001e e e so much for being here come on in we have plenty of room in the front if anyone wants to sit in the front get a front row seat e e e good evening everyone when I start this good evening we're going to go ahead and get started we want to get you guys out of here on time we want to get you home hopefully before the rain comes in get everyone back home dry is a goal uh my name is Robert salivar I'm the executive director of uh ed services here at our district um we're going to introduce a few people in a second here but we want to go through some housekeeping items as people are still finding their seats um rest rooms if you if you go directly straight back
002the first Hall to your right okay and then as you're walking down that Hall it's the first Hall to your left okay that's where our restrooms are at all right um we also want to thank our translators in the back for for being here tonight um if you need any device to to help with the translation please uh please head to the back or if you're having any issues with your device please head straight to the back okay we also want to thank our transportation department for helping with uh uh transportation for our students and and families um Round of Applause for them as well thank you for doing [Applause] that and then all of our support staff that's a part of the logistical planning from organizing you know the registration the emails that go
003out the taco the food the Taco folks to to here to audio visual to live stream with Mr Bautista over here it's just it's it's a lot of people that work behind um the scenes to to ensure that this this um comes to fruition and that hopefully it's a successful night so round of applause to everyone involved in that all right so we're going to do a a quick who's in the room so we definitely want to acknowledge some of our distinguished guests um before we get started here um so if I could have everyone's attention and if you haven't taken a seat yet please feel free there are quite a few seats up here in the front for us to take a seat right if you can hear me clap once you can hear
004me clap twice and if you didn't clap you're not hearing me all right so let's let's acknowledge some of our distinguished guests we have some uh board members that are in the room our own board members we have a trustee and president Mr Brian O'Neal right on Q on Q I saw truste Mr Ron hosi where did you go there you are and truste Miss Jessica Guerrero I know you're in the room there you are all right thank you thank you for being here we appreciate you we also have some some board members from some of our surrounding districts so we want to make sure we a them for for being here as well we have um we have trustee and board president for aesd Juan Mr Juan Alvarez all right uh trustee um also
005for ASD Mr Ryan Reis I just lost all right and I do we have anyone else from aesd I'm losing it's going in and out got it okay all right and we have and we have truste from uh fjuhsd fton joint Lauren Lauren claser you here there you are I knew I saw you all right okay and then we have a lot of our partners that are here as well just Community Partners if you are um one of our Community Partners um whether it's OKO city of Anaheim North Orange County Roop um Tiger Woods any of our partners please stand up please stand up and be acknowledged I know we have some I saw some of you guys where are you OKO thank you all right all right we have um if we have staff
006from our sites both classified and certificated please raise your stand up or if you're standing up raise your hand just wave high but if you're sitting down stand up all [Applause] right so those are both classif classified and certificated if we have District Personnel classifying certificate if you're sitting down please stand up if you're in the back just wave your wave your hands all right awesome thank you for being here I'm not that good at giving instructions because I see some people waving that are supposed to be standing up and others that are supposed to be waving that are I don't know I'm going to try to do a better job okay um we also want to acknowledge our um some of our our um Union presidents we have Heather hutner from uh CA president
007where'd you go Heather there you are all right Jeff morgenson president for ASA all right thank you any other presidents from our unions yes Britney and Lacy for uh our I'm sorry yes Lacy and Britney where are you guys for there you go thank you representing our counselors okay who else who are we missing Alta Jennifer's aai for Alta Jennifer please stand up representing our administrators all right yes thank you thank you okay we have our students if you're a student please stand up stand up students [Applause] awesome as we were uh walking around we heard we were talking to some of the students and they were telling us where what schools are coming from they're all over the district Oxford Cyprus Sycamore brookers Savannah Anaheim all over the place so thank you guys for
008being here Western we appreciate it okay and then what about our parents and Guardians and family members please stand up awesome awesome awesome okay so you know it's not easy to take um time out of your day to be here on especially on a night where it's cold and got rain in the forecast so we definitely appreciate you all being here um W with that said we want to move us along so what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to I'd like to introduce our assistant soup of Educational Services Dr freed to do a formal welcome thank you Robert well good evening bu Noz it is great to be with you tonight I'm so grateful for you all of you for being here tonight I know the weather wasn't necess cooperating today
009but uh I am grateful as as our team for you being here you know as a district who prides itself on being uh a Community School District right the great work that we've been able to do collectively um I can't think of a better experience or better process that exemplifies what it means to be a community school bringing all of our Community Partners together for our lcap to really go deeper into the the needs and the assets of our district and then to collectively work together through collaborative leadership one of the pillars in our community school approach right to help prioritize for our board recommendations in terms of how to better support our students and our families and our community so I am so honored to have all of you here and by the way
010I I know we have Robert went over all the different groups but I do want to give a specific shout out because I don't if you guys know this week is national school counselor appreciation week so I do think we need to take a moment to acknowledge our counselors on their special week so thank you counselors I know you're in here you are all incredible folks all of your roles but I know this week is is dedicated to the great work that they do so I want to make sure to honor them um but as you're engaging this work over the next what six sessions or five sessions that we have I want to invite and encourage you to really um listen to each other throughout this process all of you are coming with Incredible
011ideas and thoughts on how to best support our students our families and our schools and that the idea to work together and really listen to one another is be important as we come up with the ideas and the priorities that we bring to our board uh so again on behalf of our superintendent who unfortunately could not be here and of course on behalf of our amazing board who supports all of you in the work that you do thank thank you for being here and being a part of this elcap process I hope you have a great evening and I look forward to the great work that we accomplished together thank you Dr freed all right okay so tonight's what's the purpose of tonight so tonight our purpose is to begin telling our story right a
012lot of you have been a part of the story for many years whether you've worked in the district um you've been uh a student in our district and you you uh this is your second third fourth fifth sixth year depending where what what grade you're in um staff we've been working for quite a while those some of you have grown up in our district went to our schools and now our parents of our district or or staff members are both so and some of you it's going to be the first time you hear a story so I think one of one of the um the advantages that we get in a in a a day like today is to really begin to provide context to the lcap tell our story and and set the stage
013for what's to come it's also an opportunity to understand our our local control and accountability plan which we we will refer to as the lcap for short okay um so hopefully by the end of the night we've done uh a decent job of both of these all right we um we have a social contract that we've been using from uh year to year these are Universal Norms um typically we get uh input from our our steering committee um on the social contract this is a social contract that you will ground yourselves in not only for tonight but also for our upcoming um focus group meetings those uh begin little later this month um and when you're in a smaller group setting having conversations around the data dialogue and reflection around what you're seeing and what
014you believe might be some priorities and recommendations um we want to ground ourselves in in these Universal Norms so take about 30 seconds just to maybe uh scan through them and maybe pick one to ground yourself in for tonight's meeting this last one here is a new one for this uh for this year this was added um actually I'm sorry from last year's um uh searing committee we added to last year's social contract so these are they're they're not set in stone they could change with time as we continue to hear uh feedback and input from from the folks that are involved in the planning phases okay our story so at times you're gonna hear things and see things that we we're going to learn to or come to appreciate at times whether it's tonight
015or in the upcoming meetings there might be moments we're going back to our contract there's maybe going to be some uncomfortable data that we look at maybe some dialogue where maybe there's some some uh differences that we are that we are discussing with people across the table from us you know but at the end of the day it's our story just like a family the every family has a story every human being has a story there's ups and downs there's trials and tribulations there's adversities there's perseverance it's the same for us as a family a much larger family it's an opportunity for us to continue to work together and collaborate even during those moments of where we feel a little bit uncomfortable or maybe there's some disagreements but to come together to continue to do
016what's best for our students and our families who are at the center of everything so let's begin that story tonight I'm going in the wrong direction okay so a little bit about our demographics all right a lot of you know our demographics but just for those of you that don't here's the makeup of our district um for 23 24 we were at 7 uh 26,000 students across the district okay right um a comprehensive high schools a junior highs we have Oxford Academy CVA um alternative Ed uh two programs for alternative ad and then our our special our special day school which is Hope okay and there's the breakdown of enrollment for each of those schools okay here is um some programming as well for our our uh student groups our what we call our low
017income okay socio economic disadvantage um 81% of our population across the district would fall into that category um and then we have our English Learners students with dis disabilities homeless and Foster youth okay that makes up um most of our students here's a demographics breakdown we're close to 70% Hispanic okay and then the rest of the breakdowns we're about close to 8% white uh 133% Asian um we got obviously about uh 4% Filipino about 2% black multiethnic is about three and a half and then uh 0.1 for American Indian okay it's important to know this because again you know we want to know who's in our schools who are we serving um the makeup of our district as as we're we're we're going to start diving into the data a little bit today we're just
018going to give you a small window of of some data but really in the coming uh meetings you're really going to do a deep dive into some of our data that's that's um um obviously about our students and how to best serve our students our vision and our mission um so just to give a little bit of context most of our schools have gone through a revisioning day um couple of our schools are going through it this year and as our schools have gone through those revisioning days which when we do that we invite the entire Community for that specific site to be a part of it which includes parents Guardians students um and then obviously our our staff from that site for the larger schools about three 400 people to come together for our
019smaller schools it's you know closer maybe to a 100 and they go through a revisioning day where they're reflecting on you know what they want for their students not only in the present but in for 5 10 years down the road what do they want their schools to look like their classrooms to sound like what do they want to see and hear when they're walking onto the campuses into the offices into the classrooms right and then we start to collect that data as they're having conversations and dialogue we start to collect that data you know what's being shared and that from that data we have emerging things and that's what that's how we came with our vision and Mission these emerging themes about wanting a better world for our students right right for that so
020that they reach their unlimited potential we wanted to ensure that any student that graduates from our district is going to graduate and is going to be socially aware they're going to be civic-minded students so think about all the work that we're doing to ensure that our students have that type of exposure right to civic education projects around civic education they're life ready right life ready which is under that umbrella is everything that you want to put in there right College ready School ready life ready think about the skill skills right the skills that you will need to be able to to fulfill that vision and Mission okay again the emerging themes from schools across the district when they did the revisioning was the focus on the 5c's which are our soft skills right to ensure
021that Education Works for our students and not the other way around to ensure that we are in an asset-based instructional approach right so focusing on not just needs but also the strengths right um moving that needle towards equity and Justice so when we think about about some of our student groups right how do we continue to move that needle towards equity and Justice how do we close that Gap all right and believe we believe that our vision mission and core valleys are delivered primarily through instruction you're going to hear a lot about the importance of in the classroom because that's where it starts right in the classroom starts at home with the family but when they come to us it's in the classroom right systems not silos right we believe in making sure that we're
022supporting across the district and it's there systems to do that all right um and then that public schools should enhance and strengthen strengthen democracy this is now more than ever important right the importance of voice student voice and student agency okay so what I want what we would like for you to do with that in mind is now think about the Community Schools approach and if you're not familiar with our community schools approach we're hoping that you see alignment between our core values our mission and vision and the Community Schools approach right at the heart of the Community Schools approach our students right and then we see a little bit of the language around Community Schools which there's a ton of language but some things to focus on is that we're a community where students
023and families are connected and work together this represents that hopefully your school experience for our students that were talking to you're you're you're seeing a lot of that in your classrooms and back at your schools right working together with your peers your staff right to ensure that opportunities address the needs of the whole child right so that all students can Thrive and real and realize their unlimited potential there's that word again unlimited unlimited you whole child what is whole child again if it's not familiar to to you here's a quick little summary but hopefully you see alignment to Our Community School's approach to our vision to our values to our core values our vision and our mission I'm just going to point out some key words right well-rounded individuals okay equip with an educa with
024a solid education and important life skills what are those skills equipped with important life skills how do we Define those skills are those our five C's is it student voice is it the technical skills okay to help them Reach their their full potential we understand that through the whole child approach students are come into our schools and have access to a safe welcoming and engaging learning environment that's our job at each site in each classroom in each office to be able to do this right okay take a second to look at this picture how many of you guys are thinking oh that reminds me of my educational experience well maybe hopeful maybe not this one that's from way back maybe more maybe this one with a little bit of color okay A little bit of
025color okay right like this is this bring backs this brings back memories for a lot of us we would go from one class to another and every single class was set up this way right there is a heavy emphasis on the technical skills okay heavy emphasis on the technical skills right there was typically not much room for student talk right for student um engagement collaboration engaging in Project based learning it was very different back in the days right so does this represent what we're trying to do as a district would this type of environment help us accomplish our vision mission core values our community schools approach our whole child approach are we going to get this sometimes yes sometimes there's room for this right we need we need a 10 15 minute lecture we need
026some context right but what we would like to move towards is what our framework is helping us do so when you think about the our vision our mission and our core values the question is how are we going to do that so then we a few years ago as a district right made a decision that the only way we're going to do that is if we change the traditional way of doing school if we we can't continue to do this most of the time right so we have to change our framework where it's heavy on the technical skills to one that's more balanced there's a focus on 21st century skills a focus on youth voice and purpose and you also have the Technic Technic technical skills which are also important but there's a nice balance
027of the three right so this is what we call our framework our cpsf framework our career preparedness systems framework so we ground ourselves in our framework to help when we when we're in the classroom engaging our students so that they have exposure so that when they graduate and leave us they are life ready they are college ready they're equipped with those skills that are mentioned in our vision and Mission and Community Schools approach right and our core values so hopefully y students hopefully we're seeing more of this okay that's part of our story as we evolve right think about things that have evolved over the course of time technology how much that has evolved cars right internet AI now schools need to evolve with times as well right so when we think of our out
028cap and what that support our lcap is to support our vision our goals our values our community schools approach so that we're creating experiences for our students that are aligned to our drivers and aligned to what we believe in right you see 21st what we call Innovation furniture that allows for more of of what we of what um student uh collaboration group projects that was in the classroom we have opportunities outside of the classroom okay I believe this one here is um remind me Dr sidu servathon this was our one of our serons okay we talk about Civic civic-minded students right it's happening in the classroom through projects but also outside of the classroom through opportunities like servathon aim career preparedness right we talk about opportunities in the classroom right to to engage in projects
029that are preparing them for careers that are connecting them to careers where they feel a sense of purpose but also outside the classroom with internships and things like that all supported by our alcap okay so hopefully as we continue to evolve we see evidence of that in our outc cap it's it's it's grounded in our outc cap so that we're able to do these things all right so what I'd like to do at this moment is I'd like to introduce a good friend of the district now he his his wife is also in in the audience and he said he could stay here as long as he wants cuz his wife is here okay he's a a father of four four young ladies who uh were um who are alumni of our district all went
030to Sycamore Junior High and Anaheim High School by the way can can I can I get the students who went to who are uh in any one of our elementary schools to stand up we have some Elementary School students students so if you are at an elementary school can you please stand up I know I ran into a few of you where are you guys all right there's two there I know we got some more Elementary School there's more I saw a few of you out there okay thank you for being here guys father of four all graduated from Anaheim all now one graduated from UCLA and three currently in college professor at Cal State Long Beach president of Los Amigos of Orange County his wife is an administrator in our district principal at Western
031High School right Lorena Moreno and a good friend of the districts and he'll tell you that he loves the Dodgers but he's starting to love the angels too and that's Mr do not Mr dror I'll say Moreno Round of [Music] Applause when noes good evening when noes good evening so um I'm going to need your help uh it's been a tough day um for a lot of us so I teach at Cal State Long Beach and um had a student that came today um that U her mom was detained by ice so um she came and um University is doing all we can to provide the supports that we need and so the what I want to share with you today is some data um but also some narrative to that data of why what
032we're doing here today is so important and what we expect our kids our students our young people to do while they watch their parents um on a daily struggle sometimes it's immigration sometimes it's economics sometimes it's housing sometimes it's just parents struggling with their own relationships um so this conversation with the student today and and Robert your intro um reminds me about um what we're supposed to be doing together as human beings right to support one another to uplift each other yeah no no we get mad at times with each other sometimes we even come to the board meeting and tell our school board members that they're horrible uh sometimes we tell our teachers are horrible sometimes we tell our parents are horrible and then we always tell our kids pay attention um but at
033the end we know that what we're trying to do U often imperfectly is to help each other become our best selves uh so so I thank you for being here tonight and um hopefully this will be uh helpful to you oops I'm going back how are you by the way how are you great you're supposed to be picking me up um okay what am I doing here de way okay U so our purpose building together um so purpose I I show this some of you often see me talk and I always show my parents those are my parents back in 1974 the only formal picture my family ever took uh at Sears at Sears um and and so all all of the the stuff you see there is my mom made it she was a
034seamstress in a faika with 300 women um we were undocumented um and um went through an entire process as a family that we see so many families going through today so I I was show this to one ground myself but to not be so nervous because when your mom's watching you you kind of stop being nervous after a while because it's Comfort it's home um so um that's my sister Jessica the oldest and my brother Tito is this Tito and then Juan and then myself and also some you know the hair cuts are also unique my mom was also a barber um as you could tell um and um so we we uh my parents um um were able to migrate here and then had some level of success because of the kindness of strangers
035uh when we went through deportation process my mom's FAA was raided um and she was caught by immigration um and uh for whatever reason she begged and begged the immigration officer to just let her go home and then that she would then go to uh report herself to immigration 30 days later so they did she begged I have children I have children with my children um as children we um being undocumented uh living in a one-bedroom apartment and then we rented a home we always had to keep our curtains closed we had to stay very quiet uh we could not share with people who we were what we were doing and my parents uh were told by their compes uh Eng Eng Eng English English English so uh my English is good I don't know
036if you think it's good but my English is good because I was afraid of immigration it's kind of funny I guess not and great teachers thank you Ryan relis I'm here everybody U because if you don't laugh you cry because we go through these processes as children and parents and I can't imagine the pain of my parents and the fear of what happens if they get taken so when my mom was detained by immigration the officers brought her home in handcuffs gave her her order uh and we were fortunate to find this community center that offered Pro bonal legal assistance uh to Immigrant families and so we found that they petitioned for us to stay uh the doctors who my mom was actually ill which is why we were here they allowed her to make
037her payments later because if she didn't get the treatment she needed it could have cost her her life and and so the kindness of people and systemss is what ended up playing out for us so I I was um born in wasab caloa Mexico um y'all know where caloa is I know Brian O'Neal knows where caloa is do the rest of you second state down from Arizona um so EO in wasab assembl made in Mexico assembled in the US in Oxnard California um so migrated there when I was four years old um and in 1986 through the pen of Ronald Reagan immigration reform and Control Act uh we were legalized and and I share this with you because of the context we're in today uh where he said in his signing statement the legalization Provisions
038in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows without access to many of the benefits of a free and open Society very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and ultimately if they choose they may become Americans that was our president then Republican saying that um and we fast forward to today we don't quite see that so through that we were able to pursue our education so I want to ask you um to um with each other for a moment um what is the purpose of college a lot of us talk about the importance of college um and so I asked my students this uh why are you here why are you in college
039uh what made you come so with your neighbors have you met your neighbors with your neighbors um take a quick moment what is the purpose of college take a moment what is the purpose of college what is the purpose of college profession all right um all right so how many of you have ever been in a university classroom raise your hand if you've been in a university classroom um let me ask it the other way how many of you have never been in a university classroom ah rock and roll let's play Let's play uh all right so who would like to share with us uh what is the purpose of college raise your hand and say loud okay I thought that was seventh grade okay so uh to get educated and know what you what
040you need to be successful in life someone else on this side learning what you think of what okay okay so college is for um academic and social I'm not going to ask you what you mean by social um uh but academic and social uh and to learn about other ways and develop yourself okay uh one more yes prepare yourself for the real world okay so question is the purpose of Education to prepare you for the world as it is or the world as it should be that's a huge debate for those of us who are helping prepare teachers administrators who do research on theories about education is should schools prepare you for the way it is or the way it should be both right or for both and what might that look like so keep
041that in mind as we keep thinking as we keep thinking about the lcap right as we're thinking about what is needed in our schools is what's needed in our schools to deal or work with or engage with our students our faculty our staff our parents our community to to help them deal with the world as it is or to create the world as it should be and very often the way we think about the way the world that it should be is we think about our own children's world to help them with their world not often thinking that their world is shaped by students and families and neighborhoods around them so the work of alab which is why it's incredible that y'all here and you're willing to give your time is to not just look
042after your own child but to look after all of our children not only to look after your teacher but all of our teachers not only after your staff but all of our staff does that make sense not only for your school board member but for all of our school board members school board members we yell we just yell at them a lot um so um so the the benefits of college it's it's a big debate that's happening about why should people go to college and I'm I got to tell you we're really worried about this conversation um people are beginning to ask why is college worth it it cost so much money they always look all those they always look poor they always look stressed uh she can't sleep at night she's up till two
043in the morning with essays and exams and then and then the cost so folks are beginning to say to other folks you know college really may not be worth it and the folks that were hearing it the most are billionaires are millionaires are people who themselves are pushing their kids to go to college and to the really expensive colleges but they're telling the rest of us college is not as important right and I'm not suggesting that to if you don't go to college you haven't succeeded I'm just suggesting that we really struggle to get our students from different communities to even think about college so it's a huge lift that we're trying to make to have people say it's not worth it it is absolutely worth it and here's just some quick points of what
044research has shown what uh policy people are saying business people are saying is these are the benefits of a college education it's economic it's professional it allows you social Haley you said social network you meet other people you meet other people that then themselves they become people in business they become principles they become school board members they become engineers so you start to surround yourself with a circle of people who are also engaging and improving their lives in the lives of others so it's a networks it's personal benefits that you get you get to grow as a person it's familiar your whole family gets uplifted by you pursuing your education it's familiar and it's Collective we all benefit when someone gets an education not just economically but we all benefit because folks who have been
045exposed to work and learn with other people that maybe are not like them they end up seeing the world in a more empathetic way that make sense so those are all the benefits that that we see um and I'll just focus on the economic because a lot of the ways that we try to emphasize and encourage our our kids to go to college is money bottom line Miko you're going to buy me my vacation house and right you're going to help me move to Laguna Beach when you graduate as an engineer and it's absolutely true and that's why when folks say well is college worth it it may not pay off right away but when you look at this this is just weekly earnings so the blue side is if you have your if you
046if you stop at col um in high school um you make about on average adults in the United States who get a high school degree uh who stop at high school make about $900 a week some people make a lot more some people make a lot less so that's the average right for folks who get some college but don't finish college they make about $992 a week folks who go to fullon college College Cypress College get their associate degree and stop there make about 1,58 a week about 4,000 a month baloria degree and this is of adults 25 in over United States who have a college degree they make, 1500 a week which is what 6,000 math Majors 6,000 a month a huge economic difference to do that now do some folks make more who
047don't go to college yes but on average when you take all of it together College pays it pays you may not get the job you want right away you may end up working in and out when you graduate college but once the economy picks back up you have been prepared to go into that upper economic Strat and a lot of people don't often understand that part the other part is the green is the unemployment you're much less likely to be unemployed you'll have a job where folks who stop at high school or don't finish High School struggle often twice as much to find a job does that make sense so there's a huge economic benefit to the work of college um now for the work today with alcap um uh Mr salvar is going to
048ask youall uh and beg you I think um be hard on the district think hard to the data we're doing good things but we're also maybe struggling in some areas push us on that but let's recognize the good things that are happening um and as James Baldwin said not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it's faced you have to take it on otherwise it won't change and and if we expect everything to change just because we started saying something we can't give up because to say nothing is not an option and right now during these political times we're in a lot of folks are saying maybe we shouldn't say anything our own city of Anaheim is kind of saying well maybe we shouldn't say anything we're saying well
049then nothing's going to change our school district has said we're going to say something our Elementary District said we're going to say something all our schools are saying we're going to say something our families need us to need us to say something is it cool that our schools are saying something you're killing me is it good that the schools are saying all of our immigrant children are valued we love you is it good right and some folks are saying no we shouldn't say that too loud because we don't want to get attention we don't want to get attention and it's unfortunate uh so I want to I want to ask you a question to talk about for a bit um and this is something I asked uh teacher candidates in in in my classes and
050I talk a lot about with them um about um education so um often many of us may be asked to talk to our kindergarteners how many of you have kindergarten children kindergarteners y'all remember kindergarten no it's a blur right uh how many of you cried when you dropped off your kindergarten come on how many of the students did you cry when you were in kindergarten so so imagine being in an assembly because often times in our communities folks who we get invited to speak and we're asked to speak in an assembly and so you're asked Jose can you just get our our kindergarteners excited about college motivate them Inspire them so you go up and you say see se you could do it and you give a story and and I also spoke Spanish and
051I learned English and they called me Mo too and blah blah blah and then I ended up doing this and I was Raiders and then they get excited and then I went to Dodger Stadium they get more excited and then I went to angels are like ohito and then you close it off because you know what kids you got to focus kindergarten it starts right here right here right now it starts right here if you work hard mikitos if you work hard you can all make it to college and become successful professionals and then you start the clap C thank you as B [Music] everybody's excited see even the moms are going crazy you hear that and then I ask you this would I be lying to these students am I lying to these kids
052now I'm Catholic so if you tell me I'm lying I'll ask for forgiveness on Sunday so don't worry about my ego take a minute with each other am I lying to these students if you work hard you can all make it to college to become successful professionals am I lying do blue here that's a good question to ask my stud when we until he hurts his back true or um the plumber might go back to school to learn business to become then own and then hire more professionals H more professionals so my students hate this question they hate it they just hate it so we get they they start they say that like why are you trying to be atist about professional all right all right um uh so um raise your hand if I'm
053lying to these kids it's okay it's okay raise your hand if I'm not lying to these kids okay a lot of you did not raise your hands it's a yes or no am I lying or am I not lying and be careful mom and dad your kids are here watching you they now they're like you can't be messing around with to lie or not somebody said you're lying to yourself who me tell us who said that Heather not ly if you it's not lying if you believe it wow it's not lying if you believe it what's the yeah what's the definition of a professional you tell me yeah are they called professionals or skilled workers SK professionals my I'm with you I'm with you so she's saying it's it's what what do you define as
054professionals because I consider electricians plumbers um other folks professionals and I said well isn't that skills is that skill trade uh but here's the thing I don't know if I'm not well maybe I'll show you but this idea of if you're not not lying if you really believe it you're not lying if you really believe it so let me push on that a little bit with all of you do you really believe if every kid just works hard and studies hard they can become professionals and professionals the way that and you know uh I'll say the most what people mostly understand when you say professionals they're not thinking skill traits they're thinking accountants Engineers professors principles General Society not you and it's not a value judgment this is not a value judgment General Society may
055say that unless you're not in that category then you're like wait I'm a professional too right and and they're absolutely right so this isn't to demean a profession it's what we think about often as parents when you tell me go to college work hard for what for what right and so when we tell kids that it's for what what what's the purpose right so am I lying am I not lying well what's hard about that is as I'll share with you and I got a few minutes some data that makes it really tough to believe that this is true it makes it really really tough that's why I asked you to look at James baldwick we got to face it because the only way we change it is by facing it right we have to
056confront whether the response of I'm lying to these kids depends on where they live does it depend on whether their own parents went to went to college does it depend on their economic level does it depend on their cultural linguistic background does it depend on their immigration status does it depend on whether they have a learning challenge or neurodiverse does it depend so am I lying well no it depends it depends if I'm talking to kindergarteners in lagon Beach Newport Beach you ain't lying if you're talking to kids at Price Elementary or my daughters went you might be lying it depends and it hurts because reality can hurt a truth can hurt and I'm not in any way suggesting that we not tell kids to try hard but it's in our hands to make it
057not a lie and by our hands I mean not just as parents but in an outat process it's in our hands to do everything we can so that it's not alive so that we really believe to be true becomes true follow me so I'm GNA try to go a little quick through this and so when you ask and we look at data we got to always ask or when someone data is also what the district called Street data when someone says how something is we got to ask them how do you know how do you know how do we know that that's true and how or what informs it and then how do we decide based on that data and that involves a lot of discussion analysis together and sharing of each other's experiences so
058here's why it's a struggle to say to some kids this is adults in the state of California over the age of 25 2022 data most recent data African-Americans is a oh I didn't label it this is African-American adults in California 26% of African-American men have a baloria degree 31% of African-American women this is Asian-American men and women the majority of Asian-American men and women adults over 25 have a bachelor's degree this is Latinos 14% of Latino men and 177% of Latino women have a bachelor's degree it is the group that is our overall majority as you saw by the data that Robert presented and it's the group in California as adults that has the least formal education it's a crisis 56% of all public school students in California are Latino kids if we don't fix
059this as a society as a state we're all going under all of us will this is a uh a Native American uh students this is Pacific Islander students this is multi-racial students who have uh parents from two different racial backgrounds or cultural backgrounds and these are white students so our majority population has the least college education and that matters in education the more education and a family be it here or from abroad in another country the more likelier you are to succeed so if you got your college degree in Guatemala your children are more likely to get a college degree in the United States if they migrate here does that make sense even if they're Spanish dominant if you are um Asian-American if you're from China or from Korea and you had your education back
060there your children are more likely to because education is a is a capital it matters so when our children get their education their children are much likelier to do it so it interrupts it makes the lie a truth so to speak and it's true across immigration and I'm not going to stay too long of this of time but folks often ask and I'll tell you kids say this sometimes I don't know if you all hear it college students say this when I ask them why do Asian American students seem to do better on this outcome than Latinos and is the Latino students in college ah Dr we all know why why they're smarter they're smarter like really they're smarter why are they smarter they just are they just are it does two things when we
061do that it does two things right we now have stereotyped Asian-American students as these genius students a lot of pressure on that there is a lot of pressure and the Latino students stereotype themselves is not being smart enough when there's factors that really help us understand it when you look at this and I'm sorry if you can't if it's hard to see some of this so Latino students some people say well the reason they're so low is because they're immigrant well 22% of us born Latinos have a college degree 22% of us born Latinos have a college degree if you are not us born and your Latino 6% have a college degree asian-americans Pacific Islanders us us born 61% have a college degree foreign born non us born Asians 58% it's not necessarily because they're
062Asian it's because they have a higher education somewhere else same thing holds true for Latinos Latinos who come and migrate with a college degree their kids are likely to get a college degree that's why College really matters it interrupts the family process does that make sense is this interesting anybody mad yet at me good okay um and then gender matters uh when I asked this oh this one's really cool when I ask the students thiss how come girls are doing better than boys oh everybody knows why that is I know I probably got five minutes but I'm GNA take the minute take a minute take 30 seconds why are girls doing better than boys this is college attainment for every racial group the girls are doing better for every racial group ah I want to
063hear what you're going to say take 30 seconds why are girls graduating college at a higher rate than the boys all right who dares to answer this question why are girls doing better than boys hold on everybody hold on everybody I'm G get you that I see you I see you yes oh interesting very interesting all right anybody else guys get easily distracted you see you know when Robert salvar is starting to get into say me something Angels what what what like that okay somebody else see tell us oo rock and roll so for you no no Sabo kids what she said is because women girls got the right and the access to education later in our history so they're that much more determined to make it happen anybody want to beat that tell us
064oh because girls we like to think sometimes we overthink and we plan and we organize Juan Alvarez help us out brother why so men believe strongly that they know the directions without a map they believe they they're they're going to do it they're going to figure it out and women are like yeah nah you got a plan yeah all right all right now do you see how easy that conversation was when we're talking about boys and girls what what if I said to you under the same Theory or thesis girls got access to education at a later date they know the struggle they know how what it means to be S the need to succeed giving people fought for that so the W Latino's not doing so well why are African-American kids not doing as
065well there's a history there they fought for rights what's happening we're thinking about I'm not going to give you anes just worth thinking about you can go to my class and talk to our students about it so when it comes to race it becomes uncomfortable to talk about it it really it really is race forces us to talk about the way we're talking about gender with gender we could become a little more comfortable talking about structure but also culture well we you know that at the end of the day with students in my classes say on know why girls are smarter Asians are smarter girls are smarter right because everything boils down to the way we're the way we're nurtured in socialized education if you're doing better you must be smarter so what happens to
066our kids when they don't do as well they don't think they're smart and they internalize it and they internalize it and when you ask them why did you make it to College they say because I worked hard are you smart no I just worked hard I just worked hard you ask upper midle middle class white children these are surveys they ask them why why did you make it because I'm smart ask Donald Trump's kids why they made it because we're smart no no they tell you because they're smart and they put their smarts to work right they could be right could be wrong but the wealthier you are the more you actually think you're smarter and that's why you made it so this is why I ask you about gender in California out of every
067100 nth graders and I'll stop here out of every 100 nth graders in California about this is the pipeline out of those boys and girls girls being the orange 90 girls will graduate high school 84 boys going to college 67 of the girls go to college 52 of the boys the Gap starts to happen then 45 girls go to a four-year College because they might start at Fullerton or Cypress a community college 45 actually attend a university 31 boys and then 36 girls graduate college and 24 boys graduate college so some folks say wow that that's a serious issue with gender but the other thing is it's not that girls are doing great either in California 36 out of 100 and what we know is that there's very clear policy questions funding questions to help
068students make that choice too many students don't even have the choice because they didn't do the a through G so they cannot go and other people tell them well you can't go you might as well go to work or you go to Community College and it's tough in the community college it's tough 20% of students who go to a community college end up transfering to a four-year school 20 out of a 100 who go to Community College end up transferring to a four-year school so it's tough at the community college The Pledge that's why it's so important the collaborative is so important to help deal with those structures um skip this uh so just wanted to share a little bit ahsd there they're going to share a little bit but I think this is really
069important um because so many people have worked really hard including people coming on a Thursday night to eat some tacos and kind of see some data so um graduation rates uh since the pledge I should say since the collaborative The Pledge really started 2017 which was a really Allin all hands- on Deck so to think across our institutions in Orange County graduation rates have increased in ahsd by 7% 86% graduation rate 2017 now it's 93% is that good I don't know I think it's good it's pretty good compared to Orange C County it's 90% so we were below Orange County back in 2017 now we're above Orange County Anaheim Union High School District has a higher graduation rate than the average rate in Orange County Orange County is considered one of the top education counties
070in the country so ahsd Salo doing pretty good and in California we were below the state you see the green there and now it's 90% so here A through G we were at 44% now we're at 54% so now more than half of our students have the ability to apply to calate Fullerton UC Irvine UC Berkeley calate Long Beach go Longo right you could apply if you don't have the a2g you can't even apply you cannot apply your your application gets immediately dismissed because you didn't do the a2g so a 10% rate is huge it's huge and and look where we are now compared to the county we're closing the Gap with the county closing the Gap with the state which is which is really good and then by school so uh I want to
071show this my school because um it's important the school sites are working really really hard and this goes back to the question I asked am I ly it depends on where you live Anaheim as a city is struggling to support its young people and our schools then have to make up for it our schools have to provide mental health support have to provide Community Resources food pantries sometimes help people find housing because our city doesn't invest in that and you can say I'm lying but I sat there for six years it goes somewhere else hundreds of millions of dollars to the angels and Disneyland and whatnot but they don't have enough for our kids Cypress is invest differently in its Community laama invests differently in its community so it's not that the kids in Cypress
072are smarter it's that there's more resources there from the parents as well as the city and the community as a whole so you can look at your high school here I want to highlight because this was our home school and I'll close with this message with y'all is that when when Lorena and I we met in graduate school um she's principal of the Year principal of the year [Applause] we we moved to Anaheim and uh we we were shocked that there was not a dual language program for for kids so we worked with a lot of families to work on that but then something interesting happened amongst our families at Price Elementary they started asking is there a way we can get our kids to go from the dual immersion program at price to Oxford
073can we create a pipeline to Oxford so families thought that was really important and so they asked us you'll join us in that right we said no our girls are going to go to Sycamore what people die there remember that Lo they die there they get killed didn't you hear what are you talking about they get killed there Sycamore yeah well then that's where we're going to go that's where we're going to go so for us it becomes really important that we don't take ourselves out of the very neighborhoods and communities and schools that are our home schools and let's work together to build those schools up same thing with Anaheim High School are your girls going to go to anah You're Gonna send them to Oxford now right uh no they're gonna go to
074Anaheim what they're going to die there look at the a through G rates for Anaheim High School back in 2017 29 % the teachers the staff the leadership the parents they all said because mui said if you don't do it I'm taking out the C shusi said that take on the and everybody just dove in and said we're gonna make our school and support our leadership and our teachers to rise and look where the a through G rates are now at Anaheim High School seven years later 69% and some people got nervous an's getting too much attention what what about Cypress well Cypress did pretty well too they went from 64% a3g to 81% everybody increased now there's some schools that are still struggling but is it because the school is not good or because
075we're not investing enough as a community not just the school district itself because it's limited but as a community are we pushing so that Magnolia Western and other schools get the resources in the neighborhoods that their families need because if they're not getting it that implicat all of us all of us so please as you think about the alap think through this process about at your school ask yourselves why why are our kids doing well here how do we help other schools with this work it's really important and get other folks to do that yes Oxford is a very unique cultural space because there is the only School in Anaheim you can agree with it or not where the kids are selected so it's a very selected group of students and they earned it so
076I'm not saying anyway tox for what the heck they were selected right and you got to perform at a certain level by the way that has a huge lot a lot of implications when you do that a lot of mental health implications when our kids are constantly pushed right so that's that's one major major reason but look at the schools next door to it Cypress and others they're doing better than the Anaheim schools on this but again that's not because the staff the teachers or the resources of the district it's how our neighborhoods and our parents choose to invest in it and work with people there and the outc cap is where it all starts thank you all for your yes oh um I'm GNA do a workshop on that uh offline with the district
077not around um I'm just kidding no it is different it is different uh in some ways in some ways um and there's a there's a there's a different way that school has was developed right than other schools um so but folks could talk about that in a much more powerful way but what we do know is what can we learn from Oxford that we can think about with other schools around curriculum around expectations around resources around the neighborhood right um thank you so much for your time and your attention I hope this was helpful please engage in the hard conversations with each other uh and we'll see you out on the streets thank you thank you thank you awesome okay hey we love the data this is what we're going to do for the next
078few for the next couple of months just to clarify something the curriculum at Oxford is not different its course access and the way it's set up is a little bit different okay okay so what's next this is still you right no oh oh no hold hold on hold on he had a few I think I saw like 85 slides on here so let me get through your other 50 that you sent us and uh and we'll get there this might take a few minutes but we'll get there can we can we uh oh can you stop on that I'm sorry sorry back just really quick Cruz where is she God bless her soul this is information about the mental health impact of immigration policies as we're seeing them today Based on data collected over the
079last six years of immigrant children depression anxiety mental health suppressing the body is all what happen is happening to our kids right now it's happening right now and to our parents thank you so I I want a beautiful family by the way that's a great picture we got we're GNA keep going I know you sent us like 85 slides okay I know it's great great parents that's awesome oh wait is this where you're at right no oh keep going Dang hold on this okay where where do you want to start okay which is where go back okay all right so now we're gonna we have a few minutes we're going to get through a few slides here um I want to introduce Dr sidu okay to you um and I want you to keep something
080in mind as Dr sidu is going through alap or lcff over overview I want you to keep that slide in mind that he showed at the end with all of our schools from 17 to current and the Improvement at each of our schools both grad and a through G rates okay because that's our goal to continue to move that needle but then we're going to show a slide a little bit later before we close that's going to connect back to that slide okay dror s do got it so lesson learned next time I go first and then I let them go after so I'm going to try to do this as quickly as possible but I need to talk about lcff and lcap right so why are we all here it is extremely important though
081to keep all of what Mr salivar and Dr Moreno said in mind as we talk about lcff and lcap right so we have to start with lcff that's our local control funding formula it is a California law okay so this is how our districts are funded there are three types of funding that come through lcff okay you have oh hold on thank you okay your base supplemental and concentration funding okay so I'm going to keep it as simple as possible and as quickly as possible and hopefully we're good we do have materials and resources in your booklet that you received as well okay and then as we move into the next couple of focus group meetings two three and four we need to go over any of this in more detail or you have questions
082we will definitely be able able to make time for that so the lcff base funding is based on your student enrollment and attendance it's not just that students are enrolled but they have to be attending our schools okay in addition to that right we have our local property taxes and then our state grant funding okay so with all of that in mind the base funding for lcff is for all of our students that includes all of our student groups okay okay so keep that in mind as we go through we start talking about the lcap and the lcap process we then have supplemental and concentration funding added on to our base funding that we get per student our supplemental and concentration funding is for students that are identified as lowincome Foster Youth and English Learners
083okay so that is why when we start looking at the LC cap when we are in our Focus grp groups and you start reading through the lcap you can see I saw some of you flipping through the booklet already you can see that the lcap goals and the work that we do through this process specifically calls out our these student groups okay and we're going to talk about the actions the services how are we supporting these students but keep in mind that the base funding is for all of our students okay then we get to our lcap so what is the lcap right that is at the plan we have to show if we're receiving this funding how are we going to spend it how are we improving student outcomes like Dr Moreno showed you
084our graduation rate our a through G rate what is the plan and how are we going to get there what improvements have we made over those years well guess what that's in the elcap okay so it's a three-year plan that is updated yearly I get the privilege of writing the elcap this year all right and the next three years hopefully uh ENC it encourages the store uh it encourages us to tell our story highlight our accomplishments right the whole focus is our students every single student in auhsd so it is important to be critical it is important to ask challenging difficult questions and that's okay that is part of the cap process okay the emphasis here is supposed to be on communicating this with you and getting your feedback and your input as we go
085through this process together okay you all here have to influence right and need to influence the elcap process and we're all going to be at different levels of our understanding and that is okay that's where we ask questions that's where we collaborate and work together whether you're a student whether whether you're a parent whether you're a staff member and that is what truly we need to do through the elk cap process to make it real okay and then we have goals and progress indicators we're going to quickly go through the lcap goals and then talk about the actions services and expenditures and you are going to see all of that in our lcap okay you are all very very important okay whether we completely understand everything about the budget or completely understand all of the
086programs the services regardless of that we have the power to make a difference and to influence the the elcap and I firmly believe that okay so that's that's a belief but it's about building consensus so we all know ultimately right the board or board we talked about the board earlier right they will approve the lcap they app approve the lcap yearly but it is up to us to give our recommendations to the board okay and that is part of this process the actions that are included do not take the place they don't replace the negotiation process that we go through with our Representatives that are here tonight for example okay but these are recommendations that we can make based on what we think is important and what our students need okay so we're going to
087quickly go through the lcap goals the old ones the new ones then we're going to talk about the eight State priorities in like two minutes and then I'm going GNA have you pick the focus group you want to be in so hang on okay we're g go super fast Dr freed I need you to go help me go super fast okay keep me on time here okay here we go old ones from three years ago from from three years ago to last year okay those were the old ones we collected some input from everyone last year here are new ones okay through a whole TI coach all students all students base funding is for all students okay with specific attention right now it comes here comes our our our our Supple our supplement on concentration
088our SMC funding with specific attention to our district students who are low income Foster Youth and E will be college career and life ready okay going back to our vision mission core values Community Schools approach how do we do this how do we do this going back to a through G and grad rates how do we do how do we do this okay this is all going to be shared with you so you'll be able to see you'll be able to see um the uh the three goals when when it's shared with you and I believe it's also in your booklet okay going back to uh Dr Moreno the importance of college okay 72% of jobs will require more than a high school diploma in okay we need to do this so that our students
089are ready for this okay okay we're going to go a little bit fast he's already shared this 17 86% of our kids are graduating 43% we're achieving a through G we already went through this but I want you to see a gap all students right 1920 52% a through G 92% graduated that's a 39% Gap are we okay with that are we okay with that are we okay with that 23 24 93% graduated 54% a through G rate a 38.9% gap how we right like we we need to do better right okay here we go now let's go down to Foster to our to our shooting groups remember it was a 38.9% gap for our English Learners it's a 60% Gap okay 25% of them who graduate are re are are completing their e3g requirements
09075% cannot apply to CAL States and uc's and they can go to community colleges but what's the transfer rate from community colleges to uc's and Kell States 20% 80% don't transfer now you you could do well in a community college you get some type of Industry certification you can do well but again how many of them are going and finishing are actually transferring we got to think about all those things right students with disabilities it's a 63% Gap are we okay with this I hope not okay all right we've already seen a lot of this this is actually csuf data that they give us we're also improving from 21 to 23 we have more and more kids being admitted okay a lot of good work there our transfer rates are are pretty good too from
091Cypress and feron to the Cal and the uc's we're out we're outperforming other schools in other districts so we're doing well our college readiness data here's our District we're considered 70 76% of our students that go to Cal State and uc's are considered ready right based on their criteria how many of you guys are familiar with placenta yinda we're outperforming placenta yolinda how many guys how many of you guys are familiar with leguna Beach we're outperforming Laguna Beach so yes we're doing well but we still have gaps we still have a lot of work to do and that's where you guys come in okay we don't have time for this I'm sorry um we're going to keep going right and we're that's where we're going to go this is 2 minutes and a half thank
092you I got this okay so in a moment you're going to scan a QR code and then you're going to select your focus group that you want to be in the focus groups are based on the eight State priorities which again is a requirement in the lcap we have to align our goals with our Aid State priorities okay these are factors that affect and impact our student outcomes both in and out of the classroom so focus group number one if this pulls at your heartstrings okay I haven't shown you the QR code yet but I will in a second this pulls out your heartstrings we're talking about basic services for students this includes the facilities so you're going to look at data right on our facilities you're going to look at data on access to
093fully credential teachers teacher Miss assignment you're going to look at ACC access to standard align material okay priority number two implementation of State Standards how well are we doing that do all students and the students that we call out in the elcap have access to the state standards and then priority number seven is course access do all of our students and all of the students that fall into the categories have access to all of the courses like I was just talking to a parent back there that are a through G right so you're going to look at that data in your focus group so if you want to select focus group number one this is what we're focusing on we got three more to go focus group number two is about achievement this is about
094College and Career Readiness graduation rates okay A through G you'll look at the Casp standardized test scores for English and math how many students are taking AP courses what is the passage rate for that how are English learner plural lingual students doing how many have been reclassified and then other pupil outcomes okay what types of courses are they taking in which subject areas so you're going to look at all that data okay please don't leave I love you all okay we're almost done don't leave me yet okay parental involvement this one has its own category it is specific for looking at data on our parental involvement and engagement our participation rates which parents are participating which parents are showing up how can we make improvements in our communication and our parent engagement that's focus group
095number three and the last one is focus group number four priority five and six this one has to do with engagement and school climate so do our students feel connected are they showing up you're going to look at attendance rates you're going to look at suspension rates okay you're going to analyze that data and then give us your outcomes and priorities based on this data right here what do you think we need to improve on what are we doing well and what are your recommendations okay I know that was super fast I apologize these are again the focus groups okay 1 two 3 4 scan that QR code you're going to give us some of your information if you need any assistance we have helpers our lovely amazing helpers thank you in the back that
096can assist tried this out a million times so it better work okay and then we'll get you out of here okay so if for whatever reason you don't get to um you don't get to provide that input in terms of your your your uh ranking your your focus groups we will one we're going to share this slide deck yes so it's going to have the it's going to have the QR code code and then we'll put it back up at the end okay did you give me the uh clicker no okay all right we're going to give you about 10 more seconds to scan are we good 10 nine 8 seven six five four and member is going to come back up at the end three two one okay I'm gonna move on and then
097I'll come back up at the end okay OKO oo's in the house okay if uh if you're a part of ok can you stand up please OKO Representatives can you stand up can we give a huge a hand for our OKO folks I'm G to tell you why okay they've been our partner and have been helping us out with our parent workshops okay here's their mission and their Vision right and here are the upcoming meetings they had a uh they helped with a um parent workshop for anyone that is new to the elcap process which we already had this is going to be sent to you guys it's for facilitated by OKO it's here at the district it's for our parents to have a space to come together after each elcap session if there's questions
098to be asked or things that they want to continue to have dialogue around the data makes sense of things so thank you to OKO okay all right last thing you ready can I get everyone's attention and we're going to let you guys go almost finished ambassadors student ambassadors can you please stand up our student [Applause] ambassadors I love I love the fact that we clap for them and we haven't even said why but yes keep clapping okay let me tell you why we have one rep at each of our high schools one student ambassador they go through a grueling process they have to apply they have to interview they're selected they represent their school they do a lot of things they help us with events but one of the things that did for the alap
099is they recruited a lot of our students so huge hand to our our student ambassadors thank you very much these will continue to come out to you next steps will continue to come out look for messaging from your from your campuses from faces and administrators okay and check your email for your survey please complete your survey if you haven't done so already last piece okay remember we went back to that let's go back to that slide that Dr Moreno showed us from each of our sites and the Improvement they have made from 17 to last year do I have you guys who's talking who's talking thank you okay every site has improved every single site has improved huge huge hand for all of our sites and all the work that they're doing our Junior Highs
100are working just as hard to prepare students for high school so that when they come to high school they're ready and you see the Improvement but then you see the a through d right by subgroup there's a lot of work to be done but what we want to do is continue to create spaces that are reflective of our vision mission core values Community Schools approach and whole titled approach we're asking you guys to help us with that okay with that said we thank you again for taking the time we look forward to seeing you over the next next two months right at our outc cap our next three uh groups uh sessions will be by groups you'll get that information from your group facilitators and then we'll come together one last time for our our
101fifth and final session as a whole group and we'll um we'll send that information out as well you can stay for our our our launch video this is really just really a culmination of what's going on at all of our all of our schools again have a great night everyone and thank you for coming