9/11 AUHSD Board Meeting: Open Session (6:00 PM)

001Yes. >> Can I have your attention, please? See, >> it's all calm down. [Music] Oh, thank you, boys. Very quiet all of a sudden. Thank you so much. So, we now reconvene uh back into open session. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. [Music] >> Please join me. Place your hand right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I aliance 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. >> Thank you. Did we run out of seats for people that are just standing in the back? Okay. Sorry about that. So, I think everybody realizes what the date is today. It is September 11th, and 24 years ago today, we had terrorists attack the United States. Um, and

002that we thought that was absolutely terrible. But since then, we've had a number of issues throughout the United States um occur way too often. And I'm uh I can speak uh specifically about some recent shootings that just in the last couple days. One was u the shooting death at the Utah Valley University was one person was killed. Then we had um a Denver area high school where two students were wounded. We had Minneapolis last month in August where three dead, 21 were injured. Since this school year, since this year, excuse me, we have had 47 school shootings in the United States. 24 college campuses and 23 K12 campuses have been involved. That that means we had 19 people were killed and 77 were injured. Ladies and gentlemen, it's an epidemic in the United States. We

003need to do something about it. We need to think about what we as individuals and collectively, what can we do about it? So, let's take a couple of minutes here and think about that. Thank you. Thank you. We will now have a close session report read out by the clerk. >> Thank you. Uh 4.1 No action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation. Superintendent. 4.2 Two, nor action taken regarding unrepresentative employee negotiations. 4.3 The board of trustees unanimously approved a settlement agreement with parents providing reimbursement for tuition and services. 4.4. The board of trustees unanimously approved the settlement agreement in O a case number resolving all issues in students due process complaint by amending students IEP and providing an independent educational evaluation compensatory education and other reimbursements. 4.5. The board of trustees by a vote of

00450 approved the settlement agreement in Orange County Superior Court case number 30-2021-01186059- CU-PO- CJC 4.6 November action taken regarding negotiations. 4.7 No action taken regarding personnel. 4.8 8. The board of trustees unanimously voted to dismiss employee HR-2025-26-02. 4.9 The board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointment effective December 30th, 2025. Amy Quan, Assistant Superintendent, Educational Services. Congratulations. [Applause] And that concludes your report. >> Thank you. >> Does Miss Quan like to come forward? Oh, there I'm sorry. She's behind Carl. Yes. Would I just say a few words? >> I would like to say a few words. Um, board president O'Neal, esteemed board members, Superintendent Matsuda, soon to be Superintendent Dr. Freed, executive cabinet, colleagues, students, families, and community members. Thank you. I'm deeply honored to accept the role of assistant princely given the

005immense talent and dedication in all of AUHSD. This year marks my 20th year as an educator. And fun fact, it also marks my 20th year as a student in formal public education. Some of those years overlapped, but this moment of symmetry reminds me that most of my life has been spent in public education. And without a doubt, my favorite role and one I hope to never outgrow has been being a student, learning, listening, staying curious, future focused, and fully committed to the district's mission of making the world a better place. Like all lucky students, I am the product of an amazing educational system. My learning journey in AUHSD began as a principle of Western where I learned the value of celebrating diversity and building community which was recognized nationally by Folit for the Capstone program.

006I also learned about traditions like the bell game. And whether it's the bell game, capstone showcases, or any other community and family events across the district, these traditions show how pride and connection bring out the best in all of us. And when we see our shared identity as community wealth, we all get richer. After Western, I joined the district office where I had the privilege of working closely with our incredible math teachers as a curriculum specialist. We added new math courses that reflected students interests and aspirations. That experience revealed to me that our teachers are not just teachers of content. They're teachers of students. And it is that disposition that our teachers make our classrooms the places where the district's vision, mission, and whole child approach come alive every day, every period. In the district

007office, I've also had the privilege of learning from so many others, from our counselors. I've seen the power of expanding post-secondary opportunities and moving big metrics together. You've taught me that true success extends beyond academic excellence. It's also ensuring that our students feel supported socially, emotionally, and in their journey to college and career. from our site principles and assistant principles whom we've been diving deeply into all levels of data to courageously redesign our systems to ensure that we serve all students. You've taught me what it means to be champions of equity. From my ed division family, past and present, I've learned what all means all means. You serve the entire district while still honoring the strengths and stories of every individual student, family, school, and community. And I'm excited to continue to the work together.

008Like every student shaped by great teachers, I too have had mentors who've shaped my view of education and leadership. Superintendent Matsuda, your courage and vision have transformed AUHSD and redefined what public education can and should be. You've shown how powerful schools are when they are engines of equity and innovation, inspiring me to lead with the same boldness and purpose. Dr. Freed, I am grateful for our years together in ed division and excited to continue this journey with you as we embark in the next chapter of AUHSD. You've been both a colleague and a mentor, challenging me to grow and modeling what it means to lead with humility and strength. Not only have I been shaped by my teachers at school, but also my teachers and my family. My parents couldn't be here in person today,

009but I am proud to share that I am a daughter of immigrants. 50 years ago, my parents fled Vietnam with their young family, my two older sisters, just days before the country fell to war. Their resilience and belief in education has shaped who I am. Yet, I know today's immigrant families face heavier burdens and harsher barriers that can make their path forward painfully uncertain. In today's polarized political climate, this reality only deepens my commitment to ensure that AUHSD is a district where every family feels seen, your strengths are honored, and your students can thrive in every way possible. I'd like to thank my husband sitting in the back. Thank you for being my partner in every sense of the word. Your patience, support, and unwavering belief in me and in the work that I get

010to do gives me strength and clarity to lead while staying true to who I am. I know I could not do this without you. To my sons, Jacob and Oliver, you are my greatest teachers. Each day you remind me to be fearless, inquisitive, and to always find joy. And lastly, I would like to close with a commitment to the students of AUHSD. I love that our student ambassadors are here tonight. You are the reason for everything that we do and the greatest promise in this district. I will continue to lead as one of your students, learning from you, listening to you, and keeping you at the center, anchored in equity, opportunity, and the purpose that we exist to serve you and not the other way around. In the words of Casey and a 10th grader

011in AUHSD who shared that her inspiration comes from the great soccer player Ple. Sorry my son Jacob, it is not Ronaldo. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all love for what you are doing or learning to do. So, thank you Casey for that wisdom. Because of you and all students, I am ready and excited to lead and love with all of you. Thank you. Thank you, Amy. We certainly look forward to having you sitting here at the dis and and uh looking forward to what you are doing for us the dis for us the district uh in the future. So welcome look forward to that. Thank you. Moving on to item six recognitions. I will come up to the dis up to the podium and board

012members will have to go for a walk. So 6.1 C-SPAN student cam Walker Junior High uh Student Cam is a C-SPAN's annual national video documentaries competition that encourages students to think critically about issues that affect our communities and our nation. This year's theme was your message to the president. What issue is most important to you or your community. Walker Junior High School students were the only junior high school winners in the nation, winning the honorable mention award with their documentary. Beyond the rainbow band synthetic dyes, DY. The board would like to recognize the following students for their achievement. Jacel Gummo who was not able to attend this evening. Uh Molly Sadul and Ara Patel, can you please come forward? [Applause] >> You don't see them. Okay, that's okay. will give the the recognition certificates to

013you and you >> Yes. >> Thank you, Dr. Casai. 6.2 Summer Language Academy. The Summer Language Academy or SLA is a Golden Bell Award-winning enrichment program that has supported district plur pluralingual newcomers for the past 10 years. The district has partnered with California State University Fullerton faculty to support this 4-week summer program that has engaged our pluralingual newcomer students in meaningful exploration of language, identity, and culture. Through creative projects that integrate art, music, poetry, critical dialogue, students depend their English proficiency with celebrating and strengthening their first language. SLA asks students to connect their personal cultural identities to broader communities, fostering a sense of belonging. The program brings together district teachers, bilingual instructional assistants, Cal State UN University Fullerton pre-ervice interns and AIM student uh interns as collaborative co-educators who model innovative approaches to language learning.

014This past summer, SLA celebrated its 10th anniversary of implementation, and we would like to recognize the CSU faculty for their partnership and our district staff and students for their support of this award-winning program. Ada Deatori, a teacher and SLA administrative support. Come forward, please. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Dr. Allison Dover, CSU Fulton, Diana Fujimoto, director from AUHS, VW Wong, curriculum specialist and SLA administrator. Cynthium Pett, retired director, [Applause] and Dr. Fernando Rodriquez V, CSUF Fullerton. [Music] [Applause] The next, excuse me, 6.3, Leadership Education for Anaheim Districts or LEAD, our partnership with the California State University of Fullerton uh thrives as we continue to offer a tailored district program for certificate of staff interested in obtaining their prof their preliminary administrative services credential or PASC. In 2018, AHSD and Cal State Fullerton uh collaborated to initiate this

015program which saw 20 AHS staff members successfully complete the 18-month course. Today we celebrate the graduation of our third cohort. These dedicated individuals have completed the rigorous lead program and are now eligible to apply for certificate of eligibility for administrative services or a preliminary administrative services credential. We commend their hard work, commitment and determination in reaching this important milestone. The lead program is co-led by esteemed CSU uh faculty and our district administrative cabinet. Our cabinet members serve as co-instructors alongside CSUF faculty for all courses ensuring participants have direct access to both AUHSD leadership and CFUF professors. This collaboration provides an invaluable learning experience with a focus on equity, diverse learners, English learners, and professional growth. Please join us in welcoming our newest lead graduates. And so I will now read their names a little closer.

016Kimberly Below. [Applause] Maybe we'll hold the applause until I read off all the names and they come forward then one big applause for them. Okay, save time. Martin Calderon, Jason Caller, Ada Deator, Jordane Garcia, Karina Haimey, Mandy Johnson, William Johnson, Matt Majuski, Manny Olivera Varia, >> Jacquellyn Rodarte, Matthew Schultz, Susanna Sokqui Lopez, John TR, Christine Chwang, Ryan Ward, Gina White, and Heather Ziggara. Let's give them all a big round of applause. [Applause] Thank you. Here we go. [Applause] Brad. [Music] >> Okay. Hello, my name is Matt Majuski and I'm in my 16th year as a social science teacher in the AUHSD uh including for the last 10 years at Catella High School. Uh I'm also a CVA e-learning teacher. I currently serve as a social science department chair at Catella as well. It's such a

017privilege to have this opportunity uh to speak for a couple of minutes tonight in front of the school board. Uh especially considering one of our board members is actually a former student of mine, which is a major source of professional pride for me. I'll leave it up to all of you to try to figure out which board member it is. But it's even more of an honor to be at this microphone tonight to speak on behalf of this absolutely incredible group of AUHSD educators that were my classmates and friends in the LEAD 3.0 cohort. Like our students, this lead class comes from so many different walks of life. Uh, and we represent virtually every school within this district. In fact, many of these folks are lifelong AUHSD products. Over the last two years, I've been

018absolutely blown away by their brilliance, their passion, their perseverance. Uh, and I know every one of us will lean heavily on the lessons we've learned over the last two years as we helped lead our district into some uncertain educational times. On behalf of my cohort mates, I would like to thank the board for their support of our class and the lead program. I'd also like to extend our thanks to our district administration who have welcomed us with open arms and really showed us their unique leadership styles. Being a leader isn't about having a name plate on a door or a personalized parking space. Although when I parked in the back today, I admired some of those parking spaces as I came in. It's about being there for our students, our fellow educators, and our community,

019especially at times when it's needed most. It's about compassion, humility, advocacy, vision, and when times call for it, even vulnerability. In particular, I'd like to thank our co-teers, Superintendent Matt Suda, Jiren Frerieded, Robert Salvar, Diana Fujimoto, and Brad Jackson for sharing their lessons in leadership with all of us, and also for the excellent lunch choices. On behalf of my classmates, I'd also like to thank the brainchild of the lead initiative, the brilliant Dr. Jennifer Goldstein, whose guidance and leadership were instrumental in helping us to reach this finish line. Jennifer challenged us in so many ways to better understand ourselves as a means of understanding our students, our community, and the sort of leadership that our district and this country need. She is an educational and an institutional disruptor and her focus on equity and excellence

020and love for every student is already felt in so many places around this district. Anybody who knows me knows there's no way I'm finishing this speech without at least one reference to my government curriculum. And with the superintendent transition that our district will be making at the end of the year, I think it's only natural for us to consider the legacy as educators that we want to leave behind. Many political experts believe the most enduring impact that a president has is in their choice of federal judge positions because these justices serve far longer, oftentimes for many decades, beyond the president who appointed them. In that way, they carry on the legacy and the impact of that president's leadership far beyond the chief executive terms. Our district, county, and state educational systems are filled with many

021amazing lead graduates. My cohort alone already has numerous assistant principles, curriculum specialists, teacher leads, and even one principal already in our ranks. Every one of these people will be leading the next generation of students and teachers for decades ahead. And they will do so with a foundation built through their lead experience. And in that way, despite all of his many professional accomplishments, I feel like the impact of the LEAD program might ultimately end up being the most important and the enduring legacy of Mike's tenure as superintendent because the leadership he describes and values and embodies so much resonates in the fibers of so much that we will do as lead graduates. Thank you so much for your time. [Applause] My I was gonna How can you top that, Jiren? You know, uh I'm I'm so

022proud that >> Mr. Matsu, you're out of order here. You're not on the list here. >> Sorry. Sorry. >> Go ahead. >> I am truly a lame duck now. So, you know, uh, one of the things I I think the board should really be proud of is I I would totally agree with what Matthew just said, uh, you know, the the ability of the system to um, ensure that it's in good hands long after all of us are gone, right? We are paying it forward. These young people, this this represents the next generation of leadership. And as Matt so eloquently said, many of them have already stepped they've all stepped up and and all their capacities. And um you know, this is something that districts don't often think about. You know, we send our administrators

023to the universities, they go out uh but we keep them inhouse and we grow them in house and they pick up the DNA that the board um has set forth. So I am very proud Matt as you just summarized of um the u ability for the next generation to pay it forward. Uh thank you lead candidates and congratulations. [Applause] Thank you both. Okay, next item of business is naming a facility. John Lungberg. Uh the board policy 5201 naming a facility was adopted on April 14th, 2011 by the board of trustees to develop procedures for the naming of facilities to honor individuals in the district. As per the board of trustees request, an ad hoc committee was formed to review the proposals and to make policy recommendations to the superintendent for board consideration. The board of

024trustees is is uh requested to approve the request to rename the wrestling room at Cypress High School after John Lmberg. Coach Lumbberg served as the head wrestling coach at Cypress High School for two decades from 20 uh two 2005 to 2024. >> Board, do we have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and seconds. Any >> Yeah. Uh yeah, we better have the speakers first before we move on to that. But it is o open now. >> Thank you, Mr. Superintendent. Uh first speaker is Darren Norris. Come to the podium, please. I didn't pick up on the item number. Uh, thank you. Um, my name is Darren Norris. I was the head girls wrestling coach at Cypress for the last 15 years. I'm speaking tonight to recommend naming the Cypress

025High School wrestling room after coach John Lumbberg, whose impact on our program and community has been extraordinary. Coach Lumbberg spent over 20 years teaching biology at Cypress while also serving as head wrestling coach, building a legacy of excellence both on and off the mat. A Minnesota state champion and NCAA Division 2 national champion at Augustana College. His wrestling career included international competitions, national titles, and recognition as a scholar athlete. His accomplishments set the foundation for a coaching career that has led Cypress to multiple league titles, CIF success, and state level competitors, while also leaving an indelible mark on the broader wrestling community. What truly sets Coach Lmberg apart, however, is his mentorship. When I joined the program 15 years ago, there was no girls team. And through his guidance and encouragement, I not only grew

026into a better coach, but also helped build the foundation for what is now a thriving girls wrestling program. Coach Lumbberg has mentored countless coaches, inspired generations of athletes, and earned deep respect from referees, opponents, and peers. Humble, generous, and wholly dedicated to his wrestlers, he has always coached for the kids and led by example. And for these reasons, I can think of no one more deserving of this honor than coach John Lumbberg. >> Thank you. [Applause] >> Next speaker on this topic is Sean Feifer. Whoops. Sorry. Uh good evening. Uh um uh executive cabinet uh superintendent uh former assistant coach of Don Lumbberg or I mean future superintendent. >> Um besides the accolades, I do want to highlight one thing. Before uh Mr. Lumbberg took over the program, five years later, he brought women's wrestling

027to Cypress High School and to the county and led the way. Um, in the 80s we had one state qualifier. In the 90s we had one. Right? In his tenure we had uh 17 state qualifiers plus CIF champions, etc. I did a little research on Mr. John Lmberg um and his college career. And it besides his accolades, I was surprised that the accolades come at 167 pounds. Uh he is a gentle giant. Um he was our Santa for our sports show, right? Give us a ho ho ho. No. Okay. Uh, John Lmberg is uh, don't let that fool you though, John Lmberg. Right. If he ever asked you to Oh, let me show you something. Put your hand right here. Right. You'll be in a pretzel in a second. I made that mistake one time.

028Mr. Lumbberg, uh, 167 pound uh, NCAA 106 uh, wins, uh, 19 losses, and then one tie, but that was a singlet wedgie fiasco, I think, in the 80s. Um, he was ranked fifth nationally. But here's the thing about John Lumbberg is he brings it to the students, right? It's all about the kids. And uh I do want to put it in perspective. We're not building a bronze statue for Mr. Lmberg, right? Uh we're not naming our firstborns after John Lmberg. We're naming a single-use facility on the interior of the campus that's used by our uh boys and girls wrestlers. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you board. With that said, we have motion in a second. All in favor say I. >> Opposed. 5-0. Congratulations. Maybe Mr. Longberg would like to come to the podium. [Applause] Um,

029I didn't know I was supposed to say anything. So, um, it is an honor and it's very humbling. I uh I've always tried to um put my athletes first and uh you know it's never about winning. Winning will come if you do the work and um my focus was always on the work and uh developing the guys and the girls. And um I I've been I've been doing wrestling since I was 5 years old. And uh uh I am a product of a bunch of brothers. I was the youngest one. And uh I was just an average Lmberg boy. And uh um it's it is an honor. And uh I know you guys are sitting here going, "How long is this guy going to talk?" I'm not going to talk very long. Um I've been

030in the the this district. I taught here for 32 years. Um five was at Catella where I'll drop some names here. Jiren Frerieded was my assistant wrestling coach and assistant football coach at Catella for five years. And you know, they they were all worried, well, are is is are they going to vote? Yes. I mean, and I'm going, do I need to come? And and the joke was I go, I got friends in high places. It it'll go through. So anyway, uh it is an honor and uh I I'm still I mean I'm done coaching, I'm done teaching and I'm just making sure our new head coach uh gets the everything done, the paperwork and everything else that is the hard part of coaching besides getting on the mat and coaching. And um so far

031he's been doing a great job and I'm very uh happy with who we got. Um that's it. Thank you very much. >> Congratulations. Next under reports, uh, student speakers are first up and we have one student speaker, uh, Richard. Hi. Um, hello esteemed board members. Uh, my name is Richard. Hi. >> Oh. He's part of the presentation. >> He's part of the presentation. >> Oh, he's part of the >> He's coming back. >> Make sure he's Oh, he's he's part of Oh, sorry. He's with TGR. So, >> okay. Sorry. Okay, I'm back. >> He was on it. >> He's ready to go. >> No, he's not a student, though. >> Okay. >> Yeah, >> we'll get back into proper sequence here. Uh, next want to introduce recognize um >> our association members, representatives. We have

032Jeff Morganstein, Morgan Stern from ASA. Jeff's in the audience. We have Lacy Monger from APGA. Uh, excuse me. We have Jennifer Casai from ALTA. We have uh Dana Lynch uh superintendent of RO. Yes. And then we have uh Dr. Leha Holstrom who is administrator from RO. So thank you. And Lauren Clasker, there she is from Fullerton Joint as a board member. Yes. Okay. Moving on to reports of associations. We'll start with uh ASA. There we go. All right. Well, good evening, Border President O'Neal, Board of Trustees, Superintendent Matsuda, Cabinet, our colleagues, and community. The 2526 school year provides Anaheim Union with a unique opportunity to bring together the hard work of our students, our teachers, our leadership, our staff, and our community. This is the year Anaheim Union successfully navigates another year of declining enrollment

033without layoffs. Our plan to honor the loyalty and service of our teachers and reduce positions through attrition is working. This is the year bonds sold for Measure K continue to transform our school sites and district infrastructure. This transformation is a key element in attracting families to our schools by providing the facilities our community and our students deserve. This is the year we enter a critical phase of our transformation through the community schools approach. The fourth year of our $23 million community schools grant is sent to make significant progress toward coherence to sustainability through engaging our five westside school communities and merging together our community school site teams and our school site councils. Also, for the first time, our community school steering committee will begin to work handinand with our LCAP steering committee to ensure we

034are genuinely understanding both the assets and needs of the students, families, and staff of the Anaheim Union High School District. This is the year we begin to build a coalition of public school dis public school districts and labor unions to not just protect but to expand the role of public education and in our democracy. It's a time to roll up our sleeves and unite and lead the effort to push back against the attacks on our communities and our profession. This is the year that we will work with the California Teachers Association, other political allies to ensure that the voters of California understand the need to fund public education to the levels our students and communities deserve. California, as a fourth largest economy in the world, currently funds our schools thousands of dollars less per pupil

035than the national average. This year, the district leadership, certificate, and classified staff will come together on the insurance committee to continue to work toward a strong consensus to provide our employees with quality healthcare. This is the year we slow down adding to our already healthy reserves and begin to create the classroom environments our students and teachers and staff need in order to continue Anaheim Union's role in leading our state forward. This is the year we have a real opportunity to provide for the class size guarantees our students deserve. We need to be able to say to our students in a freshman English class or a junior chemistry class, "You won't have to struggle to get the individual attention you need from your teachers." We can help ensure that our students have the genuine opportunity to

036build meaningful relationships with their teachers. We can say to our special education students that our teachers will have the time and the space to provide your academic for your academic and social emotional needs. To our students in PE, we can say we understand the challenges you face keeping active, healthy, and safe. To our students who receive specialized support from our speech and language pathologists and our registered nurses, we're going to ensure that you have the best possible access to the services you deserve. Asta is a committed partner in all of these opportunities. Engage with us and together we can make this year a turning point in our shared history. Thank you, [Applause] >> Lacy Munger, APGA. Okay. Good evening, President O'Neal, members of the board, Superintendent Matsuda, executive cabinet, and community members. Last month, I

037stood here congratulating Dr. Frerieded on becoming our new superintendent. And tonight, on behalf of APJ, I would like to congratulate Amy Quan on her appointment as our next assistant superintendent of education. Counselors have had the privilege of working with Amy over the past three years, and along with Amanda Bean, she has helped transform the way counselors see our role and how we share our work with the community. APJ is able to present our data and our impact as clearly as we do because of the vision and guidance they have provided us. While we are excited to see the district's vision evolve under new leadership, counselors can admit we're a little sad now that we have to share Amy. As we closed August, our dual enrollment courses launched the week of August 25th. We are now

038in year two of a three-year agreement that added five counselors dedicated slowly to dual enrollment. Their focus is expanding access to DE for all students, specifically those from underrepresented groups. And we are seeing progress. Last year, the number of students who successfully completed DE courses increased by 54% in the fall semester and by 47% in the spring. And at the same time, we expanded our class offerings by 31%. This progress has been made possible through our partnerships with Fullerton and Cypress Colleges who have stepped up quickly to meet our student demand. As we know, dual enrollment isn't just for the 4-year AP collegebound student. It gives all students and each student the chance to explore new options and discover potential they may not have considered. Now that we've entered September, all AHSD students will take

039the universal assets and needs survey. Counselor C. This is a critical step in listening to student voice. Last year's senior exit survey told us loud and clear where we could do better. Students shared things such as, "I wish there were more workshops or check-ins about mental health." And I wish I had received more guidance on managing stress and balancing school with personal life. Those reflections were powerful and we heard them. They reminded us that while many students felt supported, they were also asking for more personalized guidance and proactive care. The universal needs is um an asset survey is our response to that feedback. It allows us to gather student input earlier, identify patterns at each site, and design guidance, lessons, and resources that are directly tied to what students say they need. Some examples of

040this year's questions will include, I know how to help myself when I feel anxious or worried. I am confident with balancing extracurricular activities and family responsibilities. I need support with setting personal life goals. I am confident that school will prepare me for college, career, and life. In short, our the student voice is shaping system change in our district. New this year, students will receive an email with resources connected to their survey responses, and families will also receive communication letting them know their student participated along with family resources and contact information for face and community school staff. This is what we call a tier one support, ensuring all students and families are connected to a meaningful, accessible support. As we look ahead to October, I'm excited to return to share some of the UNA data with

041you, as well as our updates on the college and career fair. Students will be exploring their strengths and interests through an interest inventory that will connect directly to their sixth year academic plan, a road map that will help them see their path toward being college and career ready. I'd like to close with the words of one of our students from last year who said, "I appreciate the support that I got from my counselors. They were always there to help me with schoolwork, give advice, and encourage me to keep going. One more thing that was said to me tonight, I would had the honor of seeing Joseé Escobedo, who's going to be Catella's um representative, student ambassador, and I haven't seen him since last year, and I haven't been at Catella for over a year and

042a half. But on a personal note, what he said to me was, "Miss Munger, we have so much to catch up on." And to me, that is the power of a counselor. That's the power of the relationships we have with our students. And so I hope Jose doesn't mind me sharing that. I know him well enough to know he doesn't. But um that's exactly the kind of impact that we at a a counseling group want to have. Thank you [Music] [Applause] >> Dr. Sasai from Alta. Good evening, President O'Neal, Board of Trustees, Superintendent Matsuda, Executive Cabinet, students, families, and members of our school community joining us both in person and online. First, we would like to congratulate our very own Amy Quan on her appointment to assistant superintendent. Your brilliance, datadriven, and just care for

043all of us will continue to drive our district. So, we congratulate you. We are pleased to present the following highlights of student success and community engagement from across the district. Yesterday, staff members from across the district participated in a pedigogy of voice institute led by Shane author Shane Seapir, Marlo Bassik, and Shwan Jabber. The session was a tremendous success fostering collaboration and reflection as educators as educators plan to further empower student voices in the classroom through street data. Here are some school highlights as well. Laera High School has had an inspiring and eventful few weeks. They were selected to participate in the 70th happiest hours, a celebration of Disney's Disneyland's 70th anniversary, which included a memorable movie night for students. Homecoming week was a major success featuring spirited dressup days, a vibrant all school assembly,

044and a victorious homecoming football game where the Saxons won 42 to 22. During the game, the community honored the memory of Coach Wes Owens by recognizing his family at halftime. The week's festivities concluded with the well-attended and enjoyable homecoming dance. Orange View Junior High and Western High School are making great strides in their new 7th through 12th model, focusing on building a unified campus community. They successfully launched their first combined 7th to 12th grade club rush with offerings tailored to junior high, high school, and all students. The campus broadened students global perspectives by hosting visitors from Japan for one day and from France for a two-week exchange. Mentorship programs like Link View are thriving with mentors supporting seventh and 9th grade students to ensure a smooth transition. Oxford Academy continues to achieve academic excellence on

045a national scale. US News and World Reports has ranked Oxford Academy the second public school number two public school in California and the number 14th public school high school in the nation. This recognition is a testament to the dedication of the exceptional staff, students, and families. Magnolia High School has launched a new community channel for the Sentinel community. On f Friday, September 5th, MAG TV aired its first episode. Spearheaded by Mr. Black and his video production students, MAG TV will serve as a main information hub for students, staff, and families with FL plans to become a daily broadcast that covers school events and community news. Cypress High School celebrated a historic community milestone. The Centurions hosted their first ever home varsity football game on campus, creating a memorable and unifying experience for the whole community.

046Our staff cons continues to show extraordinary dedication to improving the student experience through innovation and collaboration. We thank you for your support and look forward to another months of achievements in our schools. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] One person I failed to recognize because I didn't see her sitting in the audience was that is Dr. Kelly Kennedy, assistant superintendent from RO. Dr. Kennedy, do we have anybody from PTA this evening? Nobody. Okay, thank you. Okay. Next 9.1 Introduction of the student representative to the board of trustees. The position of student representative to the board of trustees was created um along with the student ambassador program 20 years ago. the student presentation representative to the board of trustees represents uh the students of AUHSD and reports on student activities throughout the district at all regular board

047meetings. And this person uh I would like to have come to the podium and her name is Leia Garcia from Kennedy High School. [Music] [Applause] Leia, welcome. >> Thank you. Good evening. As a result of AUHSD's foundation, the five C's, I'm fortunate to have a mom and an uncle who graduated from Kennedy High School and succeeded and became the first in their family to have a college degree. [Applause] My immigrant parents worked hard to obtain education and gave me opportunities that I know many students struggle to obtain without the proper support. That is why with the help of AHSD, I want to ensure that no student feels alone navigating the challenges of their future. My goal is to make sure that every student is seen, heard, and prepared. That is why I invite you to

048work hand in hand as a district to make a better world through unlimited you and an unlimited us. My name is Leah Garcia, and I'm honored to serve as a student representative to the AHSD board of trustees. [Music] Leia. Leia, you're supposed to sit over here. [Applause] So congratulations now that you're sitting in the hot seat here. >> Welcome. >> Besides your introduction that you just did now, do you have any any uh other report that you want to report out tonight? >> Yes. >> Okay. I'm going to go school by school. >> Sure. So from Anaheima High School, the Chamber Singers Choir, they are one of the 16 in the nation to compete in New York City and received a 50K donation from Disneyland. At CVA, they had back to school night. It was

049very successful with lots of engagement from the students and staff in their panels and activities. From Cypress High School, they had their first ever week-long club rush with 70 plus clubs on campus. from Kennedy High School. They had freshman orientation, which was amazing and innovative to have Kennedy's freshman orientation on the first day of school. The principal worked together with the student ambassador to make sure that school spirit had increased significantly among the new class at Catella. They kicked off the year strong with Link Crew welcoming over 80 freshman leaders who guided the new class. Freshman showed high involvement at Club Rush with a strong turnout and signups. Disneyland celebrated its 70th anniversary and sponsored the first football game of the season, making history alongside Catella's 60th anniversary. At Loera, Lilo and Sitch community movie

050night and Laera's Gear Up College going mural. There are both great projects to kick off the new school year. Lera's community enjoyed a night filled with all sorts of fun brought by Disneyland and Lera students will be found with inspiration by the college mural on campus at Magnolia. Magnolia's back to school event. Sentinel Mania was a great success this year. They changed their approach from back to school night to an afterchool fun fair. There was plenty of engagement and all the Sentinels in attendance had a great time. The morale of the school year is very high and the new principal, Mr. Pulley, provided great leadership at Oxford. For three years in a row, Oxford had the opportunity to host all junior high ASB members throughout the district for leadership development. Together they hope to inspire

051collaboration, build strong leadership skills, and foster a sense of community among future student leaders. At Savannah, international students from France came to Savannah to learn about American school culture within classes for a week. At Western/Orview, student leaders came together to view welcome Orange View and Western peers at their new entrance to the organized 7th through 12 club rush, which was a huge success that prompted communities specific to junior high, high schoolers, and all grades. RCP members also pioneered the way providing input on new school policies planned by the students for the students. Despite their rocky start, they'd like to thank all the students, parents, and resilient staff for all their efforts to guide the school through a steady transition. That's all. Thank you. >> Thank you. [Applause] >> Good start. >> Very good. Thank you.

052Uh next up is 9.2 two, introduction of the 202526 student ambassadors. And the purpose of the student ambassador program is to provide a student voice from each of our nine comprehensive high schools as well as Hope School, Gilbert School, and Cambridge virtual academy to the district leadership team and the board of trustees. And we are lining up so each Each ambassador will come to the podium and introduce themselves and what school they're going to. Founded in 1898, Anaheim High School is the third oldest high school in the entirety of Orange County, carrying more than 125 years of rich tradition and pride. Our campus celebrates and recognizes our award-winning athletics and arts programs and provides a variety of CTE pathways that help pave the way for their students and their bright future. This year, my goal

053for Anaheim is to give the students a stronger platform to raise their voice for their concerns, thoughts, ideas. Because when students feel heard and connected, they feel motivated to succeed. I invite you to attend one of our events and experience the colonist spirit for yourself. My name is Pawin Alcala and I am this year's Anaheim High School student ambassador. >> Ever since I was a kid, I felt like I never belonged. But here at our hive, I found my true home. Our teachers and staff love to be very energetic and supportive. CVA offers an authentic educational experience with flexible learning and personalized schedules to each student. We offer concurrent enrollment where students can take classes, be a part of sports, and even attend events at their in-person high school. We offer a flexible schedule where

054students can obtain jobs, have internships, be a part of various sports, and do their classwork all at once. here at CVA. My goal for CVA this year is to create an inclusive environment where teachers and students feel valued and feel like their voices are heard. My name is Hanya Keshi and I'm the proud student ambassador of Cambridge Virtual Academy. And here at CVA, it is always a great day to have a great day. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. Ever since I was young, I've been involved in some sort of leadership and interest in the community. Starting off with student council in elementary school, ASB in middle, and now ambassadorship in high school. Service has always been a great part of my life. My why for this year is community. Helping students feel linked not only

055to their schools, but to the district and the bigger picture of where their education is headed. After taking the first initial leap, Cypress has systems, allies, and resources in place that take students above and beyond. Just like the Roman centurions who stride forward confidently on their own paths, Cypress High School creates one that students can continue forward and build upon. We learn with empathy, innovate with purpose, and dream together. My name is Pars Rajput and I'm thankful to represent Cypress this school year, hoping to bring together student and family experiences so that everybody feels a part of the conversation. Go Cypress strong. Hi. Hi. Hello. Uh Gilbert High School, the home of second chances at Gilbert. We believe that every student deserves a start, a superior community, and a re high school experience. We serve

05611th through 12th graders from across the district, focusing on every student that feels welcome and set up for success. This year, we are proud to serve 280 students with an 81% grad graduation rate. We're now like alternative high schools. A Gilbert The Gilbert School works on character development and building trust not only to teachers but to students as well, but across the across the entire community. We had a reputation as a school where the bad kids go, but we're trying to change that opinion. In fact, we just finished recording a highlight video to show the amazing programs and opportunity at Gilbert. Stay tuned. You will see why we are we're call we are proud to call Gilbert home. My name is Joshua Ramirez Gonzalez and I'm happy to be um Gilbert's ambassador for this year.

057[Applause] Okay. Growing up, I moved to three different districts. And for a long time, I didn't have a community to truly call home. That all changed when I came to Anaheim. Here, I got involved. I was given I was welcomed with opportunities to grow and opportunities to get involved. And that all helped me grow pride in calling this place home. Now as ambassador, I extend that gratitude by serving my students at Catella High School. We are proud of our rigorous AP curriculum and our dual language immersion program. Our wide range of CTE pathways and engineer including engineering, culinary, and film. That's why I want to personally invite you to come to Catella to walk through our programs and see the impact they have on our students. It's this sense of community and this opportunity that

058gives us that makes us proud to say we are Catella. Thank you so much. My name is Jose Escobedo and I'm proud to be Catella student ambassador. [Applause] Kennedy High School is more than a place of learning. It's a community of leaders and changemakers. With our international balaria program and recognition towards the civic engagement award, Kennedy stands out uh for academic excellence and service. Our my our goal is to ensure that every student receives the attention they need by making sure that their voices are heard by fostering collaboration and ensuring that their decisions reflect the needs of our diverse community. I am honored to serve as Kennedy Student Ambassador. My name is Kaitton Lee and thank you. Go Irish. [Applause] A high school is a second home to our students. And I noticed personally, I've

059seen the importance of sharing ideas after seeing the impact it has on not just me, but our community at Lura, we have a family and community center, a safe space with an assortment of free school supplies, produce, snacks, and clothing. Our students have the opportunities to get hands-on experience such as the only dis only US bank internship in this district, drones pathway, certified nursing assistant pathway, and more all on campus. With this, it is my duty as ambassador to bridge gaps through our RCP and bridges club. Collaborating with our teachers, staff, board members, and students, we can make this a reality. My name is Pearl Ta, and let's build a future, Saxons. At Magnolia, innovation is our favorite word. My school has made many renov renovations and improvements over the past couple of years to

060make our Magnolia community the best possible fit for our students and staff. A brand new cyber innovations building, a built-in farm with livestock and organic produce and exceptional clubs and school culture. Magnolia is unique in every sense of the word and the growth is never over. I want to use my stance of leadership to continue to expand upon the amazing positive change that is being made on my campus. I believe every student deserves to feel safe, supported, and proud of the school they attend. I'm here to provide a listening ear to the Sentinels in every conversation, not only through RSVP, but as a friend to all. My name is Brooklyn Sharp, and I'm proud to represent Magnolia High School as the ambassador. When I first came to Oxford, I fully believed in the stereotype that

061this school was just for nerds. However, but as my experience my experience here has completely changed my perspective. Sure, I still see students in the hallways with their head buried in their textbooks, but I also see CIF champions staying late after school perfecting their athletic game. I see international HOSA and FBA champions representing not only our school but also our country. Here at Oxford, we have each student selects a career pathway. business, engineering, computer science or biotechnology and follows a three-year course sequence that builds real world skills and industry experience. At Oxford, we're more than just students. We're future CEO CEOs, future engineers, future researchers, and so much more. Oxford's mission to prepare students to lead an evolving g global society has shaped my own leadership. I strive to not only advocate for my peers,

062but also model the empathy and service that define our community. My name is Allison Trung, and I'm honored to be the representative of Oxford Academy. [Applause] Can you envision passion? Can you envision motivation? The answer should be yes. I stand here passionate and motivated to implement a culture for a high standard of participation during my RSVP summits at my school site. The value that education holds over my mindset coincides with Savannah's values as well. Savannah, a strong school in career pathways, boasts the RO program in which its medical program maintains high levels of achievement only seen at Savannah. With many students graduating with the certification and the hard and soft skills of a nursing assistant and medical assistant, these students are able to be compassionate, communicative, and hold a level of hospitality that resembles a

063good human being. There are only too many compliments that I can give about Savannah in which I hold pride in being Anthony Higa, the Savannah student ambassador and a rebel to which I want to end with. I ask you join I ask you guys to join me in this upcoming school year to be as passionate and as motivated as me in the betterment of yourself only the but for the betterment of the students in AUHSD. Thank you. [Applause] One of my fondest memories as a child was standing along the fence bordering Dan Elementary and Western High School in awe yet unaware of what awaited me on the other side. You see, I've always envisioned myself at Western. It's my pride and it's my home. Today, I'm truly honored to pioneer the opening of the first

064comprehensive 7th through 12 school in AOHSD. I'm extremely thrilled to represent and celebrate the vibrant diversity on campus while still fostering that smooth and uh welcoming transition for our two newly blended school communities. I empower you uh to join me in empowering the students amidst change. I am an Irish Lazadas proud to represent Orange Western, home of the Panthers and Pioneers. Thank you. Thank you, ambassadors. What a way to start the school year with your new positions, responsibilities, and we look forward to seeing great things and hearing great things about you and what you're doing out on the campuses, but it can't happen by all by yourself. There are people that work with you on a daily basis. So, I'd like to introduce them. Uh, we have Mosa Nadim. There she is. Thank you, Jenny

065Lee. Jennifer Brown, and Hilda Vasquez. So, thank you advisers. You're doing a great job. What a way to start the the school year. So, thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody, we we'd like to have all the student ambassadors come up here so we can get your pictures for the the board. Beautiful. [Music] window. All right. What's the word of the day? Ready? >> One, two, three. Uh yeah, we we'll kind of go step by step with that. Yeah. Wow. >> Wow. Oh my god. >> Very strong start. Yes. >> We have our work. >> Isn't that something? >> That is >> Yes, they are. >> Yeah. Noticed. >> Great job, Jose. >> Okay. Way to represent Catella. [Laughter] >> My goodness. >> Okay, moving on. Next is the TGR Foundation collaboration. The TGR Foundation has

066been a long-standing partner of the district and plays a key role in the Anaheim Collaborative and Dr. Frerieded is going to take it from there. Yes, it is my pleasure to introduce Scott Randell, our coordinator of 21st century career. Introduce the the team that's going to be presenting and talking about the great work of the collaborative with TGR. >> Perfect. Thank you, Dr. Frerieded. And uh throughout the presentation, we'll introduce our our teammates that are up here with us. Um good evening, board president O'Neal, trustees, Superintendent Matsuda, members of cabinet, and our community here and uh in person and joining us online. Uh it's been a night of celebrations and we hope to bring you some some more more to celebrate uh tonight. I'm thrilled for our team to share tonight's presentation which truly demonstrates

067the power of collaboration. Through the Anaheim Collaborative, our students benefit tremendously, not only from our college and university partnerships, but also from organizations like the TGR Foundation and North Orange County RO, whose missions align closely with AUHSD's vision for for preparing every student for success in both college and career. While the AIM program and our partners provide incredible opportunities such as career exploration, field trips, mentoring, and work-based learning in the community, we are also deeply committed to integrating these experiences into daily classroom instruction. Tonight, you'll see a strong example of this approach in action. This work reflects our district's focus on community-based learning and on developing students voice, purpose, and agency. I'm especially proud to share the reach of this initiative. In just our second year of implementation, we engaged 450 students across Kennedy, Savannah,

068Magnolia, and Western High Schools through these efforts. Without further ado, let's dive into the details. It's my pleasure to introduce John Lee, senior vice president of programs and education at the TGR Foundation, who will share more about our work. >> Thank you, Mr. Rendell. Uh, good evening, President O'Neal, esteemed board of trustees, shout out to Miss Garcia as a student rep, uh, Superintendent Matsuda, and to the executive uh, uh, I almost said executive chamber. Uh, apologies, but to the, uh, senior leadership of the district, want to uh, just really thank you for the partnership. It's my honor and joy to shine a light on this example of collaboration that's getting national, uh, visibility. So, I'm going to talk about a little bit about our framework at TGR Foundation. Our mission is to empower students to

069pursue their passions through education. Many of you have walked the halls of our learning lab not too far from here where for almost 20 years now, we've offered uh different steam-based enrichment activities, college access curriculum. We have our Oralwood scholar program uh and we do professional learning for educators. Over the last three years, we've really honed in on the career connected learning framework. It's very simple. uh just on the slides you'll see that as we think about everything that we do at the learning lab we look at how we can focus and give rich learning experiences to students to learn about work learn through work and learn at work and today we're going to particularly highlight this career explorer program we're entering our third year of this program in partnership with Providence AUHSD and North

070Orange County ROOP uh in terms of the programmatic components we wanted to make sure that this was not a oneoff you know we do a cool field trip experience here and that students forget about it. The way that we approach this particular career explorer program working with 450 students who have expressed some interest in healthcare. We wanted to we start off with a little kickoff video and then we do a career panel events at the learning lab where I'll talk about this a little bit more uh in detail in a moment, but we give students an opportunity to hear from industry professionals, hear their stories, their trajectory so that they can start to see what's possible. We talk often about you can't be what you can't see. So, we want to give our students a

071chance to see all kinds of different career paths. We then follow that up with a five class in in-class lesson sequence where we launch an industry challenge to the students using real world data and put it forth to the students to say in community health, let's take a look at this data across Orange County. Look at some of the biggest challenges. what are your best ideas and empower them to research and then ultimately present their pitch in terms of how to improve community health outcomes across Orange County. That then leads to a student showcase competition. And then this past year we were able to do an industry visit. So just looking at that framework of learning about work, learning through work, through some of the problembased profession based uh projects that they're working on and

072then taking them to the industry sites to learn at work in in this case having a chance to visit St. Jude Medical Center. Last November, we had hundreds of students from those four partner high schools come to the TGR learning lab and they participated in a career panel event where we had eight different medical professionals from the Providence network. We had the doctors and nurses because everybody knows about them. But we specifically asked Providence to provide for us other professionals who are great at their jobs. Uh so including the director of the respiratory center, we had u someone a director of business operations, a clinical laboratory scientist to be able to show that students that within healthcare there are so many critical career opportunities there and to to hear those stories. We coupled th the

073uh career panels with some professional networking time where our students had a chance to go and and talk to the the industry professor they were most interested in. And then we rotated them through a fun hands-on TGR learning lab activity um with that. So here's another picture on the screen. Some of the student outcomes when we we we take a look at our survey data very seriously. Uh we had we did a double take when we saw some of the survey results where 99% of the students grew in their awareness of careers in healthcare. 97.5 said that this program helped them understand better the day-to-day life of healthcare professionals and close to 95% said that they got direct insight into different healthcare careers uh from this particular career panel event. After we did that, that's

074where we did the learning through work, putting down the industry challenge, where we centered it on the community health needs assessment report that Providence puts together every three years where they look at quantitative and qualitative data uh that impacts community health across Orange County. And students learned how to look at this data as a health care professional. And then we put forth a challenge to them. What are your best ideas to solve these problems? Each class that participated in this then sent a representative group. This is where the competition part came in uh and stu and students came and gave their best pitches to a panel of community health professionals. We awarded winners uh from each school and the winning teams earned not just a pizza party for their class but had a chance to

075do a learning at work activity. So back in April, um all the students you see there were win winning teams from their schools from a student showcase competition where they got a private tour of St. Jude Medical Center and and having a chance to visit different departments and get some more insights from industry professionals there. I want to note at the bottom two pictures in the bottom right might be hard to see from where you're sitting uh but that's the Hyperaric Chamber Center at St. Jude Medical Center and the uh gentleman in the blue is the director of that center. The young man in the bottom right was the brave volunteer who you'll actually get to hear from next. So you could hear from the from the student perspective. And so it's my honor to

076introduce our first student speaker, Richard from Magnolia High School. Um good evening everyone. It's an honor to speak. And just to let everyone know that hyperaric chamber was kind of terrifying to be in, but um it was definitely like a once in a-lifetime experience for me. So yeah, I'd say it was like very educational. So basically, I just want to talk about like the RO and the TGR like collaboration. I feel that it was an incredibly like enriching experience for not just uh me and my teammates, but also for like the school in general. We got to go around to different um we went to St. Jude specifically, St. Jude Providence. And like Dr. Lee said we had an opportunity to go through a tour of the hospital and we were also able to network

077with different professionals of the career and this experience basically taught us a lot about the different skills in the career um different pathways if we ever wanted to pursue it like me personally I want to be a cardiothoracic surgeon when I grow up so this was just a very educational and enlightening experience and besides that I just want to give like a shout out to the RO um career and the RO supervisors because it's just been such a great experience learning with everyone um especially my teacher Miss Foster as well as Dr. Halstrom and Dr. Lee for supporting everything. Without you guys, none of this would be possible. Thank you. >> And next up, I'd like to invite Sierra Martin from Savannah High School to come uh be our second student speaker. [Applause] [Music] Good,

078good evening. My name is Sierra, as you can tell from that very ancient photo. Um, two years ago, my partners and I were asked to find a problem in our community and to present a solution for it. We chose a subject that was very dear to us, which is the lack of mental health services available to teens. Our humble presentation in our classroom led us in front of a board of esteemed medical professionals. And at 15, with sweaty palms that I still have now, I tried my shaking hand at networking. I met people I believe I never would have had the opportunity to meet otherwise. And between proudly presenting and our winning presentation and hearing the passionate stories of life challenge and fulfilling occupation awakened in me was my own passion for public health. A

079path that I follow now and plan to follow for the rest of my life or at least until retirement. Um, I with great pleasure can say that I would not be the person I am today without the opportunities that the career exploration program presented to me. Um, I'd like to invite two of my peers to come up and say a few words as well. Thank you so much. [Applause] One of my fears. One of my >> Thank you very much. Good evening. I believe that there's a triangulation partnership. our BTGR adding our students at the center of our focus and most importantly we have our instructors and I want to recognize our instructors that have been responsible in really leading the way and trusting the process that this was going to be best for students.

080So, I'd like to introduce Miss Nubia Diaz, Kennedy High School, Miss Danielle Governo from Cyprus, then she was at Savannah High School, Miss Brooklyn Chadwick, Savannah High School, Miss Chenise Garcia from Esparansa Ben Kennedy High School. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. And I know Miss Danielle Govern will have a few words. Oh, Miss Foster, I'm sorry. Thank you. Magnolia High School. Well, she kind of took my job. I was going to introduce my colleagues, but she she introduced everybody. Come on, colleagues. Come stand next to me, please. They're my emotional support friends. invisible person. Okay. So, again, my name is Danielle Gerno. Um, I've been with RO and I'm proud to stand up here and represent RO. Um, it's a great opportunity. I am I am myself a prodigy of RO. Um,

081right outside of high school, I went and I got my CNA through RO as well as my acute care CNA and my vocational uh, I'm sorry, excuse me, nursing license through ROP. Uh, so I am all for it. I think it's such a great program. Um, and uh, the past three years I was over at Savannah um, helping rebuild up a beautiful pathway, a medical pathway with uh, Brooklyn um, after the COVID pandemic. There was a lot of pieces to put together and this year I am starting a new pathway um, of nursing assistant over at Cyprus. So, it's really exciting. Uh, but basically what I wanted to say I was going to introduce I throwing off my whole speech. Thank you Dr. Dr. Hro, we teach our students many things. One thing is opportunity

082presents itself. We always take it. Knowledge is the greatest superpower we can ever have. Two years ago, when my fellow colleagues and I sat around the table at with TGR, an amazing pilot program began. Another thing we teach our students is that growth comes from being uncomfortable. And that's what this program did. It allowed our students to critically think, apply research and knowledge that they have obtained and allowed them to go into their communities and ask questions. This program also provided a look into the real world of health care professionals. Students had the opportunity to sit in front of a panel of prestigious medical professionals and to be able to talk to them and gain real valuable insights. They were also able to go on a tour at St. Judes, as you guys saw the

083pictures, and there's nothing compared to being able to walk through a hospital and get to talking and seeing equipment instead of watching it on a screen. It is a vast vast difference of that. Uh when we are able to collaborate and create a space for our students, we challenge them to think bigger. We can create growth and opportunity for them. So, we just want to give a huge thank you to AUHSD for for providing us this time uh to express how amazing this program was. Um, we also want to thank North Orange County RO for allowing us as teachers uh to basically build these incredible partnerships uh and support our students with their eager enthusiasm uh into the medical world. And finally, thank you TGR for truly opening up your space and your hearts for

084this incredible program. We truly appreciate your time, you guys. Thank you. [Applause] >> And lastly, I'd like to invite Gila Bell, senior director, to share where we're headed next. >> Thank you. Thank you, Scott. So, um, all of the great work we've been doing with, um, the partnership in the healthcare, we're really excited to expand this work and, um, go down some new, uh, industry pathways. So, we're going to be looking at doing esports development. We're also going to be working with carpentry and residential construction, entrepreneurship, and automotive. And through all of these, we're going to continue with that framework of learning about work, learning at through work, and learning at work. And through all of these, we're going to continue to foster students to pursue their passions as well as do the real world

085connections and the learning that they're going to be taken in real world projects and then continue the connection with industry visits as well as internships. So, we're really excited and um looking forward to this upcoming year and all that we can do. >> All right. So, that concludes our presentation. We're be happy to answer any questions that the board has. >> Anybody have any questions? >> Thank you, Scott. What a fantastic program we got going there. Thank you one and all for your presentations this evening and for the programs that you give to our students. >> Thank you. [Applause] Next we have public comments, open session items. Um this is time for the public to be able to uh come to the podium at with three minute time limit. And the first uh speaker is

086Sonia Moran. [Applause] Good evening, Superintendent Matsuda, President O'Neal, Board of Trustees, Cabinet, everybody here and online that's joining us. My name is Sonia Moran, Brookhurst parent, and I just wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude um and appreciation for providing a safe space during the Brookhurst and Savannah um high school community voice circle for parents and school staff to come together and express our worries, our anxieties, our fears. Um and this was regarding the safety of our schools and students due to the immigration rates. Our families expressed through raw emotions filled with tears and fear their concerns about a real threat and sense of safety, racial hostility, mental health and financial strains um that this current political climate has brought upon them. These spaces are very much valued and needed. They not only

087provide a safe space to express our concerns but allow us to have real communication and connection to our principles, our faces, our d district personnel, superintendent of all the issues that we are currently facing. I would like to recommend that we continue these types of sessions at other schools and also that they be provided through Zoom for those families who are still fearful of joining us in person so that they too may have a chance to express their views. A special thank you to Dr. Frerieded Brookhurst um faces Mrs. Sto Mrs. Druo Savannah faces principal Amanio from Brookhurst Savannah and Brookhurst staff, Ariseli Chavez, Carlos Hernandez, and everyone who attended um the session for your time, your valuable input, and most of all for your openness and vulnerability. This allowed us to get to know

088you on a more personal level. We know it was not an easy topic to talk about and it really brought home to us the message that we have more in common than we realize. This is a step in the right direction in keeping our community connected, protected, and safe. Thank you. [Applause] >> Next speaker is Matzel. He was here earlier. There he is. at the hand off the wild animal there. Service dog uh good afternoon. My name is Renier. That's the Mishika clan name. Um I just want to uh take the time and and speak about my cousin Armando Rizaba. He taught at Catella High School. He was a coach at Catella High School. He was an alumni from Catala High School, alumni from Champion University. he is in the hall of fame and he

089would always tell us but I never had the chance to go and see his name on there. He passed away uh maybe two to three weeks ago and um he uh passed away in Mexico or Mexico, Mexico. And um he was a role model to me, you know, he was a role model and I wanted to be like him, but I never can be so good at playing soccer like him. Simples simply scoring, you know, and um I wish I would have gone to his 50th birthday because he moved to Riverside um close to one of those reservations over there. and he said no way. Why didn't you come? Why didn't you come to my birthday? I'm forgot. I know I told you on Thanksgiving day or Thanksgiving day that I um that I was

090going to go, but I had a sweat lodge. I had to go to a sweat lodge and I had to pray for people. That's what I do. I pray by singing. I um I I am in the role member of the Tonga Nation. Um I don't really like to share that, but I think this is a historical moment, a prayer for everybody right now because of what happened yesterday to the brother in Utah. A lot of politics going on. So, I pray for everyone uh where we need healing. I know there's a lot of people like just um just politics and drugs, alcohol. It's really sad. It's really hard. It's affecting a lot of us. Mando Zava left a daughter, my cousin um my niece um Tatiana, she's actually a teacher in New York. She's

091part Caucasian and part Mishika, Mexican. And the dad would always tell me, "Hey, I know she's part Davacha. I know what they've done to our people, but hey, she's one of us and we need to heal and we need to teach her. Teach her her side, her tribal ways. So, I had the chance to finally um say, "Hey, well, I'm glad that you graduate from Harvard Yao University at 22 years old. And I know you've been wanting me to give you books, but I'm not going to give you books. I'm going to take you to the Aachuma nationist and show you the traditional village and the language is utoastic nawa. You're porta Mexican. Maybe you can serve for Chana and we're not Hispanic. We're not Latinos. We're not colonists. We're not settlers, but I know

092some of us have that blood, even including myself. And that's a part that I didn't even know that I was part white. I never knew my father. It's another story, but it's all connected. We're all related. And Armano Rizaba, um, you're you're still here in the spiritual way. I They gave me two aic dogs, solos, squinklas. He came to me two days after he passed away. But just like how we raised money, we said, "Let's rest his body, you know, back bring him back from Mexico back over here." And Senator James Ramos would say, "Let's rest." I I said to at the funeral the viewing let's rest the native Americans also in the universities like Cal Fullerton. There's a lot of remains and boxes and those Native Americans are our cousins our relatives. How would

093you feel we went to your Europe and take your bodies and and then have them like trophies. We're not trophies. So let's rest in peace all our relatives in the universities of manava uh cis brother you did it scoring goals and good role model. Thank you guys so much. Thank you. Lucy uh Telerita Telerita. >> Good evening board and um all of you here. My name is Lucy Tallerita and I am the ambassador for Western Alumni Association. I'm here on behalf of Ron Flores. He's at the Western football game working the selling these shirts. So I had to be here for him again since I'm ambassador. Um so first off I just want to say um please we're doing a town hall meeting first notice um hosted by us the Western Alumni Association. That would

094be next week October 4th at it's a Saturday and it's at 12:00 p.m. and we're having it at Kino's restaurant. It's at Magnolia and La Palama 2661 West La Palama. So, I am uh telling you about the first one and the second one is that following Wednesday. It's uh October 8th at 6:30 p.m. So, it's an evening town hall meeting uh hosted by us. But first of all, what Ron wanted me to do here tonight is to uh submit this letter and it's from one of the parents from um a student at Orange View High School. and hopefully my phone has 3% battery so I hope it goes. Um, he says, "Uh, I regret that I am unable to attend the board meeting on September 11th, tonight, 2025. However, I feel it is important to

095submit this letter as a concerned parent regarding how Orange View Junior High School and Western High School are currently being run. Earlier this year, I attended nearly every school meeting about the decision to combine Orange Junior High and Western High School. From the first meeting to the last, the main concern expressed by parents of junior high students was safety. We were promised that seventh and eighth grade students would be separated from the high school students with gates that they would have their own classrooms, bathrooms, lunch courtyard, and additional security cameras would be installed. Unfortunately, many of these asurances have not been fulfilled. The junior high students are not being separated from the high school students. The gates that were constructed are not being used and the new courtyard from lunch is unused, resulting in wasted

096funds. While the restroom situation has finally been resolved, they were not ready to uh when school began. For parents who invested time and energy in attending these meetings, it feels as though our concerns were disregarded and we were misled. Excuse me, misled. The purpose of this letter is not to criticize staff or administration, but to share the very real concerns of myself and other parents who feel we were promised one thing and delivered another. I am an involved parent who wants my child's school to be safe, successful, and to foster the STEM education of our children that they deserve. Unfortunately, it was clear to the school um the school was unprepared for this new model of combining the junior high and the high school students. Parents were told that Western would do this better than

097any other school. But what I wanted to hear was that even though this was new leaders, I'm sorry, this was new leaders were committed to doing it right for the sake of the students and families. Communication has been a serious issue. Only last week, there it went. He just goes on to say it's uh from Robert uh a concerned parent that he just said only certain things are just starting to happen after five weeks of school been in session. So this he was just saying that the schools said everything was going to happen all at one time at the beginning and it took five weeks into school to start to see just anything they said they were going to do. So, I'm sorry my phone did go out, but um this is on behalf of

098what Ron wanted to say. So, um I'm speaking on behalf of the president of the alumni association. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Next speaker is is it John? There it is. Hello. Uh, my name is John John and I wanted to uh just say uh blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. No, I'm just playing. Let's wake up everybody. All right. So, 24 years ago, you know, we know what happened this day. 911. tragic event, but we know all who who was behind that, you know, that it was the government. And honestly to reality, why can't the government, you know, admit that? How how was nobody how was no bodies found but the passports of the terrorists were found? That makes no sense. Am I right? And why was the black box of that

099same airplane that was crashed, frowned, and had Israeli accents? It makes no sense, right? And you know, you know what still makes no sense is that we still can't get funding for our teachers in the district. I had a teacher, you know, I don't want to name her name, but she worked at Gilbert High School and she's saying, "Oh, I have to pay everything out of my pocket. you know, we have all this, but we still have to pay out our own pocket, you know, and that that's not fair, you know, and as you see me, you know, I'm I'm a I've been I've been in a couple situations, you know, I'm a warrior, you know, at heart. I'm a warrior. We all are warriors, you know. We have to fight for what's right. You

100see my hands? You know they're dirty because I had to do what's what had to be done. And you know what I'm trying to get to is that we should be fighting to get more funding for our district, for our people, for our teachers, for our education. You know, I didn't come up here with no script just to talk about blah blah blah blah blah. I came here to talk about what's right. All right, Mr. Superintendent. I need you to try harder, fight harder for some more funding, bro. I know you're you're doing your best, but we need more funding for our teachers. All right? Because it's not fair for Oh, we have to we have to pay out of our own pockets just to teach our own students, you know, and the students ain't

101even going nowhere with the education. All they're doing just be on their phones, not do nothing, you know. Miss Vasquez in the back, you know, she suspended me in middle school cuz I got in a fight cuz that just shows how much of a fighter I am, you know? But now I'm a fighter for what's right. You know what I'm saying? And I want to say what's up to all the gentlemen and you know what's good to all the ladies. You know what I'm saying? Thank you guys very much. Have a good day. My name is John John. All right. Okay. Next is the superintendent and staff report. No report by the superintendent. What about staff? >> Report. >> Quick report. You heard it from Dr. Cai, but I just wanted to um reinforce that

102yesterday we had a great community practice with our principles and their site leadership teams along with our ed staff. As you may remember at the lead advance, we had Shane Saphir serve as our keynote. So yesterday her along with her co-authors from the pedagogies of voice um they came and worked with our teams on really uplifting the student voice creating experiences for students to really gain more experiences around their ident identity. And so we're going to be engaging and work with them throughout the year. Uh in January they will be back to co-lead another session with our team. So I'll make sure you have the dates well in advance. So hopefully you can be there for either part of the day, the whole day uh if you're able to make it to see the great

103work that's taking place with our our school sites. No report. >> I just just want to take this time um to thank the two athletic directors at Cypress High School, Mark Slovick and Sean Feifer. They um helped to um host the first Cypress High School football game at home and it was over 1,200 um students, uh staff, community members. It was an amazing event and so just want to take this uh time to thank them and all the administration and all the staff that work really hard for the special event in Cypress. No, none. Okay, thank you. Moving on to item 13.1, school sponsored student organizations. >> Do I have a motion? >> Move. >> Second. >> Motion to second. Any discussion? >> Seeing none. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. 50. >>

10412.2. Resolution number 2025-26-B-02 adjustments to income and expenditures general fund. Resolution number 2025-26-B3 adjustments to income and expenditures various funds and 2425 unudited actual financial statements. This is a roll call vote. Is there any discussion? >> Seeing none, Mrs. Smith, Mr. Give a motion to >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> So move. >> Second. >> Motion. Second. Thank you. >> Keep me on my toes here. Mrs. Smith, >> I. >> Mr. Hosshi. >> Hi. >> Mr. Aljoo. >> I. >> M. Guerrero. >> I. >> And I vote I. That's 50. 12.3. Resolution number 2025-26-B4. Recalculation of the 2425-20 24-25 appropriation limit and establishing the uh estimated appropriations limit calculations. >> So move >> second >> motion in a second discussion. Seeing none this is a roll call. Miss Smith >> I. >> Mr. Hosshi >> I.

105>> Mr. Rando >> I. >> Mr. Burrow >> I. >> And I vote I 50. Uh public hearing, sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials. We open the public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak on this item? See none. We close the public hearing. 12.5 resolution number 2025-26-E-3 textbooks and instructional materials compliance for 202526. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion a second. Any discussion? Seeing none. All in favor say up resolution. I caught myself. Mrs. Smith >> I. >> Mr. Hosi. >> I. >> Miss Rand Trejo. >> I. >> Miss Guero. >> I. >> And I vote I. That's 50. >> 12.6 resolution number 2025-26-E-4 National Hispanic Heritage Month. >> Slow move. Second. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? I would like to um request that we get a list

106of celebrations and events that we can attend for the heritage month >> for this. >> Okay. All right. >> Since it's like a home, it's for like four weeks like mid September through October. >> Yes. >> We can work on putting a list together. >> Okay. Good. Okay. Mrs. Smith >> I >> Mr. Hosshi >> I >> Mr. Janjo >> I >> Miss Guerrero >> I >> and I vote I that's 50 uh 12.7 resolution number 2025-26-E-5 attendance aware awareness month >> so move >> second >> motion in a second discussion >> um I just have a quick question what does it says uh awareness month for attendance what what is this going to look like what is the district doing >> well through attendance awareness month there's a number of activities that take place

107on school to increase awareness about the importance of attending school um I'm not sure if Allison Conrad I see Adam back there but we have a number of activities that the school is engaging in promoting attendance in addition to the work that we're doing around the educational monitoring team and the way they look more closely at the data it's really promoting healthy habits we have the start strong stay strong finish strong campaign that we saw at leaders advance so it's activities centered around that that work and really promoting um healthy attendance habits. It's also the proactive communication with not just our students but then the families and making sure students come to school and reminding them of certain things that they maybe often forget like if they have a doctor's appointment to come back to

108school or to schedule those appointments after school. The little things that make a big difference in students being present in school and being act being given access to what they're to be learning while they're here. >> Thank you. >> Anything else? Okay, Mrs. Smith >> I. >> Mr. Hushy, >> I miss Rand Tjo. I >> miss >> I >> and I vote I 50 12.8 resolution number 2025-26-E-6 Red Ribbon Week >> so moved >> second >> motion and a second discussion seeing none roll call Mrs. Smith >> I >> Mr. Hosshi >> I >> Mr. Mr. Randjo >> I miss >> I >> and I vote I 50 >> 12.9 excuse me resolution number 2025-26-E-7 international translation day >> so move >> second >> any discussion okay this is a roll call Miss Smith >>

109I >> Mr. Hosshi >> I >> miss rando >> I >> miss >> I >> and I vote I that's 50 >> 1210 >> resolution number 2025-26-E-8 request for proposals for -ate year 28 data communications equipment cyber security software and other related electronic equipment apparatus and services >> so move >> second >> that was a mouthful Yes. >> Any discussion, questions? You got to got off easy. Okay. Roll call vote. Mrs. Smith >> I. >> Mr. Hosshi. >> I. >> Miss Randall Tjo. >> I miss >> I. >> And I vote I. That's 50. >> 1211 resolution number 2025-26-E-9 prioritizing comprehensive AI readiness for all students. >> So moved. Second >> motion and a second discussion. Seeing none, roll call. Miss Smith, >> I. >> Mr. Hosshi, >> I. >> Miss Rand Tjo. >> I,

110>> Mr. Barrow. >> I. >> And I vote I 50. >> 1212. Resolution number 2025-26-HR-01 week of the school administrator. >> So move. Second. >> Motion and a second. Any discussion? Seeing none. Oh. >> Oh, I was just going to say um you know we we as a board appreciate our administrators and um I was saying at the RO meeting last night that you know we we think that the administrators at the sites are many superintendent right of uh of of their of their sites and um they've been through a lot these last couple of years and um I'm really glad that we we take the time to um you know to honor you and I hope that you know folks really do take the time and just you know I know you don't do

111it for accolades, you don't do it for rewards, but I hope that um that uh because of this resolution, people can see it that um people really take the time to um just thank their administrator. um they work so hard. They don't clock in at 9 to5 um and long hours at school, you know, games in the evening, uh weekends. And um I think that uh sometimes they just need a little pat on the back and they need a little add a add a I was going to say add a girl or add a boy. That's not appropriate anymore, but um you know what I mean. So um I appreciate you. We appreciate you and um we could not do um the work that we're doing up here without all of you. Um you are

112the soul of our district. Thank you. >> The backbone. >> Absolutely. Absolutely. >> Okay. This is a res resolution. So it's a roll call. Mrs. Smith >> I. >> Mr. Hoshi >> I. >> Mr. Rand Tjo >> I. >> Miss Guero. >> I. >> And I vote I. Next item is 1213 revised board policy uh 50 excuse me in parentheses 5030 student wellness first reading so it's information only. Next is revised board policy 4510 parenthesis 3400 uh management and district assets accounts second reading. >> So move a motion in a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. 5-0. 12:15. School connected organizations. >> So move. >> Second. >> So we'll take all four. Any discussion? >> Just uh I'm glad to see more uh are joining on. >> Yes,

113indeed. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. 5-0. >> 1216. Award request for proposal RFP RFP 2026-05 student transportation services >> slow moved >> second >> motion a second any questions see none all in favor say I >> I opposed by zero >> 1217 consulting services agreement Lunch Assist Inc. So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion in a second. Any discussion? >> I just was uh really happy to see I know that you have done this before, but I like to see that all of our areas are um are developing and learning. Um so the professional development here um looks like it's um going to be put to well good use. Um, our team does a wonderful job and um, I'm I'm glad to see that you're

114still wanting to learn and grow. >> Yep. >> It's refreshing. >> That's We're in the education process. Yes. Um, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? 5-0. >> 1218, amendment number two, super co-op joint powers agreement. >> So moved. Second. >> Motion and a second. Any discussion? Seeing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. 5-0. >> Uh 1219 public utility easement, city of Anaheim. >> Slow moved. >> Second. >> Motion and a second. Any discussion? >> Seeing none. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. 50. Uh educational services 12 uh.20 annual report Proposition 28 arts and music in schools funding. So moved. >> Second. >> Motion a second. Any discussion? >> Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. 5-0. >> 1221 memorandum of understanding New

115York, excuse me, New Techch Network Deeper Learning Grant. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Any discussion? >> Yes. >> Yeah. I wanted to get Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. Ladies first. Uh I just wanted to ask it's probably your question. How will the teachers be selected for this? >> So we have uh 30 induction candidates uh for this year. Uh so they will get an automatic uh spot in this program and then we have some additional induction candidates who were previously in the program that they'll be a first come first serve with the additional spots. So that's how they're being selected right now. >> Okay. So my understanding is the grant pay play pays for the workshop but um we're going to be paying for the substitutes. Is that it? >>

116Yes. Correct. >> That's what that the 20 >> correct. >> Can you share a little bit about the grants? >> Yes. I will do my best and Diana Fuima is out there in case I uh leave some important information out. But essentially it's it's very much aligned and connected to the work that we're already engaging in but it provides additional professional learning and deeper learning. So, a lot of reflection built into the grant around the instructional practices already doing around performance task assessments, full child education, uh things of that nature. There's things that they're the candidates are required to do as part of the induction process. Uh remember, for a teacher, that's part of the way that they clear their credential. So, they have their own I think it's called the transition plan, learning plan.

117And so, part of that learning plan, the grant's going to help them work through that, but through these reflective practices and strategies that again, they're aligned to what we would call first best instruction. I miss anything, Diana? Okay. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. 5-0. >> Uh 1222, Memorandum of Understanding, Orange County Department of Education, OCDE, Career Technical Education, Teacher uh credentiing program. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Any discussion? Um, is the is the cost still about uh a grand per uh per year for this? Do we know >> Scott's still here? I'm not sure if it's I don't want to give you bad information. I think the cost for >> the cost >> for the career technical education credentiing program. >> Oh, it is

118approximately. >> Okay. Thank you. >> We have to take two >> classes. >> Two classes. >> Thank you, Scott. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Any other questions? Seeing that, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? 5 Z. >> Uh 1223 agreement. Lieutenant Colonel Brian Miller. >> So move. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Any discussion? >> Yes. I see Mr. Bellski out there. So, I want to ask a few questions. Um, how are the 80 students for the honor band selected and all are um all high schools represented? >> Are they? >> Brian, you want to come up to the podium because the camera can't catch you catch you in the back side of your head? >> Yes. All students are all of the high schools have been represented. Uh they audition

119via video. Uh they do submit a video audition. Um there's uh there you know their particular requirements that they have to do. Um but all all of the high school uh instrumental music programs have been uh represented. Uh we always bring in uh some phenomenal guest conductors and uh bringing in Colonel Miller would be another step in that uh in that tradition. >> And then how many rehearsals does he work with the kids? >> He will work with the students the week of the concert on Tuesday and Thursday night. Concert will be Friday night. Um so he'll put in about six hours plus a tech rehearsal of about two hours. So he'll put in eight hours in a concert >> um with the students. >> Mr. Dr. Bowski, I'm really impressed you got somebody of

120his caliber to come and work with our students. >> Yeah, we we uh we we draw some great talent. So, the kids have a great experience. >> The evening of the concert is is it is it February >> 6 is the I believe the first Friday in February. >> Uh I would have to check. >> I'll make sure you get an invite. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Seeing none. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> 5-0. 12:24. Agreement. Amy Gordon. >> So move. >> We have a second on Amy. >> Second. Sorry. >> Okay. Motion in a second. Any discussion? See none. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. 5-0. 1225. Agreement. Carla D Ro uh DBA robots and rainbows. So move >> second. >>

121Motion in a second. Discussion. >> Uh no questions but uh just uh I know the artist has done a lot of work with Anaheim Elementary. So excited for her to uh showcase some of work at South Junior High School. >> Okay. Any other comments? Seeing none. All in favor say I. >> Opposed. 5 Z. 126 agreement career launch. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Yes. Um, can someone just give us a little bit um about more about this um about this uh the skill building and some examples of of uh what this >> Oh, yeah. Sorry. I thought you were I was I thought you weren't finished. Yeah, I can have Scott come up and as or Amanda. Yeah. And just as as Amanda is walking up, um, Career Launch has been

122someone like if I recall, they're the ones that work with our students on the pitches. Um, it's okay, it's a different group. All the mana come up, not for >> Hi, good evening. Um, so we're partnering with Career Launch, who um we've we've engaged with in the past to do um lessons within um our English classes on um career readiness and helping students learn how to have career conversations with um people within their social network. Um but they um through another grant with the um Gates Foundation developed a researchbased career readiness inventory that um we will be giving to all of our students 7th through 11th grade as part of our college and career fair lessons. Um and it will be able and we're planning on giving it now to them every other year after

123this year um to to track their their growth and career readiness um as they move towards graduation. So, it's part of the ecosystem we're building around six-year academic planning, the college and career fair, and then really um being able to re in a researchbased way prove that we are helping our students be career ready when they leave us. >> When you get that, can you um can you send that to us? >> Yes, of course. >> Yeah, I'd like to see that. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I meant to say curriculum and it just couldn't come out of my brain. So, sorry about that. Thank you. >> Any other questions? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I >> opposed. 5-0. Uh 1227 contract independent psychoeducational assessment Janna Brody Allen Mind Insights. >> So

124moved. Second. >> Motion second. Any discussion? >> Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. That's 50. Human resources 12.28. Public hearing a disclosure of collecting bargaining agreement with MMA. We open a public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak? Seeing none, we close the public hearing. Uh 12:29, adoption of the 2425 collective bargaining agreement with MMA. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. 50. Uh 12.30 30 public hearing disclosure of collective bargaining agreement with ask me. We open the public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak? Seeing none, we close the public hearing. 12:31 adoption of the 2425 collective bargaining agreement with ask me. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion and uh second. Any discussion? >> Seeing none. All in

125favor say I. >> I. Opposed um 12.32 comp uh compensation for assistant superintendent educational services >> so moved >> second >> motion in a second any discussion >> seeing none all in favor say I >> I >> opposed 5 don't we have to discuss >> the compensation >> the recommend the recommendation yeah you're right Okay. The recommendation would be uh to align the new assistant superintendent's uh compensation with the existing cabinet's compensation. >> So moved. Second. >> Okay. Thank you. Yes. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Thank you. >> Okay. uh superintendent's office 12.33 board policy multi multiple policies first reading information only next is consent calendar anybody wishing to pull anything >> yes >> 134 1317 17 13 18 and 20. No, sorry. That's it. >> 27 is

126the last one. >> 27. >> Okay. Anybody else? >> Um 13.14. >> 14. >> Yes. >> And I'm pulling 1311 and 1312. Can we move the balance? >> Practically. >> Not much left, but can we move the balance? >> Some move. Second. >> Okay. Uh any discussion? Dina. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Okay, let's take the first one. Easy. 1314. >> Okay. Uh, this is >> Wait a minute. That's not too >> You got so excited there. I said the easy one. >> So, I just um 1314. That's >> Oh, that >> that's 13. >> No, you said 13.4. >> You had five or six in a row. >> I know. That's why I said 134. Hard. >> Dang it. these kids. I don't know about these board members. There's

127one listening. >> Okay, go. >> 134. Thank you. I had one question. If you can share the responsibilities of the wellness coaches and uh sites they're staffed at. >> Yes. So, the wellness coaches uh are funded through a grant. Um and so we have it for I think the remainder of this year and I think into next year. Um they have a number of key responsibilities. One, they do home visits. So part of the home visits is um not just as part of our EMT or the educational monitoring team, the wellness coaches as a part of our systems approach. They're going to be integrated into that uh piece as well. So we have thresholds for students um in terms of as we run data at different grading periods. Students who have greater than or below

12850% attendance but but are higher than 10% the wellness coaches or 30%. They will take the um home visits for those students in that 30 to 50% range. So we have different categories. So the teachers will work with kids 10% or lower. The counselors will do the 10 to 30% and then wellness coaches 30% to 50%. So we have different categories and so they're going to help with those home visits. Um it's strategic intervention, right? And the way that they're going to to connect with those students to figure out um what's maybe um causing them to miss school, right? Going back to our street data, right? Really doing those interviews and trying to figure out what's what's going on so we can better support those students in getting them back to school and then what

129that might look like. They also help um run or they serve in our wellness spaces on our campuses. So they can do a lot of work around mental health supports uh maybe provide social emotional learning lessons in the way that they support students in small groups and then they also can help with supervising some of that work supporting that wellness coach alignment across our schools. Um they also can do some case management work. So part of that means that they have case loads with the students that we just referenced that are having those attendance issues. So, it's not just doing the home visits, but it's also the kind of case management and monitoring. If their outreach and if their connections are helping the students start to come to school um because as you may recall,

130so often when students are missing school, a lot of times that falls on the teacher. In the past, it may have fallen on the teacher. Like, hey, what are we doing to engage and get students back? But this is much bigger than just the teacher. And so, our system that we're really trying to build as an ed staff is a whole systems approach in the way that we support students based on where they are within that that threshold or that continuum. And so the wellness coaches are now being integrated into that system specifically through the lens of attendance and also supporting the lower levels of mental health where the social worker, psychologists, right? Um they typically do the tier three tier higher tier two level support of mental health for students and then they're being

131spread as through feeder patterns across our schools. Um but we're also exploring the idea of beginning to centralize them and then having them as we do our EMT work kind of um deploying them if you will to different sites based on the where the numbers are and the needs are. so we can more effectively support students that we're seeing in these kinds of categories. But we started with um them being serving in feeder patterns. >> Got it. I like the idea. And then um for the wellness spaces, can you remind me what sites have the wellness spaces? >> Gosh. Um >> it's not all of them, right? >> I don't believe all of the schools have wellnesses, but many of them now do. And um I I'd have to get back I don't want to

132give you bad information. I have to get back how many actually have them. And I know Dr. Cruz isn't here, so I I don't want to give you bad information. Okay. >> I know there's quite a few schools that do have the wellness spaces. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> They're growing and growing. Um on that, >> are we still on the same number? Okay. Okay. >> On that, um the unfortunate thing is the fortunate thing is that we get one more year of this funding. Um but we're what are we going to try to do to continue? So, one of the things that we're working with all of our sites and in next month's leadership academy, we're bringing our social workers, our psychologists, our wellness coaches, our um I think lead counselors being invited

133along with our our management, our principles and assistant principles on the medical billing. And a lot of what wellness coaches can do is billable. And so, as we are becoming more intentional, and I know Heather's not even here, our CSA rep, but I want to give her a big shout out because she's helping to really facilitate and lead a lot of this work. as we do a better job of capturing um these moments and these experiences that are billable that helps us bring in revenue or reimbursements that um help ideally to sustain a lot of these kinds of positions. So, we've already um some of our groups like our account our psychologists have done an incredible job with what they build and I need to give Christy Gutier a big shout out. Um she's done

134a remarkable work supporting our psyches. But that's the kind of work that we're trying to be more intentional about so that money can come in to sustain those positions or if we decide to sustain those positions um even though maybe the money isn't through there to cover the position but it covers the vast majority of position and maybe something we want to continue because we know that it's really meaningful in having these kinds of positions to support the overarching system. Thank you. >> Okay. All right. So, we have a motion and a second on >> 1314. >> Correct. >> Yes. >> Okay. All in favor say I. I. >> I. Opposed. That's 5 Z. >> Okay. Mr. Amra, you have six items here. Do you want to take them all at once or one at

135a time or >> Oh, yeah. It's all me. Okay. Uh, yeah. Let's just take them. >> Let's just take them one at a time. >> One at a time. Okay. 13.4. >> All right. 13.4. Uh, so moved. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Okay. >> I just wanted to point out um that this is a wonderful um report that we're getting about these projects that are completed. um most of the projects um were completed um under budget and I think out of the all of them there were two that were on budget and I just wanted to give a shout out and compliment our staff on doing that. >> Okay, >> was that was all. >> So we have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I opposed 50.16. >>

136So move second >> motion in a second. discussion. >> So, uh yes, in in um looking at this uh agreement uh that we have to provide a a licensed clinical social worker for survey. I asked the question um what are the other schools in our area that we have to support with this um with this um um I what would you call it a mandate? >> Yeah, it's it's federal regulations. We need to support >> regulations. And so I just kind of wanted to point out to the public that um we we have to provide certain um uh resources to our uh private schools in our area. So, Acacia Wood Prep Academy, uh, Digitis, uh, Guide Academy, American School, Servite High School, St. Catherine's, St. Iranius, uh, Catholic Elementary, St. Justin Martyr, St. Pas Catholic

137School, uh, the Islamic Education School, Zion and Lutheran uh, elementary. So these are the schools that surround our area and um that that our public school has has to provide resources. Just anformational item. Uh you know some people feel that um uh that we I don't know what they think sometimes but I just wanted to point that out. I didn't hear what you just said that we what >> go ahead and >> so so local eleas are required to provide or or the private schools in our area are entitled to title two and title four funding which we have. So the local EAS help support that and so the private schools that trustee Rand Tjo just um read off are the schools that if they chose to to do activities that fall under the title

138two and title four relations we provide some of that support. That's why we're providing the support to servite in this this case mandated. >> And so in this case um the licensed clinical social worker that we're providing is at a cost of $12,000. >> Yeah. So basically we can't re reject it. So all in favor say I. >> I opposed. Okay. 13.17. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion and a second. Miss Rand Tjo. All I would like is a copy uh to to see a copy of this curriculum. That's all. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Okay. That's fur 1318. >> So move. >> Second. >> Okay. And that is agreement Orange County United Way AIM program. Mr. Rando. Um, I just wanted to point out at one time,

139uh, the district, um, and we're so grateful for United Way, uh, and the services that they provide the community, um, and and what they've provided for us. And I just, I remember at one time we used to collect donations for them. Do you know what happened with that and why we're not doing that anymore? It depends on uh I'll answer that. It depends on their specific campaigns. They have different strategies and also uh we used to collect more money from United Orange County United Way. Uh but the revenues overall have gone down. Um, I believe if you add I mean this is a 10-year program and we've probably collected overall in excess of 500,000. Um, and I have to really commend Scott Randall and his team because they have also funded other districts and they

140stopped funding them because they other districts were not able to really implement and show the record of success that our AIM program has accomplished. So, um um thank as uh trustee uh Randall Trey said, we're very grateful United Way, especially Sergio Contreres and Sue Parks of the United Way. >> Thank you. >> And they've been with us from the start, >> from the very beginning. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I opposed. 5 Z. Okay. 1320. >> Some moved. >> Second. >> Motion a second. Miss Rand Tjo. >> Okay. Um, how did we come up with the 20 addition of the 20,000 additional cost? Um, it says special events and football games. Um, and I looked at the contract. Is that uh what we paid last year or um I was

141just wondering how we came up with that. So, it's 26,620. Yeah, on page 35. So, >> yeah, I think the regular the added costs came from it's not just the football games, it's also we had a couple of SRO that were out on leave for a variety of reasons and we wanted because of some of the activity happening around the schools to ensure that safety was there. So, uh, at that time, Anaheim PD was unable to backfill because they were short. And so, we made the decision to bring OCPS in to provide that additional support. >> In addition, um, at yeah, at some of our sporting events, um, we had OCPS come and support because, uh, >> they were more readily available because of things happening in the city. The NIPD obviously prior was some

142of those other things. So, that's where that that added support came in. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And Dr. Hernand's office works closely with OCPS. Thank you. >> Along with Anaheim PD. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Okay. 13.27. >> So move. >> Second. >> Motion and a second. Mr. Rand Trail. And this is the last one you get. >> I know. So Mr. Bellski is here. Mr. Bellski, is this um a new program with the Pacific Symphony? I um I'm uh familiar with their class act program um with the elementary schools um and I don't recall this program. >> Uh it is not it's not new. We uh began this last year as a partnership uh where Pacific Symphony was providing uh professional musicians to come and provide essentially uh focused

143music lessons and uh master classes for the Orange View Junior High School uh students. Um it was a wild success. Uh if you got a chance to hear the Orange View uh band and orchestra toward the end of last year, um it was maybe one of the best groups they've ever had. Uh it was uh it was really impressive and definitely worth uh worth continuing. So that's why we're doing it. >> Fantastic. Thank you. >> Mhm. Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Okay. 5. uh 1311 and 1312. >> So move >> second >> motion in a second. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed abstain. I >> if I may um one sorry um if before you move on if we could do a point of clarification on 1233. >>

1441233. >> Yes. On page 23. >> Okay. It was an information item for multiple new board policies. I just wanted to ensure that there was no discussion um or requests for revisions to any of those. >> Um nobody spoke up when I asked. >> I had seen a question about it previously and therefore I just wanted to confirm that. >> That may have been me. [Applause] >> Yes, I apologize. I missed this one. Um I wanted a clarification on 12.33.2. too. Um I I think the language noted uh board president making public statements and I was interested if we can add language to include board president or trustee representing that area can make public statements >> and so that would be a conversational item for the trustees to whether they would like to change the

145language in the proposed uh board policy. >> Okay. >> Exhibit mm. Yes. Okay. I'm sorry. I did I didn't quite understand what you were asking. >> Uh yes. So, I think the current uh language it's for making public statements and I think it's a board president only if I'm correct or am I incorrect. >> Unfortunately, I don't have it right in front of me. >> You're like two seconds. >> Just going to look it up. >> I think it was just adding language uh to include board president or trustee of that area. >> Gotcha. Exhibit. Mm. >> Mm. And what you want to add? >> Public statements. >> Yes. >> Okay. And where did you want to add what? >> Um where it says all public statements authorized to be made on behalf of the

146board shall be made by the board president or um if appropriate by the superintendent and then add or the trustee of that area. It's on the second paragraph. Okay. [Music] And the reasoning for that would be >> um I think uh just uh comprehensively so the trustee of the area also gets uh to share information if they have any um share any u community um perspective that they might have. Mhm. >> It's just just as a or not as a like always type of thing. >> I don't have a problem with it. >> I don't have a problem with that. >> Yeah. >> That is >> that represents that specific >> that area that they will have a voice. >> Yes. >> Good catch. >> Do I make a motion or do I >> No,

147no. This is information. So, if there's consensus, we can make the revision. >> Okay. this information. This is first reading. So you asking to come back on second reading with >> Yes. Yes. Sorry, I thought I'd do that the second time. So it's the first time. Okay. That's on my Thank you. >> All right. >> Thank you, Carl. >> Yes. Thank you, Carl. So we are now finished with the consent calendar. Moving on to 14 board of trustees reports. Mr. Smith. >> All right. Well, excuse me. Um the ambassadors tonight when they express themselves is such a a joy to hear how young people are finding their footing in life. And I would say to young people, it's the most difficult time of life being a teenager and finding yourself. And for these young people

148that are doing so well, who are having these wonderful experiences being ambassadors, it'll be a great senior year for them. And I would like to acknowledge Dr. Janice Billings. She started this program when she was superintendent and she got the concept from uh Disneyland that she had attended a meeting there and they had an ambassador and so that's how she came up with this idea and it was with for one person and then the program was extended to all the schools and it just gives me great joy to I'm hope she's watching this tonight to say to her thank you. Thank you again. and um I attended the discipline committee and the insurance committee and it's always a learning process and um I'm grateful for the position to be on this team and wonderful people

149that and we're going to have a new assistant superintendent. So life goes on and changes. Thank you one and all for your attendance here tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Hosshi. >> It's been a busy month. I got to attend eight back to school nights at Lexington, Cypress, Oxford, Cambridge, Laera, Catella, Kennedy, and Walker. And then I've been attending coffee with the principles at Lexington, Ball, Kennedy, Hope, Orange View, Western, um, CVA, and Savannah. And then uh something new was cupcakes with the community liaison. So when I heard cupcakes, I had to I couldn't miss that one either. So that was really good. I know you've heard a lot about what the Disney Resort has done with the 70 hours. And I just uh a few of us got to go to that

150football game. There was 1,400 people in the stands at Glover. So, I just really want to commend like how music, how athletics brings the community together and I I just and and food too since I see um Mr. Grego out there too. So, all those things, the cultural things, it brings our schools together and it's really fun to watch kids working together. Um each one teach one um um let's see um president board president Mr. O'Neal joined me and uh Dr. Nan at um Hope School where each one teach one under uh the leadership of Mayor Natish Patel from La Palama um 400 students were awarded um backpacks and shoes. I think that it's a really great thing and you see the uh Orange County Fire Authority also being involved and so it was a

151great celebration and it's really great to see the business department there supporting that um that event. Um I know you heard a lot about this um the Cypress um high school um football field, the inauguration of that. I just really want to commend and acknowledge the two athletic directors, um, Mr. Sean Feifer and Mark Slovco. Um, it took a lot of work. We had probably 1,800 students there. There was our ticket sales were up to 1,800. And, um, I just wanted to say, boy, that that was a full house. And again, it brought the Cypress community together. And I thought they did an incredible job with makeshift portaotties and then a crate snack bar um crate container snack bar and a lot of um like food trucks and everything. Uh it was a great event

152and what made it even more exciting is we won during the last two minutes of the game. So history was made. Um went to Oxford Academyy's FRT. They're starting the robotics competition season and the room was packed with a bunch of seventh and eighth graders. So, it was really fun to see that. Uh Dr. Freed and I got to attend the Simon Scholars Partner breakfast at the Pacific Club and that's one of our great partners um to help our students who are first generation college go uh going students and um just I mean their partnership wants to expand with our schools. So, um, it's been a great month. And one of the things I just want to say when we have our parents and everything, especially the coffee with the principles, is I hope that

153we can think about ways about getting more parents out there to these events since we do have some some people in in place to help us with that. So really want to encourage us to put our heads together um because we really want that street data from our parents and also our students. So anyway, thank you very much. >> Thank you. Uh first of all, congratulations to Amy Quan. Uh we know you're going to do a fantastic job. We're excited. Uh our ambassadors were absolutely amazing. uh if we we need to live up to their expectations, uh they kind of put us on notice. So, um looking forward to working with them. And Leia Garcia, she's going to be fantastic. Um I attended Savannah's, Western Orange View, Anaheim, and Balls uh back to school nights.

154Um all well attended. Um and uh ran into Ron Flores and got a Western t-shirt. um my uh no crop uh meetings and um I also attended uh the Orange County School Board Association meeting. Uh they talked about um a couple of uh subjects, but was very very um sad to hear that um a lot of them are uh halting their ethnic studies curriculum and their programs at this time. Um and sad sadly that we're the only school district and I think there was one other school district that was uh you know uh doing that and uh it it just really made me sad made me sad that they um they just felt that they had to do that at this time. Um attended the uh se couple of the 70our uh events that were

155amazing. Um, and you talked about music and and and the games that athletics that brought it together, but when I talked to um and can't remember is the gentleman's name that um connected all of us um you introduced us to him across the fence who um Larry >> Larry who took over the the program um the last couple of years, but um our AIM program um it was the kids who really um you know uh got into the hearts and the minds of the employees and Larry told me that that um because I thanked him for thinking about our high school kids and remembering that they're still kids. You know, they all got excited when Mickey came out and all the characters. Um so did we. Um but um he said it was because um

156of the employees. It was their idea. they got together and they said we've got to go to the high schools and and do something for them. So, thank you uh for your hard work and um you know bringing and connecting and and continuing to work with them and um you know they they love our kids. So, our kids um our kids sell. Um and uh lastly, um um Jiren and Jessica and I attended the city council meeting um just a couple days ago and we were honored to hear the Anaheim choir sing um I guess it was Natalie Rubakalva who um invited them to talk about their uh Carnegi their New York trip and uh give them some accolades and tell them tell everybody they still need 30 grand um to to raise. Um but

157they uh they sounded impeccable. Um I'm a choir geek. Um and I I know a good choir. I mean I we love our kids and we we think that they sound absolutely wonderful no matter what. But um this choir is fantastic and to get up there and you know uh sing in a kind of a tight space and you know in front of people they didn't know. Um they just were amazing and now I understand why they got invited to um to New York. Um, but we also talked about um, and you'll share you know what you talked about, but I got to brag about our Moody's rating um, for them and I heard some oo and a's in the in the back of the room. Um, but it was really nice to actually go

158there and and talk about our district with something positive. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, I had the opportunity to serve as a pal p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p panelist alongside superintendent Msuda, um and our asset president, uh Jeff Morgan Stern at the redesigning schools in an era of declining enrollment. And I want to thank the learning policy institute for inviting UHSD um and allowing us to share um some of the lessons that we learned throughout the redesign and consolidation process. Um as many of my colleagues mentioned, um uh grateful to Disneyland uh for sponsoring three visits for the happiest 70

159hours in Anaheim. uh they visited Anaheim High School and gave $50,000 to our Anaheim choir uh students and the president Disney actually visited them. Um so we're excited to host him. Lawyer High School's uh movie night with Leo and Stitch and the Catella High School football game which was amazing and we're all very excited to see Disney and his friends. Um I had the opportunity to attend back to school night at Savannah High School, Anime High School, Warrior High School, Catella High School, and Sycamore Junior High School. had the opportunity to attend the coffee with the principal Anaheim High School and then um uh was um honored to join the Little Rabbit District's third um anniversary of their official destination in the city of Anaheim and we actually had a lot of students volunteer uh

160throughout the event. So I just want to give a shout out to our student volunteers who continue to be engaged in the community. I had the opportunity to attend the Anaheim High School versus Catella High School football game. And this year uh we started a new tradition uh for the battle for the key to the city. Um and Anam High School won. Um and I was honored to present the key alongside Congress member Luca. Um I thought the key was going to be a little small key. It turned out to be like really huge. It was a little heavy. Uh so we were proud to bring home to Ann High School. Uh but grateful for everyone that joined us for that game. uh had the opportunity to attend health insurance committee. Um and then as

161uh Trusty Rhode mentioned uh yesterday we were honored to attend the Anaheim City Council meeting. Uh grateful to council member Natalie Wukava for inviting our choir uh program to sing and also recognizing them for all their achievements. Um and I was able to share remarks uh um really honoring the partnership between the city and the school district as we continue to address safety concerns um and navigate through um all the immigration enforcement concerns. So just grateful for their partnership and their leadership. Um and ending uh congratulations again to Amywan. Very excited to work with you in this new capacity. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> So I was um since school started I've attended uh nine back to school nights. I've missed a number because I was out of the country. So apologize for missing

162those but I was having fun. Um I'm sorry I I did to do that once in a while. Yeah. Yeah. Um they've already said number of things that I've uh attended but today I uh visited two schools uh Cyprus and Kennedy and the RO programs. So I had a had a good time visiting their their uh health pathways and the educational pathway. Not those terms but that's basically the the area they were in. So, I had a good time visiting those rooms. So, moving on to uh oh, I also wanted to congratulate Amy Quan in her new future role. I know that she'll do great and Leia Garcia sitting here at the dis joining us here to make a reports every every Oh, there she is. She she moved >> next month each month. So,

163we look forward to having you up here. So, congratulations. So next is advanced planning future meeting dates. Next meeting is October 16th 6 p.m. Um and then Thursday, November 13th and then December 11th. Any suggested agenda items? Seeing none. Number 16. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I opposed.