001that's hold on just refreshed okay so i'm still logged in okay did i miss something did you get it is that an email no no just yeah you should be okay i'm not quite sure what it is all right good evening at this time i'd like to call the regular meeting of the diesel unified school district governing board to order let the record reflect that all board members are present please stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right we'll move to item b address the governing board audience with individuals with chefine this is the time for the public to comment members of the board
002may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda pursuant to ars 38-431.01 action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter responding to any criticism or scheduling the matter for further consideration and decision at a later date in order to facilitate accomplishing the business of the district in a timely manner a time limit of three minutes will be imposed for each individual or group addressing the board when you approach the podium please state your name for the record we have jennifer tanner my name is jennifer tanner in may i filed a public records request in conjunction with the freedom of information act for emails between dysart governing board members and the previous superintendent dr quinn kellis myself and a previous board member bonnie
003schroeder have read and reread these records and plan to share them with the public there are multiple things discovered thus far giving us great reason for concern emails of board members disagreeing and willing to deviate from the opinion of the attorney general and dysart's own legal counsel emails asking administration if they can hire individuals who helped contribute to their own campaign emails asking administration to stop responding to particular parent complaints proof of going outside a policy to gather information on staff members emails that encourage call to the public for some and discourage others proof of blatant disregard of disre of district policies proof of conflicts of interest that are not disclosed emails where a board member asked the district to consider contributing funds to their own child's team to attend an out-of-state competition and later
004acknowledge her extraordinary experience as dr kalas utilized some of his budget to contribute to the cost of travel proof of confusing parent and board member roles multiple times proof of directing employees and intervening on particular issues by cutting steps outlined in policy a big concern for me is some of these public records were not included in my original request emails existed that i didn't receive upon upon the first time i've had to come back to the district two additional times for these missing emails in this it was discovered there was a fault in the system although the records department has worked extremely hard to figure out the issue it is concerning and does not instill public confidence and transparency interesting enough one of the missing emails is one where dr keller specifically requests to exercise
005his legal right for the discussion of his contract to be held publicly rather than behind closed doors under the umbrella of confidentiality that exists with executive session when i initially requested these records i wanted to know the truth of what wasn't adding up now with more clarity of greater distrust in in the board and the many risks that pose that they pose for the dysart district as this info is shared with the public more will see and agree that dysart needs new and better leadership to regain the confidence of the public you expect students and staff to follow rules and protocols you yourselves do not follow and it's time for the hypocrisy to end thank you thank you anyone else thank you next we'll move on to superintendent governing board updates we have our student
006update dr dean good evening madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet and our community this evening we will ask dr croto to introduce our student speaker good evening madam president members of the board superintendent dr dean and guests tonight is my pleasure to introduce you a valley vista high school junior her name is hayley crawford haley is a student body secretary at valley vista high school and she's also here tonight for the dysart student leadership council whereas she is the student liaison so we'd like to welcome haley and it's all yours haley um good evening madam president members of the board dr dean cabinet and community my name is haley crawford and i'm a member of the dysart student leadership council i'm from valley vista and i will be the student voicing
007our agenda at each meeting every meeting we discuss the state of dysart high schools and get a pulse check of all the schools and students it is a great report that all schools have had or will be having a traditional homecoming including spirit weeks assemblies and dances we discussed how we could be leaders on our campuses to tackle current issues and we have been actively working together to support valley vista school who will be holding the annual aasc which is the arizona association of student councils spirit conference on november 2nd this is giving us an awesome opportunity to get to know the other councils and work together towards a common goal we will also be putting our servant leadership into action and performing many acts of community service this upcoming school year thank you thank
008you thanks for move to superintendent update dr dean thank you madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet in our community we want to thank our entire dysart team for an outstanding school opening and a great first seven days of school we are off to a great school year we're seven days in and the school year is flying by before we know it's gonna be may and graduation and we're just very excited about the way that we kick things off the momentum that we have moving forward and our schools are doing a tremendous job with our students already in the first seven days we also want to say thank you to our community they entrust us to educate their children each and every single day and we want our community to know that
009this is an awesome responsibility that we take very seriously and so thank you to our community for entrusting us with your with your children our enrollment number today which includes preschool is 23 350. we are excited to announce that the first phase of installing acrylic in our k-8 school office windows and hardening that project was completed on monday of this week and so our first four schools are complete and production um is underway to get the rest of our schools done also uh the high school materials um are on a little bit of back order but we've got those um ready to roll as soon as they come in also and so we're excited about that piece also additionally i would like to let the board know that between mr musee our director of student
010services and cabinet we are already conducting school safety visits on a daily basis and we are seeing great adherence to some of the requests that we have for school safety including making sure that all of our classroom doors are locked at all times so we want to thank our folks for doing that and more importantly we want to start we want to end the superintendent report by saying that we expect a great school year and we have a little video that we'd like to show you from some first day memories [Music] so [Music] and as you can tell we had a great first day we've had a great first seven days and uh that concludes my report this evening thank you that was a great video thanks for sharing that next we'll move to governing
011board update i'll go ahead and start and i apologize in advance that uh it's tad lengthy only because i i missed the last meeting and definitely want to hit on a couple things um on july 15th i was contacted by lauren malone who's the national manager of school management for the be kind people project and she invited me to attend one of their school assemblies and it was amazing to see the high energy of her group geared towards spreading kindness and positivity and we obviously know we can never have too much of that it was sad we where we were sitting there were um preschoolers and kindergartners directly in front and the opening question was who has ever been made to feel bad about themselves because of the way they look or the way they
012speak and so many little hands went up and it was just so disheartening to see like even at that little age they're impacted by all these just negative feelings about themselves and their environments and so this group was just again so high energy and focused on spreading the goods spreading the positive and including their staff in the curriculum as well because obviously as adults we model the type of kindness and positivity that we want to see in our school communities so i really look forward to seeing more of that group and and dysart i've they were i think at our immunization event before so i've seen their work here and they're just amazing so thank you for um that invitation um on the 26th of july i was invited by sarah rivera so thank you
013sarah she extended an invitation for me to attend the first meeting of the new dysert special education pta and i was disappointed my work schedule didn't allow me to go that evening but um extremely thankful for the invitation special ed has always been a very been very close to my heart and i look forward to if not attending the meetings um just having other ways that i can support that amazing group so it was exciting to see that starting then unfortunately because of a family commitment on the 28th i wasn't able to attend the meeting but i did want to thank the board for approving the additional employee compensations and adjustments to the salary schedules most understand that these negotiations between the board and employee groups are months in the making and that the vote
014is pretty much a formality um but it does require board approval so i did want to thank my fellow board members for approving those increases for our amazing staff they definitely deserve it for all that they do and while we're on the thank yous i'd also like to take time to thank all who serve this year in the iba negotiations for years i have strongly advocated for increasing compensation for our special education staff had countless conversations with district administration site level administration teachers multiple people and i never really felt like we reached the level that i was wanting to reach in regard to feeling like it had an impact for our special education staff but this year somehow i i felt heard and i really appreciate that i don't know if it's due to dr
015dean and his cabinet team um dea sarah mendoza for her leadership all the teams together whatever the combination i just want to thank you for making that three thousand dollar stipend for our special ed teachers a priority this year i know they're very thankful and i know that our students and families feel it as well to see their teachers get the compensation that they um they so deserve um i also was able to visit a couple of amazing schools last week it's always a highlight when i'm able to get into the classrooms and schedule some school visits a big thank you to miss davis and her team at el mirage elementary school i am going to brag on her behalf set her second grade she was i'm sorry she was second in the district for
016ela growth at her school and first in the district for math growth on aasa and that is just amazing um amazing growth out of el mirage um i also want to thank the teachers who allowed me to to interrupt their classrooms you wouldn't know it though because even as dr dean and dr sai and i walked in there they were just still very focused on what was happening which speaks a lot to the classroom management there as well i also want to give a special shout out to our the art teacher at el mirage uh miss karen hinton venero i hope i spell pronounce that correctly on day three of school they were actually analyzing a piece of art that was projected on the screen and asked to write about what they observed and their
017observations of that picture and it was just great for me to see that cross-curricular instruction and see how writing was brought into a special area class like our arts with um with their art class so um i just really appreciate that because that's some growth i think is a district we're making that we didn't always necessarily see and it was great to see that in action so so thank you very much to her and then i also spent some time at freedom traditional academy thank you to principal connie wolford i felt very welcomed and i was loved just seeing the differences and how the school is structured compared to some of our other schools to my own fault by the time we got to freedom everyone was at lunch so i wasn't able to observe
018as many classrooms as i would have liked but the classrooms that i was able to see all the students were very much engaged and i appreciated being able to spend some time there i learned i want to learn more though about the postal service that's incorporated into their school community and to me it was great to see just how they were able to bring um the students in a sense of community and commitment and work that little u.s postal service piece and then also finally their patriotic wall i think i could have stared at that forever it was just so moving and inspiring but again thank you so much i always love to get into schools if you're open to it i would love to uh schedule time with dr dean to come and visit
019some others but um otherwise i'll be scheduling some in the near future but most importantly um just i'm glad we all got off to a great start i'm looking forward to a wonderful year and thank you for all that you that's all i have that was less than three minutes anyone else yes um i had the honor of visiting several schools on august 3rd i went around with dr croto and craig musee our new director of support services and it was awesome to actually walk around and see several students very energetic and ready to learn and the excitement energy and the level well except you get to some of the high school it was say hi hi and so you know they're looking for their classrooms and they're looking for friends and everything but it
020was still a great day to visit the middle schools the high schools we visited transportation and also sundown on august 5th i returned to visit a couple of four schools had to get my elementary school fix because there's nothing like visiting with the younger kiddos in the schools but i still have 11 more schools to visit and so be prepared i will be coming to see you just to say hi last night on the news there was a segment that was featured in the number of teacher vacancies across our nation and it was a little disheartening to see that there was approximately 282 000 vacancies across the united states and in this clip it featured three different states their types of vacancies and so florida had approximately eight thousand thirty one vacancies illinois 88 percent
021of their school districts were scrambling to fill their posted positions and then also arizona was featured and arizona had 2272 positions still needing to be filled um we know that several teachers have left the profession um we know that there's a new crop that are going through the universities and colleges and everything trying to get their degrees to come on in and teach but it is a little disheartening that so many vacancies are still out there and we need folks and we need to make sure that we show our current teachers and the ones coming on board that we do appreciate all of the work that they do i know i do and finally a small bit of info and this kind of shook me to the core um that there was a school board
022not in arizona that took a board action the motion and approve to no longer recite the pledge of allegiance at the start of their board meetings it brought tears to my eyes and i found it was very disheartening that they would not honor those that have made that sacrifice and so i feel that it is an honor and a privilege for us to start our board meetings with the pledge patriotism it gave it a bad name and so i appreciate everything that everyone does thank you i would just like to extend a thank you to mr hicks and our district administration for um i went over the expense reports like i normally do line by line all hundreds and hundreds of pages but i just want to say the past couple times everything's looked really
023good there hasn't been anything really concerning as far as purchases that have stuck out so i just want to say thank you to district administration and interim superintendent dr dean the protocols that you have put in place seem to be working so i just want to say that i really appreciate your hard work wanted to say that i also attended the be kind assembly with um with mrs pritchard and it was great just seeing all the energy um and and the kindness that that it really brought to the students there i also wanted to thank mrs sarah rivera for visiting the board last week i'm sorry that i missed that but i really appreciate her words and i really enjoyed my first meeting with the special education ptsa i just really appreciate all the hard
024work from both parents and district that went into making that happen and that's really an exciting thing that dysart is the first in the state to have a special education ptsa and then i was not able to visit any of the schools just with my work schedule however i did attend the meet the teacher night at freedom elementary and kudos to the leadership there for mrs wilford it really is incredible and that's it okay thank you next we'll move to motion to approve consent agenda items i moved the board approved consent agenda items as presented motion made by christine pritchard seconded by tracy sorry sinkhole motion carries next we move to information discussion items f1 information on dysart's updated covid protocol dr dean thank you madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet
025and our community although presented at the last board meeting under the superintendent's update we have a requirement to formally have this as an information item to meet our esser requirements and so this evening dr crota will provide an information item to the board on our covet protocols dr croto thank you dr dean madam president members of the board superintendent dean and guests cabinet and guests we are here to give you a quick update on the covet update on how our schools are operating for employees and students as dr dean mentioned we did cover this last time but we are doing a requirement right now that has to be presented in a board meeting so first of all face coverings and masks face covering and masks are not required for all staff student visitors to all
026schools and campuses in the dysart unified district along with vaccinations covet 19 vaccinations are not required for student staff and community members to attend school school events or to be on a school campus in dysert our isolation along with the recommendations from cdc any staff or student that tests positive for covet 19 should isolate for a minimum of five days and in isolation when symptom free it is a recommendation of wearing a mask from the cdc recommendation is not required but it is recommended that when they return when they are symptom-free and return that they should wear a mask for five days again that's a recommendation by the cdc our personal protective equipment is available to any student or staff member upon request students and staff are encouraged to continue with their frequent hand washing
027the good hygiene practice that they developed over this two year period of of covin additional information just a reminder to the governing board and to the community that dysert unified school district did install air scrubbers they've been installed in all our dysart unified school district facilities to assist with the air quality additional cleaning supplies are available for all staff upon request our athletic vents as they are in around the state have returned to normal operations visitor and volunteer operations have returned to normal so we do have visitors and volunteers back in our campuses and our cafeteria operations have also returned to normal so with that i will stand for any questions thank you any questions or comments from the board i just have a quick question please um so i know in the past if
028an employee tested positive and i know about the five days but they got paid for those five days and they did not have to use their personal time has that been eliminated so if i if in play test positive they now have to use their own sick days and or whatever vacation days madam president remember grant uh that is the case it expired on june 30th of this year where uh the kova days for uh being sick uh did expire so right now if they are out with kova that is their own days so so what's the incentive to test i don't feel good but i'm gonna go in i'm not gonna test i mean because if i'm a single parent and maybe my child gets it now i'm out for my child now i've
029already missed so many days what's the incentive to test i would imagine that the incentive i don't know that there's an incentive to test but we just ask like usual before covet if you're not feeling well don't come to school and if you believe you have coveted uh you should test and see if you do um but it's there's not per se an incentive well that you know what i'm saying it's not as incentive wasn't the right word but i mean if i don't have any days then what do i do we ask all people if they don't feel well to stay home not come i mean if i don't have any i've used up all of my days can can i interject isn't there an employee sick bank that employees can donate to and
030if they go above and beyond their pto days they can draw from that is that still the case madam madam president member chaffin yes there is an employee sick bank they do have to use all their days or our requirements in order to pull days from that but we do have a sick bank that can be utilized if they participate in that so they have to donate a day at the beginning of the year every year when they sign up for their insurance to elect to be part of that sick bank so yes if they do or if they are part of the sick bank they may utilize that also does that help no well i knew about the bank i'm just saying it's fine madam president remember grant if in any situation if an
031employee is out of pto days and um they're sick and can't come to school they can still take the time off it's becomes unpaid um days during that time that's what i'm concerned about is people are just struggling as it is and now that unpaid time and that's what i'm saying about oh my gosh now i've got to miss work and i'm not going to get paid i understand we understand that concern absolutely you know as dr crota stated we're we're working hard to return to pre-pandemic procedures and telling folks in general if you don't feel well please don't come to work fully understand the concern dr croto how often do we receive if any notifications from maricopa county health do we receive anything from them regarding kovit madam president member sawyer sink bill um
032we do not receive any notifications from maricopa county that i can recall as i sat in my previous chair i we did not receive any there and i don't i believe it's still the case i do not know of any notifications we have received thank you all right next we'll move to information discussion item two information on the supplemental resource process dr dean madam president members of governing board members of cabinet in our community dr assai will present the information on supplementary resource process this evening dr assai good evening madam president members of the board we are presenting on supplementals we went through supplementals a few meetings ago so i will try to keep it brief and try to change slides we should add that this is dr first presentation as an assistant superintendent not
033to add to the pressure if you push the button it will move to the next slide there'll be a test at the end right absolutely it's amazing that it just worked for dr croto okay it's a test thanks john thank you thank you you're not doing well so far well i'll go ahead and get started and there we go just like that um so supplementals just to remind everyone our resources that are chosen to complement the core materials our core materials are things like pearson hmh discovery learning uh they could come in the form of novels online resources we've also approved our tier two and tier three resources as supplemental to the core we have divided them into core supplementals and what we would call regular supplementals core supplementals are adopted at the district level
034you proved some tonight via consent agenda with cognitive and um with the math and amira pilot uh i guess that wasn't it would eventually be a supplement if the pilot works we also have other supplementals that can be approved at the site and 10 or less with principal approval using the vetting form that this board approved to make that process a little bit tighter the process used is defined in policy 9.22 uh when we go out for a bid for core textbooks they're placed on display for 60 days at that time we might also recommend supplementals however there is a there is permission in there that if needs are identified prior we can adopt things as we go you see this frequently happen we usually bring something to you in june we'll talk about that
035in a minute also there's a pot process for the 10 or less or not really in that process of course so we can put them through with the principal approval and the vetting form what happens each april is ed services puts out a call to schools and says hey tell us about the supplementals you think would work best in your classroom those resources are always reviewed by a committee uh we we vet them and then we bring the list to the board for for approval and they go on a list usually in may or june to say hey here's some things you can use next year but as we know we send teachers to trainings in summer and sometimes they come back with some great ap resources that weren't on the list so we do
036have the process again for the ten and under that can be approved with the principal or vetting form uh we also have the process where we bring them forth at different times like we did like we did tonight i did want to add there seems to be some confusion with some of our teachers there are things that aren't supplementals and they're not core a read aloud book would be neither uh things like maybe a small um maybe there's a song out that i want to play an appropriate song that i want to play that wouldn't be considered a supplemental we do ask our teachers that they think about the vetting form that we put out a month or two ago and say okay well this doesn't contradict any of those things so i should feel
037free to use that in my bell work or to in that nature any questions i do have a question thank you for your presentation a couple questions so if i'm a music teacher and i want to use a particular song that is entirely school appropriate um if i'm looking at it on monday and i want to use the song on wednesday or thursday i would just look at that vetting form and would i submit that to my administrator for approval or would just lining it up with that vetting form suffice for my classroom instruction i believe in that case with the form lining it up with your vetting form would suffice we would then take it through we would ask for a list at the end to take it through you know we really are
038dependent on our teachers in that case uh to make sure you know if something were to go wrong then we would probably have to tighten that up our teachers they're well educated they're well trained so giving them the parameters and saying okay here's what we need to compare it against you know that trust is professionals okay and then another quick question so um if we have a teacher who has been teaching and using the same supplements for years and years and years but they're looking at this list and going oh my supplement it's august what i've been using isn't on this list they can use that vetting form right they can contact their principal and say i would like to use this and then the principal can either kick it up if it's over 10
039copies they could submit that vetting approval for district and would that teacher be able to use that supplement while they're waiting for the approval so i would i would say a couple things with that because there's a couple situations there one would be if i've been using it for years and years and years and not getting great student achievement out of it like my dinosaur unit you know as a principal i would probably say i'm glad you like it i'm glad you've been using it i don't know how you've been using it uh but you know i think that would need to go through the principle for that uh because we really are tightening up our curriculum this year with wanting to make sure we're using things that work um you know when we all
040use some things you know maybe a math program or a starfall you know maybe starfall works it might not work i i just pick starfall out of the air but we don't want teachers to use ineffective resources because they're comfortable with them you know so in that case if it is going to be a course supplement we would definitely want them to go through their principal their principal could bring it to us our team would review and in conclusion with that member chapman yes if a teacher wanted to use that for more than 10 or more students they could take it through the process to their principal up through our curriculum department to dr acai and we could have it board approved as well but ideally just so i'm clear the goal is to have
041everything submitted prior to may or june so it's approved so we're not having a lot of yeah our goal our goal president pritchard is always may or june and i guess my third question that i was going to piggyback on that as you know i've been using it for years and years we do call every april and say hey if there's anything you want i can see maybe you missed it the first year uh but you know the second year you should have said hey that that's me um so we can put it through so we can look at the research on it and look at the alignment to the to the core but just to follow up on my question in regards to the um the supplemental for 10 under 10 copies filling it
042out and then presenting it to the school principal so those copies and that vetting process goes to the principal as opposed to the the process that's in place for mayor june that comes before the board uh the process for 10 or under goes to the principal and then it comes through my office so i look at it as well before we purchase the 10 or under sets madam president that's been a process we've had in this district since i started i believe that if you have materials that you're using for less than 10 students they typically are intervention based um then they've been allowed to be used we put the vetting form in place to make sure that we know what they are and and that we have eyes on them prior to them using
043them okay and then ultimately though they're reviewed the same way yes okay yes thank you and that's the change that we made this year with the vetting form was to say if you are using something first 10 or less yes it's allowed per our process and policies however we still want to know what that resource is um and and make sure that we are aware of it it could possibly be a situation where we know that that's failed miserably other places um and we don't want to waste the time um to do that and or and or we just want to make sure that the materials are correct um if we have a second grade teacher who's has is trying to use a seventh grade resource for intervention we want to make sure that's inappropriate
044for the grade level as well okay thank you um just to clarify dr aside the flip side of your example um if you have a teacher that's been using something for many years that that for whatever reason was not on that approved list but they are very successful you know and they have very high scores in their classrooms year after year something like that i'm hopeful that you would oh as a principal we would we would definitely take that through i'm just i was trying to use the example i'm sorry yeah we definitely i i was walking to campus today um at el mirage actually stephanie just came in you know and they were like hey you know we would really like to use this i was like great send it up so we can
045take it through and get it and get it approved it was a math program so typically math programs i mean and stephanie looks at her research or rated you know yeah they're not controversial usually i know stephanie's recommending it i'll we'll still vet it but if it's green as a supplemental we would go ahead and send it through okay so there's a process where we can go and do that um but at what point though do you do you ever look at those things that are that are requested for the supplementals that they have been using maybe for quite some time and having success with and think wow maybe we want to adopt this and push this out to all of our you know schools as an option i i'm trying to think of an
046example where we've done that but most of the things we take forward actually come from the field uh you know what i used 16 years ago in the classroom isn't the same thing that works today okay so there's definitely a ground-up process it would depend on where that originated from and i'll give you an example i was at canyon if it was a very direct instruction science program that would have been a good fit for canyon you know just like if it's an inquiry-based science pro science curriculum or a supplement it wouldn't work well at freedom so you know when we have niche i don't know if we call them niche schools but school signature schools with a focus that's a little bit tighter but depending on where you are and how it fits okay
047but it would be added to where it would be an available resource for any school to use going forward should that niche change because demographics and communities change over time too yeah well the identities as uh ken used to be a math and science school it changed to stem so i mean which still includes that but it's a much broader scope okay madam president member chef and i would add that the advantage to us using a vetting forum and tracking is that now we have a record of who's using which and so if we have somebody who's being very successful we can track that back and then take a look at a broader scope with that as well thank you any questions all right thank you we'll move to information discussion item three information on
048student support services dr dean thank you madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet and our community this evening we have a brief presentation on services that are available to our students some through uh actually all through mr musee's office coordinated through mr muse's office and by the way um i would just like to take a second during this presentation um to thank mr musi and um the great work that he's doing with our schools and our principals and staff already so mr musi thank you very much um and uh since this is a student service support report it's appropriate for me to do this at that point in time so we just want to take a moment and publicly state some of the supports that are available to our students so that
049that our community continues to remain aware of the things that we have available in our schools to assist our students next slide please we've talked about safe reports in the past and safe reports are available to all of our students or parents online i should say community online when a safe report is filled out it asks specifically for information on what a cons what concern exists where the concern exists it would school and if people know who exactly who it's with as well we ask them to fill that out also and that safe report once it's submitted online feeds directly to the school administration and to mr musee's office as well and so our school administrators in real time receive those reports there have been many times in the past several years where we've had
050administrators get those reports in the evening time and and they picked up the phone and made calls either to have support services available to students first thing in the morning or there have been times where they've contacted parents as well um the safe report process is something that's been very helpful for us we've had students in the past who have filled out safe reports of a concern of something that may happen at a bus stop the next morning or a concern about how they're feeling about themselves and that they may be feeling like they that it's possible that they would self-harm and so that report when a student fills that out the fact that it is immediately sent to administration in mr museu's office allows us to respond in in very quick time um there's
051been times where we pulled together teams um in the middle you know late in the evening to be prepared first thing in the morning as well so that's been a very positive piece additionally we have our safe schools hotline available um and that is monitored by mr musee's office as well both mr musee and his administrative assistant monitor the safe schools hotline and as we stated previously with the safe schools report that hotline is monitored throughout the day and throughout the evening as well and mr musee and his team when appropriate contact school administrators to let them know of concerns so again they are prepared when a school day begins and and provide assistance to students and parents when needed additionally we have a full threat assessment process that's available on our campuses when we
052have issues in which various threats may occur where a student may feel threatened or they're concerned about a larger threat we have both an in a smaller process for threat assessment and an entire threat assessment team that we can pull together to create or and conduct a threat assessment for students for situations for issues in the community should they exist as well and then finally we have our social workers available for our students as well on each of our campus we have a social worker position that is available and they work with students as we've talked in in years past um you know they contact parents prior to working with um students and and are available for them as well so those are the supports some of the supports that we have available to our
053students we're very excited to have these pieces and we've had great success with each and we look forward to those continued success and i'd be happy to answer any questions or more importantly if they're hard we'll ask mr musee the questions thank you any questions or comments from the governing board just um i will vouch for the safe reports i have submitted one myself and got almost an immediate response from three administrators so um in follow-up through two and 3 a.m so it is very effective and people really take that stuff seriously so i appreciate it and i will say that that is a lasting legacy from mrs winterstein's work here dr dean i just want to touch on one of the last things you said in regard to social workers you commented that there's
054a social worker in every school madam president there is a social worker position in every school i believe that we may have a few openings at this point in time dr polling could provide specific numbers but we do have a social worker position for every school that we're our goal is to fill those positions yes absolutely because i think that there are people in our community that believe that this board cut social workers and so i'm glad that you touched on that piece of it because i think it's important to know that that's not the case um social workers have the opportunity to make very impactful meaningful relationships with students in many ways and just as you you identified them as like a layer of support although there's been board conversation in the past regarding
055how some of our schools were using social workers and we had to kind of make sure that that role was being used in the appropriate way a school social worker would be utilized there was never any intention to or any action to actually cut those people reiterating just that level of student support that they provide to our students has not changed despite the calendar modifications and perhaps that was one piece of it that was causing the misperception of what occurred but while the action to modify the social work calendar saved the district i'm going to say this really slow because it's important 550 so a quarter of a million dollars it did not lessen the amount of time our social workers had face-to-face contact with our students correct madam president our social workers while the
056calendar changed our social workers calendar has them working every day that students are in school so access to students was not minimized diminished in any way they still have access to our students to provide that valuable that would be correct resources okay do you know as far as that piece of it and how often our social workers are available to our students how does that compare to other neighboring districts madam president we looked at this information in the spring of last year when the conversation initially began i believe the spring maybe early spring our social worker calendar that is in place right now is similar to the calendar of the school districts that are around us peoria deer valley trying to remember if if it literal litchfield and alfred fall into there as well we
057don't really use them as a comparison but deer valley and peoria the calendars are very similar where they are on a calendar similar to our social workers that they are in place when students are on on campus um and don't have a lot of time in the summer on calendar okay thank you for clarifying that because although it's extremely fiscally responsible to save the district a quarter of a million dollars by just making sure our social workers are with our kids when our kids are present it didn't take away from the value that they provide to those students so i really appreciate you listing them not only as a student support which they truly are but having the opportunity to have that discussion to outline and clarify that misperception that's out there in the community
058so thank you very much i do have a quick thing um walking around with uh dr croto and mr musee uh the first day of school um i actually i have been in our schools numerous times and know to look at certain things and see from a different lens but walking around with mr musee that day i got to see it from a safe schools lens as far as him looking at different things around not only in the classroom but also on the outside versus the inside of a building and it would be really great if the rest of the board and other administration would take the opportunity to walk around with mr musi and see what he sees that we don't see on a regular basis and i just want to thank you for
059that mr musee it was very enlightening to see it from a different viewpoint so thank you madam president members servicing phil i would add to your conversation as well just to reiterate that we continue to work very intentionally to make sure that our students have tremendous supports available to them and that we're doing everything possible to make sure that we have the safest environment in which our student can come to school and learn and if we're doing our job well there then that takes care of a lot of the supports that our students need as well absolutely all right anybody else i'm just curious i know that this presentation and the position for mr mesi is student services as far as the safety piece goes but i am curious though if we have a staff
060member that is undergoing a personal threat or even a threat from someone else within the school are those things handled through the same process madam president member denta moore it's a very good question and and pertinent in this conversation those conversations would be handled through the school administration and through hr and we have layers of support there as well we actually have a service that our employees can access for assistance should they have emotional needs that that arise and so that that service is available through hr and through the school administration so but those we do have many layers of support for them also um but it's it's not handled to answer your question directly it's not handled through mr musee's office i appreciate your answer and maybe i wasn't really clear hypothetically so say
061we have a staff member that's being harassed by i don't know an ex-boyfriend or husband or wife or whatever that is something like that so do you [Music] do madam presidential training orders miss denzel that would uh that then would mr musee would be involved to assist um along with um local law enforcement as well safety issues absolutely yeah and and so that's where his office would become involved and we would immediately involve uh local law enforcement with that okay and and i this is a great time for me to just plug and thank both the cities of surprise and el mirage pd and all of the outstanding support that they provide us every single day and that's a part of our supports as well they are awesome partners continue to be awesome partners so
062but yes that would involve mr missy's office because i know adult issues can sometimes trickle down to your students and there are times mr sten's more aware not to extend the presentation but there are times where we have family disputes that don't involve our staff that occur in our front office and mr musee's office is involved with that and local law enforcement as well as unfortunate as it is at times when that happens um you know we he does work with our administrators to train and how to respond to that speaking of that is would it be would ever be relevant to do whether it be on a monday like pd um like some sort of a role play or like a mock um incident with staff like like yeah if there's a family in
063the front office that's causing disruption and it might start getting physical and there's children around who could you know indirectly get involved i mean how do you manage that how do you handle it because yeah you can know okay i need to call police or my administrator or whatever but it's still happening right in front of you and things can happen a matter of seconds so is that even something that you have talked about maybe doing at some point madam president not to let the cat out of the bag but we'll let the cat out of bag a little bit with mr yeager joining us is it officer yeager lieutenant jaeger king of safety yeager i'm not sure what that is but the answer is thank you okay major with major jaeger joining us um
064we have we are planning tabletop scenarios um to roll play exactly what you're saying and we're all happy to volunteer for various um components of that as well but that is in the plans yes okay thank you and then just curious too you mentioned the police departments did you receive any feedback as far as any takers on our offer to have them use our offices and do their reports in the in the cool air as opposed to in their car madam president i'll let dr croto let you know the conversation with the pdf the uh chief pd officer madam president great question i did talk to chief pena he is very excited about that so we are in the process of making that happen we have some signs and and so we are in the
065process of making all that happen he is very excited about our offer to do that and um is going to spread that around to his officers so yes he's very very glad to do that great well they're very welcome to be here so and as a part of our support for student services we want to again say thank you to surprise and el mirage pd who have been incredibly visible as we started school and they are very good at what they do to the point of the motorcycle officer today who estimated to me that car was going 31 as we were talking and hit his radar gun and the car was going 31. they're very good at what they do so yeah we think five mile an hour discount he wasn't interested in the final
066mile an hour and it wasn't my car all right thank you okay next we move to request for future agenda items anyone okay okay let's move to adjourn the meeting i move that we had during the meeting second motion made by christine prichard seconded by tracy sorry sinkville motion carries thank you