Gilbert Public Schools Meeting 09/28/2021

001good evening and welcome to those of you in the boardroom and those of you who are watching board meeting from our live stream today is tuesday september 28th 2021 this is a regularly scheduled board meeting of the gilbert public schools governing board we will call this meeting to order we will then go to item 1.02 for a moment of silence and then that will be followed by the pledge led tonight by miss laurie woods so please join us in a moment of silence dr santa cruz um i would like to honor a former gilbert public schools teacher who we sorry mrs karine johnston who taught at patterson and also was a violin teacher in some of the distr some of the schools in the district and a wonderful human being thank you mr jetty so

002as we engage a moment of silence please recall miss corinne johnson please join me in 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 this evening mr parker is with us he is in germany it's somewhere near three o'clock in the morning there and he will join us telephonically good evening mr parker all right thank you good evening good morning i'm assuming he heard that he did yes i did okay we'll just need to turn the volume up a little we'll move to item two is the approval of tonight's agenda item 2.01 is there a motion so moved thank you mrs humphries second thank you ms eugenie any discussion

003[Music] seeing none then we will move to vote on approving this evening's agenda all those in favor please signify by saying i i those opposed the same all right motion carries five zero we'll move to item 2.02 miss wilson would you please call the roll dr charles santa cruz here miss laurie wood here miss sheila eugetti here miss jill humphreys here mr bill parker here mr president all board members are present you have a quorum thank you mrs wilson item three is a superintendent's recognition awards 3.01 dr mccourt thank you dr santa cruz governing board members if you join me up front we just have a couple awards to talk about this evening thank you [Music] hello is this on yeah okay good evening everyone how are you hope you're doing great tonight before we

004get started with the awards i wanted to just point out a couple people that are here tonight i don't think hannah sibi is here yet she's a student superintendent student senate representative she may be joining us a little bit later we also have two folks from our spire program here in gilbert public schools and that is a program for those that are interested in becoming administrators and tonight we have wendy norberg wave your hand and shawna della sarah so please give them a hand thank you for being here tonight [Applause] the first uh person i'd like to talk about tonight is jenny fiedler aguilar she is an art teacher at gilbert elementary and mesquite elementary come on up real quick this is her wonderful family right here right there husband hasn't taken credit for being

005lovely or i think gorgeous was the other word recently jenny has been recognized by channel 12 news for her work for inspiring students through art to achieve their dreams after illustrating her very first children's book jenny come on up and talk about this book and and how you got to this point in your life and just a little something about that well um as an art teacher i really love sharing my artwork with my students and finding passions that they love whether it's basketball or karate or anything that they're interested in encouraging them to really practice and and work hard at it and something i love to do is create art and share it with others and i started doing that through murals at the school chalk murals at festivals and i also make videos

006of my lessons and i share them on youtube and i started getting feedback from people all over the world and teachers and students from everywhere asking for input and advice and to share my my artwork and i thought that was amazing so um something i really wanted to do to share my artwork was become an illustrator that was a goal and a dream i always had and um you know there's no time like the present so i decided to try and try again and finally i was able to do that it wasn't easy it was a lot of hard work and i got one book published already and then i just finished a second one so that comes out next year and i don't plan on stopping anytime soon so again i really love encouraging

007those talents that my students have um so taking that um passion that inspiration that i have and then um putting that into them so what's oh the name of the book is brave in the water and my second one coming out is called i love you across the world jenny we have pictures thank you [Applause] next we have and i think we have a representative from v-net trina oh oh w come on up ladies introduce yourself to everyone just so they know who you are and what you do for v-neck what do i do okay so um i'm the vice president of training and vendors for v-net i'm jamie butler i am the treasurer so v-net is stands for voluntary network and these folks are made up of friends families parents of our community of

008gilbert public schools last month was our annual v-net event to support our school ptsos and ptos in their roles as well as booster clubs for all of our campuses v-net does an amazing job making sure volunteers know everything they need to know and feel supported thank you to all the volunteers who make a positive impact on our schools every single day and thank you to our v-net team for organizing this volunteer training event and everything you do for gps this is a huge event and this is extremely valuable for us as a school district because ptsos if you take the number of schools we have in booster clubs around our district it's probably over a hundred easy and there's a lot of things that go with that especially when it comes to fundraising processes and

009procedures involved and making sure that we do it everything above board and these are the folks that help all of those families all of our volunteers across the district make sure they're doing a good job but they're also a huge resource in terms of finding out and networking with each other to find out what some of the best opportunities are for kids out there and our staff and again they do a tremendous job so thank you we wanted to recognize you [Applause] all right [Applause] me we'll now move to item 4 item 4.01 his superintendent's report dr mccord thank you dr santa cruz governing board members and welcome to everyone joining us this evening in person and online well we've almost completed our first quarter of the 2021 2022 school year i'm very proud of

010our students our teachers our support staff and administrators for all they've done these past couple of months it's not easy to educate children during a pandemic but i certainly appreciate all the efforts by everyone involved and a thank you to our parents for making sure that all of our students have what they need coming to school every day i know it's been difficult for you as well over the past year and a half i'd like to point out two specific groups of our employees our transportation department and our nurses and health assistants as many of you know we are down about 40 bus drivers district wide and when that happens it's all hands on deck everyone with the cdl license is asked to drive that includes our mechanics our office personnel supervisor and our director

011of transportation they do all they can to ensure our students are transported to and from school as safely as possible and i appreciate them showing up on a daily basis getting the job done so thank you to our transportation department our nurses and health assistants have done a tremendous job keeping pace with the coveted situations on their campuses while continuing to do all their other duties associated with their job they have the responsibility of calling parents when a child has to be quarantined for close contact no parent wants to get that call and nurses and health assistants take no joy in making those calls if you end up getting one of those calls please be kind they're just doing their job and they're doing the very best that they can and again to all of

012our nurses and health assistants thank you for what you guys do on a daily basis it's not easy but you are truly appreciated as we head into fall break please make time to take care of yourselves both physically and mentally do something you enjoy and do something that makes you smile more than anything please safe and enjoy your break and we'll see you back october 12th thank you dr santa cruz that concludes my report for this evening thank you dr mccord now move to item 5 which is a request to speak to the governing board we have two requests this evening would we please play the recorded message the board may make an open call to the public during a public meeting need to turn the volume up time place and manner restrictions to allow

013individuals to address the public body on an issue within the jurisdiction of the public body at the conclusion of the open call to the public individual board members may respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board may ask the staff to review a matter or may ask a matter be to be put on a future agenda however members of the board shall not discuss or take legal action on matters raised during the open call to the public unless the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action during the open call the board requests that speakers refrain from voicing complaints against school personnel or any person connected with the district as it may impact due process rights policy k-e-k-e-b and k-e-d are provided by the board for disposition of legitimate complaints including

014those involving individuals forms required for use of these policies can be obtained from the gilbert public schools website apologize for the volume control on that recorded message is also printed on the screen in the in the room at this point those who have requested to speak are stella lawless in this order trina jonas and jake i'm sorry i can't read j given so please approach the microphone hi my name is stella lawless and i was at the last gilbert schools board meeting talking about how masks are important i go to greenfield elementary and right now there is an outbreak at my school my sister's class is a part of the outbreak her class has had lots of people get sick since school started last month i started i was scared and in fact this month

015i'm even scared i'm a dancer and i dance three to four hours of dance a day and when i dance i wear my mess the whole time i can breathe perfectly so we should make a change and wear masks i also want to say that during recess at school i run around and play soccer while wearing a mask and i am still fine by now you see that i am active while wearing masks and nothing has happened to me one more thing is that if you sneeze like in school and you have people sitting by you if you don't wear a mask there's a chance that you just gave people covid masks do work they prevent the chances of you getting sick and other people too thank you for your time thank you stella um

016hello and i just want to mention two agenda items that i wanted to bring up to you since i was here um the action items 8.03 and 8.04 the rules of order and public participation board meetings i just want to encourage you to leave the policies as they are i feel like we've had really good policies in terms of public input and all that and i feel like the board already has the ability to end a meeting without a vote as long as you have multiple people's um you know vote to do so as opposed to just one person and also the ability to limit the amount of time when you have too many people i feel like we've already done that and we've seen that over in the past time so i feel like

017how we've been doing things has been really great and so i'd encourage you to kind of leave that the same i think in changing that because it is a little bit perceived to the community that that is trying to lessen community input and i know that no one wants to really have that even if that's not the intent that nobody wants that to be a perception and so i would encourage you to kind of i think it's been great how it's been and my other item is our synchronous learning i know we've talked a lot about that and you guys are talking about where we're going to invest a lot of the money that we're getting from you know all the different various grants and where the money is going to go in the budgets

018the synchronous learning as we have it right now where the kids log into buzz and all those things when they've missed classes or they get quarantined because of close contact or any of that is really the equivalent of giving kids a a packet a paper packet that's really what's equivalent they're not actually receiving education or learning or interaction or anything from the teachers so i know since a lot of you don't have kids in school right now who are using those platforms i really would love to encourage you to come look at it see it and you can come to come to my house i'll meet you with my kids laptop so you can see it but it is very non-interactive and they don't learn so when they are quarantined for it's about a week

019even if they have zero symptoms and they were just having close contact and they really are losing a large amount and i know that i've talked to our it people and i know some of the high schools have rooms that are equipped to where kids can actually be to having a true synchronous learning experience where um the teacher you know turns on a button and it's like they're in class they can't be talking to them but they can be seeing the interaction that's going on the discussion that's in the class and the lesson the teacher is doing and we definitely have the ability to do that and so and i know we're investing a lot in education i mean in our technology right now so i would love to encourage you to look into that

020and how we can so we're not wasting technology dollars because i think that's where we're headed i don't know that cove is necessarily going anywhere and this will con this is we're going to have to keep dealing with quarantining and all those types of things so it'd be so great to be able to have kids be able to actually log in and see discussion and so anyway i would love to have the board look at that more and as especially as we're continuing to invest technology dollars and making sure they're utilized in getting us i think that's a future i would love to look at that so thanks so much thank you i know the past year's been hard and i don't envy the job that you all do and and you don't get paid

021enough to do it um but however i i'm still concerned that that we continue to receive letters uh every week about kids being exposed to coping like like stella my daughter is in a school where the first entire first grade class had to be quarantined because of covet right and we continue to get letters every single week my kids wear masks to school right and the letters that have come out have said the state of cdc guidance is to wear masks but yet we still don't require masks and and i'm concerned that this is like that we can we continue to to not uh to allow people to exercise their personal freedoms but even though those even those personal freedoms hurt my own children's personal freedoms like the supreme court settled this case in 1905

022right in 1905 was was there was a case that came before supreme court with regards to smallpox vaccinations and the supreme court stated in that opinion that the constitution does not impart an absolute right in each person to be at all times in all circumstances wholly freed from restraint real liberty for all cannot exist under the principle that recognizes the right of each individual person to act on his own regardless of the injury that might be done to others that case law was used to start what we now know as drunk driving laws right we don't allow people to drive drunk right but we still allow people to harm others through causing others to get sick right if my child gets sick i am responsible to bear those costs the insurance companies are no longer

023covering those costs right and so it's it's unfair to to my family or anybody else's family who get sick from people refusing to wear masks that that we then have to cover those costs right secondly the two largest religions that we ascribe to here in gilbert right the lds church and the catholic church have both sent out letters and communications requesting people to wear masks right the cdc guidance still requests people to wear masks and so i i don't understand how we've chosen to listen to the minority right which in the state of arizona is currently 30 percent of the people that wish to not wear masks versus the majority of people that think that we should still continue to wear masks and even the letters that we send out right is part of notifying

024people that hey there's covid request people to wear masks so i i don't understand that finally it seems it seems unfair that that we should bear the cost to allow others delivery that they think that they enjoy and so the city of prescott recently asked people to sign a waiver that said they would that there's that their students would not sue the school district if their kids got covered if my kids get covered i will consider suing the school district and when i find out who gave them covet i will sue their parents as well to cover the costs that my kids incur okay that was our last speaker move to item six which is reports and 6.01 in his fy 2022 monthly budget report dr mccord thank you dr santa cruz governing board members

025i'll turn it over to ms betts for our monthly budget report good evening governing board members dr santa cruz dr mccord this is our monthly report this is the year-to-date activity through august 31st so this is the new fiscal year this is the confusing time in which we're talking sometimes about three different fiscal years in this particular case we are talking about the current fiscal year but remember this is activity just through the 31st of august which represents just the first three weeks of school so keep that in mind as you're looking through the information so why isn't it huh how come it's not is it frozen there we go thank you so as you're looking at the tables please note that the all the budgeted funds which is primarily the first three um the

026first three financial statements they do reflect the fiscal year 2022 revised number one budget which you all approved on the 25th of august in addition the cash funds are still representing the cash available as of june 30. remember that we have undergone a encumbrance period in which we are still collecting revenues still paying off invoices through the 31st of august and so all this will clear up once we've submitted the afr the annual financial report which will be coming to you on the 12th of october so as usual we always put up the the top two that we highlight them in yellow to bring that to your attention the maintenance operations fund is our general fund note that we did reflect the revised budget number one that increased about a little bit over a million

027dollars and then note that the available balance at this point in time is about 35 million dollars keep in mind again it's still early and most of these monies have been allocated out there are still vacancies throughout the system in addition there are supplemental pays that are not encumbered that occur throughout the year so right now un un planned to spend is about 10 million dollars which represents about a four percent carryover so that's where we are today on that 34 million dollar balance in addition the classroom site fund this is a reminder again as the classroom site fund rules have changed due to statutory changes last spring and remember that what used to be three funds 11 12 and 13 has now rolled into one fund fund 10 so the pay for performance dollars

028are now reflected in fund 10 instead of fund 12. so of that 19 million dollars or so about generally we we spend between five and six and a half million dollars on pay for performance annually so we that would decrease that a little bit in december and then again in june and then also keep in mind that we did see an infusion of one-time money in classroom site fund last spring and that represents about four or five million dollars of that 18 million dollars so just to keep keep it into perspective and then finally uh note under unrestricted capital outlay fund 610 we have an available balance of 15. million dollars we are actively getting that allocated out to all of our schools we plan on sending out probably over six million dollars over the

029next few weeks to all of our schools to make sure that they can get all of their neglected capital needs met since we have quite a few dollars so before i go on are there any questions about our district operating funds okay great and this is just the summary to let you know what i just shared for the public to have that information next are our federal grants just wanted to bring to your attention sr-3 our allocation is a total of 22 million of which 4.4 million dollars must be spent on learning loss we have not yet received approval for the for that grant we are getting ready to send in the second revision for approval this week and i will keep you apprised of that in addition the new federal fund that we have

030we were just notified of is the epu grant the education plus up grant if you remember last year we received the enrollment stabilization grant the epu grant is very much like the enrollment stabilization grant so it has very few strings attached in terms of how we can spend it and the decision by the governor was made that any any school district that received less than one thousand eight hundred dollars per student on the enrollment stabilization grant will receive the um the education plus up grant to bring them up to at least that one thousand eight hundred dollars and so that results uh in our allocation of three point eight million dollars again the application has been submitted it was very simple so we're expecting to get that approved and it is an allocation so we

031will we expect to receive the monies in the next month or so any questions on any of that and we did not reflect that information on the grid we don't even have a fund number yet to record that activity okay dr santa cruz if i can ask miss vets just two things uh so what will be the process to decide where that 3.8 million dollars will be spent from that epu grant so we um we had a discussion in cabinet uh regarding uh the how we thought the money should be spent and again because it's very much like the enrollment stabilization grant where we're able to offload maintenance and operations expense giving us more flexibility going into the 23 school year and the 24 school year the recommendation or the application will indicate that we

032would like to move uh teaching salaries in global academy we had a lot of new students in global academy directly related to the coven 19 pandemic so it seemed appropriate that the salaries of those teachers would be moved into that epu grant and so our intent would be to do about two and a half million dollars in the current year and then roll the dollars into 2023 to offset those salaries for another year okay and then also you mentioned the capital going out to the schools could you just report back as you better projects come in and yeah but it's been spent on and you bet we're collecting the data and i'll be able to summarize that for the board thank you with a few pictures please sure sure okay again information that i just

033shared with you and then we have two very complicated grids here of bond fund 631 which is the 2015 authority and then in addition fund 630 which is the 2019 authority i'm going to move into the summary that shows all of our bond funds available to date and the main uh the main takeaway from this table is the fiscal year 2021 encumbrance release so keep in mind that much of the activity that we completed over the summer crossed fiscal years so we have to end on june 30 and capture all the activity that was actually completed and paid as of june 30. and then we had to reopen purchase orders july 1 to be able to complete the work at neely for example and all of our schools that saw some significant renovations during the

034summer so note that the we had we wanted to show the encumbrance release so that when we re-encumbered it wouldn't result in in negative balances in any of the lines so you can see that we had opened up purchase orders to the tune of 9.5 million dollars and we've re-encumbered that and more into the new fiscal year that's showing a balance totally of bond funds left over of just over 20 million dollars and keep in mind that the bond the 631 bond fund was largely designated for the technology refresh to do the one-to-one initiative 712 and that was meant to last us through the fiscal 2023. so most of that remaining 9.7 million dollars is um in the technology fund to allow the refresh to occur for the current year as well as for next

035year and then those money should be totally spent by then mr parker i hear you do you have a question mr parker did you have a question there may be some technical issues going on across it sounds like we lost sounds like we lost him we'll try to reconnect go ahead miss okay and that's all i have so if there are any other questions i'm very happy to answer those board members any questions anything else okay great thank you very much thank you miss betts and our board packet did contain two reports we appreciate that information it is available for public review as well so we appreciate the work you've done there item 6.02 is spring 2021 assessment report dr mccord thank you dr santa cruz governing board members we want to bring before you

036tonight um mr parker i'm back you're back welcome back can you hear us thank you i can't now yeah okay good okay did you have difficulty hearing us before is that what you were i thought maybe you had a question on budget issues no no i did the phone cut off okay all right uh continuing on 6.02 i'd like to present you some information from our teaching and learning department start with um dr newman uh for the spring 2021 assessment report dr newman good evening dr santa cruz governing board members and dr mccord um what i'd like to do right now is just invite oh they're already here see what a great team they are already here at the podium we have miss brandy burton and dr christa cox they are our curriculum instruction and

037assessment directors as you recall we have done some reorganization and so miss burton is overseeing all of curriculum instruction and assessment for elementary and dr cox will be overseeing all of that for secondary so as they go through the presentation they'll be able to speak specifically to their areas in that way what i like to do is just begin with a an overview for you as you remember as we've discussed previously the data that's going to be shared or reported will really be unique this year compared to other years an absence of any data in 2020 what we have is we will have two data points spring 2019 and spring 2021 over a three year span so that's a little different than what we normally would provide for you in addition to that as you

038can see we have different assessments so we're comparing data of particular grade levels but that data actually comes from different assessments so for example our students in grades three through 10 took azmerit during 2019 spring and in 2021 they took azm2 in addition to that what we've also done through our process of just the world changing we had intentionally planned on implementing a new data assessment platform and we are super excited for that and it just so happened that that initial implementation year was um last this this year so um we've had some students that um are we're learning some things over our 1920 year over 2021 year and then um we're moving forward with the platform now so they'll be able to explain a couple more specifics about that but i did want to

039just share with you that when we're looking at data it's going to look different than what we normally did and what we normally have shared with you we also have some specific details that we want to share later in the spring about what our teachers and our campuses have done specifically to really make impact and make inroads with students as far as meeting them where they were and really moving their learning forward so we will be providing that at a later date as well good evening dr santa cruz governing board members and dr mccord thank you the first slide that i'd like to present to you i first want to point out some features in terms of the visualization what you're looking at as dr newman did describe are two years worth of data typically

040we should show you three years but because of that spring 2020 lack of state assessment we only have 2019 and 2021. in those visualizations you're looking at the grade levels side by side grade three grade four grade five and grade six these are all representative of english language arts proficiency percentages um so those are representing students who earned proficient on those state assessments in those years throughout this presentation the data is organized in this way the blue represents gilbert public schools the orange represents maricopa county percentages and the gray represents the state of arizona so as you can see over the two-year span we do follow the trend of the maricopa county and state of arizona averages however we outperform both the maricopa county and state considerably as you can also see we have declines

041in each area however i want to really highlight grade four noticing that that is a one percent decline which is very statistically insignificant and although it is blown up to highlight the images that is a very flat line that we're looking at also sixth grade percentages 57 to 54 percent that is a three percent decline overall gilbert public schools have an average decline of four percent across the four grade levels whereas maricopa county has a 6.75 percent decrease and the state of arizona has a total of 7.25 percent in the area of english language arts uh can i ask a question um i just wonder because we had a different test in 2019 the az merit and now we have the azmerit too does does the differences between the tests because this was the first

042time with azmerity would that also have an impact on the decline that's a good question certainly those changes do impact these results we cannot say that the change from emerit in 2019 to azm2 ela and mathematics in 2020 which we didn't have because of school closures and then the final administration that occurred in 2021 they certainly impacted those data again looking forward and we'll talk about this more spring of 2022 we're going to see yet another piece of fruit thrown into this mix because we're introducing a new assessment again okay thank you you're welcome thank you moving forward this graph is mathematics these are state assessment results it is organized in the same way throughout for your ease of interpretation again blue represents gilbert public schools orange represents maricopa county and gray represents those state

043of arizona average percentage correct as you can see we continue to follow those trends that we saw at maricopa county and the state of arizona however we outperform both populations significantly again pointing out that third grade fourth grade fifth grade sixth grade we do follow those trends however we see that those declines are less severe for gilbert public schools and i think one of the things that this really highlights for us is the fact that we continued to be about the business of instruction and serving students despite those many changes that mrs humphries indicated and we continue to work through summarizing the elementary proficiency and growth accountability data i do want to highlight i'm not going to repeat those highlights in terms of outperforming the county and state however i do want to highlight that

04416 of our 18 elementary schools that were eligible for those english language learner accountability growth and proficiency points earned 80 percent or more in that category so again highlighting that even with our most vulnerable populations gilbert public schools teachers and administrators continue to assess students progress where they are and continue to work with them and provide intentional and dynamic supports to move them forward to combat potential learning loss that they may have experienced also moving forward looking at growth data remembering in the k-8 formula growth data is the largest category that makes up that a to f uh proficiency formula so thinking looking at this growth data i want to highlight that we had 22 of our 26 elementary schools earn 45 of 50 of those growth cap excuse me growth accountability points which is

045really phenomenal because growth data represents meeting students where they are in their learning at a given point in time and moving them forward with intentional dynamic consistent instructional supports and working with them and that's really a tribute to our teachers and our administrators on our campuses and of course our students and our families that support those kiddos so i do want to call that out also eight of eight of our title schools also earned 45 of 50 growth points again even our most vulnerable populations we continue to meet students where they are and work with them and move them forward all right so we're going to transition to talking about our secondary schools um copying the exact same format and everything in regard to the legend is exactly the same as what mrs burton just

046explained for you guys so i am just going to continue to expand on the performance data for ela for secondary schools with all of those same notes that she made in effect so for our secondary schools there's three grade levels that we are able to pull data from to be able to show that trend from 2019 to 2021 even though during both of those years there were additional assessments these are the three grade levels that have a data point from 2019 and 2021. unfortunately there are some assessments that we either don't have data for or the assessment changed or went away so it's only for one of the years which i'll i'll go into a little bit more detail later on but to look at the two i'm sorry the three grade levels that we

047can focus on for ela we have our seventh eighth and tenth grade and you will notice similar to our elementary our schools were able to um show that same yes there was that decline in the in the trend however we are still well above where maricopa county and our state are at and even in some areas where like mrs burton said there it's significantly not statistically significant because for example in the seventh grade you see it's a two percent decrease and so given all of those outliers um that would be considered not decrease in a flat line data point to begin with and so in the seventh grade you see that we only had the two percent to decrease in eighth grade the three percent and then we do see that in the tenth grade

048um we did see a little larger of a decrease but we are wanting to celebrate that we are still maintaining that trend being above the county and the state for our ela and in addition to that we have i just want to point out that one of the assessments that is the same that we are going to share like dr newman shared with you guys at a later point is our a.c.t our students did take the a c t and there is a reading and writing component of that assessment in 2019 um unfortunately we don't have the data for about another month for the 2021 administration and as soon as we have that we'll we'll provide that over to you guys to be able to see those trends as well which will we're excited to

049get that because we'll be able to compare the same assessment from 2019 and then in 2020 they didn't take the assessment at that same time but we were able to test those students in the fall of 20 i guess the fall of last year and so we will have three years of act data to be able to look at and so we're excited to be able to bring that back to you at a later point and then to transition into our math data for the secondary schools again we have that consistency with seventh grade eighth grade and tenth grade and you will see the exact same thing where we were able to defy the trend and show that our decrease is above maricopa county and the state but what i'm most excited about and i've

050been looking forward to sharing is in our eighth grade uh the teachers the the parents the students should all be celebrating and that sets us up even for their future going into those high school years you'll notice that that trend went up by three percent and that's given everything i feel like our entire data presentation as mrs burton and i were putting this together you you can look at that as there's a lot of decreases or slight decreases or flatline data and it would be easy to get caught up with that but to see that there are still areas where you see an increase i just feel like it's really important to highlight that and and to celebrate it because outside of some of those variables we were able to overcome and outshine not only

051the state the county but even that norm that we had two years ago with the trend that was there all right i think that's all we have for math so moving on to the secondary uh performance summary we did in addition to and this is across the board we were able to outperform the maricopa county and state percentage proficient average points at all of our secondary levels in those categories of assessment and in the spring um just and it's been brought up a couple of times but i do think it's important for everybody to recognize that you are comparing azmerit data to azm2 data and in addition to that we did have when we start looking at the accountability measurements we had five of our secondary schools that were eligible for el learners in that

052category and we're able to earn 80 percent or more of the el proficiency and growth points which really is a a huge point to celebrate for several different reasons our schools these are with our el population it's an area that our schools have specifically been targeting so to see this data it shows that what our coordinators are doing what our teachers are doing what our administrators are doing if they're focusing and this is a school-wide goal for them we're seeing that increase even through everything that's going on so we were excited to reach out to some of those schools and just share that specific data with them and then uh with growth data you're going to hear brandi and i are going to go back and forth from elementary to secondary but there are a

053couple of differences and one of them is with the growth data so if you guys recall a couple of years ago i believe it was in 2018 or 2019 in 2019 our secondary high school level no longer used growth as a measurement within the accountability measure and for the school letter grade accountability and so our junior highs still do that's similar to that k-8 school business rules that brandi mentioned earlier and our junior highs did a really great job as well as the elementary data that mrs burton shared six of our seven junior highs received 40 points or higher in this category and again for them this is the largest category that they can receive points in so it's just showing that significant impact that we're having in the classroom and meeting students where they

054are and increasing what where their performance is at and then at the secondary level we'll dive into some highlights later on as they don't have growth data so moving forward because of the challenging events of the last 18 months that we're all very familiar with learning loss has been at the forefront of many academic discussions to address this need gilbert public schools has employed the use of universal screeners to assess students academic risks in both reading and mathematics universal screeners are short form assessments that are designed to assess a student's risk of not meeting reading or math benchmarks also known as learning goals for the school year we utilize these assessments as i said in both reading and mathematics so one of the things that we wanted to highlight because we are very concerned about

055keeping students growing in their learning and continuing to move them forward is highlighting the universal screener data from fall of 2020 when we were online and not in person we had implemented a brand new platform learned the platform via webex which was a challenge and then trained all of our stakeholders and then completed those screenings one-to-one via webex with students in their homes two fall of 2021 thankfully far more typical in our school buildings face to face with our kiddos and our teachers and we did see an increase in students who were on track to meeting reading and mathematic learning goals between those two data points so that's a positive thing k3 reading which is corresponding to our move on when reading legislature that we monitor very closely for students we saw that two percent

056increase in students meeting those learning goals for the school year in reading and in mathematics k2 doesn't have the same legislation just over a one percent increase in the number of students who are on track for meeting mathematics learning goals in the 21 22 school year moving forward i wanted to we wanted to show you um some more quantifiable data and just bear with me because i want to point out some of the features on the slide and also if you are like me and have a hard time seeing that little teeny tiny table that's projected on your screens and the folders that you have we have a hard copy that is a little bit more easy to read i did want to point out to you that what you are seeing on this particular

057table is all of our elementary schools the those schools that are shaded in blue are our title campuses and you have the 2019 actual accountability points that those schools earned for that year according to the 2019 adaf business rule and cut points compared to are estimated 2021 accountability points why are they estimated well the state issued a moratorium on a to f letter grades for spring of 2021 data and for that reason they presented all of our uh validated and credentialed data to us however they did not um complete the formula and give us those totals and so what i what i what we did excuse me is we utilized that 2019 business rule and cut score to calculate this estimated total points and the reason we did that is to like i said quantify

058that progress from 2019 to 2021 okay and as you can see excuse me 14 of our schools saw an increase in accountability points between those two years some of them significantly so and so once again i want to point out that this really is an attribute to our teachers and our principals and our school staff and the work that they're doing in addition to all of us at district to support students in their learning thinking about meeting students where they are and moving them forward finally elementary highlights first i want to look at growth 10 schools four of them being title those four title schools were burke elementary boulder creek oak tree and playa del rey earned 50 of 50 growth points in that accountability category very phenomenal also 10 schools who were eligible for

059english learner proficiency and growth accountability points earned all 10 again one of our most vulnerable populations making significant progress and growth over those that period of time finally i wanted to give some specific campuses some shout outs because we saw some really exponential growth from 2019 to 2021 in terms of proficiency ashland ranch and gilbert elementary increased their grade three math proficiency by 14 percentage points from 2019 to 2021. that's significant flya del rey increased grade 4 math proficiency by 18 points in those same two years and spectrum and canyon rim are two campuses that have the conventional traditional programming model on their campus increase their grade for math proficiency by 12 points so again yes learning loss is a concern however gilbert public schools is committed to using our data meeting students where they

060are and and providing those instructional supports to continue to move students forward despite the challenges that we've seen over the last 18 months and may continue to see all right so to continue that same conversation over into the secondary schools if you will take a look at the graphic to see the same actual points from 2019 on the left and then the estimated points that our secondary schools received for the 2021 school year similar to the its exact same legend so you'll notice that we had five of our secondary schools that they had a an increase and that is something to be celebrated but one of the highlights that i would like to most bring everyone's attention to is mesquite junior they are our only secondary title school and so with serving that population our

061entire district was excited to just celebrate the fact that they not only our title but they also showed the largest increase in total points um which like we looked at over and over just because you know that's an exciting thing to celebrate um and are really excited to um call mr johnson and share that with him to just have him take that moment to celebrate with his staff and just share all the great things that they're doing there's a lot of targeted supports and interventions that are happening on that campus and to see this amount of growth we really do just look forward to seeing what next year brings because we feel like the trajectory that they're on is just going to continue that way and then looking at um with the the rest of

062the school you will notice uh even though we don't have as many secondary schools even in uh most cases up there you'll notice that even if they did dip it's within like a percentage to two and again when you talk about what's statistically significant and with the fact that we're not even comparing the exact same um variables to one another it it makes you wonder once we have that same consistency and we move into this spring what what outcomes we're going to have moving forward so we're very excited for our secondary schools and i am going to transition um so that you guys can have this site in front of you as i highlight some of the specific highlights from our secondary schools so 13 of our 14 secondary schools did earn bonus points so

063all of the schools there are bonus points that are available on the accountability measurement and those bonus points just as it sounds are kind of going above and beyond and are more difficult to earn and so even though our high schools no longer have growth points to see these added areas that we are hitting that aren't always easy to get to in all but one of our secondary schools was absolutely significant and something to be celebrated and then five of our high schools earned 10 of the 10 points for grad rates and just to give uh kind of a breakdown the graduation rate when you look at the accountability um it equates to 20 it used to in 2019 business rules it equated to 20 of the school accountability and school letter grade so in

064that 20 category our high schools 10 out of um they've all five of them have earned 10 out of the 10 full points that they can get for that category which is absolutely um phenomenal and then moving on from there we had five of our high schools that increased in the number of ap exams that were given from 2019 to 2021 and you'll notice up until this point we haven't talked about ap exams but as we look at like mrs burton said we're now moving away from just the state assessment we're talking more all of the pieces that go into the accountability model and when you look at that one of the pieces for high school is the ccri which is the college and career readiness index and indicator and that document is very extensive

065and really highlights students in two ways their access to coursework in advanced courses college readiness the national assessments that are out there to get into college and then the other side of that is the career exploration the cte coursework and so on and so when looking at those one of the areas that we wanted to highlight was with our ap exams because the we weren't sure um when we were breaking down the the data and looking at our points for the high school level that is a large component and we wanted to assure with everything um shifting and having to overcome some obstacles last year where where that data would land and just to share a little bit a lot of our teachers last year and our students had to be extremely flexible and to

066see that the number has increased across the district is huge for our district and what that tells us is that it didn't matter if students and teachers were at global if they were at home if they were in person if they were still at their same school if they were teaching an overload they found a way to prioritize getting into those advanced courses and um not only stay there but increase the number of exams that were that were taken and so that's something that we we hope to kind of celebrate on social media and just really um work with our ap coordinators to continue to increase that as well and in addition to that uh um i couldn't help but want to include another piece this is not a part of the ccri i'll be

067honest but i did want to share that in geps we had our number of ap scholars which there are about three to four different type of ap scholar accolades that can be earned and we had those increase um by 42 students so the number of students that earned those different designations went up by 42 and then we wanted to give a shout out and highlight camp overdean highland high school they are our two schools that offer their ap capstone schools and they offer the ap capstone diploma and in 2019 we had two earned diplomas and since then campo has now been an ap capstone for two years so they can now earn those diplomas and last year in 2021 the two schools were able to bring in 27 students that earned an ap capstone diploma

068moving on another area of the accountability model for the secondary is el proficiency with our el um students and eight of our ten i'm sorry all of our eligible campuses received eight of the 10 points which just shows again i talked about that earlier we're seeing significant increase in what is happening with our students that have that el designation and then with that we wanted to take a moment to highlight that desert ridge that in addition to being our only title school and being in addition to increasing the number of points from 2019 to 2021 they also when it comes to the el group they earned um 10 of the 10 points eligible for their el students so i again i i can't stop uh gloating about how well desert ridge has done if you

069can give them a shout out just congratulate them on the success that they're having those students are are working hard because we're seeing an increase in all of their subgroups in the areas that they've been targeting and focusing on so it really is something that their entire staff should be proud of um and then finally gilbert classical academy on the ccri which is that piece that the high school specifically has as a part of their accountability model um that is worth 20 points toward their overall or at least it was in 2019 we'll see what the state comes out with with the new formula but in um last year and then even this i'm sorry in 2019 and then again in 2021 gilbert classical academy earned all of those points and they were the only

070school in our in our secondary schools to earn all of those points and they cap out so if we could give gca the amount of points if it just could keep going past 20 i don't even know what they would be at but they're they're doing a great job with the college and career and pathways and exploration okay um excuse me i'm sorry reiterating our state assessment updates that dr newman started us off with i just want to turn your attention to spring of 2022 recalling that this will be the first year that we receive reported data for our new science assessment azsci and that that is a change of grade levels too um that's grades five eight and eleven um also it will be our first year for our new i'm not going i'm

071going to say aasa ela and math assessment for grades three through eight and that does stand for arizona's assessment uh and now i don't remember i'm sorry arizona's academic standards assessment i'm sorry i got nervous um and then dr cox is going to finish this slide so in addition uh we have a couple more additional um changes coming to the state assessments for our secondary so this year will be the first year that our ninth grade cohort are all required to take the act aspire and in addition our junior class will continue to take the act as their required assessment it's important to understand that moving forward the azm2 will no longer be a state assessment that is there um and what we from 2018 and 2019 uh between az merit and then azm2 and

072then there was a lot of talk about the menu of assessment the menu of assessment has gone away there is no we're not choosing and different districts aren't getting to choose choose which assessments are there which i think um personally is a positive thing and even better than that the state assessments that have been chosen are those national assessments that help our students for post-secondary their college and career pathways and so it allows us to look at the whole child and the bigger picture for their future so those will be the changes to the um the from the state and the updates that they have with assessment and accountability moving into the spring okay so what does that all mean we've looked at all that data so really it's only as meaningful as the next

073steps that we implement right and so we wanted to go over for you the work that we're doing to support schools and teachers and administrators and students to continue this progress as we move forward the first one teaching and learning is combining forces with administrative services to continue to provide administrative teams and campus plc's with very intentional support to analyze their data and make evidence-based decisions that will improve student outcomes i think everyone in this room understands that the state assessment is a snapshot of where students are at a given moment it is the day-to-day instruction the week to week work that students and teachers are doing with each other formatively that moves students forward and continues to create that progress and so that's something that we're working very hard to support on our campuses

074the next uh item that we are working on we are definitely capitalizing on the restructuring of that old curriculum and then assessment and accountability model the fact that we are now curriculum instruction and assessment is phenomenal we are super excited i think that principals are very excited to have that designated person at the elementary and secondary level where you can you don't have to figure out who's the correct person to go to if it's assessment or whatever it's we're capitalizing on that and i think that that is going to really help us to provide more cohesive support because we know that curriculum instruction and assessment are connected you cannot do one without the other and so that's something that we're working very intentionally on the next item gps instructional framework implement implementation while at this

075time campuses are going through the the overview of those five tenets design um excuse me connect design instruct assess and reflect the curriculum instruction and assessment team is already working on the year two implementation to provide additional supports for campuses teachers especially within the context of their grade level and their content area that they can utilize to support students in their needs and then training and resources so that is a fully formed resource that will continue to expand and grow and get better finally providing access to universal screeners to continue to target students needs so that we can help guide schools and in terms of whatever additional support they need whether it be additional tutoring whether that be at lunch after school i know that we have implemented some additional tutoring resources as a result

076of some funds that we were awarded so those are things that we're working hard to do additionally we're using those universal screeners to identify students for summer support programs also we are the students that participated in those summer support programs for uh summer of 2021 we are continuing to track their progress and will come full circle with them at the end of the school year to really decide how impactful those supports were throughout the school year and then in addition to that we are also doing a um what we're referring to as a reboot of our assessment platform so last year we um were at the place to roll out a new assessment platform which hindsight is always 20 20 but that's when it was going to start and so we had a lot of

077fun with that last year but we really were able to coming on board and joining the team and listening to a lot of the feedback that we got from summer administrating administrator meetings and planning with site administrators teachers there was a lot of feedback that was given and it was very clear that there was a lack of understanding about the new assessment platform so we really just started from scratch and rather than last year a lot of the trainings had to happen through webex we weren't able to bring out the experts from the the company we weren't able to um allow teachers to come in and work through things with them hand on hand to be able to help them be able to use the tool in the most efficient and effective way and get

078it into their classroom which is where we're gonna make a difference with students and so some of the things that we've already done and just our plan for this entire school year is we just pretended like it was year one all over again we uh did an initial training with all campus site testing coordinators so that they felt that we did a train the trainer model so we brought experts from the company out we were able to do a train the trainer model so that those site testing coordinators could go back and train their entire staff and they are now equipped instead of having to call mrs burton or myself they can now have those tools and know where to find them in the platform and what the connections are to be able to get

079answers to questions that they may have on the spot instead of having to to reach out when we have as many schools as we do then they're stuck waiting and so we didn't want them to have to wait in addition to that training we have set up trainings and began we've already started this but our district administrators that are out at sites helping if that's coaches coordinators directors even superintendency we have a different level of training that they are going through so that everybody can speak the same language where because of the change the verbiage all changes and where we used to have this commonality when we had ati and galileo everything is different and it doesn't equate to being the same so we have taken the time to make sure that all of our

080stakeholders are speaking the same language so there's less confusion because we realized too that there were a lot of times where somebody would be asking a question and when you really got to the root of their question they were asking using the wrong term to describe what they were trying to ask so we have done that as well and then we are um bringing out experts from the the company with the screeners so there's different aspects that tie into that and and we are really starting from scratch so um more than happy to answer any questions specifically on that but we are going to continue to try to get feedback from people and meet them where they are there are some schools that um were able to dive in deeper on their own and kind

081of ran with it last year and so we want to meet them where they are and if that means the next step is creating common assessments for plcs and getting that into the hands of the teachers and how to evaluate the data and run reports that's what we're doing with some for others it may be that they're still struggling when it comes to administering our district assessments or if there is a screener or something like that and maybe not knowing how to even find a report or what to do with it next and so if that's where a school or a plc or a certain level is at we're meeting them where they are in in that regard in addition to that we are in the platform we are working toward the creation of end

082of semester assessments for all of our secondary courses so when we have students that um transfer in and we used to have district assessments as the standards have changed the assessments that we use for different purposes um are are out of date and so this illuminate has a group of experts that are working with our coordinators to basically update our assessments that we are using and so that actually that body of work began last year and is continuing into this year and we have a plan in hopes to get through all of those core areas so that we have created assessments that are the same across the district and all of the areas dr cox yes and miss burton as it relates to that bullet point can you be specific as to one who the

083designers creators are of those assessments and what role does the classroom educator play in the design and creation of that yes so um and i'm going to answer this and fully look to brandy to chime in or mrs burton at any point to add to it because this has been her area of expertise for much longer but historically the district has had to rely on using our teachers to create these assessments and it's it's like a full-time job it's a lot of work and teachers are are unfortunately there they have a full-time job and creating assessments that are summative in that nature that align to standards and the complexity and the rigor that needs to be there it's a lot of work and so the company that we illuminate they do have a panel of

084experts that are content experts in every field that we're creating these assessments in and so historically if we brought in english teachers here we had to rely on which teachers were available which ones could work after hours and so sometimes if we were like i'll use math as an example we may be relying on department chairs to create an assessment for like algebra one and they may not be the algebra one teacher but that's the math teacher that we could get and they were doing the best that they could so we are pretty thrilled with the experts that we have now that's not the end-all be-all so our district coordinators who are content experts as well but may or may not have taught every single course within their content they are responsible for reviewing the

085blueprint and understanding the standards in the pacing guide and what is responsible there that gets communicated to the company who has this same expertise but this is their full-time job they create the test questions that meet the complexity the in-depth nature of the standard and what it is that we are wanting to see based on the student's skill level and deliverable once they create those assessments they get shared back with so it's a very it's a very long process they get shared back with the coordinators at this point coordinators um there's been a little bit of a different process that was used last year and now where there's going to be a cyclical type of review because whenever standards change and things like that at that point the coordinator is going to review it and

086provide feedback to the company if we either disagree with questions we know now um with different things changing even in our state that we want to make sure that while we work out of arizona and we know gilbert public schools policies and regulations that any of those standard questions are standards questions and not necessarily specific to a certain content or region and so it really should come back to the standard and not the content so the coordinator is reviewing it and vetting it for that and then they give that feedback the company then revises based on our need the coordinator at this point they may reach out to department chairs and get feedback from teachers to vet some of it but we are not having them send the entire test in in full length because

087of test security and we want to make sure that we maintain that level of test security to make sure that those assessments stay more confidential if that makes sense and we don't want them going through from email to email and potentially not being secure so that's the process at this point does that answer your question yeah so at at some point at full implementation because this is a constant revision process correct because the document never matures it continues to live correct i'm suspecting that our end goal is to seek common data relative to end of course on every campus so that we can derive similarities differences etc is that a correct assumption that is accurate and thank you i couldn't have articulated it better so yes thank you and that will in all of the

088conversations that i know are ongoing um with our governing board in our cabinet everything goes back to the instruction in the classroom our plc work our work with instructional framework it's all intertwined this isn't something new or different it's just a piece of the puzzle that provides that quantitative data to allow teachers to save some time it's there and then they can move forward and the assessment platform in itself allows teachers to create even their own common assessments weekly in the same exact fashion where it's attached to the standard and it has all of those capability capabilities that you just discussed within a smaller conversation and then with the body of work that we're doing right now the long-term goal is to provide though that as a summative district-wide and like the bigger end picture

089so thank you i'm impressed with one that we've alleviated that burden from the classroom teacher since they do have a full-time job as you pointed out but that there is a feedback mechanism where their input is factored into the final assessment in some form and and that there is also obviously the utilization of that particular assessment and their strand of the curriculum so that they can evaluate even further so uh glad to see that that we've come upon something that allows the educator to be a significant participant but not have all of the burden of creating the assessment and then evaluating its design and its data points so thank you you're welcome and thank you i we just appreciate the support um that the board has given in in allowing us to move in this

090direction so it's been a like i said this this body of work started a year two years ago with planning last year attempting to roll it out and implement during a pretty difficult year and so we're excited now with some of those um uh barriers in the way um things are better this year and it's allowing us to move in a direction that's more positive and and it's going to get better year after year so a couple of other things that we just want to add is the um one assessment that you'll you'll note that is going to be added in and we're really excited to use this for many different reasons is the psat nmsqt we are going to be administering that to all of our 10th graders and this is going to allow

091us now that our two state assessments are those national assessments they are there's going to be some some work to be done since those are not necessarily state standards test which is what we've seen historically so there's a positive there and that we know that it is it is going to allow us to focus on the students future and where they're going and but with that we also know that we need to put in different interventions and targets and supports to help our students to be able to be successful on these new state assessments and so the psat we were very grateful that uh the district has supported us and being able to implement this so thank you um but with that it is they are now partnered with khan academy and so once we

092do this fall administration all of that data will be received the they say the first week of december so i'll be waiting december 1st for that and once that starts we hope to have uh we we will have a plan to and we're already we've already started having conversations to train and educate um all of the stakeholders on what each of these assessments mean and then what available resources are there to support and help the progress and improvements with our students and it really with all of the assessments that we've talked about for the high school level specifically they they come with so many benefits because they do um like student interest inventory and so there is other data that we will get back that is beyond just taking an assessment that helps us to

093really meet the students where they are what their goals are what their future like based on what the data gives us and so the data that comes from this will help us to do that and then in addition to that it will give us identifiers of students that could potentially qualify next year as a junior as a national merit and we do have several national merit students across the district each year and our hope is that with this that it will just increase that number which for everybody just to to even say it for anybody that's watching the board meeting um national merits the the scholarships i mean that's full ride um to a four-year university at some of our most prestigious institutions in the united states and so it is a huge recognition but

094it also comes with um a lot of positive scholarship and opportunities for them in their future so we're excited to move forward on that and then the one of the things that we want to touch on as well is when i'm going to note back to some of the data we we noticed that our english data there was a little bit where we saw the degree decrease being a little bit more of a decline even though we're still above the state and the county when we when we see that we want to act on it and be proactive and not reactive and so um noting that that was in english we are excited to uh just share with everybody as most of you already know that we are doing a 7 through 12 ela curriculum

095adoption and we believe that through that work and getting a more up-to-date current curriculum for our 7th through 12th grade that that is going to be the support that's needed to bring our students and what's happening in the classrooms and really help support the teachers um with updated curriculum that's going to meet the needs of the standards but also something that's rigorous enough and has the supports to meet all of the needs of what we've discussed up until this point so we just wanted to thank you one more time for allowing us to move in the direction to do that adoption and show the connection to the data and where we feel like it's going to make a an impact in the classroom and on our data student by student and then big picture accountability

096data so at this time that is the end of our formal presentation but mrs burton and i are both open for questions so are there any questions that we can answer for you board members any questions i i i do have a comment and a question so first off thank you i really appreciate digging in and hearing about our students and using data as a flashlight so that we can really take each student help them where they are instead of you know when i went to school as kind of people learned it or they didn't and you just went on and instead of doing that we're making sure that each student learns what they need to know so they can make the next step instead of struggling and continuing to struggle we help them with

097that and i really really appreciate that that's so important for everyone to be successful and to reach those high expectations that we have the question i had has to do with the ela adoption because we talked about consumables and i do since i was part of the springboard adoption i do remember bringing in the consumable book that got carried around a lot and it was very beaten up how are we going to manage with consumables because these aren't heavy-duty textbooks so that they last through the year and students can use them so and i i may defer to dr newman but i i know at this point um in the process with the adoption we are currently receiving all of the different call for resources and so we're we're that's where we're at and so

098i know that last year the attempt was looking at trying to do the adoption um and knowing that we're starting now we're in the very early phases of that timeline i know that there has been conversation about the consumables and even what the curriculum is going to look like in regard to digital resources versus that accessibility to homework and while being in the class and sustaining uh for all of those pieces um for like just sustaining the um longevity of them and so i i guess without being a part of the conversation to what you're referencing i don't know specifically um if you're just asking like i guess i'm i'm needing a little clarity on what about the consumables that you're curious about well i i guess just that i in thinking about it after

099our last discussion at the last uh board meeting where we were talking about this um there was a board meeting where a student brought in their consumable textbook curled up battered because you know our prior practice has been a set of textbooks in the classroom and a set of textbooks at home consumables we didn't do that and so just in having to be carried around and and their paper not hardback they're just more i wouldn't say fragile but more apt to to have challenges and i just want to think about that as we're dealing with students also you know how much students carry with them and in their backpack is always an issue because yeah we don't have any lockers and if they have a sports team they have to carry all that as well

100as their so i think when we talk about the adoption and we're looking at those pieces we need to think about those parts absolutely and i appreciate you sharing and we do have um our first committee meeting which i believe is uh the week after we return from fall break um i will gladly i'm a part of all of those committee meetings so i'll gladly bring that and share that um i at this time right now i will share that a lot of our conversation too is when we lasted a curriculum adoption for ela and when you talk about a textbook here in a textbook that we as a district have moved in a different direction altogether with even having one-to-one devices and so technology has advanced so much and our district is very supportive

101of that so the different options we're looking at compared to where we were and even what's happening right now are vastly different but i i will definitely bring that and be prepared for that um when we are coming back specifically to talk about the ela adoption okay ela and math because um you know i mean it's just so important to to make sure it's accessible and you know i'm sure those kids are way more technology um able than i am in you know looking at and performing to those things but you know each child is different we just have to make sure that we take those things into account absolutely so i really appreciate all the hard work that's been put in and this discussion student achievement should be our focus and is our focus

102as a board and so i really appreciate all that you guys are you two are doing and the whole department of teaching and learning i think that's really important thank you board members anything else thank you guys dr newman dr cox ms burton thank you very much i think it has portends some really great things for vertical articulation as well within the entire district so congratulations it's work well done we'll move to item seven those two reports were timely and very beneficial item seven is consent agenda items and we are open and available for emotion i'm i move that we approve the consent agenda items as presented thank you ms eugetti is there a second oh second thank you mrs wood there is a motion and a second is there any discussion mr parker i'm

103just checking to see if you're still with us i'm still here thank you seeing that there is no discussion then we will vote on the consent agenda as presented all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye all right all those pose the same motion carries five zero we'll now move to item eight which is action items for consideration discussion direction and possible approval most of these items if not all of these items are first read policy issues so we move to item 8.01 policy development first read iib dr mccord any introductory remarks thank you dr santa cruz governing board members we bring for you tonight four policies that have went through the first read at the policy committee meeting bringing in their bringing them here for your approval the first one is policy

104iib which is class size it specifically calls out special education and that is where this policy originated from through asba through the legislation of this last last year that just ended this summer and so we're required to have something in writing in regards to class size for special education and this is what has come from again on advice from asba thank you dr mccord you've heard the introductory remarks is there a motion i move that we approve policy development first read of policy iib class size thank you ms eugetti is there a second a second thank you mrs humphries any discussion i would just like to to add so that the public knows that there's been a lot of discussion on all four of these prior to this as dr mccord said in our our

105policy meetings thank you mr eugetti with no further discussion we will vote on item 8.01 all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye all those pose the same motion carries five zero item eight point zero two is the first read policy bdf dr mccord thank you dr santa cruz governing board members again this has went through the first read at a policy committee meeting basically this is highlighting that any governing board advisory committee that is developed by the governing board and their appointed members as such needs to follow the open meeting law procedures and that means they have to have minutes and post those meetings so we wanted to make sure that we got that into policy and followed state law thank you dr mccord you've heard the rationale review is there a

106motion on 8.02 i move that we approve 8.02 policy development for street of policy bdf advisory committees thank you miss wood is there a second second thank you jenny and mr parker any discussion seeing that there is no further discussion we'll vote on item 8.02 first read policy bdf all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye all those opposed the same motion carries five 5-0 item 8.03 first read policy bedd dr mccord thank you dr santa cruz governing board members again another recommendation by asba this was born out of some of the issues that governing boards experienced not just in our state but nationwide essentially adding another letter point to this policy which states the governing board president may recess the meeting without a vote of the governing board in order to maintain

107decorum and the governing board meeting rules of order thank you dr mccord item 8.03 first read is there your emotion submit thank you miss humphries is there a second second thank you mrs eugenie any discussion i just would yes this is just the first read and so we will take it back to policy and we've received some input on it as well from our public so we'll we'll definitely discuss this at policy meeting yes this will go back for round two dr santa cruz thank you i i do appreciate the comments on policy um but a lot of times our policies we receive policy advisories through the arizona school board association for legal reasons sometimes we have to put those things in and i think this is one of those where they just want to

108clarify what might be a common practice for a recess but you know we're all board members learning as we go and in a difficult situation it's nice to have things spelled out i'm sure so but we can look and see what the legal actual legal requirements are yes and be sure that there are i want to discuss this again is what i'm saying yes there is no problem and that's why we're doing a first read it will go back for policy review on policy committee and we'll discuss further and bring it back for a vote on a second read and adoption so we will any further discussion if not then we will vote on item 8.03 first read b-e-d-d policy those favor please signify by saying aye aye those opposed the same motion carries 5-0

1098.04 policy development first read policy b-e-d-h dr mccord thank you dr santa cruz governing board members if you'll recall we actually did a second read on this policy about a month ago and then we got the policy advisory and there was something added in and that was letter e basically it says presentations for unsolicited services will not be permitted companies or businesses offering services of possible interest to the district should send information to the district office for distribution to the appropriate school district department and and and i read that as people aren't allowed to get up and and sell us stuff during board meetings does anybody read that differently there's a process for that i can i concur with your your assessment 8.04 is there a motion so moved thank you miss humphreys is there

110a second second thank you ms eugetti any discussion again this is the first trade so we'll discuss it again correct all right seeing no further discussion we'll vote on item 8.04 first read policy b-e-d-h all those in favor please signify by saying aye hi those pose the same motion carries five zero item nine request for future agenda items nine point zero one again board members should you have any items for a future agenda please make contact with miss wilson and we will submit your request and review that for an agenda item 10. board committee reports item 10.01 gilbert ed foundation mrs humphries um so we will be having our bowl-a-thon on september 30th my understanding is that our community has been very supportive and we are sold out um all the lanes have been purchased

111and it's i would imagine it's our biggest fundraiser for the gilbert education foundation and so we're very appreciative of that also the gilbert education foundation is celebrating its 20th year so we look forward to doing some special things to mark the occasion of 20 years since the foundation was begun thank you mr humphries item 10.02 city of mesa liaison mrs wood i spoke with um city councilman kevin thompson and nothing to report that has to do with our schools right now thank you mrs woods item 10.03 is town of gilbert liaison we don't have a board member currently attached to that dr mccord did you have anything of import at this time nothing uh yet i know the town of gilbert is doing a bond election this year for transportation infrastructure but other than that

112that's about it okay item 10.04 is finance and audit committee mr parker did you have anything to add there we'll be having our meeting on the 19th of october thank you sir item 10.05 insurance trust representative ms eugetti i have nothing to add at this time thank you item 10.06 legislative information and i have nothing additional to add at this time item 11 is meeting dates dr mccord dr santa cruz governing board members we have basically three meetings in october october 12th is a board work study a brief board business meeting october 19th is our board policy committee and october 26th is our board business meeting thank you sir item 12 is adjournment we have reached the conclusion of our business is there a motion summit thank you miss humphries is there a second second

113thank you mr mrs wood thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn is there any discussion seeing that there is none we will vote all those in favor of adjournment please signify by saying aye hi those probably the same motion carries 5-0 thank you for your attendance here this evening and for those of you who watched on live stream have a good evening we are adjourned