Board of Education - Dec 02, 2025

001I'M A LITTLE UNDER THE WEATHER. I HAVE A COMMON COLD, WHICH I HAVE DECIDED IS THE WORST DISEASE EVER IN THE UNIVERSE, AND CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME OKAY? PERFECT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. IF YOU CAN'T, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. IT IS 4:05 AND I CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. SECRETARY WOFFORD, WOULD YOU PLEASE TAKE THE ROLL CALL. BOARD MEMBER FRANK. I BELIEVE YOU ARE ON MUTE, MR. FRANK. HOLD DOWN THE SPACE BAR. MR. FRANK, YOU ARE ON MUTE -- YOU'RE GOOD. YOU'RE GOOD. I AM GOOD NOW? >> YES, THANK YOU. AND YOUR VOLUME IS GOOD. AND I'M HERE. WELL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HERE MEANS -- MAYBE SLIGHTLY UP ON VOLUME. VICE PRESIDENT NOLAN? HERE. >> MADAME CORT? >> I AM HERE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE ARE

002NOW GOING TO SAY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, AND WE HAVE --OH, FANTASTIC, WE HAVE A VOLUNTEER. JOSE LEONARDO FROM MONTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IS GOING TO COME UP AND LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE. HOLD THAT MICROPHONE DOWN. PERFECT. AND WE'LL START WHEN YOU ARE READY, JOSE LEONARDO. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. [ SPEAKING IN GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] I SALUTE THE FLAG OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO AND THE ZIA SYMBOL OF PERFECT FRIENDSHIP AMONG UNITED CULTURES. [ SPEAKING IN GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] BRAVO. THANK YOU. WELL DONE. SUPERINTENDENT, DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING FOR HEM? APPRECIATE. THANK YOU. GREAT JOB. >> YOU DID A GREAT JOB. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND

003THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU. WE SO APPRECIATE YOU COMING. YOU DID SUCH A GREAT JOB. SO CALM. SO CALM. ONE MORE ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR JOSE LEONARDO. YOU DID A BEAUTIFUL JOB. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STARTING OFF OUR MEETING SO WELL. FOR OUR APPROVAL OF AGENDA, I WOULD LIKE TO REMOVE ITEM 4B 1, MEMORANDUM OF , REMOVE FROM THE AGENDA. SO MOVED? SECOND. >> MOVED BY SECRETARY WOFFORD AND SECONDED BY VICE PRESIDENT NOLAN. ALL IN FAVOR --OH, NO, WE CANNOT DO THAT. THANK YOU. SECRETARY WOFFORD, TAKE IT AWAY. BOARD MEMBER FRANK? YES. MEMBER TENORIO? >> YES, TO THE AMENDMENT. VICE PRESIDENT NOLAN? YES. PRESIDENT CORT? >> IT'S UNANIMOUS, THANK YOU. I WOULD LIKE TO APPROVE THE REGULAR MINUTES. SO MOVED. MOVED BY SECRETARY WOFFORD. >> AND SECONDED BY MS. TENORIO. ONE

004MORE TIME, SECRETARY WOFFORD. MR. FRANK? I'M GOING TO ABSTAIN SINCE I DID NOT ATTEND THAT MEETING. OKAY. MS. TENORIO? YES. SECRETARY WOFFORD VOTES YES. >> VICE PRESIDENT NOLAN? YES. >> PRESIDENT CORT? YES, I VOTE YES, AND ONE ABSTENTION. THERE'S NO CONSENT ITEMS TO APPROVE. AND THE BOARD MET FROM 2:00 P.M. TO 4:55 --NO, WHAT TIME IS IT? 3:55. VICE PRESIDENT? >> I THOUGHT THE MEMORANDUM WAS THE CONSENT AGENDA? I TOOK IT OFF. OKAY. >> THANK YOU, THOUGH. THE BOARD MET IN EXECUTIVE SESSION ON TUESDAY TO DISCUSS A LIMITED PERSONNEL MATTERS AS PERMITTED UNDER 10-15-1, SO ONE THE SUPERINTENDENT COULD UPDATE THE BOARD AND LEGAL COUNSEL COULD ADVISE REGARDING THE INVESTIGATIONS OF CLASSIFIED OR CERTIFIED EMPLOYEES, AND 3, THE BOARD COULD CONTINUE TO DISCUSS AND PREPARE THE SUPERINTENDENT'S MID YEAR EVALUATION, AND I AFFIRM THAT THE

005ITEMS DISCUSSED IN CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION WERE LIMITED TO THOSE STATED ABOVE. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT. BEFORE WE MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO THE BOARD POLICIES BEDH AND ON THE PUBLIC INPUT FORM. PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER INDIVIDUAL SPEAKER, HOWEVER THE BOARD PRESIDENT MAY FURTHER RESTRICT OR WAIVE TIME LIMITS. ANYBODY MAKING COMMENTS SHALLSHALL SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THETHE OF THEIR COMMENTS DURING THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION OF THE BOARD MEETING. WE HAVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY, AND IS IT SHELL? SHELLY. SORRY, SHELLY. SHELLY QUARTER. OKAY. I GOT YOUR LAST NAME RIGHT. THANK YOU. YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. WELCOME. I WILL -- I WOULD LIKE TO START BY JUST SAYING THAT MY PURPOSE FOR STANDING HERE IS REGARDING YOUR AGENDA POINT 5A, THE GOALS FOR OUR CHILDREN IN

006LITERACY AND MATH, AND I FIND OUR SCORES EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY CONCERNING. I AM A NATIVE NEW MEXICAN, AND I PREVIOUS YOU WENT TO SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOL, CLASS OF '78, AND I LIVED OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES, JUST A LITTLE INTRODUCTION OF MYSELF SO YOU KNOW WHO I AM. FOR MANY YEARS WE LIVED 21 YEARS IN AUSTRIA, AND SIX OF THOSE YEARS I SERVED ON A SCHOOL BOARD. THE LAST THREE I SERVED AS THE CHAIR, MY LAST THREE YEARS OF SERVING, AND I WORKED THE SCHOOL THROUGH AN ACCREDITATION, AND THEN WE WERE WORKING ON AUSTRIAN ACCREDITATION, AND THE ONE THING I KNOW IN ORDER TO ENTER INTO A UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE, AN AMERICAN CURRICULUM MUST HAVE AP CLASSES IN ORDER FOR THE CHILDREN OR THE STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO GO ON. SO THAT'S ONE OF

007THE REASONS I FIND THIS VERY CONCERNING BECAUSE OUR KIDS NEED TO BE ABLE TO COMPLETE -- COMPETE GLOBALLY AS WELL. I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THAT I ALSO WORKED AS A PRAYER COORDINATOR FOR SEVEN YEARS AND DURING THOSE SEVEN YEARS I --WE DID PRAYER REGARDING HUMAN TRAFFICKING, SO I DID SEVEN YEARS OF STUDY OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE, AND THE ONE THING THAT I KNOW THAT IS VERY DETRIMENTAL TO PEOPLE IS TO NOT BE ABLE TO READ WELL OR DO MATH. IT'S A SET UP FOR SLAVE RE. I FIND IT VERY, VERY CONCERN AND I AM GLAD YOU HAVE IT ON YOUR AGENDA AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ACTION THAT FOLLOWS. THANK YOU. OKAY. WITH THAT WE ARE GOING TO MOVE TO THE SUPERINTENDENT'S COURT. PRESIDENT CORT, MEMBERS OF BOARD. STARTING OFF WITH

008THE FALL ATHLETICS AND ACTIVITIES OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS I HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND SEVERAL EVENTS ACROSS THE DISTRICT THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE STUDENTS AND PROGRAMS. FIRST, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE CRUCES VOLLEYBALL TEAM ON THE INCREDIBLE SEASON AND STATE RUN. I BELIEVE THAT WAS THEIR THIRD STATE TITLE IN A ROW, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN. I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE THE LAS CRUCES FOOTBALL TEAM FOR ADVANCING TO THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AND FINISHING SHORT BUT A GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT THIS YEAR. AND IT REFLECTS THE FAMILIES AND SCHOOL COMMUNITIES. I HAD THE PRIVILEGEAGE OF ATTENDING THE HOSSA REGIONAL COMPETITION. BOTH WERE EXCEPTIONAL. OUR STUDENTS REPRESENTED THE DISTRICT WITH CONFIDENCE, PROFESSIONISM AND TEAMWORK AND IT WAS EXCITING TO SEE THEM COMPETING IN AREAS THAT PREPARE THEM FOR FUTURE CAREERS AND EMERGING FIELDS. I WANT TO THANK A MOMENT

009TO THANK THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NOVEMBER 20th FUNDRAISER, AND I WANT TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION FOR THE FOUNDATION'S ONGOING COMMITMENT TO OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF. THEIR SUPPORT HELPS MAKE INNOVATIVE CLASSROOM PROJECTS POSSIBLE AND PROVIDES RESOURCES THAT DIRECTLY BENEFIT LEARNING ACROSS OUR DISTRICT. WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR THE CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP AND THE GENEROSITY OF OUR COMMUNITY. THEIR HOLIDAY TREE FUNDRAISER AUCTION WAS HOSTED BY OUR OWN PADILLA, AND IT WAS GREAT TO BE OUT THERE. THIS MONTH MEMBERS OF OUR CABINET AND BOARD HAVE BEEN VISITING SCHOOLS TO RECOGNIZE THOSE THAT DEMONSTRATED ACADEMIC GROWTH ON THE SPRING ASSESSMENTS. THESE VISITS WERE A HIGHLIGHT FOR US BECAUSE THEY ALLOW US TO PERSONALLY CELEBRATE THE WORK HAPPENING IN CLASSROOMS EACH AND EVERY DAY. PRINCIPALS, TEACHERS AND SUPPORT STAFF AND STUDENTS HAVE ALL CONTRIBUTED TO THIS GROWTH. WE ARE PROUD OF THE CONTINUED

010PROGRESS WE'RE SEEING ACROSS THE DISTRICT. TOMORROW WE WILL BE AT MAYFIELD AND CENTENNIAL CELEBRATING THEIR SCHOOL'S GROWTH. WINTER SPORTS MEDIA DAY WAS A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS AND TRULY SET THE TONE FOR THE SEASON. THIS EVENT SERVED AS AN IMPORTANT MOMENT TO SPOTLIGHT THE DEDICATION OF OUR STUDENT-ATHLETES AND COACHES AS THEY TRANSITION INTO WINTERWINTER COMPOSITION. WANT TO THANK RGPI FOR HOSTING AND CORD ORDINATING THE LOGISTICS SO IT WOULD RUN SMOOTHLY, AND THEY MADE SURE ALL PROGRAMS WERE REPRESENTED. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE L CPS TV AND OUR COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT FOR ELEVATING THE EVENT THROUGH HIGH- QUALITY INTERVIEWS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA PRODUCTION AND IT HELPS TO SHARE THESE STORIES WITH ATHLETES AND COMMUNITY. AND IT GIVES A CHANCE TO FEATURE ATHLETES FROM OUR DISTRICT AND PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TO SPEAK ABOUT THEIR GOALS. THEIR TRAINING AND WHAT

011THEY HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH THIS SEASON. THE EXCITEMENT AND ENERGY THEY BROUGHT TO THE EVENT WERE CLEAR AND IT WAS INSPIRING TO SEE THE PRIDE THEY HAVE IN REPRESENTING THEIR SCHOOLS. WE ARE ENTERING THE WINTER SEASON WITH STRONG MOMENTUM AND A DEEP BENCH OF TALENT AND A DEEP COMMUNITY WITH OUR STUDENTS. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING OUR WINTER PROGRAMS CONTINUE TO THRIVE. I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT SOME OF THE BUS DRIVERS. THESE ARE SOME OF THE FACES OUR STUDENTS SEE IN THE MORNING AND THE LAST FACES THEY SEE AT THE END OF THE DAY, AND I WAS GRATEFUL TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR PROFESSIONALISM AND COMMITMENT TO SAFETY, AND WE HAD GREAT FOOD TO TOP IT OFF. THIS WEEK WE WILL HOST THE CEREMONY OF CHAMPIONS, AND THIS IS ONE OF OUR FAVORITE EVENTS

012BECAUSE IT BRINGS FAMILIES TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE LENS OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM. I LOOK FORWARD TO HONORING THESE STUDENTS AND THE COACHES, SPONSORS AND STAFF WHO SUPPORTED THEM. ALSO, BECAUSE OF THE EARLY PUBLICATION OF OUR AGENDA, I ALSO PARTNERED AND ATTENDED THE CASA --LET ME GO BACK, CASA DELL GREENOUGH DONATED TURKEYS, AND WE HAD A TURKEY DISTRIBUTION OVER AT THE NUTRITION WAREHOUSE, AND IT WAS GREAT TO BE OUT THERE WITH A LOT OF OUR STAFF AND FAMILIES, WE ACTUALLY RAN OUT OF TURKEYS. IT WAS GREAT TO BE OUT THERE, BUT ALSO A LITTLE BIT, YOU KNOW, I GUESS THE WORD, SAD, BECAUSE WE STILL HAD MORE FAMILIES. BUT WE WILL BE DISTRIBUTING MORE STUDENT MEALS SOON, AND THEY ARE DOING THE SAME THING AS WELL. AND BEFORE I CLOSE, I WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY THE EAST BOARD

013SHOWCASE IS HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND AT OREGON MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL. THE SHOWCASE IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SEE OUR STUDENTS COMPETE IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT REFLECTS TEAMWORK, STRATEGY AND DIGITAL SKILL. WE INVITE OUR COMMUNITY TO COME OUT AND SUPPORT OUR STUDENT GAMERS. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT CORT, AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, SUPERINTENDENT. I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE NOW TO THETHE ITEMS. WE WILL GO TO OLD BUSINESS. DR. MILLER TOMLINSON, IF YOU ARE READY, WE WILL DO THE THIRD READ READING AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF THE SPORTS PHYSICALS OF STUDENT- ATHLETES, JJID. IN SYMPATHY FOR YOU, I WAS TRYING TO SNEEZE OR NOT SNEEZE -- DO YOU NEED A KLEENEX OROR DROP. I GOT YOU COVERED? GETTING IT TOGETHER. THANK YOU. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND SUPERINTENDENT RUIZ.

014WE ARE HERE FOR THE THIRD READING AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF THE JJID. THERE HAS BEEN NO COMMENT SINCE SECOND READING. A COUPLE CHANGES AFTER THE SECOND READING TO BE PARALLEL WITH OTHER POLICY REVISIONS. WE HAVE REMOVED THE PHRASE THE PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY FROM THE PURPOSE STATEMENT. MADAME CORT CAUGHT THAT THERE WAS A COUPLE ERRORS, AND MR. FRANK ALSO SUGGESTED IN SECTION 4A TO ADD TWO COMMAS TO THETHE SENTENCE, SO IF YOU LOOK DOWN TO SECTION 4A, IT IS THE FIRST SENTENCE THERE, STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN NMAA-SANCTIONED ATHLETES AND ACTIVITIES AND SCHOOL PERSONNEL SHALL FOLLOW ALL NEW MEXICO ACTIVITY ASSOCIATION GUIDELINES REGARDING ANNUAL PARTICIPATION PHYSICALS, AND HE SUGGESTED A CLAUSE. THAT WAS THE SUGGESTED REVISION AFTER THE SECOND READING, AND WITH THAT I WILL STAND FOR QUESTIONS. ONLY THAT THE ADDITIONAL M AND ADDITIONAL PERIOD ARE

015STILL THERE. I'M ASSUMING IT'S OKAY -- YES, THOSE WILL BE CORRECTED IN THE FINAL -- IN THE FINAL COPY. I WOULD LIKE TO REFER TO MY FELLOW MEMBERS ABOUT THAT CLAUSE, ARE WE FEELING GOOD ABOUT IT, OR TO REMAIN ELIGIBLE. TO BECOME OR TO REMAIN ELIGIBLE -- IT COULD BE OFFSET OR YOU COULD LEAVE IT AS IT WAS, YEAH, EITHER WAY. I AM FINE WITH OR WITHOUT COMMAS. ANYBODY ELSE? CAN WE JUST SAY TO BE. TO BE. >> TO BE ELIGIBLE. IT IS IN THE PROCESS OF BECOMING ELIGIBLE. IT'S NOT --THEY MUST HAVE PHYSICALS TO BECOME OR STAY -- TO BECOME -->> TO BE OR NOT TO BE. TO REMAIN. YES. SO TO YOUR POINT, SECRETARY WOFFORD, I THINK IT SPEAKS TO TWO EVENTS, THE INITIAL BECOMING ELIGIBLE AND THEN INDICATING THAT YOU HAVE TO

016HAVE A PHYSICAL EACH YEAR TO REMAIN -- TO CONTINUE, RIGHT. -- ELIGIBLE, SO IT DOES THE WORK OF TWO SEPARATE EVENTS. OKAY. I THINK WE'RE GOOD. I WOULD RECOMMEND ALSO -- SORRY. THAT'S ALL RIGHT. >> IN THAT SAME PARAGRAPH ON THE SECOND LINE WHERE WE SPELL OUT NMAA, LIKE, I THINK THE WHOLE POINT IS WE DON'T HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT BECAUSE WE DID IT AT THE BEGINNING. SPELL IT OUT THE FIRST TIME INSTEAD OF USING INITIALS THE FIRST TIME. AND IT'S UP THERE -->> YEAH, IT'S IN THE PURPOSE. YEAH, THEN --YEAH. JUST TO HELP WITH WORDINESS. >> RIGHT. BOARD MEMBERS, ANYTHING ELSE? SO CAN I CLARIFY. ARE WE ADDING THE COMMAS? MR. FRANK, HOW ARE YOU FEELING ABOUT YOUR COMMAS? I THINK IT'S A PRETTY LONG SENTENCE AND IT FELT MORE NATURAL TO ME

017TO HAVE THE PAUSE THERE. I MEAN, WHEN I FIRST READ IT, IT CONFUSED ME A LITTLE BIT. WITH THE COMMAS IT SLOWS ME DOWN AND I GET IT BETTER THAT WAY AND AS I POINTED OUT IN MY EMAIL TO YOU, DR. WENDY, I'M CERTAINLY NOT AN AUTHORITY ON THE USE OF COMMAS, SO YOU KNOW, IT'S UP TO WHAT THE BOARD WANTS TO DO. ALL RIGHT. GO AHEAD. >> IF IT'S RIGHT WITH THE COMMAS, THEN I SUPPORT KEEPING THEM, ABOUT IF IT'S SOMEHOW GRAMMATICALLY INCORRECT, THEN YOU CERTAINLY NEED TO FIX IT. I DON'T THINK IT'S GRAMMATICALLY INCORRECT. COMMAS IT IS. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION. I THINK WE ALSO SAID TO BECOME OR REMAIN? THAT LINE REGARDING ANNUAL PARTICIPATION PHYSICALS TO BECOME OR REMAIN ELIGIBLE. IT'S A LITTLE CLUNKY IF YOUYOU A SECOND

018TO. IT WORKS TO HAVE THEM, I THINK, TO BECOME OR TO REMAIN. THAT'S ALSO A STYLISIC CHOICE. I TEND TO REPEAT THEM RATHER THAN TAKING THEM OUT, SO IT'S FINE EITHER WAY. SO LET'S LEAVE IT AS IS WITH THE COMMAS. OKAY. SO JUST TO REITERATE -- YES. >> -- WE ARE GOING TO TAKE THE SECOND NEW MEXICO ACTIVITIES IN THE FIRST SENTENCE AND TURN THAT INTO NMAA AND ADD THE TWO COMMAS AND UPON FINAL EDIT, IT WILL FIX THE EXTRANEOUS M AND THE EXTRA PERIOD IN THERE. ALL RIGHT. I WOULD LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO TO APPROVE -- SO MOVED. >> AND SECONDED. MOVED BY MR. FRAN K AND SECONDED BY SECRETARY WOFFORD. MR. FRANK? YES. >> MS. TENORIO? I GUESS, YES. SECRETARY VOTES YES. VICE PRESIDENT? YES. AND PRESIDENT CORT? >> YES. THAT

019PASSES 5-0. THANK YOU SO MUCH. PULL ME AWAY FROM THAT PARAGRAPH. EXACTLY. MS. DONNELLY, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME UP AND TALK TO US ABOUT THE THIRD READ SKPG POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF POLICY GCC-EMPLOYEE LEAVE. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAME CORT. SORRY TO HEAR YOU ARE NOT FEELING WELL. BUT YOU ARE HERE. YES, MA'AM. >> I AM HAVING MR. RUIZ PASS A HARD COPY OF POLICY GCC, AND IT WENT UP ONE PIPELINE AND DID NOT MAKE IT TO THE OTHER, SO MAY I ASK YOU DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION TO LOOKING AT WHAT I PROVIDED, A HARD COPY OF POLICY GCC MOVING FORWARD, SO I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT INCONVENIENCE, BUT TO RECAP, THIS WAS COMING TO YOU WITH THE INTENT OF ALIGNING WHAT THE CBA ALREADY COVERS FOR OTHER EMPLOYEES IN REGARDS TO ANNUAL LEAVE AND THE REVISIONS THAT

020WERE DISCUSSED IN THE FIRST AND SECOND READING. THIS WOULD NOW HAVE ELIGIBILITY FOR 10-MONTH TO 12-MONTH CONTRACT EMPLOYEES. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK MR. PARIO WHO WAS HERE IN THE SECOND READING AND THAT WAS GREAT CONVERSATION FOR WHAT WE DO OFFER, AND THERE WAS A CONVERSATION OF DISCUSSING OTHER LEAVES IN THE FUTURE, WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE. MADAME CORT AND MEMBER WOFFORD, YOU REFERENCED SABBATICAL LEAVE. I WANT TO RECAP THAT AN ADVANCED STUDY UNDER POSITION LETTER C ACTUALLY IS WHAT WOULD COVER IF SOMEBODY WERE INTERESTED IN THAT. WE CAN CONTINUE THAT CONVERSATION MOVING FORWARD AS WE MOVE ON TO OTHER NEGOTIATIONS IN THE FUTURE, BUT FOR THIS PARTICULAR PURPOSE, I WOULD LIKE TO FOCUS ON WHAT IS IN THE CBA AND THEN MAKING SURE WE CAN TAKE CARE OF OUR ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS, WHICH IS THE

021PRIMARY CATEGORY THAT BROUGHT THIS FORWARD. SO FOR THE THIRD READING, THAT'S A LONG INTRODUCTION, HERE WE ARE. WE HAVE DISCUSSED PURPOSE. WE DISCUSSED BACKGROUND. I WITH LIKE TO ASK THAT YOU LOOK AT 4 POSITION C, AND MEMBER FRANK, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR THE CONVERSATION WE HAD THIS MORNING. IN YOUR CLEAN COPY, THE HARD COPY YOU HAD HERE, THERE WAS CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. FRANK AND I ABOUT WHAT ANNUAL LEAVE, WHAT WAS EXTENDED LEAVE. I THINK WE CAME TO AN UNDERSTANDING ALSO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DISTRICT-RELATED COURT SUBPOENAS VERSUS PERSONAL SUBPOENAS AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, IF AN EMPLOYEE IS SUBPOENAED FOR SOMETHING THAT IS RELATED TO THE DISTRICT, THEN THEY WOULD USE THIS TYPE OF LEAVE. IF THERE'S OTHER SUBPOENAS HAVING TO DO WITH THEIR PERSONAL MATTERS, THEY WOULD TAKE PERSONAL LEAVE. MR. FRANK

022AND I TALKED ABOUT THAT. THAT WAS A CLARIFICATION. I FEEL THAT FROM FIRST AND SECOND READING WE --WE TOOK CARE OF A COUPLE OTHER GRAMMATICAL ERRORS, AND WITH THAT I STAND FOR QUESTIONS IN SEEING ANYTHING ELSE YOU SEE OR RECOMMEND? THANK YOU. BOARD MEMBERS? MR. WOFFORD? THE COLON WE HAD TAKEN OUT AFTER INCLUDED SOMEHOW GOT BACK INTO YOUR HARD COPY. DOESN'T BELONG THERE. WHERE IS THAT? >> IN LETTER C. SO PRESIDENT CORT, MR. WOFFORD, THAT'S A DISCUSSION MR. FRANK AND I HAD, HE WAS NOT HERE FOR THE SECOND READING, AND AFTER THE SECOND DISCUSSION THIS MORNING, I WILL TAKE IT OUT. ARE YOU OKAY WITH THAT, MR. FRANK? SURE. OKAY. I WILL REMOVE THAT. WHAT WAS THE WORD YOU USED TO DESCRIBE THIS, MS.ADAME CORT? MY FELLY GRAMERIANS. I LIKE HAVING A CLEAN COPY AND

023COMPARING IT TO THE CHANGES, SIDE BY SIDE. I LIKE THAT. THANK YOU. OF COURSE. AS FAR AS THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF MAKING THE AMENDMENT IN ORDER TO INCLUDE ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS, THAT'S ALL I -- I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT LANGUAGE IS IN THERE AND NOTHING ELSE WILL AFFECT ANYBODY NEGATIVELY? THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? ALL RIGHT. I WOULD LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE POLICY GCC-EMPLOYEE LEAVE? SO MOVED. >> SECOND. >> MOVED BY MS. TENORIO, AND SECONDED BY MEMBER WOFFORD. IF YOU WOULD DO THE HONORS? MR. FRANK? >> YES. >> MS. TENORIO? YES. >> VICE PRESIDENT NOLAN? YES. >> SECRETARY VOTES YES. WE ARE GOOD TO GO. >> WHEN DOES IT GO INTO EFFECT? DO YOU HAVE TO DO A REGULATION? SO WITH THIS POLICY BEING REVIEWED --ALEX -- ALEX LEFT US. THIS WOULD GO

024INTO EFFECT WITH THE NEW PAY PERIOD, I WOULD ASSUME, AND I WOULD WORK WITH FINANCE ON THAT EFFECTIVE WITH THIS POLICY. FABULOUS. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. NOW WE ARE MOVING TO NEW BUSINESS. THE APPROVAL OF OUR MID YEAR EVALUATION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT THAT WAS COMPLETED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. I WOULD LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MID YEAR EVALUATION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT COMPLETED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION? SO MOVED. >> SECOND. MOVED BY VICE PRESIDENT -- NOPE, THAT WOULD BE SECRETARY WOFFORD, AND SECONDED BY MEMBER TENORIO. THAT'S A UNANIMOUS 5-0. THANK YOU SO MUCH. MR. SILVER AND MR. CHAVEZ, WE WILL HAVE THE DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF THE SERVICES INCLUDING THE IDENTIFYING NEED OF THE PURPOSE OF PROCURING THE SERVICE. THAT IS QUITE THE AGENDA ITEM. THAT IS. THAT WAS A LOT

025OF WORDS. GOOD EVENING. EXCUSE ME --GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAME CORT AND MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD. GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. RUIZ. THIS AGENDA ITEM HAD COMECOME AS AN INTEREST FROM JUST POTENTIALLY FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD AROUND THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING IN A SCHOOL BOARD CONSULTANT, AND THAT WORK WHERE THE CONSULTANT WOULD BE WORKING WITH OUR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, AND SINCE THERE WAS INTEREST IN THIS, THE GOAL OF OUR AGENDA ITEM TODAY IS PRESIDENT CORT AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD IS TO PROVIDE A SPACE FOR YOU ALL TO TALK ABOUT THAT AND WHETHER OR NOT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT, AS A COLLECTIVE BOARD, YOU ALL ARE INTERESTED IN. MR. RUIZ SORT OF EXPLORING AND CONTINUE EXPLORE THAT. WE ARE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE PROCUREMENT THRESHOLDS OF THIS AND SORT OF SOME OF THE MONEY PART OF THIS, RIGHT,

026LIKE WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE AND SORT OF BASED ON POTENTIAL INTERESTS FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD TO WHAT WE WOULD DO FROM A FINANCE SIDE TO KIND OF MAKE THAT HAPPEN. SO PRESIDENT CORT, THAT'S THE GOAL OF THE AGENDA ITEM FOR YOU, AND I DEFER TO YOU, BUT I THINK IT COULD MAKE SENSE FOR YOU TO JUST AT A HIGH-LEVEL EXPLAIN WHAT THE PROCUREMENT WOULD LOOK LIKE AND THEN WE COULD TURN IT OVER TO THE SCHOOL BOARD TO TALK ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT POTENTIALLY BRINGING IN A CONSULTANT FOR SERVICES IS SOMETHING THE BOARD IS INTERESTED IN. WE MAY HAVE QUESTIONS IN THERE. ONE OF OUR GOALS IS THAT --WOULD BE TO MAKE SURE WE CAN CAPTURE A POTENTIAL SCOPE OF WORK, SO IF THE BOARD DOES VOTE TO PROCEED WITH THIS, THAT BOTH THE FINANCE

027AND PROCUREMENT SIDE AS WELL AS FROM THE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, WE WOULD HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION TO BE ABLE TO EXECUTE OR GO TO THE NEXT STEP WITH THE PROCESS. I THINK IF THAT WORKS FOR YOU, PRESIDENT CORT, AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO SPEAK ABOUT THE PROCUREMENT PIECE AND WE WILL GO FROM THERE. I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. EXCELLENT. PRESIDENT CORT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, SUPERINTENDENT RUIZ, WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE INFORMATION, BRIEF INFORMATION ABOUT CHAPTER 13, A STATE PROCUREMENT CODE AND LAS CRUCES PROCUREMENT PROCEDURE, AND IT'S WHAT IS THE PROCESSING PROCUREMENT AND IMPORTANT THRESHOLDS TO CONSIDER. WITH THAT I WILL TURN IT OVER TO MR. CHAVEZ TO TALK ABOUT THAT IN DETAIL. THANK YOU, MR. LOU. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME IN PERSON. I KNOW

028WE ARE ALWAYS TALKING ON ZOOM SO IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU HERE. FOR SURE. AS MR. LOU STATED, I WILL BE GOING OVER THINGS. IF YOU LOOK AT THE FIRST BULLET POINT ON THE POWER POINT, AS WITH ANY GOOD PROCUREMENT WE HAVE TO HAVE A GOOD DETAILED SCOPE OF WORK SO OUR VENDORS KNOW WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR, AND USING DEPARTMENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR SPECIFICATIONS, AND IT SHOULD PROVIDE FOR AS MUCH COMPETITION AS POSSIBLE, AND TO THE TYPE AND QUANTITY OF THE MATERIALS DESIRED, HOWEVER THE WORD EQUAL SHOULD BE ADDED TO NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANY VENDORS OR SERVICE, AND IF CRITERIA IS SPECIFIC, IT SHOULD BE DETAILED IN THE SPECIFICATION. IT'S REAL IMPORTANT TO PAINT A PICTURE FOR THE VENDORS SO THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR, OKAY? ONCE WE DETERMINE WHAT WE ARE

029LOOKING FOR WHETHER IT'S A PRODUCT OR SERVICE, WE HAVE THE PURCHASING THRESHOLD, SO WHAT IS OUR ANTICIPATED EXPENDITURE FOR THE SERVICE? IF WE LOOK AT THE FIRST SUB BULLET POINT, ANYTHING FROM 0 UP TO $10,000, A MICRO PURCHASE MAY BE MADE DIRECTLY TO THE VENDOR SO WE CAN WORK DIRECTLY WITH ONE VENDOR IF WE KNOW WE ARE GOINGGOING TO SPENDING BELOW $10,000, AND FROM $10,000. 01, UP TO 60,000, WE WOULD GOGO WITH LESS RESPONSIVE QUOTE AT THAT POINT. ANYTHING ABOVE $60,000, A FORMAL BID OR COOPERATIVE CONTRACT MAY BE UTILIZED TO JUSTIFY THAT PROCUREMENT. ONCE THESE CONSIDERATIONS ARE MADE, THEN WE CAN ASSIST SUPERINTENDENT RUIZ AND THE BOARD IN DETERMINING WHAT PROCUREMENT VEHICLE WILL BE UTILIZED TO JUSTIFY THE PROCUREMENT. WITH THAT, ALEX AND MYSELF STAND FOR QUESTIONS. SORRY. I'M TAKING NOTES. >> YOU'RE FINE. WHICH

030I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE DONE WHEN I LOOKED AT THE PACKET. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. BOARD MEMBERS? WHO WOULD LIKE TO OPEN UP THIS DISCUSSION? I WILL. OKAY. >> I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I WAS TRYING TO INITIATE, BUT THE LANGUAGE IS A LITTLE BIT, LIKE, OVER HERE -- OVER THERE, AND SO I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF I AMAM ALLOWED SHARE WHY I WANT TO DO THIS OR IF I AM LIMITED BECAUSE IF I MENTION WHY I WAS INTERESTED IN THIS, AND IF I MENTION SOMEBODY, DOES THAT KIND OF MESS THINGS UP AS FAR AS WHICH BULLET POINT IT MIGHT LAND? SO YOU CAN HAVE THE GENERAL DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT TYPE OF SERVICES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN. OKAY. >> VENDERS COME UP TO, YOU KNOW, DEPARTMENTS AND SCHOOLS ALL THE TIME SO IT'S QUITE OKAY IF

031YOU DO MENTION WHAT SERVICES YOU ARE INTERESTED IN, AND HOW YOU CAME ABOUT THOSE SERVICES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO CAN CAN I HAVE A LITTLE POINT OF CLARIFICATION WITHOUT MENTIONING THE VENDOR BY NAME? IT'S PREFERRED YOU DON'T MENTION THE VENDOR BY NAME. OKAY. I MENTIONED THAT I WAS PARTICIPATING IN THIS, LIKE, FELLOW SHIP, AND IT WAS LIKE A NATIONAL SCHOOL BOARD ORGANIZATION TRAINING TYPE THING, AND SO IT LASTED, LIKE, A WHOLE YEAR. THEY HAD A CONFERENCE, AND THEY'RE ALL KIND OF LIKE EXPERTS IN THAT REALM, WHETHER IT'S POLICY OR LEADERSHIP OR ADMINISTRATION OR WHATEVER, AND KIND OF HELPING HOLD THOSE LENSES FOR BOARD MEMBERS. AS I WENT THROUGH IT, I REALLY THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS SOME SERVICES THAT WE WOULD BENEFIT FROM, JUST TO MAKE SURE, LIKE, ARE WE GOING THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND ASKING

032THE RIGHT QUESTIONS, AND DO OUR POLICIES, ARE THEY WRITTEN NOT JUST SO MUCH WITH TERMINOLOGY BUT WITH CONCEPTS AND, LIKE, DIRECTION, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. AND SOMETIMES -- AND HOW YOU --HOW THAT DIRECTS THE REGULATION IN ORDER TO MAKE YOUR GOAL --MEET YOUR GOALS, RIGHT? SO I JUST THOUGHT IF THEY HAD THOSE TOOLS, AND THERE'S DIFFERENT ES OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE, AND MAYBE CES WAS POSSIBLY ONE OF THEM -- HOPE I DIDN'T MESS THINGS UP. YOU'RE PERFECT. BUT THEY ARE OUT THERE, BUT THIS ONE, I HAD, LIKE, A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH AND AND WENT IN FEELING JUST LIKE I WASN'T GOING TO JUST TAKE IN ALL THE INFORMATION AND ABSORB IT, LIKE I WAS GOING TO TEST IT AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S --THAT IT ALIGNED WITH OUR VALUES. I SAW WHAT APS HAD

033DONE, AND THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE IN THOSE TWO ORGANIZATIONS, SO I WANTED TO BROACH THAT TOPIC SO I INVITED MR. NOLAN TO TALK WITH THIS PERSON AND SO JUST TO GET MORE INFORMATION THAT WAY IF I MISSED SOMETHING, MAYBE HE CAUGHT IT OR HIS IMPRESSION WAS DIFFERENT THAN MINE, THEN --SO YEAH, I JUST --SO IT'S KIND OF BEEN A THING I HAVE BEEN CHEWING ON AND BEEN WANTING TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL. COST WISE, I DON'T EVEN KNOW, LIKE, WHERE WE GO FROM HERE. LIKE, I KNOW HOW MUCH THEY COST, BUT IF WE HAVE TO --IF WE HAVE TO GO TO --FOR ME TO BULLET POINT, I FEEL A LITTLE BIT LIKE MY HANDS GET TIED OR THAT WE --RIGHT, WE CAN'T SAY A LOT ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS, SO IF FOR ME IT WAS JUST

034--I THINK I ACTUALLY MENTIONED THIS EVEN PRIOR TO BEING PART OF THAT FELLOWSHIP WAS THAT IN OUR EXTENDED WORK SESSIONS, LIKE, HOW ARE WE MAKING SURE THAT POLICY IS HELPING US MAKE THOSE GOALS A REALITY. I THINK WE ARE DOING THE BEST WE CAN, BUT I JUST THOUGHT, LIKE, THESE PEOPLE MAY HAVE SOMETHING THAT THEY HAVE TRIED AND TRUE WITH OTHER DISTRICTS, SO --THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY. THAT'S GREAT. MR. SILVER? YES, MA'AM, PRESIDENT CORT AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, I HAVE TWO THINGS THAT MAY HELP. THIS IS MY 23rd HERE HERE, AND I AM AFRAID TO PURCHASE THINGS AND SO I ASK MR. CHAVEZ REGULARLY, AND YOUR LEGITIMATE CONCERN, MS. TENORIO, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT BOARD, THAT CONVERSATION BE ABOUT SERVICES, AND IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT --MAYBE I WOULD SAY THAT AT THIS POINT

035I WOULD DISCOURAGE YOU FROM TRYING TO FIT INTO THOSE THREE PRICE BULLETS. I THINK THAT MAYBE I WOULD RECOMMEND A CONVERSATION TO DEVELOP WHAT MAY POTENTIALLY BE THAT SCOPE OF WORK PIECE, AND THEN WHAT WE ARE ABLE TO DO ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT IS WORK ON KIND OF PLACING THOSE IN. I THINK THAT WE CAN --ONCE WE HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT THE SCOPE SOUNDS LIKE, THEN WE CAN WORK ON THE PROCUREMENT PIECE AS OPPOSED TO STARTING AND TRYING TO FIT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. THAT WAS A LONG WAY TO SAY THAT, BUT I SHOULD SAY THE SERVICES WOULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT TO YOU AND THEN WE CAN WORK THROUGH THE POTENTIAL PROCUREMENT THRESHOLDS BASED ON THE SERVICES THAT YOU IDENTIFY. YEAH, MAY NOT BE A LOT. IT MAY BE SOMETHING --

036FOR ME, PERSONALLY, I WOULD LIKE SOMEONE WHO I CONSIDER TO HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE IN THIS ON A NATIONAL LEVEL TO BE ABLE TO COME AND, LIKE, SAY, LIKE, THESE ARE ALL THE GREAT THINGS YOU ARE DOING, AND HERE ARE THINGS YOU CAN IMPROVE ON, AND MAYBE WE WON'T HAVE A LOT TO IMPROVE ON AND IT WOULD BE A VERY SMALL SCOPE. IF I COULD SAY THAT BACK --IT ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE A SCHOOL BOARD AUDIT FOR YOURSELVES OF SOME SORT, AND THAT MIGHT BE THE WRONG WORD. IT'S MORE ABOUT POLICY AND GOALS FOR ME. THANK YOU. OKAY. BOARD MEMBERS? JUST CLARIFYING QUESTION. SO THERE'S NOT A BIG UNIVERSE OF PEOPLE THAT DO THIS KIND OF WORK, RIGHT? IT'S A SMALL WORLD. THERE'S ONE IN PARTICULAR GROUP THAT I WOULD NOT WANT TO WORK WITH,

037BUT LET'S SAY THEY HAVE THE LOWEST BID IN THE CONTRACT. DOES THAT MEAN WE HAVE TO TAKE THAT BID OF THAT GROUP THAT I WOULD STRONGLY OPPOSE US WORKING WITH? PRESIDENT CORT, BOARD MEMBER NOLAN -- SO VAGUE. GREAT QUESTION. WHEN WE ARE GENERATING A SCOPE WE CAN PUT OTHER SPECIFIC INDICATIONS IN THERE, PAST EXPERIENCE AND THEIR HISTORY, AND YOU GUYS CAN GRADE THAT AS WELL AND ALTHOUGH THE COMPANY MIGHT NOT BE THE LOWEST BID -- SORRY, IF THE COMPANY IS THE LOWEST BID, AND ONE OF THE SPECIFICATIONS IS PAST HISTORY AND YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH THAT PAST HISTORY OR EXPERIENCE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO WITH THEM. THANKS. YOU DID A GOOD JOB. MR. WOFFORD? >> TELL ME MORE. YEAH, THIS IS ALL STILL -- IT FEELS LIKE IT'S IN THE DARK IF YOU

038HAVE BEEN IN THE DARK, AND WHEN IT COMES TO THIS TYPE OF STUFF, YOU CAN'T REALLY SAY A LOT, BECAUSE DEPENDING ON WHAT DIRECTION WE GO -- RIGHT. THERE ARE ONLY A CERTAIN NUMBER OF VENDERS. YOU BLOW THE RULES OUT OF THE WATER AND THEN WE CAN'T DO IT. YES, IT'S LOOKING FOR A CONSULTANT TO COME IN AND SEE HOW WE ARE DOING OUR POLICIES, WHETHER IT'S THE SCHEDULE CALENDAR THAT WE HAVE, WHETHER IT'S LIKE THE --HOW WE ARE WRITING GOALS INTO THE POLICIES, OR THE REGULATION, LIKE HOW THEY FEED INTO EACH OTHER. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? SORT OF, YES. WITH THE SIX-YEAR STUDY THAT WE WERE PART OF THERE FOR A BIT, IT INVOLVED CONSULTANTS BUT THEY WERE NOT JUST BOARD ORIENTED. REMEMBER THE SURVEYS WE DID OF THE POPULATION PARENTS -- LOOKED LIKE

039THEY WERE DOING MORE OF THE TRAINING FOR MAYBE, LIKE, ADMIN, TOP-DOWN TYPE OF STUFF. WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING ABOUT WOULD JUST BE FOR THE BOARD? THIS IS FOR US. >> YEAH. IN PRINCIPLE, I MEAN, I THINK OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVES ARE ALWAYS VALUABLE, BUT HOW DO WE COME UP WITH THE SCOPE OF WORK? LIKE, HOW DO WE --HOW DO WE DO THAT AT --LIKE, WE WOULD HAVE TO PUT IT ON AN AGENDA OR ASSIGN TWO BOARD MEMBERS TO DO IT? I DON'T KNOW -- THERE'S A WISH LIST. YOU COULD SAY I WOULD REALLY LIKE THIS. I THINK THAT'S HARD TO DO IN ONE MEETING WITHOUT MUCH WARNING. RIGHT. RIGHT. >> JUST COULDN'T HAPPEN. SO PRESIDENT CORT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, I MAY --MS. GALLEGOS, JUMP IN. I KEPT NOTES FROM EVERYTHING YOU SAID TODAY AND THROUGH THE

040LENS OF A SCOPE OF WORK, AND SO I'M HAPPY TO READ THAT BACK TO YOU, AND I'M NOT SURE PROCEDURALLY WHAT THIS MAY LOOK LOOK, BUT IT MAY MAKE SENSE FOR US TO BRING THAT PROPOSED SCOPE OF WORK BACK TO THE NEXT MEETING. MS. GALLEGOS, I'M NOT SURE IF YOU HAVE A RECOMMENDATION, BUT I HAVE KEPT CAREFUL NOTES FROM THIS CONVERSATION TODAY. SUPERINTENDENT, AND --SORRY, MS. GALLEGOS. I THINK WE COULD CONTINUE A LITTLE BIT MORE DISCUSSION ON WHAT WOULD BE DESIRABLE ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE I'M CLEARLY HEARING, AND I THINK MR. SILVER IS AS WELL, THAT A CONSULTANT TO EVALUATE BOARD POLICIES AND THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN PRACTICE. YES, MA'AM. I THINK BECAUSE MS. TENORIO HAS A VISION FOR THIS, AND CERTAINLY THE ADMIN TEAM COULD REACH OUT TO HELP FILL IT OUT BECAUSE IT WILL HAVE

041TO COME BACK TO THE BOARD FOR APPROVAL, LIKE YOU DO THE POLICIES. RIGHT. AND I THINK THERE'S A REAL SENSE OF WHETHER THERE'S AN INTEREST OR NOT, I THINK IT WOULD BE VALUABLE FOR THE ADMIN TEAM, AND MR. SILVER IS NODDING, TO JUST HEAR MORE OF YOUR DISCUSSION AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A REFINED WORD SMITHING, BUT YOU ARE THE USING DEPARTMENT, AND WHILE THEY CAN HELP YOU PREPARE THAT SCOPE AND BRING IT BACK TO YOU, JUST HEARING YOUR DISCUSSION I THINK WILL HELP THEM KNOW KIND OF HOW TO REFINE THAT FOR A PRODUCT THAT MIGHT BE ACCEPTABLE TO YOU WHEN IT'S BROUGHT BACK TO YOU. IF THERE'S NOT AN INTEREST, THAT SHOULD BE DISCUSSED HERE TODAY, TOO, SO THE DIRECTION IS EITHER PROCEED FORWARD AND DRAFT SOMETHING CONSISTENT WITH WHAT IS BEING DISCUSSED

042IN OPEN SESSION FOR ANOTHER READING ESSENTIALLY, OR THERE'S NOT AN INTEREST, BUT THE MORE YOU TALK ABOUT IT, IF YOU DO PROCEED FORWARD, THE EASIER IT WILL BE TO BRING SOMETHING BACK THAT HOPEFULLY MATCHES WHAT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ACHIEVING. I HAVE A CONCERN AND A QUESTION. MY CONCERN IS THE FINANCIAL IMPACT THAT WHEN WE ARE IN THE THROES OF POSSIBLY LOSING MONEY TO SPEND MORE MONEY, THAT MAKES IT A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT FOR ME TO --TO BRING ON SOMETHING OF THIS --AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT MAGNITUDE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. IF IT WAS $5, I'LL PAY FOR IT. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? THEN MY QUESTION IS, I THINK I WOULD LIKE SOME CLASSIFICATION, MORE CLARIFICATION ON HOW YOU FEEL OUR POLICIES ARE NOT REFLECTING OUR GOALS? FROM ANYBODY. MAY I ADD MORE --IS

043THAT A NO? OF COURSE. >> WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS, AND AS AN OPEN MEETING THIS IS WHERE IT WOULD TAKE PLACE. I HAVE NOT DONE ANY BACKGROUND READING. I DON'T KNOW WHAT CONSULTANTS ARE AVAILABLE TO WORK WITH BOARDS AND WHAT THEIR SCOPES ARE AND WHAT THEY DO. THE KNEE JERKS AND SAYS THE BETTER WE CAN MAKE THIS BOARD THE MORE EFFECTIVE WE CAN BE IN WHATEVER ELEMENT WE DO, WHETHER IT'S POLICY DEVELOPMENT OR BOARD RELATIONS WITH ADMIN, OUR GOVERNANCE, AND EVEN OUR BUDGET OVERSIGHT. ANYTHING WE CAN DO, I THINK THIS BOARD IS VERY INTERESTED IN IT. THERE'S JUST A HUGE I DON'T KNOW QUESTION MARK HERE. IF MR. SILVER COULD PUT TOGETHER A READING LIST FOR ME AND I HAVE SEEN GOOGLE MYSELF SO WE COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT IS IT. IT SEEMS VERY

044AMOROUS TO ME RIGHT NOW, AND WHAT GOALS --WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW. THAT'S WHERE I'M COMING FROM. YES. THERE'S THE FEELING LIKE WE HONESTLY SEEK OUT AND TRY TO DO OUR BEST JOB WITH THE POLICIES WE CAN, BUT EVERY ONE, NO MATTER HOW CAPABLE CAN GROW THROUGH PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, SO I WELCOME THE IDEA OF BRINGING THIS BACK AGAIN AFTER WE HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOME INDEPENDENT READING AND FIGURE OUT WHAT PARTICULAR THINGS WE ARE AFTER. HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER, THOUGH, EXCEPT HERE? I MAY BE REITERATING HERE, BUT IF THE ADMINISTRATION WORKS WITH BOARD MEMBER TENORIO AND PERHAPS ONE OTHER BOARD MEMBER AND TALKS ABOUT WHAT TYPES OF THINGS YOU SEE AND CAN BRING THOSE BACK TO US, THAT WOULD BE VERY USEFUL. I MEAN, WHATEVER

045THE LEGAL WAY IS TO DO THAT AND TRANSPARENT WAY, BECAUSE THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE, WE'RE FOLLOWING THE RULES AND IT'S JUST A MATTER OF I THINK DEPEND ING ON WHICH BULLET POINT WE CAN DO, IT'S JUST US TRYING TO, LIKE, TALK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN'T SEE. RIGHT. >> YOU KNOW, LIKE, I HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT I LIKE, WHICH IS WHY I WANT -- LIKE, CAME FORWARD WITH THIS. BUT THERE'S, YOU KNOW -- OBVIOUSLY, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT BULLET POINT NUMBER TWO, THEN WE HAVE TO CONSIDER OTHER CONTRACTORS OUT THERE AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO WOULD PUT IN FOR IT, SO IT'S MORE ABOUT WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR, AND THEN IF WE ARE, LIKE, SAYING WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS OUT THERE BEFORE WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR. UH-HUH.

046>> BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE I MET WITH ONE OF THESE POTENTIAL CONTRACTORS AND I THOUGHT WHAT THEY HAD TO OFFER WAS SOMETHING THAT WOULD MAKE HONE OUR WORK, OR HELP US HONE OUR WORK. DO YOU HAVE A CONCEPT OF WHERE THEY FELL WITHIN THESE PROCUREMENTS? ARE WE GOING OUT-OF-BOUNDS? PRESIDENT CORT, MEMBERS --THE DIFFERENT VENDORS YOU HAVE SPOKE WITH, DO WE HAVE A SENSE -- PRESIDENT, IF I MAY? YES. >> I THINK FOR ONE THING THAT WOULD HELP US, AND I SAY US, ADMIN, AND IT SEEMS LIKE WE ARE FOCUSING TOO MUCH ON THE VENDOR PIECE AND THE COST. MY RECOMMENDATION FOR YOU TO CONSIDER IS FIRST IDENTIFY WHAT THE NEED IS, BECAUSE ONCE WE IDENTIFY WHAT THE NEED IS, WHAT IS THE --WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU AS A BOARD FEEL YOU YOU

047NEED TO IMPROVE ON OR BUILD MORE CAPACITY AROUND OR THAT YOU FEEL CAN BE STRENGTHENED, ET CETERA, AND THAT'S GOING TO HELP BE ABLE TO GENERATE THAT SCOPE OF WORK. ONCE WE GENERATE A SCOPE OF WORK THEN WE PUT THAT OUT THERE AND WE KIND OF GET AN IDEA OF WHERE IT FALLS WITHIN THE PROCUREMENT PIECE. THEN WE DETERMINE --WE CAN ALWAYS BRING IT BACK TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE DON'T WANT TO BE IN THIS REALM, RIGHT, WE WANT TO BE WITHIN THE 10,000 OR UNDER THE 10,000, AND THEN YOU CAN READJUST THE SCOPE OF WORK AT THAT POINT. THE IMPORTANT POINT IN MY MIND AND FOR YOU ALL TO DETERMINE IS YOU DETERMINE WHAT THE NEED IS SO WE CAN THEN WORK ON WHAT DOES THAT SCOPE OF WORK LOOK LIKE, AND WHAT

048AS A BOARD DO YOU NEED TO BUILD CAPACITY ON AND STRENGTHEN, ET CETERA. THAT WOULD BE MY RECOMMENDATION. PRESIDENT? >> YES. DO WE HAVE A CONCEPT OF WHAT NON-PROFITS OR EDUCATION FUNDING TYPE OF ORGANIZATIONS DO IN TERMS OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR BOARDS? IS THIS GOING TO HAVE TO BE A MONEYED SERVICE, SORE OR COULD IT BE A GRANT SERVICE OR A PARTNERSHIP WITH AN ORGANIZATION THAT FUNCTIONS WITH BOARDS. THIS COMES BACK TO THIS IS MY FIRST HEARING ABOUT THIS, AND SO MORE INFORMATION, I THINK, BECAUSE THESE GENTLEMEN TOLD US PUT THE SERVICES FIRST BEFORE THINKING ABOUT COST. THANK YOU FOR REITERATING THAT. THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD DO. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO NOT THINK ABOUT COST GIVEN WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID AS WELL, THOUGH, WE WANT TO BE VERY PRUDENT AND RESPONSIBLE WITH HOW WE SPEND OUR

049MONEY. UH-HUH. >> I WOULD ASK YOU TO SEEK OUT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. THERE MAY STILL BE OR WOULD STILL BE COSTS RELATED, BUT I --I KNOW THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT I DID WAS THROUGH A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT CONTRACTED WITH UNIVERSITIES, CONTRACTED WITH SCHOOLS. YEAH. YES, SIR. THANK YOU. >> MR. FRANK, MY APOLOGIES BECAUSE YOUR PICTURE IS NOT ON MY SCREEN. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO THIS, SIR? BUSTED. >> WAY TO GO! I'M SORRY! SHOOT! YOU KNOW, THERE ARE LITTLE ICONS ON ZOOM THAT YOU CAN PUT UP THAT SHOW I'M ON A BREAK. OH, GOSH. I'M SO SORRY. LET'S JUST CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION AND WE WILL CHECK BACK IN. I HOPE I DIDN'T -- NO, YOU DIDN'T. GOODNESS. SO YEAH, IF I AM HEARING CLEAR IN MY HEAD, YOU NEED A SCOPE OF

050WORK WITH CERTAIN CRITERIA AND WHAT ARE OUR NEEDS, THOSE BASIC THINGS. ANYTHING ELSE YOU ARE MISSING IN THIS SCOPE OF WORK? PRESIDENT CORT, NO, THAT WILL START YOU OFF AND GIVE YOU A GOOD FOUNDATION AND THEN WE CAN MASSAGE THAT AND SEE IF THAT'S WHAT YOU NEED. IF THE PICTURE IS CLEAR, IT WILL ALLOW VENDORS TO RESPOND WITH WHAT WE NEED. SCOPE OF WORK IS HUGE. PRESIDENT CORT? >> YES. IS IT DOABLE THAT EACH OF US CAN DO OUR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND THEN SHARE IT WITH MR. RUIZ AND THEN THESE PEOPLE -- THESE EXPERTS PUT TOGETHER WHAT WE ARE KIND OF FORMULATING? MADAM PRESIDENT, AND BOARD MEMBER TENORIO, THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS YOU COULD APPROACH IT, AND IT'S MUCH LIKE YOU DO WITH THE POLICY REVIEW PROCESS, SUBMIT INFORMATION TO MR. SILVER AND THE TEAM

051--I'M JUST GOING TO SAY MR. SILVER FOR RIGHT NOW. RIGHT. >> AND THEN HE AND HIS TEAM SYNTHESIZED IT AND PUT TOGETHER A PROPOSAL. THE OTHER POSSIBILITY, THOUGH, WOULD BE TO APPOINT --TO TAKE ACTION TODAY AND APPOINT A SUB COMMITTEE, MUCH LIKE YOU ALL DO WHEN YOU ARE PUTTING FORWARD, FOR EXAMPLE, A LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL WHERE TWO OF YOU MIGHT DRAFT SOMETHING. OBVIOUSLY YOU WOULD BE DRAFTING IT TO TRY AND SELL IT TO YOUR FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS, AND IN THAT PROCESS TWO OF YOU WOULD BECOME SORT OF SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS' QUESTIONS. DOES IT PROHIBIT OTHER BOARD MEMBERS FROM GOING ONLINE AND TRYING TO RESEARCH ON THEIR OWN, BUT YOU WOULD HAVE TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE KIND OF INVESTED IN ARTICULATING WHAT THEY THINK WOULD BENEFIT THE BOARD.

052IT STILL DOESN'T PROHIBIT THE BOARD FROM REVISING IT OR REJECTING IT ALTOGETHER. I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO YOU ALL SO MR. SILVER AND HIS TEAM DON'T GET A MYRIAD OF STUFF THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO RECONCILE, SO I WOULD SUGGEST A SUB COMMITTEE. WE HAVE NOT ANSWERED BUT ASKS A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT, AND IS THIS SOMETHING WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH OR SOMETHING WE DON'T WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH OR ARE WE LACKING INFORMATION ON THAT TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION? IF I MAY, PRESIDENT CORT, THAT MAY NOT BE SOMETHING THAT CAN YOU REALLY DECIDE UNTIL YOU HAVE A PRODUCT TO REALLY FULLY EVALUATE. WHAT I'M HEARING HERE IS IT'S NOT COOKED ENOUGH FOR YOU ALL TO COMPLETELY EVALUATE, AND THAT WAS BECAUSE THE PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION NEEDED TO OCCUR FIRST. IT'S DEFINITELY NOT A

053WASTE OF DISCUSSION, BUT I THINK THAT YOU STILL ARE FREE TO REJECT IT, BUT A COOKED PROPOSAL IS MAYBE A MORE FAIR WAY TO EVALUATE WHETHER IT'S SOMETHING THAT RESONATES WITH YOU OR NOT, AND SO AGAIN, I DON'T THINK IT WAS A WASTE OF A DISCUSSION AND IT NEEDED TO HAPPEN BECAUSE AS EVERYBODY POINTED OUT YOU ARE ALL GOOD AT FOLLOWING THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT AND NOT TALKING AMONGST YOURSELVES BUT HAVING SOMETHING COOKED AND BROUGHT TO YOU NOW THAT YOU GOT A PRELIMINARY INTRODUCTION TO IT, IT MIGHT HELP YOU MOVE FORWARD BY DECIDING THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT OR MOVE FORWARD BY REFINING IT OR MOVE FORWARD BY ACCEPTING IT. I APPRECIATE THAT. IF I FOUNDED LIKE IT WAS A WASTE OF DISCUSSION, IT CERTAINLY WAS NOT. IT'S BEEN A FRUITFUL DISCUSSION. IT WAS ONE OF

054THE FIRST QUESTIONS AND I THOUGHT, WE DIDN'T ANSWER THAT ONE. TRULY WE DO NEED SOME MORE TIME TO COOK THATTHAT LITTLE BIT. I AM --I WOULD REALLY LIKE MR. FRANK'S FEEDBACK. MR. FRANK, WE HAVE NOT HEARD FROM YOU IN A BIT. I KNOW. I GOT DISTRACTED. I AM JUST WONDERING WHAT THE PROBLEM IS, SO YOU KNOW, MAYBE THIS IS SOMETHING WE SHOULD CONSIDER AFTER WE DO SOME KIND OF SURVEY OR SOMETHING? I KNOW THERE ARE SURVEYS OUT THERE, AND YOU KNOW, SOMETHING LIKE WE DO FOR THE BUDGET, YOU KNOW, GET SOME COMMUNITY INPUT. BUT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING THAT WE REALLY NEED TO WORK ON. I THINK, YOU KNOW, I MEAN --THERE ARE DYSFUNCTIONAL SCHOOL BOARDS OUT THERE, BUT I DON'T LOOK AT US AS ONE OF THEM.

055I THINK WE'RE ALL DOING THE BEST WE CAN AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF THE DISTRICT AND DO OUR JOBS. SO AT THIS POINT, I WOULD NOT REALLY WANT TO GO AHEAD WITH ANYTHING UNTIL WE ACTUALLY COULD IDENTIFY SOME REAL CONCRETE AREAS WHERE WE'RE NOT PERFORMING AS WELL AS WE COULD BE. THANK YOU, MR. FRANK. THAT WOULD COME OUT WITH THE SPECIFIC CRITERIA IN THE SCOPE OF WORK, AND SO I THINK WHAT'S BEST TO DO AT THIS POINT -- MADAME CORT? >> I DON'T WANT YOU TO DO A MOTION YET BUT I WANTED TO SHARE SOMETHING. OF COURSE. JUST IN RESPONSE TO MR. FRANK, I DIDN'T COME FORWARD WITH THIS BECAUSE I THOUGHT THE BOARD WAS AT ALL DYSFUNCTIONAL. I THINK WE ARE VERY FUNCTIONAL,

056AND HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL FOR THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO, BUT I FEEL LIKE THERE ARE PLACES THAT WE CAN IMPROVE OUR PROCESS. MOST OF IT IS THROUGH POLICY. AND THEN HOW TO MEET OUR GOALS. I THINK THAT IT'S NOT LIKE WE CAN GO INTO TURB O BECAUSE THESETHESE HUMANS AND STUDENTS, AND THAT'S NOT WHAT MY APPROACH WOULD BE. IT'S MORE TO SAY, LIKE, I CONSIDER US VERY HIGHLY CAPABLE OF DOING, LIKE, A-PLUS WORK, AND THAT'S MY EXPECTATION WHEN IT COMES TO OUR POLICIES AND HOW WE APPROACH THAT, SO --IF THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT HAVE TRIED AND TRUE METHODS OF SHOWING HOW POLICY LEADS INTO FAVORABLE OUTCOMES, RIGHT, AND WHATEVER THAT OUTCOME BE. I'M NOT TALKING TEST SCORES. I'M TALKING ABOUT KIDS WHO ARE IN A GOOD CULTURE, A GOOD ENVIRONMENT, SAFE AND BEING TAUGHT.

057I JUST THINK THAT I WANTWANT SOMEONE TO COME IN AND SAY YOUYOU GUYS DOING GREAT AND HERE ARE SOME PLACES YOU CAN IMPROVE. [ INAUDIBLE ] . CAN YOU PUT ED? YEAH, MUST BE COMING FROM THAT --OKAY. WAS THAT ABOUT ME? I DON'T THINK SO. THAT'S SO FUNNY. I'M KIND OF INTERESTED ALSO IF WE CAN DEVELOP THIS SCOPE OF WORK FOR THE DIFFERENT -- WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE FOR BULLET POINT A, B OR C, TO POSSIBLY LOOK AT WHAT OUR OPTIONS ARE, BECAUSE MAYBE WE COULD REALLY FLUSH SOMETHING OUT FOR A AND SEE WHAT CAN BE DONE, OR IF THAT'S A NO GO FOR ANY PARTICULAR VENDOR, WHAT DOES THAT BULLET POINT 2 LOOK LIKE? I WOULD LIKE TO GET MORE INPUT FROM YOU THAT ANY OF YOU COME ACROSS THAT IS OF INTEREST

058TO YOU. AND IT CAN BE DEAD IN THE WATER. IF I WORK ON THIS AND I'M THINKING, LIKE, THIS IS TOO MUCH MONEY OR THIS IS TOO MUCH INTRUSION OR WHATEVER, LIKE, I'M TOTALLY FINE WITH SAYING, OKAY, MY BAD. NO, IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE POSSIBILITIES AND ALTERNATIVES. WHAT I WAS STARTING TO SAY IS THAT AT THIS POINT, DO WE WANT EACH BOARD MEMBER TO COME UP WITH SOME SPECIFIC CRITERIA, OR DO WE WANT TO APPOINT A SUB COMMITTEE? I LIKE THE SUB COMMITTEE IDEA. FEELS A LITTLE MORE EFFICIENT. OKAY. ANY OTHER COMMENTS ABOUT THAT? I VOLUNTEER. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE A SUB COMMITTEE CURRENTLY OF ONE, MS. TENORIO. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO JOIN MS. TENORIO ON THE SUB COMMITTEE? THESE ARE PROBING LOOKS. >> I FEEL LIKE YOU JUST NOMINATED ME. IT WAS ENTIRELY

059NONVERBAL. YES, I WILL --YES, I HAVE --YOU KNOW, I WORKED WITH CONSULTANTS PROFESSIONALLY AND I HAVE BEEN IN THIS WORLD. I DO --I WANT TO JUST --I DON'T THINK WE WILL GET WHAT WE WANT UNDER $10,000. I DON'T THINK THAT'S REALISTIC. ALSO, THERE'S MAYBE -- MAYBE THERE'S GRANT FUNDING WE COULD PURSUE THAT COULD SUPPORT PROJECTS LIKE THIS. I THINK THAT'S A POSSIBILITY. I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD EXPECT AS A NONPROFIT PERSON, WE JUST DON'T LIKE TO DO FREE WORK, AND WE HAVE TO RAISE MONEY, TOO. RIGHT. >> SO I WOULD JUST SAY IF WE WANT SOMETHING THAT WILL BE OF IMPACT, WE WILL HAVE TO SPEND SOME MONEY ON IT. RIGHT. I GET THE SCARCITY PIECE. I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE WILL FALL ON IT AND I DON'T KNOW WE NEED IT NECESSARILY, AND I'M

060NOT CONVINCED AND DON'T KNOW THE PEOPLE THAT DO THIS WORK, AND I THINK IT'S WORTH INVESTIGATING WHETHER WE CAN BE A BETTER BOARD, AND AN INVESTMENT IN THE SCHOOL BOARD IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA, AND WE HAVE ALL BEEN RE-ELECTED, AND WE WILL ALL BE HERE THE NEXT FOUR -- WELL, TWO YEARS COLLECTIVELY. I DON'T LIKE FRAMING IT AS A SCARCITY PIECE LIKE A BUDGET AND LOSING MONEY, BUT I THINK IT'S BETTER TO FRAME IT THAT THE WORK WE DO MATTERS QUITE A BIT IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT AND IT'S HOW DO WE INVEST TO MAKE SURE WE ARE DOING A BETTERBETTER JOB. IF WE HAVE --IF 15 GRAND IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WE HAVE OR WHATEVER IT IS THAT WE END UP SPENDING ON THIS, THEN WE HAVE MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN THE $15,000. DOES

061THAT MAKE SENSE? JUST SOMETHING TO FRAME AS WE ARE THINKING ABOUT THIS. I APPRECIATE THAT REFRAMING. ALL RIGHT. PERFECT. SO I NEED A LITTLE HELP. DO WE NEED TO VOTE ON THE SUB COMMITTEE OR IS IT JUST APPOINTED --THERE THEY GO. MADAM PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, UNDER YOUR POLICY THE BOARD SHOULD TAKE ACTION TO FORM A SUB COMMITTEE, SO THE ACTION WOULD BE TO FORM A SUB COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP A DRAFT TO BRING BACK TO THE BOARD AND THEN --AS SOON AS THAT --ASSUMING THAT MOTION PASSES, THEN YOU WOULD ANNOUNCE WHO THE TWO MEMBERS WOULD BE. PERFECT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I WOULD LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO FORM A SUB COMMITTEE TO PROVIDE A SCOPE OF WORK WITH SPECIFIC CRITERIA AND NEEDS FOR A POSSIBLE SCHOOL BOARD CONSULTANT SERVICE. SO MOVED.

062SECOND. MOVED BY MEMBER WOFFORD, AND SECONDED BY VICE PRESIDENT NOLAN. IF YOU WOULD PLEASE TAKE ROLE, MR. WOFFORD. MR. FRANK? YOU'RE ON MUTE, MR. FRANK. HE'S, LIKE, NO. YES. MS. TENORIO? >> SOMEBODY MUTED ME. THE POWERS OF THE CONTROL BOX. YES, BUT I VOTE YES. YES? >> THANK YOU. SECRETARY WOFFORD VOTES YES. VICE PRESIDENT NOLAN? YES. >> PRESIDENT CORT? I VOTE YES. THAT'S 5-0. AND ON THE SUB COMMITTEE, I WOULD LIKE TO APPOINT MS. TENORIO AND MR. NOLAN TO SERVE. THANK YOU. YES. >> DO YOU HAVE TO TELL ME YES? OH, YES. I DECLINE --NO. THANK YOU. THAT WAS NOT IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION. YES, THANK YOU. NOW WE ARE MOVING ON. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE THE MOTION TO APPROVE THAT -- THANK YOU. I SO APPRECIATE YOU, MR. LOU AND MR. TRAVIS

063-- GOING TO BE THE BEST SCHOOL BOARD EVER. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND SUPPORTING ALL OF OUR CRAZY DISCUSSION. APPRECIATE YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. PRESIDENT CORT, IF I COULD JUST -- JUST ONE CLARIFICATION. YES. >> THAT SUB COMMITTEE IS FORMED. I THINK I WILL FOLLOW- UP WITH THOSE BOARD MEMBERS AND I BELIEVE THAT THE PLAN OR THE GOAL FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD WOULD BE TO BRING A SCOPE OF WORK FORFOR REVIEW AT YOUR NEXT MEETING IN DECEMBER. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT SOUNDS CORRECT? YES, UNLESS OUR SUB COMMITTEE FEELS LIKE THAT'S NOT ENOUGH TIME. YES, MA'AM. ABSOLUTELY. I DON'T THINK THAT'S -- THAT'S ONLY TWO WEEKS. I WOULD SAY POSSIBLY THE JANUARY MEETING OR I KIND OF LIKE THE FEBRUARY WORK SESSION FOR THAT. PERFECT. I WILL -- THANK YOU, PRESIDENT

064CORT AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, I WILL FOLLOW-UP WITH THAT SUB COMMITTEE AND FOLLOW-UP WITH THAT PLAN. I WOULD PREFER THAT IT IT NOT ON THE RETREAT -- OKAY. OKAY. >> I JUST DON'T WANT -- WHEREVER WE ARE GOING TO GO WITH THIS, I JUST DON'T WANT TO WAIT AND WAIT AND WAIT. GOT YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. HELLO, WE ARE MOVING ON TO OUR FIRST GOAL, INSTRUCTIONAL OUTCOMES AND THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT CORT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, SUPERINTENDENT RUIZ. LET ME START OUT BY INTRODUCING A NEW MEMBER, AND WE ARE HAPPY TO HAVE ONBOARD CHARLOTTE DICKERSON AS PART OF THE IMPROVEMENT DEPARTMENT. WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE MMN SSA AND SAT DATA FROM SCHOOL YEAR 2024/2025. WE ARE GOING TO START OUT WITH THE

065GROUNDING QUESTIONS AND THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT GUIDE OUR WORK FROM THE SCHOOL LEVEL ALL THE WAY THROUGH CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION, SO HOW DOES MY WORK IMPACT STUDENT OUTCOMES EVERY DAY? WHAT ACTION STEPS CAN I TAKE TO POSITIVELY IMPACT STUDENT OUTCOMES? WHAT MEASURES CAN I PUT IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE I HOLD MYSELF AND TEAM ACCOUNTABLE FOR IMPACTING STUDENT OUTCOMES? THESE HAVE BEEN OUR FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS. SO WE WILL START OUT WITH OUR DEMOGRAPHIC DATA HERE, AND YOU JUST SEE OUR STUDENT COUNTS BY ETHNICITY THERE ON THE LEFT, SO ROUGHLY 20 --JUST OVER 22,000 STUDENTS TOTAL. THEN YOU SEE IT BROKEN DOWN IN A PIE CHART, STUDENTS BY ETHNICITY AND CHARLOTTE YOU MIGHT NEED TO JUMP IN ANYTIME IF I SAY SOMETHING WRONG OR IF YOU WANT TO ADD SOMETHING. SO AS WE

066MOVE THROUGH THE PRESENTATION, YOU WILL SEE THE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GRAPHS ARE SET UP LIKE THIS. FIRST OF ALL, LET ME DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE GRAPH TO THE BLUE BOXES. SO AS WE TALK ABOUT THIS, WHAT IS IN THE BLUE BOX IS THE DISTRICT PROFICIENCY RATE FOR ALL STUDENTS. SO THE BLUE BOX WITH THE PURPLE LINE IS LAST YEAR'S PROFICIENCY OVERALL PROFICIENCY RATE, AND THE BLUE BOX WITH THE ORANGE LINE IS THE 2023/'24 OVERALL PROFICIENCY RATE. WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT THIS DATA BY STUDENT GROUP BUT WE CAN SEE OVERALL PROFICIENCY, THE COMPARISON FROM THE YEAR BEFORE TO LAST YEAR. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ADD THAT WE HAVE TO BE COGNIZANT WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT WHO ARE THE STUDENTS IN '23/'24, MAY BE DIFFERENT IN '24/'25, AND THAT

067IMPACTS OUR DATA, ANALYSIS AND MEASURE. THANK YOU. >> YES, THANK YOU. WE WILL START OUT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. SO THIS IS GRADE THROUGH 5. THE ASSESSMENT IN ENGLISH, LANGUAGE ARTS AND AGAIN THE GRAPHS --THE ORANGE GRAPHS THAT ARE '23/'24, '24/'25, AND YOU CAN SEE HOW STUDENTS FROM ETHIC GROUPS PERFORM, AND THIS IS NOT AN APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISON BECAUSE IT'S NOT THE SAME GROUP OF STUDENTS YEAR TO YEAR, BUT WE DO SEE GROWTH AMONGST OR ACROSS STUDENT GROUPS. IF YOU WILL NOTE, THE STUDENT GROUPS, THE GROUPS WITH THE STAR ARE MARTINEZ YAZZI STUDENT GROUPS. A QUICK QUESTION FOR CLARIFICATION. COULD WE JUST DO IT BY COHORT, LIKE, SHOW GROWTH BY COHORT IN IF YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT -- I GET THAT, BECAUSE A KID GOES INTO THIRD AND THEN FOURTH AND THEY ARE NOT PART

068OF THE DATA ANY MORE, AND IS THERE A COHORT APPROACH WE COULD TAKE? THERE IS A COHORT APPROACH AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO WITH OUR INTERIM DATA. WE CAN ALSO DO IT WITH OUR OME LAWTIVE DATA AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN PROVIDE AS WELL. THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. IS IT OKAY TO ASK QUESTIONS? YES. >> WITHIN REASON AND NOT TOO MANY. WE SAW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN '23-'24, '24-'25, AND IT WAS 7%, 7.5. HOW DOES THAT COMPARE TO OTHER YEARS PRIOR? RIGHT. THAT WAS MY QUESTION. WE HAVE INFORMATION WE CAN BRING UP, 2021-2022, AND WE HAVE TO --THAT WILL IMPACT THE NUMBERS, AND NOW YOU ARE GOING TO BE COMPARING ONLINE FULL INSTRUCTION, AND THEN VERSUS ONE TIME HYBRID AND NOW FULL IN PERSON. THERE WILL BE A LOT OF THINGS TO CONSIDER, AND OUR

069LIMITATIONS. WHERE WILL WE DRAW THE LINE IN TERMS OF MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND OUR GROWTH IN GENERAL -- PRESIDENT CORT AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, THE OTHER PIECE TO ME IS, TO ME '23-'24 IS LOOKING AT OUR BASELINE, TO THE TEAM'S POINT, AFTER COVID AND AFTER WE OPENED SCHOOLS, YOU KNOW, WE WERE COMING OUT OF THAT REALLY LOOKING AT '23-'24 AS A BASELINE MOVING FORWARD, AND WE ARE LOOKING AT, FOR EXAMPLE, NEXT YEAR, THE GOAL FOR '24-'25 AND THEN '25-'26, AND WE ARE LOOKING AT THE HISTORICAL PIECE -- ONE OTHER QUESTION, SO PRECOVID, WAS IT -- WHAT WAS THE TEST? WHAT DID THEY CALL THAT TEST? THE PARK. PARK FOR THE KIDS, LITTLE ONES? OR WAS IT FOR ALL OF THEM? WELL, IT WAS -- THE PARK WAS FOR EVERYBODY. >> YEAH, IT WAS THE PARK.

070THAT WAS GOING FOR ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS? MAYBE A LITTLE LONGER. >> WHAT WAS THE ONE THEY WERE CALLING TAMALE -- THEY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY WERE CALLING IT. IT WAS SOME TYPE OF ASSESSMENT. NO? MUST HAVE BEEN IN THE COVID FOG, TAMALE -- JUST FOR ELEMENTARY? I THINK IT WAS IN 2019. I DON'T KNOW, BECAUSE I WAS -- WE HAD ICE STATION. YEAH, AND NOW WE HAVE A MIRROR. YEAH, IT WAS A ACRONYM, TAMALE, IT WAS A JOKE OF WHAT TO CALL IT. THAT DOES RING A BELL. LET ME LOOK INTO IT. IT'S HARD TO COMPARE THAT DATA TO NOW, AND THE KIDS ARE NOT THE SAME KIDS AND THE TESTS WERE NOT THE SAME TESTS. RIGHT. >> THE OTHER POINT HERE, PRESIDENT CORT AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, IS THAT --

071AS WE GO THROUGH THIS, YOU KNOW, THE SUMMIT OF ASSESSMENT IS NOT OUR END POINT, THAT IS NOT OUR --THAT IS NOT THE GOAL EVERY YEAR. THIS IS A DATA POINT. THIS IS A POINT OF TIME. THIS IS REALLY A TOOL FOR US TO USE ANOTHER TOOL OF MANY THAT WE HAVE WITH OUR INTERIMS AND CLASSROOM OBSERVATIONS AND ALL OF THE PIECES HOW WE CAN BRING THEM TOGETHER AND BEST SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS. THE REALITY IS THAT THIS IS OUR STATE ASSESSMENT MODEL AND THIS IS HOW WE GET, QUOTE, UNQUOTE, GRADED, RIGHT? BUT AT THE SAME TIME THERE ARE THINGS WE CAN CELEBRATE, AS WE GO THROUGH THIS. YOU WILL SEE THERE'S A LOT OF CELEBRATIONS AS WELL. YES. THANK YOU. AS SUPERINTENDENT RUIZ MENTIONED, IT'S A SNAPSHOT, IT'S A POINT IN TIME. AGAIN, IT'S AN

072IMPORTANT --IT DOES PROVIDE US IMPORTANT DATA BECAUSE ALL THE WORK THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WHERE DID WE LAND? WE WANT TO SEE THAT FORWARD TRAJECTORY, WE WANT TO SEE THAT GROWTH. SO THAT'S IMPORTANT. SO HERE IS THE SAME ASSESSMENT AND THIS TIME BROKEN DOWN BY STUDENT GROUP RATHER THAN ETHNIC GROUP, SO AGAIN, MARTINEZ YAZZI GROUPS ARE WITH THE STAR, AND YOU SEE GAINS ACROSS THOSE GROUPS AGAIN, THE GAIN IN PROFICIENCY OVERALL, SO JUST TO SUMMARIZE FOR 3 TO 5 LITERACY, ALL OF THE MARTINEZ- YAZZIE GROUPS SHOWED GROWTH, AND THAT'S A CELEBRATION. NATIVE AMERICAN AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SHOWED THE MOST GROWTH, AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AND MIGRANT STUDENT DATA SHOWED A DECLINE IN PROFICIENCY RATES, AND THOSE GROUPS ARE NOT STATIC AND THEY ARE NOT THE SAME AND DO REPRESENT A SMALL NUMBER OF STUDENTS. THAT DOESN'T MEAN

073THAT THOSE STUDENT GROUPS ARE INSIGNIFICANT IN ANY WAY, BUT WHEN LOOKING AT THE TOTAL I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND WHO ARE THOSE STUDENTS, AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE LOOK INTO, HOW MANY STUDENTS AND WHY, WHY ARE WE SHOWING A DECLINE IN PROFICIENCY THERE. AGAIN, AS MS. TENORIO MAPPED A MOMENT AGO, WE SAW A 7. 5 INCREASE IN LITERACY IS GRADES 3 THROUGH 5. GOING BACK TO --NO, THIS IS PERFECT. THE PACIFIC ISLANDERS IS REALLY AN OUTLIER IN '23-'24, AND YOU CAN GO BACK TO WHAT YOU WERE DOING RIGHT THERE. NO. THIS ONE? YEAH. THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT DROP. 47 KIDS. >> I KNOW IT'S ONLY 47 KIDS, BUT THAT JUST FEELS --YEAH, ANYWAY. SO ONE OF THE THINGS IN THE YEAR BEFORE THERE WAS 57 KIDS TO 47 KIDS, AND REALLY THINKING ABOUT HOW MANY OF

074THOSE KIDS IN '23-'24 WERE FIFTH GRADERS AND ARE NO LONGER REPRESENTED, SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE LOOKED INTO, IS IT THE SAME GROUP OF KIDS AND THEY'RE LOSING GROUND, AND -- OR IS IT A DIFFERENT MAKEUP. HAD FIFTH GRADERS -- -- OF THAT GROUP. RIGHT. >> THOSE ARE SOME OF THE DRILL DOWNS WE DO INTO THE DATA. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. SO HERE IS THE DATA AGAIN, ELEMENTARY GRADES 3 AND 5 FOR MATHEMATICS, AND YOU SEE THE PROFICIENCY LINE FOR STUDENTSSTUDENTS FOR AND YOU CAN SEE THE TREND FOR THE MOST PART WE'RE TRENDING UP. HERE WE STILL HAD A FEW STUDENT GROUPS, AGAIN, THE PACIFIC ISLANDER GROUP, WE HAD SOME GROUPS WITH GAINS AND WE HAD SOME GROUPS WITH SLIGHT DECREASES. LOOKING AT STUDENT GROUPS AGAIN ARE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, OUR ENGLISH STUDENTS AND BILINGUAL

075STUDENTS, STUDENTS THAT RECEIVE SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES ALL GAINED GROUND IN MATHEMATICS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SO I THINK THAT IS A CELEBRATION. AGAIN, MOST MARTINEZ-YAZZIE GROUPS DEMONSTRATED GAINS, AGAIN, ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED AND SPECIAL EDUCATION GAINED THE MOST. PACIFIC ISLANDER AND HOMELESS STUDENTS SHOWED DECREASES IN PROFICIENCY, AND THE INCREASE IN MATHEMATICS IS 1.9%. I WOULD JUST POINT OUT, YOU SEE THE DISPARITY, SO WE ARE MAKING BIGGER GAINS IN LITERACY THAN MATHEMATICS, AND I THINK THAT'S A DIRECT CORRELATION THAN THE ATTENTION THE STATE PUT IN STRUCTURED LITERACY, AND NOW WE ARE STARTING TO SEE THE BENEFIT OF ALL OF THAT LETTERS TRAINING AND THE DYSLEXIA SCREENING AND ALL OF THOSE INITIATIVES THAT HAVE REALLY BEEN FOCUSED ON THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL EARLY CHILDHOOD. I THINK THOSE EFFORTS WILL CONTINUE TO BEAR FRUIT AS WE LOOK AT OUR DATA OVER THE

076NEXT FEW YEARS. NOW THE STATE IS TURNING THAT ATTENTION TO MATHEMATICS AND REALLY THINKING ABOUT HOW DO WE ADDRESS MATHEMATICS PROFICIENCY AND STUDENT OUTCOMES, SO WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT LATER ON AS THESE EFFORTS AT THE STATE LEVEL UNFOLD. SO THESE GRAPHS AND, IF YOU WANT TO TAKE THESE AND EXPLAIN THESE PROFICIENCY LEVEL GRAPHS IN GRADES THREE THROUGH FIVE. DEFINITELY. SO YOU CAN SEE HERE OUR COLOR CODE AT THE BOTTOM, SO THE DARK BLUE WOULD BE AT THE NOVICE LEVEL -- MICROPHONE? >> SORRY. I THOUGHT I STILL HAVE MY TEACHER VOICE. YOU DO, AND THE MIC WILL PICK YOU UP. SO WE HAVE THE DARK BLUE OR PURPLISH COLOR FOR NOVICE LEVEL, AND LIGHTER IS NEARING PROFICIENCY. THE LIGHT GREEN WOULD MEAN PROFICIENT LEVEL, AND THE DARK GREEN WOULD MEAN ADVANCED LEVEL. SO WHEN WE

077BROKE DOWN THE DATA FOR GRADES THREE TO FIVE IN TERMS OF FOR THAT FIRST COLUMN IDENTIFIED AS L CPS, 24-'25 FOR LANGUAGE ARTS USING DATA FOR THREE TO FIVE. WE CAN SEE OUR PROFICIENT AND ADVANCED LEVEL IS A BIT HIGHER COMPARED TO NEW MEXICO AS A STATE. FOR '24-'25, FOR GRADES THREE THROUGH FIVE. AND IN THE THIRD COLUMN, MATHEMATICS, SLIGHTLY HIGHER IF WE FOLLOW THE TREND OF LOOKING AT THE TOP TWO WHICH IS PROFICIENT AND ADVANCED LEVEL, SO WE ARE LOOKING AT 28%, COMPARED TO NEW MEXICO AS A STATE WHICH IS 26.0%. SCIENCE REFLECTED AN AMAZING GROWTH THERE IN COMPARISON WITH THE STATE, SO IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT YOUR PROFICIENT AND ADVANCED LEVEL, L CPS IS AT 34. 89%, AND COMPARED TO THE STATE, YOU HAVE NEW MEXICO WHICH IS AT 29%, SO THAT'S

078A GREAT CELEBRATION ACROSS. WE ARE SHOWING SOME TREMENDOUS GROWTH, BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT WE HAVE WORK TO DO TO CONTINUE, YOU KNOW, DEMONSTRATING THAT GROWTH AMONG OUR STUDENTS. THANK YOU. SO LET'S MOVE ON TO MIDDLE SCHOOL. AGAIN, SAME KIND OF COMPARISON, THE BLUE BOXES SHOW THE OVERALL PROFICIENCY RATES FOR ALL STUDENTS DISTRICT WIDE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. AND THE FIRST SLIDE HERE AGAIN, ETHNIC GROUP AND YOU SEE ACROSS THE BOARD GOOD GAINS IN ETHNIC GROUP, AND THIS IS READING DATA HERE, ENGLISH, LANGUAGE ARTS DATA. YOU SEE A SLIGHT DIP FOR STUDENTS THAT SELF REPORTED TWO OR MORE ETHNICITIES. THEN BY STUDENT GROUP, AGAIN, WE HAVE OUR ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, OUR EMERGENT BILINGUAL STUDENTS AND STUDENTS THAT RECEIVE SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES, OUR MARTINEZ-YAZZIE GROUPS THERE, AND YOU SEE THERE ARE GAINS ACROSS THE BOARD FOR THOSE TKPRAOPZ

079GROUPS OF STUDENTS. SO GAINS, MARTINEZ-YAZZIE, ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS SHOWED THE MOST IMPROVEMENT, AND THEN STUDENTS WITH A 504 PLAN, HOMELESS, MIGRANT, SHOWED SLIGHT DECLINES IN PROFICIENCY IN MATH. FOR OVERALL, PROFICIENCY INCREASED 5. 4%, AND THAT'S DEFINITELY A CELEBRATION. WE HAVE TO BE TRENDING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION BEFORE WE CAN REALLY START LOOKING AT PROFICIENCY RATES --SORRY, LITERACY, I SAID MATH, BUT LITERACY, 5.4%. NOW WE WILL MOVE ON TO MATH. AGAIN, YOU SEE BY ETHNICITY, WE HAD GROWTH IN MATHEMATICS IN GRADES SIX THROUGH EIGHT, AND BY ETHNIC GROUPS, I WILL POINT OUT, NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS AGAIN, VERY GOOD GROWTH AMONG THAT STUDENT GROUP. PACIFIC ISLANDERS, SO THOSE SMART FIFTH GRADERS WENT TO MIDDLE SCHOOL AND NOW THEY ARE KNOCKING IT OUT OF THE PARK IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. SO THAT'S -- NICE. THAT'S WHERE THEY WENT. I

080WONDER WHAT SCHOOLS THEY ARE AT? AGAIN, WE HAVE HERE AGAIN BY STUDENT GROUP WITH THE MARTINEZ-YAZZIE GROUPS DESIGNATED THERE, AND YOU SEE SOME --SOME INCREASES AND SOME THEY ARE KIND OF HOLDING THEIR OWN IN MATHEMATICS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. SO OVERALL, NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS, AGAIN, SHOWED THE MOST GROWTH AMONG MARTINEZ-YAZZIE GROUPS AND STUDENTS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL SHOWED AN INCREASE IN PROFICIENCY AND MATH IN 1.8%. I KNOW THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKELIKE MUCH, BUT GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION IN MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH, I THINK, IS HUGE. THAT IS SOMETHING DEFINITELY TO BUILD ON. I HAVE A QUESTION. >> YES, MA'AM. IF WE LOOK AT --I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT IF YOU GO BACK TO 2020, LIKE --YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK, SORRY. IF WE IMAGINE SPRING 2020, AND IF THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADERS, THEY WOULD BE

081IN FIRST AND SECOND GRADE? DOES THAT WORK OUT? SO I ALWAYS THINK ABOUT IT LIKE THIS. MY SON WAS IN KINDERGARTEN IN THE FALL OF 2020 AND HE'S IN FIFTH GRADE NOW, SO WE'RE JUST HAVING THAT CONVERSATION ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL THIS MORNING. LIKE, I'M JUST WONDERING, WHAT HAPPENED DURING THAT TIME, IF IT JUST KIND OF FOLLOWED THESE STUDENTS INTO --YOU KNOW, IT KIND OF IMPACTED THEM IN THE MOMENT AS SECOND AND THIRD GRADERS AND THEY DIDN'T RECOVER AS QUICKLY AS WE WOULD HAVE WANTED, SO MAYBE THAT'S WHAT WE ARE SEEING IN MIDDLE SCHOOL? I'M CURIOUS IF THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING? THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION, MEMBER TENORIO. YES, THAT'S A PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION BECAUSE NOT ONLY WERE THE STUDENTS OUT OF SCHOOL, SCHOOL LOOKED DIFFERENT -- I WON'T SAY SCHOOL. SCHOOL WAS CLOSED. WE

082HAD ONLINE LEARNING WHICH WAS A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE AND UNEVEN FOR MANY STUDENTS, SO I THINK THERE WERE GAPS. THAT WAS ONE PIECE OF IT. ANOTHER PIECE, WE HAD JUST ADOPTED NEW INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS IN MATHEMATICS, AND TEACHERS NEVER RECEIVED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ON THOSE MATERIALS, SO THEY WERE ONLINE WITH THE NEW RESOURCE THAT THEY WEREN'T FAMILIAR WITH, AND SO THERE WAS THAT PART OF THE STORM. THEN KIND OF ALL OVER, THERE'S A DIP IN MIDDLE SCHOOL DATA ININ LITERACY AND MATHEMATICS AND THE UNITED STATES AND REALLY ACROSS THE WORLD, SO SOMETHING HAPPENS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL WITH STUDENTS. THERE'S A LOT OF THEORIESTHEORIES WHY, SO I THINK ALL THOSE THINGS FACTOR INTO THIS DATA. BUT THE FACT THAT WE ARE TRENDING UP AND STUDENTS ARE STARTING TO RECOVER AND MOVE TOWARD PROFICIENCY, I THINK IS A REALLY GOOD

083--IS A REALLY GOOD THING. OKAY. SO OUR PROFICIENCY COMPARISON AGAINST THE STATE, SO SAME --SAME HERE, THE DARK BLUE, SO WHAT WE WANT TO SEE OVER TIME IS THOSE BOTTOM BLUE BARS GET SMALLER AND THE GREEN ONES GET BIGGER. I THINK THIS IS ALSO A CELEBRATION THAT WE IN LITERACYLITERACY ARE AHEAD OF THE STATE PROFICIENCY RATE IN MATH. WE ARE SLIGHTLY -- WE ARE SLIGHTLY BEHIND THE STATE LEVEL IN MATHEMATICS, AND THEN IN SCIENCE, AGAIN, WE ARE OVER THREE PERCENTAGE POINTS AHEAD OF THE STATE IN PROFICIENCY, SO I THINK A LOT TO CELEBRATE THERE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. SO WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO THE SAT. AGAIN, THIS IS THE SAT SCHOOL DAY THAT IS ADMINISTERED IN 11th GRADE, AND STUDENTS --THIS IS THE FEDERALLY REQUIRED ASSESSMENT THAT WE GIVE. IT ALSO GIVES STUDENTS

084THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAM FOR FREE AND KIND OF IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY HAVE TRANSPORTATION TO GET THERE, THEY HAVE BREAKFAST, THEY HAVE ALL THE THINGS THAT WE ALWAYS WANT KIDS TO HAVE WHEN THEY'RE TAKING AN ASSESSMENT. SO AGAIN, SAME SETUP. WE HAVE THE DISTRIBUTE PROFICIENCY RATES THERE AND THE -- THIS IS THE DATA IN READING AND WRITING. AGAIN, THE TRENDS, WE DO SEE SOME UPWARD TRENDS AGAIN. OUR NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS AND PACIFIC ISLANDER STUDENTS, ASIAN STUDENTS ARE TRENDING UPWARD ON THIS ASSESSMENT. DOCTOR? YES. >> ON THAT LAST NIGHT, IS THIS THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE BETWEEN 2024- '25 LOWER THAN '23-'24? DID I NOT PAY ATTENTION TO THE OTHER ONES BECAUSE I NOTICED THE DISTRICT PROFICIENCY IS LOWER THAN THE YEAR PREVIOUSLY, AND IN THE OTHER ONES -- YES, YES.

085THE PURPLE LINE AND THE ORANGE LINE, YES, YES, THAT IS --THAT IS CORRECT. UH-HUH. SO THE DISTRICT PROFICIENCY FOR '23-'24 WAS 32 -- OH, THAT LINE. NOW IT'S ONLY 38.9 -- I JUST WENT WAIT A SECOND. YEAH, OVERALL DISTRICT PROFICIENCY ON SAT DID DROP IN READING AND WRITING AND THEN YOU SEE ACROSS THE BOARD BY ETHNIC GROUP HOW STUDENTS FARED IN THIS ASSESSMENT. WHEN WE MOVE OVER TO STUDENT GROUPS -- SORRY, STUDENT GROUP FOR THIS ASSESSMENT, AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE WERE ACTUALLY SOME STUDENT GROUPS SHOWED GAIN IN THIS ASSESSMENT, SO FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN YOU LOOK AT MIGRANT STUDENTS IN '23-'24, IT'S ZERO. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE HAD ZERO MIGRANT STUDENTS. IT MEANS 0% OF MIGRANT STUDENTS SHOWED PROFICIENCY ON THIS ASSESSMENT THAT YEAR, SO AGAIN, DIFFERENT GROUP OF STUDENTS, BUT I JUST

086WANTED TO CLARIFY THE MEETING OF THAT 0%. WAS THAT RIGHT? OKAY, GOOD. I HAVE A QUESTION? YES, MA'AM. >> I FEEL SILLY BUT I WILL STILL ASK. WHAT IS THE PROFICIENCY MARK? IT'S NOT 50%, RIGHT? LIKE, WHAT'S -- WHERE DO YOU HIT PROFICIENCY? THE CUT SCORE? >> YEAH. >> THE CUT SCORE FOR SATSAT --I DON'T HAVE IT IN FRONT OF ME, BUT WE CAN GET IT. 450 -->> YEAH, THANK YOU. >> NO, THAT'S THE AVERAGE. YEAH. YEAH. WHAT WE ALSO SAW WITH THE DATA WERE DROPS IN OUR LARGEST POPULATION GROUPS, HISPANIC KIDS DROPPED 5% AND THE CAULK CASIAN BY ALMOST 4%. AND NATIVE AMERICAN AND BILINGUAL STUDENTS DEMONSTRATED GROWTH IN PROFICIENCY, AND NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS SHOWED THE MOST GROWTH AMONG THE MARTINEZ- YAZZIE GROUPS, AND AS PRESIDENT CORT NOTED, THERE WAS A SLIGHT DECREASE IN

087PROFICIENCY ON THIS ASSESSMENT. UH-HUH. SO DISTRICT COMPARISON AND THE SAT IN MATHEMATICS, AGAIN, YOU SEE THE 24-'25 DATA IS SLIGHTLY BELOW WHERE WE WERE IN '23-'24. AGAIN, MATHEMATICS, WE ARE --I WAS GOING TO SAY WE'RE TRENDING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, AND I THINK WE ARE WITH SOME OF OUR STUDENT GROUPS THAT WE HAVE BEEN FOCUSING ON AND I THINK OVER ALL AS A STATE WE HAVE WORK TO DO IN MATHEMATICS. AGAIN, AT THE STUDENT GROUP LEVEL AGAIN, THE ZEROS DON'T MEAN THAT THERE ARE NO STUDENTS IN THAT GROUP, BUT, AGAIN, STUDENTS WERE NOT PROFICIENT IN THOSE STUDENT GROUPS, AND WE HAVE --WE HAVE SHOWN GAINS IN --AMONG THOSE GROUPS. AGAIN, DIFFERENT GROUPS OF STUDENTS BUT THE TREND IS UPWARD. SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, SAT MATH? MOST MARTINEZ-YAZZIE SUB GROUPS HAVE SHOWN GROWTH THROUGHOUT THE

088YEAR, AND SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS SHOWED THE MOST GROWTH AND YOU SAW THE PROFICIENCY RATES WE JUST LOOKED AT, THE GAINS THERE, AND THERE WAS A SLIGHT DECREASE OF 1. 1% ON THIS ASSESSMENT. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK ABOUT THE SAT IS REALLY --IT'S --IT'S --I'LL SAY IT'S DIFFICULT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL BECAUSE WE WANT OBVIOUSLY STUDENTS TO TAKE THE ASSESSMENT. IT IS FEDERALLY REQUIRED, BUT FOR SOME STUDENTS IT IS A HARD SALE BECAUSE THINK THEY I'M NOT GOING TO COLLEGE, WHY DO I WANT TO SIT FOR THIS TEST? AND REALLY GETTING THE BUY-IN FROM STUDENTS AND THINKING ABOUT THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY THAT IT COULD OPEN A DOOR FOR YOU, SO YOU KNOW, THAT'S PART OF THE CONVERSATIONS WE HAVE WITH STUDENTS ABOUT YOU MAY NOT WANT TO GO TO COLLEGE

089NOW, BUT THIS WILL GIVE YOU AN INDICATOR OF WHERE YOU COULD GO. AGAIN, IT MAY OPEN A DOOR THATTHAT THEY EVEN THINKING ABOUT. SO NOW ON TO CELEBRATIONS. SO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT RELEASED A LIST OFOF SCHOOLS HAD THE GREATEST GROWTH IN THE STATE AND WE'RE REALLY PLEASED TO REPORT THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF SCHOOLS IN THOSE TOP TEN LISTS FOR HAVING THE MOST GROWTH IN THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO. IT WAS A LOT OF FUN TO GO OUT TO THESE SCHOOLS AND CELEBRATE WITH THE TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS AND STAFF AND REALLY CELEBRATE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND, YOU KNOW, JUST REALLY ENCOURAGING THEM TO KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING. AGAIN, GREAT CELEBRATION. YOU SEE MA SIASIA EAST PAW KAU CHO MADE THE LIST FOR HIGHEST IN THE STATE FOR LITERACY AND MATHEMATICS, AND SONOMA DESERT HILLS

090AND HIGHLAND ALL MADE THETHE FOR HIGHEST GROWTH IN THE STATE IN LITERACY, SO GREAT CELEBRATIONS FOR THOSE SCHOOLS. I SAW SOME OF YOU OUT THERE CELEBRATING. THAT WAS FUN. IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL, WE HAD VISTA AND CAMINO REAL MAKE THE LIST HIGHEST GROWTH IN THE STATE FOR BOTH LITERACY AND MATHEMATICS. IF YOU LOOK AT ZIA, DOUBLE-DIGIT GAIN IN LITERACY. THEY ARE A STRUCTURED LITERACY MODEL SCHOOL SO THEY HAVE PUT A LOT OF FOCUS INTO LITERACY AND IT PAID OFF. I THINK IT'S REALLY HEARTENING FOR TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS, EVERYBODY THAT'S DOING ALL OF THIS HARD WORK TO SEE THAT --THE GAIN THEY MADE. PAW KAU CHO, AGAIN, A 9% GAIN IN LITERACY. MAYFIELD AND CENTENNIAL HAD GAINS IN MATHEMATICS. YOU THINK, WHY ARE WE CELEBRATING A . 4% GROWTH IN MATH? THIS IS THE HIGHEST

091GROWTH IN THE STATE, SO OUR SCHOOLS -- TWO OF OUR COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOLS ARE LEADING THE STATE IN, YOU KNOW, GROWINGGROWING MATH. IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS, HOW OTHER SCHOOLS ARE PERFORMING, YOU KNOW, IT KIND OF PAINTS THE PICTURE OF WHERE WE ARE STATEWIDE IN MATHEMATICS. I THINK IT'S ALWAYS A CELEBRATION WHEN WE'RE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE DATA AND OUR DATA IS POINTING UPWARD. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT OTHER SCHOOLS DIDN'T HAVE GAINS, BUT THESE WERE ON THE LIST FOR THE HIGHEST GROWTH IN THE STATESTATE HER DEPARTMENT IS WORKING ON A BREAKDOWN ON A SCHOOL BY SCHOOL FOR OUR PRINCIPALS AND SCHOOL SUPPORT TEAMS TO SEE ALL THE DATA YOU JUST LOOKED AT FOR THEIR SCHOOL INDIVIDUALLY, SO THEY CAN REALLY HONE IN ON THOSE STUDENT GROUPS, ON THE ETHNIC GROUPS AND

092JUST MAKING SURE THEY ARE SERVING THE NEEDS OF ALL STUDENTS. THAT'S REALLY WHAT DATA DRIVEN INSTRUCTIONAL -- INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS IS ALL ABOUT. OF COURSE THE VISTAS DESIGNATION CAME OUT A COUPLE WEEKS AGO ON THOSE, AND THERE'S DIFFERENT RATINGS. SPOT WIDE IS THE HIGHEST TRADING, AND TRADITIONAL IS THE TRADITIONAL RATING. THERE ARE SEVERAL DESIGNATIONS WHEN SCHOOLS NEED ADDITIONAL SUPPORT, AND WE'RE HAPPY TO REPORT OF OUR 39 SCHOOLS, WE ONLY HAVE ONE SCHOOL THAT IS IN --THAT NEEDS MORE SUPPORT AND THAT IS RIO GRANDE PREP, AND THEY ARE ON THE LIST FOR GRADUATION RATE. YOU SEE THEM HERE LAST TIME TALKING ABOUT THE REALLY REMARKABLE THINGS THAT WE ARE DOING AT THAT SCHOOL TO BRING --TO BRING THAT UP AND TO GET OUT OF THAT DESIGNATION. SO OUR SPOTLIGHT CAMPUSES, WE WENT FROM SEVEN SPOTLIGHT CAMPUSES IN

0932024 TOTO SPOTLIGHT CAMPUSES IN 2025, SO THE NEW SCHOOLS THAT ARE SPOTLIGHT ARE TOM BOUGH, EAST PICCACHO AND MA SIA, OUR NEW SPOTLIGHT SCHOOLS. WE DID HAVE A FEW SCHOOLS DROP FROM SPOTLIGHT TO TRADITIONAL, AND THOSE TWO WERE HILL RISE AND MA SIA PARK. WE DID GAIN ONE SPOTLIGHT CAMPUS. YOU KNOW, OUR PRINCIPALS ARE A LITTLE COMPETITIVE, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THEY ARE ALWAYS KEEPING AN EYE ON THIS LIST AND REALLY WORKING HARD, NOT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, GETTING YOUR NAME ON THIS LIST IS WHAT IS IMPORTANT, BUT IT'S WHAT BEING ON THIS LIST REPRESENTS FOR STUDENTS AND STUDENT OUTCOMES AND THAT'S REALLY THE FOCUS THERE. I BELIEVE THAT'S WHAT WE HAD FOR YOU THIS EVENING. MR. SUPERINTENDENT? AS WE CAN SEE, THERE WAS CELEBRATIONS, AND STILL LOTS OF WORK TO BE DONE. WHEN YOU HAVE A

094. 4%, YOU ARE ONE OF THE TOP IN MATH, THAT TELLS US AS A STATE. THE GOOD THING IS THE STATE RECOGNIZES THAT AND IS LOOKING TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND MORE RESOURCES. FOR US AS A DISTRICT, THE SPOTLIGHT IN THE TRADITIONAL, THAT REPRESENTS 97% OF OUR CAMPUSES ARE IN GOOD STANDING IN DESIGNATION. THAT'S GOOD TO POINT OUT. AND THERE ARE PLACES WE ARE CONTINUING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE WORK, AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO STRENGTHEN THAT AS WE MOVE INTO MIDDLE SCHOOL, THAT STRUCTURE IN LITERACY. AND IT'S ANOTHER PIECE, AND WE ARE SEEING GAINS IN MARTINEZ-YAZZIE, WE ARE SEEING GAPS AND THAT'S WHERE THE CURTAILED WORK IS IN INCORPORATING THAT WITH THE LITERACY. AND HOW DO WE COMBINE OUR CUE TAIL WORK, AND A READING APPRENTICESHIP, WE ARE DOING SOME OF THE WORK AND BRINGING THAT

095TOGETHER TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL OUR STUDENTS. I PITCHED TO THEM THAT THAT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD BE DOING AS A STATE AND NOT JUST AS A DISTRICT, AND FOR US TO BE, THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT LEADER IN THAT WORK. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT POTENTIALLYPOTENTIALLY PARTNERING WITH THE STATE AND PROVIDING THE FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT AS WELL AS A DESIRE STRICT.A SO THERE'S LOTS -- LOTS OF WORK HAPPENING. LOTS OF WORK TO BE DONE. AGAIN, YOU LOOK AT OUR OBSERVATIONS, CLASSROOM VISITS, WE'RE STILL SEEING -- WE NEED TO SEE MORE STUDENT INTERACTION AND WE ARE NOT SEEING ENOUGH OF THAT. WE NEED TO SEE MORE OF OUR STUDENTS OWNING THEIR WORK AND CONTINUE CONTINUING TO BUILD CAPACITY WITH OUR TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS. AS AN EXAMPLE IN THE HIRING PROCESS WITH THE PRINCIPALS,

096WE INCORPORATED A SYSTEM TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE IDENTIFYING STRONG INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERS AS WE ARE GIVING THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AS THESE PRINCIPALSHIPS COME OPEN AS WELL. JUST SOME THINGS TO ADD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. BOARD MEMBERS, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? DO YOU WANT TO GO? SURE. THANK YOU FOR THIS VERY MUCH, DR. WENDY. DIDN'T WE USED TO HAVEHAVE 10 TAKE THE PSAT DATA? WE ARE NOT LOOKING AT THAT? WE DO HAVE STUDENTSSTUDENTS PSAT AND WE DO LOOK AT THAT DATA. THERE ARE INSTRUCTIONAL REPORTS THAT THE TEACHERS CAN LOOK AT. I FIND THOSE VERY USEFUL TOOLS FOR PREPARATION. IT ALSO HELPS 11 th GRADERS ALSO CAN TAKE THE PSAT AND THAT'S THE NATIONAL QUALIFYING EXAM -- YEAH, AND MSSA DOES NOT USE THAT DATA IS WHAT -- NO, IT DOESN'T.

097YEAH, SURE, SO THE PSAT DATA IS HELPFUL FOR COACHING UP THOSE STUDENTS THAT WANT TO GO FOR A NATIONAL MERIT. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES STUDENTS DON'T KNOW THAT THEY SHOULD DO THAT, SO USING THAT DATA -- YEAH, AP POTENTIAL DATA COMES OUT OF THE PSAT. CORRECT. YEAH. YOU ATTRIBUTE SOME OF THIS SUCCESS OF THE LETTERS TO THE SCIENCE OF READING THAT HAS BEEN PART OF THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR HOW MANY YEARS NOW? FOUR OR FIVE YEARS? SIX. SO THIS YEAR IT MOVED UP TO MIDDLE SCHOOL, SO ESSENTIALLY WE'VE TRAINED ALL THE WAY THROUGH FIFTH GRADE AND NOW ROLL INTO MIDDLE SCHOOL. OF COURSE WE'LL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE TRAINING FOR NEW -- FOR NEW TEACHERS THAT COME ONBOARD AT ELEMENTARY. NOW THE TRAINING AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL IS CALLED THE AIMS PATHWAY, AND AS MR. RUIZ MENTIONED,

098WE ARE DOING AN APPRENTICESHIP AND MARRYING THAT TOGETHER WITH THE CUE TAIL WORK IS GOING TO BE ESSENTIAL FOR JUST THAT CONSISTENCY ACROSSACROSS BOARD, ESPECIALLY AT THE SECOND -- AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL. THE PERCENTAGE OF NOVICE KIDS GOES WAY UP WHEN YOU HIT SIX THROUGH EIGHT. YEAH. AND -->> I THINK IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT DATA ONCE KIDS HIT SIXTH GRADE, THIS --THIS GROUP OF STUDENTS THAT ARE IN SIXTH GRADE NOW SHOULD HAVE HAD A GOOD NUMBER OF TEACHERS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT HAD STRUCTURED LITERACY TRAINING. OF COURSE, IT'S NOT JUST THE TRAINING, IT'S ALSO THE IMPLEMENTATION -- RIGHT. >> -- AND THE MORE YOU IMPLEMENT SOMETHING THE BETTER YOU GET, SO I THINK WE'LL CONTINUE TO SEE THAT DATA IMPROVE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL

099YEARS. THERE'S AN EQUIVALENT SCIENCESCIENCE READING AND SCIENCE OF MATH NUMBERS TRAINING INSTEAD OF LETTERS? AS A FORMER MATH TEACHER, THERE IS, THERE IS. WE JUST NEED TO IDENTIFY AS A DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THE STANDARDS AND JUST TO GIVE A COMMENT TO WHAT YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, YES, WE ALSO HAVE TO TAKE NOTE THAT EVEN THOUGH THE NOVICE LEVEL AND TPWEUPB BEGINNING LEVEL --IT'S DIFFERENT LEVELS. SO THERE'S A LOT MORE STRATEGIES INVOLVED AND A LOT MORE IN DEPTH SKILLS THAT MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS NEED TO LEARN, SO IT'S THE SAME IN MATH. YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU SEE IN FIFTH GRADE MATH, THEY MAY BE DOING GREAT AND WHEN THEY GO TO MIDDLE SCHOOL IT'S A BIT OF A STRUGGLE BECAUSE NOW IT'S LEARNING MATH TO ANALYZE AND UNDERSTAND AND NOT JUST ADDING NUMBERS TOGETHER AND DOING

100THE BASIC OPERATIONS. YES, THERE'S ALSO THE SCIENCE OF TEACHING MATHEMATICS. WE NEED THE RESEARCH AND COME INTO CONSENSUS WHAT THAT FRAMEWORK WOULD BE, SO IT IS SIMILAR TO OUR STRUCTURED LITERACY. WAS IT THE PANDA THAT IS SPEARHEADING A STRUCTURED MATHEMATICS? YEAH, THAT'S IN PROCESS FOR MATH. THERE'S A FEW INITIATIVES IN PROCESS FOR MATH, SO THERE'S THE SCIENCE OF MATH, AND THERE'S THAT INITIATIVE, BUT THERE'S ALSO AN INITIATIVE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL CALLED THE MODERNIZED MATH PATHWAYS, AND HAVING --EVEN THOUGH ALGEBRA 2 IS NO LONGER A GRADUATION REQUIREMENT -- RIGHT. >> --IT BRINGS ALGEBRA 2 BACK INTO THE FOLD WITH A DIFFERENT -- NOT THAT IT'S OUT, BUT IT GIVES STUDENTS DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR DIFFERENT KINDS OF ALGEBRA 2, SO THE FIRST PART OF ALGEBRA 2 WOULD BE ALGEBRA 2, AND THE SECOND PART IF

101YOU ARE ON THE HIGHER MATH TRAJECTORY, IT WOULD TAKE YOU THAT WAY. IF YOU ARE MORE ON A CAREER TRAJECTORY, IT WOULD TAKE YOU THAT WAY, SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE EXPLORING, AND THAT'S MANDATED BY THE STATE. WE HAVE A COUPLE YEARS TO IMPLEMENT THAT, BUT WE WILL BE IMPLEMENTING THOSE PATHWAYS COMING, BUT THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT PRESENTATION FOR A DIFFERENT DAY. RIGHT. RIGHT. AND THEN WHEN I SEE THE GRAPHS, IT MIGHT BE USEFUL FOR ME TO SEE THE NUMBER OF NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS AND THE NUMBER OF HISPANIC AND CAUCASIAN, AND THE DIFFERENT BECAUSE -- I REALLY APPRECIATE THE NUANCE OF DATA HERE, BECAUSE PEOPLE ON THE OUTSIDE WILL LOOK AT ONE SCORE AND GO, OH, HOW HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, WITHOUT SEEING THE DRILL DOWN AND WHAT IS GOING ON ACROSS THE BOARD AND WHAT GROWTH

102IS BEING MADE, ALTHOUGH STILL VERY LOW SCORES WHEN YOU LOOK ATAT FICIENCY OVERALL. THE MORE DATA THERE, I WOULD APPRECIATE. YOU WILL KEEP '23-'24 NEXT YEAR, WHEN WE SEE THE NEXT YEAR ADDED. THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME, AND I WONDERED IF YOU WENT BACK TO THE TEENS FOR A BASELINE, BUT THAT'S TOO FAR OUT. YEAH, SO -- RIGHT. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE THIS. >> ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU. MS. TENORIO? I HAD SOME SIMILAR QUESTION AS MR. WOFFORD ON THE SATs, AND I WANT TO MAKE CLEAR IT'S NOT TEACHING TO THE TEST, BUT IT'S MORE ABOUT WHEN KIDS ARE GOING THROUGH THIS IN THE YOUNGER GRADES AND THEN GET TO HIGH SCHOOL AND THE SAT, FIRST, I WANT TO KNOW DOES IT LOOK DIFFERENT THAN WHEN WE TOOK THE SAT OR DOES IT LOOK THE SAME? OR IS

103IT DIFFERENT FROM THE MESSA? CHARLOTTE WOULD TELL US, WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LOOK AT THE TEST, YOU WOULD TELL US. SO THERE ARE BLUEPRINTS AND TOOLS THAT TEACHERS HAVE, AND I THINK ONE OF THE QUESTIONS HAS ALWAYS BEEN ALIGNMENT TO THE STANDARDS AND WHEN --WHEN WE TEACH STANDARDS AND WHEN THE STANDARDS ARE ASSESSED. SO YOU KNOW, THAT'S A CONVERSATION. BUT TEACHERS DO HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE --TO THOSE BLUEPRINTS AND TO, YOU KNOW, THEY --THEY KNOW WHAT --WHAT KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE TO THAT WITHOUT NECESSARILY OUR INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDES ARE BUILT ON THE STANDARDS AND THINKING ABOUT WHAT STUDENTS NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL AT THE NEXT LEVEL, AND THE SAT IS DESIGNED TO BE A MEASURE OF THAT BY NATURE. YEAH, MORE HOW YOU THINK AND KIND OF, LIKE, YOUR GENERAL SKILLS

104OVERALL. I GUESS I WAS WONDERING WHEN THE KIDS ARE SO USED TO IT BEING FORMATTED A CERTAIN WAY, AND THEN THE EXPECTATION CHANGESCHANGES IN SCHOOL. YES, THE PSAT IS GOOD, AND I WAS CURIOUS --I DIDN'T WANT TO PROMOTE ANY TEACHING TO THE TEST, AND I WAS WONDERING IF THERE'S AFTER SCHOOL TYPE OF STUFF JUST TO KIND OF GET THESE KIDS TO START THINKING ABOUT HOW THE MATH IS APPROACHED DIFFERENTLY OR THE WORDWORD PROBLEMS? WELL, I CAN SHARE THAT WHAT SUPERINTENDENT RUIZ ALREADY MENTIONED, LET'S SAY THE eSPORTS PROGRAM, IF WE CAN EXPAND THAT ACTUALLY ACROSS ALL HIGH SCHOOLS AND EVEN MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND ELEMENTARY, THAT'S A GREAT AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITY THAT STUDENTS CAN APPLY MATHEMATICS, STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL THINKING THROUGH TEAM AND COLLABORATION. I SAY THAT BECAUSE OF MY EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW, IN PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE, WE

105UTILIZEDUTILIZED PROGRAMS AS eSPORTS -- ARE YOU AN eSPORT ATHLETE? WE'LL JUST KEEP IT LIKE THAT. THERE ARE DIFFERENT WAYS WHERE YOU CAN HAVE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF MATHEMATICS AND COMBINATION WITH SCIENCE AND LITERACY THROUGH THINGS THAT STUDENTS ARE INTERESTED IN. I THINK AS WE CONTINUE COACHING ALSO OUR PRINCIPALS AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS, AND WE SHOW THAT ALIGNMENT AND STRENGTHEN OUR FRAMEWORK, OUR COACHING FRAMEWORK, WE WILL HAVE A WIN-WIN SITUATION, BUT IT HAS TO BE CONSISTENT. MY OTHER QUESTION IS ON LOW PROFICIENCY FOR GRADES SIXTH THROUGH 12th, AND I FEEL LIKE YOU ARE CAFFOLDINGS AND BUILDING TEACHERS UP, BUT WHAT IS NEXT FOR THE GAP FOR THOSE KIDS THAT FELL THROUGH THE CRACKS? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION, AND SUPERINTENDENT RUIZ MENTIONED CUE TAIL, AND CHARLOTTE MENTIONED STANDARDS, AND THOSE TWO THINGS IN COMBINATION. SO THE STANDARDS,

106OBVIOUSLY AS YOU PROGRESS THROUGH SCHOOL, THE STANDARDS GET MORE DIFFICULT, THE EXPECTATION OF THE KNOWLEDGEKNOWLEDGE SKILLS ARE DIFFERENT THAN THEY ARE AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL, SO HOW DO WE GET STUDENTS TO REALLY ENGAGE IN THOSE STANDARDS IN A MEANINGFUL WAY, AND THAT IS REALLY WHERE THE CUE TAIL WORK COMES IN, BECAUSE IT REALLY IS ABOUT ENGAGING STUDENTS, SO STUDENTS ARE THE ONES DOING --DOING THE WORK, DOING THE THINKING AND, YOU KNOW, AS A FORMER SECONDARY TEACHER, I WAS GUILTY OF THIS TOO, I KNOW THIS AND I'M GOING TO TELL YOU, AND -- BUT THE KIDS AREN'T --THAT'S NOT HOW WE LEARN AS HUMANS, JUST TELLING PEOPLE SOMETHING OVER AND OVER. IT'S REALLY STUDENTS ENGAGING WITH IT. JUST LIKE THE MATH, THE eSPORTS STUDENTS USING THOSE SKILLS. IT'S THE APPLICATION, THE THINKING, THE ENGAGEMENT, HAVING THOSE

107CONVERSATIONS IS REALLY WHERE THE IMPROVEMENT HAPPENS. SO THAT'S REALLY THE DIRECTION, I THINK, TEACHERS ARE EMBRACING THAT -- YOU KNOW, TEACHERS THAT HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN CERTAIN TYPES OF PRACTICES FOR A LONG TIME, IT MAY FEEL A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE DOING THINGS A LITTLE DIFFERENT OR THINKING ABOUT THINGS A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY, BUT I THINK TEACHERS ARE REALLY EMBRACING THE OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT STANDARDS BASE LEARN SKPG ENGAGEMENT IN A DIFFERENT WAY. AND PRESIDENT CORT, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD, AS WE HEARD FROM OUR ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENTS OF LEADERSHIP A FEW MEETINGS AGO, MOVING FORWARD AND WORKING WITH OUR PRINCIPALS, WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE GO INTO A NEW MATH ADOPTION HERE SOON, SO THAT'S ANOTHER PIECE THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT KEY PIECE. THEN LOOKING AT OUR INTERIM ASSESSMENT I-READY DATA, JUST TO YOUR POINT FOR THE

108KIDS IN OLDER GRADES, THAT'S THE INFORMATION OF WHERE THEY ARE NOW AND WHERE WE NEED TO TAKE THEM AND THAT'S PIECES OF INFORMATION CURRENTLY HAPPENING, AND THEN WE HAVE SUPPORT IN PLACE AS WELL. I THINK MOST PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THOSE OLDER KIDS WHO ARE MAYBE STRUGGLING WITH THEIR LEVEL OF READING AND EVEN THEIR LEVEL OF MATH, AND THEN HOW CAN WE GET THEMTHEM BUILD UP THEIR CONFIDENCE TO HAVE SUPPORT? I DON'T KNOW. I THINK IT'S REALLY HARDHARD TO ENOUGH STAFF. FOR THESE KIDS, MAYBE THEY NEED THAT ONE-ON- ONE AND I KNOW THAT'S REALLY HARD TO FIND. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THERE ARE SUPPORTS FOR THE STAFF AND THEN SAFETY NETS FOR THESE KIDS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD WITH GRADUATION ALLIANCE AND THE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE

109FIGURE OUT WHERE THEY ARE AT, WHETHER THEY GET THEM BACK INTO SCHOOL OR GET THEM ENOUGH CREDITS. YEAH, I JUST WANT TO SEE THEIR GROWTH. I JUST -- I KNOW THEY ARE CAPABLE AND I UNDERSTAND IT'S HARD. PRESIDENT CORT, THERE'S LOTS OF HARD WORK AND OUR TEAMS ARE WORKING HARD AND DR. WENDY IS LEADING OUR GRADUATION INITIATIVE AND THAT IS HONING IN NOT ONLY THE KIDDOS AT THAT POINT, THE JUNIORS AND SENIORS, AND THEN CATCHING THEM AS FRESHMEN AND EVEN BEFORE. WE ARE WORKING WITH THAT COMMITTEE AND ALSO THE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENTS OF LEADERSHIP AND OUR ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE STRUCTURES IDENTIFYING THOSE GAPS EARLY AND THEN TO YOUR POINT, NOT ENOUGH CREDITS SO IT'S A WORK IN PROCESS. NEVER TOO LATE. THANK YOU. BOARD MEMBERS, ANYTHING ELSE? MR. FRANK, YOU GOOD?

110YEAH, I'M GOOD. JUST CHECKING IN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. APPRECIATE BOTH OF YOU. WE ARE GOING TO BE MOVING ON TO MR. RODRIGUEZ AND THE DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF THE HERMOSA PARK LEASE AGREEMENT? THIS STARTED WITH THE INITIAL CONVERSATION WITH MYSELF AND MAYOR RODRIGUEZ, AND THERE WAS SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS WE WERE HAVING FOR HERMOSA PARK OR THE PARK ACROSS THE STREET. IT IS REALLY ONE OF OUR SCHOOLS THAT HAS THAT TYPE OF SURROUNDINGS, I GUESS, IF YOU WILL, AND THE CHALLENGES AND LOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS NOT ONLY TO SUPPORT THE SCHOOL BUT ALSO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY IN THE HERMOSA PARK AREA, SO -- MR. RODRIGUEZ. THANK YOU. MADAME CORT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND SUPERINTENDENT. LIKE MR. RUE WEISE SAID, IT'S A COLLABORATION BETWEEN US BOTH GOING FORWARD BECAUSE HOW CAN WE

111HELP OUR STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS BECAUSE THERE WERE ISSUES HAPPENING AT THE PARK AND ONE THAT WE COULDN'T NECESSARILY POLICE, AND WHEN I SAY POLICE, WE COULDN'T HANDLE THOSE SITUATIONS HAPPENING THERE AND IT WAS OUT OF OUR CONTROL BECAUSE IT'S OUT OF OUR PROPERTY LINES THAT WERE THERE, AND THERE WERE CONCERNS BROUGHT FORWARD BY THE COMMUNITY, BY THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY AND THE PRINCIPAL AND SECURITY OFFICERS THAT WERE THERE, AND WE WANTED TO GO INTO IT TO SEE HOW WE COULD PARTNER, AND CURRENTLY WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO GO THROUGH IS BACKGROUND. YOU CAN SEE IN THE PICTURE THERE, THIS IS THE PARK WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. I'M GLAD THE HIGHLIGHT IS THERE BECAUSE IT WAS NOT ON MY PICTURE, BUT IT'S THERE FOR YOU TO SEE. RIGHT THERE, IT'S DIRECTLY SOUTH OF THE SCHOOL. USED TO

112BE A DOG PARK. I KNOW PEOPLE USE IT ALL THE TIME FOR DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IS THE PARK IS OWNED BY THE CITY OF LAS CRUCES, AND THEY ARE UNABLE TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT OF THERE AT CERTAIN TIMES, AND THE CONVERSATION IS IF IT'S SCHOOL PROPERTY, THEY CAN'T GO ON THAT PROPERTY DURING SCHOOL TIMES BECAUSE IT HAS OUR NAME AND DIFFERENT THINGS, AND PEOPLE HAVE TO CHECK INTO THE BUILDING AND DO CERTAIN THINGS IF THEY ARE COMING ON THE PLAY GROUND OR SCHOOL BUILDING, AND THAT WAS PART OF HOW CAN WE ELIMINATE AND HELP WITH THE POLICE BEING ABLE TO FORCE AND GOVERN SCHOOL PROPERTY INTO THAT PIECE. THAT'S REALLY THE BACKGROUND OF WHERE THIS ALL COME FROM INTO THAT PIECE AND HOW CAN WE MAKE IT SAFE THERE, AND

113STILL MAKE IT A PARK AND KEEP IT OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY WHEN SCHOOL IS NOT OPEN. SO THAT'S TO MAINTAIN THE GREEN SPACE OF THE CITY, AND KEEP SAFETY AND SECURITY DURING THE TIMES WE HAVE STUDENTS THERE OR STAFF THERE, OR WE HAVE EVENTS THERE, AND IT WAS FUNCTION AS A SCHOOL PROPERTY IS WHAT IT WOULD BE WITH THE LEASE. SO THE PURPOSE OF THE LEASE THERE IS THAT WE WOULD HAVE LIMITED AUTHORITY, NOT POLICING AUTHORITY, AGAIN, BUT IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN IF IT WAS PART OF OUR PROPERTY. SO OUR SECURITY OFFICERS, YOU KNOW, WITH OUR SECURITY SPECIALISTS THERE, DIRECTOR OF SECURITY, IF THERE WAS UNWANTED PEOPLE THERE, WE COULD NOTIFY POLICE AND ESCORT THEM OUT SO THEY ARE NOT THERE, AND THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF WHERE WE ARE GOING WITH THAT PART. REALLY KEY

114TERMS OF THE LEASE, THIS WOULD BE A ONE YEAR LEASE THAT WOULD AUTOMATICALLY RENEW EACH YEAR, AND WE WOULD TALK AND SEE HOW IT'S GOING AND GO FROM THERE TO LOOK AT THAT PART. EITHER PARTY CAN END THE LEASE WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM THE WRITTEN LEASE, AND I DON'T SEE ANY ISSUES BECAUSE IT'S A PARTNERSHIP WHERE WE WANT TO HANDLE THE SITUATION WE HAVE THERE. THE COST OF THE LEASE IS $1 PER YEAR FOR THE LEASE, SO IT'S NOT A BIG COST TO US. THE REAL CONSIDERATION IS REALLY OUR OVERSIGHT AND DAILY SUPERVISION OF THE PROPERTY. THAT'S WHAT WE ARE GAINING OUT OF THIS. WE WILL MAINTAIN CONTROL, PUT SIGNAGE THAT IT IS THERE DURING CERTAIN HOURS AND IT'S NOT ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC BECAUSE IT'S SCHOOL PROPERTY. AS FAR AS WHAT THE CITY WILL

115PROVIDE, AND A BIG PART FOR US, WHEN WE GROW, WE ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH GREENLAND SCAPING AND OTHER THINGS TO TAKE CARE OF, AND THE CITY WOULD CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN THE PROPERTY, AS FAR AS THE GROUNDS, THE UPKEEP AND CUTTING THE GRASS AND FIXING THETHE AND FENCING, AND ANYTHING THERE WOULD FALL UPON THE PURVIEW OF THE CITY TO TAKE CARE OF THAT AND IT WOULD NOT FALL ON US TO USE ANY OPERATIONAL MONIES TO DO THAT. THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING WITHIN THE LEASE AGREEMENT, AND IT'S WITHIN THE CITY OF LAS CRUCES TO MAINTAIN THAT. THAT WAS OUR FIRST CONCERN WHEN THEY PROPOSED THIS TO US, WE CAN'T SIT AND ADD PROPERTY TO MAINTAIN WITH THE LIMITED STAFF TO MAINTAIN THE OTHER FACILITIES WE ALREADY HAVE. IT'S A WIN SITUATION FOR US TO HAVE THAT AS SCHOOL

116PROPERTY IN THAT AREA. SO I REALLY FEEL THAT'S THE BENEFITS OF OURS INTO THAT PIECE, SO WITH THAT, I STAND FOR QUESTIONS. PRESIDENT CORT AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. YES. AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF AND WHEN THIS GETS APPROVED, WE LEASE THE PROPERTY AND IT BECOMES A TRESPASSING SITUATION DURING SCHOOL TIME, SO WHEN IT BECOMES A TRESPASSING SITUATION -- SO WHO POLICES --SO IF IT'S US THAT ARE POLICING THAT PARK, AND SOMEBODY COMES IN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, I MEAN, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND WHO GETS CALLED TO KICK THOSE PEOPLE OFF THE PROPERTY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT? DO WE HAVE TO HIRE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TO TAKE CARE OF THAT, QUOTE, UNQUOTE, POLICING OF THE PARK? SURE,

117MADAME CORT. GOOD QUESTION. IT SHOULD NOT BE ADDITIONAL, BUT IT WOULD BE WITH OUR MOBILE SECURITY OFFICERS GOING AROUND SO WE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE ONES TO KICK PEOPLE OFF, AND OUR MOBILE POLICE OFFICERS ARE THERE, AND MOST OF THE TIME THEY WILL NOTIFY POLICE AND WE ARE GOING TO CALL POLICE OFFICERS TO COME DO THAT FOR OUR OFFICERS THERE. THEY WOULD CALL MAURICE, AND HE MAY RESPOND AND GO AND WE WILL CALL THE LAW ENFORCEMENT, IF THEY WERE INSIDE A BUILDING, WE WILL NOTIFY POLICE AT THAT TIME? DOES IT GIVE RSO AN ADDITIONAL PLACE TO MONITOR? THEY ARE ALREADY MONITORING, AS THE OFFICERS ARE WALKING THE GROUNDS AND LOOKING OVER THERE, AND IT'S SOMETHING HE COULD KEEP EYES ON THERE, AND WE COULD SUPPORT THAT WITH THEM, AND WHETHER IT'S CAMERAS, AND WE CAN

118IDENTIFY IT THROUGH THE CAMERA SYSTEMS AS WELL. DID WE TALK TO THE SRO AT HERMOSA HEIGHTS IF THAT'S OKAY? JUST ME THINKING OUT LOUD? SURE, MADAME CORT. IT'S PART OF THE CONVERSATION OF HIM BRING ING AND ADMINISTRATION BRINGING THIS ISSUE TO US. I KNOW THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT THE SPEED GOING THROUGH THERE, AND THE ACTIVITIES HAPPENING THERE, THE PEOPLE HANGING OUT THERE, IT WAS UNSAFE DURING THAT TIME, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S HAPPENING DURING, YOU KNOW, DROP OFF TIME OR PICK-UP TIME, DIFFERENT TIMES LIKE THAT, IT WAS CONCERNS BROUGHT FORTH BY THE ADMINISTRATION AND SECURITY. SO THERE IS NO SRO IN ELEMENTARY -- THAT'S RIGHT. MY GETTING THAT INCORRECT. BOARD MEMBERS? MR. RODRIGUEZ, DO WE HAVE PLANS --THERE WILL BE A TRANSITION PERIOD, BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OCCUPYING THAT PARK AND POSING A PROBLEM WILL NOT CHANGE WITH

119ONE DAY. DO YOU HAVE PLANS TO HAVE ADDITIONAL SECURITY AT HERMOSA HEIGHTS DURING WHENEVER WE SIGN THE LEASE AND THE SIGNS GO UP, BECAUSE THE SIGN COULD BE IGNORED? THAT'S JUST A SUGGESTION. YOU IDENTIFIED MAURICE GOING THERE AND OTHERS, AND I ANTICIPATE SOMETHING POTENTIALLY HAPPENING THERE. THEN, THIS IS NICE, WE HAVE A PARK. WHAT IMPROVEMENTS WILL THE CITY DO FOR US WITH THIS PARK? WILL THE PLAYGROUND BECOME MORE USABLE FOR OUR --IT'S ACROSS THE STREET, SO IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A DESIGNATED KINDER, BUT I LOVED WHAT THE ARCHITECTS DID AT COLOMBIA WITH THE KINDER SPACE THERE AND OTHER SPACES. IS THERE A POTENTIAL TO HAVE THE CITY HELP US WITH SOMETHING LIKE THAT? DO WE HAVE FENCING THAT WILL BE MORE LIKE OUR OTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN THE PLANS? YOU TALKED ABOUT CAMERAS OR

120THE ABILITY TO MONITOR IT EFFECTIVELY, AND THE SECURITY GUARDS WITH THE SYSTEM --KUDOS AGAIN ON INSTALLING THAT, SO TO PUT CAMERAS UP THERE COULD REALLY HELP US MONITOR THAT. IF IT'S A YEAR TO YEAR LEASE THE CITY MAY BALK AT IT FOR PROVIDING A COOL PLAYGROUND, BUT I THINK WE SHOULD GO AFTER THEM. ARE THERE ANY PLANS LIKE THAT? WHAT IMPROVEMENTS WILL HAPPEN AT THIS PARK? THE CONVERSATION HAS BEEN WE CAN'T MAKE IMPROVEMENTS TO IT OR CHANGES TO IT WITHOUT APPROVAL TO THE CITY PER THE LEASE, AND THEY ARE STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT. IT WOULD HAVE TO MEET SOME OF THE STANDARDS WE HAVE FOR OUR OWN FACILITIES AS FAR AS THE FENCING AND THE RUBBER OR WOOD CHIPS, WHATEVER HAS TO BE THERE TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SCHOOL. THOSE WERE CONVERSATIONS WE

121HAD FOR THAT PIECE, AND WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT FOR US TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. IT WOULD DEFINITELY BE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM FOR THAT, AND I APPRECIATE THE EXTRA SECURITY PIECE, AND WE'RE PUTTING THE SIGNAGE ON THERE AND MAKING SURE IT'S VISIBLE ANDAND WE ARE HAVING CONVERSATIONS AROUND THAT, AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC KNOWS THIS IS SCHOOL GROUNDS AND THE OTHER TIMES IT'S AN OPEN PARK, A PUBLIC PARK AS WELL. THAT'S WHY THE CITY WANTED TO MAINTAIN THAT RESPONSIBILITY OF MAINTAINING, BECAUSE THERE ARE GOING TO BE OTHER PEOPLE USING IT AT DIFFERENT TIMES LIKE THE PUBLIC. THERE WILL BE SCHOOL GROUNDS, NOT IN NAME ONLY BUT WE ARE GOING TO BE UTILIZING THE PARK? YES, WE WILL BE UTILIZING THAT TO USE THAT DURING THE SCHOOL DAY, LIKE,

122IF THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE --THEY HAVE A BIG PLAYGROUND ANYWAY. IT'S EXTRA GROUND WE ARE ABLE TO DO A LOT OF THINGS THERE AS WELL. WE WILL UTILIZE IT DURING THE DAYTIME. SOUNDS LIKE A WIN-WIN, AS YOU SAID. BOARD MEMBERS? SO IF SOMETHING IS HAPPENING AT MIDNIGHT, STUDENTS AREN'T THERE, IT'S NOT OUR --OUR SECURITY WILL NOT HAVE TO ADDRESS WHATEVER IS HAPPENING AT HERMOSA AT MIDNIGHT, IS THAT? VICE PRESIDENT NOLAN, CORRECT. IT'S GOING TO BE THE SAME THING IF THEY WERE ON OUR CURRENT PROPERTY NOW. IF SOMETHING IS HAPPENING THERE, WE HAVE UNHOUSED PEOPLE THERE OR WHATEVER, WHATEVER MAY OCCUR, OUR SECURITY OFFICERS MORE THAN LIKELY WOULD BE NOTIFIED, THE MOBILE PATROL WHEN THEY ARE OUT THERE DOING THEIR ROUNDS AND WE WOULD DO THE SAME THING, IF WE NOTIFY SOMEBODY THERE, YES, WE

123WILL CALL THE POLICE TO HANDLE THAT SITUATION. OUR SECURITY OFFICERS WOULD NOT BE HANDLING THAT, NOTIFYING. [ INAUDIBLE ] --PART OF THE PROCESS, AS THEY MONITOR IT, THIS PARK WILL BE PART OF THAT, OF THAT MONITORING, AM I CORRECT ON THAT? THAT WILL BE PART OF THEIR REGULAR MONITORING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT BECAUSE THEY ARE MONITORING ALL NIGHT ALL OF OUR PROPERTIES, RIGHT? I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT I THINK IT'S AN OUTSIDE THE BOX THINKING AS FAR AS A PARTNERSHIP TO HELP MAKE THE WHOLE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD SAFER, AND I THINK FOR THE COST AND FOR WHAT WE MAY POTENTIALLY BE ABLE TO USE ITIT FOR, IT'S PERFECT FINE. I LOOKED ON GOOGLE TO MAKE SURE THAT AMADOR AVENUE WAS NOT THE AMADOR AVENUE, AND IT'S NOT. IT BREAKS INTO AMADOR, AND IT'S LIKE A BLOCK

124WEST, SO IT'S NOT AS BUSY AS SOMEBODY MIGHT THINK, SO THAT'S GOOD. IT'S LABELED AS DOG PARK ON GOOGLE, SO HOW MUCH PREPARE WORK DO TEACHERS OR ANYBODY HAVE TO DO IF THEY ARE PLAN NING TO TAKE KIDS OVER THERE? IT'S KIND OF LIKE LET'S SEE IF THIS WORKS? YEAH, AND THAT'S WHY IT'S A YEARLY -- JUST AS WE LOOK AT THIS, YOU KNOW, AND SEVERAL TIMES I HAVE BEEN THERE TO VISIT THE SCHOOL AND JUST KIND OF HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR SECURITY OFFICER, LOOKING AT THE PARK, AND UNFORTUNATELY THE ONLY ONES USING THE PARK ARE THOSE FOLKS NOT THERE TO UTILIZE THE PARK FOR THE PARK ITSELF, RIGHT, DRUG USE AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. THIS WILL -- THE GOAL HERE, RIGHT, IS THIS WILL OPEN IT UP NOT ONLY FOR US AND

125ALSO THE COMMUNITY. MR. WOFFORD, YOU MAKE A GOOD POINT, AND WE COULD ESTABLISH THIS AND SAY WHAT COULD WE DO TO IMPROVE THIS AS WELL? AND THERE ARE COMMUNITY THAT WILL STEP UP. I ALREADY HAD A GENTLEMAN COME UP AND DO SOME TYPE OF A TRACK AND NATURE AREA, AND THIS WOULD BE A PERFECT THING FOR THAT. THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES THERE FOR SURE. I THINK UNFORTUNATELY, THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO DO AT OTHER CAMPUSES AS WELL. THIS IS ANOTHER PIECE. TESTIFY NUTTILY MAKING SURE WE ARE WALKING THROUGH AND COORDINATING WITH THE CITY IF IT NEEDS TO BE MAINTAINED OR CLEANED UP, BUT AS FAR AS THAT PARK, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THERE ARE NOT THINGS LEFT THERE THAT WE DON'T WANT OUR STUDENTS TO HAVE, ABSOLUTELY. ALL RIGHT. BOARD MEMBERS? MR. FRANK? SORRY. DID YOU

126HAVE SOMETHING? DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING, MR. FRANK? NO. I'M PAYING ATTENTION AND -- OH, MY GOSH. >> I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD -- MR. FRANK, I DID NOT HAVE ON MY TEACHER VOICE SAYING, EXCUSE ME. OKAY. I HOPE I DIDN'T COME ACROSS THAT WAY. I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE WANTING TO SAY SOMETHING, AND I'M NOT CUTTING YOU OUT. SO THANK YOU. I DON'T KNOW. I HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO HER TEACHER VOICE. IT'S TEACHER VOICESQUE. YEAH, MANY PEOPLE HAVE. QUICK QUESTION. WELL, IT'S A STRONG TEACHER VOICE. YES. >> I STOPPED IN MY TRACKS THE LAST TIME I GOT IT. WE'RE NOT FENCING OFF AND NO PLANS TO PUT PERMANENT FENCING OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT AROUND --IT'S GOING TO BE AN OPEN SPACE, AND WE ARE JUST GOING TO SIGN IT -- LIKE

127RENTERS, WE CAN'T DO MUCH. IT'S AN INTERESTING APPROACH AND NUANCE, AND WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. CURRENTLY VICE PRESIDENT, IT'S FENCED OFF CURRENTLY NOW, A PARKING SPACE IN THE BACK, AND IT'S NOT OUR STANDARD OF THE SIX FOOT AND THERE'S STILL CONVERSATIONS OF HAVING THAT WITH THAT PARK. WE WILL DEFINITELY KEEP YOU POSTED. WE'LL SEE HOW IT GOES. AWESOME. THANK YOU, VERY MUCH, MR. RODRIGUEZ. MS. TENORIO, I TRAINED IN THE PARK AND I CLEANED UP. YOU'RE DIFFERENT. >> MY SON'S TEAM, WE COACHED SOCCER THERE AND WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE DOGGY PICKUP BEFORE PLAYING SOCCER, BECAUSE WE WOULD HAVE ACCIDENTS. ANY PARK WILL HAVE THAT. >> I WOULD LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE HERMOSA PARK LEASE AGREEMENT. SO MOVED. SECOND. MOVED BY SECRETARY WOFFORD AND SECONDED BY MS. TENORIO. MR. WOFFORD, ROLL CALL.

128BOARD MEMBER FRANK? YES. MS.TON? >> YES. SECRETARY WOFFORD VOTES YES. VICE PRESIDENT? >> YES. >> PRESIDENT CORT. YES, WE ARE APPROVED 5-0. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOR HANGING AROUND FOR ALL OF OUR DISCUSSIONS. A LOT OF PRESSURE FROM MY COLLEAGUES IN THE BACK. I'M THE LAST ONE AND I'M NEVER THE LAST ONE. MAKE IT SNAPPY. >> YES, I HAVE NEVER BEEN THE LAST PERSON UP HERE. I COME BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING TO PRESENT YOUR ANNUAL REPORT ON OUR EQUITY COUNCIL AND TO UPDATE YOU ON THE ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR. JUST REAL QUICKLY, A REMINDER OF WHY WE HAVE AN EQUITY COUNCIL. BACK IN 2019, VERY IMPORTANT YEAR IN NEW MEXICO WHEN THE MARTINEZ-YAZZIE CASE CAME TO LIGHT AND THE RULING CAME OUT AND THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT CAME OUT

129WITH STRATEGIES OF HOW NEW MEXICO WOULD ADDRESS THE LAWSUIT. ONE OF THE STRATEGIES WAS THAT EACH DISTRICT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO HAVE AN ACTIVE EQUITY COUNCIL, SO THAT'S WHEN THIS WORK STARTED. REALLY PROUD OF THE WORK WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO STAY TOGETHER FOR THIS LONG. SOME MEMBERS HAVE BEEN THERE SINCE THE BEGINNING. WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF TURNOVER OVER THE YEARS AND HAPPY TO REPORT THAT THE WORK IS CONTINUING AND IT'S REALLY HARD WORK, AND I THINK PEOPLE AT THE TABLE ON THAT COUNCIL ARE THE RIGHT PEOPLE FOR WHAT WE NEEDNEED ACCOMPLISH, BECAUSE IT'S A LOT. IT WOULD BRING ANY ADVICE AROUND ANY POLICY IF NEEDED, BUT REALLY IT'S TO LOOK AT THE PRACTICES AROUND HOW WE ARE BEST SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS WHO NEED THE MOST SUPPORT AND THOSE BEING OUR FOUR STUDENT

130GROUPS OUTLINED IN THE MARTINEZ-YAZZIE LAWSUIT. SOMETHING I WANTED TO POINT OUT ON THE SLIDE, WE HAVE A LOGO FOR THE COUNCIL, AND THEY DON'T KNOW THAT BUT WHEN I WAS CREATING THIS I THOUGHT WE NEEDED A LOGO, AND MY COLLEAGUE IN THE BACK, JOSH, HE SAID THAT LOOKS GREAT, DID YOU GET PERMISSION FROM PUEBLO, AND I SAID, NO, AND I JUST CREATED THE LOGO. I DID WRITE TO THE PUEBLO ZIA, AND THEY APPROVED US TO USE THE SYMBOL, AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS GOOD, AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT TO MY ATTENTION. ANY I WOULD LIKE A STAMP ON THAT, LIKE OF AUTHENTICITY. I WOULD MAKE IT APPROVE. ADAM CORT, MEMBER TENORIO, WE ACTUALLY HAVE THE OFFICIAL LETTER. THEY WERE VERY GRACIOUS AND THANKFUL THAT WE REACHED OUT. GOOD JOB. AGAIN, MR. SILVER BROUGHT TO

131OUR ATTENTION. THANK YOU, MR. SILVER. NEXT UP , I WANT TO SHOW YOU -- LOOKING FAR AWAY THERE. MADAM CORT, I WANT TO GIVE CREDIT A BOARD MEMBER TENORIO. THIS IS AN IDEA THAT SHE BROUGHT UP. SHE SERVED ON THE EQUITY COUNCIL FOR A COUPLE YEARS, AND LAST YEAR THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT SHE REALLY BELIEVED IN , CREATING AN INFORMATIONAL VIDEO FOR THE COMMUNITY. FOR DIFFERENT REASONS, NUMBER ONE BEING FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THE EQUITY COUNCIL EXISTS, MORE PORTLY, TO SHED LIGHT ON OUR COMMUNITY ABOUT THE MARTINEZ/YAZZIE CASE . OFTEN WHAT WE HEAR IS PEOPLE UP NORTH REALLY ARE ENGAGED, OR KNOW ABOUT THE LAWSUIT, AND HERE IN THE SOUTH WE DON'T PAY AS MUCH ATTENTION. I, OF COURSE, TEND TO DISAGREE WITH THAT. BUT I DO RECOGNIZE THAT WE NEED TO DO A

132BETTER JOB IN MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE MARTINEZ/YAZZIE LAWSUIT. THANK YOU, MS. TENORIO, THIS WAS YOUR IDEA. AND REMEMBER NOLAN ALSO FOLLOWED UP. WITH THAT, IF YOU DON'T MIND PLEASE PLAYING THE VIDEO. I'VE ALWAYS BEEN AN ADVOCATE FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS, BUT IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ME TO STAND UP AND HELP GIVE THOSE STUDENTS A VOICE. WE WANT THE LENS OF EQUITY TO GO ACROSS THE BOARD. IT'S NOT JUST EQUAL TREATMENT FOR ALL STUDENTS, BUT EQUITABLE TREATMENT. AND WHO THEY ARE MATTERS. EQUITY COUNCIL IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME TOGETHER TO REALLY LOOK AT THE ISSUES IN OUR COMMUNITY AND IN OUR SCHOOLS, AND PROVIDED DIFFERENT LENS , WHERE EVERYONE CAN COME IN AND SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE AND POINT OF VIEW TO HELP SUPPORT THE POLICIES

133THAT THE DISTRICT AND PERMITS. THE EQUITY COUNCIL CAME OUT OF THE MARTINEZ/YAZZIE COURT DECISION, WHICH ESSENTIALLY TOLD THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO THAT WE NEEDED A BETTER SERVICING FOR OUR SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS, INDIGENOUS STUDENTS, AND ESL STUDENTS. SO THE EQUITY COUNCIL CAME ABOUT AS A WAY TO SORT OF FLUSH OUT THOSE ISSUES AND FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS THAT WE ARE MISSING, AND BRING THOSE DIFFERENT VOICES TO THE TABLE. THE EQUITY COUNCIL IS UNIQUE AMONG LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS COUNCIL, IN THAT WE WANTED TO SERVE WITH ALL OF OUR DEPARTMENTS, IN FINANCE, OPERATIONS, AND INSTRUCTION. WE WANT THE LENS OF EQUITY TO GO ACROSS THE BOARD. SOME OF OUR OPPORTUNITIES REALLY FOCUS ON LOOKING AT DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEWS, AND HOW POLICIES WOULD AFFECT DIFFERENT SUBGROUPS OF STUDENTS. BEING ABLE TO SAY THIS POLICY MIGHT

134BE GOOD FOR ONE GROUP OR NOT, SO IT REALLY BRINGS IT BACK TO WHAT THE INDIVIDUAL GROUPS NEED, AND HOW CERTAIN THINGS AFFECT OTHERS. MY BACKGROUND IS IN TEACHER EDUCATION, AND FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER I'VE BEEN AN ADVOCATE FOR DIVERSE LEARNING THAT ALL STUDENTS NEED TO GET APPROPRIATE EDUCATION, SO THEY CAN BE SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE. BEFORE WE HAD OUR EQUITY COUNCIL, PEOPLE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW ABOUT WHAT THE MARTINEZ/YAZZIE LAWSUIT WAS EVEN ABOUT , AND IT'S BECOMING THE FOREFRONT OF DISCUSSIONS IN PLANNING, IN SCHOOL BUILDINGS, AND COMMUNITY MEETINGS, AND WHAT IT DOES, IT REALLY HELPS US BE ABLE TO GIVE A VOICE TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG CHANGES. ALSO, THE DISTRICT FOCUS ON MAKING CHANGES AND PROVIDING WITH NEEDED. THE STUDENTS ARE THE FOCUS OF ALL OF

135OUR DISCUSSIONS, AND PLANNING, TO SEE WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP THE STUDENTS? WHAT CAN WE DO TO SUPPORT THEM BETTER? ONE THING THE EQUITY COUNCIL HAS DONE IS TO GOD AND OF THE SCHOOLS, MEET WITH KIDS OF VARYING BACKGROUNDS, TAKE THAT DATA, AND BRING IT BACK TO THE SCHOOL BOARD SO WE CAN MAKE MORE INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT OUR STUDENTS ARE THINKING ABOUT, WHAT THEIR IMMEDIATE NEEDS ARE , AND HOW WE CAN ADDRESS THOSE NEEDS. ALL OF US HAVE A STAKE IN MAKING STUDENTS SUCCEED, AND WHEN STUDENTS SUCCEED, OUR COMMUNITY SUCCEEDS. ONE OF THE ITEMS I DID NOT MENTION, THAT I KNOW WE WILL ALSO BE USING THIS VIDEO FOR, IS WHEN WE , I KNOW WE ARE GETTING READY PROBABLY WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS TO RECRUIT OTHER MEMBERS , WE HAVE

136LOST A COUPLE OF MEMBERS THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, SO WILL BE GOOD ADVERTISING FOR US , WHETHER IT BE PARENTS, TEACHERS, OR COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO WANT TO JOIN THE EQUITY COUNCIL. IF YOU RECALL, WE DO HAVE A VERY ROBUST PROCESS FOR IDENTIFYING WHO SITS ON THE COUNCIL. THE STATE DID GIVE US SOME PARAMETERS, WHICH, IN A WAY, THEY ARE FLEXIBLE. SO WE AVERAGE ABOUT 15-20 COUNCILMEMBERS EACH REPRESENTATIVE OF DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDER GROUPS. SO PARENTS , COMMUNITY MEMBERS, I KNOW RECENTLY WE HAD SOMEBODY FROM IN MSU THAT HAD BEEN THERE, HE'S NO LONGER THERE, WILL BE WORKING ON GETTING SOMEBODY ELSE THERE. JUST A GREAT WAY FOR US TO INFORM OUR COMMUNITY. SO THANK YOU, MR. NOLAN, AND MR. WOFFORD, FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE VIDEO. I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY HELPFUL. WE WILL START

137OUR WORK WITH KELLY AND HER DEPARTMENT TO MAKE SURE THIS IS VISIBLE TO OUR COMMUNITY. DO YOU HAVE AN EQUITY WEBPAGE? YES MA'AM. >> YOU GUYS SOUNDED GOOD. SOUNDED GREAT. DO YOU MIND GOING TO THE NEXT ? FOR SOME REASON MY CLICK OF THE IS NOT WORKING. ONE OF THE ITEMS THE EQUITY COUNCIL ENGAGED IN EARLIER THIS YEAR WAS IN REDOING OUR BYLAWS, SO ON OUR EQUITY WEBPAGE, WE DO HAVE EQUITY COUNCIL WEBPAGE, WE DO HAVE OUR BYLAWS , YOU CAN FIND MINUTES ON THEIR, AGENDAS, REQUIREMENT. BUT AS A COUNCIL, WE THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT WHAT IS BEING DISCUSSED EACH MONTH WHEN WE MEET. ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT, OVER THE YEARS, WE HAVE STRUGGLED AS AN EQUITY COUNCIL, IN THE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF STUDENTS . WE HAVE

138CHANGED OVER TIME , HAVING SENIORS, HAVING JUNIORS. OF COURSE STUDENTS ARE BUSY. YOU HAVE, AT ONE POINT WE HAD TWO ACTIVE MEMBERS. IT WAS JUST REALLY DIFFICULT TO EXPECT THEM TO, WE WANTED THEM TO HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS. IT WAS REALLY HARD CONVERSATIONS TO HAVE. SO THIS YEAR, OBVIOUSLY IN DEEP DISCUSSIONS WITH THE EQUITY COUNCIL, WE DETERMINED THAT THE BEST WAY FOR US TO ENGAGE OUR STUDENTS IS TO BE REALLY BROAD AND MAKE SURE THAT IN OUR BYLAWS IT SAYS THAT PART OF THE ROLE OF THE EQUITY COUNCIL IS TO GO OUT TO OUR SCHOOLS AND MEET WITH DIFFERENT STUDENT GROUPS. WHETHER IT BE IN A CLASSROOM, VERY STRATEGICALLY FORMED FOCUS GROUPS, WHICH THEY'VE DONE, THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE ENGAGED IN OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS. LAST YEAR, IF YOU RECALL, IT WAS MIDDLE

139SCHOOLS. THIS YEAR WAS HIGH SCHOOLS. SO, THIS YEAR , HAPPY TO REPORT, THERE WERE SEVEN HIGH SCHOOL VISITS. THEY ALL OCCURRED IN MAY , AND AGAIN IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER. AGAIN, THE EQUITY COUNCILMEMBERS ALL TEAMED UP , SMALL GROUPS WENT TO DIFFERENT HIGH SCHOOLS, AND HAD ROBUST DISCUSSIONS WITH STUDENTS . REALLY TO INFORM THEM OF THE EQUITY COUNCIL , BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, TO ASK THEM HOW ARE THINGS GOING, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THESE TOPICS? THOSE ARE REALLY GOOD SOURCES FOR US TO GET DATA ON , BUT THE FOCUS OF THE EQUITY COUNCIL IS GOING TO BE, OR THE DISCUSSIONS WE HAVE AT THE EQUITY COUNCIL. A PROCESS THAT WE ALSO STARTED LAST YEAR AND CONTINUED THIS YEAR WAS SO WE GET THE FEEDBACK FROM STUDENTS, BUT NOW, WHAT IS THE PERCEPTION, WHAT IS THE

140FEEDBACK FROM INTERVALS? IN THAT VIDEO, YOU SAW THAT OUR HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS WERE IN A PANEL PICK, SO THAT IS WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO ASK THE PRINCIPALS THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE RESPONSES FROM THE THEMES THAT WE DERIVED FROM THE VISITS WITH STUDENTS. IT WAS JUST REALLY INTERESTING INFORMATION, MANY TOPICS THAT WERE DISCUSSED LAST YEAR THAT WERE BROUGHT FORWARD LAST YEAR, FOOD IS ALWAYS ONE THAT COMES UP QUITE OFTEN, FOOD AND BETTER FOOD. ANOTHER ONE IS SAFETY. AND BEHAVIOR. JUST FIGHTS IN SCHOOLS, THINGS LIKE THAT. THAT'S SOMETHING WE REALLY WANT TO FOCUS ON, AN AREA THAT WE DISCUSSED WAS MAKING SURE THAT WE STAY LASER FOCUSED ON THE PURPOSE OF THE EQUITY COUNCIL, WHICH IS ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF THOSE FOUR GROUPS. ON OCTOBER 18th, WE HAD OUR RETREAT , WHICH WE TYPICALLY HAVE ONE

141OR TWO RETREATS. THIS YEAR WE DID A LITTLE DIFFERENT, WHERE WE PARTNERED WITH A LOCAL ORGANIZATION CALLED INSIGHT , AND WHAT THEY DO, THEY OFFERED TO FACILITATE THAT DAY. SO I WAS THERE THE BEGINNING, AND THEY KINDLY ASKED ME TO LEAVE IN A VERY NICE WAY. I WASN'T EXPECTING THAT, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS REALLY GOOD FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK FREELY. WE HAVE TEACHERS IN THE COUNCIL, WE HAVE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE, WE HAVE PARENTS, SO I REALLY WANTED THEM TO HAVE A GENUINE CONVERSATION ABOUT SOME OF THE ISSUES, SOME OF THE TOPICS THAT , AS A COUNCIL, THEY WANT TO FOCUS ON. SO THIS ORGANIZATION IS A VERY GOOD MODEL. A DAY STRUCTURED CYCLE WHERE THE FACILITATORS ARE GREAT. I WILL ASK MR. WOFFORD AND MR. NOLAN TO SHARE LITTLE

142BIT ABOUT THAT DAY, BUT I KNOW THAT IT REALLY GOOD JOB, IN REALLY FACILITATING THE CONVERSATION AND MAKING SURE THAT THE GROUP STAYS FOCUSED ON WHAT OUR FOCUS SHOULD BE, WHICH IS STUDENT OUTCOMES AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT ITEMS THAT TRULY ARE GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR THOSE FOUR STUDENT POPULATION GROUPS. IN DECEMBER IT WILL BE THE 90 DAYS, SO I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT COMES OUT OF THE FACILITATION FROM THIS GROUP, AND , IF IT GOES WELL, HOPING TO CONTINUE THE PARTNERSHIP WITH INSIGHT. I KNOW THE FEEDBACK I RECEIVED FROM THE MEMBERS WAS VERY POSITIVE, SO REALLY TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS ACTION . AND, AGAIN, THE ACTION IS RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE SUPERINTENDENT. LOOKING FORWARD TO THE END OF DECEMBER, TO SEE WHAT COMES OUT OF

143THOSE 90 DAY CYCLES. THE FIRST 90 DAY CYCLE WITH THE ORGANIZATION. LOOKING AHEAD, I JUST SPOKE ABOUT THE EQUITY COUNCIL LABS , WHAT THEY CALL IT. HOPING THAT WE HAVE A GOOD FIRST ROUND OF THE 90 DAY CYCLE, GET GOOD FEEDBACK, AND SOME ACTION ITEMS THAT WE CAN PRESENT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT AND HOPEFULLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR OUR STUDENTS, BECAUSE THEY ARE DEPENDING ON IT. AND, OF COURSE, DEVELOP THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT. WITH THAT, MADAME CORT, I WILL STAND FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE , OR IF THE TWO EQUITY COUNCILMEMBERS THAT WANT TO SIT ON THE BOARD WANT TO SHARE ANYTHING ABOUT THE RETREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, AS SOMEONE WHO SERVED ON THE UPPITY COUNCIL FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS, NUMBER ONE, I REALLY MISS IT. NUMBER TWO, I'M REALLY EXCITED

144TO SEE THE GREAT THINGS YOU'RE DOING. BOARD MEMBERS, ANY QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, COMMENTS? I WANTED HAVE ONE THING. FOR ANYBODY LISTENING THAT THE SLIDE WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE HIGH SCHOOL PANEL, YOU ACTUALLY STARTED WITH THE MIDDLE SCHOOL PANEL . IT WAS KIND OF YOUR PILOT, RIGHT? JUST TO TEST THE WATERS, AND I THINK , FOR MYSELF IT WAS VERY INSIGHTFUL TO VISIT THE SCHOOLS AND TALK TO THESE KIDS . AND MIDDLE SCHOOL CAN BE HARD TO GET THEIR PERSPECTIVE IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS, AND I THOUGHT THEY DID A REALLY GOOD JOB. SO I'M EXCITED THAT YOU GUYS, WHATEVER HAPPENED, I THINK IT EVOLVED INTO SOMETHING MORE , WHAT YOU CALL IT, SOPHISTICATED FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL. I'M HAPPY. THANK YOU. MR. WOFFORD? I WAS PLEASED WITH THE DIRECTION THE COUNCIL HAS BEEN GOING,

145VERY MUCH WITH OUR FACILITATORS, THE INSIGHT PEOPLE. THAT WAS A VERY USEFUL DATA HELP US FIGURE OUT WHAT ACTIONABLE GOALS WE COULD COME UP WITH AND DESIGN, AS HE SAID, A 6090 DAY CYCLE OF DISTILLING OUR THOUGHTS, AND PUTTING THEM INTO ACTION . IN THE LAST SECTION, WE LOOKED AT BOARD GOALS AND HOW THE BOARD DISTRICT GOALS MATCH FROM EQUITY LENS. SO I THINK IT'S MOVING IN A GREAT DIRECTION. AWESOME, THANK YOU. MR. NOLAN, ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD? NO, I WOULD ECHO SECRETARY WOFFORD'S COMMENTS ON THE FACILITATION. I THINK IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVES, TO HELP GUIDE CONVERSATIONS, AND IT IS A WISE INVESTMENT. AND IT SORT OF HAILS BACK TO THE CONVERSATION EARLIER THAT WE HAD , YOU KNOW, MAYBE THIS IS SOMETHING WE CONTINUE TO USE IN THE FUTURE FOR

146OTHERS, OR BIG THINGS. AND I KNOW WE ARE PURSUING FUNDING TO KEEP THAT, AND HOPEFULLY THAT GOES WELL. I KNOW WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR BACK. HOPING WE CAN KEEP THAT FACILITATION, OR SOME SORT OF THAT. I THINK THE EQUITY COUNCIL IS GOOD, IT'S A TOOL . IT'S AN ACCOUNTABILITY TOOL FOR US AS A DISTRICT, AS SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, FOR THE COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE WE ARE DOING ALL THESE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO BE DOING, AND WE NEED TO BE SORT OF CHANNEL AND FOCUSED. BECAUSE IF WE WORRY ABOUT EVERYTHING, WE WILL LITTLE RELIEF NEVER DO ANYTHING RIGHT. JUST KIND OF SAYING, LOOKING AT THE THINGS WE CAN DO AND WHERE WE HAVE SOME INFLUENCE, I THINK THE FACILITATION IS HELPING US LOOK AT THAT, AND THINK STRATEGICALLY ABOUT THAT. AWESOME. MR. FRANK ?

147I'M NOT SURE WHAT TO SAY ABOUT THIS. YOU KNOW, I'VE NEVER SERVED ON THE COUNCIL. I CERTAINLY MIGHT BE INTERESTED. AND, YOU KNOW, I LIKE THE IDEA THAT IT IS TRYING TO PROMOTE ACHIEVEMENT IN THESE GROUPS, THAT TRADITIONALLY HAVE UNDERACHIEVED . THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION AND THE GREAT VIDEO. EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE GIVING THE VICE PRESIDENT A HARD TIME. IT WAS A REALLY BEAUTIFUL VIDEO, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU, DR. LOZANO. AND, WITH THAT, BEFORE WE ADJOURN, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE RIO GRANDE PREPARATORY INSTITUTE CULINARY CLASSES FOR THE FOOD THEY PROVIDED FOR US THIS AFTERNOON. IT WAS SO DELICIOUS. GOOD STUFF. WE REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. OUR STUDENTS ARE SO TALENTED, IT IS SO GREAT. AND, WITH THAT HAPPY NOTE, I WOULD LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN .

148SOME MOVE. SECOND. MOOD BY MR. WOFFORD, SECONDED BY MR. NOLAN. MR. WOFFORD, PLEASE TAKE ROLL. MR. FRANK? >> YES. MISS TENORIO LEXI MR. WOFFORD VOTES YES. MR. NOLAN? AND PRESIDENT CORT ? I VOTE YES. THIS MEETING IS NOW ADJOURNED AT 6:45. THANK YOU ALL.