November 15, 2022, Governing Board Meeting

001probably wondered we're gonna go ahead and get started everyone can take a seat and if anybody needs translation in Spanish I believe our translator is here okay just so everybody knows all right we're going to start off with our land acknowledgment crane school district understands that our community of schools is located on the ancestral land of the hodam Jude and nakumiel Odom people who descended from the Hohokam and have inhabited these lands since the time immemorial the hodam whose name translates literally to people are a vibrant culture and Community 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 Creighton School District formerly recognizes that the traditional care and keeping of these lands by indigenous people as an aspirational

002model of community stewardship that we are committed to honor with practices policy and human relations um Miss Michaela can you lead us into the pledge nation under God activism all right we have Mr Campos Ms Ayers myself Miss McCaleb and Miss Mick Jeffrey here we want to welcome everyone to tonight's meeting and remind the audience of the request to address board cards that must be completed and submitted to the board secretary if they wish to speak to an agenda item board policy provides for two cards White cards to be submitted in order to speak to an agenda item and blue cards to 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

003all right I move the governing board approved the agenda as presented again all those in favor hi hi perfect all right that brings us over to public Commons I have two and two agenda we're gonna go ahead and start with Dr Silvia Herrera three minutes please it's okay I'm uh giving her an opportunity first she's the other speaker yeah of course yeah that's is this um Carmen Prieto okay we'll go ahead and start with um good afternoon everybody my name is Carmen Prieto I know um I don't have children but I have grandchildren in the school district and everything and I do appreciate this I mean that I will be able to speak everything must be used my concern about my neighbors my lot we live on 1631 East Weldon Avenue on the trailer park

004that we have been all notice an eviction of 108 days which comes out in April the 1st school's not done at that time and my concern is for the children that they're going to drop into the middle almost at the ending of the school is there any way we can get your support with your help and everything and maybe we can go to one of the courts that they do advise us to extend the time especially for the children children right now are traumatized uh one of my neighbors her little girls that has special needs uh wakes up in the middle and I just dreaming that they're tearing down to our place and we need emotional we need back support I mean the kids are not even thinking of holidays or anything like that parents

005aren't thinking they're either festive in the holidays because they have to get the money so we can just all move out and when this has been our home I've been in my home for 11 years she's been in her home uh 12 13 years others have been their home for 20 years 28 years and they're gonna demolish our trailer park and we do need all your support we want all the support especially for the children mentally physically one of my neighbors or the other one she just told me she wanted to come but she was so upset because they stole her cell phone and she just cried and everything that she felt it's in her backpack they don't let him get him out of course and uh she's been bullied and teachers are not doing

006anything it's bad enough that we have what we're going through and then being bullied at the school it's not fair for the child and we need mostly all your support definitely need your support for these children for our parents ah anything to help us to extend the time so the kids won't have to drop off a school because there's I'm sure it's not just her child we have up to maybe 30 50 kids in that area and that would be a big drop for you guys too big loss let's take them all at one time out of the school we don't know where we're going yet we don't know what time we have a meeting also on a trailer park on Thursday because we have people from the city and see what they're going to

007support us with but we would like to have somebody to go or to the meeting and see what is going on so that I can understand what we're going through all the parents will be there on Thursday at six o'clock on that Welton park at 1631 East Walton at the basketball court we have a meeting there and I do appreciate them helping any I hope you see this are going in for our kids see we're worried about the kids again traumatized and they won't say nothing I'm gonna go well we're going to kick this out whatever and they think and then they get bullied whatever no thank you so much um I'm really sorry for what's going on but thank you for letting us know and I would like to add that to carvajals available

008and reaching out so make sure you go ahead and connect tonight thank you Dr Sylvia Herrera good evening um thank you for the opportunity to uh to speak to the issue of the displacement of mobile home park residents um this is just one example of the many mobile home parks that are in your district and so I wanted to bring it to your attention uh the possibilities of other mobile home residents and children and families that are in your District that are on the verge of being displaced as well uh this is something that we're seeing throughout the city and um so some school districts have lost up to 2 000 students um up in uh North Phoenix because of the displacement uh it's a problem they need your support um it's uh is something

009that we've identified so far probably about at least 10 parks in the district and so that means you know hundreds of children that are uh you know basically nowhere to go right now with the uh crisis in the housing market there's nowhere to go right now uh residents are paying maybe 500 a month for their um mobile home park um rental space because they own their mobile homes and there is nowhere the most affordable place it's not even affordable for studios in the area or 1500 there's nowhere for these families to go we're also working with the with the city to address this problem but we need the support of the school districts to say you know what what can we do to help these families what can the city do to help these families

010and there's other residents that are here tonight as well because they're all concerned uh what's going to happen a lot of them have lived in the parks for decades not just and so it's been generations of students that have come through your school district it's not just the students that are enrolled now but it will affect your School District press it thank you thank you so much Alejandro see buenas noches is um classes in Mr Australia vamos much customers um foreign is yes my memory is not so good but from what I'm hearing uh and I'm sure hopefully understood what you're saying is he's here with the mo he lives in the mobile home park and he's most concerned for the children that live there that are going to get displaced correct okay so uh

011as a taxpayer as somebody that's been here a long time best he's just voicing his concern again as the other people were for um the kids that live in that in that area and then in this place and that's his biggest concern that was kind of like a short summary in each sentence thank you all right um that brings us to 4A superintendent report well good evening Madam president members of the board and our wonderful Community what a lovely turnout I have so many things to share tonight first of all we have a McKenney vento act that does indeed work to ensure stability for our children in school and then we will work with any social services that we can can help with in terms of any other aspect so Yvonne Carvajal I know is

012out there saying hello raise your hand Yvonne so we will work with work on that I wanted to share first of all that one of the Department of Education um a deputy superintendent uh wrote The Following email thank you for sharing Creighton's work yesterday at the SEL PLC I want you to know that every time I hear you share I move to do more and do better the work that Creighton has done and continues to do is both courageous and inspiring I absolutely love the belief statements of Who You Are descriptors they are also real and authentic not the usual education jargon or sometimes for show you use the term laser focus and it is evident that laser focus is ongoing and doing what's right and truly making a difference for your students and families

013your Equity work is a model for all who look at and emulate your response to the possible difficulties around the equity and Justice work was honest and direct and made me smile it can be difficult but it is necessary we can't not do it my hope and wish for Arizona is that more leaders would hold that belief and act on it please know that I'm honored to have been a small part of Creighton's journey and that was by Devin esherwood she's Deputy superintendent for school support and improvement from the Ade in our work with Elite and that was an email sent to Eric dupin from his work so congratulations Eric on her recognition of you uh I want to say congratulations again to our community uh education uh team and Family Center um we're doing

014a toy drive right now and uh it's in partnership with La Botana uh restaurant and with our Community Education team and our Creighton Education Foundation we look forward to a successful holiday toy drive we have a community community council meeting coming up on Thursday night so in two nights November 17th at 5 45 where we're going to be seeking some input on our architectural design for our new school we're also going to be talking about technology tips for parents on um just quick tips to stay on top of things with some of the sources we have and learn a little bit more about our chorus American music education program and get a chance to listen to our families there um I wanted to point out a student of ours who was highlighted in Epic kids

015and this is Khalid Navarro and he is a solid athlete I don't think there's a sport he doesn't play and the mentality that he has about setting goals and reaching goals and pushing for the next goal and then loving science experiments and then loving learning about reading and math he's just one of those kids and it was really terrific I want to thank Emily for helping him get connected and getting the attention he deserves as a as a top-ranking athlete and student athlete and academic so I hope you all had a chance to read this article on Khalid um I want to take a minute just to talk a little bit about our letter grades I know we've had some philosophical discourse about letter grades and I just know that there's a bizarre feeling of

016quiet pride and Delight in the fact that three of our schools went up two letter grades and we have some skepticism understandably about the race and the racism associated with standardized testing and the how high of a Stakes we give to standardized testing in letter grades as it relates to um one indicator saying what a school is or isn't and all of our schools have maintained or shown tremendous Improvement during one of the toughest crisis we've ever had in our career so I want a big round of applause for all the schools all the children all the teachers for their amazing achievement I want to say we continue to have a lot of work to do so I'm very proud because the principals were the first ones to say that's nice but we've still got

017work to do because our proficiency continues to need to be addressed and we will always work our hardest and best for children so a very interesting mixed feeling about that and I appreciate the board's philosophy as they talked about it last time um as the election seems to be coming to close we await the uh decision on who will be the next uh public superintendent Republic instruction but the most important thing for Creighton was on the election ballot for us was a five million dollar per year override that passed again congratulations to everybody who canvassed and helped thank you community for making that happen um and we did not have to have an election but uh Katie I'd like you to stand she's going to be a new board member up here starting in January

018so congratulations Katie and uh Sophia Carrillo doll congratulations on being reinstated as far as being continuing your board uh service um the uh Loma Linda School site was just awarded a new playground Grant we in our partnership with Kaboom and fairy tales brownies that was part of the sponsorship there so Amy are you in the audience how do you keep getting the playgrounds where are you oh yeah there you are you keep getting the playgrounds um but uh I I'm gonna end my announcement um with um a recognition of a board member up here uh after four years of service be on health Compass compasses last governing board meeting he served with this governing board as an elected official and an appointed official May 14 2018 to November 30th 2022. he came with the lens

019of being a father and what it was like for his kids to experience the learning with the teachers in the schools he served as a crossing guard and got to know the kids and the staff as a staff member prior to his service I know there were times when he would come to a meeting with heavy weight on his mind wondering how he was going to vote on whatever issue and through prayer and his faith put time and energy into listening to what was said at the Deus and to the Deus and for the board and I watched him actually change his mind on some issues and that's a powerful thing for a leader to be able to do is deeply listen and reflect and be influenced by those people he serves so he has

020been an inclusive Advocate a humble leader and openly vulnerable to the struggle of decision making when we need to learn how to switch and think openly and have our minds changed so I know that you'll all stand and warmly thank Mr compost for a service and with that we actually have a public comment on this item Tim foreign thank you all right Tim kenor our teacher at Papago got some Papago art over there so it's exciting to come and and check that out but I just wanted to come as someone who's worked at Papago for nine years uh Mr Angel compost has has been part of our community the entire time uh and then uh with his um appointment to the board and then deciding to run for governing board we definitely developed a nice

021friendship and he actually was the officiant at my wedding uh which you know tied that Bond even more so um from all of the Papago community that couldn't be here tonight uh and you know for my deepest heart thank you so much for all you've done thank you so I would like to read a letter from um someone two people at um Papago that could not make it here tonight Mr Campos thank you for your commitment to our Creighton Community your unwavering support of the teachers is appreciated more than you know you have been such a beacon and positivity and hope in this community what an asset you have been to our school board we have had the added pleasure of teaching and coaching your wonderful children and have even enjoyed some of the best

022carne asada tacos ever at your house the sidelines on the Papago soccer field are not the same without your signature yell you know what it is vamos popular yeah yeah and this board will certainly not be the same without you thank you friend for all you have done for our teachers students and families Mrs Anastasio and kochal that concludes the soup's report if you'd like to call on Twitter report oh you read yours would you like to say something oh it's been a pleasure getting to know Mr Campos um yeah my neighbor so um I live right behind his church so I see him quite frequently when I'm taking my trash out because we have an Alleyway but I remember the first time we met because I had been messaging his church because at the

023time yeah so at the time well he still does this but they open up the church and play their music and I was getting married in the backyard on a Sunday night when they normally did it so I kept emailing his church like can you please please like close your doors so that's the first time I met Mr compost and he did close the doors for that night so and then I learned he was on the board and so we've become good neighbors and friends so thank you Mr compost for your wisdom and your friendship Mr Campos thank you so much for your service to the school district as a first generation I know how hard at times it is to fit into this world that we think is you know great and dandy so

024I appreciate that I appreciate you being representation for some of our students and our families here so thank you so much for your service everybody took all the good words but um I will Echo them all and I just since I've met you and been able to work with you um everything from being a teacher in the audience watching you on the board to joining the board with you um I've just really always appreciated your thoughtfulness um and you really take the time to look at every perspective and I see that not just on the Deus but I know that that comes from everything you do in your work throughout your life and your personal life and I know you know beyond what you do here for the Creighton students and families I'm always amazed

025by how you manage to do so much for everyone else in the community and especially our migrants that are coming in and I just I really you're very inspiring and I hope that you continue to be that inspiration for all the communities you serve so thank you thank you for your service Mr Campos and all my best wishes to you and your family going forward all these days today I've been thinking about this moment and I I left my glasses on purpose because I I don't want to read anything that I've written and and I wrote it in over and over but I I don't need to say anything else uh everyone touched from the honor having served uh the huge responsibility of getting into doing something that you know nothing uh in 2016 I

026became a U.S citizen and it was in that year so it was almost two years on top of the four that I served as a as an elective that I was appointed in 2016 my neighbors came to my door and asked me if I could represent them dude what the heck is that because I I just became a U.S citizen I'm still trying to figure out uh whom I want to vote for uh was this Depot that appears all these names I don't know them I had to do a research on who I was voting for but then uh I I had to do a biggest investigation on what it means to be a governing world and I didn't know how our great responsibility it is for for these ladies and night to be here

027we're making decisions on on like on everybody in in these neighborhoods and and that uh that adds a lot to what we do but uh with I've been doing it with pride I'm I feel very good for what I do and and then with humbleness and and just to finish today I I went to uh two things I went to to Costco to buy some clothing and food for the migrants that we received today and I I was trying to park but it was full and and then uh I didn't find a parking but I see this huge big man and trying to put something on his truck and it was too heavy for him and his wife was trying to help him so I was without saying that my wife said what are you

028going I just opened the door Park open the door and he will help him and and he said thank you and then he said the world is good today I might I know why he said that but he said it because there's a lot of uh crazy things going on every day people being angry and trying to ease you off and make you angry and I said every day is good Amigo every day is good it depends on your eyes so I I go and I find my parking and I'm coming back and I'm coming back there was a guy just parked right there right right near the the cards go in and as I'm passing by the same guy that I helped is trying to leave the place and the guy that was used

029there I guess on his phone he was randomly he used to step on the gas they were just about to do an accident and and I get in the front of the car and I went hey stop he was and he thought I was angry no it's okay I'm not angry you almost hit a man and with a smile but you can do the same thing with a forget about your ugly face put your best friends so I go oh and then the other guy turns on the Wind he goes twice you saved me today you're my angel my name is Angel campus and I'm proud of that I'm part of being who I am so so uh uh always remember you can always approach things that are going wrong in the world but don't

030ever think that the world the world is bad we can make it better we don't have to take anybody's trash anybody's I'm not defined by anybody's opinion undefined by my lifestyle that's who I am I'm not defined by anybody of you because I don't respond to any of your uh request like like Hebrew National my answer to a higher authority okay and secondly uh today as I was getting ready for this uh my wife calls me that we have this group of nurses that come to church and they help us with the kids and they say there's a little baby a few months old her heart is going down rapidly we need to take it immediately to the to the hospital so I dropped everything that I was doing and me and my wife take

031the mother a little baby and the nine-year-old daughter the hospital but they only let the mother and the baby so here we are with this little girl 90 year old she never met us before she don't know who these two nice good looking people are and and then uh but you have to improve by them what's your name she was Vanessa Vanessa 's comments she was I like fish let's go for fish we go for peace and then I realized my wife says before we go for fish we need to go under her some shoes in some dry clothes because she just crossed the river last night and instead of helping care they broke it into a and I'm also prison looking like Rome that is called as a refrigerator so that's why the little

032girl was sick so we take the little baby and and I could put some shoes some clothing and with eating and then you know how kids are when when their seat is too high they go with the feet she was having fun she's sleeping in my office right now I'm not defined but anybody's opinion I answer to a higher authority that's all I want you to know anything that I do even if I make a mistake I don't feel bad because I try my best if I make a mistake I'll just correct I gotta know because I have to go and pick up the little girl in the hospital but God bless you all thank you thank you Mr Campos that brings us to governing board reports um Miss Ayers we would like to start

033off with you let's go first again what can I say that take away from life because you're on my left and I just looked to my left all the time can I take something from you today again say for you I'm always taking what she wants to say but she takes my stuff too um I just want to say that I hope everybody has a really great um Thanksgiving break a time to be with your families and um make memories so um and enjoy your time thank you thank you Miss Harris Miss McCaleb that was one of mine of mine um enjoy a break use it to rest um also my only other one was um Miss Burgess needs to let me know when there's time for volunteers for Kaboom playground because building one playground

034wasn't enough foreign thank you um I just have three quick things the first one is thank you so much for those families that came and talked about displacing um tomorrow there is a city council meeting at 2 30 you guys can actually sign up online and make public comments after the board meeting I'm gonna stick around for a few minutes if you guys want to know how to go into the website or sign up I'm going to actually go in person and make a public comment on behalf of the families that were here so if anybody else wants to join it's tomorrow at 2 30 in downtown and you have to sign up on the website before 12 30 to be able to make a comment and it's item number zero zero zero just so

035you guys know but like I said you guys can email me or email anybody they'll track me down and I can get that information for you guys um also I just want to I know that Dr Lewis talked a little bit on on it but I just want to re um thank everybody for the campus for getting this override pass the community that actually passed it it's very important all those canvassers that were out there knocking doors I know how hard that is and I really appreciate you guys being out there every single day getting the word out you know there was teachers that I saw out there um I really appreciate you guys you guys do a lot already and to really see you guys out there knocking on these doors really means a

036whole lot just because it really takes how much you care for the school and the students to a whole another level so I appreciate that as well and then the last thing I'm sure a lot of us already know but this really impacts our families as well I am so proud of that prop 308 passed um yes thank you Katie prop 308 for those of you who don't know it gives in-state tuition to any undocumented person and that directly impacts DACA but not only DACA we have other immigrants here as well that are going to benefit from that and they will qualify for financial aid so that is a huge thing so yeah good for that and that ends the governing board reports that brings us to approval of consent I move the governing board

037a brief consenta agenda items a through D in accordance with policy bedb-e all those in favor aye aye aye thank you and that brings us to 6A Junior Ambassador update evening Madam president members of the governor board and Bell members of the executive team it's my privilege this evening to introduce Mr Iman Khan along with students and parents of our Junior ambassadors group who traveled this past summer to Costa Rica we'll be sharing with you some information about the learning from a trip and some thinking about where we're headed next thank you for your patient as we connect is the Moon it's an astronaut with the Moon Madam president members of the board executive team and members of the audience it is my great pleasure to report to you about our Junior Ambassador uh program

038and especially the travel that our students did to Costa Rica on last June a friendly reminder that we're only a few of the districts that have this wonderful program that gives the opportunity to our adventurous Learners and thinkers to have the opportunity to travel to different cultures into different countries and to apply those skills as ambassadors and represent their themselves their families our districts in Arizona to the other countries and so it is with great pleasure that today we're going to report on that trip um and for that I have a group of uh students that are they're pretending they're shy but they're great speakers and amazing ambassadors in two of the wonderful teachers so uh good evening uh we were so excited to get to be part of uh junior ambassadors going to Costa

039Rica and so this is just a small part of all the students that got to participate and we're excited to share all the things that we've got to do good evening thank you for having me here um I'm going to be talking a little bit about the host families I appreciate the opportunity I've had to travel to Costa Rica as an ambassador for the Creighton School District thank you my husband a life-changing experience when I was first introduced to the program I was excited about traveling but unsure about staying with someone I did not know however after talking with my partner Camila about her life in Costa Rica I was confident we were going to get along well it was late when I was arrived so I didn't get to meet the family but the

040next morning I met our family over breakfast which is a little awkward at first however I settled in over the next few days and had a great time with her family and Friends over the days over the next week I met her grandparents her mother and her older brother we had lunch went swimming and went to the mall I was able to hang out with Camila and her friends on multiple occasions we played volleyball went to the beach into the movies by the time the trip was over I really didn't want to come home I had a great time with her family and talked her on a daily basis we hope to see each other soon like my friends I had a wonderful host family experience thank you hi my name is Elle and I'm

041going to be talking about a few of the museums that we went to okay so in Costa Rica we visited it um um many museums all of which we learned a lot about we got to see or what felt like experience their history culture art technology architecture religion and animals my favorite museum that we tour was the national museum of Costa Rica I enjoyed this Museum because it showed me the country's natural and cut cultural heritage or history there we also looked um at exhibits of pre -columbian um pieces in addition to artifacts from The Colony colony and The Early Republic another interesting Museum I was keen on was the Museum of Costa Rican art when you walk into the museum the first thing you see is a sculpture of a woman sitting down this

042piece is called Esperanza which was made in 1980. I like this Museum because it's full of Wood Sculptures and the piece called El Salon Doro Dorado also known as the golden rim this room was not only an impressive and elegant Ram but also told the story of the barucha indigenous people in conclusion I'm really glad we got to visit these museums because I got to learn about um Costa Rica Anna made me appreciate Costa Rica's Beauty even more than I already did thank you good evening sorry um so in Costa Rica Costa Rica is like a very fun trip it was like a great experience and great life like like view you know so one of my favorite Parts was the beach in the pool the beach was so much fun um at the beach

043we played volleyball and you could like see right there um with our teachers and we also swam in the ocean with our teachers and friends and we also play volleyball in the beach in like the water and then the beach was like really clean and the water was really nice it wasn't like too cold it was like perfect temperature so yeah and then we went to the pool afterwards and we had lunch lunch was like really good and then after that we played in the pool the pool had like a water playground and there was a lot of slides so we slowly down the slides and then we played like water polo with um our teachers and our like host families and our friends as you can see um it was so much fun and

044I would love to go again yeah thank you so we were going to talk a little bit about West College um first I do appreciate the opportunity of getting to travel to Costa Rica summer um we spent the first two days at West College which was our host family you know they're the ones that um kind of did it all they helped us with the planning of the um trip sorry um but it was really nice we walked in and it was like a family everyone we met greeted us um they were excited some were excited to use their English with us and some not so much but it was really great to get to meet them our host person just he took us everywhere I can't even you know we didn't sleep so that

045was great we got to see and visit but it was really nice to get in to see their dual language classrooms the teachers were really open the minute we walked in they would stop the classes they had songs that they shared with us um the kids were some were excited to reuse their their English and so they would talk to us in English and the teachers every question we had and we had a lot they would they were gracious and open to allow us to find out what they did in Costa Rica how it was the same um the West College had preschool it started with the babies and so it was nice to get to see them and it was interesting because some kids knew a lot of English and some knew none and

046so it was great to also see that piece and then they go to 11th grade in Costa Rica 11th grade is their last year of high school and then for myself I think one one of the things that I really enjoyed was to get to see our students who are in dual language use their Spanish I was in awe because you know I speak English and so when they talk to me they're always speaking in English but to get to see them and talk to in Spanish to their host families they were part of the classroom it was really joy to get to see that piece um I too am thankful that I was able to go to Costa Rica with the students um I've been a part of Junior ambassadors for a very long

047time first as a parent and now as a teacher in a liaison so it's gone full circle for me um West College was so welcoming we got there they had an assembly for us to welcome us there the classes had special presentations during the assembly they even provided each of the students and US teachers with gift bags that had little trinkets from their school in their little hats pins and snacks um they immediately they would feed us breakfast they fed us lunch and they just really engulfed us in their culture of their school of a family and that was just amazing to see we were able to visit almost all of the classrooms from preschool all the way up to high school and it was really interesting and seeing their lessons we're like oh we

048do that we do that and then oh that's interesting I really like seeing that in the classroom and the teachers were very open and having us there it was nice to have all windows open very few lights turned on it was just very open air like and um the campus was just beautiful it was just really really nice to get a different perspective of the different kind of school and what they had to offer and how like Creighton is trying to make a family community within each of our schools and to see how that really works and another school that has um maintained that type of community for a very long time even though it is a private school so it was really nice and our students really did enjoy being in different classrooms they

049got to see it was their end of their quarter so they got to see some of their reviews for their projects their reviews for their exams and then also they got to be a part of their little fiestas for the end of the quarter so that was really nice and we even had Miss Sabah and I um one of their students took our heart and he was just so nervous for his exams and he came up to us and he was just like I leave it up to God that he helps me get through this exam and he was so nervous about it but it was really sweet that he trusted us enough as newcomers to share that with us and share his anxiety so West College is a great sister school um for this

050program they did very well with their hosting and very well in just planning the end the trip for us as you can tell there was lots of learning that transcends from books and from the classroom what a great experience for our students and for our teachers but now I want to also invite one of our parents so they can give their perspective as a parent Miss Broderick governing board president um superintendent Community member staff and students so as a parent I'd like to share my perspective on the experience that my daughter had the opportunity to go through I thought it was great from the application process we didn't even know what to expect but to have to collect two letters of reference from community members or people that are not your members of your family

051was really impressive and I honestly don't even remember when I completed my first application for anything I think is when I went for my first job so the fact that these kids got the opportunity to go through that process and interview that they were interviewed for the process which was great and then having to commit to something I remember it was a year-long process so having to join um through WebEx unfortunately a lot of their meetings were online through WebEx just because of the nature of what we were going through at the time they still learned and and remembering going through when I have that meeting that's right but it's that determination they had to persevered through it they had to learn they had to connect with their members from Costa Rica so they got

052to meet them online before they went they also did a little uh about me to get paired up and partnered with a host family that would be a good fit for them so that was a big part of the experience as well but just overall the experience that they're going to have for forever and and to be a global citizen to understand that there is the way that school operates in another country or in another place and to be able to meet kids from other places and communicate with them was just something that was amazing to see and I think it has helped them develop as leaders in their community and and what the term means a junior Ambassador being an ambassador not only for their school but the district I will say they also

053made friends with the students from other schools which brought the Creighton family even closer together one thing as a parent I would I would like to just share with you all and for you to consider um I've had the privilege of of working with districts Elementary School Districts across the State of Arizona and I haven't seen anything like it so I would like to consider or you to consider to continue this as long as possible and then also consider finding ways to fund it for students that maybe don't have that Financial the financial means to be able to to join even though there was a significant amount of fundraising that they did it didn't cover all costs and so any student in the Creighton School District that really wants to be a part of this

054program an opportunity I would love to to have them be a part of it and and there should be no barriers so thank you for letting me share my experience as a parent and I hope that other future parents get the same experience for their children thank you Miss Broderick I could have not say it uh better and so there were many things that um that we're using to expand our adventure into just like means products said to expand the opportunity for all the students that are interested so some of the things that we're doing we're using some of the federal pandemic relief funds that being the priority for beyond the school enrichment opportunities for the students so we are covering using answer funds salary for teachers providing the classes for Union Ambassador for Costa

055Rica we also are covering with the pandemic relief funds the salaries for the teachers providing classes and Adventures for novice and Nomads novice Nomads it's a second program that all of the students that are in second grade to fifth grade they can participate in they explore different cultures every quarterly they have a different different country and a different language that they learn about and they celebrate with either uh some handcrafts or something that they if that is traditional for black country and then also the materials Nomads we also collaborate with the creative foundation and other partners for fundraising and so anybody who is needing assistance we use those donations to pay for it there's always and we're never enough money to do this and so the more ways that we can find to find and

056to remove all of the barriers for all of our families to being able to participate and experience that we're all outside Arizona that's our major goal and at this time we would like to say thank you for your attention and if you have any questions for our ambassadors um the only question I have is like when you guys go get hosted by the families do you actually spend the night with the families and you're there how long were you guys with the families for nine nine okay nice okay cool you guys didn't miss your bed home just kidding that's scary any questions yeah I have a few questions how many um students participated in this trip in this in this trip there were six students participating um was is West College in San Jose yes

057okay and so which beach what West college did was they um got they with a travel company so the travel company had both a nurse that was with us the full time that we traveled with students there was the bus driver who was part of that team okay so it was like an Excursion to the beach kind of okay um hold on I have a couple of questions and comments um um um I because you guys did experience that outdoor school um I know what you're talking about like I would love somehow to have them connected with the design committee so that they can kind of share what that experience is when we have days like today I mean it's a little chilly today but I mean just to have windows open and have fresh

058air flowing through classrooms is just you know it's just so nice in Arizona to be able to do that when the weather is nice so I'd love for you guys to share that experience and and just share how how awesome that feeling was and just what it meant to you with our design committee who's building you know a new school so if we could make that happen somehow that would be really cool um and I I Echo Miss broderick's um request we always want to make this program Equitable to all students um Mr carbajal you mentioned Creighton Foundation is it Creighton Community Foundation correct okay yeah there so I know that um he really wants to be able to help with fundraising for junior ambassadors so there's lots of opportunity there and we have tax

059credits I really I 100 want this opportunity available to all of our students and I just always want to try to expand it as much as possible um so one of my questions is how are we doing anything different to get the word out because I think this is still like a little secret not everyone knows about it you know well so our coordinator who's actually traveling in Egypt right now that's uh which is with Ruth Allen she does a very good job of going to all of the schools finding the Liaisons and then through the liaisins uh each teacher uh expresses the middle school students and every student who is interested to recruit we hold different meetings to families and everybody who's interested and then many many families they have different um situations for

060some is an inability to get a passport and then they travel that so there's interest that is reality of getting a passport for some others they start the program and then in the middle something happens and then they say sorry we cannot go but we're always trying to do the tax credits we always do the fundraising with our partners the fundraisings that they do in collaboration with student council in PTO and then the current Community Foundation has been a great partner they're actually it's Jeff world if you're watching thank you because of all of the support that they do they have provided all of the materials and supplies for no business uh materials really fast great um and just thank you to the Liaisons and chaperones and students great presentation thank you very much thank

061you that brings us to the crane Academy update thank you madam president once again members of the board executive team welcome to uh actually to our students who are leading the presentation tonight they are going to allow Ms Cartier to be a part of it but this is a fully student facilitated student-led conversation this evening my chair watch your head good evening members of the board executive team and cabinet my name is Emerson and I'm Paisley we've brought our principal Miss carty and a great team to tell you what has been going on at the Creighton Academy after school this year we have four goals and tonight you'll hear about our progress on each one our first goals in the area of academics and it's the one you'll hear about the most tonight first I'd

062like to be talking about gifted and talented I enjoy going because it gives a challenge the first thing we do is a warm-up for example a picture times a picture equals a number or a picture times a number equals another picture right now we're working on ecosystems they pick an animal we research it all that stuff now I have mixed Kennedy our instructional coach here to share about our team leads when it comes to academics the first way we support students is by supporting our teachers that's why I'm so excited to be the instructional coach at the Creighton Academy however in order for them to get as much support as they need and deserve it's important for us to build capacity through our team leaders because of the strong commitment and ownership of our school

063this year we have four team leaders who are supporting our teachers they work in tandem with me hi I'm email I'm Imani Yang and I'm in the Cardinals cubby I love being at a multi-age school because I get to work with kids that are older and younger than me all the time I also really get what I need academically during our walk to what you need time so during math I walked to miss Lewis's class with about half of my class and half of them stay in the class and we learned fifth grade math even though that I'm actually a fourth grader it helps me push my brain because next year I'll have even harder stuff our teachers give us progress reports are our teachers give us progress reports every month just so we can

064see what we have to work on and what we are good at the science of reading has evolved from a wide spread of research design experimental method participants and statistical analysis this conclusive research provides us with the information we need to get a deeper understanding of how we learn to read and what skills are involved and how they work together and which parts of the brain are responsible for our reading here is a short clip of a person second grade class implementing the science reading cute people so it was a little bit quiet but um what's happening in there are the kids are coaching each other on that phonics based instruction okay so I'm going to talk a little bit about our dual language program um we're really in our infancy stages of the development

065of our dual language program and so we have two major goals this year the first one is that our teachers who are teaching in Spanish are remaining in their target language and not doing any translation or breaking of that Spanish throughout the duration of the teaching and then the second one is really implementing some strong verbal scaffolding techniques because our goal is to have kids talking for at least 50 percent of the time and teachers talking for at least 50 of the time and so they do that through things like repeating oral response something called total physical response where kids have actions that go with the movements and then think pair share so I'm going to show you a quick video of one of our kindergarten teachers Dr Valdez it's a little bit hello I

066am Marcus and I'm part of the Ravens coffee because we're a project-based learning school our each month we do a project about each month we do a project about a variety of topics during our first month of school we did a project about Bo is going to have to do with the state of matter and the Living Museum and I am really excited to learn about that our next goal is in the area of social emotion we want all kids to be strong self managers and have entertain high levels of autonomy this year we really added more after school programs including Playmakers soccer volleyball scan for school and YMCA Playmakers an after-school program that keeps you active throughout the rest of the day it has group activities such as ping pong pool basketball baseball football

067and and many more not only does it keep us moving but we learn leadership skills like Integrity which is doing the right thing when nobody's looking we also have skate after school which is I was part of last year I learned I learned skills like helping other people when they fell and standing back up each time I fell it was tricky but I finally mastered being able to ride a skateboard we also have lots of leadership opportunities during the school day we have principal advisory committee morning announcements crew Battle of the books and Kinder leaders I just started Bible books this year because card accounted forced me but I really liked the book I'm reading for Miss Mary I love being a part of t-shirt because it teaches affect us and you have great opportunities

068for the future next up Hayes will talk to you about family engagement circle is around family engagement we want 90 of our families to participate at RTC activities this year this year our parents volunteered and worked with the school to plan and participate in many events both my parents are very involved my mom was the second uh the treasurer of the PTO she's always making stuff at home for example she had another PTR members made bags full of goodies to give to Our Guest teachers to welcome them when they substitute at our school um my mom also attended a meeting called like aptt when she was there she learned all about my progress in Reading in that and she received activity she could do at home opening my dad attends Community Council which is a

069big meeting where they said need to talk about news that and events that involved the district they're busy I told you my parents were very involved because our fourth goal is around Health wellness and safety during fire drills we all go over to the grass area which is away from the building during lockdowns our teachers put us in rooms and we hide sometimes it's kind of scary but it's good that we practice it just in case it was in a real emergency we know exactly what to do and where to go now I'm going to let Miss Cartier finish out the presentation our kids are quick Round of Applause they did a fabulous job much better than I would talking about all of the great things about TCA and of course um in real life

070we're never without our challenges and so I would say that our top challenges this year um has been Staffing the Arizona teacher shortage absolutely hit us hard um and we just had three teachers we are now fully stuffed exciting um but we just had three teachers enter in the past month and so our instructional coaches uh coach has been working like crazy as well as our team leads to get everybody caught up to speed but it makes it difficult um the Second Challenge and also benefit is that we added a hundred kids to our rosters this year which is so exciting we're a growing school people want to come and see us um and it was it was a challenge because they all seem to come in like in mid Late July which then added

071Staffing and things like that however the benefit is that we were a little bit afraid adding that many kids to a small school might kind of rock culture but I remember being up here with you last year saying we focus so strongly on community and culture and it seemed to really pay off those kids were quickly embraced into into our community our kids who had been here for a while um taught them the Creighton Academy way and we're we're a good family now um and the third challenge is the new math adoption again huge positive we're so excited that we have materials that are in Spanish and that our teachers have materials that are at a rigorous level and with any time you do something the first time you're kind of fumbling through it and

072figuring it out for the first time and the teachers have to really get into it and get to know it and use it as it's written and now in second semester they're able to say oh you know what I can make this piece more Hands-On I can make this piece more engaging so those are kind of our top challenges and as we look to the Future um we we are committed to our goals we will hold tight to the goals that we've already set for ourselves the main one being academics this year so we want to continue to expand our collegial coaching with our team leads really having them model lessons take teachers into other rooms coach teachers on the spot um continue at those high levels of verbal Scaffolding in both our English and

073our Spanish classes and really add on that element of Hands-On Interactive Learning we know we can't do everything well all at once so we take these baby steps and we're ready for those next baby steps we'll continue our commitment to the social emotional Wellness of all of our kids and when we say all we always mean all of our kids we have a tracking system for our levels of autonomy to kind of see how our kiddos are progressing through those collaborative conversations with their teachers and then we are going to continue with our family engagement we have two more aptt meetings this year we had a great turnout at the first set we'll continue to track that data and we'll make sure we add on even more of those fun events that really bring the

074culture and Community together so that's all from me our kiddos are ready for your questions and so am I just uh wanted to just a comment I think um you know you had talked about the The Challenge and like we bring a lot of kids in um and I've heard nothing but good things I felt like everything I've heard from staff um from parents and students has been positive and that you've been able to take this school that was a concept and an idea and started in a pandemic and and still come so far the growth has just been huge and being able to see all of those Visions really come to life and being able to refine all of that has been really amazing to watch so and the kids were amazing you guys

075were awesome like Jeffrey yeah um what is your current enrollment our current enrollment is uh 3 40 that's without our preschool students so probably um 352 soon to become 354 right now and what is the highest grade level this year seventh grade okay um when I visited a couple years ago is right when we were coming out of the pandemic there was I know there were noise issues um has that been remedied is it um I'll let the I'll let Miss Kennedy Miss Kennedy is joining us from Biltmore Preparatory Academy from last year and so this was her first time with an open design what are your thoughts on them please yeah I mean at first I thought the same thing like how is the noise going to be with an open learning environment but

076every time I'm walking through the hallways it's very quiet the kids are working and it's also nice because I came from a traditional school with you know um a door and everything and the way that the open learning environment is presented it feels very open very like flowing kids can go and they can sit in different areas so I am very impressed with the way that it has turned out um so this is I hear this from not from different all schools I guess um but we talk a lot about project um based learning but still hearing from parents there's a lot of worksheets coming home for for homework so um how does that contribute towards um project-based learning um are we trying to get away from that um thoughts on that yes thank you

077madam president members of the board um great question we never you know worksheets are really not something that we want to be using um in lieu of that Hands-On learning um at our school we actually don't send home homework so hopefully no parents are saying they're seeing seeing that come home however um I I would say that there's definitely we we can do better we can expand more we can do less iPads we can do less paper and more things in their hand and that's really we have a principal advisory committee with parents who advise me um once a month and then our students and they're constantly giving me feedback I mean everybody's giving me feedback but um they specifically are in place to do that and um that actually was brought up just at

078the last meeting you know we feel like I want to see even more Hands-On and of course we do too because that is the huge Drive of the school and so that's why it's such a huge priority coming up in second quarter um we really you know I told you last year we were laying that culture and community and then we had to lay the basics of academics in this first quarter and now we're laying that okay now what what else can we teach you because the hard part is that some of our teachers are coming in without education degrees and so to say here here's everything about classroom management and running a class and basic instructional pedagogy and also Hands-On learning they're just their brains aren't quite ready and so we coach all of

079our teachers at different levels and you you that's what you'll see as you walk around there are some teachers who have fully embraced an inquiry-based teaching approach and they're playing card games with their kids yet they're reading and then there are other teachers who are brand new babies and we're learning the basics but second semester um that is our huge Focus and I know you have you do have a lot of brand new teachers um and I'm I'm concerned um about curriculum with the Dual language constructionists constructionism um multi-age do you have differentiated curriculum to address these this vision of your school um because I know in the past Biltmore was working for a while without um a Spanish curriculum specifically for the Spanish Immersion that was something that um we kind of missed I

080think for a few years so I want to make sure that we're addressing that and that you are empowered to have the curriculum that you need and want and and how can the Board District leadership helps support your teachers um because they do have so much to learn and we want to make sure that we're following the vision of the school being a president members of the board thank you so much for the question Miss McStuff free um so first we're very grateful to our sister School Bill Moore prep for being the Front Runners on the Dual language piece of things because we don't have to fight for any of that um they did the leg work for it so we have the Dual language piece and we're just because we're in our infancy stages

081we really use them as a model for that with that area um when it comes to our district adopted curriculum resources we are able to use them um this past summer we saw the same problem and my instructional coach who is still working on Consulting with us 10 hours a week Samantha wrote us we sat together and we said okay we have to make this work work for multi-age because we can't try and fit this square peg in the round hole so she worked like crazy and actually created Curriculum maps based on our district Curriculum maps so that we could use some of the district resources and still be making sure that we had our goals in mind so I do feel fortunate um could we always use more curriculum resources in the future yes

082and saying that kind of scares me because I'm like we just are getting used to this one right so right um adding is the plan for next year to add 8th grade it is the plan if we didn't MJ would be very upset Ms Harris do you have anything I just I loved your presentation it was very unique and I loved that the kids did most of the speaking thank you students and I also want to thank you for coming back and um being able to share with us this time so thank you for coming yes thank you um I do have one question and it's on the open design how are we working with the safety part of it I know that in an open design it's kind of scary if we were to

083have something happen in the school what safety Protocols are we doing since we can't shut doors and make a safe space how how is that being handled at Creighton Academy yes Madam president members of the board thank you so much for the question Miss Korea doll um that's actually something that's on our family's mind it's on my mind um it's on everyone's mind and we hate that it is but it is and so um we I have been working since our school open with uh Mr Mann and Mr Wells and are some detectives in the police department and the police department we have walked campus on a number of occasions and we look and we say okay what what if all the what if scenarios um which make us feel good because we were able

084to together construct some pretty solid plans as far as a lockdown situation typically um in our schools we have we have situations that we would refer to as almost lock out situations there might be something going on you know pretty far from us that is not a threat to us but we just make sure our exterior doors are locked and in in that aspect everything is is perfect at the Creighton Academy and then when it comes to a lockdown situation you know everyone says what what happens if you have no doors and I can't stand up here and tell you like every single in and out um of exactly what room everyone goes to but we do practice on a regular basis um and all of our kids are definitely behind closed doors during that

085time um so yes and we continue to refine it Mr man's right here next to me all the time and he is walking and working with me all the time on this situation okay I appreciate that and lastly um I'm a parent at the Creighton Academy and it's a wonderful experience there I love the PTO that we have I actually have the PTO president back here and she's amazing in everything that she does and Miss Cartier props to you too for being so open and allowing you know parents and for us to be so engaged um it's funny that you said that because in in with Grecia she brings a lot of worksheets home take to take take home Tuesdays is when she brings all the stuff and now at the Creighton Academy we have

086seesaw going on so when that paper instructional is not going home you can actually see everything through seesaw and what they're doing and I get their worksheets all the time so even though it's not being brought home parents have access to seeing what's actually being done on the iPads and seesaw is a great way because I get to see my daughter's work so I just want to thank you guys and thank you the teachers and everybody at that school because it's amazing so I'm president I'd like to add that we have International visitors coming to the school we've had State leaders coming to the school we have local neighboring districts spying on our school because they are so envious oh yeah and that's one other thing I wanted to point out that the Arizona School

087Board association's Maricopa County meeting actually happened at the Creighton Academy so anywhere in Maricopa County they could have gone to any of these schools and they chose the Creighton Academy maybe I had a little bit to do with that but it was one of the schools that the state organization recognized and went there and had the meeting so when people walk out inspired and the last group that came was from Japan Australia Spain Sweden Norway England and Uvalde Texas we're so lucky we have tours all the time and the great thing is actually with our open design our kids know that they're here and they answer questions and then they keep learning so they're very used to having visitors walk around yeah thank you guys to the kids you guys did an amazing job tonight

088I she has a follow-up question follow-up questions the homework thing not having homework when how recent is that it's been since our Inception okay um okay I love it yeah um do you get pushback from any church best practices on it and um you know we do some some families really want homework right and then some it's I mean it depends on who you ask because some are so grateful that they may have come from a school with homework and they love that they don't have to fight that at home and the kids can be at school at school and at home at home so and I assume if they want extra resources to work on Spanish or something you there's a way for them to find that yes okay yes and how are the

089gardens going like the outdoor well actually um I didn't realize our PTO precedent is here so hi Nicole we're so glad you're here um she's been a great front runner in helping to get the gardens off the ground um Justin Moody Who is the his title Garden supervisor District landscape manager and he's been amazing as well as Gary hunsaker and so but but I will tell you we our Gardens needed some work to actually start planting in the garden so PTO Nicole rounded up all the PTO members I think um Miss Korea doll was out there and they were like making sure I don't know much about Garden so please forgive me um but they had to raise some lines and add some soil so that it could be watered probably so anyway it's not

090going quite yet because but we have a plan and we have a date that it will be going right I mean if they take constant maintenance right so thank you very much everyone thank you guys so much that brings us to item C Papago School update continuing the theme of student-led conversations we have the ongoing work at Papago School to be shared by our students and supported by some of their teachers and staff all right good evening Madam president members of the board and executive team my name is Sylvia Earl and I'm the very proud Panther principal our students staff and Community have worked so to synthesize this presentation which showcases our school through the lens of our district and our school goals okay here we go I'd like to introduce our presenters tonight we

091have Miss uh we have a perspective of students and staff presenting tonight I'm Miss Casey and ask your assistant principal Arthur Gonzalez student Leila Rojas Marisol Figueroa Luna Chase Glenn Catherine Rodman Jaime Cortez there you go Mr Bowman he's going to be joining us through video Miss Carol Miss Willis and Willis and Sarah Greg and we have to leave but she is here thank you for being here was Greg and Mr Washington and those who are not presenting but we're in uh in very important members of our team who helped us put this together army games and Miss Lopez right back there as well so it was a big team effort so we like uh Dr Lewis mentioned are very proud but also be careful with our our understanding of our school letter grade that

092we have a letter b and we're very excited about um we are also mindful though that we have some areas of growth to um as well we'd like to highlight that our students made tremendous growth last year in our first full year in person and I'd like to highlight that we earned almost all possible points in the categories of growth we had 47.78 out of 50 possible and an El proficiency growth amend growth we had 9 out of 10 points we also qualified for the 16 points in the acceleration and Readiness and we earned the maximum points which was 10 points so we really are proud of our letter grade because we know that so much of it came from our growth and that coming back after the pandemic that it was a pretty big

093deal but I'd also like to show you that we're not unaware of our areas of need and our proficiency so I wanted to show you this as well this graph shows grade levels where we made significant growth last year in proficiency and also informs us to continue working toward moving more students to Proficiency in all grades especially in the Middle grades here fourth and fifth grade then in math High proficiency graph shows us that all grade levels made growth last year and some grades made significant growth in proficiency rate it also tells us that we need to continue this growth path in order to move again more students to proficiency so we have taken on this shared intention that we've been saying keep going keep growing that we're not giving up just because we got

094the letter grade of B that we are going to keep going our efforts aren't stopping towards all of our students grow and all of our students achieve so our goals this year were to focus on social emotional learning high expectations for Learning and access diversity equity and inclusion so I'd like to welcome Miss noskey to speak about our social emotional evening our team has grown dramatically over the past few years we've been able to add an SEL teacher an advocate and a child advocate support professional as this team has grown so has our ability to reach more students and support more staff and adults with social emotional learning we have several students here tonight to talk to you about our student leadership program overseen by our Advocate Isaiah Washington and SEL teacher Venus Lopez our

095first student speaker is Arthur Gonzalez to speak about the Panther Way leadership is a class that allows students to become an active leader in our school Community it also taught us to follow the panther way because some kids look up to us so we have to set a good example for them the other way is to be safe be kind be respectful and be responsible Mr Washington has shown me how to follow the panther way because sometimes I can I can get off track and he talks to me about it also we help kids in different activities helping them read helping them with math and helping them with things they need help with I like working with kids and helping them because I think it's good for them to learn more one day I made

096a choice to help a little kid that Mr Washington was helping and I asked the little kid if he wanted to make a paper pumpkin with me and that made me feel good because Mr Washington was so proud of me and I felt good after that next up is Leila Rojas to speak about behavior supports leadership has helped me change my behaviors I'm still in progress and treating my behavior one of my teachers that I used to give attitude to I am now able to listen and communicate with the teacher I have been able to participate in the classroom because I feel more comfortable now that my teachers take their time with me the way I have been able to change my behaviors is by Mr Washington helping me and guiding me Mr Washington gave

097me a strategy to think before I do something I think before I speak I think before I Horse Around I have kept myself in control when people have tried to get on my nerves and it could have started a fight but I control myself and I chose to go down to the office where I felt stuff where I felt safe to talk I am now able to communicate with my teachers instead of getting frustrated right now I'm working on my behavior around students I can get a little carried away but I haven't approved myself Luna will now talk about how leadership has helped to make positive changes leadership has changed me so much one reason that it has changed me is because I did not like working I did not like working with kids I

098did like little kids I used to never be patient with kids now that I've been working with kids I realize that kids aren't that bad they would listen to me when I asked him to I will explain things to them and they would listen Mr Washington made me realize that little kids aren't that bad this program has helped me by being patient with little kids at first I did like little kids but ever since Mr Washington gave me a chance on leadership I've been working with kids and I will continue working with them because it's amazing lastly we had we will have Chase Glenn share about our as yeah support um when I first started this new school a little scary because I didn't have anybody to talk to and my behavior wasn't the best

099as I tried to make new friends most of the time when I was about to do something disruptive or destructive in the halls or anywhere else besides classmates so Washington was there to guide me in the right direction working with Mr Washington is has also helped me in all sorts of ways helping me with my not so great actions and my academic goals and how I am going to reach them I'm now on a behavior contract to go on a trip in June to Costa Rica via the student ambassadors and Mr Washington and his assistant have helped me not just become a better student but a better person overall next I'm going to talk about some of our ways that we've had high expectations for learning which is our academic goal this year so one

100of the things that our special Area Teachers are doing is they are hosting thematic units for throughout all of the special area classes so that students get Interactive Learning focused on the countries that are participating in the World Cup this year the World Cup is generating a lot of excitement and so the teachers wanted to capitalize on that and teach them about the different countries through music art research and then have Spang some soccer tournaments during PE and here is a small video of our sixth graders playing a Korean folk song on the xylophones foreign in December all of our students will have an opportunity to showcase all of they that they've learned through this quarter with a week-long showcase um of all of their talents um the next way we've had high expectations is

101through our integration of thinking maps um and here to talk about thinking maps in math is Jaime Cortez a third grader to talk about how he uses them for scholarly discussion in math class I in math class we do a lot of partner talk collaboration I like it because it helps us teach each other when we are stuck I'd like to help my friends and teach them one strategy we use for where problems is a base map it makes word problems more doable um thinking maps provide our students a vertical language K8 so they can use them in all content areas so uh the brace map is one way they're using it in math um in Middle School particularly our history and science teachers are using them to break down complex Concepts and in reading

102and writing our teachers and students are using them to decode text and to create excellent writing projects we also have a lot of enrichment opportunities for students this year and all those marked with a star are ones that are new this year particularly added to support the Middle grades and give them more enrichment opportunities after school we have more than ever before and we're really excited with all of the different avenues that we've been able to enrich students um next I will show a video of Mr Tanner Bowman one of our third grade teachers who is participating in several of these enrichment opportunities all right before the students hi my name is Tanner Bowman I'm a third grade teacher at papa doe some of the ways that I have supported students this year is there

103are three field trips with a musical instrument museum providing after-school tutoring as well as bringing an animal preserve shows through campus for third to sixth grade students I've also helped run the yearbook club with new cameras that I've gotten some donuts to choose next I would like to introduce these apparel our effective students to talk about family learning thank you hi my name is Tanner Bowman we recently had our family learning night families were each given individual data sheets customized with their students data teachers were available to answer questions and provide supplemental resources and suggestions for families to improve student learning and growth at home next I would like to introduce Jen Willis to talk about our school's access diversity equity and inclusion goals um access diversity equity and inclusion have been a really big

104part of our year this year and I'd like to introduce one of our teachers Miss Sarah Greg who's going to share a little bit more about some of our initiatives hi I'm Sue Gregg and this is my 13th year teaching first grade at Papago um this year I asked to join the equity committee mostly because I'm interested in being part of the name exploration conversations we are determining if our current school name upholds our district values of equity and diversity we are in a stage of gathering input from all of our stakeholders last year we gained input from students in our Middle School grades currently we are working with our middle school students and student council to relay information to our Elementary School students introduce Mr Isaiah Washington uh in addition to the work that

105we're already doing next week we will have the youth Equity stewardship program for our fifth grade students students will have the opportunity to participate in workshops that will help support their identity self-confidence and learning and how to create a more positive cohesive School community at this time I will turn it back to principal Earl thank you so as you can see we're very proud of what we've have done last year and what we've already started this year and we're really excited to continue forward on this path and like to open up the floor rings for additional questions or comments you have for our staff and students who are very nice thank you for having us thank you any questions or comments Jeffrey what's your current enrollment um and I just want to make a comment

106excellent job um leadership students um first um I really appreciate the self-reflection that you've done that's a really adult thing to do um and just focusing on working to improve your behavior is admirable and I just kudos to you guys good job I'm I'm really you make me proud okay and Miss Earl just some questions since we're going to be talking about the naming policy um up next um can you just kind of talk about how the process has been for you it seems like it has been very thorough which can be a burden I I you know but um I also think getting Community voice especially for Papago is really important um how do you feel like the policy and the process has been has it been burdensome has it been helpful to get

107community voice absolutely I I think I consider myself a pretty inclusive leader and I really do want to hear additional voices and it's it's easier to make decisions but I know um and be a part of that process when I know what others are thinking and and to bring those points again I'm really happy to be leading this and to be a part of this I feel honored actually and I to have brought on this uh Willis and Mr Washington on the equity team now they're taking over that part of it and so it's just been really nice to kind of spread that leadership among our school and then also to bring the student voice in the younger student where we started with just middle school with really nice to expand and try to continue

108that on yes it was a little challenging in my first year as principal so this year um we're trying to do it a little bit differently and also dig a Little Deeper so that we can make sure we are making the right steps but yes it would be great if the policy had some other options in there as well so thank you for considering that as well thank you um just a huge thank you students you did wonderfully um I want to just expand on what Miss mcshuffrey said I really felt in your words that you guys are showing that you're empowered to really do that deep reflection and I know I'm sure this is just a small sampling of students Mr Washington to hear their words about you um I'm sure you are but

109be proud of yourself and and all of the staff at Papago um because that that takes a lot of work to get to a point where students can look that Inward and and really recognize their growth and their progress um and how it impacts not just the people around them but how it impacts them for the future so that's really really powerful um and I just really great job all of you I want to Mr Washington in my school [Laughter] you have friends [Laughter] thank you students kill you I'm a teacher little kids don't do it looks hilarious um I don't have anything other thank you so much and thank you so much for the students and the families that were here today we appreciate you sharing your babies with us that brings us to

110my computer just good so what's up okay that brings us over to 10A proposed revisions to governing board policy FF naming facilities second reading and possible adoption I think the only tweak that we heard from you last round was that we wanted the governing board piece fitted in there and I was reviewing it actually with Ms mcshephry earlier and Hilda reminded me why it wasn't underlined Ms mcsheffrey uh because it was in the original so it remains so I I was like oh yeah that needs to be underlined but indeed it's just remaining from before okay so that's the only tweak we've made from your feedback from first read and it would be our recommendation if you're satisfied to move forward with a motion to approve I would like for us to take one more

111meeting and the only reason why is because giving that the community input is very important I would like the policy to reflect that but also I did reach out to asba and I have not gotten back a response well I am going to have somebody was out um during sickness so I would at least like to feel comfortable enough to get their response and then by the next meeting we can um go through the revisions that they they have as well and somehow adding that the community be be part um I think this advisory committee must must publicize the requests and input from the school and Community I think that's kind of important especially with what um Mr Earl was saying so I just would hope that we table this that we can talk about

112it last time one week at asba feedback and maybe include a little bit making sure that the community is always or that we a notice is given to the community and somehow that way they have an opportunity to input their opinions as well some problem so we'll add a phrase about Community input and run it by you and then you'd like a third read after you get asba yes we'll bring it back then if that's the will of the board to just table it for now well yeah it'll be brought back for the third read so I was gonna say like we're still allowed to discuss it um I agree I think the the first like two chunks that are crossed out is fine crossed out but yeah something along the lines of the paragraph

113for the advisory committee like I think the language in that paragraph is good and gets at that Community piece my only other piece is the sentence we brought back about the governing board I like the second half of it like I think the governing board needs to approve the final name decision I'm not really a fan of the governing board has the authority to name or rename a school like that part by itself like I don't think it should ever come just from a board if that makes sense and maybe that's just my interpretation of the sentence but to me it makes more sense to say you know the governing word like you know and it kind of goes down into the advisory committee you know has the authority to accept the recommendation and writing

114to name a rename like we have the final Authority but I don't and I I would like input from my fellow board members I think it's strange to be like the governing board has the authority to name a school like no that goes against the community input yeah I see what you're saying now um I think if you add the community input being a required part of the policy then you're that it's not just the governing board that can come and say we're going to change the name but it just as a border and you're contradicting like so this is me being a grammar nerd so that sentence the governing board has the authority to name a rename the school or portion of the facility that is an independent clause before the next part of

115or to accept recommendation so I'm saying why do we need that first part because if you're going to have parts of the policy that require Community input the board would never just create the name does that yes um do this if you are able to send an email with that that way I can reflect that and send it to asba 2 with recommendations and if you guys have them so I can kind of send all those together and see what we can come up with the final read once that read comes through I can send it over to Hilda and I'll have her share with everybody else just in case anybody else has any questions or anything and I'll make sure that gets done by then before the next meeting so we'll have two weeks

116to kind of toss all around the emails and just from a historical three weeks that's right we'll do it okay okay we'll do and just from a historical perspective I was just wondering why we're changing it um but there was a reason why and I just it does the whole board know why that is done why this was changed to begin with no do you have this perspective and so he didn't have a quality of that way and so um okay so this precedes an asba policy yes okay all right yeah this is why I think it's like we want the input of what does asba have Wednesday you know like is keyboard yeah they require us showing agenda items okay statutorily yeah um okay and yeah I just I mean I like I do

117like the community input part and I like calling out Community member student you know I don't what is a member at large if you have a Community member already like parent no principal and then staff members you know so I like calling out so that we don't exclude student voice right or a Community member that's all okay yeah so I'll go ahead and do that and I'll be in touch with you Hilda um as it starts coming around any other um comments no okay that brings us to 11a Future agenda items um Miss Jeffrey do you have any future agenda items I would like for us to add the mobile home displacement um just for us to talk about that to see if there if we could submit a letter to Mayor Gallego or what

118would be a good thing for us to do so I think the city council's hearing on it tomorrow so it might be too late for us to do something by next meeting um but yeah uh a resolution would have been nice or I'm gonna go over there tomorrow and kind of I can give you guys a feedback to see what happens but I think it's too late which is unfortunate but on the off chance here on it tomorrow and I think we should because that's what he was saying so yeah I think if we get together and make sure we send something to city council members and um the mayor on how this displacement is affecting your families I think that would send you know some kind of message to them but yeah because he

119said it's happening to all the mobile parks and just having it as an agenda item for us to discuss like as this comes up what is in our power and what okay well we can specifically also talk about the McKinney Dental component though yeah that one that one doesn't kick in until they're actually displaced though right there's nothing yeah I figured so we're just trying to figure out how to keep them in our schools yeah but sorry I I she's like she's giving me the stop talking about it then okay it's not on the agenda but to add it thank you perfect um Miss McCaleb any other future agenda items okay no and none from me either so that brings us to our last I move the governing board adjourn not those in favor Miss

120Ayers myself I'm perfect thank you guys have a great night