th so we um don't know who will be our new so I will keep everyone andd as I receive inform proposition 208 with the passing of proposition 208 the estimated amount of Revenue that this would generate for
004Continental would be approximately $47,000 um and they are giving us the formula what we're going to put in um it's telling us where we can spend the 47 whether it's par whether supplies and materials and what is going to be going towards teachers counselors Etc um as this is just an early estimate well we also do not have a time table as to when these payments will begin our best guess um as of today is that this would not start to come until the spring of 2022 and the date is courtesy of SAS and the amount is courtesy of AA is that a one time the life of this bill or it's supposed to be done in two payments annually um covid-19 update so um I'm sure you received your emails this weekend as we
005were trying to keep staff and parents and board members updated um so uh we had green valy news come on Friday um and she wanted to do a report on the covid-19 measures that we were taking in terms of um safety for our students we walked around campus and it was great to see smiling students behind masks learning and happy to be in school adjusting to The New Normal so I was um again very proud and reassured that our teachers our students are um taking the mask wearing very serious reminding each other PE students kids at in the cafeteria and at recess so I really applaud all of our staff members and our students for doing due diligence to make sure that we are keeping safe we met with our student advisory kids and the
006kids are also saying we do not want to go back to virtualness you know so they're they're saying we're willing to wear a mask and keep them on forever if that will help us um not close our school down and have to go back to Virtual so due to the recent situation of the two asymptomatic students who tested positive we closed one first grade class um teachers and students along with 20 siblings will quarantine for 14 days returning after Thanksgiving break um mrsas Mr Nathan and I made personal calls to the families last night and all of them were very appreciative and in agreement that we would um rather a on the side of caution 102 students absent today we currently have 66 students out for either isolation or quarantine so 36 additional students were
007absent today that were non-co related and I just put attendance there for you to see what it was on Thursday and Friday our current enrollment is 488 students in person and 112 virtual preschool we have 24 in person and 12 virtual the preschool students come session so there's six seven and I think eight in one class total enrollment prek 8 is 637 so here's the slide that you've seen before in our enrollment update you can see in September we were down by 66 students that's the last line on the right on the first block on the second line you see that now we are down 54 students from where we were last year at this time technology update exciting things have been happening we've been working with the Better Together Coalition um connect our students
008and um the AA American Association of University women to obtain donations for student Chromebooks um today Continental has received $1,594 in donations and um Mr Schubert was contacted by a gosh maybe in six eight weeks six or eight weeks ago and they have just gone and have advertised have personal donations family members donate so we're just super excited we had Trio call us in the summer and asked what we would need and we said we needed money for devices so we got a check from them uh we're just super excited with the money that's coming in for chomebook so with additional fing we'll be a books for our Kinder first grade students in addition Albert do you want to cover this piece to work so in addition to the donation another part of connect our
009students project is looking at actually connecting our students it's one thing for students to have devices whether it's personal devices or School provided devices if they don't have a reliable highed internet connection it really doesn't facilitate their their learning after school hours they on site and they have access to stable internet so um the second part of the better together and connect our students is uh focusing on those families that don't have adequate access so we're going to we're looking at two routes here we're looking at the more urban kids who are in the cops service area and connecting those families with the connect compete program so that one is part of the everyone on organizations which helps provide low uh lowcost internet access to students if they qualify usually the main factors that if
010they qualify for schools for the pr reduced lunch program they will qualify for this program U because of Co cost Communications has removed some of the restrictions that they've had where some of the parents couldn't couldn't qualify for it even though they financially qualifi for it so there The Better Together Coalition with along with United Way and some the food bank and other or Oran have gone out and received donations to have a starter fund where what's going to happen is the organization is going to pay for their service for the school year so we'll get we'll identify families we'll ask families if they want to participate if they want to participate we'll move them over to the appropriate people and organizations to help them get connected so they can get service once they do
011that uh the cost for The Connect compete for cops a month for internet and right now uh as they're looking at the budgets they're going to determine a fin the number distance between us and so Unified School District so they will divy up the funds proportionally based on of the number of kids and families that want to participate in new qualify for it so with that that covers the urban kids oops sorry go back um we do have kids both saita and Continental we do have kids that are out where it's not covered they can't get vsl from cry link cell Hotpot service and we've run into that doesn't quite work with the hotpots we have they get access it's not reliable it's kind of isy on that so Scott Bo from s un School
012District his portion of this project is working with the wireless internet service providers ofet Communications and I don't remember the other one off top of my head those those two wireless internet service providers focus on those rural or hard to get areas with wireless internet so they have antennas Towers on various locations and other to in order to get signals to families they don't take part in everyone on or the connects compete so their service is a little more expensive but what we've done is we've negotiated with them so they can uh cut some of the installation fees some of the connect fees and then even drop the price of their service and then uh the once we have our budgets of the funding in then we'll work on paying for service for those families
013as well that don't quite can get the urban urban service so um we're working on forms and portals uh for the parents those will be going out sometime this week to next week we will be sending a a survey out to our families to see one is information we need anyway uh but the FOC what kind of Internet service they have if they have service obviously if you don't get them back with some paper surveys out those people probably don't have service and if they have reliable internet service number of kids using the internet that sort of thing at home what type of devices um and then that'll be part of the data that we collect in order to help us identify which families truly need adequate internet service um so the other thing that
014we're also looking at which would help identify families in need is partnering United Way of Southern Arizona with their cradle career project so that helps identify and track students as they move along from kinder all the way out into into college and Beyond so and it it really looks at all the same kind of data that we're looking at right now for for the kids what kind of access do they have you know for their opportunity to to achieve it's closing an opportunity Gap not necessarily an achievement Gap because kids and students can achieve they just need the opportunity to by providing this type of service to them we're going to give them an opportunity so that they can be on point with their peers thank you Albert and also um Michelle Phillips from the
015uh Creer Green Valley Foundation has been essential in getting uh private donors to donate money to us as well for home books so again just another um example of how dedicated our community members are and how they definely for our students to ensure that they have chome books so thank you our professional development book studies as we mentioned in the summer that we paid teachers during um School closure to participate in some book studies so miss Von thank you she was the first gr soul to present along with Mrs oberson on their book boosting brain power um at a staff meeting so thank you Jenny and we have the other book studies scheduled so it was very refresh to um again remember some of the things that we lose sight of and in terms of
016keeping young children in music the benefits of that which we know that our students can benefit from Fine Arts um so thank you that happened um say no to dry Spirit Week there's some pictures there Colts have spirit so um there's our students and some of our classes who were dressed up and in red for say not to drugs we had superhero day we had your sports team day very fun time there's some Halloween fun and I hear that there was a witch riding around on a ghost and two people on ostriches and an administrator riding around on a bull that day so kids enjoyed themselves as well our outdoor musical playground we are super excited about this um if you remember rotary um by the rotary wrote a and uh National rotary match the
017fund so we had $8,000 to complete this project uh and you'll see and again thanks to Mr naan Mr Ferguson um Mr meren Ray I mean poor Steve lean is Jack of all trades and you know he goes to get the Jackhammer and is doing all kinds of things around campus that are needed but our rotarians came and helped assemble them and then on the bottom you see Mr mer who is um teaching the students talking to them about the equipment and Mr meren also took the preschool kids into the whale drums um the Kinder kids into the preschool playground where they demonstrated the whale drums which is fun as well so we plan to do an official ribbon cutting once we get the the the piece that's that we're going to label as the
018rotary musical playground area hoping that that will take place December 7th before at 55 teaching and learning just a few samples of resiliency at its best we have um there on the left speech services and action so you see our speech teacher there on the screen and the student sitting there with one of our preschool paros um just standing on the sidelines making sure that they can connect our kindergarteners were assessed online um with the new NWA map assessment so thank you to miss and miss romanelli and the Advent team and staff for your patience and going in but our kindergarteners surprised us because they are truly digital Natives and they were logged in and going before we could even go around the room to help them they were well on their way taking the
019test and again there's another picture of preschool rocks thank you Dr Jenny vson and staff for continuing to allow the kids to explore and wonder and I had to put that picture in there because that's my granddaughter and with the magnifying glass that she's never used in her life so you see it totally up to her face but one of my favorites so thank you um the Arizona Association of Laino administrators and superintendent mini virtual conference occurred yesterday and today and um it was attended by myself Mrs quas Mrs Sable Mr B Mr Mangan and um again as I mentioned I'm the president elect of this Association so next year I'm going to depend on my team to to help us with the annual conference that's planned we do have we're hoping to have the
020an actual conference in February but again when we look at the the AA mission to promote effective leadership that produces the best outcomes for all students so again looking at eff leadership best outcomes in all students and it's really great that our leadership team we're small and it's really good time to network and get different ideas from other administrators uh the national anthem was sung by Copper Canyon High School symphonic choir oops there's vs missing from TOs and Union High School and it's amazing what the kids are doing even virtually because all those kids were in syn and they were singing it from their homes it was just beautiful we also did a student panel with four students who are attending U OFA ASU and Stanford they shared their stories and their challenges with the
021Educators which I think is the most powerful because our work is to prepare students for um for college and Beyond and interesting that we're talking about technology and connectivity because one of the students from Rio Rico um we asked whether she felt she was technologically prepared to go to college and um during this Co time and she said that she wasn't but she didn't blame her school because she knows that um they are um underfunded that they don't have the funds that other schools and other districts have so she was quick to say that's not the school's fault I know that we're in an area where there isn't a lot of money so I think these programs with um you know connectivity are super import because it is about equity and making sure that kids
022have the tools that they need to succeed so it was a good it was a good experience the last two days National thank you letter date Friday November 14th um teachers have in their boxes five postcards and you each have five as well we'd like we're thanking our heroes whether it's your parents your students our military anybody out there that you wish to thank if you would like to fill out card we can send it from here you can send it yourselves but we did make the Arizona Republic um with this project and again thanks to Mr crew peit who will help us keep Continental in the Forefront um even though his son is no longer a continental cult um that's the poster that's up and around and again our postcards that we have um
023also our students will be featured in Green Valley News because they came and the students were reporting thank messages that will be published as well Continental celebration Plaza so you I don't know it was kind of dark when you all got here today board members but Mr laan again worked probably I don't know 20 hours over the weekend on this with Mr paitz um it is an Eagle Scout project um that cter pitz is doing and we would like to do an official rib cutting also on December 7th before the board meeting and we will be getting more bricks um that you can purchase and personalize available it looks great so thank you to our veterans again our rotary recognized our veterans um last Thursday and as I see their picture there's some of our
024biggest supporters who are substitutes volunteers who um came and helped with the musical playground and who continue to support continental and I know we have our very own also um on staff that we'd like to thank and uh we had Mr meren put a little video together with our fourth graders for our veterans and he worked with the builders Club so we're excited about what the builders Club is doing for Veterans Day as well yes [Music] your is my and U we purchased a new iMac computer for Mr meren to be able to use along with our a club and you can just see the amazing Clarity and the quality of the video so we're super excited I did Miss's email to you which has the video on the on the bottom and some more
025information for you to kind of share as you wish so as a reminder this is not the opportunity for questions but if you have specific questions or items you'd like for me to report on or to put on our next meeting agenda please let me know and we will keep calm and stay on thank Youk you okay and Mrs is playing Miss Molina right now I allowed her to do her presentation from there since we have the screen there if that's okay okay so this report is basically focusing on the map growth testing that we've done we're not completed with it yet Miss Bertha M and Miss Roman Al all our on-site makeup tests throughout this week and we're hoping to be done throughout next week by the end of next week with also our
026um digital students makeups so for K first the reading test K through first grade took one reading test and one mathematics test second through 8th grade took a reading test a language test and a mathematics and like I said we're still completing testing throughout this week and it looks like while into next week as well uh I will be explaining going through some snapshots of data with you and you will see what's referred to as a RIT score and I did want to just explain that the RIT score stands for rash unit and it's a measurement scale but this RIT score was developed by the the those who developed map growth and um the original in and this is exactly from their website too Our Best in Class scal scale continues to deliver results Educators
027trust the original nwaa assessments gave teachers data they could use to inform pass instruction our Founders created the RIT scale because they required a consistent precise tool that would provide accurate measurement of each student's academic growth today our mature stable skill continues to support the strength of our math assessments by supplying Educators with the valid reliable and predictive data they need to make a positive difference in every stud learning in gr and it's based off of all of the students who are tested across our country so that's how they Bas get their means and but I wanted to discuss that because in the coming months when we go over data you're going to see the RIT score on on the data that we're presenting and I just wanted to give you some background on that
028for right now you'll also see standard deviations that will show up on the data so will our teachers and we all are working better understand the RIT and the standard deviation as we move forward with discussing our data analysis and I just put you know understanding standard deviation which you'll see on the data is SD and um it it revolves around the standard deviations and the means of measurements that we utilizing to see our student growth and I wanted to show you right now a quick video of about the reports that we're going to be able to give to our families [Music] hi I'm Tammy Hunter I'm an educator a parent and a designer on the nwaa professional learning team I'd like to tell you about the math growth family report I'll introduce you to
029the report show you where to find it and offer some insights as to how you might use it to guide conversations with your students families family report gives you an opportunity to share math growth results with your students and their families this report makes it easy to see not only how students are achieving but also how they're growing let's take a closer look for each subject your student will receive a score on something called the RIT scale the red scale is unique to nwaa and is used to assess students from kindergarten through high school it's especially designed to measure growth over time the solid line on the graph represents the student scores the dotted line represents the NW EA Norms these are the typical scores for each grade level subject and season for students across
030the country in this example Christopher is a fourth grade student who took the math growth reading assessment this fall Christopher score last fall was just below the dotted line his score went down one point between fall and winter but then he showed fantastic growth between winter and spring 17 points he dropped a couple of points over the summer which isn't unusual Christopher's current score puts him at the 50th percentile which means that his score was either above the level of 50% and reading the achievement data tells us how Christopher is doing each season to get a more complete picture of Christopher's progress we can also look at his growth over time the growth section shows Christopher's family that he's at the 65th percentile for growth in Reading which means that he grew as much or
031more than 65% of similar students across the country this is something you get excited about the report also includes projections which tell us how Christopher is likely perform on future assessments like the test older students will also have projections for the Act and the SAT exams although Christopher score reflects is above average growth he's not on track to be proficient on the state test as you review the projections let families know what you'll be doing in class to help their student grow and consider suggesting some resources they can use to work with their child at home the end of the report list questions for families to ask you like does my child need extra help in any specific and when will my child's progress be measured again consider using these questions to guide your conversations
032if families have additional questions about map growth they may want to reference the family tool kit the URL is included on the report you might be wondering how to get to the family report log in Click VI report select math growth reports and then select the family report class so this is what all what our teachers will do this is what we will do and I just want you to have an idea of and how we are and then Cho toint the report for your entire class or for individual students create the PDF report which you can then save to your device and print the math gr family report helps you build Partnerships with families use it to come to a shared understanding of where your students are to start conversations about student needs and
033celebrate the progress your students are [Music] making so this is just an example of a family report from one of our students the name's been um highlighted out or blacked out but it does show the percentile at the top and then if you look on the growth side there's no growth data to show as of yet because this was the first map growth test that they the school year um but it does say likely to be here's an example proficient on the Arizona Statewide achievement assessment on track 22 on the ACT college readiness have taken in spring on track on the SAT have taken in spring so it gives that extra information overall score RIT score was a 217 on a range of 100 to 350 your child's in the 70th percenti which means they
034scored better than 70% of their peers and then the same for reading so this is what parents will see it's already begun collecting this data this minute a student put puts um submits their test within 24 hours we have access to all of these reports so there's I won't go through every single one I'll skim through them but I wanted to just give you snapshots of what some of the reports are looking like now focusing on the total students and students that are at or above Norm level mean Ri so for here these were our Kinder students on the reading test out of the 51 that have tested so far we still have a few that are doing makeups 49 of them are at or above Norm grade level so they are on track this
035is and next month we'll go continue on with data but this is what we're looking at now before we would just see a reading well before we didn't have we didn't have this test for our Kinders or our first so this is really exciting data I know for our Kinder teachers and our first grade teachers we were already looking at it just the fact that it even breaks up a reading into different goal areas so writing foundations foundational skills literature and informational vocabulary and use of functions it's really helping it'll really help a lot when we click on students it'll it'll also tell us the area that they need more intervention in and shows us the students that to give more enrichment to and the math test out of 55 Kinder students 48 were at
036or above Norm grade level and as you can see it breaks it down for us low low average average high average and High fifth grade um out of the 55 students that were tested we have 29 who are at or above number level and let me mention that this also is an end of the year standard based test so so uh some of the stuff on here they may have the standards that they were seeing they may not have well most likely have not learned yet because we're still in the second quarter of our school year so we'll see growth when we do the next test language 22 out of 55 we're at Norm grade level and I just picked a few grades like Kinder fifth and then at eth but math 21 out of
03757 as you can see here what is a goal area we need to work with overall which I know for a factor fifth grade has not gotten to the standards yet but you can see it's measurement and data is a big one and we'll see growth throughout the year with that and then looking at 8 a because I know I wanted to show you 8 a 8 B and 8 C 8 C are digital students so for reading we have 28 students that tested 19 for the reading test um in the 8 a cohort group were at normal great level 17 out of 19 in the 8B group and then 8 C we have 13 that have tested so far and out of the 13 seven of them are at Norm grade level that's for
038reading and then for language 8A 14 out of 28 16 out of 19 and then 7even out of 13 for AC as well and then it was the same for math 13 out of 28 18 out of 19 and for our Digital four out of so this is the e8th grade performance overall so when you put all the corts together for reading we have 37 out of 52 who are at the norm grade level mean 32 out of 52 for language usage and um for mathematics 31 out of 52 so for that being our Baseline test and for us being where we were at fourth quarter last year and the start of first quarter of this school year this is good information for us to have and um incorporating linol into it we had a
039training with all of our staff and teachers so it's also going to help us with um referencing data and analyzing our data as well and then just the program itself offers us so many reports as you can see the class reports specific student profile reports the family reports so there's so many different reports that we can use to help us with creating even our intervention groups students setting goals for themselves which um an order has just been placed for binders for every single student in our school so that we can print out um reports for them and they can start setting goals for themselves and uh being accountable for their own learning so I just you know way to go to our Cults we were very very impressed with our teachers taking this on they're
040rock stars uh and with our students this was new to them we we heard some great feedback from them the kindergarteners were excited they felt like it was a sort of like a game they were excited to prove what they knew and as we're all our students so data digs we were having our teachers start to look at their data and admin teams over the course of the next few weeks will be meeting with them as well during planning times to go over that going into December any questions yes so what was a a b and c again um so they're cohorts so we have a a is one class that stays together all day and 8B is another Cort on site it's in a bigger um know 8 a is the bigger one it's
041like 30 students and then we have 8 b as the smaller Class 8 C is our digital students that are offsite okay and so the score that you showed us for one you're using Predictive Analytics for the ACT and sat in 8th grade yes it has it based off of where they're at based off of the it can give progression and predict where they would be at based off of so for instance the language test that's given it's a second through 12th grade test so students while they're taking it they may also keep going and going and going and it'll place them maybe a second grader might be high in language and it'll place them at fourth grade for language or an eighth grader might be placing at ninth grade um so it predicts where
042they would be for the acts and the so I guess my so what taking out of that right away is I see that smaller class sizes in 8B 8B outperforms 8A and C can I speak to that real quick so that's also your the smaller grp is your kids that are pre-selected as algebra in the eth grade so these might be what we would call our gifted students the higher achieving the higher achieving in math so it doesn't you'll notice in some of the scores for language arts it's not as high as the math but as far as the math scores are significantly higher in that group they are pre-selected by the Math teachers to be in that algebra and can if they pass the test at the end of gr year receive high school
043credit for that class okay and so we don't do ability grouping per se but if we did that would be only in that one group because of the availability for them to get math credit for high school and if we did it showed yes um so and then the I noticed that the standard deviations are fairly significant uh some as high as 20 so if you're looking at a Six Sigma report you're looking a spread that's going to go 120 points how do we address that I that's something that we can I know with our standard deviations let me go back with the standard deviations yes yeah so but if you go forward to the actual standard deviations there are some that are s 10 but then there are some that are 16 18 you
044know here in this this group Kinder reading they're at seven so there's really not huge variability there but you get into some of the other ones and the numbers really start going up and I also breaks AP part with the goal areas as well with the standard deviation so as you see the numbers that go up it also possibly may be tied to those goal areas and we can look into that too I guess I'm thinking teacher right now and I'm thinking if I've got a class where I've got a swing of 120 points and a standard deviation I'm running all day I am running all day uh to try and make that happen and then we look at which clearly shows us that we can reduce that and bring that number down I don't
045I'm just thinking out loud I just want to make sure I understand that that's we do have a planed to meet to have a call with NWA so that now once our data is in they're going to better help us interpret it work with teachers and coaches on um what we can do to close that achiev g any other question on one of the slides it talked about retest and it referred to a term called rapid guessing oh what the heck is that so does a teacher want to say what record guessing is they just clicking it's that student who just clicks away with the test they don't want to really do it they don't want to read it but it picks it up and it alerts the teacher because you can see on the
046monitor what each student is doing and it will give them one warning the second morning and then it pops them out of the test so it reduces that for the child or a couple kids that are occasionally just like boom boom boom and then they fake it for a while and go boom boom boom so it really helps but that's out of the the statistical analysis right and we really didn't you know for 8th grade we really didn't I think I had one warning and I was in the bigger group of 30 or 29 um of Rapid guessing and so only one warning and that student didn't continue you could just walk over quietly and say because they have to the PIN to let them back in and then it'll give us um the opportunity
047if we decide that they need to restart the test so it's the digital version of a b c d e e d thank than now it's the fun part of our meeting so well that was fun that was really fun thank you thank you if we could ask our board members to please step up in front here and we are going to recognize our well deserved dedicated staff members who um we did not get to do our presentation last um year because of school closure and we didn't get to meet for a May so we would like and if I can have members come up here in front for the picture El elb so we' like to start um by presenting um for years of service we have picture that says dedication it is the
048effect it is the effort of many that create the ripples that can move mountains and truly we have dedicated staff members who continue to move mountains every day every minute every hour with the hard work that you do so I would like to First have Miss Lori romanelli come on up she's celebrating her 20 [Applause] we'll have you stand here and we'll get a group picture at the end okay [Music] thank you very [Music] very Lor can you stay up here thank you then we have Miss Sharon flowers thank you thank you so much thank you fun is fun [Applause] and now we have Miss Freeland who's in her 22nd year of service here at [Music] Continental and they are engraved with your name on them okay which say 20 plus years of service that
049Continental so thank you thank you [Applause] and we are missing Miss Fanny who has 25 years she's in her 25th year so Wendy I hope you're watching us but we'll make sure that and then we have our very own Dr Jenny litsen at 30 years this year oh no thank you thank you and last but not very very least we have Miss Kathy reman retired at 30 plus years as well and we so miss you and we are still going to celebrate you officially at our winter celebration our Christmas party that we have here on staff but we really want to thank you and present you with this well-deserved one more I'll think you smiling thank you so much elbow bumps okay [Music] icture right here like to because I know that the time it's
050rare that you have a school with this many people with the years of experience that you have collectively and you were looking at 20 40 60 80 100 years plus of Excellence missing Wendy 125 26 years of Excellence at our school and our students are just so lucky so would you like to say anything well I know that I um have loved being here for yeah I me the entire the time that I have been here my kids they started as yours all did too in preschool and kindergarten and moved on up and we saw them all go on and and um it was it's always been a family you know whether we you know get irritated with each other and we love each other and you know it's like we're we just get over
051it and and it's like we're family so it always feels so hard when somebody leaves you know when they retire because you know Feel So Close than thank you Kathy want to share what you're doing make me cry it's it's crazy you know being retired I started at this school um in 1986 Drew's dad was on school board at the time um it's just it's just crazy 120 kids were at this school when I started um I remember 1999 being on the interview team hiring Sharon and L um crazy Jenny took over for me when I um had my first baby and she took over and then I came back and I helped her in kindergarten and it's just been amazing and I I don't quite know what to do with myself yet I walk
052to this school every single day that's part of my retirement I walk up the road and back look longingly miss everybody and I really do I miss everybody and it's been an incredible career and I am so grateful to all of you so thank you so much we need to say something well the funny thing is I never really intended to teach this long and when I was interviewing for jobs and know some people know this um I only I told them I was going to teach for 10 to 15 years and then I was going to go into educational television and this year I got to become that person of the zoom 34 years so anyways aome thank you but I love being here my kids great education for them and um they had
053all of you I think Andy was in shar's first class and Kati was in Lor's first class so aw yeah we did we all taught each other's kids it's a great place to work at I was very excited that my kids had gone to school here we left the district because we moved to SAA never the same as the experience there got to come back with my youngest because I taught so he could that was the only open enrollment I love Continental it's Traditions the staff um the families it's fun with the generations that you're teaching you know um and I just love it here it's been a great place thank you and same for me this is I got my first job back in 1999 graduated from college um one of my students today
054they're asking me what do you do when you're at after school I said well today I have to stay a little bit longer I have a board meeting that I'm going to go to and I've been here for 20 plus years and then they all know how old I am they're like you've been working here longer than you've been or half of what I've been alive it's like oh yeah almost I mean I'm 43 so I mean it's just like they all said we um I mean I drive a long way to come here and I can't imagine working anywhere else I've been here now 21 years my kids came to school here mine is still here my oldest daughter's in high school um this is all I know so I know it's got to
055be fabulous but um I'm truly honored to be here and one day it'll be the end I don't know when that'll be but um probably not for a while but um we've also been through many superintendence I mean you guys 11 I don't know how many and this has been this is a wonderful Administration staff that we have so thanks to all of you as well thank you you're all enjoy [Music] and it we always see you witness that I do walk to school every day you look great thank you really do thank [Music] you I gotta get my phone you have to go see my volleyball player [Music] good okay thank you we have a consent agenda please a motion please onent agenda motion second discussion okaye all right Miss K yes I guas
056Mr R yes and Mr M yes passes thank you uh 10 item 10 a be the district fin report I will be more than happy to pass it on over and answer any questions that you may have asked I'll move to approve the financial report okay motion second and a second how about some discussion um yeah I've got a couple of questions um Greg at a request okay um this is the first time I've seen a 43 page report um I I mean the the detail is is great and and I and I thank you for that uh but it obviously raises some some questions that I may have not had before but um if you could go to well right there on on that page um I could you expain the current real estate
057taxes which shows a million half dollar uh do we not budget uh what What's the explanation for that I'm not sure I'm I'm understanding the question there sir well I'm I'm showing a million half you're talking in the budgeting in the budget column I'm talking about receipts expense $1,485 th000 current real estate taxes yes and and and so that that is what has Reed as of the the printing that's that's receipts yes thank you um why don't we budget those areas um to be honest it's really not it's within Visions it's really not necessary to budget the um the revenues because the revenue is all um formula based so we already know what we're going to get and then just to break it property taxes real estate taxes um it just it's just really not
058something that's actually necessary okay that's secondly um I'm seeing a whole bunch of things in here that I have absolutely no idea what they are okay and I I guess I a request and and if this is only for my own benefit um uh that would be unfortunate but it could be um I see things like instru Improvement fund reap e r a community school auxiliary operations adopt a scholar school to work school Improvement Class A series 2010 items are all various funds on the financial report yes and I have no idea what they are and and I don't know how they're funded where where Revenue comes into fund them and I don't know what these expenses go to I'm not asking you to answer that question tonight but I'm wondering if you could put
059together a legend that that would say here's what this is the money comes from here and this is what it goes to okay so what I can do because so everything in this report is broken down by fund okay so you let start off with fund1 which is our M account and then from there it go to fund 11 which is our part of classroom site fund and it just goes through all the way through every single fund that the district has and when I say fun fund think of them as separate checking accounts okay so fund1 it's it's it's a um it's our M account it's I can use it on X it is funded via the state the and same with funds 11 12 and 13 which are classroom site funds those are
060also state funded accounts but I've seen I've seen all these before right right what you're saying like with reap Reap is a is a state Grant or it's a grant Reap is a grant um inst structural Improvement fund that was um it's basically meant to help uh supplement teacher salary is fund 020 uh keep scrolling through we'll just go through a couple of them real quick what are we at Title One keep going should be title two keep going so Title One title two naturally federal grants title four all out of the esa Consolidated Grant um title three limited English and immigrant students um we don't really deal much right now within title three scroll the next one this is the idea basic uh preschool going okay this is also Ida Basics preschool so what
061has happened in the past is so to give you an example in my previous district for for my federal grants I change my fund number every year so I could track my expenses the Via year to year that way they weren't assigned to the same um Grant fund so I would do a three-year rotation on my fund numbers and that's apparent that's what's what happened here is you know we started off with 221 we've moved on to reap again it's it's another grant that we have that it is a Federal grant now I'm thinking about it e rate e rate is um it's eate is the money that the district receives Thea the federal government for um connectivity issu so we we get a percentage of our internet paid for by the federal government currently
062we're at 70% 60% 60% 60% of our internet services covered under eate and what eate allows us to do is is if we needed to go out and do some um drawing blank some Hardware upgrades yeah some cabling some infrastructure within our internet system you want me to explain that a little bit Yeah you can go ahead and explain so eate is a it's a federal program through the schools and libraries division to help districts get connected basically to the internet there are two components to it one of them is what they call category one Services which are it used to be phone service and internet service um they took away phone funding phone service to stretch dollars to get more people connected so it's what we use for a portion of reimbursement for our
063internet services cost cost the cost the district URS to get connected to the internet so we have our ISP provider and then our ISP transport provider those are the ones that we get reimbursement for the other component is what they call category two services and those cover reimbursements of based on a certain formula of how much we get for student per school reimbursements for connectivity equipment so everything that gets you connected to the internet it's essentially everything behind the walls that get you connected to Internet so those are the two services that cover so those are the reimbursements when we get we have it set up is our providers automatically give us the discount in our bill so we don't see it we don't have to file and just one step further with e is
064if we needed to upgrade Albert and I have been talking about um internet speeds and looking towards the future and one of those part of that conversation is upgrading our infrastructure our cabling our DRS and just everything like he was saying behind the scenes and if we were to go out the bid to have those Services done e rate would cover 60% of that installation and the district would have to pick up the additional 40% you you really don't have to go through all of you well I I just I just wanted to go through a few would that be too too time consuming I mean it could be something just a simple as e federal grants apply to Absolut internet uh technology you're going to there are some funds that are going to be
065in there that we are not you know you know 450 gifted you know we are not currently you know in that Grant so you know but I do have cash that's left so that's what's that's why it would be helpful for me when we see future Financial reports and I don't have to I can just say oh this is what that is and I don't have to wonder what the heck it's it it is or what it's for absolutely put that and I can send that out to all board members that you all have that as well further questions okay please to approve I yes Mr yes and Mr M yes motion passes Thank you new business use EXC I'm talking here use of Public Surplus as the district option site so I I bring
066this to the board tonight because I don't know what has and has not been approved for the district to uh dispose of assets um being that we are publicly funded prior to the district disposing of an asset we have to offer it to the public to purchase and and I am proposing that we use the website Public Surplus as the location for us to do this I mean there's there are other options you know we can hold an auction here on site but that takes that takes time away from you know people away from their primary duties to to do an auction to actually you know go through and do all the advertising for the auction and everything else whereas if we were to go to Public Surplus we would make our our notification to
067the public in the paper of record that we are going to be using Public Surplus to dispose of all of assets that are no longer needed or or no longer being used and this way we can actually clear up our bus barn so that buses can actually get inside of it if I recall we've done this before correct we have we've done it over probably since I've been here my 13 years I would say and it kind of comes every two three years we try to clean out but there's still a ton of stuff that just hasn't been done and so there's a big need to make space um especially with Co happening every free space we have square footage wise now has kids being taught in it so where things were able to gather
068in unused classrooms that's not happening anymore and so I think that's where we've got Mr Greg involved to help us get activated because we haven't done a while I think I can't remember probably three four years ago maybe um and so that's kind of yes we have done and by using this with your approvals we can start putting stuff on here on a daily weekly monthly basis as the items come up not just one this is a one time thing this is as because I don't know what has been approved in the past so I want to make sure that moving forward that everything is on the up and up with what we're doing so that you actually know that you know if I've got 42 desks that I canot cannot use any longer or
069breake drums for a 1987 bus that I need to get rid of you I can get these auctioned off and at least start to redou some of that money back into the district and then also free up much needed so I have a question where does the revenue from this from the auction items go in our budget okay so does it depend what it is it depends on what it is anything that was purchased with federal funds need to be returned back to the federal government anything that was purchased back purchased with state or local fund goes right back into our M or our capital account depending on how it was originally purchased if we can determine how it was orig okay discussion please okay Miss K yes I know yes Mr R yes and
070Mr M yes thank you motion passes uh and school events let's see Veterans Day Wednesday week I just want to make sure if you did not get your picture taken um if you could please come for um picture retakes on December 2nd so that we can get you in the yearbook and also December we would love for you to join us at noon in the cafeteria for our staff holiday party so I believe it is going to be potl festive music so please stop by if you can and the December 7th meeting there'll be the 5:15 River ribbon cting yes yes and I would like to invite them to the board meeting if you do an official thank you and give um afterwards and the the veterans video you said you sent that out yes
071can we forward that do we have permission from kids parents we I believe all of the students there um should be cleared but let us find out before and then we'll let you know we can CLE F questions on school events anything to add thank you governing board information start at the end any Mr um no it was great I wish the teachers were still there both of my kids have seen all those um and it's so funny that I'll just pick on um Mrs flowers that my son thought she was the greatest thing in the world and my daughter who's complete opposite happen because Mrs Flowers has control of her classroom so you know Zoe wasn't the model student that year um I spent quite a bit of time going through Beyond textbooks and
072I'm intrigued and I don't know whether this would be a subject of a study session or another board meeting but I would love to know more about how our teachers use Beyond textbooks if it's a supplement to their curricul normal curriculum if it's a plant some of it um I I would really like to know more about the uh Beyond textbooks program would it be appropriate for the board to create a survey to administer to the teachers to get the data on the uses on the uses of theond textbooks I mean they could if you would like to let me know what your questions are we can put it into a Survey Monkey for the teachers if you want to let me know what specific questions that you have I'm I'm primarily interested in how
073they use this program and we're spending money on this to to bail I guess um and I'm interested in in how they use it in the classroom outside of the classroom uh seems to me to be a twep process one to have if you want to send a survey they'll be fine and then study session and it could vary whether we're talking about social studies or math and actually Mrs and I have the information I mean we talk about that during collaboration beond textbooks and the um directive that they are to be using Beyond textbooks as their calendar and that's the standards where the standards that they're teaching come from so um teachers are using it for that purpose more so with science and social studies because we don't have curriculum but we can put
074it in the next okay board agenda and um if there's specific questions you want us to find out but we do know what the teachers are using it for information exist you think yes yeah I think we don't need a survey but we will use examples of how it's used but if you think of anything else just let us know so you guys I think you are doing an excellent job I had a discussion with a high school teacher from a school in the Tucson area and uh his attendance last week was 13% 13% he's a math teacher and I am really really concerned about what's happening to our kids and he's in the Monday Wednesday Tuesday Thursday that that model and I'm really very concerned and I think that as as challenging as it
075is to look up and see hundred and some kids were absent today I get it I I get the concern that everybody has I I think the decision to bring the kids back to school was a good decision um I think I just you know hats off hats off for doing it and thank you U Mrs for saying that because I did talk to Mr Williams I've been in touch with him with and um we are the only public school that has our kids in Pima County going every day full day five days a week there are and private schools that have kids in session every day but we are the only Public School in County so people are watching us and um you know wondering what we're doing and how we're doing it and
076I just keep saying you know to the team and to the teachers you know just we can't let up we have to be diligent and diligent in what we're doing um some of our teachers were concerned about the absences of the kids who are in isolation or in quarantine they're not making up the work said you need to relax because our kids are getting five days worth of instruction where other schools in Tucson are just getting two days of inperson instructions so I I really do know that our parents our students and our teachers are working hard to keep kids in school so I appreciate that um I couldn't agree more you guys are doing a great job I know it's uh it's tough and I know every day is different and um I I
077have a lot of respect for each and everyone for what you're accomplishing so let's keep moving forward step by step and and um like you said together we'll make it through all this and I just want to say congratulations to the rest of board members on your your elections into your positions and I look forward to working with you for the next few years and look forward to meeting our new board M whenever that may be yes so I do have a question not applicable let me know so you know how we reopened when the colors went back to yellow or whatever those colors were and now that you know if you watch the news it's all craziness again what is it and I looked for it but I'm not good at that so what
078happens if the colors go back bad just is there is the state or the county said anything that we've got to shut back down is there any guidance for that is it just kind of wait till they say something so as far as I know if the metric goes in the in the opposite direction they are not going to direct us to close down they still continue even with P County Health um you know they keep telling us their guidelines but it's up to you with what you you want what you're going to do it's up to the superintendent and the boards on what's going to happen so um at this point the only thing that would shut us down is a state or count so if Governor if the governor came out and made
079a mandate like he did in the beginning of you know all of this last year that's what would shut us down going backwards um in the data does not then P County could also come and say not so much because of the data but because of our data what Continental is happening here could shut us down for x amount of cases and those would be the two at this point all of Ferguson my research will be the two things that would potentially baring the third which is you guys coming and saying at this point we're uncomfortable continuing at this rate I would think yeah if we saw a rapid spread here at the school we are smart enough to do the right thing correct and that's where Miss Rico would make a recommendation to the
080board or or the board could make a recommendation to miss Rico to put that on the agenda so those would be your three at this point thank you else thank you have yes