001thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you so much for everybody for being here tonight we're going to go ahead and get started the Korean School District understands that our community of schools is located in the ancestral land of the honem Jude and some people who descended from the whole come and have inhabited these lands since time immemorial the Odom whose name translates literally to people are a vibrant culture and communities spanning countless Generations into the past continuing to thrive in the present and carrying a powerful Legacy for Generations into the future with this acknowledgment the crane school district formerly recognized that the traditional care and keeping of this lands by indigenous people is an aspirational model of community stewardship that we are committed to honor
002with practices policy and human relations and Miss Caleb can you please lead us into the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands here one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you and that moves us over to rokong um Miss ayers's present to miss McCaleb Miss Gibson McLean and myself we do not have Miss mcsheffery today we want to welcome everyone to tonight's meeting and remind the audience of the request to address the board cards must be completed and submitted to the board secretary they're on their left side if anybody wants to make a public comment if they wish to speak to an agenda item board policy provides for two cards White cards can be submitted
003in order to speak to an agenda item and the blue cards can be submitted in order to speak during public comments due to open meeting law board members are not allowed to address items that are not on the agenda this is per policy bedh and that brings us over to approval of agenda I move the governing board approve the agenda as presented second all those in favor aye Hilda do we have any public comments today no okay thank you and that brings us to our superintendent report well good evening Creighton community and governing board staff I hope everyone enjoyed a beautiful Mother's Day in whatever form you were able to celebrate or connect with and that this weekend was special for you in some way uh I want to give a congratulations to hour uh
004support person of the year Aaron Wilkinson to our teacher of the year Joannie Santiago and to our administrator of the year Jeff Guyer we just had our celebration of many awards of school teams that um sorry I was okay uh of many school teams that celebrated adventurous learning Collaborative Learning and kind-hearted leadership and boy what amazing projects have been going on in our school it was great to celebrate you last week uh tomorrow night is our new school design team I think this will be our final input night of community so far and that's Wednesday May 17th 5 30 to 7 o'clock P.M it is also May is Asian Pacific heritage month so we honor and respect and celebrate our Asian Pacific Community and that concludes my soups report next topic is uh to bring
005up our our Creighton kids Congress and Dr dupin does such a beautiful job in organizing for all this and while the board will be giving awards to our students I didn't know if you'd like to speak to some of the beautiful beautiful conversations we've had with our children over the year thank you very much Dr Lewis Madam president members of the governing board it has become a tradition and an important Cornerstone of the work that we do in Creighton to motivate and Inspire leaders to work with our Creighton kids Congress we have representatives from every school who participate in quarterly events this year they advised on the development of the new school Outdoor Learning spaces they also advised on the progress indicators relative to the goals and the Strategic plan that you'll learn a little
006bit or hear more of an update on this evening and most recently they gave input into the desired attributes for Creighton's future superintendent so we're so proud of our kids Congress Representatives they bring to us a diversity of thought diversity of opinion diversity of experience and they really are such an honor and a joy and I believe they represent the very best of the best when what crit when kids Congress representatives are selected we ask our school teams to identify kids who don't necessarily who aren't necessarily the typical leader the perhaps the student council president or someone else who maybe you've already recognized as contributing in a leadership role these students demonstrate the ability to speak confidently with adults they demonstrate the ability to share their ideas with openness and honesty they are out of
007the box thinkers and their creative Learners and we're so proud of them and with that we'd like to invite the five students who are here with us tonight to come up and if you're comfortable share one thing you have enjoyed about being on the uh Creighton kids Congress and then we would like to present you with an award and take your photo if Miss wazolik are you here there you are okay so uh we'll start with uh Santiago Avendano come on up [Applause] go ahead and go to the microphone and just share share something you've enjoyed about being on the kids Congress this year [Music] I'm just thankful to even have the opportunity to be on the kids Congress especially since I get to give out my opinions on stuff that is currently going on
008with our school system and just having the ability to share my ideas and thoughts on how um you know the school districts are going it's just an absolutely joy for me well we're so glad you're here tonight will you come up in front of the board and now get ready for a photo and we're going to give you your certificate when all five are called up so come on up and stand and then we're gonna call the next awkwardly stand here while everyone that's right he's used okay he's part of the team yeah you're part of it you're part of us um and then um uh Katie Dustin from Biltmore come on up foreign I really liked having the opportunity to like share my opinions um with like people from other schools also I really
009like going to the other schools yeah we're glad you did it thank you Emily J Lopez from Mackin come on up I really like I really enjoyed what's it called expressing my opinions and helping design a new school [Applause] come on up from Macken I really liked um expressing my opinions and going to the other schools and seeing how they are run in seeing the community around them and things like that yeah yeah it was invaluable thank you just face the audience awkwardly as we've stood first that's that's the standard now uh Bartolo quizada come on up Creighton Virtual Academy [Applause] hi how much I just want to say I'm very honored of being part of the kids Congress um I just want to say thank you and I like that I was able to
010to express my opinions on the different um aspects of what is going on in the district and everything um that you guys have done for us and yes an even difficult like you could give critical feedback right guys is that all true for all of you you could be critical yes okay good that's what we want working for the picture yeah one two three [Applause] don't forget their little glitch back yes oh yes yes a little swag and I just want to say a couple words um I think us as board members this is crucial for us having this Korean kids it's amazing to see leadership roles in our students and I think at the end of the day this is what we want to see we want to see kids thriving that their opinions
011matter and that they are part of the process this is why I'm so thankful that we have this and you guys are doing amazing you guys are going to be the next one sitting up here I already know that so thank you um and we also heard that we were like the only District that our consultant had worked with that had students give feedback about superintendent qualities or improvements that could be made in the district when doing a superintendent hiring process which is a little surprising because they've even worked with high school so um unbelievable I think I think if if we uh are trying to improve efficacy with our students the best thing we can do is create high expectations that they can rise to and they can certainly do that and giving feedback
012obviously so yes we're super proud thank you guys [Applause] all right so that brings us and I don't know if everybody knows but we have Spanish translation in the back just for us board members too so if we cannot talk so fast and in English is um that brings us over to governing board reports Miss Ayers can you go ahead and get us started sure um I'm sure that most of the teachers and staff are probably as tired as I am right now um I don't know why but may always seems to have like a million days in it um especially when you're trying to end your year and finish out 90 internship hours in five weeks um and do homework at the same time um it is um pretty demanding um so I did
013get to go to my graduation last week um I graduated from college great um my wife before she passed away made me promise that I would go um so I I went um on her behalf and um it was hard but um I'm really proud of myself I still have two more weeks of work until I'm officially done which I will probably then hibernate for a week and sleep which I usually do after school anyway um and so now I'm looking for job opportunities to become either an assistant or a principal so I'm really excited about um taking on the next step of my life I've been teaching for 23 years and I love every minute of it and I know that I will also love being an administrator as well so um have a
014great break because I don't think we have a meeting have a great summer um enjoy your time off get some of that rest that you so desperately need um and we'll see you next year if we don't see you during the summer May 26th last day thank you so much and congratulations I know schools it's a hard thing Miss McCaleb um yes congrats Miss Ayers um I also was really excited last week we all got to go to the end of year ceremony as Dr Lewis shared um some amazing people won awards um and I just love being a part of that um so congratulations to all of our staff members who were nominated for awards and of course are big Winners um I'm also excited Thursday I get to be a judge for a
015coding showcase at Biltmore prep so I'm excited for that um that Ed Tech coach in me is really nerdying out about it um and then yeah seven more days so let's finish strong I know there's a lot of amazing fun celebratory events over the next week and a half I have some here as well as my district um so just please enjoy enjoy these last moments especially our 8th graders um if any 8th graders are listening enjoy these moments before you leave our district for your high school adventures and our staff please please please take an actual Break Even our 12 month take a break um everybody needs it so thank you so much Miss Gibson McLean I mean you all have already said a lot about the end of the school year um I
016definitely uh can relate um many of the experiences I had were with seniors which is a whole nother level of not caring at the end of the school year but I can imagine it's much the same in many places the end of the school year um so you're almost there I know next Friday seems like a long ways away but you're gonna make it it's gonna be okay um so I really appreciate what everyone does day in and day out and I really hope people are able to take some time off that isn't also just working another job or doing work here that you're not getting paid for I hope that people are able to do some self-care and personal time over the summer um and yeah I don't think I I'm excited for promotions
017I enjoyed the awards ceremony I'm enjoying going to all kinds of events whenever we can it's fun um and you know I have I have my days at work and every time that there's a very rough day at work like maybe today um I am reminded why I do this outside of work um I for so many clients have to get school records IEPs um talk to social workers learn about who they were when they were younger and it's so so apparent the connections you can make between kind of the the childhood educational experiences of people and where they are as adults in the criminal justice system and I see that every day when I come here after a particularly hard day it helps me kind of justify what I do every day during the
018day and helps me feel a little bit better because I know we have some great folks here that are making a difference in people's lives every day so I really appreciate everyone thank you um just for me um yes end of the year everybody's pretty much said that um I'm actually in a naleo conference this morning and tomorrow it's a two-day Phoenix conference and naleo is the National Association of Latino elected officials and it was really interesting to get the data that we've been getting um today we got some reports from the nap achievement level percentages we specifically got for Arizona fourth grade and eighth grade and it was really startling to see that our eighth grade math is really below State average it was just crazy to see these numbers how you know 8th
019graders are it's important for them to get a grasp of literacy and math because they're going into high school so this was an eye-opening experience of what we can do here at school district to make sure we're supporting our eighth graders to get them ready to go to high school also another interesting thing about going to these conferences is that you get to meet people from other states other cities other places in Arizona Nogales which is a Border Town in um in Arizona that actually has kids kids that are being bussed from the border into Nogales or San Luis their actual literacy and math is way higher than a lot of the schools that we even have in Phoenix so it was really interesting to see how the way that they're operating whatever it is
020that they're doing that there so now I'm going to take a drive down there and figure out what it is that they're doing because these kids are not from this country they're being bussed into the United States studying and their achievement levels are through the roof so I'm not sure if that's something that goes into to dual language which I'm sure it is because there's so many you know statistics out there on how kids learn better and they adapt better so that's one of the things that I'm I'm looking forward to the next school year is really going into that and expanding our Horizons and seeing how we can actually learn off of those schools and school districts to implement things here so we can have you know better achievements for our kids and student
021outcomes because at the end of the day that's why we do this is that our kids are being set up for Success so it's really interesting I know a lot of the times and I like to talk about these conferences because I know that there's a sentiment some things out there they're like oh you guys just go to these conferences but it really is deep diving learning figuring out what other people are doing this data and what we can do to this District to have better outcomes um and yeah that's my board report oh um yeah and then Everybody's Free To Stay I love it when we have parents students here but I know that the student portion of it was over so if anybody wants to leave oh yeah yeah or the Congress kids
022but you guys can stay that's right sorry yeah okay and we're almost there anyway so um that takes us to our next which is our approval of consent I move the governing board approve agenda items a through H in accordance with policy b-e-d-b-e so I'm sorry so I'll approve I'll move the company board approve agenda items a through b and d through H impulsi okay I second that motion all those in favor aye aye and C was pulled so um Steve was just pulled because there needs to be an amendment made on it um and it's on there's a bunch of donations and we need to take one of them off um the Christopher Conti for Amazon for the Kindles um we just need to strike it from the agenda it was meant for a
023donation to PTO and not the actual School thank you for making that um Amendment if everybody's okay might have a second motion um Hilda did you get that yeah yeah okay may I have a well I second that motion oh those in favor aye aye aye perfect yeah pass this all right that brings us to our Junior Ambassador Adventure report it has been great pleasure as our student speakers our teacher and our wonderful coordinator for the program gets set up for the presentation I want to let you know that Creighton School District is one of the few districts who have this opportunity and it's been offering for many many years for all of our students to experience and learn about other cultures cultures and also uh culminate the year study with a trip that allows
024the students to implement everything that they have learned so they learn from United States history and culture and then they're also from other countries in the past they had traveled through Germany and other places China and currently for the last three years Costa Rica in Japan Japan Kenya yes Puerto Penasco is the original one I think that right yes there we go yeah one second so this was wonderful student speakers that we have um they just came back from Washington DC and they can't wait to share their experience with you um my name is board members it's very nice to be here this evening I've been in charge of the program for five years I think but I've been involved with Junior ambassadors since I first started teaching in the district which was over 30
025years ago so thank you thanks for staying with us I've been an advocate of this program forever because I just really believe that there is so much that students experience and learn from the after school program as well as the um the travel part so um okay so the program that we have with the junior ambassadors there's an after-school portion to it and for the kids that go to DC that includes aspects of U.S geography a deeper dive U.S Constitution and U.S history as you know the mission of the program is to provide Creighton students with an understanding of our world it's diverse cultures and America's relationships within it our students went to Washington DC and spent five days there you can there were 13 participants this year we've had as many as 60 in
026the past but covid kind of well that year nothing happened and then we're slowly building our numbers back so we're hoping that people will be excited about traveling again and as you can see these are the schools and how many came from each each district here are some ideas some of the places that the students went as part of their itinerary pictures of some of the places that they saw more of their itinerary I mean there's so much more they were exhausted every day I can tell you um were you guys able to do the move I'm sorry to interrupt were you guys able to do the museums this time I know oh yes yes yes they did yeah I saw the Holocaust Museum on the phone yeah yeah I can't remember okay oh the
027Aerospace was on there there's the memorials so now I mean I'm just kind of going through this quickly just to give you a a quick idea I think you know about all the wonderful places that are there and they did get to see just about everything you could see in that time period so now we're going to have them come up and speak the first pro let me just talk about the year-long learning which I kind of spoke about already but we also tried to get the kids to to learn a little bit about responsibility life skills um they did a presentation where they had to dig dig a little deeper into a state and do a a whole vacation with they had seven thousand dollars and they had to do a a trip for
028four and what would they go see and do a whole budget and everything so we did some interesting activities as the as part of the after school program to learn more about our country so we're going to start with museums who's doing museums come on out introduce yourself like you let her go first and then you'll go okay introduce yourself uh infinity you need to get up nice and close to the say your name vanity and then tell tell her what okay so on Monday we went to the Holocaust Museum uh we learned about a lot um what happened during World War II and the Holocaust the this was cool because we'll be learning about this in eighth grade um later on each of us got a victim identity card and we learned about more
029people and what they were um doing yeah during the Holocaust yeah that's live um hi my name is from yahir Cortez and we first went to the air and space museum we saw a space about space shuttle that actually gone to space and we saw a lot of planes from World War II he also found some really old places some Modern planes and my favorite thing there was the Space Shuttle because I liked space and um our last stop before flying home was the National History Museum we saw a lot of fossils and other animals we even got to see some scientists working on exactly fossils of stone we are all became very good friends on a trip thank you [Music] okay we went to the World War II Memorial this is the first tomorrow
030we visited we learned that Americans came together to fund this Memorial in honor of the people who served military and World War II we also got to find out our state and other states that were meaningful to us this Memorial was also really cool because we could see the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument from there at the cemetery in Arlington National Cemetery at the cemetery we learned more about our country's history we saw the President Kennedy's grave and Ruth baders skin spur grave we also watched The Changing of the Guard for the unknown soldiers I thought it was interesting that we have a guard at the grave at all times thank you now the next several are about famous homes and just different places that they visited outside of museums and memorials uh one
031of one of the things one of the places we went to go see was on the Mount Vermont where Vernon where George Washington lived and it was really interesting to see because like you could see all the slaves and like how they were kept in his house like underground in the tunnel and you could um you could um connect the history to it because it was really interesting to see how they all survived in like a really dirty and unsanitary Place yeah we also got to see his grave in Mount Vermont and see like how beautiful it was there because there was a really nice view that George Washington got to see when he was alive and I just I personally found it really interesting um uh the next place we went was Monticello where
032Thomas Jefferson lived when he was alive and it had a lot of interesting stuff in his house too like George Washington and it was it was like a museum almost because there are so many cultures in there of like the Native Americans or like Native American people and you could see other like weapons that they used we also learned about the enslaved community in Monticello because there was also some enslaved people there and it was it was really interesting to to see how they both like lived in the house during the time and like all the slaves going through it through the houses and stuff thank you so much [Music] hello my name is Kaylee and one of my two most favorite places uh on this trip which one of them was the University of
033Virginia um I learned that books and learning were very important to Thomas Jefferson and also he started a university uh he started the University of Virginia and a lot of famous people went to their school there including Edgar Allan Poe they also have secret societies that you can join like the seven that focus on giving charity and giving the school National Funds for more activities for the students we learned about what we can what we have to do to get ready for college my second most favorite place that we went on the trip was air Lincoln ghost of our ghost the Arlington ghosts of our past tour oh cool was it after dark no it was about around this time even though this was a ghost tour we learned a lot about history from our
034guide she taught us about historical clothing and traditions my favorite story was about the Unknown Soldier and you were supposed to touch the gate or you'd be follow home but majority of us did not touch it were you followed no no following nobody no okay thank you so much we don't know yet my name is Johnny and performance he saw was Twilight tattoo we went to the Army base we saw different historical army uniforms and the performance was really fun to watch I'm sorry I have to ask what does twilight tattoo oh it's called Twilight tattoo because I guess when they do Taps that's Tata tattoo I was like what kind of performance I know I looked it up but it's at an army base and they have all the historical different historical uniforms that
035they do marches and it's very very entertaining nice we also got a tour of the capital on our last day we got to go on the tour of the Capitol they told us about the founding of America we also saw a lot of statues because each state gets to send two statues of people from their state that have contributed to America wow wow thank you so much um we have we're going to have this young lady talk about skills that they used or learned on the trip just a few of them so during the trip we always have to be flexible because sometimes we'd have to get ready faster than we would normally do on a normal day-to-day basis um it's like this like showers had to be cut shorter it would also have to
036be like more responsible because we'd like always have to listen and pay attention to what um the tour guides and leaders teachers would always say and we'd always still have to get up like on time even if we were tired and do what we had to do perseverance yeah and it was long days yeah yeah we'd always get back to the hotel like nine those are it's a lot how many days total five yeah okay nobody mentioned this but was there any good food on this trip yeah I was gonna ask did you guys go to the food trucks outside the there's a whole bunch of food trucks outside the museum we didn't go to any yeah Mr she was one of the chaperones that went on the truck trip she would just like to
037say a few words about what the experience was for her yeah it was really fun um the kids were amazing I feel like they were making a lot of connections to things they've heard about in class but being able to experience it was like a whole new level like our eighth graders who went red Diary of Anne Frank this year and learned about the Holocaust but actually going to the Holocaust Museum like added a whole other level to it um and then the the younger grades learning American history learning about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson the founding fathers and being able to actually like go to those homes they were like oh this is what was going on at the time and it really I think made things a lot more real for them so
038yeah I think it's very valuable experience finally we just want to know do you have any questions for any of these young people come up here guys come up here just questions for any of them do we have any questions go ahead Miss so how many of you this was like your first trip out of like the state into another state I mean uh how many of you was the first time on an airplane yeah oh nobody wow this is impressive yeah okay and I have to say we could talk about it in class most of the kids have been to Arizona California and Mexico okay so like I was gonna say yeah how many outside of the Southwest yeah yeah California or Mexico raise your hand this is the first time you've been someplace
039else nice yeah outside of the Four Corners yeah the backy back East is like really different isn't it yeah there was green plants and cherry blossoms did you guys get to see the cherry blossoms no it's too hot oh let's do that okay oh interesting I didn't know that I'm always jealous when you guys go on these trips because I've been to Washington a couple times but literally I I like really haven't been anywhere there um it's always been for conferences so I love that you guys got to go to so many museums and you got to experience so many things and that you did make connections because that's what it's really about is seeing things um like visually and being able to be there to have that experience because just looking at a book
040really doesn't do it for us most of the time right so I'm glad that you guys had that chance thank you Miss Harris Miss McCaleb yeah I know you guys come into those interesting that it became more real raise your hand if you felt like emotional in some of these museums or the memorials and again a little bit a little bit the train car did that like impact you when you've been in the train car I remember that oh yeah no I think this is an amazing opportunity um and I know you know it's one thing to read about it in books and watch videos but I'm so happy that you guys got this experience and thank you guys for presenting to us I know you just got back and you're like processing it all
041too so thank you for coming tonight yeah yeah thank you Miss Gibson McQueen um thank you all for coming to present I really appreciate you taking you and your family or whoever brought you this evening thank you for taking your time out and coming to present um you know when I went to school in this District Junior ambassadors was newer but very well participated in and I think I went to DC with an entire Tour Bus full of kids from across the district and I made friends with people from other schools that then I could connect with when I got to high school and I'm still friends with some of those people today and I had some really big experiences like at the Holocaust Museum and other places that were like very impactful to me
042and I think another thing just from and it wasn't evident today but I think it's a it is evident and a big deal is like kids that grow up in the neighborhoods that we do and go to the schools that we do don't get to fly in planes and go on a ton of trips when they're kids and so there's a lot of experiences that are counterparts in the suburbs have that we don't have and so I think just having programs like this really opens doors for us and and our youth that not necessarily be there if these programs didn't exist so I think I'm glad that the program's been around for so long and I'm hoping that we can get more participation kind of back how it used to be in the old days
043I know there's a lot of barriers to that but I think part of the other thing I was going to mention was back in the day um just kind of the community that we built when it was time to fundraise and at Monte Vista we would have a night where we would all make tamales in like in the cafeteria and then we would sell them all to raise money we had like rummage sales we would do all these things and part of the fun was like spending time with everybody and their families and trying to figure out how you're going to raise money to go on these trips so I think it's just like a super all-encompassing thing rather than just the trip itself and so I really appreciate everything you two have done and
044I hope you guys even if you're not thinking about it now maybe you'll process it later and think well that was pretty cool I'm glad I did that yes thank you so much for being here I appreciate you guys so much thank you for your many years all right and that brings us to our next item which is our strategic planning goal progress thank you madam president for the last 18 months or so as you know the team has been on a journey to reimagine the strategic planning process and to progress on new goals and aligned attributes of progress so this evening our facilities are very skilled facilitators um Amanda K and Colleen Conley are here to lead us in conversation this evening while we present some of the highlights of this year's work see
045it your patience is appreciated while we connect to the Apple TV Maybe five more seconds here foreign [Music] thank you for um inviting us to talk with you tonight about the updates on the strategic planning process um when our presentation comes up we will kind of go through um what there we go we'll go through the process that we went through to come to the priorities and goals that we got to this year and we'll be able to talk a little bit more about the specific process that we use to gather all the information and the data and to to learn about the outcomes that we've seen so thank you [Music] all right we can hop back in like nothing happened so good evening thank you for having us tonight we are really excited to
046be sharing with you this progress and actually the progress um updates won't be coming from us but rather from the goal leads so we're really excited to have them up here and share all of the progress that the school district has made just as a bit of a refresher um you'll remember that this process was a year-long process to get us to a place where we had goals in a set Direction um we heard from hundreds out in the community we spoke with um kids Congress we heard from parents other students other community members Partners out in the community and gathered all of the data to then inform what the goals and the um priority would be moving forward uh and this like I said goes back to the last school year the one previous
047to this what we heard was that the vision the mission our beliefs who we are those were all really core to who we are as a school district um and that those really are our hearts and what guides us they're sort of our North Star so so using those then as the compass here they are we then worked with the strategic planning steering committee which was comprised again of parents teachers community members and worked with them as well as um teachers here at the school leadership and administration to then put together what the goals in the direction would be moving forward and using adventurous thinkers collaborative Learners kind-hearted leaders because that's core to Who We Are these were the Strategic goals that were then generated and this year a lot of our focus last year
048a lot of our Focus was on Gathering data to create those goals and this year was creating a benchmark for a lot of the data that you'll be hearing about tonight so in the past a lot of this data have been floating around but there wasn't necessarily a way to capture it so that we could measure ourselves year over year and that was one of the big pieces that we heard from the whole process leading up to is that we want to be able to measure our progress we want to know is it working is it not working if it's not working how are we going to change it so this year our big Focus was to really start to gather that data in one centralized location to create benchmarking opportunities so that year after
049year we'll be able to compare and move forward so we will have the goal leads come up now and present on these four goals to be clear there was a lot of progress that was made we'll be sharing that tonight and as Colleen mentioned as we look to the Future there's two more years with left with a strategic plan we expect there to be even more progress to report out on awesome thank you just want to thank really quickly and introduce uh Miss Martha Hernandez Martha is our special projects coordinator for innovation in the Arts and Sciences Martha is standing in this evening for Dr Michelle Berg who is out uh uh post-surgery good evening Madam president Dr Lewis members of the governing board and cabinet as we can see oops oh we can't see
050that our first goal um is academic excellence and we can see that our first um highlight here for first of all my name is Marta Hernandez special project coordinator for Innovative in the Arts and Sciences and I'm an honored I'm honored to be here to present our progress on goal number one so as we can see here we have our first highlight is um our elective courses so for these two highlights number one and number two um we were able to collect data from all schools in order to determine what enrichment opportunities were offered at each site across our district throughout the year we were able to monitor these opportunities as we all expended um specific opportunities for example we were able to hire another band teacher that provided extra classes for all of our
051sites we also were able to hire two gifted teachers that also expanded um these Services um and um in addition to support the programs um we also form new Partnerships for example the Phoenix boys choir and our partnership with the University of Arizona with project wet through these efforts up to the beginning of the fourth quarter um we had nearly 3 000 students participating in participating in enrichment opportunities as we think about um and we move forward about these two highlights and this goal our next steps are to include and ensure that there are Equitable access for students by looking at the participation of students by subgroups when we see our highlight number three um and a continued effort to ensure Equitable access for all of our students um this past year a subgroup of
052the adventures learning committee was able to work and develop a special education parent advisory Council we they were able to look and research-based models in Arizona as were across the country to create a model that would allow the community to assist in supporting providing input on future decisions related to our special education student population again we look forward to beginning that work through that Community next school year um for our highlights four and five an important part in determining how to best support our students in learning is to have a clear understanding of their strengths and and their needs so this year over 90 percent of our students were assessed multiple times throughout the year using our new Benchmark system which is and our literacy portfolios initiative teachers throughout the district have had training and
053opportunities to utilize our new assessment platforms to report on the reporting system this specific system provides reports to meet the user needs by providing multiple ways to interact with data at the district and school-wide level all the way down to the student question and level analysis the wide variety of reports allows Educators at levels at different levels to make informed instructional decisions to support students learning throughout the school year additionally to support our literacy initiative through Esser we were able to allocate over three hundred thousand dollars to support the teachers development in the science of reading this past year we have been able to provide over 6 000 hours of professional development on the science of reading the elements of the science of reading directly correlate with the data we collected through our personalized literacy
054portfolios building teachers capacity to intervene appropriately for the next two highlights we have highlight six and seven it's the Baseline survey data and then a new survey that we're looking into for this um to Highlights um the Baseline data has indicated that there has been an there is a need I'm sorry there is a need for our teachers um they they need more support and how to use our district adopted resources and materials this past year we have had um an addition literacy support as I mentioned earlier in a prior slide where we did the professional development um and we also have provided um specific math professional development for our new math adoption to groups of teachers through Affinity groups and learning cadres these are choices I'm offering for for professional development with the goal
055of developing our teachers leaders in specific content areas we're looking forward as we put in place more systematic means of determining whether I'm sorry means of determined teacher needs for support So a new survey is being constructed with our partners Hanover research to better capture teachers curricular strengths preferences and need as well as board priorities this information will allow was to more effectively diagnose the support of our teachers needs and will help our department plan relevant and meaningful professional development that's for goal number one any questions that I can probably answer or not do we have any questions or comments I do not well you do you do you do not thank you so much for the information yeah thank you good evening it's a pleasure to be here um Madam president members of the
056governing board Dr Lewis members of the executive team students parents staff and community members it is my pleasure to be here tonight to talk to you about our highlights and our hopes for goal two which is access diversity equity and inclusion my name is Linda McKeever I am the special projects coordinator for child Justice and advocacy so in terms of the work that we have begun to do within the district one of the most um the most eventful and one of the most intriguing and engaging events were the youth Equity stewardship events which were delivered at every one of our campuses and through those delivery options over 900 students participated as we typically had two grade levels who were participating so they were able to participate in sometimes two days and then another class might
057be invited in for the second day all around the conversations and concepts of culture Community Equity self-awareness social awareness differing dimensions of difference identities different perspectives and it's all wrapped around stewardship and includes art music movement dance and poetry and so students were heavily engaged because we had some amazing amazing facilitators who really brought forth a lot of conversations with the students to the point where by the second day when they arrived to to youth Equity stewardship they were ready to get on the mic and to recite their poems they were very powerful and in many classrooms those poems are still posted within classroom walls and kids often visit them so in terms of sustainability Dr dupin really helped us to discover how we could move towards sustainability so we've already begun developing the sustainability
058model and in that sustainability model at each building The Advocates who are there because we have one Advocate at each building and two Advocates at Mackin The Advocates present to all of the students rather than only a portion of students so it may be to a fifth grade group of students three sections of fifth grade and maybe three sections of sixth grade so all students are encouraged to to apply to become a youth Equity Steward and that's what we're calling the sustainability piece because engendering the the concepts that are critical and the principles that are critical within youth Equity stewardship a lot of it resonates already within our our exceptions not our exceptions but our expectations within the district so those students will be able to apply be selected and then they will be pulled
059and next year to work on lessons and to turn around lessons for students and part of the goal is about accessing student choice and student voice so rather than selecting a group of students who could have been whose names could have been given to us by their teachers we are providing the the presentations for all of those students and the individuals who facilitated the youth Equity stewardship made a great video for them just to give them the reminders of what what yes is all about and so our goal is next year to have students co-develop lessons for grades K through through eight and to be able to deliver those lessons with support either in trios or in in pairs and with some adult support additionally we had our Advocates work together very quickly and very
060um very intentionally with the support of Pam Burkhart who is here as our grants director she provided his training offered as a great deal of support and we were able to submit nine school safety grants to support the funding for our Advocates under the terminology as counselors because with the credentials that they have we can do that we can make that that that realization happen so we've not heard anything yet and it is a first come first serve um situation so we are waiting to hear more from the state um I have a quick question what happens if that Grant does not go through so if we if we are not um if we don't receive the grant then we have the year 23 24 the upcoming year will be paid for with The Advocates
061through Esser funds we're hopeful that at least we perhaps have at least four or more buildings that are approved and should those should we not receive those grants we will be searching for other grants and other opportunities perhaps to leverage some funds so that we can continue that work I've also had conversations with The Advocates as they're we're doing data Gathering right now which we will have after the school year is over we're creating the baselines but what I've explained to the stat to the to The Advocates is you need to be indispensable in the building and recognizing as I look through their use of time documentation they're being used in a lot of different functions and this is our first year so as we go into the next year we really want to focus
062on 80 Direct Services to students because there's a lot that goes around that but that direct support to students is also a part of the ask of the Arizona School counseling associations model so we want to be able to to do the very best we can through grants through the school safety grants and any other grants that we can and also perhaps work with other districts that that may may perhaps did not maybe they didn't also receive approval for their grants to identify if there are ways that we can kind of consider different options and be able to put our heads together and work harder not smarter okay thank you for that um in addition to that um a hope for us as this summer we are going we are beginning to work on some
063um some lessons and and uh and social skills groups groups for students using um some different identified uh curricular opportunities as we have three vendors that we are seeking um to to bring forward probably by the end of August we're doing a lot of the the back work right now uh but by the end of August we'd like to start the adoption process and the goal is to have um six people at each building be able to participate in the adoption process and to be able to uh I'm sorry the piloting process so it would be one one primary one intermediate one middle uh specials teacher a resource teacher and The Advocate and then we will work to get them the training that they need to be able to navigate um in those particular uh
064platforms and when we begin when we begin that that process of the adoption the then we know that we have community members that can can access the the materials our staff our family members everyone will have access to those different platforms and then we will have scoring identification so that it will go into a Google form to give us additional Data before we move forward to the adoption process those are the hopes is that we'll be able to uh to have a good flow in terms of of the pilots working well and providing instruction and then we'll ask for specific feedback from from those individuals piloting so there will be at least six at each building but it won't stop other teachers from being able to get into those adoptions or not the adoptions but
065the platforms to perhaps find some lessons that might work well for them as well that's our hope secondary to the access diversity Equity inclusion piece has to do with our with our facilities and I apologize I'm sorry that's okay good question I'm going to full disclosure I want to continue to call it social emotional learning however um has the district thought about different terminology based on some certain things coming down from our state so Linda I'll take that this development has been referred to and whatever I just want to make sure that we can effectively go through an adoption process our kids our teachers absolutely need these resources and I want to make sure that we don't get blocked so the couple things we've been thinking about Madam president members of the board absolutely this
066is heavy on our minds as we think about what is discussable and what's not also what's fundable and what's not as you are likely aware the Arizona Department of Education has put limits on what federal grants can be used actually limited we can't use federal grants to fund social emotional learning resources anymore so we're looking at other funding sources like curriculum Capital which we would normally utilize for math or science or Social Security just explain that some more about how Ade is allowed to dictate how Federal monies are used I'm sorry I'm just that I'm generally honest question and I know it could be brief I'm just curious I'll do the best I can the way that that is overseen is they have to approve all our grants yes and they've explicitly stated that with
067Grant requests that include social emotional Learning Materials will not be approved and no one's that hasn't happened yet no one's obviously challenged it yet not as far as I know I think it's challengeable cool so that's why we've leaned in heavily on the concepts of access and advocacy access and inclusion those are terminologies that really do reflect the spirit of our work but also are more General in in terms of their controversy and controversial nature and to add to that when when we were writing the grants as the as The Advocates were writing their grants we were very specific about the language and the rationale behind the language change and so they're very they understood that very very well um so I'm going to go ahead and shift to the facilities piece and Linda can
068I jump in real quick okay sorry sorry um just it might these might feel a little like out of place why would a facilities piece go under Equity however we were very intentional in building the idea that access to facilities access to facilities resources very much an equity issue so as the district grapples with challenges and and space enrollment we have to be very mindful to ensure access and Equity as those decisions and conversations are made and Mr Man can I put you on the spot for just a moment to kind of just address seven and eight real quick or six seven and eight yes um so one other thing one of the activities we've been involved in is taking a look at the various properties and the reason that this fits under goal two
069is we've had conversations around you know what's efficient for the district to operate and what are the desires of the community as our student enrollment declines and yet we still operate the same number of schools that we operated when we had you know seven or eight thousand students in the district there have been some deep conversations and there have been some Partners brought to the table some that did pro bono work and some that were hired to do work for us and so when we talk about the assessments ADM architecture group did do assessments of all of our facilities to give us a sense of their current state what types of repairs and maintenance they required to have that factor into conversations around what should we do with facilities in the future they're also working
070with Davis demographics and they're still getting a an updated demographic survey completed for us but beyond that we had some conversations we received some pro bono work from Roi which is a real estate Consulting Group that helped us with the valuations of our properties and if we were to lease those properties what might those lease values look like so those were really big pieces of work and pieces that that team assessed but the other big problem that team ran into is it was small and so they wanted to increase participation representation so they built a plan to tap all of the other committees to have them weigh in and it made sense in logic because budget advisory as an example would have budgetary things that they could share with the group or the equity working
071group could talk about well what are the equity concerns related to these conversations so at the end of the day item Aid is that we're still gathering this information with the desire to continue the work through the summer so that we're able to have hard conversations and fall thank you so much if you have do we have any questions or comments we do not thank you so much you so much you did have a comment there's a comment about the section not like a question I mean I've brought this up with Jay I briefly touched on it with you about getting creative about how we can utilize programs and you talked about this too that don't cost us any money or provide value to us and don't cost us money and so I'd love for
072us to explore becoming a Vista site an Americorps Vista site I'd love for us to explore hiring in MSW so we can have MSW interns I think all of these things are valuable ways that I have personally worked in an environment in a school district with that have really provided so much help in in kind of aiding some of these issues in goal 2 particularly and and we are having conversations with the Creighton Community Foundation that already has some of those relationships to leverage their relationships to perhaps expedite being able to do some of those things cool thank you thank you thank you Linda good afternoon members of the war um I'm Ivanka rochal Your Community Education director and slash bishar um so I get to speak today as a goal three community and family
073engagement which is dear to my heart and everybody's here um and so these are the highlights that we are choosing to share with you and so members of the meeting conferred team pandemic prioritization task force and governing board approved the following stipends why because we are retaining the talent that we have we are trying to be competitive and attract new talent and we know that after the pandemics great needs have been uh exacerbated in our community and part of our community and our families our employees that's where we start and if we don't have uh employees that can find affordable housing or be taking care of their families how do we expect them to be ready to attend the emotions and all of the needs and academic needs of our families and so this is
074an attempt and you rightly so supported these attempts you know the other highlights that we would like to share with you and oh perfect I skipped that one thank you so sorry I skipped this one it's very important one uh as we hear from the community um and we are lucky that we have a research specialist that is one of our uh schools we didn't have a system in which to capture all of the needs of the communities on the students so part of the goal was to create a referral system for support and services and as of 5 pm today they have been 2509 um referrals they're not have only been received but they have been fulfilled and you may wonder what type of referrals we have and where are they coming from so
075mostly they're coming from the southbound of our district and the person who are referring because we know that we have lots of caring staff members but also members of the community so 1800 of those 72 percent have been referrals initiated by our staff members and when I say staff members from administrators cafeteria workers teachers para professionals everybody families have self-preferred older families or their own family 15 so 381 and the coolest thing is we need to teach our our students self-advocacy and so these referral system allows for self-referrals for the students and we have received five percent of the total of 2500 so 124 that were initiated by the students saying I need help my family needs help how do they do that there's um posters around all of our buildings with a QR code
076and the teachers displayed in their classrooms and so in the front office next time you're in one of our buildings look for those posters and you can see the website it's also the website or the link or the QR code and family can just scan them and then it just goes to someone it goes directly it goes directly to um no phone number at this time only Google drive but it's something that we can strive to it goes directly to the Outreach specialist and to the administration in that uh in that building or Department I was asking like is it Google form yes okay cool yes and is it like what kinds of things is it clothing food just you're one step ahead of me so 49 of the referrals have to be with basic
077needs such food clothing and housing uh 15 of the of those sort of referrals are for resources for schools needs that they have for school 21 are for families experiencing homelessness and those are the big highlights so again our community uh it's needing a lot of resources and so this is a good way not the perfect way but one one another way to capture all of these needs did you say 25 21 21 experiencing homelessness part of the highlights of the of this goal is to also engage and make sure that the voice and representation of all of our community members and families are in every committee and everything uh and everything that we do that we receive their feedback and so as you can see on number three an instructional model has been created
078for the new school which focuses on providing learning experiences in the outdoors and that's one need that came not just through uh Educators but also from family members is something that they appreciate also Partnerships were established to find resources for Outdoor Learning and spaces and then a complete package which all of the members of the team have seen and for the schematic designs of the new school was was completed and so all of this is to provide voice and to make sure that at every level of our operations there's input for students families and community members because we're not alone we're a team and they need to be at the table do we have any questions or comments weird data question but were any of the did you keep data on whether any of those
079referrals were like repeat families or people or some of those referrals are repeated families because maybe you have some problems or needs in September and then you got back on your feed with the agencies and so forth provided and then back again after break is usually when we see those experiences um and in January you can self-refer so that's one of the creative things that just because you use it once you're not limited we want to hear your needs and we want to hear them as often as you have them so any other questions or comments this is a comment that I love that and I'm gonna steal it and try and bring it next door we we can share whatever we have yeah thank you thank you so much Madam president members of the
080board my name is Emily wazolik I'm a communications director it is my honor to go through the quote the goal for highlights so the first thing I want to highlight is there was a garden landscape manager position created and staffed and that person has made sure that there is infrastructure created at all the schools so garden beds drip systems soil and has started creating Partnerships within the community and writing for Grants to make sure our Gardens are sustainable he also worked with each school to identify a garden Lead Teacher at each site that's going to bring the curriculum into the garden we love Gardens here yes so does the community yes um a new employee health plan was fully deployed in January so that uh increased our in-network providers and so gave our employees more
081access to um a more Superior health care and it also upgraded our employee assistance program that offers um access now to spouses and dependents that are under the age of 26 and it's open to all staff in some variation of that program A new mouse notification system is in use at all schools and was deployed at the beginning of the year and one of the highlights of that system is its ease of use so now it's a one button touch for text email and robocall instead of having to go through and do each thing individually so that actually increased our ability to communicate in the event of emergency much more effectively and we have heard from our families that they really like the texting capabilities and I will attest to that as a parent we
082had a weird early release day and night you know totally spaced it and if it wouldn't have been for that text message my kid would have been left without a ride so that is very important because text messages come right to the phone so it's effective and in our school I don't know if it's every once we get them in English and Spanish so yep our uh our new system to uh translates really well in actually every language that our families have identified that is home language so we have a long list of translation capabilities our system before now you parents had to opt in to receive text messages so our opt-in rate was pretty low and so our text rate was low and now we can just text and then they can opt out
083if they don't want to receive it so that's really increased our communication with families and then lastly under the health wellness and safety umbrella Wellness Champions committee was established to create Wellness Champions on each site and the Safety Committee and compensation committee continued and just evolving with the new goals and and plans awesome do we have any questions or comments from the board what is the math what is the mass notification system uh Blackboard Blackboard yeah which three more years thank you so much and so Madame President members of course you have here from the facilitators in our sternum Consultants but I have to get speakers that would like to introduce to you one is one of the agencies that we collaborate and she's going to give testimonies of all of this beautiful plan that
084you see in writing how's your experience as he she collaborates with with us and then the second person is Alicia antiveros which is one of our family members from Gateway school and she's going to give us an opinion about how we're doing as a school district and then what she expects for the new superintendent okay so it's like that hello um everybody um hi everybody my name is Shelby klitso I come from the Red House Clan towering house Clan red streaks into the water Clan and um I always forget this one where's one of them um um the reason why I introduced myself in that way is because um I am Navajo I come from the Navajo Nation um called kanta Arizona um and the reason why I introduced myself with these four Clans is
085because each one comes from um a family member of mine so my mom my dad my maternal grandparents and my paternal grandparents I introduced myself in that way because that is how we show our respect and you know we respect you um I would just like to say which is thank you so thank you to all of you for your wonderful planning that you have done throughout the year especially the team behind me they are doing an amazing job um and let me just introduce myself further on what I do and why I'm here um I am the student enrollment coordinator at an emergency housing shelter that caters to Native American families here um in Phoenix with our shelter we transport families from the reservation to come down here and to explore the opportunities that
086the city life has and during their stay in our shelter they work on their parents are working on their sobriety whether it's with alcoholism drugs um and then they're also receiving housing so what I do at the emergency housing shelters I work with each family and enrolling each student into a school now this is my very first year in this position is my very first I'm the very first person to do what I am doing with the shelter this shelter was established three years ago um and with those three years they said they needed somebody to work with the kids and I stepped up and I'm doing it so that's why I am here um and coming here each student um I coming here I really just wanted to voice how thankful how grateful we
087are at the shelter for each and every person teachers staff members Liaisons and just everything that you guys have done for us um uh from my point of view I see parents who are scared who are confused and they just want help they just want help with their life and getting um you know back on their feet and that in order to do that they choose to leave their home they choose to leave the one thing that they know and that's the reservation and sometimes life on the reservation is very very harsh it's cruel and they they see that there's a future in the city so that's why they are here and when the kids come they they tell us like they're shy and they're nervous and they're scared but with all the faculty members
088and all the planning that you guys do um I am proud to say that we did an amazing job this school year with enrolling over a hundred kids and keeping them enrolled and sometimes you know they do leave but they always try to stay within the school district and that's Creighton so we are very very grateful um just for the help that we've received the not feeling too scared anymore and we do plan on staying here with the Creighton family one thing I would like to say is Yvonne and Lucy Gonzalez who they were the first person first people that I've met when I started my position in finding a school for the kids to go to and the first thing that he said was welcome to the family and me not having a family
089here in the city and they're all five hours away that was the most heartwarming thing that I've ever received since coming here and being I always say coming here became easier and easier as the year went on but that's not because of what I do it's because of what everyone here in the Creighton School District has done so we thank you and we I can't wait to be a part of more meetings like this more planning meetings and hopefully seeing the Creighton School District grow so thank you oh yeah thank you so much for that thank you so much I can't even imagine The Bravery it takes I mean I already know on a day to day working with my clients just to go through substance use treatment but to like leave your home bring
090your kids and The Bravery for the kids too is like it's just wild so thank you so much for everything and I wanted to say It's a Small World the board has a very good friend named Joseph Bia on the Kayenta School Board oh wow um so um anyway it's a small world yes thank you so much for being here for everything that you do and I'm so thankful that we have this partnership with you guys because like I said before our student out comes every child deserves the same love the same opportunities and I'm just so glad that you found a home with us so thank you for entrusting us that we're going to do the best for them I just want to Echo that I spent my first three years teaching in pinyon
091okay um and I just and I actually currently partner with kind of a similar situation um with getting some more students whose parents are going through that all Native American families and so I truly appreciate what you're doing for those families um it is huge and they're going through so much and so I appreciate you thanking everyone here but truly you're doing something amazing yeah so thank you so much thank you thank you if I cannot do that because Shelby is very humble but she works I think 23 hours out of the 24 hour day and she's a great role model and inspiration in the the force behind this program so we're very lucky to have this partnership yes thank you thank you everybody thank you now we have Miss Alicia and she's one of
092our family members from Gateway and she's a little bit nervous but I told her I said don't be nervous muchas gracias estancasa um Gateway foreign a medication foreign [Music] [Laughter] she said so her name is Alicia tenorio and her daughter attends Gateway School many years ago her son was in fourth grade and they have to move and so they went out of District some was really not like in the school and having struggles over there so she just tried to come back to Gateway and for some reason her enrollment application was denied and so she tried again and then she went to District district Helper and then the following um the wake of days they said your son your your kiddos are ready to to begin and then they were very happy to be back
093at Gateway School and now she's going to talk about the experience so far [Music] easy with gracias opportunity he's saying things are going well since she's been back and then she really appreciates to be included in this type of meetings um and she enjoyed the presentation about Union Ambassador because she thinks the students learn new skills that was going to help them in in the future and she says thank you for including her gracias oh I forgot about that part here we go is mm-hmm gracias participating in some of the community forums yes I remember she was there and so she said unfortunately she was not able to be present and the last um when the decisions was made to select Mr jaymen and she says that as the newspaperintendent she expects you to visit
094all of the schools she knows that the other superintendent was here for several years and the schools are are doing well but with you she expects them to bring him to the next level and even improve them gracias and I just told her thank you for being here and that she has a space in that this is her home and she's welcomed anytime thank you gracias [Applause] thank you and thank you for hearing from many of our goal leads and members of our strategic planning steering committee so where do we go from here um the goal leads all heard from the from the community around what they thought about the progress had about the progress on goals one through four and then also what they would like to see over the next year in each
095of those goal areas so they are taking all that information back and coming up with benchmarks for year two and you'll get to see those you should have received in your packet also the highlights but also all the other work that happened behind it so um if there are other questions or concerns we're happy to address those or hey we'll be happy was very pleased to see it in Spanish as well as in English yes yes I was everything should be translated yes that's very important and thank you guys for taking that extra step and making sure that it was bilingual do we have any other questions or comments under request I don't know if it's happening already but is there any way to have this live on our website as well as board Docs
096I promise not to hate on board docs at every board meeting but yeah I will put the update on as well and we've got some ideas for other information we could add for Progress monitoring along the way next year thank you thank you guys so much I appreciate your time thank you [Applause] thank you all right that takes us to our next item which is 10A um I just want to take a couple of minutes and say some words um I just want to thank Dr Lewis for the years of leadership that she gave I know that under her leadership we got the crane Academy and that vision for the school is not normal it's very unorthodox and it's been great um my daughter's been there the last two years and within one year I've
097seen the growth and the the good things that it's doing for those kids so um I'm really appreciative of that Vision that you had obviously with the previous board but um so thank you for that and thank you for you know all the years that you gave to Creighton um I'm super super proud of our board with the process that we did we had two Community Forum meetings where we allowed the community and I say aloud because we didn't have to do this but it to us it is very important to make sure that the community's voice is always heard so we have two Community Forum meetings as Miss Gibson McLean earlier said we were one of the only school districts that has ever had a student voice in this new superintendent search so we
098really wanted to take our time make sure that we heard um we also heard that we were the school only School District to have so many applicants they said that they haven't had another school district that had so many so that says a lot about our district and how we're going to move forward and I am so so excited and I am so honored that we're going to have a new superintendent you know that has been with the community that he's basically one of our own I don't think we could have made any other best decision I've seen Jay advocate for our families I think that's just my social worker side of me to mean numbers tests none of that matters that the whole child is not being taken care of or looked at and
099I've seen Jay you know show up for these families they know his face they know who he is and it didn't just happen you know within a week or two weeks that he decided to put in for this position so it's obvious of where his heart is and with that being said I would love the governing board approved to offer a superintendent to superintendent contract to Mr J Man beginning July 1st 2023. a second all those in favor I I congratulations I'm excited [Applause] I saw your eyes getting a little watery over there I'm going soft you can say a few words yeah speech a little speech you know this is the perfect evening for this to happen what [Laughter] there's no one scared there is no evidence this is all public record no it's
100a here's the reason why we recognize the the um our Creighton kids Congress this evening and this is going to sound really weird but the hardest part of the superintendent selection process is I have never missed a Creighton kids Congress meeting and one of my greatest Pleasures is being the person to serve pizza to the kids and um just to try to make sure we kept the process clean I stayed away from the one where they did superintendent attributes and that honestly was the hardest day in my eight years at Creighton was staying away from the students so having them here tonight meant a lot to me hearing our strategic plan progress our our Junior ambassadors so this really reinforced why I had a desire to be superintendent in the district and work with this
101amazing board that's doing the right things for kids and community and so you have my heart you have my dedication and I'm so happy that it's official now and we can get moving and move forward so thank you all very much yay thank you so much [Applause] and thanks to everyone in the community that really helped us and everybody here everybody else I mean it feels good to me to do make a decision that feels like it's an integrity and in line with our community so that's a very good feeling okay well that brings us to 10B which is the proof the Arizona School boards Association asba proposals for the 2024 political agenda I have one submitted I I emailed this to Hilda on my phone with a note of I for I don't have
102my notes with me and now I have my notes with me so I don't know if we want to create can we create our yeah this is something that we can actually just add in and put in as a recommendation um so yeah we can because I know last time from everybody we also had maybe you could say it out loud so everyone knows what we're talking about so for the ASM everybody has this paper for the asba legislative political agenda um I was able to remember for my notes um submitting a priority of adding limited voting rights for student board members with the rationale that some states have allowed limited voting rights for student school board members and Arizona currently has limitations that prevent that prevent this this allows for student voice to truly
103be represented in decision making and I do want to say when I say limited voting rights it's because the states that have that limited voting rights isn't a bad thing currently student board members in Arizona have no voting rights and the reason it's limited in other states where they do have them is for things like Personnel hiring and firing and some budgetary things that because they're minorities we need to place limits on that um but might heiners oh geez I'm sorry um I'm also on a lot of Benadryl because I had a horrible allergic reaction um so I wanted to add this but also now I have my notes and I didn't know if we also wanted to create something because we had AEL someone had said you had said uh joining nsba and then
104I know we wanted to all double down on the social emotional Wellness yes um I definitely think that the nsba national school board associations went and I'll put in a request for that do we have to do that she the rest if you just we do it okay thank you Hilda okay and I'll submit it and I know it has a due date the 24th yes okay cool thank you Hilda um and the only one other thing that I wanted us to um see if we agreed to put on there is for them to lobby for our aoi funding just because I don't think they're really doing that and a lot of our schools are depending on Esser funds for our online schools and I really think that asba could use their lobbyists to lobby
105at the state legislator to do something or create some kind of budget for next time or include somebody in the budget that will keep our online schools running um that's something that they're not really talking about and you know especially in the rural districts and all those other places that they have it they're going to get hit really hard when that Sr money is gone so I would love for us to add it on there so they can figure it out and see how we can pressure our legislators to get us some actual funding for that and Madam president you might want to incorporate the notion of Wi-Fi as a utility um and and a common utility um that would parallel with the city of Phoenix agenda right now thank you for that yeah and
106another piece um to think about too and I believe there was something on their priorities already that revolved around food for kids um free school lunch yeah the free and reduced lunch however our aoi students are not eligible for free or reduced lunch okay like they can't get fed for free and even if they qualify you assume there's like Federal stuff so yeah and I don't know but I think that's something that we can advocate for okay perfect do we have any other additions comments or discussion on what else needs to be sent to the Arizona school boards Association for their political agenda I had written down AEO was it already on their list so you think it is yeah it's on the list already okay perfect okay so hearing no further discussion I'll send
107over those to you Hilda and then we'll get them there so thank you for that guys awesome I appreciate it uh motion because there's a motion oh yes I moved the governing board adopt the suggested action agenda items as outlined by the board which will help establish the 2024 asba political agenda all those in favor hi and that brings us over to our legislative political report um we know that finally the AL was signed so we we're good at least for a year and so we're not okay again so that's good um I don't know if we have any other additions I think that was one of the biggest the budget has been approved so our budget is now not waiting for a budget so that's yeah that's what I just said I mean like
108overall like sometimes it's not just the AEL it's holding it up yeah we have our next meet and confirm meeting to talk about mno budgets tomorrow in this room and so we were a little bit skeptical as to whether that timing was right and we're thrilled to actually have numbers to work not sure what's left both are the house and the Senate are recess until the 12th there are still some bills that are going to be on the floor I don't know how many of those are education bills but there have been a lot that they haven't gotten through yet so we'll see awesome any other additions to that no okay that brings us to Future agenda items do we have any future agenda items no just that I know I have not sent you
109mine Hilda and I promise it'll happen I'm just trying to finish the school year awesome all right and that brings us to I move the governing board um conclude this school board meeting wait a second all those in favor aye aye aye thank you guys so much have a great night buenas noches my pen ran out