4/10 AUHSD Board Meeting: Open Session (6:00 PM)

001Thank you. The board of trustees will now reconvene into open session and the pledge of allegiance and moment of silence will be led by our student board rep, Aaron Beck. Please [Music] stand. Put your 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. A couple days ago on April 8th, a tragic incident occurred. The roof of the Jetset nightclub in Sto. Domingo, Dominican Republic collapsed during a live performance, resulting in at least 184 deaths and 255 injuries being described as the worst non-atmospheric tragedy in the nation's history. Let us remember the 221 souls who are taken too soon, friends, family members, artists, and community leaders who gathered

002to celebrate music and life. In this moment, let us reflect on the fragility of life, the importance of community, and the enduring power of love and remembrance. Thank you. Thank you, Aaron. We'll now have a close session report by our clerk of the board. Thank you. 4.1. No reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation. Superintendent 4.2. to the board of trustees by a vote of 50 approve the settlement agreement in Orange County Superior Court case number 30-2023-01315287- CU-PO-WJC 4.3 The board of trustees unanimously approved the settlement agreement in O a case number 20241200053 resolving all due process issues by providing an indep Independent educational evaluation and other reimbursements. 4.4. No report of action taken regarding negotiations. 4.5. No report of action taken regarding personnel. 4.6. The board of trustees unanimously voted to dismiss employee

003HR-2024-25-51. And that concludes the close session report. Thank you. I move on to recognitions. uh 6.1 uh CIF uh SS Northern Division Championship Boys Wrestling Champion, Cypress High School. We have We have some people in the audience and we're going to make some presentations. I'm going to stay here. Are they here? So for Cypress High School, Vince Parington Partington is a senior at Cypress High School. He is a four-time league champion, three-time Empire League champion, and a one-time Crest View League champion. Vince was the CIFS Northern Division Champion in 2025 at 144 pounds. He was also the CIFSS Masters Champion 2025 at 144 pounds. Additionally, he was a three-time Masters participant, two-time state participant, and 2025 CIF State Wrestling Meet Quarter finalist. All this while maintaining a 3.57 GPA. Vince has obtained an athletic scholarship

004to Vanguard University where he intends to continue wrestling. Congratulations. You want to come forward, Vince? Vince is not in attendance. I should have asked if he was here. Okay, we'll move on to the next. Uh, Liliana Baldderas, is she in attendance? Oh, she is here. Oh, very good. Congratul Why don't you come forward? Liliana Baldderas is a junior at Anaheim High School. She holds a career record of 102 to8 with 68 wins coming by way of pins. Lana is a three-time Orange League champion, three-time CIF champion, three-time Masters champion, and three-time state placer, placing second and third. She was named the Orange County, excuse me, the Orange League MVP for girls wrestling and first team all county by the Orange County register in 23, 24, and 25. She led her [Applause] She led her team

005to their first Orange League championship title in 2024. She is a cadet freestyle state champion and a high school national runnerup. She has accomplished all this while maintain a 3.8 GPA. She is currently ranked sixth in the nation by USA Wrestling. After high school, she intends to wrestle in college and compete in and win an Olympic gold medal for the United States. Congratulations. Have some pictures. That's your dad. [Applause] Did Vince Partardigan come in? Nope. Okay, we'll move on. Division five. Yeah. Division five, six, CIF girls water polo championships. Uh, champions, Anaheim High [Music] School. Are those girls in the audience? Okay. The Anaheim High School uh girls varsity water polo team secured their first CIF championship with a 5-3 win over Nordof High School. This is the colonist's first female team CIF championship in

006school history. Congratulations. The the team is led by head head coach Denise Osorio. Thank you. This accomplishment which was a first for the program has brought a lot of enthusiasm to the campus community, parents and the alumni. There were several all league players and all CIF players including CF player of the year goalie Emily Maldonado. Coach Denise Ozario was selected as coach of the year for the Orange League, Orange County register and CIF coach of the year. Congratulations. Can you all come forward and get your certificates? Why don't you just [Applause] What's up? This one Ron take the picture with the board on the Then move them back so that way you guys can be seen. Put on the top. Okay, there we go. You should get in. Congratulations. [Applause] Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you.

007Congratulations. Thank you very much. Has Vince Bartington come in? Nope. Okay. Okay. I'll I'll read what this has to say. Okay. Okay. Anaheim Union High School District teacher of the teachers of the year. The board of trustees would like to recognize the Anaheim Union High School District uh 2024 25 teachers of the year. Each school site selected a teacher of the year and submitted him or her consideration for the AUG teachers of the year award. A committee then had the difficult a very difficult challenge of reviewing the nomination letters for each of these outstanding teachers and selecting three district teachers of the year who exemplify the best of the best. These three teachers will now be considered for the Orange County Teachers of the Year recognition program. Finalists will be honored at an award ceremony

008in November. We have a few teachers that are not here but I will read uh what it has to say here and then recognize the one that is here. First is Joe Joseph Ihara Western High School. His subject is world language Japanese been with the district for 27 years and his special contributions he creates a strong sense of community. He builds rich cultural connections and deepens student engagement beyond the classroom. Joe has coached the basketball team for over a decade, dedicating countless hours to nurturing his players as respectful young men and leaders on campus. His innovation, creativity, and organizational skills shine through his work in designing immersive experiences for visiting international students and supporting large groups of international visitors, over 150 students at a time. Collaborating with teachers across the the disciplines, Joe ensures these

009students gain a deep understanding of our five C's and cultural partners practices. Joe's vision, dedication, and ability to bring people together are nothing short of extraordinary. He goes above and beyond in every aspect of his work, leaving a lasting impact on students, colleagues, and the entire school community. Congratulations, Joe. [Applause] Sean Fleshman, Fleshman, excuse me, Orange View Junior High School. His subject is US history, 27 years in the district, and his special contributions are his passion for education shines through his dynamic and student centered teaching methods. As a history teacher, he designs lessons that are not only uh impart knowledge, but also encourage critical thinking and civic engagement. By connecting historical events to contemporary issues, he helps students understand the relevance of the past in shaping their present and future. Shawn is a pioneer in

010bringing new programs and opportunities to the campus. He was instrumental in launching Orange View's first ever community schools program, a transformative initiative that has strengthened the connection between our school and the surrounding community. In his first year as a community schools teacher lead, Shawn helped implement a health grant that promoted vaccinations of all kinds to members of our community. He embodies the qualities of an exceptional teacher, leader, and community advocate. His tireless efforts to inspire students supports his colleagues and enhance the Orange View community. Congratulations [Applause] Yeah. And the one person that is here tonight, Jeff Cornelius. Come on forward, Jeff. Come on [Applause] forward. Jeff is from Ball Junior High School. He teaches science, 26 years in the uh district, and his special contributions. Mr. Dr. Cornelius creates an atmosphere of joy and excitement

011that makes coming to school memorable. Whether it's through creative assemblies, engaging lunchtime activities, or schoolwide events, he ensures that students feel pride in their school and look forward to their time on campus. His leadership as ASB director with over 25 years of experience at two schools has tr fostered a culture of inclusivity and connection that leaves a lasting impression on students and staff alike. Mr. Cornelius's impact extends far beyond the classroom. He is a champion for the community, organizing meaningful initiatives such as coin fundraisers to feed ball families and hosting large-scale events that bring students, parents, as well as community members together. His work reflects a deep pass compassion for others and a commitment to addressing real world needs, making him a role model of service and leadership. His creativity, enthusiasm shine in every project

012from developing engaging lessons to adding fun and energy to teaching teacher meetings. He leads by example, showing what it means to dedicate oneself fully to students and colleagues. Congratulations, Jeff. [Applause] Okay, next. We have a lot of recognitions this evening. Uh, and I'm high school district counselor of the year. Yay. [Applause] Oh, he he came up. I haven't even announced his name yet. How did that happen? I knew who I was. Oh. Uh, okay. The words received. We'd like to recognize the Anamun High School District 2024 counselor of the year. Nominations are submitted by past and present students of AUSD as well as families, staff members, and community members. A selection committee then had the very difficult challenge of reviewing the nominations and selecting district counselor of the year, who exemplifies the best of the

013best. Helen Chan of Kennedy High School. You don't look anything like Helen. Okay, then we'll have to go with Michael Sultzer. Okay. Gilbert High School, 27 years a special contributions include Mr. Seltzer has been dedicated to his work and to the development of so many counselors. He has been a mentor to the teams and a reliable resource to many counselors in the district. He does a great job when working with students and parents, and his approach is always supportive, caring, and hold students accountable in the most supportive way. He consistently works to advocate for all students, families, and counselors in the district. He has made an impact that stretches far and wide across Anaheim, touching the lives of all he encounters. Congratulations, Michael. [Laughter] [Applause] You want your family up there? I'm going to sit

014here and make sure he knows you are important. [Applause] Can you do the national board certified? Just so you know, her name is said hy. Hasty. Hy. Okay. Okay. Thank you. The crowd is thinning out. Anaheim High School District National Board Certification. National Board Certification is designed to develop, retain, and recognize accomplished teachers as well as to embed ongoing improvement in schools nationwide. National Board Certification is a voluntary process developed by teachers, school counselors, and other education stakeholders to recognize experienced educators for the quality of their practice. While teacher credentiing programs set the basic requirements to teach in each state, comp completion of national board certification signifies the teachers had developed and demonstrated advanced skills, knowledge and practices required of an accomplished education professional. The following teachers have earned the national board certification. And when

015I call your name, why don't you come on up? Hy [Applause] Ariano. Hasty is a curriculum specialist for ethnic studies. She has been a teacher with the district for since 2013. Mitric Kokair. [Applause] Midrich is a science teacher at Kennedy High School. He has been a teacher with the district since 2005. A couple people are not here, I believe, but I will read their names. Russell Day. Russell is a CTE teacher at Lexington Junior High School, and he has been a teacher with the district since [Applause] 1997. David Ang. David is a math teacher at Savannah High School. He has been a teacher with the district since [Applause] 2015. Helen Goldsmith. Helen is an English teacher at Magnolia High School and she has been a teacher with the district since 2006. Okay. Shelley Hawkins. [Applause]

016Shelley's a health teacher at Cypress High School. She has been a teacher with the district since 2007. And the next three I don't believe are here, but I will read about them. Jellyico Jerry Cow. Jerry is a mild moderate teacher at Anaheim High School. He has been a teacher with the district since 2017. Cassie Spencer. Cassie is a teacher since at Cambridge Virtual Academy. She has been a teacher with the district since 2002. And the last is Taylor Thorne. Taylor is an English teacher at Magnolia High School. She's been a teacher of the district since 2018. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I don't know. Okay. That's quicker than I thought it was going to be. We could be downstairs. Okay. Question. Absolutely. How many hours does it take to get to that uh national I don't know

017how many hours it take you to national two years. Two years. Wow. Wow. Thank you. [Applause] Yes. Make sure I didn't skip over anything. Okay. Next is student board representative to make a report. Present a report. All right. So, starting off at Anaheim, Anaheim Girls Water Polo has made its congressional debut as Congressman Li Korea recognized these females for their outstanding teamwork and CIF win. Additionally, Anaheim High School dance and the DA are with their annual spring concert breaking limitations. Students were brought to the spotlight to show their dedication and commitment to the performing arts. Now, let's look to CVA. CVA's highlight is regarding their clothing drive in which they are collecting clothes to give back to the community. The distribution will be held in April. Another highlight was their trip to Cypress College for

018seniors. Seniors from CVA luckily had the opportunity to go on a field trip to Cypress College and it was a step into their professional journeys. Now for Cypress, their highlight was their Centurion Games, a schoolwide fundraiser to raise money for the oncology department at Chalk Hospital. In total, they raised over $3,000. Upcoming Cypress has prom, the senior capstone, and every 15 minutes. All approaching soon, so stay excited for that. Now let's look into Catella. For Catella, Catella's arts week was a huge success. Many students participated through drawing and showcasing their creativity, one of their five C's. It brought students together. And during this week, our their art teacher, Miss Kubak, provided a make your mark poster with the help of their incredible ASB Commissioners of Arts. It allowed many students to create their own art

019and what they felt at that moment. Now moving on to Laura. Next for Laura, on April 2nd, 2025, Laura High School hosted its annual international night in the gymnasium. An event that brought students, families, and staff together to celebrate the rich cultural diversity of the school community. Students from various backgrounds proudly showcased their heritage through traditional clothing, music, dance, and cultural displays. Schools from across the district also participated, making the night even more vibrant and inclusive. Now, moving on to Kennedy. After receiving numerous donations from the community, they were able to deliver the firefighter care packages to the Orange County Fire Authority headquarters. The firefighters were very grateful for all of the support from them. These bags will be distributed accordingly to the firefighters who supported the containment efforts in Los Angeles. Additionally, a special

020thank you to the Kiwani Club, La Palma Foundation, Mr. house fabrication students, servatthon volunteers, and all of the fighting Irish who were involved to make this happen. Now for Magnolia, their highlight for the month of March will definitely be their Sentinel who won the soapbox speech. Great job to Lil Coy Blake. And up next will be their spring musical. This year, their theater program is presenting Peter who on April 10th and 11th. They cannot wait to see the show. Now, next for Oxford, all the performing art groups had a successful and great time at the CS SCBOA festival hosted at Kennedy Performing Arts Center, earning high rankings. Oxford's choir group had a magnificent time attending New York for performance tour, gaining hands-on experience from realworld professionals. Now, next for Savannah, one of their highlights would

021definitely be the prom fashion show. It was a fun way to reveal the prom theme in which many students enjoyed. Additionally, Savannah's color guard continues their competitions after their WGAC color guard show on March 8th, in which they won second place out of eight schools. Now, they're finally off to championships. Lastly, looking at Western, their highlight would be their international week led by their ICC Tiffany Nuen. The international week was a beautiful cultural week and their pioneers enjoy cultural dances and fashion shows throughout the week. Cannot wait to see what is to come for the month of April. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Uh next we have uh student speakers. We have one uh student in the audience request to speak. Uh Sam Goodheim, come to the podium there. All right. Uh, good evening. First,

022I want to thank the board members for showing up and giving us time to speak. It means a lot to be seen and heard. My name is Samira Ganame and I'm a student at Cypress High School. I'm also a visibly Muslim student, which means my identity is something people notice before they even get to know me. And unfortunately, that also means I've had to deal with situations that make me feel singled out, judged, and deeply uncomfortable, especially by some of my own teachers. There have been moments in class where teachers bring up political issues that are not related to anything that we are learning. They make it related to the Middle East and then look directly at me. Or they pause in a way that makes it clear they expect me to comment. Other times

023they make general statements about Muslims, Palestinians or conflicts overseas that feel very insensitive or biased and I'm left sitting there feeling targeted. That kind of attention doesn't feel like curios curiosity. It feels like I'm being provoked, like I'm being used to start a conversation that I never asked to be a part of. And in those moments, I don't feel like a student. I feel like a spotlight that has been put on me for something personal and painful. I'm at school to learn, to grow, to explore new things, and to feel safe asking questions and making mistakes. But instead, there are times when I feel like I have to be on guard just because of who I am and how I look. It's exhausting to constantly wonder if I'll be put on the spot. It's frustrating

024to feel like I have to either defend myself or stay silent forever. And it's painful when the classroom, a place that should be welcoming, becomes a place where I feel uncomfortable, exposed, or even punished for simply existing as myself. I'm not here to debate politics. I'm not here to represent an entire religion or region of the world. I'm just a student, one who wants to learn without being treated like a controversy. All I ask is to be respected like everyone else. To be seen as a full person, not just a symbol or a stereotype, and to be able to go through my school day without feeling like I have to defend my identity. Thank you for listening and for caring about the experiences of students like me. It means more than you know. Thank you,

025[Applause] Samira. Thank you very much for coming to the board and having the um the strength to come and view express your your concerns. We all appreciate it. We take it very much to heart. So, thank you very much for being here. Okay. Moving on to uh reports of associations. I'd like to first recognize some association members in the audience. We have Jeff Morgan Stern as a president. I believe Tony Kosh from uh CSEA there. Okay. Lazy Monger from APGA. Jennifer Casai from ALTA and Dr. Leia Al Halstrom from RO. Thank you very much for being here. Please be here. Lauren Klasker. Where is she? Ah, okay. Thank you. Thank you. The board member from U Fton Joint Union High School District. Thank you, Lauren, for being here. Okay, so first off, Mr. Morgan Stern.

026All right. Good evening, Board of Trustees, Superintendent Matsuda, Cabinet, and staff and community. What a difference a year makes uh in so many ways. I'd like to begin tonight by acknowledging the collaborative effort of the board of trustees, district cabinet, and the asked executive board to continue together down the path of healing by committing to no layoffs for this school year. I think there was a collective sigh of relief when March 15th came and went. While there is still much work to do to be done around staffing, I believe we are in a good place. Next week, we'll be hosting our final community schools learning and leading day of the school year. I'm excited to share that Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, will be here in Anaheim to attend our community

027schools event on Wednesday, April 16th. I would like to invite all of our trustees to join us to not only meet the president of the largest labor union in the world, but also to see what we've been sharing with educators and community members from across the state and nation. Excuse me. What was the date on that? Uh, Wednesday, April 16th. So, it' be next Wednesday. Time. um from 8 to 3 in the La Palma room. Yeah, it's our last learning leading day of the year. Unfortunately, this month doesn't only bring good news. As we have all seen, public education is continuing to face new challenges. From the shuttering of the federal department of education to the real possibility of losing Title One funding, we see a growing effort to remake our society through force. These

028efforts are antithetical to what we do here in Anaheim Union. They violate our core values and seek to disenfranchise our school community. It is beyond frustrating because we realize that often we have little or no control over these vengeful efforts. I encourage us to shift our focus on things we can control here in California, here in Anaheim. Soon we'll be facing the expiration of Prop 55 funding for Anaheim Union. This would be an annual loss of $50 million. I think back to Dr. Ian's budget presentation last month. How could we absorb that size of a loss and not make drastic cuts in everything we do? Our students and our school community would suffer irreparable harm. We can't wait to begin work to work together to keep this from happening. The California Teachers Association has a

029goal of 85% of its members to sign a petition to qualify a proposition to extend or if the political climate is right to expand funding for public education in California. That's an ambitious goal for CTA. And I'd like to think what would happen if all Anaheim Union teachers, staff, leadership, students, parents, community members, and all of our friends and family use their voice in the 2026 election to protect what we've been able to accomplish here in Anaheim. We need to take the lead in a countywide effort to protect public education. How do we protect it? We secure the necessary resources at the ballot box next November. California ranks 33 out of 50 in per pupil spending and we spend thousands less per pu p per pupil tough word than the national average. How can the

030world's fifth largest economy not even spend the national average on its students? We can't wait to address the chronic lack of funding of our public schools. Securing these resources is only the first step. We need to apply those resources to the righteous yet reasonable budget priorities that I shared last month. Our bargaining team is prepared to begin this process tomorrow around class- size guarantees and ASA members will be actively engaged in their support. It takes people, good people to support these essential priorities so our schools are well staffed, safe, and stable. All of our Anaheim Union employees are those good people. It's essential that we maintain our quality healthcare and provide for competitive salaries. ASA will stand firm in our support of these budget priorities and we are committed to putting in the work necessary

031to ensure that the state provides the funding our school our school community deserves. I know in this political climate this can be tough to do but this is not the time to retreat. On Saturday, May 17th, CTA is organizing four protests across the state. San Diego, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Francisco at the federal building. ATA will be sending folks. Right now, we're trying to think about getting a bus. We'll share this with the leadership as well. Tens upon thousands of educators are going to come out, families and allies to push back on the federal government's effort to destroy public education as we know it. The struggle is real. We would ask that you please join us in that struggle. All right. Thank you. Thank you, [Applause] Jeff. Tony Quash, this guy is way taller

032than me. All right. Uh, thank you, President O'Neal, board of trustees, executive cabinet, staff, parents, students, and community members. My name is Tony Quuck, vice president of CSEA, chapter 74. I'm also a proud instructional assistant at Hope School. Go Tigers. Thank you for the opportunity to address you on behalf of classified CSEA employ uh members. As we draw close to the end of the school year, my goodness, just seven more weeks, we can do it, right? We would like to thank the district and the board for their continued support of CSEA employees. Our association would like to thank the board of trustees for taking decisive action on the classified salary study recommendations and recognizing that every classified position within the district should be paid fairly. Um, on behalf of the CSEA association, we would also

033like to extend an invitation to the board of trustees to help us celebrate the achievements and oftentimes hard thankless work of our association members. This year, we'll be hosting the annual CSEA Chapter 74 barbecue at the district office near the time of the official classified employee week. We'll be sending out invitations soon, and we hope you all can attend. I am also happy to report that the first CPR training reimbursements have been sent out to the first batch of classified employees. Currently, after a hard-fought negotiations process last year by our association, we have been approved for five members at each school site for CPR and first aid training reimbursement. Unfortunately, CPR and first aid training, both potentially life-saving procedures to ensure the safety of our students, is a requirement of continued employment of many of

034our members. Around 600 classified employees, mostly instructional assistants in campus security are some of the lowest paid classifications on our district and required to pay out of their own pocket on a bianual basis for CPR and first aid training just to keep their jobs. Our association would like to see continued progress in these positive first steps in cooperation with the district to ensure that our members are fully trained to support the safety of our students without having to spend our own money to do so. Uh at this point in the spirit of a classified employee month in May, I would like to recognize various CSA groups who are hard work and dedication enriches our district and student lives on a daily basis. These recognitions are all members submissions that reflect the impact that these people

035have in each other's lives. First, I'd like to recognize the hard work of CSA eboard and specifically our association president Heather Hutner whose tireless work and can do attitude help shape our organization into what it is today. I am also happy to highlight that April is school library month. I want to recognize our wonderful school library techs who fiercely advocate to make every student feel welcomed. Our libraries provide books, resources, programming, book clubs, chess clubs, and much, much more that make our students feel seen and valued. One such librarian I'd like to highlight is uh Tommy Kovak at Anaheim High School. Tommy has been recognized as a hard worker and friendly face that is extremely welcoming to the students and anyone coming through the library. The Anaheim High School library is still leading the district

036in library checkouts this year. I would also like to recognize instructional assistant Gail Rockitari at Hope School for winning the Greater Anaheim Sulpa Community Advisory Committee Award for her selfless service and support of special needs students. On that note, also much kudos to LVN Candace Hall as one of the 20 uh 2025 Orange County classified school employees of the year. Um kudos to both of you. Congratulations. And speaking of nurses, uh, Natalie Velades Lopez at NIM High School is also recognized for being patient and kind heart, a patient and kind heart who serves all of our students with the utmost care and efficiency, all while being pregnant. You bring so much joy and your presence will be utterly missed, you know, when you're out for maternity. And who does not like getting paid? Our district

037payroll techs have been unsung heroes among our district employees. One such payroll technician, Hermaly Ramirez Marcato, apologies if I butcher your name, is recognized for always going above and beyond and supporting payroll department through his willingness to train and teach his fellow employees. I'd also like to uh recognize Celeste Zmerman. She's been a go-to resource for training other senior admin and have been working tirelessly to uh to help streamline and make site level processes more simple and efficient for everyone. Lastly, I would also like to recognize the hard work of CSEA job stewards Pam Luna and Lulu Martinez. Both worked hard to ensure a more fair and equitable process for all and have done much to represent their members. Oh, also uh a shout out for Hope Cup tomorrow, you know, the fantastic soccer tournament.

038And uh Thank you, Lisa Munger, APGA. Tony, it's also prom tomorrow as well, right? For hope. You have a long day. Thank you. Oops. There we go. Okay. Good evening, AHSD Board of Trustees, President O'Neal, Superintendent Matsuda, Executive Cabinet, and community members. It's hard to believe that we're just six weeks weeks away from the class of 2025's graduation. It feels like only yesterday I was sharing that counselors had successfully registered over 27,000 of our students. Each month, APJ aims to highlight the impact counselors have on students in the AHSD system as a whole. And while reflecting on that, I started thinking about what APJ actually stands for, which is Anaheim Personnel Guidance Association. The words personnel and guidance actually evoke kind of an old school image of someone behind a desk checking off lists. Similar

039to those guidance counselors in every8s movie. Helpful but not exactly dynamic. Um but as we know real change enduring change happens one step at a time as Ruth Bader Ginsburg once said and that that's exactly what we've been doing. Last month, I shared that many of our counselors are veterans with 16 to 20 years plus of experience. And yes, we can be a tough crowd to shift out of our comfort zones. But I do understand why. Around 25ish years ago, even though our title was school counselor, we were the go-to for anything no one knew what to do with on a school campus. We were gate coordinators, testing coordinators with lots of paper and sharpened pencils, eel coordinators, RO specialists, social workers. We were faces, we were community school liaison. We did lunch duty and

040some were even directed to do parking lot duty. Every meeting on campus, we were there. High schools had only four counselors and junior highs had two. We placed students in summer and night school, explained ethy requirements, completed FAFSA, college apps, all on paper, and we did teach guidance lessons. Notice I said that last. Were they effective? It's hard to say because we didn't have the data. It's no wonder people didn't quite understand what a counselor did because we were everywhere. If someone had a question and they didn't know the answer, they would often say, "Go ask the counselor because we did know the answer. In 201920 um the year 20 in the school year 201920 AHSD officially adopted the ask a national model a gamecher for our counselors the framework had existed but we were

041not using it until then the it was datadriven focusing counselor work in three areas academic college career and social emotional according to the ask a national model 80% of a counselor's time should be spent in direct services to students with 20% in indirect students is aka meetings, coordinating, lunch duty, etc. And at that time, we were closer to a 60/40 split and sometimes worse than that depending the school site. It wasn't easy changing. We didn't have a clear vision. We were part of too many groups. And let's be honest, data was more of an enemy to us than a friend. But things began to shift when our current directors, Amy Quan and Amanda Bean, were lucky enough. And I say that a little bit sarcastically because I don't know if they think they're lucky or

042not to be chosen to oversee counselors with their support and their knowledge. We've done some serious reflection like conducting an equity audit on our program and site data. We are beginning to see where counselors truly fit within the system using data to support students and inform systemic decisions. We're embracing the idea that excellence and equity are inextricably entwined. As the BER 2030 commission stated, excellence without equity is not true excellence. And equity without excellence is unfulfilled promise. That's why every month when APJ speaks here, we bring data because that's what shows real impact to the equity and excellence of our students. Here are just a few highlights from the school year with a full data report to come in May. At the start of the year, all students completed a universal needs assessment. Counselors then

043tailored supports to meet their sight spec specific needs. Loera High School delivered lessons to 9th and tth graders on communication styles. Ball Junior High School provided seventh graders a lesson on financial literacy titled empowering your wallet. Multiple sites ran small groups addressing peer pressure, self-esteem, and coping strategies. The universal needs assessment is what drove those lessons. In October, every student grades 7 through 12 participated in the college and career fair lessons. And here's some of our street data from our college from our students when they were asked about their path to college or career. I feel very good about my path to college. I've planned everything Cypress College, then transferred to a UC, then pilot training, maybe via the Air Force. I feel a little overwhelmed by all the info, but more confident now. I

044just wish Cypress offered forensics or something in criminal investigations. And simply put, amazing. I feel more educated. In second semester, after four-year college applications, we shifted to FAFSA completion and course selection. We took six-year planning to a new level. Sorry, through eCadence, which uses student data and AI to develop individualized college, career, and life readiness plans. And now in April, we're wrapping up FAPS and six-year plans in prepare preparing for our senior exit survey. For the first time, we're asking open-ended questions such as, "Do you feel supported in developing your college and career? Do you feel s sorry, do you feel supported in developing your college career and life readiness here in AHSD? Please explain. How have your high school experiences shaped your academic and social emotional growth? If we do not ask these questions

045to our students about what they need, how can we expect to give it that to them?" And as Maya Angelou wisely said, "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." Before I end, I do want to acknowledge that the quotes I used from Maya Angelou and Ruth Bader Ginsburg came from a very important source. They came from our AHSD students who were asked on their college and career fair reflections to share a quote that inspires them. We have some deep thinkers in our district and without this data, we would have a more difficult time showing it. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Zai. Good evening, President O'Neal, Board of Trustees, Superintendent Matsuda, Executive Cabinet, students, families, and our school community joining us both in person and online. As

046we continue the final quarter of the school year, we find ourselves in one of the busiest and most exciting times. While we celebrate the accomplishments of this year, we are also preparing for a strong and successful start to the next. Across our school site, staffs are working on master schedules, holding capstone showcases, and welcoming families to openhouse events. We want to take a moment to acknowledge and thank our dedicated site personnel for their hard work and thoughtful planning that make these meaningful student experiences possible. LCAP season is in full swing and we look forward to our final convening of the year on April 24th. This past Saturday, all AUHSD schools came together to showcase innovation, creativity, and talent at the district's STEM Palooa held at Magnolia High School. From robotics and engineering displays to visual

047arts, culinary creations and studentled science experiences experiencements, our students had the opportunity to shine in front of families, community members and industry partners. It was a vibrant celebration of 21st century learning and the power of student voice with every school demonstrating the incredible work happening across our district. At Laera High School, a strong collegegoing culture is being cultivated by ensuring that every class visits at least one college campus annually. This week, the freshman class visited Cal State Long Beach, completing this year's series of college field trips, which also included Fullerton College for the seniors, UCI for the juniors, and UC USC for sophomores. On April 2nd, Laera hosted a vibrant open house in international night celebrating student learning and cultural diversity. Savannah High School recently launched its first ever Rebel Talks on Saturday, March 15th

048with outstanding success. 13 alumni returned to campus to share their journeys, offering insight and encouragement on their high school success, college readiness, and career pathways. Culinary arts students prepared and served delicious breakfast, showcas showcasing their skills and adding a warm touch to the event. It was a meaningful day of connection and inspiration. Western High School had the honor of hosting 144 students from Tokyo, Japan, their largest visiting group to date. This meaningful cross-curricular experience was shared between the guest and Western's level three and four Japanese language students, creating an opportunity for connection, learning, and cultural exchange. A special thank you to Mr. Joe Aihara, the Japanese world language teacher who led this effort in collaboration with a dedicated team. Together, they created a rich and engaging experience for all. Western is proud to the to

049continue building global connections at Cypress High School. The byianual every 15 minutes program was held this week in partnership with parents, community leaders, the city of Cypress, Cypress Police Department, CHP, OC Courts, the Coroner's Office, Morg, and Forest Lawn. This powerful and emotional program provides juniors and seniors with a sobering look at the consequences of impaired and distracted driving. preparing promoting an awareness, accountability, and empathy that can truly save lives. In closing, thank you for your continued support for our schools and our remarkable students. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all for your reports this evening. Next, we have a parent teacher student association. Anybody from a PTA? Nope, not here. Okay. Next we have a presentation specialized academic instructional SA model Dr. Frereded. Yes. It gives me great pleasure to introduce our director of

050special use services Lauren Klasker who will lead us I know with a colleague um through the great work that's happening out of SIS. It's actually I know they're going to talk about the SI model but I think they're going to talk about some other key initiatives that are having significant impact on student achievement in our district. So I'll turn over to Lauren. Thank you. I've never had to move the microphone up before. This is really exciting. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Cisai. Uh, President O'Neal, trustees, Mr. Matt Suda, Cabinet, thank you so much for allowing me to speak tonight and to share a little bit about the exciting work that we're doing in special youth services. So, I want to just quickly start with an overview of the leadership team in SYS. So, I'm Lauren, the

051director. My coordinator is Tess Melendres. She is out right now. She had a baby last weekend, so we're very excited for her. And filling in for her um in the interim position is Shea Paleo. And the other coordinator who works with me on the leadership team is Christy Gutierrez, who is the coordinator who oversees uh educationally related mental health services and our school psychology team. So, I just wanted to give you a little overview of the things we're going to be touching on tonight. I want to um just help you guys understand a little bit about the structure of SYS and then we're going to touch on some of the key initiatives that have really been driving the work that we've been doing in SYS and then I have some exciting news to share with

052you. So, a lot of people don't realize how big SYS is. And so, I really wanted to start out by highlighting how many people report directly to SYS. So, we have 142 people. I swear I did not do that. Okay. All right. So, um I'll just talk a little bit about that. So we have everything from program support secretaries who we could not live without um program specialists, speech and language pathologists, school psychologists and all of the other uh people that you see over there. So 142 people directly report to SYS. And then just to give you a feeling for how big our teaching and classroom staff is, we have 273 teachers in special education in AUHSD and we have 521 instructional aids. So we are a big team and I want to jump into

053the work that we do and kind of highlight a couple of things. So, there are a little over 26,000 students in Anaheim Union High School District and we have almost 4,000 students with disabilities. So, it comes out to about 14.8% of our student population. So, as you can see, we're not a small group. We serve a lot of students. And just to highlight the students that we are serving, there is a continuum in special education of supports and services. And it starts in the general education classroom where we have students who don't need any classroom support. We have students who are in general education but they have the support of an instructional aid in their classrooms. We have students in general education classrooms with co-eing pairs where there's a general education teacher and a special

054education teacher who work together collaboratively to provide instruction. We have our mild moderate SDC classrooms which are students who are in our mild moderate criteria and who are working towards a diploma. We have our our moderate severe SDC classrooms with students working towards an alt pathway diploma and I'll talk a little bit about that in a couple of minutes. And then we have a small subset of students who will earn a certificate of completion at the end of their time with us. So, we have students with a wide variety of needs that we serve every single day. Last year, we held 5,980 IEPs in our district. About 3,400 of them were held at the high schools, about 1,800 of them held at junior highs, and close to 700 of them were held at our alternative

055campuses, which includes everything from Hope to Oxford and CBA and Gilbert. So we are busy all of the time. So I want to take a minute and talk about some of the initiatives that we have been working on for the past couple of years in SYS which are really the focus and the drive for everything that we do. So a few years ago we developed what we called an IEP audit. It's done in the first quarter of the school year and it's an opportunity for the junior highs and the high schools the feeder pattern to come together and they actually sit down in groups and analyze every student's schedule, every student's IEP and they have criteria that they're looking for when they do this. They want to make sure that what's written into the IEP

056matches the way that the student is scheduled. They're looking to see if students are given the right sequence of classes. they're not repeating things. They're on track to graduate. And it's been a really, really helpful tool for sites to really look at their own practices and procedures. So, the site analyzes their data that comes out of the IEP audit and then they actually present to us what they find. And through this data analysis, they look at their practices and they identify a key area that they want to focus on for that school year, which is why we do this work in first quarter so that they have the rest of the year to focus on whatever it is that they've identified through reflection is the area of growth they want to focus on for that

057year. And um this whole effort has really helped to increase compliance in our practices and making sure that we are providing students with the right courses and making sure that their IEPs um match what they're getting. Another thing that we've implemented is the alternative pathway to diploma. So this is a new California law and um it was actually developed by parents of students who fall into our moderate to severe category of students and they felt so passionately that they wanted to ensure that their students were getting the same access to curriculum and instruction that they lobbied and created this law that provides almost a a mirrored version of what our traditional diploma track students are getting. They have to earn 130 credits. They take math, English, history, and science. Uh they take VAPA courses, visual

058and performing arts courses, and they have a full scope and sequence of classes that is very reflective of what our traditional diploma track students earn. They use a modified curriculum, so it's accommodated to meet their educational needs and abilities. and we are the first district in Orange County to completely implement the alt pathway to diploma sequence and we're actually through one of our amazing program specialists working with other districts to help them with their implementation of it. So that's been a a big push for our moderate to severe classes this year. All of our special programs have implemented that this year. Another thing that we've been working on um and has been a focus for the past few years is our master schedule building process. And I feel so honored to work in a district

059that really values all students and means it when it says all students because what we've done is we actually build the master schedule for students with disabilities at all of our sites first. It's the first part of the schedule that's built and that helps to ensure that all of our students have access to the courses they need. priority is given to co-eing pairs to make sure they have common conference periods that the schedule is built in a way so that students aren't accidentally scheduled out of having options for electives and things like that. And it really has changed the whole process of how we serve our kids. If we look at the master schedule as the way that we provide equity to students, we have really placed our students with disabilities front and center by

060changing our process of master schedule development. We also have really been focusing on increasing student voice, which across the board we have in this district, but we have been really focusing on helping our students with disabilities to have their voices heard in course selection. Making sure that they have access to the CTE pathways to the electives that speak to them and are motivating for them. And that includes our moderate to severe students. We want to make sure that their voices are heard as well and we're not making choices for them. So that's really been a focus in our master schedule building process. So another thing that the master schedule does is it actually um drives our staffing. So what we've done is we have created a a form that all of our case carriers complete

061and they complete this form outlining what courses a student needs on the that continuum that I was describing to you before. how much support they need, whether they need a co-taught class or an SDC class, and we then count how many course requests there are, and then we develop sections for that. And so, we've changed our staffing to really be based on that. It used to be that we had a certain number of teachers, and kids got what we could give them based on the number of people we had available. through this shift in the master scheduling um building process, what we've really done is made sure that we have enough staff to meet all student needs rather than trying to fit the student needs into the staff that we had available. And that's a

062huge shift and it may not sound big, but for our kids, it's huge. So the next thing I want to review with you is our SAI model. So we are in year two of full implementation of our SAI model. We started three years ago with some pilot schools that were willing to do it. Then we got some more invol involved and and participating and then we went districtwide. And the SAI model does not change the instruction that students are getting. What it does is change where teachers are spending their time. We used to have RSP teachers and we used to have SDC teachers and they stayed in their various locations on campus teaching the kids that fell into those categories. What we do now is we have teachers who co-e let's say English one nth

063grade English. They are in the gened classroom working with a a content area specialist in English delivering the instruction. Then that same teacher now goes to the SDC classroom, takes that same curriculum, those same assignments, the same projects, accommodates it to meet the needs of the students in the separate setting and provides that same level of rigor and instruction to our students with disabilities in the SDC class. So what the SAI model did was really helping to improve the educational experience for our kids. It reduces the number of content areas that our teachers are teaching. And it allows them to become um not only education specialists, meaning that they they're the ones who specialize in accommodating and modifying curriculum, but also to become content area specialists, too, because they're not teaching different things. We're really

064helping to reduce the number of content areas that they're that they're um expected to teach. Again, it's all based on the master schedule in terms of how many course requests we have and um it's really been a positive thing for our students. One of the things that we're seeing is that our teachers not only are bringing this great content into the SDC classroom, but because they're accommodating the work for the SDC students, they're actually finding it easier to help support the students in the GenEd setting as well as they work through the assignments. So we're seeing a really positive impact on both sides through this change in the SAI model. We've implemented progress monitoring periods for all of our our teachers in mild moderate. So what this means is one period a day in addition

065to their conference period. They have a non- studententbased period meaning they're not in a class teaching. What they're using this time to do is to pull students out of class to meet with them to work on executive functioning skills like organization, time management, helping to make sure assignments are getting turned in and completed. They're working on IEP goal progress monitoring and completing some really required um IEP driven progress monitoring forms that they haven't had an opportunity to do before. So, we've really increased the level of um support for our teachers and our students by implementing our progress monitoring period for all of our mild mod teachers. So, here's the good stuff. Let's talk money. So, one of the things that I want to start out by talking about is the fact that despite the state,

066the district, the county dealing with declining enrollment, the number of students with special needs is not going down. It's staying the same year toear or it's actually increasing. And I think that's really important because as we go through these these budget issues, as we have to tighten our belt, one of the things that is happening is is our students with special needs are not only not decreasing in number, but they're coming to us with more significant needs. And we have five feeder districts that feed into us. and we're getting an increase in the number of kids coming in, but then we're also um seeing a a higher level of need with those students. Just like everything, our groceries, gas, the cost of things increases and has been increasing and will continue. Um and so meeting

067the needs is getting more expensive. So, I want to just touch on this briefly because we serve students in addition to on our campuses, we serve students who aren't able to be um educated in our schools. Sometimes we have students because of their social, emotional, and behavioral needs that have to be placed in non-public schools or in residential treatment centers. And we have currently 35 students in our district who are enrolled in a non-public school. The cost per student is between 110 and 190,000 per student. And unfortunately, that's not a cost that we have any control over. The non-public schools, as their cost goes up, they pass that on to us. Um and again these are students who we have tried to support um through the systems and supports that we have available but we're

068not able to because of the significance of their needs. Residential treatment is where students actually live outside the home at the facility. We have 10 students right now who are in an RTC setting. Um because the students live there, the cost is significantly more. The cost for our students runs between 178,000 and 300,000 per student depending on the stu where they're placed and the level of need that they have in that placement. And then we also provide something called wraparound services for our students. And right now we have 30 students who receive wraparound support. They get support in the home. They get individual support, family support. and it costs us about 104,000 per month to provide those wraparound services for the students. Then this slide is really just a very quick uh Nancy could give

069you a better a better table and a better presentation than I could on the budget, but I think this is a really good overview and highlight. So, as you can see, there's the 2223 and the 2324. um uh columns on here. You can see from year to year that the revenue, the money coming in is actually increasing. In the state revenue, it went up about 600,000. It went up about 3 million in from AB602. But the contribution from the general fund had to go up as well because even that increase in money coming in was not enough to cover the expenses. So you can see just from 2223 to 2324, the cost of educating our students with disabilities went up $9 million. And so that's just going to go up over time, unfortunately. Um, I'm

070gonna I'm gonna put on my my board member and my um director hat right now and just encourage all of my colleagues to go to CSBA and to advocate for for full and fair funding for special education. Um, as a delegate, I always make sure I get into that group at CSBA and make sure that we advocate for that. A lot of people don't realize that even in good budget times, special education is not fully funded by the state and federal government, which is why there is a general fund contribution. Um, and that's only going to continue to go up. So, board member to board member, please advocate for full and fair funding. Um, with all that being said, we are trying to cost contain. So, we um have worked very hard to um take

071advantage of all of our medical billing opportunities and um we last year were able to recoup $6.8 million through medical billing and I am super proud to say that 4.5 of that $6.8 million was brought in by SYS employees. So, our school psychologists, our speech and language pathologists are really working hard to capture that money and to bring that back into the district through our medical billing options. Um, another thing we're doing to help contain costs is we've increased the monitoring of our non-public schools and our RTC students. What that means is we are doing a lot more ongoing monitoring and communication with the schools that are are um educating these kids and we're bringing them back as soon as we're able. Um which obviously you saw the price of what each one costs. So

072it's a cost savings whenever we can bring students back. We also have brought in our educationally related mental health services inhouse. We used to contract with Orange County Healthcare Agency. We now have a small team of psychologists overseen by Christy Gutierrez who does all of the IRS counseling for our students with disabilities. Okay, so here's the really exciting good news that I want to share with you. We have had tremendous growth. So when we went into targeted assistance um with the state in 2021, you can see that our graduation rate for students with disabilities was at 65.7%. Where their gened peers were at 89.9%. The state identified us as not being where we needed to be, assigned us an improvement monitor, and told us to get to work. So we did. And through that we

073implemented our IEP audits, we implemented the SAI model, we implemented um the master schedule building changes. And I am so happy to share with you that last year our SWD graduation rate was 81.5%. We raised it over 16 points in three years. It's huge. And I'm super proud of everyone involved in this and it's it's been a process and um we actually were asked to present at the Carnegie Summit on systems improvement in education earlier this month about this work and we did and um the CDE tweeted about it. So please feel free to check that out. And um the CDE has also asked us to go to Washington DC to the US Department of Education's special education uh summit in August and present at a national level about this work and about the improvement

074that we've seen over the past couple years. So I'm really excited about that as well. So you've heard enough from me. You're probably bored of hearing my voice. So I want to bring up someone who's more important than I am. This is Francine Peralta and she is one of our amazing teachers. She's a teacher at Western as I'm sure you can tell from her sweatshirt. Go Paios, which was actually the first school I taught at in this district. And Brad was my school psychologist. So, I don't want to say how many years ago it was, but I got a plaque this year. I'll just leave it at that. I can't hear. So, I'm going to turn it over to Francine to talk a little bit about what all of this means on the ground and

075in the moment for her as a teacher and then also for her students. Thank you. Sorry, I'm going to have to pick this up a little bit. Okay. Hi, good evening, Superintendent Metsuda, board president O'Neal, trustees, families, and the AUHSC. My name is Francine Peralta and I'm an educational specialist at Western High School. I'm here tonight to discuss the SAI model and how it's beneficial for our students and teachers alike. I started working within the district nine years ago as an instructional assistant and now as a teacher. So, I've really gotten to see how this whole program began and ended or now it's being implemented. Um, I've personally seen the benefits that our students have through the SAI model. For example, teachers who normally remained within the SDC setting now have access to the general

076education curriculum in real time. I have the benefit of co-eing in with an amazing general education teacher in English 2. I also teach the SEC English 2 class. Last semester, all the general education English classes were reading poet X. I was then there able to take the same book, the same curriculum, scaffold it, change the pacing a little bit and bring it back to my SDC2 um students. I just I've always loved the idea of SDC students being able to go out at lunch and talking, oh, what are you doing in your English class? What are you doing? And find out that they're all reading the same content, that they're all reading the same book. They all can have those collaborative discussions in and outside of the classroom. As a co-teer, I'm able to provide

077the necessary accommodations to those students with IEPs um in that co-eing setting and also addressing the uh students that have tier 2 needs. Um mostly recently at my site um in my classroom, I've had three general three students that had IEPs in my co-taught setting come into my SDC setting. After doing new assessments, we realized that they needed to be placed. And then at the same time, I'm also able to make recommendations to other general uh excuse me, other special education teachers to let them know, hey, you know, student A, B, and C, they're really performing high. They're meeting all the standards. They are totally able to go into my co-taught classroom. So, and I being in both SDC and COT, I'm able to have that expertise. I'm able to understand the standards. Um, and

078I'm able to make those recommendations to my other colleagues at work. Um, I'm very familiar with all of the abilities of my students across both settings. Uh, and this is really largely due to the fact that I have an amazing co-teer who shares the gradebook with me. She's open to SIDAI strategies with me and she collaborates on all the assignments with me. Thank you. [Applause] So, I just you've already heard this quote once tonight, but I just want to illustrate another way how the work we're doing in SYS is really connected to the work that we do across the district because this quote, which Lacy had already shared with everyone, really does ring true. Excellence and equity are inextricably entwined such that excellence without equity is not true excellence. And equity without excellence is unfulfilled

079promise. And that is truly the foundation of the work that we do in SYS, trying to bring equity and access to our students and have their voices heard. Uh quick thank you to Tess and Christy and Shay. Um and I would be remiss if I didn't thank the SYS leadership teams that came before me because as much as I would love to take all the credit for this, they laid the foundation that enabled us to get to this point. So, um, Brad's list and Amy deserve a thank you as well, Carl, because he's always there and always giving me advice. And none of this could happen without the teachers, the instructional aids, the nurses, the health techs, the speech pathologists, the everybody who I'm not naming, but please know you're in my heart and I'm

080thanking you. Um, because without them, this doesn't happen. So, I just want to thank you. I want to apologize to my fellow directors because clearly I did longer than 10 minutes and I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know it's a thing and I failed. So, um, so thank you and I'm sorry. Um, and then I just want to uh thank the board and ask if you have any questions for me. Miss Smith, do you have anything? Okay. Appreciate it and enjoy. Ron, thank you. Lauren, can you explain uh to the audience what wraparound services are? Sure. So we have students who have social emotional needs that impact their ability to come to school, function at home, function in their in the community. And what wraparound does is it is a service delivery model that literally wraps

081around the student and the family. So they receive inhome counseling. Um they have a parent partner who helps to guide the parent in being able to support their student. There's a student partner. there's a therapist that works with each of them. Um, sometimes the wraparound services can even be there in the morning to help a student get on the bus. It's really about meeting a student, a family with significant needs where they are and to help guide them and give them skills, but it's expensive. Emry, thank you. Fantastic presentation. Thank you. Um could you uh tell me about average um how many? So that's a great question and it really is variable. We have students who have one to two goals. We have students who have 10 12 goals. It's really a the IEP is

082really based on student needs. So we every three years we do an assessment and based on that we identify what the needs are and we build a goal for each of those needs. Each year hopefully we're making progress and moving to the next level of that goal and then hopefully at the next assessment we're able to take some things off because they're not needs anymore. So it can change year to year. It can change every three years. It depends on the student and their need. mentioned that fly. So, I did not include flyups in the number of IEPs that we held. And thank you for bringing that up. I didn't even go there because I'm not even sure how I could count that over the past couple of years. Um, so our flyups, for any

083board members who aren't sure, is the term we use internally to refer to our incoming students who are flying up into our district. Our program specialists dedicate weeks, months, I'm going to be honest, of their time trying to support the sites and going out to all of our feeder elementary schools and holding individual IEPs with those incoming sixth incoming seventh grade families um to explain what junior high looks like, talk about programming, and make an offer of FAPE for them. So, no, that's not even in that almost 6,000 IEPs. Yes. [Music] All together classroom set. Mhm. Absolutely. I heard yesterday uh it's the 50th anniversary of IDA. Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. And it it is amazing how far we've come in 50 years considering we had at that point in time students with disabilities were not

084entitled to a public education. They were lucky if they had any access at all to a school setting. And now we're driven by something called least restrictive environment. So our job is to find the environment that is the least restrictive for a student based on their individual needs where they can successfully access their learning. And that looks different for every single student which is why we have that continuum that I talked about at the beginning because the least restrictive setting a lot of people think well that's the gened classroom with no support. And for some kids, yes, absolutely. But not for all kids. Which is why we have separate settings, which is why we have various levels of support within the gened setting because for every student that least restrictive setting where they can successfully

085access their learning, it looks different. So that's why we provide the continuum. And within that continuum, we were creating differences in what we were giving to our students. And I don't mean just us in Anaheim Union, just as a system. And so the SAI model really turns that on its head and it really create creates equity and access for all of our students because now our SDC students who might have been using separate texts and separate materials and having separate lessons that weren't the same as their GenEd peers, like Francine was saying, they're reading the same books. They're doing the same um performance tasks. There might be some differences in what they're expected to create or what it looks like or sounds like, but they're doing it. And that for a teenager is so important.

086Um I I've got one of those creatures at home and he has a 504. He doesn't like to have his accommodations because he doesn't like to be different. So when we can create environments where our kids aren't different from their peers, where they're doing the same things and having the same experiences, we're really building community. We're really providing opportunity and we're really getting to the core of equity. Let's turn my mic on. I heard you. It's okay. Okay. Who were our um first uh stu uh uh uh sites that we um we had the um models who were piloting who were piloting. So, uh Dale Junior High was one our probably our first pilot school. Um Lexington was in the second wave of schools that did it. We had a couple of different um different

087sites across the district who were willing to try it early on and then when we realized the benefit of it, we decided to go districtwide um rather quickly rather than doing a a slower roll out. And um what would you say um were the challenges in fully uh implementing this? So it's a big shift. We were coming from a place where teachers had been SDC teachers or they had been RSP teachers and there were different teaching skills and strategies being used in both settings and now we were asking people to really truly shake it up. Teachers who had been doing this work for 2030 years were saying just kidding. This year you're actually going to go over here and do that work. And that's that's anxietyprovoking for any of us. change is is really really

088hard. So helping people to understand that what students were getting was going to be increasing in quality. Um but it was going to be a shift in where the adults the teachers were spending their time. So that was that was a really big one for us. But it's been so successful and we've seen such growth in our kids. It's really helped to increase the buyin from people who were hesitant to begin with. Um, another challenge is is we did have to increase the number of teachers that we had because it wasn't possible to truly provide the number of sections that we needed. And so that's a a a big thank you to you guys for being willing to spend that money and to increase our teachers so that we could truly implement this process and

089really provide what the kids needed. All right. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Lauren, for your presentation and Francine, uh, for being here. Um, I did have a couple questions. Um, on the total number of IEPs, um, what's the I I don't know if it's a correct question, but what how average long is a student on an IEP? Is it their entire time here? Is it certain grade levels? So, typically when students come in with an IEP, that's maintained until they they graduate. There are times where based on student need, they may acquire the skills in the area that they were deficient in that skill set to the point where they no longer need that support. And that's great. But typically, students require they have a learning disability, they have a speech

090and language disorder, they have a processing disorder, and that's not something that really goes away. But that's why the supports and services within the IEP can and should change over time because hopefully we're building those skills. And so they don't need the same level of support as they get towards their high school graduation. Got it. And then um you said there was 3,420 high school students uh with IEPs. Is there um uh what would you say is the some of the sites that have the highest if you have that information? Well, you know, our larger schools just by nature are going to have larger special ed departments. Um, so I can get you specifically by school those numbers if if you'd like that information. Um, but we, you know, our high schools had 3,482 IEPs

091last year. Um, some students may have more than one IEP during the course of the year. So that number isn't necessarily reflective of a a onetoone. Okay. Go ahead. One to Okay. Yeah. Yes. But yeah, if you can get that data whenever you have Absolutely. Yes. Um and then uh on the trustee side uh congratulations for being elected a delegate uh for CSBA. Um I'm I was also elected so looking forward to taking up some of the uh causes that you taken. So thank you for all your work in both capacities. Thank you and congratulations to you. I'll see you in Sacramento. Yes. Thank you. You had mentioned that the student is reevaluated every three years. Mhm. Why not every like every two years? So they you can adjust their their their training, their educational

092process. So they have an IEP every year, but the IDA, the federal law that sets all of this up, um dictates that every 3 years a complete assessment is done. With that being said, we do re-evaluations or additional assessments as needed for a student. So, it may not be at the three-year mark, but if we see that a student is um struggling in a certain area, maybe having some social emotional issues that weren't there when we did the last assessment, we can do updated assessments throughout that process. We don't have to wait till the three-year mark. Okay. Thank you. Lauren, is there any vertical alignment with higher education? So, we um that's a really great question. So our adult transition program, so these are students who are currently on the alt pathway and previously on

093our certificate track. They spend a lot of time in the four years they're with us in adult transition working collaboratively with our community colleges. They take classes concurrently over there. They um learn all about the opportunities. They take field trips over there. And we do that with our students their senior year as well. So, through our transition to work class, which is an elective that our students can take, um they learn all of the skills, uh employment skills, filling out, um job applications, interview skills. They go to disabled student services at Fullerton College and Cypress College and actually have appointments with those counselors learning what they need to do next in order to make that transition after high school. So, we do a lot of prep work on that. And we do have our students

094until they're 22 years of age. Yes. And actually built in Thank you, Carl. See, I need Carl. Um he just reminded me that you we actually have a component in the IEP called an ITP, which stands for a it's a transition plan, an individualized transition plan. And the whole purpose of those two pages in the IEP, um are to look at where the student is going and to build skills. So, we do a lot of assessments throughout um interviews with the students, interest inventories, assessments on skills related to life after high school to prep them for everything that happens after they graduate. That's it. Thank you so much, Francine, and and Lauren for your presentation. Very [Applause] informative. Next, public comments. We have one public com commenter, uh, Mr. Ron Flores. Good evening to all

095of you. Thank you for the time. I've got about three or four things to say. First of all, I want to thank you again. Uh, last month I was here talking about what's going on at Western. Well, I had the privilege two weeks ago to go to the open house and had a complete walkthrough. I couldn't believe it. I posted on the Facebook page where we have 4,000 members. Uh we're getting hits like it's out unbelievable. Everybody loves it. You did a great job. I appreciate it very much. And uh you came through after 10 years. Which brings me to the next subject. About 10 years ago, I came here and I said, "We're losing millions of dollars on the website to scammers." Classmates.com, alumni.net. net. There's hundreds of them selling our stuff and we're

096not getting any money. That's against the law. I spoke to Nancy. She told me Las Alamos implemented this. Well, I'm here to say this. If you guys don't do it, we're going to get Western to do it. And if Western doesn't do it, the alumni are going to do it. My attorney said this. It's a slam dunk. He'll take it and he'll take a percentage. That's how good it is. Go online and do the following. Type Western Alumni Association and you'll get about 30 different companies selling stuff. Not only are they selling it on the website, they're selling it on the Facebook page. So, if you go to Western High School alumni Facebook, you will see their ads popping up. They take a picture of a graduating class or a reunion and they say, "Hey,

097look, we're going to have a reunion in two months. Buy our shirts and hats. Donate, please. It's been 10 years. Do something about it. Take action. My attorney will work on this. He won't take any money till we win and he'll get a cut." Uh, second of all, third of all, I mean, is, uh, I've been going to the LCAP meetings. I've been doing a lot of research, and here's some numbers that shocked me from the California dashboard. Western is 97.7 beyond the standard in math. 30 points math, I mean, reading. What are you guys doing about that? And it's been like that a long time. I work in San Die now. I'm here in NI because of I'm the alumni. They're graduating about 95 96% of the kids and they're at fourth and fifth

098grade level. What are we doing about that? That should be a number one priority. It is going to be for the Western High School Alumni Association because here's what I've been able to ascertain. All the tools are there and all the resources What you're missing is how to communicate with the parents, primarily Latinos. We solve that problem in politics by changing the way we do things. We go to them. They will not come to your meetings during the week. They work two or three jobs. Weekends, they'll do it on weekends. They'll go to a folklorical conference. mariachi, free food, parades. That's what you need to do. You need to go where they're at. Like Kevin Cosner said, build it and they will come. Lastly, is this I I mentioned this last week about Western and

099I am the bell game. From 1960 to 1980, Western only won three games. We lost 17. The average score was like 35-6. We didn't quit. Please don't let this bell game die. It's got a 60-year history. You're up and you're down in sports right now. You're down, Anaheim. You just You just won a CIF title. You had the best wrestler in the world. You can come back. Please, sir. You're deep in Anaheim. Mr. Hernandez supports this argument. He went to Anaheim. He wants to beat us. You want to beat us. You can't beat us by running. Please take that into consideration. I'm very serious. It's important. Thank you all very much for your time. Bye-bye. Thank you. Next, superintendent and staff report. Yes. I have a quick announcement. Uh, everybody be on the lookout for

100a special press release announcing a partnership with Minecraft. AUHSD will be the first district in the United States uh with this partnership in Minecraft to have every single one of our schools built out. It's using the community school construct and we will be uh our teachers are excited about that and having our students uh look at challenges and problems and focusing on solutions uh through this world of Minecraft. So, we're really excited about that. Look at the watch for next week, early next week a uh press release u in partnership with Minecraft. I have a few updates. A couple of my updates were shared earlier during some of the um the union report, so I won't repeat myself there. Um but I do want to say uh a big shout out and thank you to

101our team and to the teachers in the district and the counselors and classified staff. Stema Palooa was another great success this past weekend. I specifically want to thank Allison Conrad and Charles Q. I don't think Charles here, but I think there's Allison. Uh their leadership and helping to put the or the event together, which as you can imagine is pretty massive. It's the district showcase. Also want to thank Jeff Aa did provide uh the taco lunch for our employees across the district on on on Saturday. So thank you. Um what what I what I didn't hear was uh on Monday uh this upcoming Monday the 14th it will be our 33rd color and light show the 33rd annual color and light show at the downtown community center. So I'm hoping you all can be there

102to celebrate our students and our teachers who are actively engaged in the visual arts. It's a great way to celebrate our students. And then uh lastly, I just want to share I did speak to the student who walked out um after she spoke and and we are working with Miss Brown uh the principal at Cypress. We are working to do with Groundswell an affinity group um with our Muslim American and Arab-American students to really gain from their perspective what their experience has been like with Miss Brown and another teacher leader um in that session. So then we can begin to brainstorm with intention how we can better support and create a better and a safer environment. So those kinds of things that we just heard um are not happening. The other thing I I think

103it's important to share is um as a civic engagement district, one of the things that I'll fault with Miss Brown is we have teachers across the district that bring in local issues that kids bring up in the classrooms. But again, the expectation with civic engagement is that the teachers and the staff, we are not imposing or even sharing our own beliefs. Our job is to teach the students the skills how to navigate whatever that issue or topic might be within civic engagement. So, they're empowered to take their own position with the data they collect to back their position. So, we shouldn't be influencing um our position or our thoughts with our students. Um so, I just want to share that as a as a reminder. Uh and we'll work with Miss Brown on that reminder

104as well. So, thank you so much. No report. No. I just want to congratulate the transportation department uh for receiving the RO recognition last month. It was um very exciting to be there with them. So last summer uh ROP approached uh the transportation department spec specifically in the mechanics uh shop to have six students uh intern them during the summer and the kids were in the gear and they did everything and um the goal is to have more students interested in that field when they finish um school from here. So I do want to thank ROP for that partnership and thank you RP for recognizing our U department for doing that that this amazing work. So thank you. Thank you. No. Yeah. Just two quick uh quick announcements. Final LCAP gathering is on Thursday, April

10524th. So, we'd love to see you all there, including all of our folks out um here and those all watching virtually. Um this is the one right before our June LCAP board meeting where we will be presenting the recommendations from our greater community. Um uh based on their priorities and what they're going to be voting on on April the 24th. Um also just we want to express our our deepest gratitude for our our assistant principles. It's national assistant uh principal week. So, we know that they're um at our sites working hard and doing that really hard work that you know to better support our students, our families, and our staff. So, with the our deepest gratitude, just want to extend that that um that shout out to them. Thank you. Moving on to the next

106item of business. Uh 11.1 resolution number 2024-25-B44, excuse me. Uh funding public education and the we can't wait campaign. So move. So move. Okay. This is a roll call vote. Any discussion on this? Just a quick comment. Sure. Yes. Um uh I just want to comment. I know we uh it's no surprise that the uh public schools are underfunded uh throughout the state by the state and by the federal government as well. And we just heard from our uh SYS uh director special education is also underfunded. So just want to uh thank ASA for bringing this forward and advocating to the state. So thank you. So I'm just going to read the I don't know if everybody has seen it, so I'm going to read the the paragraph. says, "The district is proud of its

107collaborative relationship with the Anaheim Secondary Teachers Association or ASA in the areas of community schools and collective bargaining, ranking the district among the the compensation leaders for teachers among public school districts in Orange County and providing continued health and welfare benefits to all full-time employees with no contribution toward premium costs for employees or their beneficiaries. The district is committed to ensuring that every student continues to have access to a high quality, equitable, and well-rounded public education in modern facilities and upto-date technology and supported by well-compensated teachers and staff who model kindness, compassion, civic engagement, civil discourse, and the importance of community to success in college, career, and life. So with that said, Mrs. Smith, I, Mr. Hosshi, I, Mr. Reynold Tjo, I, Miss Guero, I, and I vote I 50. Item 112, resolution number 2024-25

108HR-04, Day of the Teacher. So moved. Second. Second. Motion in a second. And this is a roll call vote. Miss Smith. I. Mr. Hosshi. I. Mr. Rand Tjo. I squarero. I. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And I vote I. 50 11.3 resolution number 2024-25-B16 temporary interf fund transfer roll call vote and we need a motion second motion in a second we got a motion in a second got Mrs. Smith I Mr. Hosi I Mr. Retro Tjo I Miss Gero I and I vote I 11.4 Four, resolution number 2024-25-B7, school lunch hero day. Slow moved. Second. Second. Have a motion and a second. All right. Roll call vote. Mrs. Smith I. Mr. Hosshi. I. Mr. Randjo. I. Mr. Barrow. I. And I vote I 11.5. Resolution number 2024-25-B8 establishing the Anaheim Union

109High School District Measure K Citizens Bond Oversight Committee and approving its bylaws. Second motion in a second. I had a question. Yes. Uh just a quick question if we can share uh to the community how we will be advertising the uh recruitment process. Perfect. So, uh, it's being advertised in newspapers as well as our district website is already currently on the website already, pending the approval obviously after this. Um, and um, so and u, we are working with John as well, our PIO to make sure it gets out on social media as well. So, we need um about seven members in different categories and you will see the detail information in which categories as well as the bylaws when you go up to website. It's written up front and center. So, you should be able

110to see it right away. So we do encourage all the community members to apply uh to be on a committee. It's about meeting about four times a year about two to three hours each time and you will get to see all the exciting projects are happening with measure K. And so really do uh want the community to come out and apply for um for this. And you know obviously down the road too we will also as people uh you know for different reason leave the committee and we also need replacement and so we love to have people to make sure they continue to support and continue to be on a committee as well. So every way we can advertise we're doing that. Thank you. Okay. Any other Okay. Miss Smith I. Mr. Hosy. I Mr.

111Rjo. I miss. and I vote I bond. Okay. Uh 11.6 resolution number 2024-25-B9 authorizing the issuance of Anaheim Union High School District, Orange County, California, election of 2024 general obligation bonds series A and actions related thereto. So moved. Second. Motion and a second. Mr. Oshi, did you have a question? Oh, okay. I I just um Nancy, can you just explain to the public um what it is this action does? So um the voters passed um Measure K back in no on in November with a very very strong support and this allows the district to start quoteunquote selling the bonds uh from the $496 million. We cannot exceed that amount. And so the first issuance we're looking at is $28 million for this first series. We don't take all of the bond money out of the

112out. We don't do that. There's different um Yes. So then uh so when we take them out then we will work with um the assessor office and they would go ahead and do that. And so um I want to say that because we have very very strong credit rating uh we will be getting the most competitive rate for our taxpayers in within the community. And so we do a something is called a competitive sale. So it goes to the market and then we will get the best rate at that time. And so given our very high credit rating uh we will be generating a very favorable uh rate for the taxpayers. Thank you. And just a little further explanation since the bond was for 496 million and this is only for 28 million. Correct. Why

113that difference? So our goal will be um in about 3 years time then go ahead and sell um por the second series and then the balance maybe a couple years after that. So it also also thank you. The next piece will be then um the tax burdens not not all at once. So we kind of we would be able to just you get tax based on that that that schedule at that time. So it's a benefit to the taxpayer. Correct. And we also just um not but last year we were able to refinance as well. And so every opportunity that we get that we can do that u for taxpayer. We would definitely go back and do that as well. Look at all the different um things that uh have been done and then to

114see if there's any savings to to taxpayers. And when we refinance last time, how much did we save? $4.2 million. And that was taxpayers taxpayers benefit. The district does not get any benefit for that. It's only for the taxpayers. Thank you very much. Thank you for that question. You bet. Mrs. Smith I. Mr. Hosshi. I. Mr. Rand Tjo. I. Miss Gero. I. And I vote I. Excuse me. Uh 11.7 resolution number 2024-25-B20 establishing the building fund number 2128 for series 2025 bonds. So moved. Second. And this is a roll call vote. Any questions? Seeing none, Mr. Smith, I. Mr. Hosshi, hi. Mr. Rand Tjo, I. Miss Guerrero, I. And I vote I. 11.9. Our resolution number 2024-25 11.8 11 11.8. Excuse me. Thank you for that. Uh, so 11.8. Resolution number 25-HR-05 National School Nurse

115Day second and this is a roll call vote Mrs. Smith I Mr. Hosshi I Mr. Mr. Fjo. Hi, Mr. Sparrow. Hi. And I vote I now 11.9 revise board policy 8601 electronic signaling devices. Second reading. So moved. Second. Any discussion on this? I had one question. Um can uh we share how this policy will be communicated to our parents and families and then um anything you can share on enforcement of the policy? Absolutely. Great question. So, as I know Trusty Hosshi and Trusty Smith know, they serve on our student discipline task force. Uh, we have been working I know Dr. Hernandez in the audience. I think Eric, I think Oh, there's Eric right there. They've been working closely with that that team um to develop this policy. Um, we took the best practices from and

116the lessons learned from the schools that have already begun to implement a cell phone policy across the district. And so we developed as a task force recommendations for the school sites in terms of how to market, how to promote and then also how to enforce, how to then begin creating the culture where this transition takes place. Uh we met with our principles. I think it was last month u Dr. Hernandez, it was last month where we rolled out those recommendations from the task force. So we gave them in anticipation that this may be approved a couple months before school ends to get their materials ready, their policies in place in terms of how they're going to begin promoting. So during registration, the materials already established and that way too we can be aggressive with what

117we communicate both in the springtime and the summer before school starts and even the way that we begin the school year next fall. So um as you know the policy differentiates between the junior high and the senior high. So they're working to on that piece. Thankfully we've already had a number of schools pilot this work previously to great success. So the feedback from both the students and from the staff have been incredibly positive. So we feel like we're not going to have a lot of um anxiety from the schools. Actually, we're seeing a lot of excitement about what's to come. And again, with the high schools having the differentiation, they still have access to the phones during passing periods and at lunch. So, it'll be implemented beginning uh the next school year. Correct. Yes. Next

118fall. And what will likely happen in full transparency is the first couple weeks of school. There'll probably be a grace period because that'll give the schools that was one of the recommendations that they spend the first two weeks, three weeks of school promoting the policy and hey, come this date, this is when it begins. And so that way the school the students and the the parents are reminded that on this date I'll make it up August 9th that's when it's starting. So um that was one of the practices that the schools recommended who've begun this work. Got it. Thank you. So we're encouraging um every site during registration really to put out this information to all of our parents. Yes. Registration and leading up to just the start of school communications. Some of them do

119conference principles before school starts or they do um orientations with students and families. that'll be part of the talking point because this is a pretty big change, right? Uh if the school has already begun this this work. So that that'll be the expectation that was one of the promising practices that was discussed by the task force that they want sites to implement. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Smith. Hi, Mr. R. Mr. Oshi. Hi. Mr. Edjo, I miss Gero. Hi. And I vote I That was didn't need to be a roll call vote. That was just Okay. Oh, that was a practice. Uh 1110 new board policy 7,000 use of artificial intelligence and this is the first reading information only. 11-11 agreement Dr. Mary Helen Emino Yang. So move second motion in a second. Any discussion? Seeing

120none. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. 50. Uh 112 agreement. Lexia Voyer Voyager Spores. So Soprus Inc. I'll get there eventually. So move. Second. Do we have a motion in a second? Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. Opposed? That's 5-0. 11:113 agreement uh undocu LLC. So second motion in a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. opposed. 5 um 11:14 Initial contract proposal AUHSD to Anaheim Military Instructor's Union information only 11:15 public hearing initial contract proposal AUHSD to Anaheim Military Instructors Union. We open public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak? Close the public hearing. 11:116 initial contract proposal AMIU to AUHSD information only. 1117 Public hearing initial contract proposal AMIU to AUHSD. Open the public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak? Close the public hearing. 11:18 initial

121contract proposal AUHSD to MI managers association. Information only. 1119 public hearing initial contract proposal AUHSD to min manager association open the public hearing anybody wishing to speak close the public hearing at 11:20 initial contract proposal MMA to AHSD information item 11:21 public hearing initial contract proposal MMA to AUHSD we open the public hearing anybody wishing to We close the public hearing. Moving on to the consent calendar. Anybody wishing to pull? I would like to pull 12.19.2. 1219.2. Yeah. 12 12 1292. 12192. Yeah. Okay. 12192. I'm pulling 129 and 1210. Anybody else? Uh 1212. 1212. Okay. Motion for the balance. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay. Let's go with 129 and 1210. So move. Second. Motion a second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed and

122abstain. I. So that's 401. Next is 1212. So moved. Second. Motion and a second. I just had a quick question. Um, how many more schools do we have? Yes. So, we have three schools left. This training will include the training for Cypress and for Oxford. Next year, we will finalize with Kennedy and then any other staff at any of our schools since this will be the last that haven't been trained. As you may recall, every year when we do this, we build an extra space for any new staff, both classified and certificate that have been hired to receive the training. Uh so I'm excited to to hopefully get to that place where we can finish all our schools and then just do re-ups and and and continue to rebuild uh skills in our in our

123staff and the way they build community on the campus. So that's 2526 for the two and then 2627 for is Kennedy and anyone else followup. Okay. And I would recommend that any um trustee that um would like to go should go. Yes. If you haven't been once we have the dates I can absolutely send the dates. Uh it's a two-day training. Um and we'll we'll get you situated. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Okay. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. That's 5. Okay. That and now we have 12192. So move. We have a second. Second. Okay. Motion and a second. M uh yes. Sorry. Uh I am uh I'm just abstaining due to being employed by the supervisor Chavy's office. Oh, okay. So, all in favor say I. I. Oppose. Abstain. I. So, that's 401 again.

124Okay. Moving on to excuse me board of trustees report item 13. Mrs. Smith. Briefly, I just have a few things to uh talk about. I attended the insurance committee a couple of days ago and um we just go over a tremendous uh volume of work and um a board member is just there to listen not to participate but I so deeply appreciate the work that goes into that. And then I saw a quote uh the other day and I thought it was so interesting because it just really spoke to me of the Armac program at Magnolia and they said food security is a national security and I thought that was a very worthwhile co comment and then there was an article in the paper about vape technology in schools and we've put that into two

125of our schools and I'd like to see that increased to all of our bathrooms in our schools. I've had u parents call me and tell me that their students are finding that problem when they go into the restroom that kids are vaping. And I think for us to help young people through our genetics training that I hope is augmented to from what we do in our schools to teach um that genetics is so important as a tool to learn about who we are and what we inherit. And I think that one of the things with this vaping and I see kids out in the community when I'm driving around vaping and I think that it really needs to be emphasized to young people that you could become addicted because of that. One thing can lead

126to another could lead to another and have a real de deficit uh impact on your future. And um I wanted to extend greatness to all the people that work in our kitchens with the producing the their food service and is awesome. Their work is deeply appreciated. And one last thing, I have a relative who's teaching on the east coast in an elementary school, second grade, and I was I learned that she has to arrive at school at 7:00 in the morning and her second graders arrive minutes later and she starts class at 7:30 in the morning and they go until 3. And I'm wanting to get more in depth about the impact of what the that state is. It's called a right to work state and I don't know how many there are in this

127country but it certainly is different because I've never even understood anything like that. So it was all new information for me. And I said what is the opposite of a right to work state? Does anybody know the qu the answer? Unions. So I think that we learn to support each other and care about each other and learn. Thank you one and all for all that you do. Mr. Hosshi, it's been a busy month. Um I went to some open houses at Brookhurst CVA where they did their capstone speeches. uh Ball Junior High where they also had a ribbon cutting ceremony for the mural. Um and Catella High School uh saw the beautiful pool renovation there and the brand new culinary room. Western Orange View open house and they uh did an international assembly at the

128end of the evening in their brand new gymnasium. Um Lexington High School had their open house uh which was preceded by the dedication of the Anna Piery building um our arts building. Uh capstone season is here. CVA presented their capstones at open house at Oxford Academy. They had their juniors present and it was really nice to see 25 alumni come back and uh serve as panelists there. Um, uh, Lexington had their capstone in one day and then for three days I've been going to Kennedy High School for their capstone. And it's been interesting because I've been put in different rooms, IB students, athletes, um, band and and choir students. And um the one thing that really impressed me was where they learned their leadership skills was through those kinds of activities being a team captain

129on in a sports team and being the section leader or you know just being a a club officer. So I really got a big kick out of that about how much those connections really play a vital role. performances. Uh Oxford's choir festival concert, uh the district and the district's theater and dance showcase was phenomenal. Showcased all of our talented uh drama students and our dance students, soapbox speeches at um finals at Laera. Thank you, Ruben Patino for facilitating that. Girls Engineering Day at Dale celebrated its 10th anniversary and it was it was incredible just the partners that we have and again seeing alumni back at those and serving as mentors and um Catella Talks. Um, I got to meet Councilwoman um Kristen Moss from uh the Anaheim City Council and then the Anaheim High School

130Dance Show was um displayed a lot of creativity with a lot of our students creating the dance numbers. Um just in closing, I went to a few things. the Orange County School Board Association Access Region 17 joint dinner um with Robin Avalar being the uh keynote speaker challenging the normalization of underachievement. Um, trustees Guerrero and O'Neal joined me for the PTA council dinner at Nospay Farm Hotel and then I attended the Cababe um conference and where they celebrated 50 years of bilingual advocacy and excellence. Um, the RO success awards uh with um my fellow trustees here. And then last night I got to meet the California uh the CTA president David Goldberg at a CTA and an orange service center council board dinner for new trustees. So that was a perk of being a newly

131elected trustee to um to go to that and learn what's going on in the state. Thank you. Where was that held? That was at the university club um on UCI's campus. first. Okay. Uh so, um I did attend also the um AXA uh OCCSBA dinner. I forgot to put that down on my list. Um excuse me. Uh we attended our board study uh study session uh um for the bond across the way. um attended my RO meetings uh where Nancy um talked about our uh transportation uh getting celebrated. Um and then uh last uh night uh Scott Randelle was um inducted nominated by a group of students um and and nominated and inducted into the National Honor Society um membership and he will have his name um printed on on the wall over there. he

132actually had to take the oath of office um to be on the honorary national. It's really really cool. um along with about five other um folks. And so that was really really um important and and talking about the leadership, the students totally led that. And so what an honor for Scott to be um nominated by students and and then inducted. um also with RO the uh celebration of success and that's their big event where they honor um students and it's um uh the the teachers nominate the students and then um Brian and I interviewed them um and it was very very difficult to choose uh out of all of the students you wanted them all to win um and but they also have uh sponsors that that give out uh scholarships to the students so

133those uh that were nominated uh get awarded and then they have their top tier. Um and thank you trustees. Uh we were very well represented at the event. I appreciate that. also with uh RO flew to Sacramento um and we uh advocated the entire day um with our legislators um and that's why um you know this um activism is so important um with our teachers and um any one of us going to Sacramento um Sacramento is what 70% new uh legislators and so they really don't understand yet the um the educational um system and and budgets and so anytime that we have a chance to go and talk to them in person um is very important. Um Dana had um superintendent has a really good strategy um the grown-ups um go in and we welcome

134and we say thank you because we thank the educator the legislators for supporting Prop 98. We go in and we tell them all the value of that and then we let the kids talk. Um the students uh ambassadors came with us and everyone was um thoroughly impressed by the students and you know we're only allotted you know 15 20 minutes. They all really wanted to hear from the kids um perspective the student perspective and they were all impressed. So I think it was a huge success um letting the students really um give their testimonials. Um uh last night also was uh the Gassulpa uh CAC awards which is the um community advisory committee. Um it's a group of parents that um are uh representing each one of the schools uh districts in the SULPA. So

135there's Anaheim, Centrolia, Cypress, Los Al, uh Magnolia, and Savannah. And we had five of our uh employees recognized last night. Um uh Luis uh Cordoba, Melissa Naen, um Marne Nuin, Gail, um I'm sorry, I'm going to blow her name. I love her dearly. She's a a hope aid. Um Raqqatare um and Lisa Wright. all were recognized last night at the um Gaselpo Awards. Um Stema Palooa was uh another wonderful success. Um and I also um among all of the um uh the good times that we have there and seeing all the wonderful things that um AUHSD is doing, I was really pleased to see both of my worlds uh connected with um the 500 students that came from um Anaheim. uh elementary. Um I saw them um go getting onto the bus. They were all

136excited. Um they almost didn't want to leave. Um they they they had some things that they hadn't seen yet. So, you know, maybe they'll come back next year on their own. Um I think is a very very strategic and smart idea to bring the fifth graders. Fifth graders are still um you know, they're not they're not that too cool for the room yet. um where the sixth graders I think um kind of had that that attitude, but they were um they were all enchanted. They were all excited and the Western link um crew uh link crew uh did an amazing job taking those students. Um they were all very patient. They all had smiles on their faces when I went to talk to them uh afterwards and I asked them honestly, were the kids really

137really um uh good for you? were they really attentive and listening and they all said yes 100%. So I think that was a great success and thank you to everyone. I know that's just a it's a huge wedding uh you know um all the celebrations combined into one to put together. Um there is talk about maybe changing locations. Um I think there's that's the buzz that I'm hearing. um because I think um uh parking might have been an issue. Uh so uh we'll we'll we'll we'll discuss that later. Um after that um I was privileged also to um listen in uh to a lead meeting. Um this is my second one and uh man uh I think that this is a program that we should I think we should be marketing because um you guys

138really go um uh in depth into those um hard um those hard hard hard things that we don't want to talk about that leaders have to um uh engage in. Um, but I think that um going through this is a is a huge success for our district, a huge success for um the teachers that go through that program and they just really get um a quality quality education from that. um and also attended the soap box speeches and um opening house at Lexington and um culminating with Anna Piery's um building uh dedication of her room that she taught in for a number of years room 701. Thank you. Thank you. I had the opportunity to attend my second masters in government's course uh with CSBA. had the opportunity to attend the open house for Sycammer

139Junior High School and N&M High School. Attended the insurance committee meeting uh both in March and April. I also joined the AUHSD soap box finals. Um I attended High School's musical, the Hello Girls, which is wonderfully done. I also joined uh Dale Junior High School for their 10th anniversary of girls engineering day and just want to give a shout out to our partners uh for consistently supporting our students in engineering. I also attended the small business development center student presentation at Anime High School. Also joined my colleague colleagues for the PTA Garden of Things administrators dinner. Just want to give a shout out to our parents and administrators that attended that. It was during spring break. So we appreciate coming them coming out from their spring break to join us for that. I had the

140pleasure of being uh recognized as one of the assemblywoman Sharon Kirksova's women of distinction. Uh along with my colleague Andrea Rodriguez who is Anaheim High School's community schools coordinator. I um also attended the RO awards to recognize our students attended High School's dance show beyond the limitations uh with uh Trusty Hosshi and Trusty Rand Tjo. I had the opportunity to uh go back to our roots and speak to NIM High School's alumni association breakfast. So I want to thank them for the invitation to join them. Also attended Steiposa which is one of my favorite events. Um and I love that you called it uh AHC's wedding uh because a lot of work goes into it and I just want to thank staff um from the morning to setting up from cleaning up into the uh

141afternoon. Thank you so much. and then um also attended Anna Persy's building dedication ceremony at Lexington Junior High School. And then last night I had the opportunity to attend the fentanyl awareness workshop hosted by our PTA. So just want to thank them for hosting that and thank um our district and play Adela Cruz for being there to answer some questions for my parents. And that concludes my report. Uh it was very nice probably like 30-ish uh parents um and they received uh free resources from the OC healthcare agency. Thank you. Um I attended as we all did the study session across the street at ROO. So I want to we thanked RO for using their facilities but also it was a wonderful beginning of our program that we're of our bonds. So I'm really looking

142forward to seeing as it as it lays out what you know the progression what we're going to be doing when we're going to be doing it and where we're going to be doing it. So look forward to that. uh RO board meeting again. Scott Rendell was was it was a wonderful representation there that um I attended seven open houses and the PTA uh administrator's dinner um at the NSbury Farm Hotel. I had the privilege, the honor of attending Anna Pery's uh building dedication where she taught art for many many years. Uh that was very well attended and fortunately was part of the open house. So there were a lot more people there so they got to see it. I attended my uh second graduation meeting and we're getting really close now. So I know there's

143another meeting coming up and there a lot of complex little pieces of the puzzle that it's a mindboggling to say the least. So but it sounds like it's coming together very well. Uh attended the celebration of success uh at RLP where uh Mr. Entre and I got to interview, but we also attended the the u uh awards and a lot of scholarships and I think they said last night what $20,000 was awarded at that at that event. So that was very nice. Steam ploo I thought was probably the best that we've had so far. The best best attended uh more booths. It was just very well done. So, I've really uh enjoyed that capstone showcase at Kennedy, which is always a pleasure hearing what the students have have done over their years and making their

144nervous presentations to us. So, that's uh always an enjoy an enjoyable morning. Uh I attended the uh Cypress every 15 minutes uh presentation and that's always a sad event but also it's a happy event thinking that maybe just one life could be saved just by by putting that on. Hopefully more than that are saved and then um I visit a couple schools during my during that time. So that ends that what I forgot and also you were there too. Uh we both attended the immigration rights um uh um I I can't remember when it was but we were online. Oh yes. Um but I really um I really want to thank um our district for putting this on. It's just really um it's an important um um it's important thing that we're doing. um not

145many people are doing that and um doing it online is uh is another way that we can get um more students to do that. And then I just wanted to talk about This is two now. I know. I just wanted to talk about the um the breaking limitations uh event at Kennedy with Anaheim High School. And it was really um you know a spiritual experience and the leadership that the students showed um uh putting on those u presentations um you know the choreography and getting all the students to um you know taught all the all the choreography that they taught the students um they really um did a fantastic job and uh thank you for everyone who's supporting them. Okay, one more thing. No, I have a mic. Shut off the mic over here. Um

14614 advanced planning. You see the dates ahead of us there. Next board meeting is on May 8th. Any suggested agenda items? None. Okay. Number 15. Second. We have a motion and second hesitation there. All in favor say I. Uh-huh.