001foreign okay I'm gonna call them meeting to order at 6 pm backpack is wrong this is correct um I'm gonna make a motion to adopt the agenda with one change of putting 9.4 before 9.1 just for presentation so I'll need a second oh look at her get in there um all in favor aye aye aye motion carries four to zero go ahead and do the pledge foreign okay before we um before we go on to the uh board meeting minutes I want to um congratulate Dr Wyman he was um he received the ASA superintendent of the year for the medium School District so congratulations [Applause] okay so um we need approval of the minutes does everybody have any questions on the minute if not I'll take a motion I moved to approve the minutes my
002second all in favor hi hi motion carries no no I I have to abstain since I wasn't at the last minute three to zero with one I'm still one one okay now we have a superintendent report thank you madam president um on the December board meeting you're going to have a couple different evaluation situations going on you have the board evaluation as Acosta will get you guys a copy of the board evaluation that's just using the current policy exhibit if you could fill it out and get it back to her by uh December 2nd then we can compile all the results and and I'll bring it to the meeting for discussion the same with my evaluation we will be an executive session for that we will as you remember last year we used one from
003asba but this year we went back to the traditional one that we've used in the past so we'll just go ahead and and share that one with you same basic timeline so we'll get it out to you tomorrow um if you could just uh print it out and it will summarize the the information that you guys put for that uh you will also have uh my first uh semester uh performance plan uh pay plan at that meeting so I bring all that up because that means we have two evaluations and performance pay review it is a special session 2 in order to get into some of that and so the question is do you want to hold a special meeting for those three things do you want to hold it before the regular meeting do
004you want to hold it after the regular meeting since I've been here we've done it multiple ways and so it's it's your whatever you would like but you need to let me know so that we can plan accordingly in terms of of when when to do it I will tell you before maybe an issue uh or only in the sense that asba has a new board member orientation on the 14th I'm not sure if Miss Tucker and and Mr Beach who is now officially elected to the board to begin in January are going to be able to make that but if they are uh it'll be I believe it's either at the Biltmore or up a Desert Ridge and therefore trying to get down here we're going to be scrambling to get here at six
005o'clock for regular meeting so so just keep that in mind in terms I was does it have to be on a Wednesday no that's what I'm saying if you wanted to do it on Wednesday as part of the regular board meeting you probably have to go after if you want to do it on a different day it's just a matter of whatever day um you can all figure it out I can send out some dates tomorrow to see or you can send me some dates let's do that okay uh then on some other stuff we want to thank rural metro and especially the local firefighters Union uh they made a gracious donation of fourteen hundred dollars to the district for the Thanksgiving holiday food drive um yes uh that donation will ensure that about 100
006families uh from around the the district will have a Thanksgiving meal um we'll be working on distribution out of the district office um uh next week 16th and 17th so uh we had a little bit of a situation and and we reached out to them and they responded within literally within minutes uh with that gracious donation and I think it's important to show that just because we do have so many good partners around the district helping us out in so many different ways and so very very appreciative of that I'm not going to go through all the information on the student enrollment just suffice it to say that as a general rule we're still holding the same pattern on all four of these different uh enrollment numbers again a slight decline this year of of
007200 plus students uh varies a little bit from from month to month depending on any number of different factors so we'll continue to monitor it and as we come to you with um uh the revision of the budget in December we will have a little more detail on some of the specifics of how we intend to address uh the shortfall that that brings so I'll just save that for for next month Let's see we do have uh the good news is there's lots of outstanding things happening in the district so we do want to take some time to do any number of celebrations tonight first business department I think they're in the back they were recently notified as a district that once again we received the 200 to 2021 comprehensive annual financial report by gfoa
008or government finance office Association or certificate of excellence for for certificate of achievement of excellence in financial reporting this is uh given to governmental entities around the U.S and Canada uh and I think the key piece to it is it states in the press release that the department demonstrates a constructive Spirit of full disclosure full disclosure to clearly communicate its Financial Story the district has received the award for nine years in a row and I think it's just a way for our community to see and understand that we are good stewards of uh taxpayer dollars and Mrs cook in the whole department if they could stand up we just want to thank them for the outstanding job that they've done [Applause] with HR we have about 10 different opportunities to go out and look for
009recruiting events from now until the end of the school year we'll have both in person and virtual recruiting fairs we'll also have some internal recruiting fairs the spring Job Fair summer job fair so just know that we are working hard it's a tough Market out there for all professions and and education is no different to that end uh HR is partnering with ASU and more specifically Dr Kurt Palmer for the opportunity for our employees to get degrees those could be a parapro as an example trying to get a teaching degree or it could be similar where teachers trying to get Advanced degrees Masters or even a doctorate and so we've we've had one session already and another one or excuse me two sessions already to talk to staff who may be interested in in continuing
010their education and again trying to grow an internal pipeline for teachers as we have a shortage with with teachers and we're also working with with CAC we've had a couple meetings to again work with their education college and and again more degrees and opportunities uh so that staff can go ahead and get a degrees but don't necessarily have to travel to downtown campus for ASU or something like that so that's exciting stuff for us we had two teachers this recently received a 2500 Fiesta Bowl teacher grants those were displayed are provided to teachers from around the state Levi Hoagland up at the high school got one for his economics class to purchase resources focused on finance and economics and Catherine Holmes a first grade teacher at Harmon uh received one to help update the classroom
011library and the new seating options so again our teachers competing with teachers from around the states and being recognized for what they're doing on the kid level uh we had our marching band earned first place at Corona del Sol Invitational back on the 15th of October but then in that particular day was if you probably don't remember but very similar today out there today a little bit of hurricane activity a lot of rain but they persevered and then this past weekend down at Desert Vista they performed in the state semifinals and they finished nine out of 18 schools of those 18 schools the top eight go to the state finals which is in a couple weeks so they did very well the margin of difference between eighth and 9th Place was 0.25 of one uh
012one point so they did an outstanding job and over the last three years they've continued to improve they went from 16th to 12th or 10th I believe Tonight Tonight three years in a row so so there to be commended for the job they did our Student Government at the high school again trying to look at Partnerships student body president Catherine Alvarez junior class publicity director of Brooklyn Lowe and junior class sponsor Darby Pyle presented 50 blankets with handwritten letters of encouragement from blankets of Hope to the Hope Women's Center just as part of the the student government is really working on uh Community Care or service projects and this is just one example to date Community cares has raised over four thousand dollars in support of individuals and organizations in our community so I think
013it's key that the public understands that this is truly a two-way street that although we have Partners like rural metro and others that donate to us our kids are also doing fantastic things to donate back to our community so it's truly a outstanding partnership Mr Hill was recently notified by the Arizona thespians he's administrator of the year in the east region he was nominated by Mr Smith and is just an award to demonstrate exceptional courage and Devotion to Performing Arts programs at over individual schools and he'll be recognized at the state thespian competition I believe it's in December but it might be in January we also had uh Kennedy Nichols a senior uh competing in the 100 meter backstroke and first alternate and 100 freestyle at State for the swim team she's been on the
014swim team for four years and was team captain so it was uh congratulations Kinley for that and the boys cross country team qualify for state by finishing six overall so Jackson bodell was ranked 31st and Luke Jensen 26th in the division Hunter Claire is a receiver and a DB received it was a state winner for the 2022 Heisman high school scholarship that's a scholarship between the Heisman Trophy and Wendy's and they select 50 state winners and then from those 50 state winners they select a dozen students that will be a national finalists and then uh they'll select a a finalist and Hunter is representing our state I don't know how many kids applied but when I looked at the list which had about I'll say 12 or 15 names on it there was 184 pages
015of of kids that across the country that applied for this so a very prestigious award uh from hunt for Hunter to be recognized as a state finalist Combs Middle School 9th Annual Pinal County Business education Workforce Development Summit they were highlighted for their work with major Clarity we had Anthony Elrod and Abe Wong from the Combs rundown create a video so thanks to Mr Scroggins and Mr Taylor for their help and it was shown to all the participants and that would be a Workforce Development for adults just kind of showing what's happening in schools around the county and they chose the work we're doing with major Clarity in the Middle School to highlight so that was a very positive benefit for our kids to show what's what's going on in our district they also had
016second place out of 11 middle schools for the math competition with Claire Helm and Victoria Peterson placing second Wyatt Shu as a team and then Wyatt Shupe and Finnegan Mooney placing third and fourth they're also doing very well in the sports so again good things happening down at the middle school Ranch Elementary has been doing an outstanding job getting parent activities had a steam night that had about approximately 250 students and parents coming to the school and just seeing what we have to offer with steam and then they also had a trunk or treat for the first time not sure how it was going to go it was a Friday October 21st and they had a ton of people show up for it it was just outstanding with lots of parents and and staff members
017really excited by the experience and already planned it for next year uh CTA uh doing a ton of fundraisers with PTO to provide additional resources we do have a canned food drive that's part of the what the rural metro donated for and because Mrs Schaffner loves to do this stuff she will get slimed if 1200 cans or food are donated you've got to love Elementary principles and they're willingness to get slimed um and then they're also having after school programs Kids in Motion curiosity clubs so just great things Harmon Elementary uh sixth graders are sixth graders participated in the 32nd annual Pinal County Attorney office anti-drug poster contest over 800 posters submitted and Kylie Vasquez was honored and recognized by the county attorney and local law enforcement officials in October and Maxwell freeze or fees
018uh top 40 would will also be honored so again it as you can see it doesn't matter whether it's Athletics academics uh the extracurriculars the Arts our kids are performing at the State national and local level so just wanted to highlight those activities I've listed some upcoming events just so you're aware of what's going on now for the next part we want to recognize some of our different employee groups and so I will call up their names and then I'll say a little bit about them but this first group is National education education support Professionals Day is next week as part of American Education week so representing the high school in the cafeteria is uh Maricela sharp if you come up if you're here the SEC secretary admin down at CCS Virginia cam Beats okay
019[Applause] a custodian representing custodians from CMS Rosalie Munoz Figueroa [Applause] we have a cafeteria Aid at CTA Alejandra Villegas [Applause] crossing guard at uh Ellsworth Randy Romero [Applause] custodian at Harmon Jessica Nunez foreign pro at Ranch Pam wambor front office staff at Simonton Janet Harvey [Music] Transportation a bus driver Andy storm [Music] [Applause] maintenance technician representing maintenance is arveen now we're gonna carry me I know I butchered that but I'm sure he's used to that uh rving is there District technology is a brooch [Applause] business office Karen Flynn [Applause] and marketing Priscilla almanza and and the reason we bring these people up before we let them uh before we let him sit down these are all the different support positions we have across our district and they're representative of the people that do a lot
020of behind the scenes work many of you may have seen them if if you're dealing with front office staff but they are constantly doing all the little things to make our lives um that much better in this in this District they do it in most cases unsung without a lot of recognition and so we just want to really take a chance take an opportunity to say thank you for all you do for our district you make it a special place so thank you we also have upcoming on the third Friday in November um is which next week would be for honoring substitutes so we have some substitutes that we've asked again to represent all of our subs so we have floralera Leyva [Applause] Nicole Horsley [Applause] Amber bear Dana Engel [Applause] Victor Butler Vanita Harris
021Dale wheeler Adriana Jimenez and Caitlyn Dean and let me tell you what when we as we see shortages and teacher staff uh not just in our district but around the country the the role of the substitute is even more critical uh and they're here on short notice uh helping us out we could not run our schools without them every single day um we just can't thank them enough it's an early morning call it's lessons in short notice um and so they come and they help us out every single day um over the way this is a plug for anybody out there that would like to be a sub where you can always use more subs but again we thank you so very much you make a difference and and Who We Are I know there's
022some students in the room that are going to be disappointed that Friday is a day off of school but we want to remind them that it's a really important day off of of school it is Veterans Day it falls on a second Friday in November and this year that's this Friday the on the 11th it was recognized as Armistice days in in 1919 was the first day coming out of the uh World War one uh President Wilson proclaimed the November 11th as the first commemoration of Armistice Day saying to us in America the reflections of armors today will be filled with solemn Pride of the heroism of those who died in country service and with gratitude for victory in 1938 Congress passed a law to Market as a legal holiday and in 1954 uh President
023Eisenhower signed a law that changed the name to its current form of Veterans Day it's celebrated well Holly is celebrated on the fourth Monday of October for much of the 70s President Ford signed a bill that may return to the observance to November 11th 78 today we use Veterans Day to celebrate all those who have served honorably in the military whether in War and Peace whereas Memorial Day is for remembering and honoring military personnel who died and service the country so we would like to take a moment to honor these following veterans I'm sure there's others but these were who we were given and thank them for the their service for our country and for all that they have done so we have Jack strible from Harmon Elementary with the Air Force thank you Justin
024Slater who's at Harmon Elementary in Simington he's with the Air Force served in the Air Force Mr Hill at the high school with the Navy David Nelson at the high school with the army [Applause] Vincent Jordan at the high school with the Air Force Edwin Boggs transportation in the Marines I know Danielle's here Danielle Pinkard in the district office with the Marines Michael Holmberg uh Holmberg from the high school with the army Zachariah Deans at the high school with National Guard [Applause] Brandon Pyle at the high school with the army Joy Rupert at the high school with the Navy Chelsea Carpenter Ellsworth Elementary the Navy Grant Q cook at Ellsworth with the Navy [Applause] Avery battle and maintenance with the Air Force [Applause] rving again with maintenance in the army Trey Colburn at the district
025office for the Marines Victor Butler Combs uh excuse me Victor Butler Combs middle school with the Marines David Willoughby with Combs Middle School both the Air Force and the Marines [Applause] Don angle from Ranch Elementary with the army Carol armistad from Ranch Elementary with the army and John Goodwin for transportation with the Navy thank you for your service [Applause] that is my report well now turn it over to you I think Santa dunker for Ellsworth thank you Madam president members of the board Dr weiban I am pleased to have our group come up um we have a new club on campus this school year and I met with these two boys in the spring when they were in fifth grade about a new club that they wanted to start and um they had a plan
026they were very excited about what they wanted to do for our school community and they had a vision so they have they called it Helping Hands their next step was to get a club sponsor so I have Miss jorian joint our school counselor who I'd like to come up and Tyler Pruitt and Rylan Valencia if you could come forward and share with everybody about helping hands foreign okay hi everyone I'm jorianne Joy I'm the school counselor at Ellsworth Elementary this is Rylan and this is Tyler Rylan is our president and Tyler is our vice president and I'm going to hand it over to them and they're going to share a little bit more about our Helping Hands Club hello we are Tyler Pruitt and Rylan Valencia foreign and vice president of Helping Hands a new
027club at Ellsworth last year we made the decision to create a new club that could provide support and positivity throughout our campus we worked together with Miss Joynt and Miss Gomez our school counselor and social worker to form Helping Hands we created our club vision and code which is to provide help around campus for teachers and students and to spread positivity while encouraging others to be kind members of society this year we brainstormed and built our club from the ground up as as for right now we have 15 5th and sixth grade students participating in making our campus a positive and supportive environment we meet after school every second and fourth Tuesday of the month we have spent our afternoons helping teachers in and their classrooms putting up motivational signs around campus prepping projects for
028younger grades cleaning up our school playground setting up assemblies and running our holiday food we have so much more planned for the year and we look forward to watching our club grow and seeing the change the changes we can make on our campus thank you for having us very nice and there was actually a group of them as well as a group that was there today helping get our decorations put up for our Veterans Day assembly tomorrow yes I'm very proud of them and it was really cool because they have taken the initiative to create a calendar they have a schedule of one who's cleaning the playground and when they sent out um multiple emails to me reminding me that this was a club that was important to them um not that it was annoyed
029but it was just like you know they really they really held me accountable to making sure that I didn't forget about them and they this was important to them and it's just been really cool to see them bring their Vision to life on campus and to see the how it has taken off and the students that are involved in it and just the initiative that they've shown in the ownership they've show over it very good all right so I have three staff members that I would like to recognize um Karen Corona if you could come up here please [Applause] so Karen Corona actually was a student at Ellsworth yep when when it opened so a while ago Karen joined us as a title one paraprofessional when she graduated high school in 2000 yeah yeah so
030she joined us at Ellsworth um and is actually taking classes working full-time now she has uh transitioned over into a resource parapro position and it has been amazing to see her growth um Karen is very shy but to see her confidence build and the relationships that she has built with the students and to see even her I saw her with a student one day and the student was was having some challenges and just the you know the the the the teacher language that she was using with the student and the student did respond to her and I was like oh you go Karen I didn't know you had it in you so and she's going to school to be a teacher and she wants to be a teacher we are yeah you know whatever and
031and she just adds so much to our campus she's always willing to pitch in um no matter what last year when she was she would seek out one of our first great teachers um whenever she had some time and she would go in and work with the kids and she really enjoyed that and the kids just loved her um and it's just it she just adds so much to our campus and to the lives of the students on our campus and I don't know what we would do without her and I know she you know she has some tough days but she always shows up she gives her all and she has a positive attitude and always has a smile on her face so I wanted to present her with a blue Apple foreign okay
032so I I have issues with the apples because I broke Josie's stem on the Apple last year which has traumatized me um okay um Alex pantastico could you please come up here thank you she didn't know that that she was being recognized tonight she's very excited his fifth grade teacher this is her second year at Ellsworth um and this is we've departmentalized this year at Ellsworth and she teaches Ela and Alex I don't I I don't know what who was looking down on our school and on me when they dropped her into our life you know she had teaching experience and moved here from Oklahoma or Texas or both um and like she really has just she takes ownership she is invested in our school and our students are today with our veterans as they
033were I went into the she texted me and she's like could you come look and make sure you like the decorations for a veterans assembly and I'm thinking to myself well at this point what am I going to do you know if I don't like them I don't like but I walked in and um just an example of her of just kind of her as a leader is she's like I we were thinking of making a checklist of everything that we need to accomplish for next year and I'm like okay so what do you need for me well your permission I'm like yeah do you know so it's just that initiative that she shows on a daily basis and even last year is her first year in our district with um hashtag forward she was
034one of our first teachers on campus to become um proficient in the learner-centered culture elements um and she really has embraced our culture and over the summer she um took on a leadership opportunity and to be the summer school principal at the elementary level and did a fantastic job and she just she's a quiet leader she's very modest she doesn't like praise I can see her looking uncomfortable the more I say about her I can't say enough about her it just it's a real pleasure to to be part of her growth in our district and to see the way that she um is with students with families and the way she's looked up to even in her second year here on our in our district and so I wanted to present her with the blue
035Apple [Applause] and last but not least jorianne if you could come back up here [Applause] okay so this is jorianne's second year as a school counselor and her and she's so excited jorian is a very driven person which I love um but she also like she's like I want a blue Apple like that has been her goal since she heard about the blue Apple program Dr Wyman like she has been on a mission to get a blue Apple like I really want that so um jorian this is her second year as a school counselor and to see her growth over the last from last year to this year and how she advocates for students and just how she talks with students and brings out the best in them has been amazing and I see her
036tearing up over there because but I'm going to start crying too because you know like we even those most challenging students like you know I was with her yesterday and there was a student we were working with and and we're both looking at each other you know and she's just like I love him he's like you know and so she really she's our 504 coordinator and I've never had a school counselor that had like she you know last week she told me it's my goal to um this year to really get in the classrooms and observe my students that are on 504s and make sure that we that the accommodations that we have for them are aligned that we are doing what we're supposed to for them and working with the teachers to really make
037sure that our students are successful and day in and day out like she brings it all to work and I will say and I'm going to tell you a funny little story and she'll probably kill me for saying this like you know we have a little group text going on and so a couple couple Fridays ago she was she said that she had to remind her fiance of the household Sops the standard operating procedures and I you know we were teasing her because um you know standard operating procedures that's a that's kind of a teacher language thing and she's like you know I live in breathe Ellsworth and I and I chuckled but she does live and breathe Ellsworth um she really does give her all when she comes to work um and she works
038tirelessly to make sure that the emotional needs of not only our students are taken care of but also our staff and so I have a blue Apple for you Julia break yourself all right oh I have to take a picture so thank you so much for letting me share about Ellsworth and celebrating three of our amazing staff members we have student on the month Madam president board members Dr Wyman and my colleagues in the room I'd like to introduce some wonderful students and as I always say this is the best part of my day so could I have Mariah Flores come up from comb Center of Success [Applause] Mariah has excellent attendance and works diligently on all of her coursework and currently she assisted as an advisory capacity for the Halloween door decorating contest and
039daily she volunteers as a student assistants at CDA in addition to her involvement at CCS Mariah is a proud member of the high school marching band and we are so proud of Mariah congratulations Mariah [Applause] could I have Ansley Nye from the high school come up [Applause] over here how are you ansley's in the top of her classwork and is quite friendly she keeps focused and enjoys her learning she always asks questions when she needs help and is always polite she has a very positive attitude and we appreciate Ansley and her citizenship at Holmes High School congratulations Ansley could I have Peyton Huber come up from the Middle School no thank you could I have Jordan de Hart come up from Combs Traditional Academy [Applause] Jordan demonstrates the character trait of citizenship by his willingness
040to take responsibility in his learning in addition he goes the extra mile to help others offers words of validation and maintains a positive attitude always he is a kind person who's genuinely care he genuinely cares about the culture of his classes Jordan is a fine example of a citizen congratulations Jordan [Applause] could I have roxland manunga come up from Ellsworth foreign we're pleased to tell you about Roxy she's a young girl with a very calm personality but a very Advanced intellectual capacity Roxy deserves to be the student a month for her hard work consecutive and defined way of sticking to the curricular areas and making them her own wow Roxy also has a beautiful personality and a great ability to make her classmates really feel comfortable for these characteristics and the great skills that Roxy
041has she is our student of the month congratulations Roxy [Applause] should I have Elsie horde come up from Harman [Applause] Elsie was selected by the teachers at Harman because she embodies all the qualities of citizenship in and out of the classroom she was a key student who helped create sore code and classroom Vision always showing her peers kindness and respect LLC continues to be curious for new knowledge and seeks to find Opportunities to grow our own skills which leads her to being a scholar of Distinction for quarter one at Harman congratulations Elsie could I have Jade Thompson come up from Ranch [Applause] shows respects towards others and herself and to me earlier right yes she's always willing to give a helping hand and goes out of her way to make the day better for others
042Jade is kind friendly and responsible and this is why she was chosen for the November student of the month congratulations could I have Camila Vasquez come up from Simon thank you hey you guys um can take pictures if you'd like we'll do like a short break and then you can um you can leave if you'd like you'll have to stay for the whole thing we'd love if you do but well you're not gonna hurt our feelings if you don't laughs foreign move on so we have a board governing board members if we have anything um do you guys want to talk about our little uh thing we went to you didn't leave that early do you want to talk about it Jen do you want me to so we had an asba Pinal County um
043what do you call it like meetings yeah so just so you know you guys made us look really good I think we got high accolades for what the Trap Team and we got high accolades for the sink the thought the thought Exchange and then we had to come up with a we got these little things that we we had to if they gave us a challenge of who would make the best what did they call it um what did that was a theme for that night what was it it's working stronger stronger together so everybody was making their little sculptures and then of course we we well they even decided we had to do it we had to do it together so we put all of ours together because we were stronger together and so
044we won so we were we were bringing home we brought it home so anyway you guys made us look good thank you all right so now do we have public comments not this time okay so anything if we have any um questions on the consent agenda all right I'll take a motion um I move that we approve the consent agenda second all in favor aye I'm motion carries four to zero okay some action items um holy moly hold on um 8.1 discussion consideration of approval of changes to the policy recommendations from asba policy advisor this is our second read so do we have any questions on this second read it was pretty straightforward um okay if you don't have any questions then I'll take a motion um I move that we approve recommendation recommended changes
045to the district policies as presented in asba policy advisory 737. a second all in favor aye I'm motion carries four to zero eight point two discussion and consideration of approval of supplemental curriculum materials for the CMS careers and your future course okay as Mr scroggin to come up real quick and give a few words about that quick quick I'm just kidding all right so these are these are uh two different um platforms that are available to our uh career exploration students at the middle school um pigby is a free uh platform that students can um watch a video or it could either be live or it could be record a video of somebody from the industry um they're able to submit uh electronically some questions for follow-up and in the following week that that individual
046from industry will respond to many of the questions um so it's just a very simple platform that our teacher can use on a weekly basis and then um Define careers uh is a little bit more extensive it's a project-based learning platform so students can go in and explore careers each of the projects takes anywhere from three to five days to complete so they really dive in a little bit more deep into possible Pathways and there's a cost to that uh 1260 dollars in that we are using with our CT funds to to support career Recreation any questions for him sounds good all right take a motion I moved to approve the supplemental course materials for the Middle School careers in your future course as presented second all in favor hi I'm motion carries four to
047zero eight point three discussion consideration approval of the 2023 support staff salary schedule Madam president board members Dr Wyman as you know on November 2016 ballot there was initiative to raise the minimum wage in Arizona to 12 dollars per hour in 2020 and in addition the proposition required the minimum wage to increase on January 1st of each subsequent year by the cost of living increase the cost of living increase was determined by proposition 206 or the upcoming year and it is over 8.3 percent resulting in an increase in the minimum wage of uh from to 1280 to 1386 purpose of this agenda item is to recommend the required increase be applied for the hourly salaries of the district there are two possible methods for increasing the salary the first method is there listed for you
048to provide the same increase for all staff members this would result in a dollar raise for every classified staff member and this option would compress the salary schedule since the increase from the percentage basis would be greater than the individuals who make less money the anticipated cost of this increase of the Year budget is 258 951 31 cents and the cost for the full year is anticipated at 517 900261. the second option is to provide a percentage increase based on the current salary schedule this salary schedule was built on three bands and you can see the numbers there we recommend the administration recommends option one last year the increase in inflation which almost doubled The increased school districts received for their budgets for the year resulted in the district making the change for support staff
049increases to run from January to December the increase last this year the highest increase since the initiative was implemented will result in the recommendation to continue this practice and so we're looking at the same as we've done in the year before the cost of the increase for the final six months of the current budget is 258 951.31 cents which includes the additional cost of the benefits this increase will result on the average increase of the supporting staff of 7.33 there are some subsequent documents there for you to review and we're looking that we our recommendation is that the administration from the administration's option did you say that it was going to compress the salary schedule yes yes not not tremendously we spent we spent uh the last three years so trying to decompose right right
050decompress it right right and so we we worked on decompressing but the issue that's at hand at an 8.3 increase is the cost of 1.2 million dollars on an annual basis is not sustainable and so your option is to put an unsustainable raise to not compress it or slightly compress it because that's all it can be afforded at this time in a normal year you would probably see an increase of two or three percent in which case you can distribute that across the salary schedule the way we have in the past with this kind of increase it is just too much therefore we had to go with this other option the other thing that we will talk about and I've talked about the last couple years is depending on any number of issues it will
051if you just always do it the other way then you're going to stretch the thing out too far so you'll you'll probably over the course of time some years do it this way and compress a little bit other years stretch out and and the the exciting Factor will probably be the total cost relative to what the anticipated increase I will tell you based on any number of factors um just as a heads up for next spring I would not anticipate uh that we will be meeting this same increase range for everybody else just based on where it looks like the the budget's going to go and so each year you have to address it as a new way or address it in the way that is reflective of what the dollars are one of the
052things with the support staff however is because it's state statute or the minimum wage we got to do what we got to do and it's 8.3 at one point this year it looked like the increase on inflation would be over 10 percent and so as it was last year we thought it was huge at five percent and we saw over three percent increase on that um so there's just no other options so I just but I wanted to make sure that everybody understood there will be a slight compression not nearly what happened before because you were you were taking off rows and you really compressed it but there will be a slight compression and that's just we have no other option to be you know from my opinion and from Julie's opinion financially we have
053no other option as a result this compression enough in the next budget year are we going to work to be compress and or how how's that going to work going forward well a lot it's it's hard to answer that question for next year because um you won't start to see what what the impact of inflation is uh they do their first analysis um in August and so if if you're coming back in an 8.3 percent increase again then my answer would be no if you come back with the more traditional I'll just say two percent give or take a little bit uh the answer will be maybe and that's only because until we figure out what the state budget is uh from the legislature so remember we're when we get our budget in the spring
054we're taking our certified staff our administrators and support exempt and we're trying to figure out their increase from July 1 to June 30th and then projecting without any numbers what might happen in January so we we try to anticipate that the reason we switched to January is we two three years ago we built in the extra money starting in July but these last two years have been so high and so it may be but maybe not and until we know what that inflation number is if it's normal last few years of two percent then I would think we could probably go back to the old way but if it stays up at five to eight percent uh they're not going to give us that much money at the state level I don't think maybe I'll
055be surprised but but I don't anticipate that so so we may have some other issues we have to deal with so that was going to be my next question in terms of the budget for this year we did not get 8.3 money in order to accommodate this I just want to be sure right no and and as we so we're fully aware that we had anticipated an increase but not not that um uh and then we are also taking a look and addressing the issue of of uh the loss of 200 students when we come to you in in December uh we will have answers to the concerns about the loss of students we've been working on it for the last two months and so I'm I'm okay with that issue I'm delaying and the
056reason we did not bring this to this month's meeting um the uh a revised budget is because we still have that AAL issue that's hanging on the aggregate expenditure limit um and now that the election's over we'll we'll just see what happens I would hope by um the 14th we would have an answer on that issue um good or bad we'll have an answer and that that creates a different issue and so we're just trying to address the financial issues in one Fell Swoop which we may or may not be able to do next December but I mean next month but we did push it out a month in hopes that we could do both but I can tell you from from the budgetary standpoint for the loss of students and the increase to support
057staff we will be able to handle that within the budget AEL different issue will tackle depending on what happened do you have any other questions I have one more question um do you how is this the last thing that we have to do for minimum wage or is there another bump I believe there's how many there's a bump every single year every single year till we don't know yeah right right now the way this remember when initiative is passed in the state of Arizona you cannot change the initiative unless it furthers the the intent of the initial initiative so if the initial initiative was to give an increase in minimum wage you will never be able to make a change unless you get a two-thirds vote at the legislature which isn't going to happen you
058go ahead and do anything less than continue to give raises I think at some point someone's going to say holy smokes the the minimum wage is thirty dollars an hour so they're going to have to come up with some solution but the way initiatives are written right now you cannot change the initiative unless it's a furtherance of what the initial intent was initial intent minimum wage increase minimum wage decrease so I'm not sure what they're going to do but for right how much does it have to increase every time by their definite there's there's multiple definitions of inflation out there I don't know the particulars of each of the definition but I will tell you that the definition of inflation that they use within the minimum wage is different than the definition that they use
059for our base support level increase in our budget the definition changes all the time right but but I will just tell you it's not it's they're using two different definitions so minimum wage is more than what they're using when they give us our money in in so it's not a set amount no it depends on what happens we hear something in August and then again they finalize it in in about September October uh they give you a little bit one Sometimes in April just depending um I imagine it's not going to be quite as high next year knock on wood but but it's it's going to exceed what we would normally get from the state and this has to be done by when by January 1st January 1st what we'll do so what will happen
060is first of all the increase will take place on December 29th just because the way the pay cycle works with Pinal County um but we're getting approval of this and the and the salary schedule and then on in December you will get a list of all the employees and what your increase is it'll be a dollar but but that's what we have to do per our legal counsel and so that will be an agenda item in December and then we will get the thing started on the 29th you have a question I do so why is there a difference between what we're okay like the two different increase no why aren't we given as much as we are supposed to oh good question Oh you mean I don't know that he can answer that yeah
061no it's it's just it's just because they use different different factors and and in statute what you're doing to give an increase to school districts it's been predetermined before that this is the factor when they ran the initiative for this they select you could select three different ways to do increase they selected the specific way years and years ago back in the 80s for what your increase is and 301 made a modification this was run separately and the people that ran the initiative chose this one because obviously it was higher um but I don't think anybody anticipated this situation where you're going to get a two percent increase on your budget for school districts and you're going to get an 8.3 percent increase to your support staff and the disconnect is is tremendous uh it's
062been two years in a row but I'm not sure anybody thought to what would be inflation 10 years down the road or whatever it was and and so nobody figured that piece out and so it creates a bit of a problem uh and it'll be hard-pressed to change the inflation number for school districts given the current structure down on Washington Street okay any other questions all right I'll take a motion I moved to approve the salary increases and changes to the support staff salary schedule beginning January 2023 as presented thank you all in favor aye aye aye motion carries four to zero eight point four discussion consideration approval of changes to the 22-23 extra Duty stipend salary schedule and extra Duty stipends schedule sanctioned Arizona interscholastic events AIA it's a it's great yeah along with
063that support salary uh staff schedule um that was just passed the increase to the minimum wage is based on the 2016 initiative and this impacts several other salary schedules so the purpose of this agenda item is to reflect an impact on the minimum wage increase of 2022-23 extra Duty stipend schedule and the extra Duty stipend schedule sanctioned a i a which is the Arizona inner Scholastic Association and the changes are reflected in the additional service portion of the salary schedule so you have that in front of you you have two salary schedules there that we've made some changes to and as well as the administration is also requesting the addition of a new extra Duty stipend at the high school CHS has an Esports team which competes through AIA and currently there's approximately 30 students
064on that team the number of students in the affiliation of AAA would warrant a new stipend in the state type in this place to three percent of the base pay or rate for a certified staff and this would be in the amount of one thousand five hundred and two dollars that is added on the second column under high school co-curricular sponsors for Esports any questions yeah I have a question um I'm looking at the up at the top The Heading percentage of amounts are based on certified placement at fifty thousand seventy is that what was raised by the 8.3 percent is that the new number yes no no no no no no that's the I'm sorry go ahead doctor that's that's the number that we took care of for the certified staff back in in
065the summer so so that's the starting base salary for teachers this document reflects most of those things and and so it's in there but we're not really changing anything other than the the the the minimum wage in the right hand corner and this esport so the percentages are all the same that in terms of we haven't changed any percentages any other question yeah and then for the um the extra the adopt the extra duty stipends is has anything changed there are those just again based upon changes in the cost of US based on custom living anyone okay I'll take a motion well I can't read oh no my glasses and everything yeah I don't have my glasses that's right uh I moved to approve the changes to the 2022-2023 extra Duty stipend schedule and extra
066Duty stipend schedule sanctioned Arizona interscholastic events as presented second all in favor aye aye aye motion carries four to zero eight point five discussion and consideration um of approval 22-23 JL comes performance-based a plan Administration yes if you remember when we did the uh uh budget back in the spring we talked about actually a pay plan for both administrators and support staff as you recognize on a previous uh agenda item uh the cost of the increase uh made it for the support staff at 7.33 made it fiscally not responsible or able to go ahead and also do a performance pay plan a performance pay plan for support staff would have been 155 000 however we still as we deal with administrative issues are trying to make sure that we balance uh raises across the board
067for everybody in different ways and so I'm still recommending we move forward with the administrative performance pay plan performance pay plan is set up identical to the uh teacher performance pay plan there are some adjustments relative to what what validates uh professional Investments so teachers get points for doing certain things administrators would be slightly different administrators are still aligned with the letter grades like teachers are they're aligned with professional development and so everything else is essentially the same it's a cost of twenty five thousand dollars that is fact into all of the um all the budgetary issues that that you were talking about a second ago Mr Delaney so we went ahead and took a look at that just like the teachers this will allow for at a maximum uh all uh administrative staff to
068get 800 just like the teachers are getting 800 so it's here's the teachers and I just think it's a way for us to say we continue to Value the work that the administration does and are going to continue the best of our ability to continue to do those those increases is the best we can that amount here um for this Academic Year or this yeah this so it's through June the 30th yes okay and then if we proceed with this when we look about the budget for the next academic or fiscal year we'd be looking at building that into the budget at that time right right and I would anticipate just because of what unless there's a significant increase in the um uh in the 301 monies which we don't know until each March I
069would anticipate that what we would try to do is mirror teachers and administrators because the cost administrators is minimal I would anticipate that that there's not going to be significant increases there so we were probably going to anticipate it's staying around 800 or 900 bucks for both groups in in the future years any other questions all right I'll take a motion I move to approve the JL Combs Unified School District 2022-2023 the form and space paid plan for administration as presented a second all in favor aye aye motion carry support is zero 8.6 discussion consideration of approval or upgrades to District radio system I hope there's Granderson come on down first thank you for turning the air down I don't know if it was old lady hot flashes or if it was really hot flashes
070it's hot I was like oh thank you Mr Anderson as the EOC coordinator I appreciate that um Madam president members of the board and please present uh that recommendation to upgrade the radio system this will be the first phase that works towards uh more concert comprehensive communication system that will tie into our Emergency Management ready question no question just an observation on the uh voted invoice they still have our old District address says 301 homes instead of the new District address so they just need to be informed we have a new address new address yeah I want to make sure they deliver correct yeah get to the right place so you say this is the first phase how many phases will there be um the second phase uh would deal with buying the radio system
071to the buses so that way Administration and the bus drivers can communicate uh seamlessly throughout the district but this new radio system allows Administration to monitor activities at the site no matter where they are in the where right now the existing radio system they have to be physically at that site half the time it doesn't work so and then that's going to be available through the repeater system that we'll put throughout the district but I will and I just caution this for everybody I've said it a couple times but I'll say it again we will be reducing the number of rados that are in this District we are very radio happy however when you start to have uh events that create potential issues the last thing you need to do is have a bunch of
072individuals throughout the campus have a radio that's broadcasting information that maybe we don't want to be broadcasted so we will probably I don't know we won't probably we will definitely see a change in philosophy with respect to who has radios and their access to radios and these are a higher level quality of radios than we currently purchase so they will not be handed out probably or they will not be handed out to the degree that they currently are handed out so you're aware in case there's any squawk and that takes place walking like the radio not in the radio sense any other questions I moved to approve the purchase of new District radio system from USA radio rentals under Arizona State contract number ctr046825 as presented a second all in favor aye aye motion carries
073four to zero so now we're gonna my little change in here we're gonna go ahead and Skip down to 9.4 to the energy saving performance contract and I'm going to invite Mr Ben Matson from vergee if you remember a couple years ago we actually went in agreement with Mid-State they did a name change so they're now called Verity for an energy savings contract as part of that Energy savings contract they do a measurement verification on an annual basis to let us know whether we're meeting the projected uh requirements under State Statute you have to meet the requirements uh otherwise they they owe us money there's a guarantee and so this would be the annual report that will come back roughly this time each year and so I've asked Mr Matson to make a presentation so
074I'll turn it over to Mr Matson great thank you uh Madam could you just go very slow so we can go through all 55 Pages wait a minute no no that's why you moved me up at the agenda baby but uh yeah we're gonna go just through the executive summary but uh yeah and maybe my vacation photos or something but uh um Madam president members of the board uh superintendent Dr Wyman um good evening uh my name is Ben Matson uh I'm a principal executive with verigie and excited to talk to you a little bit about how uh how you're doing on your energy bills uh if you remember um some familiar faces here from when we originally did our original project as Dr Wyman mentioned we have to buy statute we have to do
075a performance review of your utility data and how we're performing around the energy measures that we installed I'm just gonna do the executive summary and so we'll be able to get through this here in just a few minutes um the biggest thing here is in section one just to give you some background these are the key parameters a baseline period is what the savings are all predicated off of so a baseline from here is before we installed it we take roughly about a two year look these were from 2018 to uh to 2020 of April and so that's what our savings are all predicated off of uh and also before of course of course the the pandemic and everything else uh our contract execution was in April the date of actually uh final completion of
076when the construction project was done was in early June of 01 uh our performance period uh which is what we're going to talk about today is from June to May um the overall term that we're looking at you're going to see me for the next uh 16 years uh by Statute I have to do this for the next the next 16 excuse me the next 15. this is number one uh our mnv methodology measurement and verification methodology here's another acronym for you but the ipmvp which is the international protocol of measurement and verification the Arizona State Statute says that we have to follow the ipmvp rules and regulations of how we look at your data and then uh follow the performance of it um so moving ahead to the next page this is what the
077Baseline uh going back to 2018 and 2020 over those two years this is what the district was currently doing at that time at that moment in time roughly over 8 million kwh a baseline of electricity costs of over 930 000. um water costs of over 182 000 you can kind of see just the simple uh chart there of what the district was currently spending at that time I'm going to move to the next page here uh energy rates uh are skyrocketing as with inflation it's unfortunate um ABS which is not this District but is is going out for uh 12 increase uh SRP is uh is well above this Mark they're at 4.7 percent um a water eraser increasing as well um when we originally did this contract we're trying to look at how much
078rate utility uh would increase over a period of time uh we we marked this very low but we had no idea of what was going to happen with inflation and so we're well below the inflation Mark of 3.6 percent um so what did our what did we guarantee what did Verity guarantee with the installation measures which is on the next page the Evo kit which is really LED lighting that's the dynamic lighting packages that were in all the classrooms water efficiency upgrades toilet faucets urinals we did a lot of HVAC upgrades at Combs traditional Harmon and uh Simonton um orchestrate which is our building automation platform which ties in a lot of control systems kind of a smart building we also worked with a partner called fmx to do maintenance Management Systems uh and then
079the big part of this project was in the Solar that was installed throughout the district our total guaranteed savings uh over the course of all those things is a little over 719 000 is what we need to guarantee the ECM another acronym sorry our industry is happy with acronyms but that stands for energy conservation measures the ecms that we did for the jail Combs Unified School District are located there below uh in the chart we did LED lighting across the entire District uh same thing with water efficiency upgrades uh as I mentioned heavy mechanical at three sites uh orchestrate and then solar was installed everywhere um we also did the solar um a shade canopies rather than the roof mounts and that was located throughout the district all right let's talk about how you did
080um I don't know if anybody from Holmes high school or Combs middle school or uh Harmon but those were the biggest winners uh in terms of energy efficiencies those uh they crushed it so uh the blue line is our Baseline usage uh and then the the actual what what was actually then used is in the green you can see every school performed uh Combs High School homes Middle School Armin and then came close was Ellsworth uh all performed exceptionally um and so the that's just an overall chart view there in the total if you want to go through all the detail you can um the main thing that we look for in the next slide here is you know does the does the savings usually match the the is the usage match the Baseline we're
081trying to see if there's any major regular uh um does it follow a pattern uh with the weather and what you previously had as you can see here it does um we're trying to see if there's any major issues is the HVAC working is the lighting system working this chart really follows what your previous usage was uh perfectly uh except for that you're using a whole lot less so that's a good thing there uh the next one is is really on the solar side what did the solar produce versus what you purchased versus what the Baseline is so really we're looking at these gray lines the green lines and the blue lines the blue line is what you previously used at Combs High School or excuse me Jay Oklahoma school district the green is what
082the performance period usage is and then the the gray is what you actually purchased from SRP the difference between those two things is what the solar produced and so um it's a pretty pretty incredible to see uh the massive decline of what is actually coming from SRP and and how much resiliency that we're actually producing uh here ourselves on the solar side uh so what did we what does all this equate to our total verified electric uh cost savings is over 474 uh thousand dollars our solar savings is over 221 uh small amount of water savings at 35 which matched the guarantee um our total verified savings is over 000. so uh all good news so that's great to hear um the final kind of project performance here uh basically uh is laid out here
083between the costing uh um and the program savings uh for year one and we're going to be tracking this for the next 15. um I guess really I just want to say congratulations to you um to think that we've gained a capital infrastructure of new HVAC equipment we've improved the learning space with new lighting um and uh you know create a better environment for students and staff and all without increasing the taxpayer uh it's it's it's a it's an incredible accomplishment um this isn't a sales pitch but you have a great staff here um you know from a facilities to Administration they really care and you guys are doing a lot of things right so congratulations to you thank you for doing this I I do have please a question yeah Shelley says of course
084Bob has a question yeah no problem um one thing that I'd like to see that I didn't see in these slides is in the uh the base period of 2018 to 2020. on an average how much did as a district did we spend for electricity did we spend for water back then and how much this past year did we spend for electricity and water so the actual numbers coming out of our budget what did we spend and then let's look at the difference I'd like to see those numbers not tonight because I obviously I'm putting on the spot no but I'd like to have those presented to us absolutely and we can that's an easy figure that we can get back to you um you know the main thing that we we're seeing is the
085costing is increasing substantially utility rates are increasing well above what we anticipated and so what that means is though is that it becomes avoided cost unfortunately it will not be reflected in the actual utility bill uh because it's like what you would have been paying if you didn't do these measures would be so much more you'd be paying you know 1.3 million a year uh and so that's that's the only thing that I'll caution the district on is that because inflation is going so high it becomes an avoided cost and so but I'm happy to get that information there were some assumptions in terms of cost increases that were built in so let's just use those assumptions sure and go forward and that way we're kind of comparing Apples to Apples yeah absolutely yeah that's
086easy to do thank you any other questions questions for him thank you yeah thank you for your time thank you Ben appreciate it so we'll go ahead and go jump back up to um 9.1 okay go ahead Madam president members of the board Dr William I appreciate this opportunity to talk today a little bit on uh our College and Career Readiness platform that we're currently using a graze 4 through 12 called major Clarity uh you probably have heard some mention of it through Dr Wyman with various events and awards that have been uh granted to our district you can do oh I have to do it we were going to be here a while guys absolutely nothing okay I'm glad this is a public record okay um so uh we adopted major Clarity it is
087it is our College and Career Readiness platform um it's uh designed to help teachers counselors parents uh students um combine efforts in a in a very user-friendly way to guide students in that that turning maybe a pathway for post-secondary um currently we haven't implemented at all of the schools grades four through twelve um at the elementary school grades four and five it's a career literacy piece that's aligned with the Ade career literacy standards at grades six through eight it's more of a career exploration platform and then at the high school both high schools it's a career Readiness and so the students are able to dive much deeper into the program and and really plan for post-secondary uh upcoming we hope to help students develop a four and a six year plan so it is as
088a seventh grader they would begin to develop a four-year excuse me a six-year plan that would basically they would choose classes that are aligned with a pathway that they may like to pursue and then when they get to high school they kind of refine that and so that they're not just graduating with their their credits but they actually have a plan in Hand of and hopefully some background some education that will guide them towards something that's uh in post-secondary um we currently do also have a work based learning database where students can tap in we'll show that to you in a little bit and then um the post-secondary plan for all students I did bring some help today so I'm going to ask them to come up if you would and then I'll I'll bring
089you to the microphone a little bit at a time so this is the student Journey they take an assessment we are now doing that as low as fourth grade but also in sixth grade and every other year uh that assessment aligns with what it creates what's called a fit score that fit score aligns them with a career pathway that based on their personality uh based on some of the career expression activities they do it kind of guides them to careers that they might be well designed for and then of course we do the academic planning so they're actually creating their four six and four year plan ahead of time and then we have opportunities for them to explore a workplace work based experiences post-secondary so they can research any college across the country and they
090can search out any scholarship both local and across the country that's available all using this platform so we started our history is back in the fall of 2020 we had an issue with trying to address the ecap at the high school and really being able to document the the what was necessary that's that's outlined by the State Board of Education and through that process we decided that we did need some kind of College and Career Readiness platform we did the research and uh obviously we chose major Clarity we did a soft launch this spring of 2020 at the high school with some English teachers and CT teachers um and then we did a full implementation in the fall of 2021 at Combs High School in a kind of a soft launch at the middle school
091and then as you can see in Fall of 2022 we are fully implemented at um at ccs and CMS along with high school of course and then we also um after fall break we were able to implement the elementary platform as well as a result from last year with our 7th through 12th graders we had 91 percent of our 7th through 12th graders activated their account so that means they had to go in log in and then they had to do some kind of activity typically on these type of platforms you see about 25 activation so hats off to the staffs at both the high school and the middle school for contributing to that and then the 83 percent represents the number of the percentage of students that actually went back at least one more
092time to the platform to do some type of explore career exploration activity uh research at college or whatever and so total we had um 1631 students with a high number of logins High numbers more than two okay yeah um as a result major Clarity awarded this uh the um Platinum power user award we were ranked fifth in Arizona um I'm sorry no fifth in the country out of 455 school districts as far as usage and we were ranked fifth in the state of Arizona um nope sorry second in the state of Arizona with total usage um so we were recognized uh nationally by Major Clarity for the efforts now I want to want to note here that this was possible because of the support that we had with our site administrators and our counselors and
093our teachers our approach was we didn't want to make this the responsibility of The English Department which has been that's been the practice in the past or upon the counselors as we know they have such a large caseload so we developed a plan that involves all the teachers at the high school they were all doing something with the students on the platform and that's why we had such a high usage and um and then at the middle school with Leslie weiberg and her team and Laura's support they were able to do some similar things at the middle school so hats off to to Administration and staff members um our implementation process we assembled a team of what we call Campus Champions and these were members from uh the wards they were teachers we had counselors
094we had administrators we kind of developed a plan and then we trained the site staff so that everybody on campus was familiar with the platform and could utilize it in the classroom and then of course we launched it to the students in a very systematic way so that it was understandable and was user friendly so I'm gonna I'm gonna allow some of my uh partners in crime to share with us what they're doing on campus so I've asked uh John Griffin who's at Ranch Elementary and he's going to share with you the the fourth and fifth grade platform thank you the fourth and fifth grade platform is very exciting because we're able to have children begin to explore different career interests there's 16 different career clusters as students get to visit and get passports in
095and so the students are able to start getting knowledge about the different career clusters and the different occupations that they could explore and fourth and fifth grade and then the sixth grade we're able to shift it up to similar to what the middle school is doing like the personality assessment and going much deeper into the different career clusters and career opportunities and I'm super excited about it but my excitement it's not really what's necessary um important I have a student Marianna who came here today and if you want to come up Mariana she's going to speak real briefly about some of her experiences on major Clarity she's on the sixth grade platform and so she's able to explore a lot and she's really been doing incredible with it she's probably going to get in front
096of me on the platform because I'm trying to keep up with the kids but I'll let her speak pull the microphone down um can you say video production is that something that you do at Ranch okay where did you find those courses oh okay all right awesome thank you hon [Applause] okay and then this is Leslie why we're glessy's our counselors that kind of describe what what happened so we give them the personality assessment and they it asks things like um study the structure of the human body and you say either yes I would like to do that no never or maybe um another example is check the inventory so they rate those and it will give them their personality type so like like you said that our artistic is created then eventually education so
097it gives you your personality type then we do the learning styles and this the the statements are like when I have to do an assignment I have to use my hands I'm able to remember better or I learn better if someone reads the directory so they take your personality type and your learning style which by the way the learning styles you create a spreadsheet share the information with speakers so they all know that you learn best this um so they mesh the two together and then we'll give you a Career Cluster within the career clusters there's hundreds of jobs that students can search um and I guess it gets these students like thinking about the future the High School courses are uploaded into the in there so they can start creating their plan in seventh
098grade like what they're gonna according to you know what they've decided to do for a living it's a great plan but part of that career exploration is the the students actually get to view um a video of the day of the life of somebody that's in that career um they get to really explore what the job outlook is what the salary is what the ability level what education background you need so that's really in depth as far as really understanding if I want to be a doctor lawyer or fireman this is what it's going to take or if I don't like school and I don't plan on doing anything past High School um then what do I qualify for and they can actually dial that down to see well what does it take what kind
099of credential would I need if I don't want to go to post-secondary and things like that so it really can go as deep and as far as you want to okay um and then we have from the high school we have two folks um Heidi you're gonna go first okay you need this okay with the interest okay so um um so it'll pull up a page and they can plug in and then like find out of your plan so much everybody foreign language but um it's not set in stone though that's great I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that that part is really cool from my counselor's perspective because that saves time on us very much already because honestly when we go in the classrooms kids are like it goes about that way
100but this they haven't already planned out no no and even with the correct time I kind of something else but it keeps telling me counselor counselor that's where I'm at I'm here um and then the financial resource I love that part because kids will come in especially seniors my parents want me to I live dollars where can I find this at and they're already familiar with hey go right here to finance reasons and it will um pull it up good eight Bob you want oh that's gay ACT score I mean it gives very but and I have to say so this is my first year like digging in just so cool everybody should love this um and so I love it though actually you can go to Major Clarity go to Financial Resources this then
101this then and I mean it pulls up thousands and thousands and only that we can do the local scholarship that we have a little button put them all up there and then even like Fellowship that gets sentenced to us just aren't Fellowship um milk without and we can upload them ourselves into that so that tons and tons of opportunities are really cool um and then the post-secondary thing is also a really good thing because the kids can if they have a college in mind that they want to go to they click on that and they can put the college name in there but let's be honest they don't even know what to do yet so they can put in like on a business um College in Wyoming and then all the colleges in Wyoming that
102will that or they don't have to put on all the different colleges you click on that college they'll take that website this is accepted ACP score you need type of a private that women is I mean it is so cool um it really is a cool thing so those are the three kind of that we've gone um and it just makes it like streamlined they're already doing it for in the elementary I thought they just gonna go through for registration figure out what I want to do I'm sorry it's a really cool thing thank you thank you um you can see your excitement and and it's kind of that way the more you understand it the more exciting it becomes now um uh Diane was one of our our early I'm gonna I'll call you
103guinea pig just because you kind of were right um and Diane jumped in with both feet she was part of our kind of that that pilot program and immediately started using it with her students in her English class and she's been one of our biggest Advocates on campus so I asked her to kind of share some of the experience she's had with some of the assignments just realized looking I've got one of yours one of yours um so I have been very fortunate where um I have been able to really see the program from the beginning and uh we're now taking it a step further so this year I teach my ESL classes classes and I teach my senior classes so my seniors I want them to walk out to be able to answer the
104question what are you doing next and we spent a lot of time talking about um that functional text all of the things that they need to prepare like uh this quarter we're talking about portfolios so um and major Clarity has a section that goes along with that um but the the Deep dive that we're doing for uh major Clarity in the as far as the career exploration goes is uh taking a look at um they know what area or programs they have an idea of what they're interested in so they've done the interview watched the interview or they've answered or done an activity on there so then they go a step further into okay if I want if I'm really interested in this what is the next step so um we've created a document that
105goes along with major Clarity so that they can click on the schools that go along with their career choices and then they can click on and compare them in a comparison to so I I literally had like six different schools up at the same time you could see their graduation rates um their acceptance you can see how much a typical four-year program would be so not only are some of these kids even my even students that um you know they they think their certification is it they don't need anything else now they're going oh if I want more money that I need to get this so I need to you know find out more about the type of schooling that goes along with that so and some of my kids were actually balancing how much
106would it cost at a two-year College to the four-year universe so to get a chance to kind of dive in deeper and look at those schools as prospective places that they're going to go next I uh the kids really like it um it gives an opportunity for them if they engage into it they're going to produce better and work more effectively so of course Dr Goolsby from ccs at CCS we do it a little bit differently we use it during our advisory and so four times a week we get together with the kids and we goal set and two of the areas that I wanted to focus on was we've done resume major Clarity has a nice um part in it where the kids can put in the data and then it prints out a
107resume for them and they take that as the beginning step to the English class and then the English teacher works with them on the verbiage that they use and we're focused on what are you going to use the resume for is it for college applications is it for the world of work are you going into the military so what's your next step and how does this play the academic planning is a very neat tool because the kids can put in a career I brought in two of our data notebooks because we actually print out part of major Clarity and the kids put it in their data notebook and later on if any of you want to see them but like one student might put in I want to study Film Production and then right away
108it tells them what degree you need what careers you might have in that and then it even flips over to the next page where it shows you what classes you should be taking in high school and what electives might lead you to that so those are just two things we we do the personality assessment we go with it because every Tuesday the kids know that's major Clarity day for us and it's a useful tool for our students because it's an open door to the Future and it can be anything that you want college career going to the next step in pursuing a technical training and major Clarity opens those doors to the kids and like like everyone said you can pull up and compare one program to another so you might click on it and
109say okay I'm going to start at CAC and these are the classes I'm going to take and then I want to transfer to this school and this is the next step so it's been it's a part of our every week and it also lets the kids take it into the classroom whether it's the social studies classroom or the English classroom or the math classroom and continue to talk about what's in my future and where you know where do I start to get to where I want to go thank you so it's a lofty goal um would it be nice if we could you know there's the three E's if every student was either enlisted enrolled or employed upon graduation right um that's a lofty goal but at least we're providing those students an opportunity to
110kind of seek those opportunities or those options that are available to them right so anyway that's all I have any question yes ma'am would this be something that would be good for parent adversity like for them to figure out like as parents to come and go through that 100 yeah yeah okay so then we have um discussion information what are we still going we're still going oh I have I have some people to bring up and a report no I'm just I thought that we were done so I'm just gonna quickly review the high school benchmarks and um the school letter grade so the high school benchmarks took place at the end of October and what we were looking at for the middle of October what we were looking at is giving students current quarterly
111benchmarks in grades 9 through 11 for ELA and math they were based on what they were what they were covering at that moment in time and we worked with teams of teachers from the high school with our content and instructional coaches to come up with an assessment that they felt was aligned to what they were working on and the priority standards they were being taught at that time and then we held a data review meeting to understand that first quarter data and then what those learning opportunities need to be for students where we're going to go next is we'll continue to update instructional practices to address student needs and then we are working right now on that quarter two Benchmark to be given right before we go out on winter break so here is our
112quarter one Benchmark data from the high school so our ninth graders in ela and math uh 10th and 11th and then the associated Math course at that time what we're looking at is an improvement over the Benchmark data from last school year but we still see areas that we need to work on with our students and a lot of that has to do with application it's just taking what they're learning the foundational skills in both Ela and math and applying them to a higher level of rigor those types of questions that can get students thinking about what the information that they're learning any questions about benchmark okay so letter grades um Ade release letter grades at the beginning of the month and this is the first time that we've had a release of letter grades
113since the 1819 school year District letter grades will most likely be released for next school year for the current school year we're in during next school year so where we're at now is we know what our schools have received in terms of letter grades and we also know that we have to do something with that information and what we're going to do is we're going to do comprehensive data reviews we're going to discuss with schools and the community what the data looks like what the data means and how that data can be used to support not only in the classroom but at home there's going to be a professional learning supports and opportunities provided to everyone so that we know what teachers need to be successful in the classroom and focus that PLC time that's
114that professional learning communities inside the school day at each school to address what areas of need and then obviously provide additional support for our schools that need that extra bump so we will again be working with those schools we are right now we've identified the data we've identified students and we're rolling information out for Success when we get to the end of this school year the state assessment any questions about letter grade I have a question in terms of Simonton how close were they to the next cutoff for a c um they were in the middle of the range so what it had to what we're looking at is growth data which is what most Arizona schools saw a lot of achievement in Simonton had an exceptional amount of growth during the prior school year
115so it's maintaining that growth from year to year when we have turnover and staff so that that was what we'll be looking at to see for this next year so we can get that growth up another question thank you are we done with that one all right so 9.2 discussion and information on curriculum adoption and warehousing that would that's what that says all right now we put together a short video presentation we did not um this one will be really quick 30 seconds I just want to be really quick but we did um we did have an information request from the board come in through the CIA team um in terms of curriculum and curriculum usage in the classroom so just wanted to share with you a little bit about what that looks like and
116what uh which of those resources we support um so basically we look at three levels of curriculum The Core Curriculum the supplemental and then those ancillary materials uh Core Curriculum we generally Define as our adopted text and materials that follow our statute those are supported by our CIA team both financially as well as training supports throughout the school year and we have our supplemental curriculum materials that are also approved and supported by the CIA team again financial and training and are utilized district-wide the difference between those two being that those supplemental pieces don't go through that formal adoption cycle because they're usually smaller materials that we're using in some sort of an addition and then those ancillary materials being those teacher selected and site supported so kind of those teachable moments those things that come
117up uh related to that individual school or that individual lesson uh that might come up during that time uh so the question was asked about what's being utilized in the classrooms and and how do we keep that stuff collected so um our adopted curriculum and materials are taken through that formal adoption cycle as you all approved at the end of last year we had our science adoption last year that we are in the process of implementing right now um and we are currently working on a math adoption that we launched this this week so this includes working with the committee to determine the needs evaluate the effectiveness of those materials here to our statutory guidelines including that ever so fun public review period and submit to the jail Combs governing board for approval so you're
118familiar with that piece again we're working on the math adoption right now uh launched that on November 7th had a really great first meeting with that team um I laughed because I said you got to love Math teachers we had mapped out several several hours for work and they came in and like this is this is what we need this is what our kids need you know they were they were laying it out it was great so um what we did this first week was to create that rubric to evaluate those materials we will finalize that in our next meeting and then that goes out to the vendors to say hey here's what we're looking for here's our criteria if you can meet meet that criteria we'd like to look at your stuff so um
119it's a good process um in terms of our curriculum warehousing so the question being where do we keep our materials how do teachers know what to access and what has been approved by us and is supported by our team so we currently in our district utilize those materials through a shared folder so that's part of our Google Suite of applications um it is not the most modern and robust format for us to keep it but it is accessible via our teachers and it includes our approved vendor website such as McGraw-Hill our recent science adoption so um we have started looking at some external vendors that would Warehouse that information in a different way we know we need to look at that and want to look at that in part because of that change in statutory
120requirement and the ability to have access to that from our community and so we can do that through the Google Suite it's just not the most user friendly so we started to take a look at that and and find some ways that we can provide those access to those materials so that our community can see the scope and sequence of what we're teaching and the materials that we're using in a little more user-friendly way so that's a piece that we're working on right now we've already done a couple of vendor presentations we're kind of vetting that out with our content coaches and our CIA so I apologize would be super fast questions related to the curriculum do you feel that your curriculum matches what you're benchmarking um yes and um quite nicely we'll we'll launch
121into our course guide piece in a minute here I think there's a significant piece with that and I included for you in this presentation I didn't pull it up on the slide but um one of the pieces that we're also working on within the CIA team is to develop and bring to you a curriculum adoption cycle um we're in a situation as a district where when the high school opened obviously we didn't have high school materials prior to that point in time so it was sort of this all at once um very easily time goes by now we are well-ish years later and we need to update some of that curriculum so to answer Mr Ray's question more directly mostly I think we have some gaps in there and we have some gaps in there
122that we're working to address through the science adoption the math adoption and the additional pieces moving forward one of the pieces that I've been working with Karen Finn on it is to look at the the statutory requirements in terms of curriculum adoption link um and so we may come back to you in the future to look at longer periods of time for those adoptions so that we have those materials staying current um I think one of the questions that's always asked is are we making sure that our teachers in the classroom are utilizing the adopted materials and that becomes a little more difficult as time progresses and if our materials that we've adopted are not staying up to date with the standards and the expectations for the teaching pedagogy then we start to get people
123bringing in extra resources so we've got to start to get a process in place to regularly update those elements so that we can make sure that what we have in the classroom we're able to support and it aligns with where our standards are at and with what our expected teaching practices are so um very long-winded answer to your question we've got some strong alignment there and we have some gaps that we need to fill and part of that is the updating of curriculum with those those more modern teaching elements and that's the process we're working I have a question in terms of the curriculum review we have the open period for people to come in right um as far as the science is concerned how much public review did we have on the materials it's
124the same standard process it's it's at least a 60-day period but that's I'm looking to see how many people actually I don't know because I was coming in at the time so I couldn't I don't know if I could answer that Dr Wyman might have some knowledge I would say my memory would be less than one hand I send one hand yeah I mean you may have had somebody if they were in a meeting here that we had along the back if they were in a meeting here for something they may have casually viewed some of the things that were there but I've had more in history I've had people sit down and go Page by Page by Page in the history um I'm booking another District we didn't get any of that so we
125would have had very casual review of it in the back of the room if they were in this room but no formal review that we're aware of we also made it online and we had minimal to no review line of the materials thank you we are taking reservations for a math adoption review I'm sure there will be a wait list if you want to get through those materials it'll be quite engaging and very controversial I'm sure so that we'll be working on that piece uh launching that in the spring semester so thank you and I get to stay standing here oh okay see one more another pretty short one here for you yes my first guide meet Madam president members of the board Dr Wyman and Mr Costa one more time as we wrap up
126the end of the evening so the 2324 course guide we're just bringing that to you tonight uh for your review um with the just really a few minor updates I'm going to tell you a little bit about our process and then assistant principle April kachinski we'll walk you through what the high school has done and some of the updates um but obviously we are are trying to make sure that we are aligning the coursework to the expectations we have for our students to be a high of high academic achievement um we've also started to do some work with John and the CTE team we've got some plans in place moving forward to make sure um kind of to Mr Ray's question before that we're starting to do an even better job of aligning the offerings
127to both student interest as well as what we know industry is calling for um so we're going to continue to adjust that as we move forward but here's the general process for our course guide review so the first piece obviously is to make sure that the course offerings are aligned to our state standards we review historical course enrollment take a look at the courses that we're offering and our students still interested in them are they still pieces that we're getting students to enroll in We Gather some teacher and counselor input so we brought together a committee at the high school to go through that and share with us some of their expectations the committee reviewed that gave some suggestive updates those updates came to a small group of folks principal assistant principal myself and the
128counselors looking over that information we made sure that those pieces aligned approve of those chain changes and then we're presenting them to you this evening for review I'm going to bring Miss Kaczynski up and let her share with you some of the changes in the course guide that we're proposing for next year and um so as we go through as we go through some of the course changes you'll notice that we have each content level an area listed we have courses in blue and then we have horses in Red the courses in blue are the ones that we have added and the ones in red are the ones we have deleted from the course catalog you'll also notice that under certain content areas we do not have editions or deletions but as I go forward
129through the presentation I'll go into detail with some of the changes we made in that area so for English the changes that we made were to the descriptions with these three courses so honors freshman English AP language and comp and AP Literature and comp and the reason that we change those course descriptions was to align more to the curriculum and what is being taught um it still aligns with the state for science we changed the description for Integrated Science the word biology was in the course description and we do not teach biology and Institute science um we did do a grade level change for our honors biology we made it 10th grade only rather than nine through ten and the reason behind that is because if they skipped Integrated Science they would miss a big
130portion to prepare them for the state Science assessment um we also added an honors Integrated Science it would be for nine for social studies we um changed the description for economics same reasoning we wanted to align it more to the curriculum and it still aligns with the state uh we added AP economics to the course catalog um it was offered but it just wasn't in the 2122 so nothing changed for math we changed the description under quantitative reasoning and one of the notes that we added was that it does count towards the graduation requirements but it does not prepare students for a rigorous Math course in college uh we did do a grade level change to honors geometry we went um 9th through 12th rather than ninth grade because we want to give all the
131students an opportunity to be on that accelerated path as well as honors Algebra 2 same reasoning behind that we also added an AP free calculus course I know the AP board just added that and so um for that we wanted to add that to our course catalog that will be offered for 90. and then excuse me we do have a few changes to the electives you'll see that we have quite a few course description changes again it aligns with everything else we are changing it to align more with what is being taught in the curriculum and so we have it um under Sports PE we added more skills of what those students are going to be doing in that class acting one two Advanced theatrical production stagecraft one and two we also change that to
132align more with the curriculum sports med 3 we did add a note and that note explains that students can receive an emergency medical responder certificate sports medicine one and three we removed a note that it does not qualify for dual enrollment anymore and then we changed PE from an elective we changed it to an elective rather than a PE since a PE credit is not required and then we changed the yearbook elective to an elective rather English because it was listed as an English how come it's not dual credit anymore that's a great question um I know the department chair of CTE brought that to my attention that Sports Medicine 2 is the only one that allows it now are we doing that still through Chandler Gilbert oh and then we did a grade level
133change to our PE classes um currently they're split up 9th 10th and then 11th and 12th um so we are going to make our PE classes 9th through 12th it just gives more flexibility um within students and then we did a grade level change for AP Spanish language and culture um we're doing 9 through 12th rather than just allowing the 10th through 12th graders to take it we've added some courses for our electives Sports pe2 so right now we have sports pe1 and sports pe2 however we just um differentiated the difference of skills that they would be learning in the sports ee one versus two and we are also going to add a unified PE to be more inclusive to our specialized students who will be paired up with general education students in that class
134when we're adding a percussion Ensemble and a ceramics 3. um the courses that we removed were concert band and the reason we removed concert band is because it consists of wind and symphonic we already have a wind and symphonic Force so instead of having concert band as well we just removed that and separated what they were doing uh and then we removed chamber winds because there was no um we didn't have a high knee and then just some additional information um we did add some Edge annuity requirements into the course catalog so that parents were aware of what those requirements looked like if their student was enrolled in an Edgenuity course um we updated the course registration form we're trying to work towards um students being on track before they get to their senior year
135and trying to catch up on all their credits so we did add that to the registration forms um we added the Combs High School vision the site values and we also added a great and complete portion which just explains that if a student has missed a final exam or has an incomplete grade they have 10 days going into the following order to make that and if not um it would go to an um and then we invade some modifications to the state assessments there was accuplacer on the course the course guide under assessments and we don't offer that anymore so we removed that from the forced catalog and then we removed the Combs High School motto because the site values is what took place for that and then I also changed the format of the
136course catalog just for it to be a little bit more sequential and organized any question well I don't have one yeah think of one real quick and thanks thanks to the uh behind the scenes wizard I will rewind to Mr Elena's previous question the answer to your question is 10 we had 10 people review um the science curriculum um so two hands not just one two hands well In fairness one of those two hands had the same person on it three times so we could say 10 or we could say seven we're in that ballpark thank you it's quick what can we say the name of course guide all right and they're waiting for your magical words oh we're not done yet okay um requests for future agenda items anybody have anything that they would
137like to put on no because then it'll be longer than eight o'clock that's right all right all right so I make a motion to adjourn at 807. this