001questions foreign okay good evening and welcome uh can I call the meeting to order and have a roll call please Dr Lopez here Mr Lewandowski here Mr Carlson here Mr Holt president Mr posters absent I move we adopt the agenda second thank you all those in favor hi can we please stand for the pledge in a moment of silence of the United States of America and to the Republic for which for which one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you next item is item d That's recognitions there are none today so we'll move on to item e board Communications do we have anybody no we'll move on to item F remarks from the public and the first one we have is Rainer York ie good evening president Lopez members of
002the governing board Dr Streeter senior staff and community members my name is Rayna York and I am the President of the Marana Education Association recently some members of the community have asked what value mea has in the district and I'd like to take this time to share a little bit about our association first and foremost we are proud highly qualified professional Educators just this week alone members Martha Bishop from Twin Peaks K-8 and Kelly licking Murray from Marana High were recognized by the Arizona Science teacher Association for their meaningful and exceptional Science Education member Todd Johnson from Marana Middle School was a top eight finalist for raytheon's leaders in excellence award and member Julie Andrews the Mountain View dance director was named as a finalist in the U of A amazing teacher of the year
003award congratulations to each of you you all Elevate the profession our community and mea I am proud to walk alongside each of you every day and thank you for choosing to be union members in addition mea Union Educators work with Administration and the board as a part of this community to provide our Professional Knowledge and voice we aim to serve students and families by developing a safe and supportive workplace that attracts the very best educators in that Spirit of collaboration the union is able to have a seat at the decision-making table each action is focused on benefiting all Educators students and families in Marana we work with the Marana Community our members alongside the existing and active musd parent partnership organized a forum for our school board candidates to be sure that the community had
004the opportunity to hear from the candidates directly mea members also worked tirelessly every single day for months going door-to-door and making phone calls to talk to community members about prop 491 our most recent school bond while we wait for the final numbers to be reported I remain optimistic that the community recognizes the benefit to all of maranas by supporting the district most importantly we are parents we are your neighbors your friends in an integral part of the fabric that makes Miranda successful we are lucky to have the very best Educators who continuously choose Marana and mea because of the work that we all do together thank you thank you [Applause] uh next one is Margaret Cheney thank you good evening board members I'm Margaret Chaney I'm the president for the Tucson our Tucson Unified School
005District that is incorrect the Tucson Education Association um and as president I'm really really happy to be here it is an honor I am so so thrilled uh to be given this opportunity and also to just gaze upon what a beautiful facility this is I have uh looked at looked at uh the the environment tonight and I think what a privilege it would be for every District to have such a beautiful place and to have so many people who care so deeply about their district and about their Community I come here as your neighbor um in a neighboring School District with many employees who may live in Marana but work into USD and I am a bit taken aback by some advertising that took place recently and I just wanted to remind everyone that as
006neighbors we are working hard to to remind everyone of all the things that we have in common because oftentimes we have much more in common than we do apart public education has been through some very very difficult times in the last 20 years and no more so true today and as a result it is so vital that we communicate with one another that we talk to one another when we have struggles when we have Solutions and when we have problems because together we can really work on public education as one as it was meant to be as it was when I was a little girl growing up in Chicago when schools were fully funded so that we can remind everyone how important that is and how how very vital it is to remain friendly neighbors
007and to to stay a community thank you thank you next item is item G superintendent Commons Dr Streeter governing board president Lopez governing board members senior staff members of the audience uh it's it's been a while since our last regular uh governing board meeting because fall break pushed us up a week so we've had this larger than usual Gap nonetheless I think like I say every month it was it's been a busy time uh share just a couple of of highlights one I want to just commend Sarah Clem and her team for holding the first ESS parent night as part of the exceptional student services we had a nice turnout uh really for what is step one of really trying to reach out to our ESS parents and and ensure that they see themselves as
008partners uh with the district as we as we work uh move forward and work together for the betterment of our students I want to thank Mr Lewandowski who joined us for that event as well also today I have the opportunity to uh host the student Forum this is members of students from Mountain View MCAT and Marana High School we met at Marana High School today I had a great conversation kind of kicking off the year with regards to how the student Forum works but it's an opportunity for me to meet with students and give them a direct line of of communication the superintendent we talked a little bit about things that they would like to see differently on their campuses they had some great questions that I was able to share some great information with
009them with regards to attendance policies uh there was questions about a third High School uh there was questions about uh some of the the state of some of their facilities uh it's kind of a nice opportunity to educate them on what prop 491 is hoping to accomplish uh also ask the students if you could weigh the magic wand what would you change about your high school experience and that's really the impetus of what our future conversations are is really making sure that our high schools and our high school experiences are centered around what our students have identified as as needs and wants for those experiences so our future conversations will be based off of that and then also we finished with some highlights of you know what was the highlights of their schools and as
010you can imagine we have some very proud students uh proud of the close community and family feel that they experience at MCAT uh proud of the the school spirit and the support that they're feeling from the administration at Mountain View and proud of the uh wide array of opportunities and and really close Community Field that has experienced at Marana High School we're looking forward to Future student forums I also want to just touch base on a Mountain View visit I want to thank Mountain View High School for opening their doors to Mr Carlson and myself back on October 21st for our superintendent board campus visit we had a very busy day well thought out agenda we're able to visit several classrooms across the campus we met with ever at least representatives from every employee group
011on campus met with members from an outstanding student council group they were really a great group of kids and during their classroom visits we were able to see a variety of learning opportunities taking place including Hands-On science labs personalized learning student collaboration math lessons it was a Friday so we got to see some testing I don't know if we'd call that the Highlight I don't know if the kids would call that the Highlight we observed some of that and during our employee group meetings we had some incredible conversations with our staff members we I'll say a common theme that emerged from those uh was just that there's a strong Community feel and family atmosphere that's in place amongst the staff at Mountain View specific comments that we heard there was a sense of community here
012where one big family uh we're all here for each other we have a really good team here what I would say and I think Mr Carlson would Echo these sentiments That Mountain View Community should be incredibly proud of the work that they put in very clear that Mountain View has a dynamic Community oriented culture in place so thank you to our our Mountain View folks also want to just touch on on November 1st the Arizona Department of Education released the 2021-2022 a through F School letter grades for all public schools across Arizona these letter grades provide information about student achievement College and Career Readiness student growth and other key areas of interest to families in the general public this data is important it's informative for us really this was our first comprehensive look at school
013accountability scores since 2019 at least at the state level and there's much to be proud of in musd including keep in mind we have 17 schools one of those schools is Dove Mountain that was not part of the 2019 score so when I tell you that 14 of 16 schools maintain or improve their letter grades from 2019. um I'm taking devmountain out of that group 13 of 16 schools improve their accountability points from 2019 eight schools improved their letter grade from 2019. if you remember back in 2019 we had two schools that were rated A D and one f rated today we have 0 D and zero f rated schools in 2019 we had five schools that were placed on comprehensive School Improvement today we have zero schools that are placed on comprehensive School Improvement
014status seven schools showed double-digit improvements in their accountability points when compared to their 2019 totals and today we have six a schools which is the most a schools that musd has ever had I say that our Focus moving forward continues to be on accelerated learning across all of our schools our teachers and our staff have made it very clear that they're ready and they're driven to ensure that our students have the resources and support that they need to truly Thrive we look forward to our continued efforts with literacy across the district as well as our focus on the high leverage strategies that are related to the high reliability schools model that is in place across our district like all schools in Arizona and across the country it's important to note that the Miranda Community continues
015to recover from the impacts of covet 19. the state's letter grades are based in large part on our students scores on that state assessment and while we're proud of our state assessment results it is also important to remember that these tests are just one metric of our success not included in these scores or the efforts that have been made to meet our students needs during this pandemic so just as I remain proud of our students and all that they have accomplished I want to commend our families and I want to thank our teachers and staff for their continued hard work and dedication to our students and this concludes my report for tonight thank you next item is item H the consent agenda can I have a motion can I move the governing board approve the
016consent agenda as presented second do we have any questions I just wanted to add an excitement um that I got to see in the consent agenda was that kids are traveling again and sixth grade is going to San Diego and that was huge for my kids many years ago I still have those stuffed animals in my garage from Simi so they are still there so it's nice that we are coming back so I love it so we're going to move on to item I unfinished business and there is nothing I'm sorry all those in favor all right I was too excited yeah yes yeah no stuffed animals all right item eyes unfinished business there is none so we're going to move to item J for new business Dr Streeter yes governing board president Lopez governing
017board members members of our audience the Arizona school boards Association met with the District administration to conduct a comprehensive review of the Marana Unified School District policy manual modifications may have resulted from changes to federal laws state statutes alterations to rules of regulatory agencies findings in case law attorney general opinions Etc in in some cases the changes are the outcomes of efforts to clarify contents of a document or to more adequately synchronize the district's policies and practices with one another additionally many documents have only minor or technical changes that are not substantial typically such changes are Corrections that are made just to enhance sentence structure improve grammatical presentation accommodate statutory codification adjustments the policies and regulations and or the exhibits that contain substantial substantial changes were reviewed with the governing board at our October 27th
018special governing board meeting so we've been through these pretty thoroughly uh if you remember that but the policies that were reviewed are are listed in your packet includes policy a ACA ACAA bedb dgd t j e policy d k b g c q g d c a g d o b gdq oh there's another page gdq uh gdqb i c i h a m b i j l i j n c i m b j f b j i c c j j i b j j j j j j j l c g and k h c the recommendation is that the governing board approves uh these policies as they were previously presented I have a motion the first motion I move the governing board rescind and nullify all current and past policies of
019the Moran Unified School District number six that's second all those in favor aye I further move that the governing board adopt the policy manual developed with Consulting assistance from the Arizona school boards Association containing selected and retained documents from the predecessor manual and new and modify documents hereby prescribed and approved by the board second all those in favor aye aye aye next item is item J2 Dr dumler yes thank you president Lopez board members Dr Streeter and members of the audience I'm bringing you three policies that we did not discuss back in October so we're bringing them separately um the first policy policy gcd professional staff vacations and holidays as we were reviewing we realized that the current our current contract language didn't match what was in the policy so we removed that outdated language
020and then the other two policies jlcb jlcd on immunization of students and then medicines and administering medicines to students both of these have been updated to conform with the current asba template language yeah ASB um updated jlcb and the regulation and exhibit as they they had a recent change in statute and as they started to work on it realized that there were a lot of inconsistencies in the policy and so just redid the whole policy and then in terms of jlcd it was actually updated several years ago we didn't adopt the updates at the time um because we had a previous Health director that wasn't comfortable with all of it our current health services director and I went through these policies specifically and decided that it would be in our best interest to move all
021of those to the current template policies for asba you know okay I move the governing board approves the revisions to policy gcd professional staff vacations and holidays policy jlcb immunizations of students and policy jlcd medicines administering medicines to students second tell us in favor aye aye aye next item is item a board member request for future agenda items just have an update 491 is 500 votes ahead oh wow of course thank you uh next item is item L for future meetings I don't have the dates in here oh I lied December 8th is our next regular meeting so hopefully um we'll get to see you then and the next item is in can I have a motion can we adjourn second all those in favor aye thank you for coming