001bye because i gained six-pack call this meeting to order at six o'clock and um we need to adopt the agenda you guys hey just you too man i moved to a job the agenda has proposed i'll second all in favor aye aye motion carries three to zero pledge pledge allegiance okay so um let's see do we have any questions on the meeting minutes no but this is like in school when everybody goes to the back and no one wants to sit in the front right okay so no questions so we can i need a motion to approve i move to approve the minutes as presented i'll second um favor aye aye motion carries through zero so as you can see we are a small but mighty board because we um had two members step down
002one moved out of the district and um one had decided that it conflicting things and he wanted to go ahead and step down so anyway hopefully we are in the process of okay so hopefully we'll have a new board member maybe next meeting i don't know who knows okay so current superintendent report thank you a couple different things in front of you you have the new uh annual report this is the 21 22 annual report uh we'll start distributing around the community um thanks to kayla fulmer for all her hard work and and bringing it together you will notice uh in some cases uh there are ads in in the annual report that's because part of the agreement or part of the the plan to increase the amount of donations uh to the foundation uh
003if you sponsored at the highest levels um you then received ad space and so that's why you're seeing some ad space here um and to give you a perspective uh that that step and repeat that's on the back there um those three vendors uh donated at the 7 500 level uh the one up front you see people that donated at the six thousand five thousand four thousand three thousand level um or uh for your own information and we have some activities coming up but we've been very successful uh we will we will push this out at the annual at the at the foundation business breakfast but this year we have uh currently raised uh 80 over 80 000 through our partners donating to our foundation in a normal year we are probably in the 10
004000 range and so it's going to allow us to continue to recognize staff continue to increase the number of scholarships for kids and then we're talking about the third component of our uh of our bylaws will allow for many grants for teachers and so we just had a conversation today that with with the amount of money that we've raised uh there's a chance that we'll be able to go ahead and and put something out this year for many grants for teachers we got to work on the details got to work with julie on some of the issues on how that how that takes place so that follows all the payment laws the other piece that we will start to do is take some of that money and put it into an endowment uh and then
005hopefully over the course of time uh raise that endowment to a an amount that will guarantee that we'll be able to do x number of scholarships every single year um so it's been very successful uh we do have the business breakfast on tuesday the 23rd from eight to nine so you're invited to it to come to that it'll be in the boardroom here we will talk about the annual report we'll also talk about camp scrubs which was a partnership between banner health and the middle school uh and then we will uh share some of the other things that are happening uh we also have on the 29th on monday the east valley boards meeting uh what that is is every year that or every excuse me month that there's a fifth week on that monday
006all the different uh boards for the east valley school districts get together for dinner and and topics for this year usually that means there's four of them in the course of the year this year there's actually two because one of them falls on memorial day and the other one falls on another holiday i can't remember exactly when so uh there's actually two of them this year uh if you want to go it's going to be held at mesa public schools uh just let deanna know we'll get you registered um on the elections just so we're on the same uh page with the with the elections um mr ray his term is up and miss cars terms up ms carr stepped down because she moved out of the the district um and uh mr ray has
007has put in for a writing candidate we also have a mr jason beach who submitted the requirements so both of those individuals be will be seated for those two seats that's the seats will be filled in january there's a very good chance i think the board of supervisors hasn't done it yet that there will be no election this year that's a fairly significant cost and since there's two people running for two seats there's no point to have an election that's happening more and more around the state where you're not having school board elections because they don't have enough people that want to run for the for the positions the third seat is uh for mr mccloud who had the step down initially we thought the advertisement couldn't occur until after the general election uh miss
008broussard who's a county school superintendent uh did some research and and found that actually the the drop-off date for when you can advertise because what it is is if you walk away from your your term before it's up and you replace somebody they can only stay until the next election so technically speaking if they stay if we replace them in july they would only get a state of november and then we'd have to redo the process well what she found out is actually the deadline is not the election it's the last day to file the run for the position so therefore that would have been july 25th and so as a result of that she's gone ahead and posted the position i've met with two different individuals that are expressing possibly some interest they have
009to if they want to or if anybody wants to uh run for the position they will have to turn into the county by next friday at five o'clock the application uh then there will be interviews the tuesday after that i think that's the 29th maybe it's the 30th but there'll be interviews then and the selection made and then that person could potentially be seated for the next board member or board meeting on the 19th of september we won't know until next friday if those two individuals choose to uh run if there's anybody out there that knows somebody that that would like to run uh please have them contact me i'll sit down and talk to them and explain to them what it really entails uh to be a board member and we'd like to see
010if we can get one if if nobody puts in for it then you just post it again and and we just try to see if we can find someone that's interested in running that individual whoever replaces mr mcleod will have the seat until uh december of 24 um and then if they wanted to run again they would run in the in the election in in 24. okay some clarification we talked about there being two seats steve's seat and then another person running there's no election right don't those two plus oh okay so now we're talking about another person right right those two get seated right yeah those two get seated in january mr mclaren right actually in this case it's not only the next election it's the end of the term because mr mccloud's term
011would end on the 20 in 2024 and so therefore they would just run out the remaining two two and a half years of mr mcleod's term um and then if they want to run again they could they could run again so we're working on that and if there's anybody else else interested just let me know in terms of the process that's going to be followed because i was one of those people when i got on the board and we had interviews internally locally first before we passed anything to jill are we going to do anything like that well i was at a meeting this morning that i thought joe was going to be at and unfortunately she couldn't make it so i'm going to have to call and see what her process is i've i've
012been through this several times my career and each county seems to do something slightly different so i'm not sure i got the impression that it was going to be a one-shot interview just with her but but i don't know that for a fact but to give perspective uh she has based on those people that have filed for other school districts in the county she has 26 unfilled uh board seats across the county that she's going to have to kill so and most of those she cannot fail until after the general because even though nobody's applied you gotta wait until that election is done so again this speaks to quite frankly the difficulty for lots of reasons i don't go into but difficulty of being a board member and people not wanting to run for boards
013and it makes it tough i'm aware of one small district that normally has three board members and they've only been with one board member for the last six months because they can't the community is so small anybody that wants to run ends up working for the district so therefore they can't be on the board and so they're running with one member board um for at least a half year if not longer so how do they get a quarrel but i mean it's an interesting dynamic with only one so but they can't find anybody run uh let you also know besides the foundation business breakfast uh we will also have uh the golf tournament um uh the first annual golf tournament on september 10th through the foundation and then we will be hosting this is plenty
014of notice but we'll be hosting the asba now county meeting they have county meetings around the state uh it is on wednesday october 19th from five to eight i have not seen the full agenda but there is a possibility that they may have on election year a lot of times they'll do uh prospective board members uh we'll have a little uh a session from four to five but i have not seen the agenda so i don't know if they're they're doing that aspa is changing some things up so in terms of student enrollment probably the the the biggest thing on student enrollment is we're down 253 kids um that number will fluctuate a little bit here and there uh we're trying to determine where why we're down to 253 kids um we see that the
015high school's down uh that number gets a little misleading because we had a smaller freshman class coming in compared to a larger senior class leaving last year you also have a number of those kids that are down at the alternate school so the alternative school although it shows you right now at 44 kids this was as of last friday the numbers have increased and they're actually um uh based on some changes this year they're up 20 kids so overall our high school numbers are not that far off um uh if you add them in in in total and also do the online kids we are down online uh that's because either some of the older kids uh graduated and then you're starting to see um probably more and more you will find a true number
016of who really likes online now that coverts over uh or online was not the panacea for everybody that people thought it was and i think bob would expose that so there are any number of kids who maybe decided to come back in person rather than do the online piece and so we'll have to see over the next uh year so where does that number really bounce out at and what's the real number of online kids the majority of those kids are at the high school uh we have not we a matter of fact cancelled at the lower grades because we just did not have enough kids uh in third grade through sixth grade to warrant the hiring of somebody um given the shortage of or the loss of students that's probably not a bad idea
017because for perspective for the community out there uh 253 kid loss is about a million three and so when we start to look at our budget um that then impacts um uh what we need to do uh with with that piece we also have it broken down by the other schools we're down a little bit at cta before you go on um i think maybe there's a little math glitch in here because when i look at 70 students oh yeah that's 44 in the same thing 90 to 0 55 so i probably cut and pasted it and yeah a couple of things that are just slightly off um and so we have it by the grade you can see that kindergarten's down so that's another problem area we're down 71 kids there is that we're
018still small enough that we go through cohorted classes by the grade and so sometimes we have big grades that come through and sometimes we have little grades that come through so we don't know what this kindergarten is this um just a small class that's coming through or the other piece that's out there is they're not in our boundaries but there are three new schools charters that have opened up uh ala has opened up a 712 school right on the corner of hunt highway across from the hospital uh ala has also opened up a uh seat head on the corner of uh pecos and sosment and then legacy has built the k8 on skyline and gary now those are not in our our boundaries um but in the case of legacy we know of two of
019our teachers that went over there so they may have pulled some kids brisbane high and queen creek is a brand new school that's opened up so i think it's 7-10 i know talking with miss ridge she said there are a number of middle school kids that have gone over there from our district so the competition for kids is is only increasing as more and more facilities uh grow so we're going to have to monitor that we do i do anticipate this to be a what i would anticipate to be a a one-off year where we we drop we are still scheduled within the four on what i'll call the four corners holmes and schneff road those four subdivisions as well as the subdivision up on on meridian and germain we're still scheduled to get in
020the neighborhood of approximately 6 000 homes over the next three to five years out of those subdivisions and so if you take a look at a capture rate whether you use the current capture rate of 43 percent or slightly higher capture rate than we would anticipate that we're going to continue to grow we do see some growth out of archer meadows right now especially at um symington uh simonton numbers are down a little bit but it's misleading because we moved the preschool program from simonton to ranch which is why ranch numbers are up um but we're still seeing growth into uh into uh symington because they would take the archer meadows homes ranch is across the street from archer metals next to laredo ranch and we're starting to see those homes go up there's probably
021a dozen homes at least if not more that are going up so we would start to see those homes the other subdivisions whales ranch and and northside creek up here on germain are probably six maybe eight months from starting to go vertical and then where farms which is next ancient era is probably i'm going to say maybe early summer before they start to go vertical if not maybe in fall so we will still see some construction and we will start to grow but we're not got a little bit of a lag that we have to be aware of um and so our out of the box conference went very very well a huge thank you to dorsey and her coaches and yellow thompson and the student services department for all their hard work and putting
022on the conference i think the key piece to it is it's tailored to the individual needs of our uh kids uh excuse me of our staff just like what we try to do in our classroom with our kids so they did a great job i also want to recognize alice goodrick who was elected to the board of directors for the state of arizona for the family career community leaders of america or fccla she will serve a two-year term she's had a lot of success in that cte program i just received a letter this week so congratulations to her and then the last thing that i will remind you of is um uh the best thing that happened to us this year is we got a billion dollars statewide for education the worst thing that happened
023to us is we got a billion dollars statewide for education um the ael the aggregate expenditure limit has not been resolved so therefore that issue is still coming up and the statewide cut to the aggregate expenditure limit which would occur in april if it's not resolved um is 1.3 billion dollars across the state our piece of that puzzle roughly his initial reaction would be six million dollars to only tell you that because there will be a lot of stuff going on over the next number of months to try to address that issue but it is a significant issue and depending on how the election goes it may make it easier or harder the governor had promised a special session called this fall there are indications that maybe that's not going to happen which creates a
024problem based on what the makeup of the legislature may look like um in uh in january i will be giving you more information throughout the fall but i just want to give you a heads up that that is going to be a looming issue and uh it is it is looking tougher and tougher uh to solve but we will keep working on what i got for my reports okay question does you guys have anything on the governing board report what sorry excuse me staff recognition you have some place to go no nice maybe i don't know we want to stand with us supposed to start storming here soon yes kyle we're going to recognize food service and student services so we'll have yes hot santa come up and do the first recognition bye good evening
025um good night good evening madam president board members and dr wyman i would like to recognize jan bowser cafeteria manager at ellsworth elementary jan has always been offering excellent quality and presentation of the food that she serves to our students she goes above and beyond in regards to the experience that elsewhere the students have when they come through the service line and she knows uh she knows them by name he has pictures on the walls about different places around the world and some art pieces so the kids not only come and eat but they also talk about some cultural pieces and jan is always helping our department succeed she comes up with new menu suggestions she always checks our prices how much we're paying for food and you know says like you can find something
026better here for she can or whatever it is and um she's always committed she makes us better every day she's also always willing to help other managers with training uh he helped promote a book that used to work with her into the manager and she went and helped her you know on her own time help her develop those that she needed um she always shares her her knowledge and experience with all of us and i feel very blessed to have done in my team thank you jen to come up come on down like the price is right you have to be more excited if you're going to be on the price dr dukes they're heavy huh madam president president um board members dr wyman it is a pleasure for me to be here tonight to
027celebrate a very deserving member of the student services team i am fortunate to work with a team that demonstrates their commitment commitment to student success every day yetta cheryl frey brenda anne-marie that's it it's like when people talk about their families i get all the kids i got them all um but i just i get to work with an incredible team every day that really puts students first so um it's a pleasure um to work with them and be a part of their team they are always eager to work um they are always eager to take on they're like we we've got it we've got our go kit let's go but there is one member that i want to really um highlight and that is an individual that works in an area that many people
028don't embrace but it's certainly one of the most fun areas to work in in that behavior um when i think about someone working in behavior we think about someone who has that calm demeanor that shows up and is just able to listen to take it all in and then do something with the information and that happens to be miss anne-marie garcia our district behavior specialist this is a position that we've worked very hard to fill and last year was able to bring ann marie on board from private sector as a social worker so she came in already understanding that the very unique challenges that families have that students have that communities have around behavior and social emotional needs so she was certainly a good fit for us as she was creating the behavior specialist role
029um being a new person in it um just the growth that i've seen from last year to this year is just taking it on with such eagerness i'm really helping people to understand that behavior is really a form of communication and we just have to listen listen listen observe take it all in and also put up our wall to say we're not going to own it and make it personal so i just really am thrilled to work with someone that really understands that and can help others and is very eager to help others with that from collecting data to creating plans to implementing plans um to figuring out the function of the behavior other than they're just trying to do something is is just what ann marie does so naturally you can have fun in
030energizing conversations we can have hard conversations but every conversation is always a student at the very center of the core of anything we do so i would just like to honor anne marie today um with the blue apple [Applause] just thank you for being such a critical part of our team and supporting students and some of the most challenging families [Applause] thank you thank you okay we have um so governing board members do you have anything to report nothing report nothing okay do we have any public comments none okay any questions on the consent agenda yes i do okay her rip okay uh first i want to apologize i'm gonna put a couple of people on the spot normally i read the agenda well ahead of time and get my questions answered but i was
031out of town for two weeks got home late last night and didn't get to reading this until just before the meeting so that's why i'm going to be bringing these up now um first question is on the financial report for fiscal year 2122 the m o budget and when i look at that the final number shows a budget balance of 330 000 which is a little over one percent and all along as we were doing our budgeting and calculating raises and everything else we were always under the impression we were going to have a one million dollar balance going forward so i'd like to know what happened to that one million dollar balance when it's at 333 000. [Music] thank you that was one i have another one um on the personnel document with all
032the new hires i just would like to understand why some coaches are classified as certified and some coaches are classified as classified way now because that they're being pasted paid a stipend for their work i don't understand how they're classified differently for example the cross-country coach certified boys basketball coach is classified and i just don't understand that it has nothing to do with their pay or responsibility just has to do with where they are in terms of their employment or not employment within the district okay thank you okay but i had all right any other questions right no all right so let's i'll need a motion [Music] i move to approve the consent agenda as presented i'll second i'm in favor aye aye motion carries three to zero okay so now we have uh 8.1
033discussion consideration of approval of the arizona school boards association draft 2023 political agenda and direct the district's delegate to the asba's delegate assembly to represent the board department so you have a mr ray is the representative um and if you if you opened up uh attachment it is the recommended political agenda for asba and so you just have to tell them how the two three of you think you should vote on the different um items so that's strictly up the board and what what direction they would like to give mr ray um after reading this over and looking at the suggested changes i think they're all fine and i'm in favor of them okay what do you think mr ray you're good yep i moved to approve the arizona school boards association aspa draft 2023
034political agenda and direct our district's delegate to the aspa delegate assembly mr a to represent the board's determined position second 8.2 discussion consideration approval 2223 coaching slash educational activities support stipends yes what we started last year was to just bring you a whole list of people at one time this does not reflect all of the positions it reflects the majority of them but even with some of these that are here someone may step down from a position if you're a baseball coach right now something may change between now and the season but it's our as of right now the people that we have for the positions if we don't have a field position we'll come back later with their names uh you will see the stipended names and the and the mounts and again that's
035just a reminder that uh based on legal uh legal counsel advice uh we provide the the names and the amounts of that they're receiving for the board so that you're aware of what's being paid out and when so unless there's a specific issue on any of them i recommend approval as presented all right i moved to approve the 2223 stipends for extracurricular coaches and educational activity positions as presented all second all in favor motion carries zero so now we have discussion item um 9.1 discussion information on student achievement district 2223 testing schedule and as you remember you requested that last year so we'll continue that process and i'll invite dr fountain down to start the conversation finally get to hear from you are you excited okay question is are my colleagues in the back of
036the room excited so excited we're on the clock we're on the clock for sure um all right well madam president members of the board dr wyman and of course mrs costa uh our pleasure to share with you tonight some of the projects going on in the curriculum and instruction and assessment department also known as the cia i always want to be director of the cia so i got to direct the cia works great so we've launched several significant initiatives to start this year and we look forward to sharing with you some of our goals and objectives for the 22-23 school year i know that this process began last year in having the investment team present we're going to tweak it on you a little bit this year moving forward in that we will continue to
037bring those assessment pieces to you as the uh as those tests and assessments occur but we want to couple that with some of the work going on uh to align with those assessments so that you know the work that happened as a result so um this is our cia team i want to introduce a couple of our folks that are with us here tonight uh so first of all we have ms dorsey middaugh our professional learning coordinator i'm sure you're familiar with dorsey john strogam our career technical education coordinator and unfortunately our our newest member uh miss denise dunwoody is not able to be here tonight um so might be listening but not here so each of these individuals are responsible for the elements you see i think before you on the screen there um
038and i wanted to share that because i think it's important for folks to understand the breadth really that it occurs within the cia team and all of the different elements that uh that we impact so obviously the curriculum instructions um but also professional learning career technical education federal programs like anybody a lot of work that goes on within the team i like to think that it's kind of the heart soul of supporting teaching and learning with uh and each of these pieces are critical to our our success um so obviously all of these elements work then under our forward movement that that piece of defining who we are uh where we're going and who we will be and then those feed nicely into that framework that you've seen from us adapt from our modern teacher
039framework and these are some of the things that we do as a team to support our forward movement so first of all we we accomplish these by seeking out and sharing examples of how others are navigating these shifts and that's our professional community we are really fortunate to be that nice tight-knit community and the opportunity to come together on a regular basis with dr wyman brings a leadership team together so we get a chance to work with our site leadership and our district leadership together to um provide those best practices uh we move our strategic plan into action with the use of a practical roadmap while building capacity within our team we provide relevant and aligned professional learning that fosters a growth mindset and builds capacity for change we provide analysis of our systems including
040student performance teacher effectiveness under our assessment umbrella and we develop critical partnerships within our leadership team and professional connections to leverage the expertise of our team to support the district's vision and finally we evaluate and align our district approach to teaching and learning ensuring that our curriculum and instruction resources support our modern classrooms and prepare our students with the skills they need to be college and career ready we're just going to share a couple of initiatives that we've started for this year um and then we look forward to any questions you have or future items that you would like to hear from our team on but starting with curriculum obviously that's a critical component of our modern learning classroom here and our focus in curriculum is having those rigorous components that are aligned to our
041standards uh they provide our clear learning outcomes for our students we are focused on relevant learning experiences um and focused assessments and then finally transparent learning a couple of pieces that we've been working on as we start this year are first of all you're aware that we have the science adoption that we went through last year um initially we were planning on rolling out the science adoption in january of 2023 we've been able to speed that up a little bit so thanks to some work um our science content code christine murphy and working with the vendor we've been able to to get that started already um craig and his team have got the the back door work done in terms of getting all the student information components listed in there uh so hopefully in the
042next couple days that will go live for our teachers and they'll be able to start um working with that content much sooner than we had anticipated so we can get that in our classrooms a little bit faster that's going to be a multi-phase process the first piece will be a couple of weeks of what we like to call sandbox time so a chance for them to get in there and play and explore and see the content that's in there miss murphy has put together some videos to help guide them on what's in there and how to access it and then we'll have some aligned professional development that goes with that we've put together a system to collect some information from folks that once they get in there and explore hey i have a question i'm
043wondering about this or how would i access that but we can really tailor that that professional development for those needs so we're excited to be bringing that out we're also doing some work on uh kind of updating our district resources and ensuring that we know when our last adoption cycle was in all of our content areas so that as we move forward as a district and continue to grow uh we can bring those to dr wyman and use the board to consider future adoptions make sure that we do have modern curriculum in all of our those are a couple of pieces that we're doing i'm going to go ahead and turn it over who's going to share the assessment piece on behalf of this dunwoody who's not with us to see good evening i am
044hoping that i'm able to bring this to you as well as miss danny what do you do dude would um i'm so i'm super happy to be here with you this evening um just to kind of give you an overview of assessment um it uh we basically plan for a rigor and relevance assessment here in combs and we have an an assessment framework and so i'll be going through a portion of that with you this evening as you know went from our forward initiative that our goal of assessments is to inform instructional decisions and this is how we use assessment to celebrate learning to personalize learning and to provide individual feedback for our students so you have here this graphic that shows our assessment framework as a whole and then each one of these cogs
045kind of represents a piece of action that we have within that framework so the first piece that first large cog there is um describes our our assessments as in some of the options that we have here the first one is screeners and those are diagnostic the screeners that we have here in the district are fast bridge and we measure um reading and mathematics and then we also have an seb component those diagnostics help give our teachers a reference point to where our students are in the beginning of learning so that we can help plan and then also initiate throughout the year so that we can provide some interventions for them wherever is needed in addition to that we have our district benchmarks and those benchmarks are actually centered around our standards of learning provided by
046the state so we measure students um against the standards and um try to identify where they are with their skills and knowledge so that informs our instruction in the classroom as well and though the standardized tests that we take by the state at the end of the year are also standards driven so we kind of give an insight we get an insight to where our students are through those assessments throughout the year in the benchmarks also we have so as we move forward as our cogs continue we have the evidence of collection piece where we collect information from students to find out where they are our students our teachers use that data to inform their instruction and we collect that data and help our teachers with that if that data is student specific by classroom
047and then by school and then also by district so that we can collect that data and look for trends as we collect that data we look at that we and we use that analysis of what we're seeing as far as what students are knowing and how they're performing and then we also look at that and we are analyzing is our curriculum spot on is our pacing spot on what types of things are happening in the classroom that so we can support them then we respond so we get those go ahead and bring that down just a little bit please so our responsiveness is um so we respond to that data in order to help our teachers meet the needs of students whether it is our foundational instruction or our interventions or even extending instruction we
048use that data to help us understand what we need to do next in the professional learning department we also look at that student driven data and some of our teacher response data and we try to figure out what it is that we need to do to support them in their journey in the classroom and then finally we report out that data last year marcus reported out the data to you we'll also report out the data to you this year but we'll also use it to um we'll report out that data to our site leadership and then also to our coach sites so that we get our coaches that serve on the sites and then the district so that we can respond to that appropriately and then and this last piece here we have our data
049evidence collection and this is actually just kind of a summary of where we are now and where we are going um in the future with the district so um right now we're with our quarter one screeners and our screeners are k12 once again in reading and mathematics and then also our seb so our screeners with k12 mathematics and reading are actually up and going our teachers are doing are working through those at this time and so are our benchmarks for three through eight so those those all of those assessments and screeners are up and going and they'll be closing on the 26th of august and then also we have our high school assessments that will actually open up in the latter part of the quarter because they measure um the quarterly standards as they have
050been taught throughout the quarter and those will actually open up and i feel a little short here i'm going to go ahead and lower that a little bit [Laughter] so those benchmarks will open on september 6 and close on the 23rd and then also we have our sab um screener that will open up on september 6 and close on the 16th we will take that data we will see where we are so that we can drive where we need to go not only instruction in the classroom but also professional learning and continue to analyze our curriculum and see if what we need to do to improve it and see where we need to help our our teachers in the response to student learning and then we'll report out our data to got it go you
051and move that one up a little bit and i think we're going to introduce john our cpe thank you coordinator thank you thank you dorsey good evening i am did not bring my soapbox tonight i was told by dr boutten there would be another night to do that so i will try to stay brief um as you know um career technical education plays a large role in our high school but it also filters down to the middle school and we have been fortunate to add new teacher to our career exploration program at middle school which we're excited about to start generating some of that interest with students earlier on and i'll talk a little bit about our college and career readiness platform here in a second we if you look at the slide there those
052six elements are the key elements that are part of any successful cte program across across the country of course we're governed by the arizona department of education but we we rely heavily on the arizona and the national association of career technical education for guidance making sure that we meet those those important elements not only with the compliance issues but also with the quality part of it as well and so we we address each of these in each of our programs uh if you were to walk into our classrooms you would find that our teachers are all addressing the technical standards as outlined by the state of arizona we also address those professional skills often referred to as soft skills that is part of our curriculum to help our students um find and keep a job
053when that time comes and then of course we've implemented industry credentials years ago and every one of our programs offers an industry credential to all of our students at no cost we add to our instruction in the classroom with hands-on experience so um technically we're supposed to provide 51 percent of our instruction is supposed to be hands-on throughout the term of a program and we do a very good job of that most of our programs are in a either lab based field based or work based experience for our students we offer career exploration so not only are they developing some technical skills in a particular program or pathway but we use major clarity also to enhance what they're learning so that they can understand more fully what pathways are available what occupations are available within
054those pathways we have a leadership development portion of our cte programs that's called a ctso or a career technical student organization in fact our teachers now are going through the election process with our students to wrap that up by the end of august and then in september all of our students will attend a student leadership workshop so that they'll understand how to run their own organization and that the advisors advise so we're excited to let them take on those leadership roles um of course we integrate our core standards our math our ela and our science as part of our uh expectations and so we try to coordinate with those departments as much as we can but um for the most part we we look for opportunities to help our students understand the connection behind these
055different areas and the content that they're learning in their technical program and of course we have community involvement we're excited to say that almost every one of our ct programs this year has an advisory council which is a region based so what i mean by that is we realize that sometimes it's hard to gather resources especially from industry for a lot of our programs from our small area so we partnered with a couple of neighboring districts and combined our resources and we're able to offer a more robust advisory council get more feedback get more perspective from industry professionals that we normally wouldn't get if we just try to do it by ourselves we're really excited we kicked off two programs like our six programs last year and we'll add the additional six this year and
056then in april coming up is our comprehensive needs assessment which we've tried to do every two years which will give us some guidance as to whether or not we're offering the right programs or if we need to look at programs that might be changing according to our read the second part this college and career readiness we you've heard dr wyman mentioned major clarity several times i don't know how familiar you are with major clarity it is not a cte program um it's a college and career readiness program it's for all of our students at the high school all of our students students at the home center for success and all of our students at the middle school it has different elements depending on what grade you're in but basically what it does is it allows
057students to take assessments that match their personality with possible career pathways and then they're able to do some career exploration activities but it goes well beyond that they can search for scholarships and apply for jobs they can do just about anything that they want to do to plan out their future so uh currently we have it um full implemented at the junior high and at both high schools uh the junior high this year is is expanding how what we did uh compared to last year where every student uh will have an experience to have anywhere from 14 to 16 career exploration uh opportunities um we have four departments that will be involved in that so it's not only the counselors and last year was just the science department but now our core content areas will
058be involved in that as well so um you know our our biggest concern is that you have counselors with large caseloads and they they possibly can't have those one-on-one conversations with our students about their future but ours our teachers have um contact with them every single day and those conversations take place on a regular basis in those classrooms so we want to take the burden off the counselors and uh allow our teachers to be more involved in helping steer our students towards a potential college and career we're doing that middle school and then we're excited to announce that following fall break we are going to have major clarity for grades four through six so all of our elementary schools will also have elementary school the platform looks a little different for them but again it's
059an opportunity for them to become more aware of what's out there so that they can start thinking about more than just what's in their small world but they can think globally about their futures any questions oh thank you thanks john are you dorsey now i am okay we're going to go for a double apparently you have to be undertale to be able to have there we go all right okay there you go that works for me okay now we're going to go into the professional learning um section of tonight and i'm super excited about this this is one of my passions um as as is all a curriculum instruction and assessment and i just kind of want to describe a little bit of professional the professional learning department it's in immediate family members and what
060we do and what we've done so far this year and our next steps so essentially professional development we use adult learning theory to support our teachers our practitioners of practice do their job and what they do and help expand and grow what they're doing our team is made up of content coaches and instructional coaches and we develop and facilitate much of the learning that we have here in the district we um also let me see here where i lost my notes um we are professional learning is actually a multi-tiered approach to help support teachers so we have a district-wide professional learning team that we develop and facilitate learning we have site learning we also have we also support individual or um team coaching we also support plc we support the um analysis the analysis of
061data and using that data to make lesson plans and support learning in the classroom and then we also support our new teachers to the district and new teachers to the profession through induction so um this slide is actually giving you a big picture glance of some of the work that we've already done this year professional learning basically goes on all year long and some of the things that we've done at the launch of the school year are listed here so we had summer camp which is um combs academic and um and programs learning for our teachers so basically we had it centered around some of our content courses in early literacy and writing and also some research-based instructional course courses that promote student learning cognitive thinking and also some mathematical practice pieces in addition to
062that we launched our forward movement with some of our literacy courses for teachers that were ready and willing to take those and they were actually facilitated by a coach at the time our summer camp courses were really big we actually had um 11 with four days 11 classes and 44 participants that took multiple classes during that four day period um our classes lasted all day some of them were half day but most of the people ended up taking two half day classes we tried to butt them up once against each other so that our courses were complementary to one another in addition to that we went right from summer camp and into new employee induction and our new employee induction is a really fun two day event where we actually hosted 79 teachers this year
063and we welcomed them we introduced them to district personnel site personnel and then also with each other we tried to start developing and building those relationships on who they can contact for whatever need they might have we partnered with hr and technology in those sections and we also started giving our new teachers a glimpse of who we are as a district and personalized and blended learning and we supported them with the initial steps up forward as well from there we launched into our three-day conference our out-of-the-box conference in the first day of the conference we partnered with student services and they hosted the first day with helping our teachers and our employees understand their community they took a bus tour around their section of their school they came to the cpac where they um listen
064to a guest speaker talk about not only the community um that surrounds their school but santan valley as a community and some of the challenges that our students are up against from there they left the cpac and they went back to their sites and they developed a shared vision and code with their principals and coaches their wellness team and um basically their site as a whole the next day which is day two was actually the following monday was our academic learning day where we hosted 290 employees 33 sessions of learning um throughout the day those sessions were actually divided into learning paths where if you were new to the district you church you took certain classes to help you introduce and get familiar with some of the things that we're doing here in the district
065to give them a basis a foundation of what they had and then we also had a midway path for those teachers that have been with us we didn't want them to learn the same thing over we wanted to continue their learning we try very hard to keep the learning connected and coherent for what they're doing so we had continued learning for those people and then we had sessions for our early adopters that are ready for advanced sessions as they've been implementing into their classrooms our last day the conference was actually our teachers getting together as sites or our teachers or our teams getting together and doing some site based or content area specific as in our student services teams getting into some of the things that they do best so they took the learning from
066day one and day two and they had an opportunity to implement that learning or plan for implementation of that learning together in plcs so that they would have a plan together for when students came on the 26th or the 25th okay let's go ahead and go to the next one thank you another thing that um professional learning does as i mentioned before is we support the induction program so we support new teachers coming to the district and new teachers coming to the profession so what does that mean is we have mentors that actually guide our teachers um on sites it's kind of a we have like a three-prong approach so we have district level support we have site level support and then we have individual level support so we have mentors that support our teachers
067we train those mentors we so we've already provided mentor basics and then we'll also have the mentors get together as a whole group so that um and we'll have a seminar where we support them with the next steps of coaching teachers and where they are and then we also have new teacher supports those supports are two-pronged where our teachers our new teachers meet with their mentors teachers first year and second year they meet with their mentors and they go through topics timely to that time of year and our new teachers our mentees lean on their mentors for what they need mentors do not have to supply all of the answers they don't have to do it all by themselves they are actually they have access to myself and other resources in the district to help
068them provide anything that our new teachers need so going on to the next piece please so what are we doing for our next steps we're going to use any data that comes in from our assessments we use qualitative and quantitative data from our teachers and interviews from our teachers and our teacher feedback that we have from our professional learning series and also walkthroughs and observations in to determine what we need to do to continue to support our district goals as we move forward and so we'll develop some new classes for the for the october learning session and some of those are going to include some data sessions and connected with fast bridge and dna moving forward with the next piece of unpacking standards with our with our teachers and some and also identifying um what
069it looks like to have effective strategies and then we'll also be supporting all of those pieces with forward because those pieces actually connect with forward and what they might look like in learning plans data notebooks learning walls and all of those transparent elements so i'd like to thank you for joining us today and having this opportunity for our our team to share with you what we do in the cia and professional learning department and um we are looking forward to supporting our teachers and our side administration throughout the year and welcome any questions that you might have i just want to say that all of this is very impressive and i'm just very anxious to see how it impacts student learning and the results on some of the standardized tests that we've been talking about
070over time absolutely that's our goal is to continue to support those and really use that data to try to help us get there did a great job on the uh new teachers oh thank you thank you now you guys gonna get shirts that say cia i i think i should we should have them with little mic we don't have budget yeah good night thank you so much for your um presentation thank you get an old man good job okay so now we're down to um agenda items does anybody have anything that they would like to add to the agenda for next um we had talked in the past about maybe an update on uh footsteps to brilliance and it's people that are using it what results they've had um ease of use that kind of
071stuff i'm not that's one i have the the other one is um based upon some of the terrible horrible things that have gone on at other schools with shootings i want to be sure our campuses are safe and we do a safety audit of all of our schools make sure doors are locked that are supposed to be locked the locks work but everything that's supposed to be working is working properly and that no one can get onto our campus unless they're invited to and go through the proper channel we'll bring the the updated uh emergency response plan to you we're in the process of those other audits and we have already had conversations in leadership about those very things that you're talking about and we we continue to meet with vendors uh on some products
072that might be beneficial i will tell you in many cases they're maybe not quite as beneficial as they try to sell so but we're continuing to meet with vendors we we do under the governor's uh state budget uh are eligible for an sro at the high school however uh we still have a difficult time because pcso is short people therefore we won't necessarily get one but but we're engaging with talks with with pcso on that but we'll bring you a report as part of the uh emergency management response plan for next year is the sro that we're eligible for for high school or high school and middle school i believe that the time that we did it was just high school and and that becomes i've just from previous experience in other districts they're very
073tight on what you put in for and they're not allowed to move outside of that realm i believe at the time we were just doing high school but i'd have to go back i don't know just high school yeah so at this point and and we didn't we received it and then they said no because pcso couldn't uh afford it a couple years ago and we didn't realize we were on the list until we got a letter from them that says we took any applications from the last go-around and just moved them forward um so again we'll continue those discussions and and if they get uh some more uh staff then we would look to see if we could get one i i would like to have a quick presentation on how you know that
074paper tutoring has affected students maybe have a few students who have used it come and talk about it you know what you know how it's helped our students i think that would be beneficial maybe not just students maybe a teacher that uses it in their classroom as well i think that from what i heard before when it has that there was some height it's the middle school teachers that were using it if i'm not if i'm correct i don't know but anyway maybe that too anything else all right well i'm going to make a motion to adjourn at 702 second at all in favor hi hi aye motion carries uh three to zero who won the pool [Laughter] i love it