001e e e good evening everybody welcome to the uh December I'm jumping ahead of myself welcome to the February 27th meeting for the Glendale Elementary School District governing board uh please let the minute show we have all five members uh present and accounted for Mr gut Jones are there any changes to the agenda this evening good evening president Martinez M the board no there are not all right is there a motion to adopt the agenda I'll move to adopt the agenda second second Miss Bartel how do you vote hi Miss Wilson how do you vote hi Miss pel how do you vote hi Mr har how do you vote hi and chair votes I thank you please join me in a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance please rise okay moving on
002to our special recognitions Miss sagata Jones the kanana student of the month please yes president Martinez members of the board I'll introduce our president for Kanas Glendo kuas is Roger cter if you'll come to the podium Cindy sagot Jones gesd board members and staff thank you all for having me here tonight um my name is Roger cter the president of the kianus club of Glendale tonight I am here to recognize the kianis club and superintendent student of the month for February 2025 this award is special because a student has been chosen by the superintendent for her hard work passion for helping others and and helping make our community a better place is with great pride that we award student of the month Challenger School 7th grade student Azera sakaria azer stand over here be great
003all right I'm gonna say some good things about you okay is that all right um let's pronounce ayra h ayra a okay ayra is truly an outstanding individual who excels in all areas of school life with perfect attendance this year she demonstrates dedication and commitment to her education she has earned a place on the principal's honor role for her academic achievements including excel exceling in algebra not only is she a scholar but she also shines as an athlete actively participating in flag football soccer and softball as a leader asyra contributes to the school Community by serving on the student council and assisting as a junior teacher for a third grade third grade class her hard work leadership and positive attitude make her a role model for her peers thank you for all of us from
004the Glendale Club so I have a a assigned state statement from you for your outstanding Community work and a $50 gifts card to Walmart thank you so thank you you want do you have anything do you have anything to say all right I go to I guess I go to M hello hello hello [Music] thank you so much thank you I see you have a kit kat so I'm assuming he can have that Che for each of you thank you so much nice to see you again too thank you so much thank you great jat great job congratulations so proud of you okay you thank you so much we appreciate you oh also AAR one more thing you get to choose from the treasure chest anything you would like oh sure she's G to get
005those you're welcome thank you so much so proud of you now we will have uh Roger wiell do uh the kanan's school award and it's our monthly School award sir Roger thank you the Glendale Elementary School District and kuanana Club of Glendale have developed an award that recognizes the school in the district that demonstrates unwavering dedication to Servant leadership and provides significant service to the community this is the award this award is is is the commitment to Servant leadership award each month a school in the district will be named the inspiring change School of the month the Kanas inspiring chain school for this month for the month of February is Horizon School there you go thank you just wait here a second I'm going to say some good things about your school that right um
006the staff students and community of horizon school have done a remarkable job of not only elevating academics and dual language at their school but have increased the number of students in Mosaic clubs and increased the number of each opportunities for their folkloric ensembles specifically The Horizon folkloric ensembles have performed their for their School site Community many times throughout the year and for the larger community at the celebration of the Arps for the past couple of years their success has has been pal palpable and has increased when they were asked to perform now bear with me on this this is going to be a tongue twister they were asked to perform for the greater Phoenix educational management Council County meeting the Arizona School Board Association Arizona School administrators associ association annual conference and the Arizona school
007public relations Association awards ceremonies right these opportunities have given the students the ability to see the fruits of their effort and to also engage the community in their Outreach Horizon School staff students and families are consistently thinking of new and innovative ways to increase involvement to the point of Engagement with their Community horiz Horizon School inspires the school Community to do its best thank you that's a traveling trophy so next month someone else will get it so thank you Roger now you know why in education we use acronyms yeah I think so I I got that message than [Applause] all right thank you congratulations Horizon congratulations to our kanana student month moving on in our agenda do we have any calls to the public this evening no we do not president Martinez okay moving on
008to the consent agenda is there a motion to approve the consent agenda items move to approve the consent agenda and I'll second Miss Bartels how do you vote I miss Wilson how do you vote I miss Pentel how do you vote I miss Mr Hado how do you vote I the chair votes I thank you moving on to reports and information items our 2025 Benchmark 2 assessment results Miss Zagat Jones yes president Martinez members of the board uh this evening Dr Jerry Peterson in C is going to present the benchmarks unfortunately assistant superintendent Norma haigi who usually presents she's not with us this evening she's a I'm sure she's listening so Norma thank you for all your work we appreciate it with that Dr Jerry Peterson and car good evening president Martinez members of the
009board superintendent sakata Jones and Miss Hy I hope I do you proud um I'm here to present the Benchmark 2 uh results for this school year Benchmark 2 happened in December so it was quite a bit ago we're actually on the verge of Benchmark 3 in a week so um we're uh getting down to the wire before our state testing as well so um just a couple things before we start to go through the PowerPoint you're going to see it look a little bit different tonight um I don't know if you remember but last school year was the last school year that we had Galileo um and I forgot the new name but Galileo as our assessment um platform was last school year and then we did an RFP and we awarded it to renissance
010DNA um and that was approved last uh spring for implementation this school year so with the new assessment platform comes new reports and new ways of looking at things and so we're still working on some of those reports right now but um I'll explain when we get to the slide exactly what you're looking at um because it is going to look a little bit different so this is our third grade ELA standards percent correct usually you saw before like a gradation of colors um of proficiency and that is a report that we can create it's just takes a little bit longer and it takes us a little bit more finagling to do so we um but this is an easy report for us to look at and in fact it's a report that teachers can
011use a little bit easier than just percent proficient this report tells you what percentage of your students um get um the standards that are assessed correct so they know by standard which ones they mastered and which ones they didn't master so as a teacher you could see that that would actually give you a little bit more data than just knowing who's minimally proficient partially proficient proficient or highly proficient so this gives us a little board data so this is the rankings for third grade ELA and then I'll just show you the rankings for each grade level and you'll see the gstd uh 40 average in the middle this is fourth grade ELA standards fifth grade sixth grade ELA standards seventh grade ELA standards and finally eighth grade ELA standards so we actually use this data
012a lot um in preparation for not only um end of semester or end of quarter but also to prepare ourselves for aasa aai I ready spring um we prepare ourselves Center students for those things but it also helps us um relook at our pacing guides and curricular documents for the next school year to tell us are we missing anything are there gaps that we didn't know that existed a year ago that when we created it now we're implementing it is there something different that needs to happen so it does help us influence um those kinds of districtwide documents as well math same kind of thing you'll see the same kind of um measures and graphs so this is third grade math standards what looks like a chartruse color this evening instead of green or yellow
013we might need to work on that color chart Truse is a little strong fourth grade math fifth grade math standards you'll notice our fifth grade ELA stand um result results were similar the graphs were higher with the fifth grade too and so we look at that too like are they performing the same way than on as aasa that they perform on these assessments as well sixth grade math standards and as you've heard Miss hyi say in other presentations our upper grade math is where we really need to focus on and think about and work on um and uh get more support um for our students and maybe even teachers who just might you know I know if I were told that I needed to teach the class after algebra 1 like beginning geometry I'd be
014like oh my gosh I need some help um so I get that and I do and so eighth grade math now is our I ready diagnostic for um the difference between fall and winter you saw the fall one um last fall obviously um and then we do it again in December and what you're going to be looking for and what you should look for in our data is more green at the top and less red at the bottom little more yellow is good too as long as it comes from the red um but it is definitely um and you'll see that in every grade level every single grade level the green got bigger and the red got smaller so you'll see that so good job teachers and students um and administration for supporting this work
015because um you do see quite a difference in some uh grade levels for sure this is all grade levels all together 10o difference more or less in minimally proficient change in one quarter um kindergarten looks a little bit different because as you can imagine in kindergarten there's there's there's nothing below kindergarten other than and I didn't that that way because there's obviously preschool and you guys do a good job but you don't take I ready so that data doesn't go into this um but the but the system doesn't go below group pres school do they have data they do their assessments too maybe just not I ready data so that's what I meant so sorry I corrected myself I ready first grade data you can see a big change here first grade is really kindergarten
016and first grade you'll see the most changes um second grade data change 10% change in the green which is on or above grade level which is that's what the green means it doesn't just mean grade level it means on or above third grade similar which is really helpful because this is the um move on R reading grade that we really look at it especially towards the end of the school year fourth grade data fifth grade so you'll see this you might be asking yourself well I saw the Benchmark data look you know maybe the graphs looked a little different than this graph but remember there's a difference between proficiency levels which is more or less what this is and percent of Standards correct which was the other graph so we'll get um more explicit about
017how to look at the graphs later on once we play a little more in DNA um but uh there is a difference sixth grade seventh grade and 8th grade um we take I ready again at the beginning of May um and that is just another data point that we use to help um make our decisions about um what happens the next school year um it also helps us with the move on when reading third graders we do look at that data as well for them so just some next steps like I said benchmarks do start um the writing one is next week and then the reading and math is the week of parent teacher conferences which is in two weeks um we reflect um as I pointed out before the first bullet we've reflect on
018our tights what we're tight about in GSD every single year and the practices um and I think we're going to come up with some ways to even solidify that even more and make sure that when we're focusing on our tights that they're we have Clarity around them and that they're refined and um and those are things that we're going to be working on and maybe even have a little less tights so that we can focus on the few really really really well um continue the countdown and Spiral Review so um we call Triage right now so the six weeks about before aasa we go into triage mode to help our students make sure that they Master the standards and then right after spring break for the most part we have about 10 to 15 days
019before the majority start aasa to really figure out who needs the support what is exactly that we can do to help them in 10 to 15 days to make them feel successful because we want to build the student efficacy so that when they do get in front of the computer to take aasa that they really feel like they can they can make it happen in that moment and that's really really important that they don't feel like it's a um that it's too much or overwhelmed by it um so those are our next steps I already mentioned we're looking at the pacing guides again um and um using data to make those decisions so with that I'll take any questions if you have any or any comments no I as someone who worked at the PUO
020Public Schools I worked with ir so I really like that the fact that it's more student Le and allows teachers to have more time like one-on-one time with the students and I mean I've seen the programs at least from first grade up to third grade what they do on there so it's cool seeing um the progress from uh fall to winter um I like seeing those improvements and I mean that's proof that you know we're doing something right and it's it's all thanks to the the Educators yes all educ pre8 any other questions or comments from the board all right thank you sir well done thank you for stepping in uh Miss heidig if you're watching um Sherry did okay did you just call him Sher yes I called him Sherry no Jerry Jerry didn't
021no I did not say Sher okay stop putting words into their mouths all right moving on in our agenda to Future meetings and events Miss Jones what's coming up in the near future yes president martinz members of the board so next uh board meeting March 13th we'll do certified contract of renewals will be brought the medical dental vision life and M turn and short- turn disability insurance renewals will come uh the employee assistance programs with the wellness and all that will come as well I do want to say for the next board meeting we'll bring those items but again uh as you recall at the end of last board meeting we stayed after and we did some photos of to promote our wellness program and really our Fringe benefit packet and we did that on
022Instagram and that's a big push for us um with the wonderful benefits that our district has and the number of years that we've not had to increase premium so Mr Bergen you were not here last week but thank you for the work that you do again board member Wilson and the work you do with the trust and so those are just huge benefits that we we have an incredible plan without increasing premiums for our staff and still have wonderful coverage so that is something to celebrate so we did that post on because February off is you know um Wellness month and so you wanted to kick that off and you look very good on Instagram with your Cheerios and everything so thank you for participating in that all right any comments on the future agenda
023items all right moving on in our agenda to the summary of current events starting with the superintendent report Mr G Jones uh yes president Martini Miss members of the board this week is public schools week so thank you to staff preschool staff teachers I see you here other staff members and uh principes administrators support staff uh public school week you know we're so proud to be in public education and what we do and um thank you to everybody everybody works extremely hard and so we we celebrate that there's a great um video we did on Instagram Adriana put that together so thank you for doing that also we um had last Friday Challenger thank you uh Mr hortsman for hosting that for us we had ays so US Women's National um team soccer Clinic where
024they selected schools across the uh State we were selected and we could send students to that to participate in a clinic with with um that Soccer Organization it was wonderful it was a great afternoon uh for families that come out with their students and and so we appreciate that support we had Saturday the District track meet thank you to the governing boards that were able to attend that all the um I want to give a special thank you to John morren and all the physical education teachers and the work that they did and then all the staff that volunteered and um everybody that was there it's just a wonderful event it's gotten better every year we have more kids participating it's great to see that they're all in t-shirts that fit them you know and
025so it's it's just a fun time so I appreciate that then last night uh we were at the district Color Run and that was a hundred more participants than we've had uh in the past year and then um the hit was Phil uh if you didn't see Phil he's a four-legged little friend and he's um he's quite the little thing it's three years in a row and he was full of every color there was and it was it took I understand three or four shampoos to get it out of him but uh it was great to do that so thank you for your support again John and all the staff that does that incredible it's it's just a fun event uh we also had prior in the week on Tuesday we had our new teacher
026celebration superhero Sher Don thank you for the work that you do with that all the staff that participated the board that was there we really do want to let our new teachers know how much we appreciate and value them and so it was nice to have that event and everybody to see their superpowers um incredible then right now I want to announce um it's been out reach to the final four so the top eight it's read to the final four now they have the top eight and we have desert spirit and Smith are in the top eight so great so so we're hoping that um you know that will con continue with that also we have recruiting going on right now trying to hire and do get those positions in and then also we're watching
027um very carefully what is happening at the federal level uh there's you know just a lot of changes that are happening we don't know what's going to happen as far as Federal uh funding and we should know uh fairly quickly but we've been watching that and we'll make sure that we communicate all that out to people um nothing has changed in the back since last time but I still do want to recognize it because it's incredible artwork if you haven't seen it so thank you to deser garden deser garden is here and the work that they're doing their kids it's adorable and desert spirit thank you again for having that um and I know I announced it last time but we always want to recognize recognize for those who are new attending that other than
028that um that concludes my report all right thank you I know we just met like two weeks ago but it seems like there's been a lot that's happened over the past couple weeks so thank you for for being so active uh with our district Miss seata Jones so we'll start with our five board members here we'll start down on the end with Miss Bartels what's been going on well all I can say is it was a lot easier to be like the fourth one in line for this so I could just go ditto down the line um it has been an exciting last couple of weeks we've had a lot of great events that we are having our students participate the families are coming out to cheer them on um but as well as the
029the support that we're giving to our community to be the Market on the Move or the Salvation Army the food box distributions so I know there's a lot of stuff on our calendar coming up and I'm excited to go through and provide my list to the superintendent and Miss Powell as to what I'll be attending but thank you all for everything that you do to help our our kids and our community I'll be engaged all right thank you Miss Wilson well the track and field event was probably one of the biggest ones I've seen here since i' I've been it was really well attended and the kids all had a great time and there were I I understand there were parents there at 7:00 in the morning and so people were ready and it's a
030beautiful day it was just uh you know a great event the new teacher event was also uh a the participation was really good uh food is always great and it's just fun to see the teachers get all excited about winning Awards I think there were 50 did you have 50 Awards this time so yeah it was it was good spoiled they got spoiled um and also uh thank thank you teachers for the great work that you're doing um the for the students the benchmarks show the progress that they're making and I'm really anxious to see Benchmark three because I know those are going to be really good as well so just thanks to all of you all right thank you Miss PTO I guess I'll be the one to say ditto ditto ditto um happy
031Public Schools week I I preaching to the choir here we are all so into public schools and I wish the rest of the world that wasn't was we have so many people that have gone on to do such wonderful things and it's all because of our public schools and teachers and everybody in this room and everybody listening and everybody not listening but it it's it's important to everybody to realize exactly where you get your education and uh I'm thankful and I'm grateful to be part of this gesd family to know that that they're still doing the good work that started so long ago uh the new teacher celebration was amazing this is a Sherry Dawn event and uh and and if you haven't been uh it's an event in itself and and we see the
032work that you do and that everybody does and the Color Run it was the first time I made that this year I luckily did not get anything inside my truck but it was all over me and we have the pictures to prove it to some of the others and Phil was a tie dye hit I'll tell you um and the assessments are amazing it's it's so great as board member Hado said to see the the progress that's made from fall to winter and uh let's just keep going and and keep learning and uh the final four reading it was Desert spirit and who else and Smith that's hey keep going top eight let's go to one and two and uh or one in one have a great week uh triple ditto um I don't know
033happy Public Schools week was it oh nice um you know as we all Believe In Here We Believe public schools are you know the reason why you know we have such a great City a state um and I also want to thank the teachers that I see here you know I welcome you to come to more meetings I encourage you I love seeing more educators here so it it's great to see you guys show your faces and you know I always encourage public comments whenever necessary even even if it's against me like it has happened in the past so but I'll pass the microphone now all right um tons of stuff going on this week thank you for the presentation on the benchmarks it I I lik the new way that the stats were presented
034with the percentage instead of it all being it just like a scattering of like a shotgun SC Bing of minimally proficient middle you know proficient highly Prof it I I like it was much easier to digest that way so thank you very much for for getting that together it's great to see that the grind continues um I know everyone's looking at that and they know what needs to happen you're already well aware of what you need to do before we ever even see that report I can guarantee it um so just keep working on that and uh you it will produce results you just have to believe that it will produce produce results because we've seen it happen year after year so thank you for all your work on that had a great time at
035the track meet uh if anything my only suggestion was that the kids need to work on their trash talk because it was pretty weak um hearing them at the starting line chatting with each other and it's all friendly um but I talked to uh Dr Peterson and KVA I said maybe we should have some sort of Workshop prior to the track meet to teach the kids the proper way to Trash Talk um he's shaking his head no maybe maybe an after school club a mosaic um trash talk no no okay all right then moving on um color one was a blast um my my my son my youngest son always has liked to go it's one of the few events that he likes to go even though he's like a junior in high school now
036um he still comes back and he does the Color Run uh even though we just we're now down to just color walking um and I'm totally cool with that Phil had a great time if you haven't seen Phil he is my little black and white mini poodle um it took it two two two loads of shampoo to get all the color out of his fur um and I wasn't able to get to him before he jumped up on my bed and I had a large splotch of yellow color runs color on my bed um ask me if I cleaned it off before I crawled into bed that night I did not I don't care so that was fun uh if you've been on Facebook or Instagrams you probably saw the kid casters very cool program
037that was that was really fun to see and I am told that they were going to be playing these kid casters throughout the year so make sure I think it's ABC ABC 15 um so if you happen to want to watch the weather um other than seeing that it's going to be hot every day and you go on there and see one of our Glendale kids on there doing a great job so congratulations and lastly um I want to thank as as as part of Gusto I want to thank our business partners uh for all the support that they've been given us uh we have our annual golfing with Gusto event next week um where right now we are on Pace to more than clear all of our expenses for next school year so that
038has been coming in a great help so things like just because things like perfect attendance Awards things like the coffee trucks that come out um anything the district asks is they give us a call and they're like hey can you help us with that like absolutely um have no problem and it's thanks to all those business partners that help support us and help support the District so thank you very much uh to all of them and thank you very much to all of our um School District staff and all our school administrators um helping out is going to be helping out at that event I look forward to having a great time and never actually touching a golf club because I'll be running around like a crazy person so that being said is there a
039motion to adjourn second I'll second all those in favor I I have a great evening everybody I'll see you next month