CMSD Board of Education Meeting - November 9, 2022

001foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] Dr sweetheart Dr Thomas here miss Valdez Miss Valdez Miss Bingham we have a forum at 7-0 thank you Mr morning chair will now entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the board business meeting of October 25th thank you do I hear a second yes I do all in favor signify by saying I I opposed the ice habit the minutes are approved it is so very nice to be here at Riverside School very close to where I live so I'm always grateful for that I would

002now like to introduce the principal this is Jessica gamble to tell us about her school and her students [Music] can I use this microphone okay foreign good evening everybody I do have both of my children up here this evening but I have my youngest and she doesn't want to sit by herself so she'll Stand By Me so good evening my name is Jessica gamble I'm the proud principal here at Riverside School I am joined by my esteemed assistant principal Heather commistar and my physical education teacher James roach so just a little bit about Riverside before you get to see the students because I'm pretty sure that's while you're here not for us so just our mission and vision and why we get up every day and come to this amazing business or this amazing building

003we aim every single day to ensure that we are growing responsible Scholars who think critically and creatively while becoming lifelong Learners it's really important at Riverside that we are focused on the whole child and we're using inclusion-based practices that Implement Tech the Arts health and fitness we are super proud this year we implemented a second PE class and we have a yoga and mindfulness class every single day for our Scholars here at Riverside and that's brand new and something we're really proud about because it's beyond just book smarts we want our kids to have a well-rounded experience here at Riverside So speaking of our Scholars we are very very proud of our diverse population we currently have 472 children in grades pre-k through eight enrolled here at Riverside our population includes approximately 83 El Scholars

004with over six languages spoken including Nepali Spanish and Arabic we have just over a hundred Scholars that register as Scholars with disabilities many of them are served within our four low incidence classrooms whether our Scholars are native English speakers speaking a second language whether they are coming from one of our gifted programs or a low incidence classroom and everywhere in between we do our very best to serve the whole child like Jessica mentioned and to highlight all of their strengths while helping them become the best community members they can be we also want to point out in addition to all of our owl some Scholars as we like to refer to them we have 78 incredibly hard-working Educators here and that's a picture of them this Summer we are just incredibly lucky to be surrounded

005with such amazing Educators and Scholars every single day we love to come here so we highlight period period this is the second year in its implementation and we ourselves as a school we are growing I'm in this amazing opportunity so we do offer period zero physical education and art the pictures we have up here this is our second year doing Ceramics we have an advanced Ceramics group who is working and recently we worked with the Cavs organization and Mr roach and they came in and did a couple sessions with our period zero physical education Scholars on basketball we have roughly about 70 students this year enrolled in our period zero program I would say we're more than double than what we had last year but one of our most exciting enrollment explosions has been in

006the area of music so we started this year just having four scholars in Period zero music and as we stand today we are at 26 students we decided a few weeks ago that we would offer period 0 to 4th graders in music and hoping that that might kind of improve our attendance we do know and recognize that the pandemic did have a severe impact on our students desires to play music in the Middle School level so our Hope was that if we extended it to fourth grade that as they grew older we could have a larger band in middle school so we're now at 26 in the three young gentlemen you see sitting here are a part of that program we are offering students to learn flute clarinet trumpet trombone violin Viola cello or double

007bass we are really focused on the students learning music literacy performance achieving success in a social setting as well as leadership we have two middle school students who are currently modeling and mentoring music for our little scholars in music and they are helping with tone and pitch and getting them warmed up every day in proper posture and we're really proud that we're growing leaders even within our period zero group we lastly want to highlight that the three kiddos that you see here is they are in Period zero but we we would be remiss if we did not say that their amazing parents also work here at Riverside so Caleb on the end his grandmother is our pcia Miss cunnahan Jack in the middle his mom is our amazing secretary and the young Gentleman on the

008end Kevin is my son so we um we are very fortunate here at Riverside we have quite a few few employees whose kids attend our building and we're very proud of that and so we will allow you to listen to them in just a minute before we do that though we have a Shameless plug for our volleyball team our volleyball team has made it into the playoffs and on Monday if you're not busy we hope you'll come back at four o'clock and join us because we're going to be hopefully beating the Wade Park Eagles if you have a Wade Park Alliance we're sorry but if you come back Monday you're rooting for the Eagles okay we're in for the owls not the Eagles I said it backwards you can work for both teams I guess

009as long as we make it to the next round so now if we could go one more slide one of we are a little bit hashtag crazy here and on all the things we do we always put that we're hashtag strong started during the pandemic and we've carried that over this is just a glimpse of some of our Scholars and the things we've done our Championship soccer team when we did our dad's walk our staff had a get-together during the pandemic where we had Scholars drive through so we are always trying to find ways to make our Community stronger and highlight the family that Riverside truly is and on that note who you really want to hear from is our musicians I'm going to come up here for just a minute if that's okay I'll

010just kind of go down right here in front of guys are we ready okay so Caleb Jack will you please show up resting position so resting position okay now please show us ready position ready to play in position thank you Jeff got to make sure the terminology is correct all right Caleb can you can you show us a C note please [Music] how about you Jack [Music] Kevin ready to do D all right Caleb Dino Jack Kevin and now all together [Music] all right can we give them a round of applause who are just being introduced [Music] sure sure is this I think okay there we go it's Becca because I've really wanted to play this instrument when I was a little kid my my um mine is because I've really wanted to I just

011really like how this instrument feels and and sounds like the reason I chose trumpet is because instruments kind of like runs in my family and you like play it we've been playing for about a month about a month is that what you said pretty much so not a not a question but Dr Thomas and I were actually at the Glenville football game which I'll talk a little more about in a minute and we were I was asked the question when are we bringing bands back and I explained this new program that the board approved last year called zero and Ninth period where we're reintroducing music to young people so that we can have middle school and ultimately High School bands and I did not stage this Dr Thomas I did not know that that's what

012Riverside was going to feature but thank you for doing so University out of the marching band thank you very much [Applause] thank you for coming thanks for staying late to be with us it's the best part thank you again for being here it was it's always a pleasure to spend time with students and see their demonstrations of learning next we will have a report from our chief executive officer Eric Gordon thank you and good evening board members and ladies and gentlemen and thank you again to our Riverside owls for hosting us it's always a pleasure to be here with you all this evening I'm going to start by inviting Dr John lapelli who has been recently promoted to the executive director of focus on our equity and inclusion work to the podium to present to

013the board and the community and update on our equity and inclusion work and particularly focusing on cmsd equity in me which I know he'll explain he's also has a number of colleagues and guests with him so I'll ask him to introduce all those that came here this evening to be part of this presentation so Dr lapelli I'll turn it over to you oh my apologies Chief Ward I will turn it over to you [Music] foreign [Music] so yes you have me instead of John for a minute but uh Madam chair members of the board and CEO Gordon it's a pleasure for me to be before you this is an update from the April board retreat relative to the work that we're doing in equity and inclusion and so I'm waiting on my PowerPoint okay so

014in the meantime so why don't we flip things let me keep my report while we get the presentation Reloaded my apologies so um let me pull my materials out and give you the balance of my report and then we will get the presentation reloaded so that we can present it uh so a couple of items that I want the board and Community to be aware of I did want to update the board on Dyke school as the board knows we are in the middle of replacing the fire alarm system the board will remember that in February of 2022 we brought you the work plan for the 22-23 school year and it included the planned replacement of the fire alarm system at Dyke School in March based on your approval we bid that project out and

015got the quote and you know how long it would take the equipment we'd need and all of that sort of thing and um was planning for that work for the 2022-2023 school year which starts July 1. what we know is I think everybody knows is that the supply chain issues are a real thing getting parts all of that is a challenge and so our plan was that we would ready for the close of this school year to have the whole summer to replace the system so we still pay it out of the 22-23 school year budget which is where it was budgeted for but that the work would begin immediately after the school year which would give us the entire summer to replace the system the system passed all of its fire tests in the

016summer we were ready to go and then during the September fire alarm the system failed and we are not able to get the system back in place and so we worked very closely with the Cleveland fire department who have been terrific partners with this on this to have a fire watch while we moved into a second shift replacement of the system however the the main board that we need is still on back order and likely to be on back order for another three to five weeks at this point and therefore we have decided with the fire department that we will have to swing the dike school campus over to the closed case School building that has happening this week it is going very well the technology is all up and running the plumbing and HVAC

017and everything are all up and running the the food service we will be cooking at Central Kitchen and bringing to the school because of the permitting process to reopen the kitchens but we have the heating and the cooling equipment running the students today is their last day at the dike School site teachers and staff members will be packing the materials and things that they need tomorrow we will be moving those things Friday and Saturday and then teachers and staff will unpack those things that they need on that case on Monday and then on Tuesday students will return to school the students who ride yellow buses will just be diverted to case School the students who walk will have shuttles that they can pick up at East Tech right next door to Dyke to the school

018and back and the board may remember we did this with viewers school at Kentucky when it was being rebuilt and when we had a structural issue and a roof several years ago so we have a pattern for doing this as well we we have asked the faculty to move all of the materials that they think they'll need through the end of the winter break which will give us a larger window than what is expected for the new panel and the fire department is ready and willing to test immediately once the panel is in so that we can then come back over to the dike School site so I just wanted to update the board that that process is going well we've been communicating with students and families and with the Educators we are moving everything

019that need so we're taking the clever touches so that they have the technology they need we're actually literally taking their phone systems so that the phone is you know all the same stuff so other than the commute students and and faculty should have a you know very typical School experience so I will continue to keep the board updated but did want to make sure that you were aware of that you know continued work it looks like we do now have the presentation up so I will reinvite Chief Ward to the podium and then I will come back and close with some update items for the board and Community as well thank you CEO Gordon so I'll start this all over again Madam chair members of the board I'm delighted to be here along with Dr

020John lapelli who is executive director of culture and inclusive practices to give an update on the progress of equity and inclusion since the April board retreat I'm also happy to say what you're going to see this evening is the presentation that John and I had the opportunity to present at the 64th annual Council of the great City Schools conference which was the last week in October what is being passed out to you right now is our workbook from our cmsd learning series and so that's going to be the bulk of our presentation really John's presentation but before I begin I'd like to introduce some guests that we have in the gymnasium and and then explain a little bit about the presentation so John lapelli is to my right ear left and we have about over

02140 people in really really lifting the big work as far as our strategy team and our designs team so if you all could just stand up and I'm going to introduce you individually one by one and and this I'm doing this for a reason because I do believe a part of a sound equity and inclusion program is the acknowledgment of people hello the acknowledgment of people what they do so first of all I'm going to acknowledge Sherry obrensky president of the Cleveland teachers union and Kevin can okay hold on hold on hold on wait a minute wait a minute Kevin Kevin Payton who is the principal of a B Hart PKA and the president of the Cleveland Council of Administrators and supervisors I'm going to start I'm starting with those two because it was really

022Sherry and Kevin that had an idea about how we can extend learning building the capacity of diversity equity and inclusion in cmsd so it was their spark so they are also along with me the co-chairs of our design team which put together the learning series then I'm going to point out Marcy shankman everybody knows that Marcy was really our in internal design consultant that actually lended her expertise to really bring together our design team along with our partners which produced The six-part Learning series that John will talk about so it gives me great pleasure from teaching Cleveland we have Greg Deegan and Erica Hood that's right wave and smile from Facing History in ourselves we have Lisa left Stein Baruch and then we have right in the with the scarf is Heather Lentz and Heather

023is our consultant uh she is actually the president owner creator of Saint Frost strategy and so she keeps us together as far as project planning and then you're going to hear from the young lady in the in the last beside Kevin which is Julie Snipes Ray she is um I'm going to call her a member of strategic implementation she is an assessment expert and and you're going to hear the impact of what the learning series is doing relative to one division's work okay so if you can everybody can give them a hand a big hand thank you don't leave yet though um so I'm going to point out something because I think it's really uh important I say this uh being videotaped is the board had a great opportunity to witness what is called educational

024equity when you witness three young men learning to play the trumpet educational Equity addresses cultural relevance it is also about opportunity opportunity for our Scholars to have access to extracurricular opportunities just like our Suburban counterparts educational Equity what you are going to hear tonight is the extension of our work in organizational Equity addresses Workforce IT addresses what's the diversity of our Workforce IT addresses how are the individuals that work for us treated and how do they feel as far as being included and belonging and I make that because I think we lose sight of the differences between the two and I just want to be really really clear that what our work is about is getting our adults literally living what we call through the learning vision so we we clearly clearly clearly believe that

025our educators if presented academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of productive struggle it has to be worthy that that really allows them the opportunities to demonstrate their learning in a fun and adventurous environment we know that we can build a Workforce that is appreciative that is armed and equipped and ready to serve our Scholars our staff members our families and Community Partners so with that John's going to go through the history very very quickly spent a lot of time on really the learning Series where we are with the learning series and I want to say again to our partners who have done a yeoman's effort just a fantastic job we really appreciate that you enjoy what you hear tonight thank you all right thank you Lori good evening everybody so before we talk

026about cmsc equity and me I want to very quickly just talk about our three tenants um which has led to the implementation um which is our Equity inclusion strategy team our bi-annual equity and inclusion survey and then um what we have done as a result of that survey and so to just for those that have not been following the journey um in 2017 our CEO has established our equity and inclusion strategy team which is a 30 plus member team of Educators from across the organization so Educators in schools teachers principals Food Services Safety and Security as well as the central office employees so what this team really did first is establish what are we about and so if you look at page three and four of the workbook you're going to see some of our

027anchor documents and those were board approved Lori talked a lot about our theory of action so that is organizational Equity we believe that if we can create a Workforce where everyone can fully be themselves bring themselves to work where we can build people's capacity then that is going to help that Workforce really achieve that for our students and families in our schools so that's what our theory of action is about and we also believe that we needed to Define when we're talking about this work what do we mean with diversity Equity inclusion and racial equity and then we also have our declaration which is really an internal document which identifies for us what we are about what we believe in and I circled at the end it ends with this it will be realized when

028because we are acknowledging that we have not achieved what we hope to achieve when it comes to equity so once we have the foundation the anchor documents this team really moved to how are we going to assess our culture and started to think about that and so we didn't find any tools out there but what we did is we adapted this multi-cultural organizational rubric and we created our own survey and so this really has helped us assess cmsd every two years on this state we want to be a fully integrated Multicultural organization and so we've implemented that survey to our entire Workforce in 2019 it had about 30 percent just over of our employees respond to it we did it again in 2021 where we had 54 percent of our employees respond to that survey

029and we'll be implementing that survey again in February our third time and so each time we've implemented that survey we've had some action items right the first time we learn from our employees that really our managers matter when we're creating this culture so we focused on supporting our managers then the last time our employees said that we really want diversity Equity inclusion training for all of us and so that's what's led to our cmsd equity in me which is our racial Equity learning series and we're starting with race because we know that race is the number one identity marker that has experienced the most systemic Injustice and so that's been the foundation for cmsd equity in me and so with all of our partners here from Facing History and ourselves teaching Cleveland saying qua and

030our design team led by Laurie Sherry and Kevin we really identify these learning objectives as you see in the workbook and these three again Focus points the individual self so creating the space throughout this series for all of our Educators which by the way we hope that all nearly 7 000 of our Educators experience this over the next two years so creating a space along this learning series for people to reflect on their own individual learning and growth I'm going to skip to the orange which is understanding the systems where am I is a part of the system but we understand that that system when it comes specifically to racial Equity can be paralyzing or overwhelming and so we focus and anchor also in this yellow place where do I fit in the workplace we

031ask our employees through this series of question where do I have relative power over the life chances of others and how can I use that on the side of equity and Justice and so that's led to our sessions as you can see where we're really taking people on a journey of looking at a history of race in our city stepping out to look at it as a part of the country and then bringing people back home to cmsd and that's where we find that success is what happens at the end of The Learning series which is where we're walking people through teams are experiencing this together in action planning process so what are we going to do with this learning that we've just experienced so that we can begin to change our culture and work

032towards that aspirational state that we have in our declaration and so that session six is really important where every division or every school team is identifying two to three immediate next steps what can we do that is going to be Behavior based that's going to have a positive impact and that we can do right away and after the session teams are also identifying what we're calling a community action guide so a person from their team that's going to help see this work through and so right now we've launched by the way we prototype this so way back a year ago our Equity inclusion strategy team experienced this gave the design team feedback made some changes then members of all of our labor organizations the leaders experienced this gave some recommendations to the design team made

033some changes and then we had our first official cohort this summer which had a multiple central office divisions and currently we have four schools experiencing this into additional central Office Division so all in all we've had just under 500 employees experience this and in January we'll be launching another cohort with a few hundred additional employees from several School sites and so what we wanted to do tonight is invite Julie Snipes Ray who is one of the Community Action guides from our summer cohort to really talk to you about her divisions experience with session six what they decided after the learning they can do to help change culture and where they are in the implementations I'd like to invite Julie to share [Laughter] good evening I'm so pleased to be here and tell you what we're

034doing in strategic implementation after we had the honor of going through the program our division met we have a small division so there's I think 26 people in our division our division met after the training and identified about three themes that we thought would help our our division improve in equity and inclusion in our workplace and so one of the themes that we identified right away was just the need to improve our communication to make sure that everybody was getting the same information about District priorities and things that District leadership discussed because some people felt disconnected like they weren't hearing everything that was going on and felt like well I know so-and-so was found out about a meeting that was going on but I didn't hear about that and so so we said one of

035the things we said that we would do in our division was simply just everybody would share notes from senior leadership so now after senior leadership team meetings those notes are emailed out to everybody in our department so everybody has access to those and can engage at whatever level they need to or they want to and so it was a simple step but you know now everybody has that same information another thing we did along that theme was our chief chief Mosley opened up his division leadership meetings to everybody that wanted to come so executive directors could bring more people into the meeting those people could participate and engage in those meetings so it wasn't just one kind of layer of people that were hearing the information but everybody could engage and also the schedule of

036meetings the agenda for meetings and all the notes for meetings are now shared so again people can engage everybody has the same information so it's not like there's a discrepancy in who's hearing what another thing that we did was another theme that came out of our conversation about things that we felt we could do in our division another theme was about becoming a more collaborative and supportive having a more collaborative and supportive culture and by that I think you know even though we're small not everybody knew everybody not everybody knew what everybody else was doing not everybody knew how our work could be more collaborative and so one of the things that we did to address that was again I mean sharing being able to participate in the division meetings helped that because then you

037could actually hear what was going on in other departments within the division and so that was helpful but we also had a fun activity that our chief introduced to us which is a cmsd strategic implementation Monopoly game which is you know I mean it sounds I don't know what it sounds like but what it actually is is a competition between departments and our division to really find ways or engage in in collaboration with other departments with other divisions outside of our division of all of all of course in the work of the in the district so all aligned to District priorities so for example my team which is the organizational accountability Department who's in the lead for this game right now as a matter of fact which is probably why I'm here no just kidding

038so we're in the lead but I mean it's so we have to do things like um if we when we meet with academics type of meeting with academics and think and and collaborate with academics on a plan that we will both work on together or you celebrate um other departments the work that other people are doing are doing in other departments so when we celebrate that we get points for that so I mean it's things that are obviously important to the work of the district but we're just having a little bit more fun you're interacting and a little bit more motivation to maybe go outside of things we might not not normally do and so it was just a fun thing that Chief Mosley introduced to us and again organizational accountability is winning so far

039so and then and then we're also going to add a social event outside of works just so that we continue to get to know each other a little bit better and finally the third theme was really just making sure that everybody had access to opportunities for growth and so one of the things that we're doing now is we're all listening to or engaging in some skill soft videos that are about leadership and managerial skills and so we all so every month we have some a video that we are videos that we need to watch and you know answer questions on and so for example this month it was on managing conflict in the workplace and so it gave strategies and actions that you can take as individuals to make make the environment better and so

040I think those videos are really good they're very helpful for our department our division because they actually put some of the responsibility on individuals rather than just leaders to make sure that we improve our culture and so that was a really good thing and I would just say we're also going to which we this this one we haven't Antonia but one of the things that we agreed to was we would do book discussions in different departments so we would all read a book or read an article or watch a video or something together and then around the area of Dei and discuss it because we wanted to continue the learning that we had from the work that we did over the summer so that's just some of the things that we're doing in strategic implementation

041division that we committed to after going through this training this summer thank you very much thank you and I just have one more slide before I pass us off to Chief Ford to um close us out but the beautiful thing about this series is that it doesn't end with session six there are people like Julie in every school or every division they're going to help um see these action plans through and we've invited the Community Action guide to actually join our Equity inclusion strategy team so that we can also start making connections of what's happening in our schools or in divisions across the district as people are seeking to again move us to that fully integrated space on our rubric and finally we just have found a few things from our first cohort and that's

042every single team who has engaged with this is actually doing something as a result of this and so again they may be small things but we are seeing that everyone is following through on some level of their action plan which is great and we also a beautiful thing is the two to three items that teams have identified really aligned to our learning vision and so I think that that was a really nice surprise to see that our employees really have identified things that are just in alignment to that as well and so the final thing that I'll end is as we look to again assess the organization in February at the request of our CEO will also start to look at the responses to our Equity inclusion survey with those employees who have actually participated

043in the series versus those who haven't which will help to continue to inform on just future implementation foreign so I'll just go right ahead we have a question but but go ahead and finish this okay and then okay okay oh be prepared oh my um I I just want to point to the learning vision and we'll take questions uh what you saw really tonight is really the learning uh series is in alignment demonstration of learning Julie demonstrated definitely that a productive worthy of productive struggle one thing I want to close with that if you remember in the board retreat we anchored in on the groundwater training in essence we knew that this was tough stuff we were dealing with and worthy of the productive struggle it was third space action lab that came to the

044table that said You know guys you can have the best intent but if you don't have impact it's not going to go anywhere and that's exactly what CEO Gordon said to us so the action planning module at the end is very very important that we actually are doing something with the learning and and growing so again thank you very much and I'll open four questions just quickly before we do if I may just say a couple things and then we will turn to questions so because we do think of this as a groundwater framing which is that it's not the fish it's the water and so you have to treat the systems our partners and us have designed this intentionally so that it can be replicated for other schools other school districts other regions other

045communities because our kids and our adults who go to work or go to school and cmsd are not immune to the fact that there are other children and other adults in other schools right in our own community and if this is truly a groundwater issue then it has to be for all so there's a really deliberateness in the design here the other thing that I would just say well two other things so my office is one of the offices that has been through the training already I'm the smallest Department in the district of five it's Karen me and our scheduler our executive assistant and administrative assistant and our executive assistant is our community action guide we had hoped he would come but he is the one that is charged with leading our action plan and

046just like you heard from Julie we have an identity goal and so in in our hour-long meeting last week we have one time a week he actually led us through both an article on um on blanked in the word but microaggressions and then we actually did an activity called I am but I'm not to help reveal things that we believe people perceive about us and our identity so we we have an identity goal but then we also have very deliberate goals so for example we know that women often have less of a voice at a corporate table than men and we know that black women can often both have less voice and sometimes be considered aggressive if they do demonstrate leadership in a way to work against those things is to sponsor and support and

047so I've been much more deliberate with the black women in our organization that I have direct contact with who I know have incredible talent and incredible potential to make sure that I make space that they are heard and to make sure that they're getting support to lean into those as one of my action plan items the final thing I'll say is that the board knows that you very frequently get messages from the CEO that are focused on different indicators of identity so this being a Native American heritage month as an example or Veterans Day you'll see something tomorrow about the importance of that identity that indicator of identity of service in the military that came directly from the 2019 survey where our employees told us that they do not see themselves celebrated in this organization

048and so a shift in my office as a result of that feedback is to really carefully try to find those many different ways that we come to work and to have those short messages that go out that you all receive and see so I just wanted to give some examples and the last one is a management training that we've all been through as managers that was actually the work that Dr shankman did with Cornell University to take us through a nine part series as managers before we even move to all employees so just wanted to give you some other examples of the pieces you've seen or maybe not seen to give you a sense of the flavor of the work from our cmsd equity in me I'll stop talking so that you can ask your

049questions of Lori John and the team and thank you to everyone who's here this evening for your partnership and your work so so first of all thank you so much for this presentation this was excellent and thank you for all the work that all of you are doing um on this this is really cool um I have three questions um one is um uh as you organize these groups um how are they structured are they structured by school or do you mix um across different organizations in the in the district so they are structured by teams um so teams go together okay um second question um is there a plan uh or when in the plan do members of the board um join this uh and when do we get to go through this this

050training as as a as a cmsd community January the 10th okay and we would love um to have representation from the board in an appropriate way okay great thank you um my last question and and chief Ward I've talked to you about this before um and this really goes to so so you ended with talking about impact um and impact and the and I really like the framing of the impact on what it what changes um you can observe and see in how different groups of people in the district are doing work um but the the even larger measure of impact is is what experience do our students feel as they walk into a building right and so um so no as we go through this it it must be in in the uh in

051in our process somewhere where we first set a baseline of where we think our students are are today as represented by a variety of indicators right it could be you know test scores it could be climate surveys whatever it might be but setting up a Baseline and then continuously tracking what's going on right because you know if we go through this process of getting every one of the 7000 members cmsd Community go through training um but there isn't a perceptible change among what the average student experiences in this course and that's that's not necessarily the impact that we're talking about so I'd like to hear um uh you know if there's any anything on that result as well thank you great question so when I started speaking I mentioned organizational equity and our students voices

052are coming to us how they how they are treated and how they feel and whether or not they feel belonging in close and inclusive through a couple different ways right now and this is an area that we will continue to work through number one through the student advisory committee there is voice Place coming that is very strong relative to how they believe they are treated I believe at the last board meeting there was a student that actually voiced right the concern of whether or not students felt that they felt they belonged just because of dress right the the second is the conditions for learning survey that students take is another way to measure if we're making progress do students feel that they're they're Educators appreciate them care about them so we do have those measures

053and it's our goal to bring together in a dashboard type of a format so that we can truly truly track impact foreign testing okay what song should I do no just kidding um follow up to that question I love thank you first of all all of you for doing this work um very critical along with the student input is there and maybe you said it I just didn't quite hear it but is there something similar to the staff survey like specifically around diversity and inclusion is that a part of the survey that you mentioned how does that look so the the the adult level survey that we take every other year is is really about culture um how do you feel you belong have you witnessed any adults mistreating each other so the student on

054a student level their questions are targeted very specifically to culture and so that's what I was saying as far as our two surveys students say goodbye the way every year adults are every other year and how we can look at uh making some type of alignment even even through the questions okay thank you absolutely thank you great presentation thank you for all the work that you're doing in individually as a group systemically thank you Mr Dr lapelli I'm so glad you're in this position that's terrific um so as the system works through and hopefully it gets replicated in other school districts and other businesses what about going down to the parent level so first of all if I if I can't I must say just rep replication so one of the great things about um

055what you've seen in the the six part learning series is CEO Gordon was very specific and was very thoughtful that impact was number one across the board but it's also impact from other districts because all you really have to do is replace your community if you will that front end and you really have really great content however as it relates to parents we believe that the parent ambassadors and what's being done in the face program will really be pivotal in making sure that we have parental voice deep parental voice as we go forward thank you very much thank you Chief Ford and could you bring that mic up now that so that we have one more up here that's working thank you everyone for being patient with microphones this evening so board members um I

056I will follow up Dr Streeter I will follow follow up with the details for the winter cohort for board members who might be interested and able to participate uh Ms Ellicott I will get you a copy of the conditions for learning survey so you can see the kinds of questions and how it's disaggregated and then for Dr Thomas I will get you some information about the recent work we've done with Harvard University to better understand from parents directly how they're experiencing the school system compared to how they wish so I will follow up with those three items just quickly to close up my report you do have your Communications package in front of you there's a number of news stories from the last couple of weeks including a feature on the pumpkin roll at Cleveland

057culinary arts that is not a rolling of pumpkins it is that delicious treat thank you all for coming this evening and you you are welcome to slide out if you'd like but thank you all for coming um also our recognition of principles and National principles month our Davis ninth graders who participated in an event called the great debate are Anton Gardina students learning out about bees as part of their demonstration for Learning and then students who are learning career-oriented skills as part of pace at our architecture and Designs design day and then finally information excuse me about students who are involved in the election process including getting out the boat and also working the polls yesterday and I did share out our middle school students who actually participated in student Voice vote and you saw

058their election results compared to what the adult community did I will also share with the board in my next update I received a video yesterday late in the day from the John Adams students showing their get out the vote campaign video so I'll share that with you as well as far as social media posting a lot of attention to the former Ireland school which has been reborn as an advanced manufacturing training and Innovation Center that includes cmsd classrooms in it as part of our PACE program where our 6th and 9th graders will visit all sixth graders and all ninth graders will visit to learn about the fields within Advanced manufacturing and then where 11th and 12th grade students will be able to train on site with state-of-the-art equipment also Cleveland State University and and cmsd

059received a national award for outstanding partnership between the university and an urban School District this is our second time winning the Shirley Schwartz award and so that was featured the Thanksgiving buffet was is always a big hit and then the some congratulatory Instagrams about our multiple football teams that moved into the playoffs that was John Marshall James Ford Rhodes and Glenville John Hague Hornets in Glendale High School finally and then in your package you have a couple of media pieces for our remote school and for our upcoming high school choice fairs which we have moved into late November early December to be more aligned for when parochial and private schools are beginning to recruit students as well um just finally some key events that are coming up on tomorrow evening we will be having our

060well first of all as part of our Equity work we will be having our mocha employee resource resource Group for our men of color who work in the district developing and supporting their leadership skills and then right behind that we will be having our excellence in teaching awards banquet recognizing the 10 teachers that were identified as the top teachers in the district each of whom will get a cash prize in exchange for contributing their work to our field over the course of the next year just as a reminder on Friday November 11th the district is closed all facilities are closed in observance of Veterans Day on Saturday November 12th at seven o'clock I hope many of you in the in the board and the public will join me in traveling uh to the the Glenville

061High School in Elyria Catholic High School competition Glenville High School is ranked number one and they are competing against number four ranked Elyria Catholic in round three of the division four Regional for Region 14 football playoffs and that game is being held at Ranger Field in look it up North Ridgeville I knew it was the north I didn't remember which one so I hope you'll join us the game is at seven o'clock and we want to see Glenville continue to um work their way to the state playoffs on Sunday November 13th through Tuesday November 15th several board members and I will be attending the Ohio school boards Association where Vice chair heard is also the president of the organization I want to point out that our cmsd students will be showcased at the student achievement

062Fair where students will be actually presenting demonstrations of learning to other schools and communities and also Dr Thomas and I will be presenting food for thought about a growing culinary arts program that integrates our Horticulture our Small Animal Care problem program our Hospitality program and our culinary program at East Technical High School on Thursday November 17th from 2 to 5 PM is the Senate League Chess Championship at East Professional Center and then on Friday November 18th we have an all-day out of school time supposed Symposium that we are co-hosting at Corporate College East and this is part of our partnership with sayest education to ensure that all students have out of school time programming things like our zero and Ninth period that you saw here and then lots of other clubs and activities that we

063partner with out of school time organizations for and this is a day-long learning program so that we're learning how to coordinate between school and out of school time in a more integrated way with things like a common literacy strategy common homework tables things of that nature Monday November 21st and Tuesday November 22nd don't forget to pick up your pies for the pie sale at Jane Adams executive Grill and on Friday November 18th and Saturday number November 19th I hope you'll join me at John Hay High School for the Cleveland School of the Arts 40th anniversary celebration the program starts at 7 pm on both days and it starts with student perform alumni performances who are coming back then it showcases the current students from all departments in a written student and staff written show called

064We Are One so again that's Friday and Saturday the 18th and 19th at 7 pm in the John Hay Auditorium uh and then finally we have at right after our November board business meeting on the 22nd we will be moving into Thanksgiving recess and so those are the things coming up in the district lots of stuff happening and I hope you're able to participate and enjoy them and with that Madam chair I'll turn it back to you to begin the formal agenda thank you Mr this evening we have nine resolutions in the area of Board of Education Finance operations academics and talent that will be presented to the board for discussion only the board will be asked to consider the adoption of these resolutions at our November 22nd board business meeting the first one this

065evening I am pleased to present is resolution 6.01 making an appointment to an unexpired term On The Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Public Library under state law the Board of Education serves as the taxing Authority and appointing authority of the Cleveland Public Library therefore it is the board's responsibility each year to make an appointment to the Board of Trustees of the library and to fill vacancies On The Board of Trustees as Library board trustee telian J Thomas recently resigned the Board of Education must fill this vacancy no later than December 4th with this resolution the Board of Education will be appointing Jasmine fryer to the library Board of Trustees for an unexpired term ending July 2nd 2028 and Ms fryer I believe is here this evening right back there um she miss fryer holds

066a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Richmond and a master's degree and master's degrees from City University of New York and the University of Chicago Ms fryer began her career career in education as a teacher for America Corps member in New York City and currently serves as Chief strategy officer for Bes build Excel sustain and many of us well know she served on the board of education for four and a half years from January 2017 to August 2021 and along with Ms fryer is a Cleveland Public Library executive director Felton Thomas also here this evening and I your board president's not here is she she's not okay I didn't see her so what just wanted to make sure um Jasmine would you like to come and address the board foreign [Music] [Laughter] likewise

067chair Bingham board CEO Gordon it is very strange to be on this side of the table but I can't uh thank you enough for your consideration I'm certainly delighted for the opportunity to serve as a trustee for the Cleveland Public Library as you can tell from my career on even in my personal life I consider myself to be a lifelong learner and am very passionate about education libraries are enduring institutions not only for Young Learners and Scholars but for community members of all ages and I think about the extensive travel that I've been able to experience in the ways in which even as a child access to not just books but videos and media that was available in libraries really fueled a passion for me to go out in the world and see those things

068when I think about our libraries today and the things that they are offering not just access to those books and resources but incredible Talent from across the country the opportunity even this weekend to celebrate the opening of the new Health Campus and hear from renowned poets Nikki Giovanni is an incredible opportunity even I believe it was this past winter one of the things that I've been excited about later in life was a love of the Arts and knowing that with our libraries there's different speaker events musicians things that the community members can access I remember the event with Missy Copeland these are things that are important for our communities to provide our citizens in the certainly um libraries not only offer meeting space opportunities for Community experts as iron sharpened iron to meet with one

069another but for all of us no matter what our age is to continue to be inspired and I think now more than ever that is something that we need to make sure that we protect in all of our communities so thank you for this opportunity I'm certainly thrilled about serving in this role thank you and it's a little odd for us to see you on that side of the table Felton did you want to add anything this evening no she couldn't have said it better I do want to say though Dr Thomas has said for a number of years that the libraries and the schools should be working closer and having someone who's on both sides I think will help create that Continuum so we're really looking forward to it so I'm also really excited

070to see you again and to see this potential appointment I did also just want to thank director Thomas because one of the ways we are working more closely is beginning this year every single cmsd student ID is also their library card so every single student in the district automatically has a Cleveland Public Library Card by using their ID because of a partnership with director Thomas and his team so thank you for that absolutely thank you both very much we appreciate it is there are there any other questions from board members any discussion yeah okay and so Mr Gordon can you please present the remaining resolutions thank you resolution 7.01 is a resolution approving the general fund five-year Financial forecast as the board is aware we are required by state law to present the financial forecast

071twice a year once in April and May and the other time in October or November and then once board approved to submit that five five-year forecast to the state of Ohio I'm going to ask that we pull up the presentation on the screen and I'm going to ask and board members you have it at your seat and I'm going to ask our Chief Financial Officer Nathan Mortimer to walk us through a summary of the financial forecast custom ordered it's probably better for you to use your mic at your seat since we're having like yes thank you can we put it in presentation mode please good evening I'm happy to join our CEO in a conversation around the five-year forecast and pardon me if I happen to call roll call at some point during during my

072conversation I'll try not to do that um Let me let me provide a little bit of context around the five-year forecast to kind of give us some commonality around what we're looking at and why we're talking about what we're doing um Kevin if you would next slide please so really a real brief conversation around this so you'll see in your packets a similar thing I want to provide just a little bit of context I want to talk a little bit about fund structure and I'll explain these as we go along uh give you a view of what the summarized five-year forecast looks like you do have the full five-year forecast and a separate page in your folder as well and then talk a little bit about the notes and assumptions that built the five-year forecast

073the building these forecasts is much of an art as it is a science and so it's important to understand what the assumptions were that we built the forecast on next slide please as CEO Gordon mentioned we're required actually two times a year to submit a forecast to the state of Ohio we do it once in November roughly four months into the fiscal year and then we refresh it in the spring that needs to be submitted by May 31st as we close out the fiscal year as you recall our fiscal year ends on June 30 of each year really the forecast has two pieces to it there's the the numbers piece which we'll talk about tonight as well as a little bit of historical information and importantly the notes and assumptions are the basis of the

074numbers next slide please so there's a little bit of context around here that's important to just remember there's a new state Foundation formula that's been coming into effect supposed to be being phased in in January of this year and additionally we're unpacking the implications of House Bill 216 around property taxes and our ability on the timeline to be able to regress on those uh those um those property taxes next slide please so this is actually probably the most important side we can talk about tonight that's going to give us commonality of really what we're talking about and there's a couple pieces here you'll see this when we actually meet in January with the auditor of state's office to talk about our year-end Financial audit the four or five buckets down below that start with the

075general fund and worker work their way across this is how we manage financially cmsd on a daily basis where our money goes and these various buckets help us ensure that we maintain compliance with the various restrictions that are out there on on the dollars that we receive what were required to forecast upon is the general fund the general fund is really the operating fund of the Enterprise if you go look at where most of our employees are paid it's it's out of the general fund as we bring transactions to the board for example you hear a lot of conversation conversations around ARP and Esser those monies sit in the special Revenue funds they have purpose restrictions they have time restrictions so we separately track and make sure we spend those monies according with the either

076the grantor or the donor's wishes and then as you walk your way across we spent some time on The Debt Service Fund in the last few months when we talked about the refunding of the debt that's where that debt's handled for all of our bonds our capital projects funds that's where the proceeds of when we issue debt that's where some of our permanent Improvement money goes as we maintain and build our buildings and then lastly the internal service fund really the principal activity in that fund is our self-insurance fund which is where the medical dental vision for all of our employees resides but really for purposes tonight what we're focused on is that general fund next slide please so you you have a detailed sheet a separate sheet but this is the summarized view of

077that of that sheet what it shows is what actually happened in in the fiscal year ended we just did in uh June 30 of 2022 and then we're using that information of what what happened what and what we believe is going to happen in the future to to forecast the next five fiscal years since the the term five-year forecast the FY 2122 column are actual numbers and and CEO Gordon provides you the general fund report once a month those numbers if you were to reconcile backwards tied to that general fund report the FY 22 23 24 25 26 really represents a culmination of what happened in 22 and 21 taking into account what we think is going to happen in in the out years if you look really at the ending fund cash balance and

078I can't see quite that far so I'm going to go to my PowerPoint so I don't get the numbers we had ended June 30 2022 with a cash balance in inside the general fund now we're only talking about the general fund about 94.5 million dollars we think at the end of this current fiscal year we're in that's going to end in June we're going to conclude the general fund at about 151 million dollars and then we think that we're going to conclude 23 and 24 91.8 and then we start to um as the pandemic relief monies expire we're going to start realizing some deficits that begin to occur in 2425 and then continue on through uh the end of The Five-Year forecast having said that um I'm going to muddy the water just a little

079bit I need to talk about encumbrances so um Dr sweetheart from Cleveland State will recognize encumbrances from the work that they do there but we do on the basis of accounting that we follow recognize expenditures to two levels when cash goes out the door and we make a commitment on a contract a conference is a commitment on a contract so we think at the end of each year we typically have around 17 million dollars of encumbrance is outstanding at the end of the year that that's that's just going to further reduce our fund cash balance to what they call an unencumbered fund cash balance the unencumbered fund counts balance is important on a number of levels all the filings that we do with the county auditor that's required by us through the statute they're they're

080also interested in unencumbered fund cash balances but for the purpose of our conversation tonight let's I would focus this on the ending fund cash balance and not the unencumbered balance so a little context into the numbers and there's a couple ways we could have done this we could have talked about the assumptions and notes first or we could just share the numbers and then and then that way but I thought it was important to show the numbers because I thought you'd be more interested in seeing those first and then we could talk about the assumptions next slide please so so here's a very large assumption if you go back traditionally we got a large influx as you as everybody here knows of pandemic relief funds um if you add up all the funds that we've

081got over the course the last couple fiscal years it's about 463 million dollars from various Federal sources to do various things these monies do not go directly into the general fund these monies reside in what we call the special Revenue funds but what does these resources have allowed the district to do is make investments that we otherwise wouldn't have been able to do whether it's one for one advice devices or the out-of-school time programming and things like that at the same point what this money allowed us to do was actually shift some expenditures that were otherwise going to be on the general fund out of the general fund into these funds as you can see here the the big principal remaining source is the arc money 302 million dollars is our award plus or minus

082to date we've incurred about 20 percent of that expend we're going to continue to spend that money throughout this fiscal year and at the conclusion of this fiscal year we think there's going to be around 70 million dollars of that remaining that we're going to carry into the next fiscal year the challenge with with all of these funds is is we can't hold it into perpetuity there's a Time Horizon that we're up against that we have to make sure that we spend it in accordance with that time Horizon so this brings us to a couple assumptions that we built into the forecast we've we've presumed that anybody who has cost shifted out of the general fund onto These funds or people that were hired directly onto These funds are going to come back to the

083general fund when these grants expire the other the other presumption that we made is that there's some level of this spending that happened that was so important to the district that we've built into the forecast that that some percentage of this spend on the non-people whether it's maintaining buildings or other program is going to come back to the general fund and so that's that's part of the challenge that we have on the forecast is we presumed all the people that are currently employed with the district will continue and that there's some strategic Investments that we didn't used to make that we weren't able to make because of these pandemic relief funds that will continue in some percentage after the grants expire and they'll shift back to the general fund next slide please so these are

084just some basic assumptions around the revenues and expenditures uh talking a little bit about the valuations and what we're assuming talks about the collection rates and what we're assuming the state Foundation formula has changed and what we're assuming next slide please and then this slide specifically gets to what I was talking about the Personnel that we shifted out of the general fund we'll come back or Personnel that we hired off the grants we'll come back into the general fund as well as we believe that it was prudent to forecast some level of continuing expenditures again that are currently funded on the grants non-personnel that will likely need to continue or should continue in the out years next slide please so that really concludes the conversation around again real briefly real summarized the full forecast is

085exhibit Aid in board docs and I'm happy to join in a conversation or answer questions you might have so if I may before we open to questions if we could go back to the slide's gone we could go back to the slides and go back to the actual forecast for a moment thank you right there thank you so um just a couple of notes one is that we can and will eliminate the deficit in 2425 17 million dollars is a very very small portion of our budget and we can manage that out and will and we and the board um have seen this happen before we have known that 2526 would be the year that we would have to be considering the potential of new money depending on obviously what happens with State funding and

086lots of other things so this is actually very well aligned with what you saw last May and what we were forecasting after we passed the issue 68. so I just wanted to name that explicitly the other thing is Mr Mortimer and I will be meeting between now and the business meeting to actually take some of those estimated assumptions and actually walk through what specifically is it that we plan to continue and what do we believe those costs are so for example the one-to-one technology strategy we do plan to continue to make sure it exists what is the ongoing cost of that so that we can take the estimated percentage and continue to shape it and so wanted to just name that as well on the two slides forward please so on the State Foundation formula

087I just also want to name that we do need to pay attention in in the upcoming budget to make sure that the state maintains the new Fair funding formula and continues to phase it in that is currently in temporary law so if lawmakers do nothing the formula goes away and the old formula comes back which had all the charter passed through and all that stuff in it so this is a place where we'll need to maintain and be Advocates and then Mr Mortimer also mentioned House Bill 126 and I'm sorry I forget which slide that was on but House Bill 126 is the the law that was passed that prohibited the board from contesting property values and we know that we'll have a negative impact on revenues and so again paying attention to that and

088opportunities to advocate for a fair and balanced system where both the entity that is being the the commercial property or the residential property and the district have the right to appeal right now we have lost our right to appeal that will impact this forecast so I just wanted to point out a few of those additional things that the board may be familiar with from prior forecasts at this point I'll pause so that Mr Mortimer and I can answer any questions Mr Gordon when does the levy that was just well how long ago was the levy renewed and when would the next when would it next be on a so we renewed well we renewed an increased Issue 68 in November of 2020 during the pandemic so we're already two years into that it's just for

089two years well just two years but also two years in where we are forecasting based on this forecast is that the board and community may have to consider a levy in the 25-26 school and and who watches the County Tax Assessor's office um I know I've brought this up multiple times I I'm I've never been satisfied with the 89 collection rate knowing that it was in the mid 90s a decade or so ago I'm also not sure that they collect everything they're supposed to collect I mean property valuations went way up in the 2020 property assessment and yet I don't think we're collecting what they're supposed to be collecting so you are correct that property values went up but I would remind you of the glass ceiling in school tax collection so the property triennial

090assessment came after the levy and so my property value as an example went up which means that somebody else's taxes went down because the school system is legally prohibited from gaining more money than voters actually passed as a dollar value it's called House Bill 920 from the 1970s to control for inflation so we will not feel the impact of that until a next Levy is put on that collects new money and then that value gets added to our books the only true new that we get is a physically new constructed so for example Sherwin-Williams is constructing their property they have not sought a tax break board that will generate revenue on that particular property but if that property enhances the properties around then there will be that same offsetting for all of those other properties

091so that's why you're not seeing the impact even against it to the point of collections it is something we've continued to try to work with the county we have a new Administration coming in and we'll raise it again because I do think that there is more opportunity to collect we often get compared to Franklin County we have a very different footprint and a very different poverty rate that impacts some of those collections as well so I don't know that we'll ever be Franklin County but I think that there are still spaces to improve especially as new construction continues and all that abatement rolls off and now we do continue to watch abatements and city council did recently improve some changes to the abatement programs for residential that will have some impact not not a sizable

092impact but that is one of the opportunities and residential abatements do not come before the board they are already pre-regulated so really commercial properties is where the board will want to continue to look and then to work with city council at any time that they're revising the residential program I see that health care costs are projected to increase by 6.5 percent are there any other large areas I know we we had an insurance bump uh two three years ago where all of our insurance across the board went up six to ten percent in cases anything else like that fuel obviously yeah I think we're feeling inflationary pressures in in general um our largest spend if you really look at the general fund is people we're in the people business and a large piece of the

093people businesses is Healthcare vision and dental there are huge inflationary pressures in the medical Fields right now uh we're guessing six and a half percent and fairness it could be low but uh our best guess for the current year is about six and a half percent I know in the next calendar year we're thinking it could be a little bit higher than that but but that information is coming out now and as you can see I've got all of this stated I had to draw a line in the sand on a date in September 30 but I I think for all intents and purposes we've got good inflationary pressures built in and Dr Thomas I would just say that this 6.5 percent is actually smaller than you've seen in the past and in part that

094is our health care committee which includes our labor unions and the district uh just uh bid and selected a new health care broker that we think it is really doing a nice job at maximizing what are already in our plans which has helped us to control some costs even though there have been a lot of Health Care related costs because of the pandemic thank you Mr Morton thank you moving on to resolution 7.02 which is also in the finance section this is a resolution authorizing the acceptance of gifts and grants from Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts the Cleveland Foundation the College Board and the George Gunn foundation and authorizing the CEO to spend the funds in accordance with the terms and conditions of the gifts and grants with this resolution the board

095will be accepting a grant from the friends of Cleveland School of the Arts in the amount of forty seven thousand two hundred fifty dollars to support the production of We Are One which is the programming I mentioned earlier this evening from the Cleveland Foundation we're accepting a grant in the amount of twenty five thousand dollars to support our teaching Cleveland's new teacher retention program this is a match to the Mid-American Conference and the college football playoff grant that the board accepted earlier this year for teaching Cleveland from the College Board to granting the amount of five thousand dollars to support the launch of AP Computer Science principles program to strengthen diversify our computer science pipeline which is actually already one of the most diverse pipelines in K-12 education in Ohio but we're continuing to work

096to do more and then from the George Gunn Foundation a grant the amount of twenty four thousand dollars to support the entry of four Cleveland metropolitan school district high schools in the first robotics competition Applause for any questions resolution 8.01 is an operations resolution this is a resolution authorizing the CEO to issue a purchase order in the amount of 195 189.93 to Angel tracks for the purchase and installation of 117 cameras on District school buses as you know we've continued to improve both the the actual Fleet itself but also the safety on our fleets we just recently added proximity readers so that every student's ID card swipes them on and off the bus so that we know who's on the bus currently we have 96 cameras installed on our Fleet of 222 buses which means

097that most of our buses we have no visibility to anything that might happen on those buses cameras provide us very reliable information and allow us to problem-solve concerns both concerns where a parent or a student might have a complaint and we can see what happened but also concerns for health and safety with the installation of Wi-Fi on our buses that again the sports board supported this also allows us now to not only have transportation and Safety and Security to see the camera footage after the fact but it allows it to be in real time like our school buildings and facilities are as well and so we have the 96 cameras that are currently installed we've also removed 15 from older buses that are being put out of commission as new buses come in but we

098are requesting the purchase of an additional 117 to complete the full installation for the entire fleet I would just also say that the buses that the board authorized us to order last school year 15 of the 88 buses are scheduled to arrive the rest of them are on back order as we wait for parts and supply chain but we will continue to get them in slowly but surely and I'll pause for any questions on this resolution Okay resolution 9.01 is an academics resolution authorizing the issuance of a purchase order to committee for children to purchase digital licenses and materials for second step and evidence-based social emotional learning program for grades six seven and eight in each pre-K cmsd school and an amount not to exceed 127 846.80 second step is an evidence-based classroom program designed

099to facilitate youth social and emotional development for middle school students in grades sixth seventh and eighth grade in his the companion to the paths program that we have implemented pre-k through five the objective is to guide our Scholars through the five Castle Court competencies of self-awareness self-management social awareness and relationship skills and responsible decision making and highlights bullying prevention particularly for middle school students we have used the second step program for several years now and we are making we're requesting this investment to not only replenish the materials and supplies but also to add the digital and electronic content as well and I'll pause for any questions the board might have resolutions 10.01 through 10.04 are our talent resolutions these are the monthly Talent resolutions presented to the board resolution 10.01 is authorizing the employment of

100teaching non-teaching and school-based administrative staff you will see 114 new hires in this month's resolution including 50 59 members of the Cleveland teachers union one laborer for local 860 two school-based administrators 11 Ohio patrolmen benevolent Association security officers 20 SEIU Local 1199 workers including environmental service specialists School nutrition employees and school secretaries five bus drivers and bus driver trainees and 16 non-bargaining employees including substitute employees coordinators for our linkage High School linkage coordinator program and for our workers compensation study at dean of arts for the Cleveland School of the Arts and a life skills coach for our project act program [Music] the majority of these hires I'm most interested in Safety and Security and bus drivers came from our employment our hiring fairs is that the primary source of the new applications and the yeah

101yeah so the hiring fairs have been very successful I actually did not received from Laura Mulvaney who's actually here in the audience tonight that is that data on the most recent October Fair which I'll be sharing with the board in this week's report so it is a primary source although we continue to aggressively recruit any candidates that we can find we're also preparing particularly for Safety and Security to run a new cohort of the opata training that we did last summer with a commander Coates who does our in-school private security program at Glenville High School so we're looking at a train your own as well [Music] so so my question is actually I'm jumping ahead and cheating a little bit but I'm also looking at the the resolution on separations um in conjunction with this

102so first of all it is really encouraging that there are 409 new teachers that have been hired by the district but um year to date but then on the at the same time there have also been 200 plus separations which is actually running um higher than the rate last year um year to date um I'm just curious um about the you know it feels like there's a lot of entropy among our teacher population um I wonder if you could comment on that I mean people coming and going yeah so there's uh there's two things that are driving this certificated uh so there is some coming and going um there is also we every year incentivize early notice of separation and that is coming due on December 1st and so we do have a higher number

103of people who are indicating that they will be leaving at the end of this year and those numbers are part of the additional about 60 that you're seeing compared to the prior year to date so it's not exclusively that but but there is a little bit um we're just seeing a higher number of people that are indicating that they're reaching retirement or leaving the district at the conclusion of the year and the board accepts those as they are received so resolution 10.02 is authorizing the reclassification of employees this is again 33 reclassifications largely these are promotions so these are 14 members reclassified in the Cleveland teachers union including community and college career coordinators paraprofessionals substitute paraprofessionals and daily substitutes one school-based administrator 11 members of the local 1199 which again is our school nutrition environmental

104service and school secretaries two professional drivers these are trainees that moved into driver positions and then five non-bargaining positions including An accounts payable specialist uh dean of Engagement uh humanware partner for our social emotional learning Department a budgets manager and a licensure coordinator resolution 10.03 is our resolution accepting the retirement resignation and other separation of employees and this is the report Dr Streeter was referencing we have 81 resignations including 31 resignations from uh simply resigning this is Dr srita where you can see people who have actually resigned but then right below it you can see the retirements 35 teacher retirement notifications for this year so those people are still working but I will be adopted now so that we can begin to staff for those positions that's a good example of what we're saying and

105then two unfortunately because of that and you do have separations by Union and year to date as we've always provided before and then finally resolution 10.04 is a resolution authorizing the issuance of limited contracts for differential positions and the payment of additional earned compensation to employees these are 12 differentials for things like band direct or cheerleading advisor basketball coach drama director Orchestra director SEL coordinators and and our buildings local music directors and yearbook advisors I'll pause for any final questions on the talent resolutions Madam chair I'll turn it back to you thank you Mr Gordon is there any old or new business to come before the board Dr Thomas there'll be a meeting of the bond accountability commission this coming Monday unfortunately I'm unable to attend because I'll be at the osba meeting and Laura

106Chalker has announced her res has submitted a resignation and so we'll really be missing her thank you Dr Thomas any other business okay the next scheduled regular board meeting will be a board business meeting on Tuesday November 22nd 2022 at 6 30 pm at Hallie School 7901 Halley Avenue the chair will now entertain a motion that the board enter into executive session for the purpose of considering the employment of public employees preparing for negotiations with public employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment and conferring with attorneys consuming disputes involving the Board of Education that are the subject of pending or imminent Court action thank you Mr Mortimer can you please call the roll yes ma'am Miss Bingham yes Mr Hurd Miss Dempsey Miss Ellicott Mrs hudnall Dr Streeter Dr Thomas

107Miss Bingham we have a quorum of 7-0 we're now in executive session thank you very much so the board will now move into executive session following executive session we will return to this room to briefly conduct further business first of all like at a high level we're trying to inspire students to be architectural change that design the world around them and like the design days as a concept was something that was pretty much demanded from kids so they spent a lot of time saying like hey like what happens about like all the Practical things like how to file taxes how to get a business loan like a lot of those kind of like financial literacy kind of components and then we also found that while our students are deeply interested in college um they're also

108interested in entrepreneurship and so um our vision is that we have and graduate students who are college ready but also students who have a skill set in their back pocket um that will help them flourish as an independent like self-sufficient entrepreneur design day is pretty much just a focus on careers to get people more involved with community and different Services they it can get you ahead in life our students kind of develop the southern Pathways there is photography there's a culinary program there's carpentry and construction there's music production stock market and finance there's the beauty group and then from that our teachers kind of say hey what area that I'm am I most passionate about but in addition to that we actually have a partner associated with supporting every single pathway today is a day

109that we um go into the pathways that we chose and I chose to call a nurse I just got to make the clowns and the vegetables I'm in construction which is um just right now we're actually dealing with real life tools like saws and wood I could use things like measurements calculations from my engineering class and apply them to Construction in order in my real life last time we went which was last month it was my first time coming in I heard there were going to be Barbers coming and I actually cut hair so I was like really excited about it yeah I'm trying to go to barber school and last month I got some networking done got some good Connections in so hopefully everything works out so no matter what pathway they're on they'll

110all learn about the financial literacy component through PNC Bank and so again they're learning very practical things about taxes about credit about savings I'm learning more so a business aspect to the side and I honestly think it is really good to like know some of these things because they are essential in life at some times like especially because this is helping us to get ways to make money or build careers that we might have never thought we enjoyed so when it comes down to it all of it is like creative thinking right so they're all designers in fact everybody's a designer as far as I'm concerned and it just becomes like how do you use the craft and skills that you have to like design a service or design a product that people would be

111interested in and so I just think the idea of taking skill sets and using it creatively to make money ultimately um is what we're trying to empower them to do so it's not just school for school safe I'm a school for the sake of being like a competitive thriving well-spoken diverse experience entrepreneur and so that's really what we're after foreign [Music] meeting of the school year I'm so happy to see such a full moon during the first student advisory committee meeting of the school year members of Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibbs Administration asked students for their opinion on how to reduce violence as we think about doing violence prevention work in the city and any work in the city where we're going to be focused on the Improvement of the lives of our residents it is

112essential that we include resident voice and we want to make sure that our young people the youth in our city know that their voice matters and we want to center a lot of our ideas a lot of our interventions and the things that they are telling us that they actually need Sonya Pryor Jones the city's chief of Youth and Family success asks students to answer several questions that included what plans do you and your family use to stay safe in your community and how can we best engage more youth in decision making for violence prevention the students discussed their answers in groups is that like I was number one in the activity like the question number one and it was like what can we do to inform people basically and we like something that really

113stood out to me is that if we like provide people like the information and like really consistently and constantly telling them hey like this is going on and then providing like programs and like something we said was like internships we could provide them I really thought that was like a good idea so I feel like it's a great opportunity for them to get an Insight on what's actually happening in the community from the people who are actually in the community to tell them the experiences of that goes on so they can make a better judgment call on how to basically change it and help us for the last decade cmsd CEO Eric Gordon has turned to the student advisory committee as one of his most trusted advisors they have advised him on some hard-hitting topics

114that included absenteeism vaccination hesitation and how to get more students to apply for college and now they are helping the city with how to reduce violence a community-wide issue this actually Builds on work that student advisory did last spring before we broke for the summer where the city used that data to create a framework and the next step of it is for the mayor to meet with representative of each of the schools and directly and to hear the ideas that they captured so the mayor is really listening other students feel this conversation will spark real change in the city I feel like my voice is finally being heard I really I feel like that's so cool for us to have that direct connection towards me or a bit thank you welcome welcome to the ninth

115grade debate we have a wonderful program scheduled for you today um we have presentations on Mental Health every single one of my peers had a story about Mental Health crisis in my school this shows that every school has somebody struggling and students need mental Jose to help them get their thoughts together and avoid crisis outside or in school as we as we would say together in no time so I figured let's just go ahead and give them an opportunity to really talk about what they put in their paper we have a debate on whether high school students should go to college or not college graduates have better opportunities for health insurance and credit strongers there's still a lot of a so a lot of chances or like a lot of opportunities without going to college

116we all graders to get that exposure practice their public one another as peers and just showcase their talent Ed cell phones can be used for emergency cases according to Alison Klein some parents may need to contact their students during a visit during the emergency or the dangers of weather event Googling test answers taking pictures of quizzes and uh sending it to friends who have classes next after them or debating cool it like debating like a real cool at that point you get to tell your point see how you feel about it see how other people feel about it it's just you like it's you and how you feel out there that's it our topic is about should uh uniforms be worn in school wearing uniforms helps parents save money according to Ebola parents were like

117their children to wear uniforms in school so they do not need to spend more money on children it doesn't increase when do earth states that doesn't increase attendance or behavior you shouldn't have to work because you don't change them it was a good experience because I usually don't talk in front of everybody I feel like they did extremely well especially for it to be their first time for them to be nervous I think they push through some of them maybe froze for a second but they were able to like gather theirselves together take a deep breath and keep going so it was a good learning experience for them [Music] that's honey in there yeah okay during the first demonstrations of learning of the Academic Year students at Anton gradina pre-k through eight School were excited

118to present what they've learned about bees it's hoodie right here that that's the that's the honeycomb just listen to four-year-old Alex he's in preschool they felt they think they're here okay and what happens when they flap their wings and they make the honey fixed third graders told other students some fun and interesting facts as to why bees are so important to our ecosystem there are about two no twenty thousand kinds of bees in the world the queen bee can stay alive for five years and could lay six thousand eggs a day the entire school is learning about bees this Academic Year as an inquiry-based learning project they are creating those experiences based on questions that they have so they've listed questions that they have about bees they've done some research did you know that these

119are almost on on the verge of Extinction before the students presented what they have learned they heard from a local beekeeper who gave an informative presentation to all grades they're Honeycombs it is wax you can see how it's dripping this is a honeycomb yes you can eat it she also talked about how bees make honey and how she is able to retrieve that honey use this calm tube and I scrape up I'm popping the Caps of the wax that's covering or sealing the honey students were buzzing with information after the presentation honey is they fresh honey not the ones you get from the store and help your immune system bees are starting to die off and with them dying off with them dying off our ecosystem is starting to go downhill this information is something

120Educators hope these students will take with them outside of the classroom these are not simply pests the effect um food the food supply the food chain you know they are some of the most important pollinators you know so just giving the scholars some real information that they can use and actually make connections to their real world and just by listening to Alex's presentation this is information that he will remember for years to come all of that stuff is made with honey yes this is the honey right here all right [Music] [Applause] hello everybody and welcome to Miles Park and we are here to say thank you welcome Rock the Boat I got a heart I got a vision four for me it's the right decision it's time to go let's get up and vote it's

121time to go let's rock that boat walk when I drives we need you to go cast the vote to make Ohio better if you have a mission make the right decision be right get up and rock that vote we weren't always able to also take the chance to rock that vote vote for the best so you won't be stress let's vote for Ohio and see what's next 100 years a fight you're about to make it right both for the better so we can have our rights everybody's for the betterment of the world so get off your seat and rock that boat raise up your hands and vote you better take a stand and vote the future is in your hand and vote don't be afraid to vote one two three four five six seven eight

122hit up and vote and make America great thank you for coming out to Miles Park and hopefully you enjoyed our video and again we are here too be okay thanks for coming first of all like at a high level we're trying to inspire students to be architectural change that design the world around them and like the design days as a concept was something that was pretty much demanded from kids so they spent a lot of time saying like hey like what happens about like all the Practical things like how to file taxes how to get a business loan like a lot of those kind of like financial literacy kind of components and then we also found that while our students are deeply interested in college um they're also interested in entrepreneurship and so um our

123vision is that we have and graduate students who are college ready but also students who have a skill set in their back pocket um that will help them flourish as an independent like self-sufficient entrepreneur design day is pretty much just a focus on careers to get people more involved with community and different services that can get you ahead in life our students kind of develop the southern Pathways there is photography there's the culinary program there's carpentry and construction there's music production stock market and finance there's the beauty group and then from that our teachers kind of say hey what area that I'm am I most passionate about but in addition to that we actually have a partner associated with supporting every single pathway today is a day that we um go into the pathways that

124we chose and I chose culinary I just got to make the clowns and the vegetables I'm in construction which is um just right now we're actually dealing with real life tools like saws and wood I could use things like measurements calculations from my engineering class and apply them to Construction in order in my real life last time we went which was last month it was my first time coming in I heard there were going to be Barbers coming and I actually cut hair so I was like really excited about it yeah I'm trying to go to barber school and last month I got some networking dying got some good Connections in so hopefully everything works out so no matter what pathway they're on they'll all learn about the financial literacy component through PNC Bank and

125so again they're learning very practical things about taxes about credit about savings I'm learning more so a business aspect to the side and I honestly think it is really good to like know some of these things because they are essential in life at some times like especially because this is helping us to get ways to make money or build careers that we might have never thought we'd enjoyed so when it comes down to it all of it is like creative thinking right so they're all designers in fact everybody's a designer as far as I'm concerned and it just becomes like how do you use the craft the skills that you have to like design a service or design a product that people would be interested in and so I just think the idea of taking

126skill sets and using it creatively to make money ultimately um is what we're trying to empower them to do so it's not just school for school safe I'm in school for the sake of being like a competitive thriving um well-spoken diverse experience entrepreneur and so that's really what we're after first quarterly meeting of the school year I'm so happy to see such a full movie during the first student advisory committee meeting of the school year members of Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibbs Administration asked students for their opinion on how to reduce violence as we think about doing violence prevention work in the city at any work in the city where we're going to be focused on the Improvement of the lives of our residents it is essential that we include resident voice and we want to

127make sure that our young people the youth in our city know that their voice matters and we want to center a lot of our ideas a lot of our interventions and the things that they are telling us that they actually need Sonya Pryor Jones the city's chief of Youth and Family success asks students to answer several questions that included what plans do you and your family use to stay safe in your community and how can we best engage more youth in decision making for violence prevention the students discussed their answers in groups is that like I was number one in the activity like the question number one and it was like what can we do to inform people basically and we like something that really stood out to me is that if we like provide

128people like the information and like really consistently and constantly telling them hey like this is going on and then providing like programs and like something we said was like internships we can provide them I really thought that was like a good idea so I feel like it's a great opportunity for them to get an Insight on what's actually happening in the community from the people who are actually in the community to tell them the experiences of that goes on so they can make a better judgment call on how to basically change it and help us for the last decade cmsd CEO Eric Gordon has turned to the student advisory committee as one of his most trusted advisors they have advised him on some hard-hitting topics that included absenteeism vaccination hesitation and how to get more

129students to apply for college and now they are helping the city with how to reduce violence a community-wide issue this actually Builds on work that student advisory did last spring before we broke for the summer where the city used that data to create a framework and the next step of it is for the mayor to meet with representative of each of the schools and directly and to hear the ideas that they captured so the mayor is really listening other students feel this conversation will spark real change in the city I feel like my voice is finally being heard I really I feel like that's so cool for us to have that direct connection towards me or a bit welcome welcome to the ninth grade break debate we have a wonderful program scheduled for you today

130um we have presentations on Mental Health every single one of my peers had a story about Mental Health crisis in my school this shows that every school has somebody struggling and students mental Jose to help them get their stuff together and avoid crisis outside or in school as we were putting the essays together in no time so I figured let's just go ahead and give them an opportunity to really talk about what they put in their paper we have a debate on whether high school students should go to college or not college graduates have better opportunities for health insurance and preparation there's still a lot of a so a lot of chances or like a lot of opportunities without going to college we all we all graders to get that exposure practice their public or

131one another as peers and just showcase their talent it's so function cell phones can be used for emergency cases according to Alison Klein some parents may need to contact their students during the building during the emergency are the dangers of weather event Googling test answers taking pictures of quizzes and uh sending it to friends who have classes next after them or debating cool it like debating like real cool at that point you get to tell your point see how you feel about it see how other people feel about it it's just you like it's you and how you feel out there that's it our topic is about should uh uniforms needs one in school wearing uniforms helps parents save money according to Ebola parents were like their children to wear uniforms in school so they

132do not need to spend more money on children it doesn't increase equal when do earth states that doesn't increase attendance or behavior you shouldn't have to work because you don't change them it was a good experience because I usually don't talk in front of everybody I feel like they did extremely well especially for it to be their first time for them to be nervous I think they push through some of them may be froze for a second but they were able to like gather theirselves together take a deep breath and keep going so it was a good learning experience for them foreign [Music] during the first demonstrations of learning of the Academic Year students at Anton gradina pre-k through eight School were excited to present what they've learned about bees it's hoodie right here that

133that's the that's the honeycomb just listen to four-year-old Alex he's in preschool they fact they think they're here okay and what happens when they flap their wings and they make the honey thick third graders told other students some fun and interesting facts as to why bees are so important to our ecosystem there are about two no twenty thousand kinds of bees in the world the queen bee can stay alive for five years and could lay six thousand eggs a day the entire school is learning about bees this Academic Year as an inquiry-based learning project they are creating those experiences based on questions that they have so they've listed questions that they have about bees they've done some research did you know that these are almost on on the verge of Extinction before the students presented

134what they have learned they heard from a local beekeeper who gave an informative presentation to all grades their Honeycombs it is wax you can see how it's dripping this is a honeycomb yes you can eat it she also talked about how bees make honey and how she is able to retrieve that honey this is called tube and I scrape up I'm popping the Caps of the wax that's covering or sealing the honey students were buzzing with information after the presentation honey is they fresh honey not the ones you get from the store and help your immune system bees are starting to die off and with them dying off with them dying off our ecosystem is starting to go downhill this information is something Educators hope these students will take with them outside of the classroom

135bees are not simply pests they affect food the food supply the food chain you know they are some of the most important pollinators you know so just giving the scholars some real information that they can use and actually make connections to their real world and just by listening to Alex's presentation this is information that he will remember for years to come all of that stuff is made with honey yes this is the honey right here all right [Music] [Applause] hello everybody and welcome to Miles Park and we are here to say well welcome Rock the Boat I got a heart I got a vision four for me it's the right decision it's time to go let's get up and vote it's time to go let's rock that boat walk where I drives we need you

136to go cast the vote to make Ohio better if you have a vision make the right decision be right get up and rock that vote we weren't always able to also take the chance and rock that boat vote for the best so you won't be stress let's vote for Ohio and see what's next a honey or the fight you're about to make it right both for the better so we can have our rights every vote is for the betterment of the world so get off your seat and rock that boat raise up your hands and vote you better take a stand and vote the future is in your hand and vote don't be afraid to vote one two three four five six seven eight hit up and vote and make America great thank you for

137coming out to Miles Park and hopefully you enjoyed our video and again we are here too be helped me oh thanks for coming first of all like at a high level we're in trying to Aspire students to be architectural change that design the world around them and like the design days as a concept was something that was pretty much demanded from kids so they spent a lot of time saying like hey like what happens about like all the Practical things like how to file taxes how to get a business loan like a lot of those kind of like financial literacy kind of components and then we also found that while our students are deeply interested in college um they're also interested in entrepreneurship and so um our vision is that we have and graduate students

138who are college ready but also students who have a skill set in their back pocket um that will help them flourish as an independent like self-sufficient entrepreneur design day is pretty much just a focus on careers to get people more involved with community and different services that could get you ahead in life our students kind of develop the southern Pathways there is photography there's the culinary program there's carpentry and construction there's music production stock market and finance there's the beauty group and then from that our teachers kind of say hey what area that I'm am I most passionate about but in addition to that we actually have a partner associated with supporting every single pathway today is a day that we go into the pathways that we chose and I chose culinary I just got

139to make the clowns and the vegetables I'm in construction which is um just right now we're actually dealing with real life tools like saws and wood I could use things like measurements calculations from my engineering class and apply them to Construction in order in my real life last time we went which was last month it was my first time coming in I heard there were going to be Barbers coming and I actually cut hair so I was like really excited about it yeah I'm trying to go to barber school and last month I got some networking dying got some good Connections in so hopefully everything works out so no matter what pathway they're on they'll all learn about the financial literacy component through PNC Bank and so again they're learning very practical things about taxes

140about credit about savings I'm learning more so a business aspect to the side and I honestly think it is really good to like know some of these things because they are essential in life at some times like especially because this is helping us to get ways to make money or build careers that we might have never thought we enjoyed so when it comes down to it all of it is like creative thinking right so they're all designers in fact everybody's a designer as far as I'm concerned and it just becomes like how do you use the craft and skills that you have to like design a service or design a product that people would be interested in and so I just think the idea of taking skill sets and using it creatively to make money

141ultimately um is what we're trying to empower them to do so it's not just school for school safe I'm at school for the sake of being like a competitive thriving I'm well spoken diverse experience entrepreneur and so that's really what we're after first quarterly meeting of the school year I'm so happy to see such a full movie during the first student advisory committee meeting of the school year members of Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibbs Administration asked students for their opinion on how to reduce violence as we think about doing violence prevention work in the city at any work in the city where we're going to be focused on the Improvement of the lives of our residents it is essential that we include resident voice and we want to make sure that our young people the youth

142in our city know that their voice matters and we want to center a lot of our ideas a lot of our interventions and the things that they are telling us that they actually need Sonya Pryor Jones the city's chief of Youth and Family success asks students to answer several questions that included what plans do you and your family use to stay safe in your community and how can we best engage more youth in decision making for violence prevention the students discussed their answers in groups is that like I was number one in the activity like the question number one and it was like what can we do to inform people basically and we like something that really stood out to me is that if we like provide people like the information and like really consistently

143and constantly telling them hey like this is going on and then providing like programs and like something we said was like internships we could provide them I really thought that was like a good idea so I feel like it's a great opportunity for them to get an Insight on what's actually happening in the community from the people who are actually in the community to tell them the experiences of that goes on so they can make a better judgment call on how to basically change it and help us for the last decade cmsd CEO Eric Gordon has turned to the student advisory committee as one of his most trusted advisors they have advised him on some hard-hitting topics that included absenteeism vaccination hesitation and how to get more students to apply for college and now they

144are helping the city with how to reduce violence a community-wide issue this actually Builds on work that student advisory did last spring before we broke for the summer where the city used that data to create a framework and the next step of it is for the mayor to meet with representative of each of the schools and directly and to hear the ideas that they captured so the mayor is really listening other students feel this conversation will spark real change in the city I feel like my voice is finally being heard I really I feel like that's so cool for us to have that direct connection towards me your bit welcome welcome to the ninth grade break debate we have a wonderful program scheduled for you today um we have presentations on Mental Health every single

145one of my peers had a story about Mental Health crisis in my school this shows that every school has somebody struggling and student Mentor Jose to help them get their results together and avoid crisis outside or in school as we as we were saying together in no time so I figured let's just go ahead and give them an opportunity to really talk about what they put in their paper we have a debate on whether high school students should go to college or not college graduates have better opportunities for health insurance and competitions there's still a lot of uh so a lot of chances or like a lot of opportunities without going to college we operators to get that exposure practice their public one another as peers and just showcase their talent it's so function allowed

146in school cell phones can be used for emergency cases according to Allison Klein some parents may need to contact their students during the building during the emergency or the dangers of weather event Google test answers taking pictures of quizzes and uh sending it to friends who have classes next after them or debating cool it like debating like a real cool at that point you get to tell your point see how you feel about it see how other people feel about it it's just you like it's you and how you feel out there that's it our topic is about should uh uniforms be one in school wearing uniforms helps parents save money according to Ebola parents were like their children to wear uniforms in school so they do not need to spend more money on children

147it doesn't increase equal when do earth states that doesn't increase attendance or behavior I shouldn't have to work because you don't change them it was a good experience because I usually don't talk in front of everybody I feel like they did extremely well especially for it to be their first time for them to be nervous I think they push through some of them may be froze for a second but they were able to like gather themselves together take a deep breath and keep going so it was a good learning experience for them [Music] that's honey in there yeah okay during the first demonstrations of learning of the Academic Year students at Anton gradina pre-k through eight School were excited to present what they've learned about bees it's hoodie right here that that's the that's the

148honeycomb just listen to four-year-old Alex he's in preschool they fact they think they're here okay and what happens when they flap their wings and they make the honey thick third graders told other students some fun and interesting facts as to why bees are so important to our ecosystem there are about two no twenty thousand kinds of bees in the world the queen bee can stay alive for five years and could lay six thousand eggs a day the entire school is learning about bees this Academic Year as an inquiry-based learning project they are creating those experiences based on questions that they have so they've listed questions that they have about bees they've done some research did you know that these are almost on on the verge of Extinction before the students presented what they have learned

149they heard from a local beekeeper who gave an informative presentation to all grades their Honeycombs it is wax you can see how it's dripping this is a honeycomb yes you can eat it she also talked about how bees make honey and how she is able to retrieve that honey this is called tube and I scrape up I'm popping the Caps of the wax that's covering or sealing the honey students were buzzing with information after the presentation honey is they fresh honey not the ones you get from the store and help your immune system bees are starting to die off and with them dying off with them dying off our ecosystem is starting to go downhill this information is something Educators hope these students will take with them outside of the classroom these are not simply

150pests the effect um food the food supply the food chain you know they are some of the most important pollinators you know so just giving the scholars some real information that they can use and actually make connections to their real world and just by listening to Alex's presentation this is information that he will remember for years to come all of our stuff is made with honey yes this is the honey right here all right [Music] [Applause] hello everybody and welcome to Miles Park and we are here to say thank you welcome Rock the Boat I got a heart I got a vision four for me is the right decision it's time to go let's get up and vote it's time to go let's rock that boat walk grind drives we need you to go cast

151the vote to make Ohio better if you have a mission make the right decision be right get up and rock that boat we weren't always able to also take the chance to rock that boat vote for the best so you won't be stressed let's vote for Ohio and see what's next a honey or the fight you're about to make it right both for the better so we can have our rights everybody's for the bedroom in the world so get off your seat and rock that boat raise up your hands and vote you better take a stand and vote the future is in your hand and vote don't be afraid to vote one two three four five six seven eight hit up and vote and make America great thank you for coming out to Miles Park

152and hopefully you enjoyed our video and again we are here too be okay we're coming first of all like at a high level we're in trying to inspire students to be architectural change that design the world around them and like the design days as a concept was something that was pretty much demanded from kids so they spent a lot of time saying like hey like what happens about like all the Practical things like how to file taxes how to get a business loan like a lot of those kind of like financial literacy kind of components and then we also found that while our students are deeply interested in college um they're also interested in entrepreneurship and so um our vision is that we have and graduate students who are college ready but also students who

153have a skill set in their back pocket and that will help them flourish as an independent like self-sufficient entrepreneur design day is pretty much just a focus on careers to get people more involved with community and different services that can get you ahead in life our students kind of develop the southern Pathways there is photography there's a culinary program there's carpentry and construction there's music production stock market and finance there's the beauty group and then from that our teachers kind of say hey what area that I'm am I most passionate about but in addition to that we actually have a partner associated with supporting every single pathway today is a day that we um go into the pathways that we chose and I chose to call a nurse I just got to make the clowns

154and the vegetables I'm in construction which is um just right now we're actually dealing with real life tools like Saws and wood I could use things like measurements calculations from my engineering class and apply them to Construction in order in my real life last time we went which was last month it was my first time coming in I heard there were going to be Barbers coming and I actually cut hair so I was like really excited about it yeah I'm trying to go to barber school and last month I got some networking dying got some good Connections in so hopefully everything works out so no matter what pathway they're on I learned about the financial literacy component through PNC Bank and so again they're learning very practical things about taxes about credit about savings I'm

155learning more so a business aspect to the side and I honestly think it is really good to like know some of these things because they are essential in life and sometimes like especially because this is helping us to get ways to make money or build careers that we might have never thought we enjoyed so when it comes down to it all of it is like creative thinking right so they're all designers in fact everybody's a designer as far as I'm concerned and it just becomes like how do you use the craft and skills that you have to like design a service or design a product that people will be interested in and so I just think the idea of taking skill sets and using it creatively to make money ultimately um is what we're trying

156to empower them to do so it's not just school for school safe I'm in school for the sake of being like a competitive thriving well-spoken diverse experience entrepreneur and so that's really what we're after first quarterly meeting of the school year I'm so happy to see such a full room during the first student advisory committee meeting of the school year members of Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibbs Administration asked students for their opinion on how to reduce violence as we think about doing violence prevention work in the city at any work in the city where we're going to be focused on the Improvement of the lives of our residents it is essential that we include resident voice and we want to make sure that our young people the youth in our city know that their voice matters

157and we want to center a lot of our ideas a lot of our interventions and the things that they are telling us that they actually need Sonia Pryor Jones the city's chief of Youth and Family success asks students to answer several questions that included what plans do you and your family use to stay safe in your community and how can we best engage more youth in decision making for violence prevention the students discussed their answers in groups is that like I was number one in the activity like the question number one and it was like what can we do to inform people basically and we like something that really stood out to me is that if we like provide people like the information and like really consistently and constantly telling them hey like this is

158going on and then providing like programs and like something we said was like internships we can provide them I really thought that was like a good idea so I feel like it's a great opportunity for them to get an Insight on what's actually happening in the community from the people who are actually in the community to tell them the experiences of that goes on so they can make a better judgment call on how to basically change it and help us for the last decade cmsd CEO Eric Gordon has turned to the student advisory committee as one of his most trusted advisors they have advised him on some hard-hitting topics that included absenteeism vaccination hesitation and how to get more students to apply for college and now they are helping the city with how to reduce

159violence a community-wide issue this actually Builds on work that student advisory did last spring before we broke for the summer where the city used that data to create a framework and the next step of it is for the mayor to meet with representative of each of the schools and directly and to hear the ideas that they captured so the mayor is really listening other students feel this conversation will spark real change in the city I don't know I feel like my voice is finally being heard I really I feel like that's so cool for us to have that direct connection towards me your bed welcome welcome to the ninth grade break debate we have a wonderful program scheduled for you today um we have presentations on Mental Health every single one of my peers had

160a story about Mental Health crisis in my school this shows that every school has somebody struggling and students mental Jose to help them get their results together and avoid crisis outside or in school as we were putting together argumentative essay s together in no time so I figured let's just go ahead and give them an opportunity to really talk about what they put in their paper we have a debate on whether high school students should go to college or not college graduates have better opportunities for health insurance and preparations there's still a lot of a so a lot of chances or like a lot of opportunities without going to college we we all got exposure practice there is one another as peers and just showcase their talent if cell phone cell phones can be used

161for emergency cases according to Alison Klein some parents may need to contact their students during the building during the emergency or the dangers of weather events Googling test answers taking pictures of quizzes and uh sending it to friends who have classes next after them or debating cool it like debating like real cool at that point you get to tell your point see how you feel about it see how other people feel about it it's just you like it's you and how you feel out there that's it our topic is about should uh uniforms need worn in school wearing uniforms helps parents save money according to Ebola parents were like their children to wear uniforms in stores so they do not need to spend more money on children it doesn't increase when do earth states that

162doesn't increase attendance or behavior you shouldn't have to wear it because it don't change them it was a good experience because I usually don't talk in front of everybody I feel like they did extremely well especially for it to be their first time for them to be nervous I think they push through some of them maybe froze for a second but they were able to like gather themselves together take a deep breath and keep going so it was a good learning experience for them [Music] foreign [Music] during the first demonstrations of learning of the Academic Year students at Anton gradina pre-k through eight School were excited to present what they've learned about bees it's hoodie right here that that's the that's the honeycomb just listen to four-year-old Alex he's in preschool they fact I think

163they're here okay and what happens when they flap their wings and they make the honey thick third graders told other students some fun and interesting facts as to why bees are so important to our ecosystem there are about two no twenty thousand kinds of bees in the world the queen bee can stay alive for five years and could lay six thousand eggs a day the entire school is learning about bees this Academic Year as an inquiry-based learning project they are creating those experiences based on questions that they have so they've listed questions that they have about bees they've done some research did you know that these are almost on the uh on the verge of Extinction before the students presented what they have learned they heard from a local beekeeper who gave an informative presentation

164to all grades their Honeycombs it is wax you can see how it's dripping this is a honeycomb yes you can eat it she also talked about how bees make honey and how she is able to retrieve that honey this is called tube and I scrape up I'm popping the Caps of the wax that's covering or sealing the honey students were buzzing with information after the presentation honey is they fresh honey not the ones you get from the store and help your immune system bees are starting to die off and with them dying off with them dying off our ecosystem is starting to go downhill this information is something Educators hope these students will take with them outside of the classroom bees are not simply pests they affect food the food supply the food chain you

165know they are some of the most important pollinators you know so just giving the scholars some real information that they can use and actually make connections to their real world and just by listening to Alex's presentation this is information that he will remember for years to come all of that stuff is made with honey yes this is the honey right here all right [Music] [Applause] hello everybody and welcome to Miles Park and we are here to say what welcome Rock the Boat I got a heart I got a vision four for me it's the right decision it's time to go let's get up and vote it's time to go let's rock that boat walk run drives we need you to go cast the vote to make Ohio better if you have a vision make the

166right decision be right get up and rock that vote we weren't always able to also take the chance to rock that move vote for the best so you won't be stressed let's vote for Ohio and see what's next a honey or the fight you're about to make it right both for the better so we can have our rights everybody's for the betterment of the world so get off your seat and rock that boat raise up your hands and vote you better take a stand and vote the future is in your hand and vote don't be afraid to vote one two three four five six seven eight hit up and vote and make America great thank you for coming out to Miles Park and hopefully you enjoyed our video and again we are here too [Applause]

167oh thanks for coming first of all like at a high level we're trying to inspire students to be architectural change that design the world around them and like the design days as a concept was something that was pretty much demanded from kids so they spent a lot of time saying like hey like what happens about like all the Practical things like how to file taxes how to get a business loan like a lot of those kind of like financial literacy kind of components and then we also found that while our students are deeply interested in college um they're also interested in entrepreneurship and so our vision is that we have and graduate students who are college ready but also students who have a skill set in their back pocket that will help them flourish as

168an independent like self-sufficient entrepreneur design day is pretty much just a focus on careers to get people more involved with community and different services that can get you ahead in life our students kind of develop the southern Pathways there is photography there's the culinary program there's carpentry and construction there's music production stock market and finance there's a beauty group and then from that our teachers kind of said hey what area that I'm am I most passionate about but in addition to that we actually have a partner associated with supporting every single pathway today is a day that we um go into the pathways that we chose and I chose culinary I just got to make the clowns and the vegetables I'm in construction which is um just right now we're actually dealing with real life

169tools like saws and wood I could use things like measurements calculations from my engineering class and apply them to Construction in order in my real life last time we went which was last month it was my first time coming in I heard there were going to be Barbers coming and I actually cut hair so I was like really excited about it I was trying to go to barber school and last month I got some networking dying got some good Connections in so hopefully everything works out so no matter what pathway they're on they'll all learn about the financial literacy component through PNC Bank and so again they're learning very practical things about taxes about credit about savings I'm learning more so a business aspect to the side and I honestly think it is really good

170to like know some of these things because they are essential in life at some times like especially because this is helping us to get ways to make money or build careers that we might have never thought we enjoyed so when it comes down to it all of it is like creative thinking right so they're all designers in fact everybody's a designer as far as I'm concerned and it just becomes like how do you use the craft and skills that you have to like design a service or design a product that you can be interested in and so I just think the idea of of taking skill sets and using it creatively to make money ultimately um is what we're trying to empower them to do so it's not just school for school sake I'm a

171school for the sake of being like a competitive thriving um well-spoken diverse experience entrepreneur and so that's really what we're after first quarterly meeting of the school year I'm so happy to see such a full room during the first student advisory committee meeting of the school year members of Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibbs Administration asked students for their opinion on how to reduce violence as we think about doing violence prevention work in the city at any work in the city where we're going to be focused on the Improvement of the lives of our residents it is essential that we include resident voice and we want to make sure that our young people the youth in our city know that their voice matters and we want to center a lot of our ideas a lot of our

172interventions and the things that they are telling us that they actually need Sonia Pryor Jones the city's chief of Youth and Family success asks students to answer several questions that included what plans do you and your family use to stay safe in your community and how can we best engage more youth in decision making for violence prevention the students discussed their answers in groups is that like I was number one in the activity like the question number one and it was like what can we do to inform people basically and we like something that really stood out to me is that if we like provide people like the information and like really consistently and constantly telling them hey like this is going on and then providing like programs and like something we said was like

173internships we could provide them I really thought that was like a good idea so I feel like it's a great opportunity for them to get an Insight on what's actually happening in the community from the people who are actually in the community to tell them the experiences of that goes on so they can make a better judgment call on how to basically change it and help us for the last decade cmsd CEO Eric Gordon has turned to the student advisory committee as one of his most trusted advisors they have advised him on some hard-hitting topics that included absenteeism vaccination hesitation and how to get more students to apply for college and now they are helping the city with how to reduce violence a community-wide issue this actually Builds on work that student advisory did last

174spring before we broke for the summer where the city used that data to create a framework and the next step of it is for the mayor to meet with representative of each of the schools and directly and to hear the ideas that they captured so the mayor is really listening other students feel this conversation will spark real change in the city I feel like my voice is finally being heard I really I feel like that's so cool for us to have that direct connection towards me your bed welcome welcome to the ninth grade break debate we have a wonderful program scheduled for you today um we have presentations on Mental Health every single one of my peers had a story about Mental Health crisis in my school this shows that every school has somebody struggling

175and student Mentor Jose to help them get their results together and avoid crisis outside or in school as we as we went studies together in no time so I figured let's just go ahead and give them an opportunity to really talk about what they put in their paper we have a debate on whether high school students should go to college or not college graduates have better opportunities for health insurance and preparation there's still a lot of a so a lot of chances or like a lot of opportunities without going to college we all Gators to get that exposure practice their put one another as peers and just showcase their talent if so function s cell phones can be used for emergency cases according to Allison Klein some parents may need to contact their students during

176a visit during the emergency or the dangers of weather event Googling test answers taking pictures of quizzes and uh sending it to friends who have classes next after them or debating cool it like debating like a real cool at that point you get to tell your point see how you feel about it see how other people feel about it it's just you like it's you and how you feel out there that's it our topic is about should uh uniforms need one in school wearing uniforms helps parents save money according to Ebola parents were like their children to wear uniforms in school so they do not need to spend more money on children it doesn't increase equal when do earth states that doesn't increase attendance or behavior I shouldn't have to wear it because you don't

177change them it was a good experience because I usually don't talk in front of everybody I feel like they did extremely well especially for it to be their first time for them to be nervous I think they push through some of them may be froze for a second but they were able to like gather themselves together take a deep breath and keep going so it was a good learning experience for them foreign [Music] during the first demonstrations of learning of the Academic Year students at Anton gradina pre-k through eight School were excited to present what they've learned about bees it's hoodie right here that's the honeycomb just listen to four-year-old Alex he's in preschool they fact they think they're here okay and what happens when they flap their wings and they make the honey thick

178third graders told other students some fun and interesting facts as to why bees are so important to our ecosystem there are about two no twenty thousand kinds of bees in the world the queen bee can stay alive for five years and collect six thousand eggs a day the entire school is learning about bees this Academic Year as an inquiry-based learning project they are creating those experiences based on questions that they have so they've listed questions that they have about bees they've done some research did you know that these are almost on uh on the verge of Extinction before the students presented what they have learned they heard from a local beekeeper who gave an informative presentation to all grades their Honeycombs it is wax you can see how it's dripping this is a honeycomb yes

179you can eat it she also talked about how bees make honey and how she is able to retrieve that honey this is called tube and I scrape up I'm popping the Caps of the wax that's covering or sealing the honey students were buzzing with information after the presentation honey is they're fresh honey not the ones you get from the store and help your immune system bees are starting to die off and with them dying off with them dying off our ecosystem is starting to go downhill this information is something Educators hope these students will take with them outside of the classroom these are not simply pests the effect um food the food supply the food chain you know they are some of the most important pollinators you know so just giving the scholars some real

180information that they can use and actually make connections to their real world and just by listening to Alex's presentation this is information that he will remember for years to come all of our stuff is made with honey yes this is the honey right here all right [Music] [Applause] hello everybody and welcome to Miles Park and we are here to say rock that boat welcome Rock the Boat I got a heart I got a vision for me it's the right decision it's time to go let's get up and vote it's time to go let's rock that boat walk run drives we need you to go cast a vote to make Ohio better if you have a vision make the right decision be right get up and rock that boat we weren't always able to also take

181the chance and rock that boat vote for the best so you want me stress let's vote for Ohio and see what's next a honey or the fight you're about to make it right both for the better so we can have our rights everybody's for the betterment of the world so get off your seat and rock that boat raise up your hands and vote you better take a stand vote the future is in your hand and vote don't be afraid to vote one two three four five six seven eight hit up and vote and make America great thank you for coming out to Miles Park and hopefully you enjoyed our video and again we are here too [Applause] oh thanks for coming first of all like at a high level we're trying to inspire students to

182be architectural change that design the world around them and like the design days as a concept was something that was pretty much demanded from kids so they spent a lot of time saying like hey like what happens about like all the Practical things like how to file taxes how to get a business loan like a lot of those kind of like financial literacy kind of components and then we also found that while our students are deeply interested in college um they're also interested in entrepreneurship and so our vision is that we have and graduate students who are college ready but also students who have a skill set in their back pocket and that will help them flourish as an independent like self-sufficient entrepreneur design day is pretty much just a focus on careers to get

183people more involved with community and different services that could get you ahead in life our students kind of develop the southern Pathways there is photography there's a culinary program there's carpentry and construction there's music production stock market and finance there's the beauty group and then from that our teachers kind of said hey what area that I'm am I most passionate about but in addition to that we actually have a partner associated with supporting every single pathway today is a day that we um go into the pathways that we chose and I chose culinary I just got to make the clowns and the vegetables I'm in construction which is um just right now we're actually dealing with real life tools like saws and Wood public session the chair will now entertain a motion to adopt a

184res Mr Gordon did you hear those yeah you ready for me to roll call I can't hear what he says I did not catch it who me got it thank you this is a recommendation for a 10-day suspension for violation of District policies procedures and rules this morning can you please call the roll yes ma'am Miss Bingham yes Mr heard yes Miss Dempsey Miss Ellicott a Dr srider Dr Thomas yes Miss Bingham we have emotions past seven to zero thank you thank you Cheryl now and now energy second oh I'm sorry a non-teaching employee Monica born was there a second I'm sorry thank you Mr hurt Mr Gordon this is a recommendation for termination for this employee for violation of District policies procedures and rules warranting termination Mr Mortimer can you please call the world

185yes ma'am Miss Bingham yes Mr heard yes Miss Dempsey Miss Ellicott Mrs hudnall Dr sridhar Dr Thomas let's bring him the motion passes 7-0 thank you Mr the meeting is adjourned thank you everybody good evening