001[Music] test one two test one two [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] now [Music] hello [Music] you [Music] no no no no [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] much i know we have a full house today [Music] it's great to see all our uh students right up front so thank you very much for being here to support them and we'll go ahead and reconvene the meeting with uh our pledge of allegiance and i'm going to ask abdullah go ahead and lead us in the pledge thank you mr mark please stand up put your right hand over your heart ready begin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america all right i'm going to ask you for the moment
002of silence all right thank you for president mr jabar um so as a senior myself i've been spending this past month feeling all those pre-graduation jitters you know uh the ones that you get before big moments like these uh going out with my friends talking out with teachers and making an effort to see people that i haven't seen in a while um so as this day approaches it's it's easy to kind of get lost in that tranquility of about to leave and leaving everything that you had behind but as the date gets closer towards graduation i've started to think about all my peers across the country that won't be able to graduate with us with thousands of students who lost their lives to violence in the schools a decade in this decade alone we can't
003forget all the students of the class of 2022 who won't be able to walk across the stage like we all have the privilege to in just a couple of weeks for the students that lost that were lost due to driving under influence or shootings at schools or whatever other tragic reason that may have occurred i wanted to take take a moment to honor their lives and look in on ourselves to be grateful for the moment that we're all going to be sharing so soon so if you would all share this moment of silence with me hmm thank you all right thank you for that thoughtful moment of silence abdullah i really appreciate that um all right so we're going to move on to 7.1 which is a student representative to the board of trustees the
004board of trustees will now honor abdullah fatah for his service as student representative my bad i am a way ahead trying to move the evening along that's okay i know all right well i'm gonna go to closed session 6.3 closed session otherwise i don't get paid as much so [Laughter] all right closed session report uh 5.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 5.2 no reportable action uh regarding this unrepresented employee superintendent 5.3 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations 5.4 no reportable action taken regarding personnel 5.5 the board of trustees unanimously voted to accept the agreement with the employee hr 2021-22-268 5.6 the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointments adela cruz director school mental health and wellness effective july 1st 2022 scott sangren director transportation effective 5 2
00520 22. [Applause] there's more to clap for 5.7 the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointment effective july 1st 2022 joe carmona controller effective excuse me 5.8 the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointment effective july 1st aaron chow principal magnolia high school [Music] 5.9 the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following transfers effective july 1st 2022. nancy cortez from santa savannah high school to anaheim high school janet kovar from western high school to cypress high school michelle surface from cypress high school to catella high school the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointments effective july 1st 2022 sergio hernandez assistant principal anaheim high school zavala assistant principal anaheim high school joanna peters assistant principal dale junior high school uh you yuliana uh connelly
006uh connolly excuse me assistant principal catella high school amanda bryant assistant principal kennedy high school marianna lee assistant principal lexington junior high school lauren choi assistant principal lowara high school randy poggio assistant principal magnolia high school erica yee assistant principal savannah high school patricia ibarra assistant principal western high school and lorena stout assistant principal on special assignment title nine coordinator wow [Applause] that was all under 5.9 and 5.10 the board of trustees took formal action with a 5-0 vote to approve the expulsion of 21 of student 21-20 29 and a suspended explosion of student 21-25 all right well i would have missed this whole thing all of you guys would have probably have to go back home and think you didn't get your appointment all right okay so i'll go ahead and invite um obviously
007congratulations to all of the folks who got appointed and also who got transferred because that's all sort of achievement let me go ahead and invite aaron chao principal magnolia high school to come forward to say a few words [Applause] uh please take a breath with me a breath of gratitude of humility and loving kindness good evening board of trustees executive cabinet and auhsd community thank you i am very humble and i'm very honored for this opportunity i will devote every ounce of my energy to loving and protecting our students and our district with me tonight is my mom my sister ashley my brother alan wave there we go sorry i have a big family so uh i apologize ahead my sister-in-law michelle my sister kim my brother-in-law hui my brother funk my nephew wilson not
008yet my niece nieces ellie maddie yen and song maribel my special someone is watching virtually and my guardian angel andy is watching from above to my family and to maribel thank you for your unconditional love and your unwavering support i hope i make you proud also i want to thank chuck hernandez lorena stout and the staff at orangeview for giving my first opportunity to learn and grow i also want to thank enrique hernandez todd swans mary ellen park and the staff at south for your support your friendship and your guidance and lastly i want to thank the magnolia family community and my admin team for your grace your kindness and your trust i'm very blessed and i'm very grateful to serve you thank you [Applause] thank you i'll bring in adela cruz [Applause] not good
009evening everybody um i want to begin by thanking our board president mr jabbar our distinguished board members and cabinet and everybody here in the audience i especially want to thank you mr matsuda for your vision and support especially want to thank our board members for your unwavering support in our mental health efforts i want to thank dr egans and my team members and student support services for also their unwavering and unconditional support to the work that we do i want to thank everybody in the schools from our front office staff to our school counselors psychologists and administrators for giving us a seat at the table you are all such amazing allies in our efforts surrounding mental health we look forward to the ongoing and important work we take on together sorry it's most important to
010me to acknowledge my family i have my family who who is watching including my son who's attending university in new york a benjamin don't forget to call me and of course my beautiful daughter catherine and my husband felipe who are here today to celebrate with me thank you so much for your patience and your love it is because of that that i am able to pursue my passion of supporting children with mental illness i am i am standing here today with all of you with gratitude overflowing from my heart i am extremely honored to be here with all of you today there are so many student experience that i have that have crossed paths with me however there are a few that will remain with me forever i will always recall the student who drew
011a perfect tree with a labyrinth of barren trunks and branches representing the nothingness in his life on the ground he drew a perfect pile of leaves representing his family who was hurting but there was one leave not on the ground it was gently falling still when i asked about the falling leaf he lifted his gaze and said to me i am the leaf i am falling and there is no one to catch me i am dying and no one cares we were able to surround the student with support he needed and he eventually graduated from high school thankfully his story is one with a happy ending because of your vision of supporting the whole child today and moving forward auhsd will be in a better position to meet the vital needs of countless students 12
012years ago like so many mental health care providers within schools i realized that schools are primary care settings i was able to see our path we had to do the challenging and important work of ensuring mental health care is accessible and permanent in all schools to my amazing team this year we had constructive conversations about our purpose in schools some of them are here today um that they're in the back hiding i should point you guys out we talked about all the amazing things our district is offering our students we talked about the task that is in front of us our purpose is to collaborate with educators to create systems to recognize and support students that are hurting it is complicated and difficult work but there is nothing more rewarding and satisfying my team you
013give children and their parents hope every single day you are collaborating with site team members and providing support so that children are able to be in the classroom ready and able to learn it has been such a privilege working side by side each of you with such i'm sorry it has been such a privilege working with such caring and compassionate individuals thank you for your support and the service you provide every single day to our leaders we are excited to collaborate with you today we set the bar high you helped our collective efforts in making mental health care accessible and permanent in all schools students are going to the schools that they want accessing the programs that they need and graduating and striving to meet their limited potential thank you so much for this opportunity
014thank you thank you adella thank you adela and i know that you you will set the bar high and you always set the bar high for our district and you'll continue to do that so thank you very much next i'd like to invite joe carmona [Applause] [Music] good evening board of trustees cabinet fellow colleagues and students in the audience i'm quite humbled and excited by taking on a new challenge in my professional career i want to thank the the the board and the cabinet for entrusting me with this responsibility having served the district for 20 years now that role has looked in many different ways from an assistant principal to a principal and now i'm excited to join with dr nian and her staff to take the lessons that i've been able to have over
015time working with amazing leaders such as our superintendent dr fred mr cologne who's whose wisdom will be important as i move into a new area my family is at home my wife is a teacher in another school district and she's the activities director so she is supporting her students and their final activities as they close out the year so i know they are supporting me and and their love and consideration um really gave me the the courage to take on this new challenge so uh thank you so much um i have a little less to say than dr cruz of course i had to go right after her so um thank you so much for this opportunity and i look forward to continuing to serve the families and students of anaheim to the best of
016my abilities thank you all right next is our director of transportation scott tangrid [Applause] let me lift this up a little bit thank you uh got a big crowd here tonight so good evening to everyone i want to thank good evening to the board of trustees the superintendent matsuda the cabinet staff and community i am honored to be named the next director of transportation at anaheim union high school district it's been a 12-year journey for me from substitute bus driver all the way to director that's a big leap for a lot of people and i'm proud that i made that leap it's been a difficult and bumpy road but at the same time it's been a rewarding one as well i've worked with and learned from some very special people in anaheim union district i
017have my wife brandy and my son cole here tonight they have supported me through these 12 years and and beyond i've been married for 22 so it's been a long road and we've gone through a lot of things but i thank her immensely i'd like to thank the board of trustees the cabinet the superintendent mr excuse me superintendent mr matsuda uh dr nancy nian for giving me the opportunity to be the head of the transportation department i would also like to thank my family for their continuous support it was my wife brandy that got me started with busing and it changed my life for the better i would also like to thank my office staff rob's here tonight our bus drivers and our mechanics for their dedication to our department and the community they work
018tirelessly to get kids to school on time and safely i know time's been hard the last two or three years in this district but i think our department as well as our district has handled it quite well and and hopefully we have better times ahead um i would also like to thank my previous directors for their trust and support uh to john jesse for talking to me about being a director one day he had the vision of me being a director and he had we had the conversation one day uh to chris tell rico from promoting me to dispatcher from driver that was my first step on this long journey and also to mr matt thomas for mentoring me and also promoting me into the supervisor position matt taught me a lot about transportation industry
019while he was here and without all these people in my life none of this would be possible excuse me in conclusion i would like i'll work with my team to maintain a dedicated and trusting department for our students and family whether it's performing school routes sports trips or activity trips we'll do our best to accomplish everything that is expected of us on a daily basis and we're here to serve the community as best we can thank you and have a good evening thank you all right next i'm going to be inviting each of our assistant principals to come up and say a few words i'll start off with sergio hernandez assistant principal anaheim high school i want to start by thanking president al-jabbar and the board of trustees superintendent mike mcsuda and executive cabinet i'm
020honored and grateful for being given this opportunity to serve anaheim um on that note i want to thank the entire anaheim staff it's same staff is actually misnomer it's family so i'm happy and you can't tell right now but i'm ecstatic [Laughter] and last but not least i want to thank my amazing wife my better half thank you for always being there thank you again thank you sergio next is augustin zavala assistant principal anaheim high school good evening everyone happy cinco de mayo on this special day i'm so honored to be embracing diversity because it's a key to unlimited us unlimited you so it is important that we embrace diversity it is cinco de mayo as we know historically is not much in mexico but it is a culture so it's important that we embrace
021all cultures special thank you to the board cabinet thank you for trusting in me i look forward to working with anaheim high school staff community and scholars thank you my mother for unconditional support [Applause] my dad is in heaven last but not least my beautiful daughter who is my inspiration i'm humble and thankful for this moment and this opportunity thank you gracias thank you very much you know joanna peters assistant principal dave dale junior high school [Applause] all right good evening i'd like to start by thanking board president al-jabbar the board of trustees superintendent matsuda and the entire executive cabinet for giving me this opportunity i feel humbled and eager to be serving our community in this new capacity i'd also like to take the time to thank those who helped me on my journey
022towards standing in this board room here today i'd like to thank mr jose lara for encouraging me to pursue a career in administration lorena moreno for giving me numerous opportunities to grow and develop and as a leader i really appreciate that you saw the potential in me and encouraged me to be here to diana fujimoto for her support and her guidance and her mentorship and to dr renee bryant for her support and her insight and her role in helping me get here today as well i'd also really like to take the time to thank the entire dale staff on my first day at dale i was told that being at dale is like being with family and it has been just that i feel honored and privileged to have worked and to be able to
023continue to work with some of the most humble and caring individuals that i have ever met and you see that each and every single day last but not least i would really like to thank my beautiful children who are here with me today so i have with me matthew audrey claire and thomas [Applause] in case i haven't said it enough i absolutely adore you and love you and i don't think that i could be here without your loving support the last three years have definitely been you know an interesting year just trying to get my masters and doing it while being a single parent but having u4 by my side being like my own personal cheer squad has made this happen each and every day i'm absolutely proud to be your mom and to be
024able to call you mine so thank you very much for what you've done for me [Applause] thank you again for this opportunity i promise to love and to serve our students to the best of my capacity thank you thank you all right next up is uh juliana connolly assistant principal catella high school [Applause] hello uh i feel like my 18 year old son should come here and do this because he read it twice and memorized it i was extraordinarily um frustrated with all of my mistakes but there's um it's a quality to just know your shortcomings so there's that thank you so much i humbly thank the board of trustees thank you so much president al-jabbar thank you to our executive cabinet and thank you so much obviously to mr matsuda i really am thankful
025for this amazing opportunity and i hope that i make you proud i've also like to thank the special youth services department i've always looked up to you and i have learned so much from every single one of you so thank you so much thank you to all the administrators at all of the schools i've worked at you have been great role models thank you to the staff that i've worked with every single time i leave to start a new journey it is very bittersweet and there's certainly something to say about say about that and especially thank you to my wonderful students and families who make my job rewarding it's so much easier to get up every single morning that way i have i'm a product of the district i went to ball i went to
026laura with that said i i'm so proud and so invested in this district after i graduated i went to college i served the district for 20 years and i look forward to continuing to serve auhsd and its communities i look very forward and i'm super super thrilled to work at coachella high school thank you so much and thank you to my babies i brought my babies reuben say hi cortez and sunny thank you so much for your patience and support i love you thank you next up is amanda bryant assistant principal kennedy high school okay good evening board president jabbar board of trustees superintendent matsuda an executive cabinet i am incredibly grateful and honored for the opportunity you have given me to be a part of the fighting irish family as an assistant principal at
027kennedy high school i'd also like to thank dr adam hernandez principal of kennedy for his mentorship and support these last five months as well as the rest of the admin team staff and students at kennedy who welcomed me with open arms as i took the step towards beginning my journey from teacher leader to administrator lastly i would like to thank my parents who are here say hi and my sister who's also here and then my dad is watching from home and i've got my best friend and my favorite tiny human in the overflow room and other friends and colleagues who i quickly called family watching live on youtube i started my journey with auhsd as a student teacher almost 10 years ago at ball junior high school right from the start i knew aohsd was
028the place i wanted to call home i was lucky to make that a reality and became sorry and became a teacher at orangeview junior high school where i remained until i moved to kennedy as an interim assistant principal in november of this year during my time at auhsd i've had some amazing mentors and administrators some that are sitting up there today that have supported motivated and most importantly challenged me to step out of my comfort zone without their guidance and support my journey that led me to stand in front of you today would not have been the same that is my hope moving forward as an administrator in auhst and at kennedy to be a servant leader that inspires motivates and supports staff and students the way my mentors did for me i am so
029excited to begin this next phase of my journey at kennedy high school kennedy is a great place to be but i've learned what makes it truly special is the spirit heart and culture of the staff and students that they've created and i'm grateful to be a part of that so grow fighting irish all right next up is marianna lee assistant principal lexington junior high school [Applause] good evening everyone i have friends and family watching so i want to make sure that i'm being respectful my name is mariana lee and i'm beyond grateful and honored to be appointed as assistant principal i have always worked at as a member of au hsd such as such an amazing district with so much pride as a teacher at anaheim high school as a dla coordinator i always have
030so much pride and i'm very thankful that i will be able to do this as an assistant principal now so thank you so much board members cabinet thank you so much anaheim high school the staff admin we have some members here thank you so much dr brian for allowing me to get so many great opportunities to grow as an educator and as a professional i also want to give a special thank you to my husband who might be in the other room with my three kids jen thank you so much for your help for your support he is my best cheerleader i have twins who are two and a five-year-old all boys so i think i'm ready for junior high and lastly i would like to if i could share a little bit how excited
031i am to become an administrator as at lexington junior high is that i'm all about culture and languages and i'm so excited i can get to work with a community that i can truly understand and i can speak my language that i speak daily my languages actually i speak spanish korean and korean so i can use those languages to make an impact in the community to share and communicate all the great things we're doing and we can offer them through unlimited you so thank you lucas five evan and asher and my husband jim thank you thank you how cute is that perfect entrance i love it [Laughter] that was great well congratulations mariah all right next is lauren choi assistant principal laura high school [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] that's a hard act to follow
032hello and good evening president javar board of trustees superintendent matsuda an executive cabinet i would like to express my sincere gratitude to the board mr mitsuda and cabinet for this opportunity to serve as assistant principal at lower high school i'd like to give a special shout out to danny klatzker principal at lexington who served as my mentor and my trusted advisor this past year and to anne marie bernhard my fellow ap whose laugh and smile always brighten my day i am truly fortunate to have been able to start off with auhsd and with lexington as my first school you're going to have a great time being an ap at lexington even though i have been at lexington for only a year i have truly grown fond of the teachers and staff and have counted each
033day i get to work alongside them a joy and a blessing i'd like to thank my husband and two daughters who couldn't make it here tonight and to recognize and thank my parents who are here to give me support they're standing in the back there [Music] i promise them they that they didn't have to speak and so they're like okay we'll come smile and wave it is especially important for me to have my parents here tonight to witness what they believed could be made possible by immigrating to america while they may not be completely familiar with the ins and outs of school administration who really is right unless you're in it they know what matters they know that i am being entrusted to lead others they know that they are proud of me they know
034of no other korean-american administrators not only am i honored and grateful to accept the position of assistant principal at lower i am privileged to serve a school district whose vision is to create a better world through unlimited you this is not just a job that i am accepting it's a calling and a calling can only be fulfilled by living out one's values and i get to do that with auhsd a district that believes education must work for the students and not the other way around as ap at lower i promise to do everything i can to make education work for the students of anaheim union high school district thank you [Applause] all right thank you lauren next up is randy poggio assistant principal of magnolia high school good evening everybody students families good evening board
035of trustees president jabar executive cabinet mr matsuda thank you for the honor of being able to serve our community at magnolia high school i've been a part of auhsc for quite some time all the way from my beginnings of being a student at ball junior high so probably about 10 years ago i stood at this exact place to advocate for our district for public education with the onset of some of the challenges with devaluing our education for public education and the excuse me starting to get a little bit nervous here but with charter schools knocking on our doors and i think in those last 10 years i've been humbled and learned so much about what we do to really serve our students and i really put myself in their shoes because i remember what it's
036like walking those hallways i want to thank my wife she's unable to be here today she's taking care of my little four-year-old daughter melody i hope you're in bed you shouldn't be watching maybe reading a story going to sleep by now and our little boy jake who's three months old now thank you so much for my family for always supporting me and guiding me and helping me become a better person i want to give a big shout out to everybody that was part of the lead program there's a lot of you that are here today i learned so much about myself leadership growth as a person and just the relationships that i had from my peers and also learning from our board of trustees and our cabinet as well i hope to serve magnolia to
037put students first and i promise i'll always do everything i can to do what's best for the kids in our community thank you thank you randy next up is erica yi erica you assistant principal savannah high school [Applause] i think this is a little bit more nerve-wracking than my interview good evening everyone i would like to first start off by thanking mr matsuda our executive cabinet and board members thank you for providing me with the opportunity to lead in a different capacity next school year i am really looking forward to building strong relationships with students families and staff members at savannah high school i would like to thank my current site admin especially dr hodgson and mrs durkin they welcomed me into the cypress family in july and have supported me and guided me all
038year finally a huge thank you to my family who's in the back row for being here to support me a special thank you to my mom for always loving me and believing in me i would not be here without you i love you thank you thank you so much thank you thank you and next up is yeah patricia ibarra assistant principal western high school [Applause] i agree i'm more nervous than i was for that interview but good evening everyone i want to start by thanking president jabar superintendent matsuda board of trustees and cabinet and auhsd community i am honored and humbled for the opportunity to continue serving this community the community of west anaheim in this case as assistant principal at western high school ten years ago i started my journey as an educator serving
039as a high school teacher in south los angeles for seven years and then i transitioned to my current home dale junior high where i have developed amazing friendships like with jesse arellano who's here miss peters who's also here today a woman who have pushed me to think outside the box where i have also worked with task forces to support all students but most importantly or more specifically our students with disabilities on our emerging bilinguals although i'm going to miss our hashtag dell family i'm looking forward to putting the wii on western i think i've heard that from from some people so i'm looking forward to that and working with our families our students and our community i'm thankful i'm thankful for our men for my mentors who have taken me under their wing and modeled
040what true leadership is all about mentors like lorena moreno tayala carvalho who's watching and jose lara who've taught me that leading has to be intentional and you have to lead with integrity lastly i want to thank my friends and my family that are watching virtually and are always willing to have a listening ear whenever i need to vent my sons manny and ryan aguayo who are here today who love me almost every day and they definitely keep me on my toes and keep me accountable i also want to thank my mom patricia and my dad uh robert smith who are here today my grandmother maria villalobos and my sister mariah my i brought a lot of people um for being so amazing and for loving me so much and for always encouraging me encouraging me
041to take every challenge and persevere so much [Applause] all right last but not least uh lorena stout assistant principal on special assignment title nine coordinator [Applause] good evening everybody i would like to start by thanking our anaheim union high school district board of trustees superintendent matsuda and cabinet for the incredible honor of being selected as an assistant principal on special assignment as a title 9 coordinator i would like to also thank my husband who's here brad mike my daughter who's currently at the university of oregon go ducks and my son austin who's also here and all of my family who are watching from home and from above for their continued love encouragement and support they are my rock and foundation and i would not be where i am today if i were if it were
042not for them and there are so many more people to thank i'm incredibly grateful for all the mentorship guidance encouragement and support i have received from district and everyone i have had the pleasure of working with including some incredible assistant principals some of you are here and principal mentors such as dr dabney liares chuck hernandez and my current principal dr roxanna hernandez they have contributed to my growth as a leader and continue to do so i joined the district in 2008 as a math teacher at anaheim high school and then went on to become an assistant principal in 2015. i have had the pleasure of being an assistant principal for seven years now i have met some amazing people that have come to have contributed to where i am today and forever grateful to them
043i look forward to continue to serve our students families community and the district in a different capacity again thank you to everyone for this great opportunity it is a true blessing to be a part of this district all right well congratulations to all some of you welcome you and some of you congratulations again for continuing your good work so thank you again for your service and we look forward to better and bigger things from all of you now next i'd like to go to 7.1 but what i'm going to do is take personal privilege here as president and move up 7.5 because he's also my boss and i know that he has a couple events to go to so i want to make sure that i uh push 7.5 so to honor uh supervisor and
044board chairman doug chafee and the supervisor for district 4 and his wife and also ambassador to our district paula chafee the board of trustees will recognize orange county uh district 4 supervisor doug chafee and his wife paula chafee for securing a grant funding in the amount of 155 856 for the performing arts booster clubs within orange county district four the programs receiving funding were anaheim high school colonist band and pageantry booster club and i'm high school performing arts conservatory boosters catella high school bannon color guard boosters catella vocal music association laura band booster club magnolia high school sentinel regiment booster club savannah band and pageantry booster club uh western high school pioneer regiment boosters and all of them received this uh because we had the opportunity to spend some money from the american rescue act
045plan at the border supervisor's office and when the opportunity came to support our schools he was there and he said that i want to uh pass this on to our schools who are heavily hit during the pandemic so i want to thank you uh supervisor chaffee on behalf of the district and all the parents and the students for giving us this opportunity and supporting our boosters so [Applause] well thank you for the honor inviting me here this evening what an incredible bunch of administrators you have here wow i want to go back to high school [Laughter] like to start though by thanking the district for making high school gymnasiums available to us during the pandemic to administer vaccinations thank you for a while i felt the gymnasium at magnolia high school was my home too
046and by partnering together we together saved a lot of lives so thank you for that you know it's very important that we preserve the performing arts the bands the orchestras and the dancing schools all those sorts of things in our schools it is a shame that during the pandemic the booster clubs could not raise the money to continue some of those efforts we saw that gap and that's why we pitched in and we had some available money not my money but anyway the arpa money was available i was so happy to be able to do that so i don't want to see the performing arts or any of the visual arts any of those things ever die in the schools we just have to fight to keep them there so thank all of you for
047what you're doing doing great work and so if i can help in any way please don't hesitate to call on me [Applause]