001Hi. Uh, is this Hector? Yes. This is Tom Clark from the boardroom. Uh, piping you into the audio. All right. Thank you, Tom. She did. All right. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the June 12th meeting for the Glendale Elementary School District governing board. Miss Sagata Jones, are there any changes to the agenda this afternoon? Good evening, President Martinez. No, there are not. That is there a motion to adopt the agenda? I'll move to adopt the agenda. Second. Right. Mr. Hadmo, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimementel, how do you vote? I. Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I. And chair votes I. Please join me in a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance. Please rise. I feel the need to ask, but are there any
002calls to the public? No, there are none. For those of you watching at home, there is no public here today. Everyone took the day off. All right, moving on to our consent agenda items. Are there any comments or questions regarding the consent agenda? Hearing none, is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. All right. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimentel, how do you vote? I. Miss Bartell's, how do you vote? I. And chair votes I. Thank you. Moving on to reports and information items. Starting with the 2025 Arizona academic standards assessment data. Miss Sigata Jones. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board, we're going to have Dr. Jerry Peterson and Carvia present the 2025 ASA district
003data. I do want to say that um all the data points from the state are not in so you won't see the um predictions of letter grades at this time and he'll just do an overview of that data and then once we have um all data in the final um uh information that we need then we'll come back and give you those ratings at that time. Dr. Peterson. Good afternoon, President Martinez, members of the board, Superintendent Gata Jones. As uh Superintendent Scott Jones said, this will be a very high level show of our data for all students. We're still working through getting all the data and analyzing all the data and disagregating all the data um for everything. So, this will be a very very high level and then we'll come back with more details
004um at a later time. as she said, we're still missing three data points from the state. So, um we need to um which isn't not which is normal at this time, but um we're just missing those three data points still to make any kind of predictions. So, this is 2025 AASA district data. And the first one you'll see is you'll see it's back to the four colors. I know that you liked the two colors last time, but it's back to the four colors this time because that's how AASA data is presented to us. So, this is ELA by grade, left to right, third grade to 8th grade, 2024 data versus 2025 data. Our ELA um you can see that we do have some uh bits of celebration. seventh grade and eighth grade ELA actually decreased
005in minimally proficient and increased in the other areas which is great to see. Typically, or I should say historically the upper grades kind of have had historically the other um way where you see more minimally proficient. So, it was really nice to see that um it was kind of bucking that trend. um four fifth grade on up kind of had the trend of lowering minimally proficient whereas our third and fourth grade we need to look at and figure out what we're going to do about those grade levels um as well that actually um the third grade data just so you know um parallels if you've heard of the NAPE assessment which is given across the nation the national assessment of educational progress um it mirrors that data nationally So, um, and just I don't know
006if this is the reason, but something that we did figure out the other day is that the third grade, our third graders this year were the first year of COVID um, as kindergarteners. So, I don't know if that's the reason. I can't say that's correlated that way, but it is something for us to think about. And when we create our plans for kindergarten through 2 grade, we need to take those things into consideration as well. math looks a lot better. Um, as you can see, our um our intermediate math uh looks pretty good. Um, we and in every grade level, we reduce the minimally proficient in every grade level um across the board for all students. Um, so that is a great trend to see. Um, again, upper grades typically historically go the other way,
007even with math. Um, so it's it's nice to see that the trend is going the other direction, uh, lowering the minimumly proficient and increasing the other, um, highly proficient and and proficient scores. So, really, what's next? Today, um, it just so happens today was our data dig. Um, our district data dig. Um, in this room, we turned all this over. um in just a couple minutes actually. Um it was a great day because we celebrated the um not only academic data but department data too um and department celebrations. Um it was a lot of fun. It was the theme was cheerleading. Bring it on. Um bring it on uh actually and then a little more professionally um clarity, capacity and coherence. So that's kind of what our theme is for the year that get really
008clear about what we're going to do, build the capacity of everybody to do it and then make sure that it's coherent across the board across the district and there's alignment there. So that was the theme of today. They got to make spirit sticks with the cheerleading theme. They had to make a cheer when their slide came up with their data. It was a lot of fun. Um I'm sure we have some pictures from that that will be posted and it was um it was just a good day all around. So that was today. So they're going to have sitebased versions of those next once people come back after summer break. Um we're going to provide very intentional professional development content. This is our first year in a couple years that we have not had an
009adoption of new textbooks. Um so we can really now focus on not just adop the this is a brand new textbook, but now we've had a year with it. We know it a little bit better. We know the content better. we know the resource better and so we can delve in a little bit more with that. So that's that's a great opportunity for us. We're going to provide clarity and implement the very best first instruction. We started with that with some clarity today about what best first instruction really looks like for all students. Um and then obviously we're continuing our collaborative teamwork. um the Arizona essential standards. Um the Department of Education this year um put out new essential standards and said these ones you need to be taught all standards, but these ones you
010need to master. And so they went back to that model that they've had in years past. Um which is very helpful for us so that we're not just shooting in the dark about what we really need to focus on and what's really important or a priority. So we created our new uh GSD pacing guides with um feedback and recommendations and revisions from teacher groups. Uh we had a teacher committee. It was rolled out to teachers um to give feedback. Uh site administration, achievement advisors, instructional coaches, district office, um educational services all had feedback on that. So those now are produced and given out. Um, and we're really going to focus on getting to instructional strategies this year. That idea of um, not every not everybody that comes to us has all the training and can
011implement everything from day one. And so we're really going to focus on those strategies that give a really big bang for the buck and um, help everybody get their students to um, proficiency and grow. And then lastly, we're going to what we always do is we like to monitor the implementation of effective practices. And we've always learned that you can't monitor without also supporting. You have to have both. And so we're going to be very clear and um intentional on our work in that. So with that, um that I can take any questions that you have or any comments. Um but I'm I'm excited about this next year and um especially that math. It's really nice to see the minimally proficient being reduced for us. I'd like to one as a comment like I'm I'm
012always proud especially when we see that our kids we're seeing that the work is paying off and we're seeing that they're making the progress and hopefully the kids see that too. Um the other part that a essential standards since you guys are the experts in that do those look like key things that they truly are the building blocks for everything else along the way. Yeah, great question. Um, members of the board, um, President Martinez, um, uh, board member Bartell's, the, um, not all of the standards changed from what we thought that they were the essential standards before. So, they kept some of those, but did change others. And the reason for that is because the work that was done at the state level before this year, I believe they may have horizontally aligned the standards
013across the grade level, saying these are important for third graders. These are important for fourth graders, but they didn't do this. They didn't always vertically align that way. And so this h they vertically aligned this time. So if and I know it's an acronym, but reading for information 1.0 is important in third grade, it's also important in fourth grade. So that you can see a staircase. We call it a staircase of complexity um over time. And that it's not this we're focusing here one year, then here one year, then here one year. That you can actually see that over time now. Yes. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Moving on to our next uh information item, the principal and teacher evaluation ratings. Miss Sagata Jones. Yes, President
014Martinez. At this time, Miss Debbie Valadz will present those ratings as required each year. Oh, thank you. I'm just loud and could hear myself. The evaluation outcomes of the principles and the teachers, nothing. Our instrument has not changed. The domains and the elements are the same as well as what the overall rating. It's still the same. the 67% and the 33%. The domains are the same on the teacher evaluation instrument. The data part is still the same on the instrument. Uh this is where there's a slight change from uh just because numbers have changed, but here's the aggregate teacher classifications for this school year. Then we go into the principal components. Again, the percentages stay the same. The standards are the same. The growth data is the same. And here's the overall ratings for the
015principles. And I know, thank you very much. Do you have any questions for me? Any questions from the board? I love the short and sweet presentations. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to our action items. First, action item 6A, review and second reading of revised policy manual for section B, schoolboard governance and operations. Now that everybody has some extra time to have read over the uh policy changes, are there any questions or comments? All right. With that, is there a motion to approve the second reading for section B? I move to approve the second reading of the revised policy manual section B as presented. Second. All right. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimentel, how do you vote? I. Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I.
016And the chair votes I. Moving on to section uh item 6B, policy revision first reading. Um Miss Sagata Jones, I'll turn this one over to you. Yes. The first one you'll see is IHA basic instructional program. In this new policy, it's requiring the observance days of September 11 um that we will have to provide instruction to students in any grades 7 through um 12. And she'll be age appropriate as outlined in statute. So that's that first one. And then J Lif, the sex offender notification is letting us know through statute that um if it's been determined by the agency to offender has been determined by the agency to be a level one offender who's been convicted or of dangerous crime against children as defined in the statute or a level two at a minimum income
017risk or at a level three at a high risk offender. the child school must be notified if the offender has legal custody of the child and those are the changes um to those policies. Are there any questions? If there's no questions, is there a motion to approve the first reading? I'll move to approve first reading of policy IHA, basic instructional program, and policy JLif, sex offender notification. All right. Is there a sec? Second. Mr. Hado, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Fmentel, how do you vote? I. Miss Bartell's, how do you vote? I. And the chair votes I. Moving on to item seven is future meetings and agenda item requests. Uh, Mr. Gutter Jones, what do we have coming up? Um, yes. on the future meetings uh you'll
018see the proposed expenditure budget and uh the superintendent's performance criteria because there's a July one deadline but also we will have the study session for that um and that will begin at 4 but um prior well prior to that though and we need to just confirm we will go into executive session and then um have a study session so um that's That's coming up on the 26th. Okay. Make sure everyone is aware on your calendar. I expect the 26th will be a relatively longer meeting for us. Yes, we will have the dem demographer um presenting. Okay. All right. Any comments or questions from the board? Yes, I have a comments. Um, I'll be out of the country on the 26th. Uh, I won't be there in person. Just to repeat, you'll be out of country
019on the 26th. Yes. Okay. All right. Thank you, sir, for letting us know. Uh, we will go ahead and move on to the summary of current events. Miss Sagata Jones, what has gone on lately? Yeah, I have a just a presentation. Just one I wanted to share with you um the results we have of the um our surveys, our parent surveys, and then our culture and climate school surveys. So, I want to go ahead and present that. Can I do that from here, Tom? Thank you. Each year we um survey as you know we do a parent survey and then each school does a climate uh survey. So I want to share the results of the parent survey we had 1,214 parent responses uh and the over one of the questions I'm just going to
020give you the questions and then the overall percentages. So the school's overall ratings um either the parents rated us A, B or C in those categories. Um 89 percent of those parents rated this their schools A, B or C. We go down to um these questions. Let me go through those. And we did the amount the percentages of the strongly agree and agree. So my child's teacher provides extra help when necessary. 89% of the parents believe that I'm satisfied with the academic opportunities this school is providing for my child. 84.8% believe that my child's teacher has high expectations for his or her achievement. 90% my child's teacher keeps me sufficiently informed about his or her educational progress, issues or problems at 86%. My child can tell me his or her academic goals, 84% and I'm
021satisfied with my child's understanding of what he or she should know and be able to do academically at 85.5%. Then we go to at my child's school discipline issues are handled in a fair and appropriate manner. 77% strongly agree agree with that. My child's teacher is the first person I hear from regarding their behavior. 84% I know what my child's classroom behavioral expectations are. 94% I receive clear communication regularly regarding my child's or regarding my child's behavior 85%. The school provides me with support and resources I need to help my child with his or her schoolwork 83% my child's school promoted kindness 88% my child's school cares about the social emotional well-being my child at 84.8% 8% my child looks forward to attending school 84%. My child or children in a safe environment during the
022school day 89.9%. And then I would become more This is a question we asked um a couple different ones. I would become more involved in school activities if more events were in evening or morning um 429. Um if there was child care 156 interpreters were available 265 and there was transportation 96. So we'll work on um those interpreters is a little concerning to me because we do provide interpreters. So I need to find out at the school level exactly what is happening there because we do provide um interpreters. Um from what source do you get most of your information about the school? The website 133. Your child 468 school newsletter 292. Friends 36. Classroom app 537. And that's like class dojo. Teachers 3.99. Um classroom website 58 and Facebook 65. When sharing school information, I
023prefer to receive communication through a telephone call 355, email 591, classroom app class dojo, or what we're using 562, school flyer 234, newsletter 154, and social media post 48. So, they really do like those classroom apps and that's because it's if you've ever received those, it's personal to what's happening within that classroom and with your child. And then, how interested you are, this is a new question asked, how interested are you in tuition based before andor after school care for your child? Not interested in tuition based care 362. Interested in before school care 312. interested in both before and after school care 168 interested in afterchool care 57. So there weren't high percentages of that um interest in that before after school care but um what I do believe I think and it's just my
024belief is that because we have been able in the past to provide after school programs like mosaic clubs that often are going till 5 or 5:30 that replaces the need for a daycare childare support. So that could be the reason. Um for the climate and culture surveys, we I wanted just to highlight the celebrations across the district. I have adequate strategies. These are from our teachers and staff. Um and it's all staff. I have adequate strategies to solve discipline problems before sending students to the front office. 90% in 2023 to 95% in 2025. So that's great because I know Dr. Ley and his department have been working on that. Um, at my school, all students are treated similarly with regard to consequences associated with problem behavior and violations of discipline code and from 72% to
02580% in 2025. And then my school recognizes students who genuinate positive behaviors and achievement 87% to 94%. So you see an increase in that. So I just wanted to share that's you know the surveys are long. they have all those questions and but the easiest way is just to give you a summary of that and highlight those important things and we'll continue um each building level administrator goes back and shares the results with their staff and they uh determine you know what they can do to better improve in the errors that were um concerns for them. And then with the parent survey, we always go back to the superintendent's parent advisory group as well and ask what questions would you like, you know, us to put on the survey and share that results with them
026as well. Any questions and that concludes my report. Thank you. other than it's been an incredible school year. Um we did have the data day great celebrations. It's always nice to end that way. But again, just an incredible school year. Want to thank all staff u for their hard work. The community for their continuous support um with everything that we do. We do have, as you know, some difficult decisions that are ahead of us and we will have that study session, but we will do that. But just um again to the board, thank you for your continued support and I just want everybody to go away or stay home or do whatever you need to do for the summer and just enjoy yourself and enjoy time. Everybody's worked hard and everybody needs just time to
027themsel. We always kid here that you know it's just nice having a 4 day week and that extra day makes a world of difference when we're able to do a 410. It kills us by the time summer ends but right now it's it's real good. So um that's all. All right. Thank you. Um, moving on to the governing board report. We will start with Mr. Hadmo. Do you have anything to share with us? I'll keep it short and sweet. Um, just sorry I couldn't be there in person. I got hurt at work. Uh, currently recovering from that. I'm taking physical therapy, so that's why I'm not there in person. And that concludes my report. All right. Thank you, Miss Wilson. Oh. Um, well, just to say that, uh, a little update, uh, that three of
028the board members plus, uh, Superintendent Sigata Jones and Miss Powell were, we got back from, uh, Flag Staff this Saturday, went to the, uh, Arizona School Board Association leadership conference, which, um, is always good. It's not only nice to get out of Phoenix for a little bit and into the cooler weather, but, um, there were some good sessions. Um, I have to, uh, in in light of, um, you know, in all districts and I'm speaking with a lot of board members from other districts. The the problem with the decline in enrollment. Um but there was a session on absenteeism that I think is is really important and um I think everybody's focusing on that. Uh they had been last year and we'll continue to do that. So um looking forward to seeing some improvements in
029that. Um the AASA data was promising. You know, I'm I'm anxious to see what this next year will bring. Um, so thanks to all of our staff and and um everyone, the community, parents for all you did this last year and just uh looking forward to having a nice calm summer and uh see everybody in the fall. Fall. No, not really fall. Summer, end of summer. All right. Thank you, Miss Pimementel. I'm going to start out with saying happy early Father's Day to all the dads out there, all the uncles, the moms who are single that pulled double duty, grandparents, neighbors, everybody that uh participates in a child's life in a strong and meaningful way. I think it's important to recognize them to make stronger children for all of us. I I want to um
030take a moment to celebrate if people don't know what our mosaic of minds is all about. It's about everything coming together. If you've ever seen any of our buses, if you've seen the our shirts, we are a mosaic of minds and we are a collection of different colors and sizes and shapes. And uh the beauty of it is that we all deserve to be se celebrated and we all all of our children deserve to feel safe in our community. There's a lot of uh tension out there right now, but I'd like to reinforce that again in our community. Um no matter where you're from and wherever you are in our mosaic, you are celebrating safe here in GESD. And thank you for the uh AASA information uh from Dr. Peterson and Kvaya and uh Miss
031Saga Jones's celebrations info was great as well. And uh to reiterate what uh Miss Sagata Jones said, enjoy your summer and uh stay safe. Thank you, Miss Martell's. Um I I do appreciate the the fact that we're seeing that the work that has been going on for several years in a row. I mean, everybody's rowing the boat in the same direction and we're seeing that progress for all of our kids because in the end, they are the ones they need to find that success for themselves as well. Um, also, um, alluding to our summer leadership institute, um, with so many districts having declining enrollment and us as well, we had a session that was the things to look at on the budget form that are kind of red flags for um, the possibility of welcoming
032receiverhip into your district. Um, and I am proud to say that this district has gone above and beyond to make sure we understood exactly where we were at. The fact that there was a reality, no matter what it looks like, we needed to we needed to address it. We couldn't ignore it. Um, but also was very clear on what our position was and what we needed to do to, you know, still be GESD. So, thank you very much. Um, just wish everybody, you know, stay safe, but enjoy your summer, you know, time with family, friends. Thank you. All right. Uh, I will keep it short. So, thank you. I I know it was exhausting going through all the data dig stuff today and just mentally exhausting and I imagine that's why there's literally no one
033else here but six of us, something like that. Um, so I appreciate all the work you guys put in for that. I appreciate, you know, being able to look at that uh very very high level report. It'll look interesting to see uh as you guys kind of get into a lot of the details of that, what comes of what changes we need to make. Uh again, had great time at the Flagstaff SLI for ASBA. Um Maryanne and Brenda and I car pulled up there and back. We stopped at Rock Springs. Each of us got a pie. Each of us are a little bit fatter today than we were a week ago. Um, but but I I appreciate the time I got to spend with my fellow board members. I appreciate our ability to the other
034district board members that we were able to network with while we were up there because we're all kind of in the same boat. We all had to share share the same uh concerns about, you know, what's going on right now with, you know, enrollment and education and and legislation and things like that. So it was a great conference and is one of the few opportunities that we get to actually sit with our peers and discuss things that we have a a you know we have a common goal in accomplishing. So um I just want to say thank you everybody. Um enjoy it. I know it's like 118 degrees outside right now so be careful when you touch that steering wheel for the first time. With that is there a motion to adjurnn? Move to adjurnn.
035Second. All those in favor? I I I have a great