001[Music] so [Music] so [Music] wow [Music] so [Music] no no no no [Music] [Applause] [Music] go [Music] no no no no [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] mind [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay the board of trustees will reconvene in open session and we will begin with the pledge of allegiance in a moment of silence will you all please stand i pledge allegiance to the fire of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for our moment of silence this evening i would like to refer to what is happening here in our great state up in the north and we are so many of the families who are facing devastation and burned homes and luckily so far really no
002one has died as i understand but we've had a lot of injuries and i we have to be aware that we're in different times climate wise and we can all help by trying to conserve and be aware of what is going on but keep them in your minds because there's hundreds of people who have lost their homes and it's it's a rough time okay and now we will have the closed session re report from the clerk of the board 4.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 4.2 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations 4.3 no reportable action taken regarding personnel 4.4 the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointment leanna williams director risk management management and insurance 4.5 the board of trustees by a vote of 5-0 approve the
003settlement agreement in oah case number 2021-060909 resolving all issues in students due process complaint by amending students iep providing supplemental education and providing reimbursement in the amount of five thousand hundred 4.6 the board of trustees by a vote of 5-0 approved the settlement agreement with student amending students iep and providing reimbursements in the amount of three thousand dollars thank you now the board of trustees would also like to recognize our community stakeholders for your interest in the anaheim union high school district and for your attending our board meeting we thank you so much to each of you for your participation and your contribution as we create an educational environment that graduates socially aware civic-minded students who are college and career ready for the 21st century and our guests tonight include our new student representative to
004the board who will take his seat next month abdullah fahdi would you like to stand up do and say hello [Applause] next next month he will be on the dice with us okay and also we have grant shuster in the audience our ask the president grant are you there you are okay hilda vasquez our altar president that's our anaheim leadership team thank you hilda um and i'm looking to see if we have any other representatives gail apgar is that sylvia is that sylvia all right sylvia yes hi i'm sorry okay now you got to stand up more often i can't see you no thank you and gail kyras from a rop hi gail [Applause] i guess i should have roamed around the room a little bit more before i sat down so i could recognize
005people okay and one other person i would like to introduce now is we have a new employee who is with us this evening who's going to be starting real soon we had an opening for a risk manager and we have finalized and hired leanna rose williams leanna please come up to the podium and if you have some introductions of family with you and comments good evening uh yes leanna rose williams i'd like to thank the board president percy the board of trustees for this opportunity to serve the district the students and its community and i'm eager and excited to be a partner with the district and helping it fulfill its mission so thank you very much for having me uh with me this evening i do have my husband kevin raise your hand kevin there
006you go all right and and our baby girl malia all right [Applause] well welcome aboard we uh got lots of work for you i'm ready to hit the ground running so thank you very much here we're starting out and uh you know you know in light of what we've been going through the last 18 months we have a lot of work on our hands i bet all right thank you thank you welcome welcome welcome welcome [Applause] okay next we will have the reports of the associations so we'll start with asta grant shuster you have a report for us i do president piercy and trustees cabinet just wanted to give a report as to asa the teachers and the progress here at the beginning of the year i can tell you traveling around to the different
007sites this week and all there has been on campuses is excitement and joy i think sometimes people forget that there is nothing more that teachers love about their job than being in a classroom with students and the the more difficult or the mundane or some of the annoying parts of their job is what was added on during the pandemic and when we went to distance learning had to go to distance learning and to get back in the classroom and just be with students it has been phenomenal to go around to campuses and see teachers and see students and the joy on their faces and how happy they are to be back together we also had last week the district brought back after several years the week of welcome and to see over a hundred new
008uh teachers and other staff together um learning about what our mission is and what we do in this district and also how we work together you know it there's not many districts where the first morning that teachers are here at a district uh being introduced that a teachers union president is brought up to talk to them before they're introduced to the superintendent and that that sort of gesture to say we're all in this together i i still know of districts in this county that superintendents that board members they don't even speak with their uh union leadership um and when they or when they do it's it's in negotiations and it's over uh you know debates and quarrels it's not about working together and that is something that we're continuing to do here and it is
009greatly appreciated by by everyone by the employees by the students and their families the way we work together to solve any issues that we're going to face i think it's also important to acknowledge that we are in a situation in this country where it's not as bad as it is in other places but we know that if we had had the original uh a tiering system if it was 12 months ago we'd be in the middle of the purple tier and not allowed to open but because of the vaccine because of the progress we have made and the protocols we have put in place the the the hvac systems we've put in the purification systems we've put in every room we were able to do that but we've got to make sure that we're following
010the protocols we've got to make sure that everyone is doing everything they can on campuses to keep our students our teachers our employees to keep everybody safe so it's really uh just incumbent upon all of us to make sure it was easy to get lacks over the summer i got lacks over the summer you get we got vaccinated the numbers went down but now they're going back up and those that are unvaccinated are most likely to be our students and we need to make sure that we're protecting them so i ask everybody whether they're in the district office the teachers the other employees the students we need to make sure we're following these protocols because they were put in place to keep us as safe as we possibly can be and they will do that
011if we are following them um also i wanted to point out that a lot of people have been asking questions about the the mandate that the governor put out yesterday and we had already been talking about it with cabinet members as an association that we wanted to implement that in our district before the governor even suggested it this is something that should be done vaccination and testing is so important to make sure that we keep everyone safe and we're able to do all of these things we're so excited to do this year with our students now that we're back in person so we look forward i know i've already spoken with carlos hernandez i've spoken with nancy about how we can expand we know that in mid-october it's going to be time that every school
012employee is either going to have to be tested or show that they have their vaccination well let's start now let's get those testing facilities up and running let's offer the vaccines let's publicize it in the daily news reports you know news announcements on school campuses any way we can to get people out here and make sure that we are vaccinated that we're testing and that everyone is safe so we can focus on all of these exciting things that we want to do one other thing that i wanted to mention about what ast is doing we've started our community school meetings with stakeholders from community groups parents uh teachers we have the the um the community school uh coordinators as part of it and it's just phenomenal to already we have the steering committee up we're
013gonna start with the individual site committees and be able to come and present to the board what is it that all the stakeholders kind of like a mini lcap when dealing with community schools specifically what is it that each community working together has developed as a plan for what they want to see in a community school in their neighborhood the needs of western high school may not be the same as the needs of south junior high and what are those parents and community groups and students and teachers coming up with that will best support them as the community schools continue to develop and we know there's going to be a lot of money coming in very soon from the state to to support these programs and we want to make sure we have all of
014the stakeholders in place giving input and making sure that these community schools you know outlast all of us that we set up a process where the community will be so uh just bought in to public schools and the community schools that this will go on you know uh you know year after year and then finally the last thing i wanted to mention is that from the superintendent through the cabinet the district office the teachers at the school sites all of the support staff we have so many things that we want to do but right now i mean all of our plates are full we're planning to be there to support kids from before school our classes at lunchtime after school there are teachers already working on extra programs extra service programs clubs we're there to
015do what we can for the students every single day and so as we move forward this year i just want everyone to to realize that any sort of new training or new program or new responsibility we have to weigh that and realize if we're going to implement anything we need to pull something else away there's just not any time left and so if anything new is brought up and implemented that requires you know a couple of hours of training or requires time each week that it's going to come from somewhere else and we don't want it to come from the in-person time that you can have with students before after school to support all of their needs that is the top priority that we have to make sure that all of these students are getting
016their needs addressed when they come back to school this year and we're building those relationships that can do that so i appreciate your time tonight we're so excited to be back you almost forget and you come back you know 18 months later and just see how excited even through the masks how excited every teacher and student is to be back on campus and be back with each other to learn thank you thank you grant all right um our next one apga sylvia do you have a report and i apologize again for not recognizing you but these masks don't help that's okay and i'm sure and i was sitting in the back you probably couldn't see my face good evening trustees district cabinet auhsd students families and community members i am honored to speak on behalf
017of apga first i would like to let you know that i will be sharing this position with mrs natalie zeldavar who is not here with us tonight but will represent apga at our next board meeting counselors have been back since july prepping for the return of our students and i can say the first days of school was a success since we are starting a new year i thought it would be good to remind everyone the role the school counselor plays school counselors design and deliver school counseling programs that improve student outcomes they lead advocate and collaborate to promote equity and access for all students by connecting their school counseling program to the school's academic mission and school improvement plan school counselors work to support students in the following domains academic college career and social emotional
018school counselors work to create a future where all students thrive here are just some of the things that we do in each domain under academic scheduling of all students including new students ensuring proper placement a3g and career pathway graduation checks transcript evaluations academic honors and golden state steel for graduation signing students up for credit recovery and summer school rop recruitment and sign ups dual enrollment recruitment and signups frontie counselor recruit and support the program el coordinator cielo by literacy ap testing psat ieps 504s six-year academic plans goal setting parent-teacher conferences at-risk meetings graduation support transition to junior high and high school events and a classroom lesson that supports academics and the college and career domain college and career fair college career exploration college systems awareness the tgr foundation program in classes dual enrollment special admit
019for community colleges career pathway recruitment retention and placement rop recruitment retention and placement college applications for two-year four-year and private letters of recommendation financial literacy financial aid applications and a classroom lesson on college and career for the social emotional we provide crisis support short-term counseling risk assessments well-being plans we screen students for the district social workers provide check-ins with students with low risk provide community resources help with linkage to outside providers provide conflict mediation at-risk meetings re-entry meetings and a classroom lesson on social emotional topic lastly i would like to thank the district for providing the funds for a college and career readiness specialist for all of our high schools and for providing 17 temporary counselors to give our students the extra support they will need this year it is worth noting that the american
020school counselor association recommends a ratio of 250 students to one counselor it should also be noted that none of our comprehensive sites come close to this recommendation in addition there are two schools that are truly not getting any extra support this year and that is south and sycamore two of our most needy junior highs these two schools have traditionally had three plus counselors however at the end of the 2020 school year with the school closures and the uncertainty of the economy due to the pandemic the third counseling position was abruptly cut they are now staffed at what they were pre-pandemic i stand up here tonight to advocate for those students to give them what they deserve i hope that as a district we can find the funds to bring back the additional counselor so that
021those students can get the support they will need thank you thank you okay and hilda vasquez elsa president good afternoon uh thank you madam president piercy board of trustees superintendent matsuda executive cabinet and auch community students and parents it's my pleasure to be up here at the beginning of the school year to talk a little bit about what our schools have been doing in particular from the perspective of the administrators so i want to just recap and let you know that summer has come to an end but it was a super busy and successful summer so we had a lot of summer programs and we had also credit recovery we had programs for students to get involved and reappointed with the campuses we also spent quite a bit of time building up the capacity of
022our student leaders so our asbs went to summer camp and also we have met with the ambassadors which i am proud one of the advisors so yay um so i want to let you know that there's a huge focus right to continue supporting students wellness their mental health needs and also making sure that we value their student voice and choice instructionally in the classroom so those has those have been some of the topics and through student activities how could we be intentional about building those those things that we're talking about in terms of community and making sure that students feel like they belong so a lot a lot has gone into that also this year we had four teacher days in which we focus again as mr schuster talked about the wellness not only for
023our students but also for our staff we had a great presentation put on by the team here at the district level so that we can talk about wellness self-care and also some strategies dealing with trauma in the classroom and also personally at home right everyone has a different story we want to honor and validate that but we also want to prepare for what comes into the classroom additionally we are also building our skill set in e-cadence and also making sure that we're following all our safety protocols so great days and also many of you stopped by school sites i had mr o'neal at mine and mr colon and dr freed so thank you so much for taking the time to come i hope it was electric and energetic for you was super excited for us
024and it was great to see just kids wanting to be kids right and hanging out with each other lots of lots of energy and so we had a great care opening on all sides maybe you saw cheerleaders and sports teams our archetype particularly we also have clubs and organizations and i want to highlight a link group because every high school has link group and this year they really have taken ninth and tenth graders and done a lot of activities and a lot of preview days to make sure that students get to come back to campus and their anxiety level is lower also we've made the recommendation of not assigning homework right we're really talking to our teachers about making sure that hey these first two weeks easing back and making sure that the workload is
025also appropriate and to think about that for the the rest of the year also let me see we're very excited about the in-person instruction we've been visiting classrooms um i thought i was going to be late because i was over at the football game today so it was really exciting to see the the team play out there so again people are getting involved out and about um and we're building lots of relationships and so with that i just want to thank you for all your support has been a great first week almost friday tomorrow um i'm gonna have to say go big blue i don't know i see that trifecta of western uh prior principles here and again i just want to thank you for your support and we're having a great time and thank
026you for taking time oh my nancy came by too dr name came by so now i have a blue bucket um thank you so much and uh have a good evening thank you hold on [Applause] okay i don't see any other representatives of any other association anybody's wander in while we were having the reports okay moving on then we will uh there's no ptsa person here okay uh we have some presentations this morning okay uh this one this evening our first presentation is item 7.1 we rise together campaign perfect it gives me a great honor to introduce mrs amy quan who will lead us in this presentation okay she is our coordinator of steam good evening auhsd board of trustees superintendent matsuda executive cabinet and the greater auhsd community like dr freed said my name
027is amy kwan i'm the coordinator of steem and i would like to share with you the inaugural project of auhsd's ilab internship experience in february 2021 the ilab leadership team composed of doug noah karen clark yamamoto ray solorzino and raquel solorzino duenas selected 18 auhsd students for an aim internship and partnered with a company called manifest 5. manifest 5 is an llc that specializes in providing help to businesses in automating their supply chain finances and marketing manifest five and the aim interns were given the freedom to launch a district-wide campaign to represent the student experience during the pandemic from this opportunity the aim interns initiated the we rise together challenge in order to seek out the many stories of hope and resilience from our students the vision of ilab is to have a space to
028nurture staff and student innovation prepare students for the workforce specifically to fill the high-paying high-demand jobs here in orange county while instilling in our students the importance of compassion and service to our community we want to share that the vision of ilab was implemented long before there was a title or a beautiful space auhsd is special and that there's always been a connection to our community ray and i are both alumni and had the calling of coming back and teaching in our community we loved working with this project because manifest 5 was started by an auhsd alumni just like us we thought it was so cool that the vision of ilab has come full circle in our first ilab project dan taw an alumnus of oxford class of 2018 went to uci and started his
029company manifest five out of uci's entrepreneurial ecosystem and he too had the calling of coming back to provide guidance and mentoring to our students and help build the entrepreneurial and innovative ecosystem here at auhsd in january 2021 the ilove leadership team developed a civic engagement lesson regarding the importance of understanding covenanting mask mandates and the vaccine we developed a three-day lesson that over 10 636 auhsd students completed and our numbers showed in our post survey data that many of our students wanted to do more with civic engagement the we rise together challenge was one of the ways that our students could take action from the civic engagement lesson we ended up having 60 finalists and we selected seven winners that represented three high schools three junior highs and one special artist category our civic engagement
030lesson has also been presented and shared with several other school districts across the state students in the internship conceptualized comp the competition promoted it created a rubric for scoring and scored it manifest five provided the guidance and mentorship to the eighteen student interns which were divided up into four teams the teams consisted of content planning website development multimedia development and project management our interns determined they wanted to focus on stories of hope and resilience across four categories they were visual motion visual arts auditory arts and special artists two of our project managers are here with me today to share their experience glenna lustina who last year was a 12th grader from western and tina ketzen who was a 10th grader last year at cyprus and is currently an 11th grader at cyprus this year throughout
031this pandemic isolation loneliness and the ever gloomy future lingered over our heads day and night as fellow students we knew that these everlasting thoughts were rampant throughout our school we created this challenge to embrace and emphasize the five c's creativity communication critical thinking collaboration and compassion within our adhsd community personally this experience helps reinforce the values already instilled in me by the unlimited you mantra i felt that being able to have some semblance of control over something anything in the midst of a pandemic empowered me to my fullest potential through this aim opportunity i've learned how to balance being a leader and a team player there was no set person in charge rather we were all played a large part to ensure the resiliency and strength our community showed was highlighted being able to partner
032with the company truly allowed me to have a glimpse into the real world of business and consumerism not only was i able to learn the ins and outs of marketing the support and guidance of manifest five granted us the credibility and confidence we needed to flourish i truly believe i will be able to carry the skills i've learned from this internship to further myself and my education thank you to the entire ilab team specifically mr noah and mrs kwan for their continued support personally managing a district-wide project like this i miss a pandemic with other amazing students is a unique experience and i'll be starting college soon and through the entire lab experience i was able to learn how to communicate professionally manage and assign tasks with other interns and collaborate not just within ourselves
033but also in other expertise such as with other adults throughout the auhsd district and as someone who learned how to work as a group we all had to work together and identify our strengths and we had groups with specialized skills such as web design content creation graphics and then there's us the project managers who had to essentially make sure that we were on top of our game and that we had our objective met and that objective was to make sure that we showed the resilience of our students and it was incredibly an emotional experience to see so many of our students rise up and show how amidst this global pandemic they've managed to take something and make it inspiring make it so much more productive and it's all because of i love that we were
034able to do this and i would like to say thank you to everyone for all your hard work and thank you for giving us this amazing opportunity and now i'd like to present to you the winners of the ilab we rise together challenge our winners were awarded their certificates at the end of last year so they're not here in person but they are watching us virtually and i'd like to say hello to all of them our first winner in this special artist category is angelica rivera from magnolia ninth grader instead of titling their pieces we had our students fill out the sentence i rise because and you will be able to read each winner's irise statement in the junior high category for auditory art we have eliza ahmad from orangeview junior high eighth grade visual
035arts category we have hannie lee from lexington junior high eighth grade for visual motion we have brielle drunkers from cambridge virtual academy seventh grade in the high school categories for auditory art we have kevin nguyen from western high school ninth grade visual art doin co from cypress high school 10th grade and for visual motion jade monette from lawera high school in 12th grade jade was our only winner last year who happened to be a senior she has now graduated and doing amazing things jade's story was featured on the may 28 auhsd future talks with our very own superintendent matsuda tune in to hear about how she turned the pandemic into an opportunity so now i'd like to thank the board thank you superintendent matsuda executive cabinet and our partnership with ro rop for your support
036not only in the ilab program but the ilab brand new space at western thank you all um i just wanna can we send this uh we rise together winners uh by email to board members so we could actually look at their presentations too they are on the back aren't they no they're on the back but i'm saying for us so that it's easier to click on it when we get our email oh okay gotcha yeah that's right you don't have to write it all in yeah okay our next presentation will be on can i say something real quick i just want to publicly again thank uh miss quan i mean she was the principal at western she helped lead this this effort but then also the the amazing teachers that are part of this work
037i know gail is here and mr noah we're also really grateful for our partnership with rlp they share the same mission and vision that we have as a district in preparing kids for college career and life uh so really excited about the work they're doing and there's so much more to come from the eye lab i can't wait to see the great outcomes for our kids so thank you guys thank you again yes i missed your bar you have no i had more comments i thought other board members had comments so i was reserving it but i just wanted to say uh amazing amazing right i also saw the facility virtually and that looks amazing i can't just say more about the facility itself i'm a big believer in sending students to like facilities which
038look like state-of-the-art building so that way they really come prepared and i think this is a excellent example we have many jewels now with many of our bond related projects but this is one of the great projects including the work that you guys are doing so thank you to the teachers thank you to the students for sharing your story i am very excited to actually click on these and listen to your winning uh projects because i think that's the key for me to kind of see and that i like to crow about it at other uh places that i go saying that look at our kids excelling right so thank you very much and i also want to comment on uh mr ta who's a great example who came back and was actually being part
039of this project so thank you on behalf of the board as well thank you mrs trejo yeah and i just was just reflecting on you know the students you know what an example you are of showing um you know you showed this community uh example to the world of of your resilience and just like um you know the creative process that you all went through it wasn't easy uh but just the the the the honest truth of what you were feeling uh and just i'm just so enamored that you're just a really shining example a lot of people really couldn't get through this pandemic and a lot of grown-ups couldn't get through it and you just really set a such a wonderful example to to to me you know to all of the adults here
040um how you can turn um you know hard times uh into into creativity and and and learn and grow a lot of us resist resist change we resist learning new things but uh what a shining example i am beyond uh proud of all of you and i can't wait to look at your your examples and thank you so much thank you for putting yourselves out there and being honest thank you yeah thank you to the leadership team for leading the district through this process i visited the lab a couple times this last week during the process of it being set up and then on opening day when it still is in the process but it is looks like it can be a fantastic learning environment for all concerns so thank you for your leadership and
041look forward to to seeing and hearing more about it as the year goes through thank you okay i just want to thank all of you these have been such difficult times it's hard to even put it into words and to have you share your resilience and what you're doing in education and for yourselves and your peers it's a beautiful story thank you okay thank you all okay then i will refer to dr freed for our e-cadence tech squad yes so here's another great example of how our staff and students are creating a better world through our unlimited you i'm proud to bring up our program administrator scott rendell of call of career readiness thank you dr fred um so uh good evening board president piercy board of trustees executive cabinet in our community both online
042and here in the audience uh yeah very excited to share another aim opportunity that our students had this summer that was very unique and specialized and so i'm gonna i'm gonna speak quickly so we can get to our students but i want to share with you first just the goals around this and a little bit about what it was but the the idea behind this program and the vision that mrs manville brought to us that i'll uh introduce her in a moment was to provide a work-based learning experience for students where that would support the district-wide deployment of e-cadence our new learning management system so involving our students in that process of building this new system for learning and what the high school high school and junior high school students did was develop screencasts for
043a cadence support site and a few other items that that mrs manville and the students will share with you and then our junior high students participated as assistants so we actually had junior high students experiencing a work-based learning experience and they just they just did a fantastic job so i'm going to turn it over to one of our teacher coordinators mrs manville who brought the vision to us and uh and she'll start talk with you about the participants in the program all right so first of all i just wanted to say how proud i am of our e cadence tech squad because and i have two representatives today with us two students a high school student intern and a junior high assistant both who were cva students and one of which has moved on to
044kennedy high school so like um so to start to say is that um our we had eight high school interns um 11th and 12th grade students and then we had five junior high school assistants and students were recruited from cambridge virtual academy what students worked on each week like scott was just saying a few minutes ago were screencasts and at the outset we thought we would be working on 10 screencasts and you'll see how many the students actually completed in a few minutes and those screencasts were an answer to a question and that was how are we going to support our auhsd students and parents in the rollout of e-cadence we're supporting our teachers but how are we going to also do the same for our students and our for our parents so the e-cadence
045tech squad were in before we go to this they're in collaborative teams they worked on four teams one um intern was a project manager and then there were other interns as well on those teams and then of course there was the junior high assistant which i think was the first time we've had junior hires participate in aim so the students like i told you were their primary goal at the outset was to create 10 screencasts but they created over 52 screencast gifs and then screenshots with directions and then they also worked on user stories and user stories are something that we do in software development and those user stories were were um ideas that the students had from their participation and use of e-cadence during cambridge uh virtual academy during the year and what that
046meant is they um with the user stories they um they came up with ideas to either refine what was something that they wanted to refine in the e-cadence cadence learning management system or they added to something that they wanted to add or something in the also then the e-cadence learning management system i would like to also emphasize that they used agile which is a professional project management methodology used to develop software and professionals may take courses in the ins and outs of agile and receive a certificate it's also a way to manage a project by breaking it up into several phases we conferred with the ek team to condense those phases for our high school and junior high squad and now i'd like to introduce our first representative oh i'm sorry and now i'd like
047to show the screen one of the screencasts that the students created is so congratulations so ariel will be coming up in just a minute he's our junior high assistant and he actually created the e-cadence intro that you saw and that those intros are at the beginning of every single e-cadence screencast all right thank you for that work that creative work and now i'd like madison ochongo to come up and talk about her experience hello everyone my name is madison ochenko i was a team lead for t1 today i'm going to be talking about retros which was similar to a weekly reflection so every week the entire tech squad would come together to participate in a retro for the retros we'd use a website called jamboard and we'd put up sticky notes answering the three questions
048what do you want to keep doing what do you want to stop doing and what do you want to start doing after we answer those three questions we then put two dots on two sticky notes we believe were important or we believe we just need to come back to in the future and once we're all done with our sticky notes and our dots would then come together as a group and discuss what we put down i personally really enjoyed this part of the internship because it made me reflect on my work at the end of the week these reflections are really important for everyone in the group setting because it strengthened our five c's talking about the changes we wanted and having an open communication is incredibly important in a group setting because it makes
049sure we're all efficient at our work we all also needed compassion to help strengthen the success of our teams by listening to each other and problem solving our cadence team developed a really strong bond it was an honor to be a part of this program and i really look forward to the success of our team thank you all right hello my name is arya barangi and today i'm going to be talking about my experience of the cadence tech squad so when we had our e-cadence internship we focused on several methodologies such as agile and date and in this agile in this agile approach we had daily scrum meetings and we would talk ab as previously mentioned about our progress and how we should deal with it and i believe that we exemplify all the five
050c's in in these daily scrum meetings but not only in these daily score meetings but also in the whole internship and however i believe that compassion was the most the one i valued the most throughout the internship because without compassion you do not have fluency and coherence with your peers but when we do use compassion we can see that you can not only create a comfortable workspace for yourself but for everybody around you and you can see that when using compassion in our own work in the e-cadence tech squad productivity skyrocketed and as previously mentioned the e cadence tech squad was originally supposed to create 10 screencasts wow and but at the end of the ek internship we created 73 pieces of content i mean that's just amazing how an act of kindness can truly
051define and change our progress so thank you for allowing me to and giving me this opportunity to speak here today and initially thank you everyone for coming out here today thank you thank you arya thank you madison so we you want to continue to support e-cadence through the cadence tech squad and support continued implementation through help support desk additional online support those sorts of things as it rolls out to our teachers and students i wanted to pause here though you heard from the students how involved e-cadence was in supporting them in uh through this process so i want to give a special thanks to tim nguyen and deng vu from e-cadence the cadence team members eric tang nathan ha ethan masuda mrs lori manville and mrs valerie hamilton who are our tech squad coordinators our
052teacher coordinators who made this happen and it just turned out to be a great program and we look forward to continuing it in the future thank you very much [Applause] i have to say i was extremely impressed with the two students who gave reports you're really sharp kids let me tell you and i think you're doing a phenomenal job and your presentations were very good it's just says a lot about our school system we've got such bright students who are involved and doing great things and i mean they ask you to do 10 and you end up with 70. that's pretty good that's darn good excellent job and i just hope that a lot more people will take up and understanding cadence i'm going to try i'm going to take the introduction i want to
053know how to do it too so board questions comments oh gosh well you said it you said it all those two students were extremely impressive boy what you can put on your resume now we probably will uh you know hear that you're going to get hired tomorrow at a company for for this work but uh 73 that's amazing that's not easy stuff um to to understand um and uh i hope that the adult that you were patient with the adults trying to understand all of this because sometimes we adults are uh we have a hard time learning this so so thank you for taking the time to do that and thank you for helping us out that's just tremendous and um just please thank all the teachers and i neglected to thank all the teachers
054in the room uh for we we have these tremendous opportunities for our kids only because our teachers are willing to step up and do this this extra work um and take the time to do that so we honor you um the board i know i can speak for the board but thank you teachers for doing this and giving us our kids the opportunity this is uh just um blowing my mind the the careers that you that are that are happening you know in our own uh district so thank you all so much we appreciate you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yeah thank you for the teacher leaders giving all the students their wisdom their guidance during this process but i have to really uh give a shout out to the two students that spoke this evening especially
055to alma sliding the older student but especially a junior high student being able to uh present as you did you did an excellent job we look forward to you when you become a senior and i can't imagine what it's going to be like getting the experience between now and at that time where where you will be in life so uh thank you and we look forward to hearing more from you well i'll i'll double down on that but i i gotta say madison and arya both of you uh kind of examples of what we like to see in auhst and i hope that the superintendent will use both of them as ambassadors to actually put them out there hopefully if i know both the parents are here i think both their parents we are going
056to use them to actually promote auhsd arya you are very very eloquent in talking about the five c's and i think that what captured was you were talking about the compassion piece of it and how you connected it back to the output right that's incredible for us as board members we are very proud to see that coming out of students and madison same goes to you i know that you guys will i think anne marie mentioned it use it on your resumes but we're going to use you on our resume so we got to make sure that we promote what excellent work you did but at the same time show what excellent work auhsd is doing for our community and our students so i hope that we'll do that in the future so thank you
057both of you and i would like to thank aria and madison both impressive not everybody has the skill to get up and speak to a room full of people that's not something that you just get you have to work on it you have to have that feeling in your heart when you're speaking and i was so touched by you both of you outstanding thank you mr matsuda yes i also like to echo everything that the board has said but both of you talked about how you learn this uh project management program called agile right that that's a corporate level program and that um i know i spoke to mr dang boo about the level of our students and he was blown away that you embrace that and um and this is something that you know
058corporate people are exposed to this agile tool and now that you both in high school and junior high have that on your resume that's huge and thanks to the aim folks there scott rendell and our teachers as well as our partners at cadence thank you so much all right fantastic job one last applause for that phenomenal job thank you okay and we have one more presentation tonight we have a our 45-day state budget revision dr nin thank you so much good evening for president piercy members of the board superintendent masuda cabin members members of the public and everyone viewing online tonight i'm presenting the 45th day update that is required by the educational code governor newsome signed the budget act into um on june 28th and so the 45 day is actually due tonight on
059august 12th on the state budget the major addition is the local control funding formula the new concentration portion of the grant for our district our our new revenue that will be coming in is about nine and a half million dollars now so with the new um grant there are there are strings attached so this will actually increase our funding from the 50 percent funding factor to the 65 percent these additional 15 percent would need to be used to increase the number of credentialed and or classified staff to provide service direct services to pupils and this is including custodians that was clearly outlined and how this will be measured will be to compare the prior year staff to pupil ratio at schools that have the greater than the 55 on duplicated people those are students who
060are free and reduced foster youth and english learners versus the schools that have less than the 55 percent so this is a a different um add-on for this program by by having these new dollar amount there will be a one-time adjustment in the lcap supplement as part of the lcap annual update the annual lcap update for this portion of it will be due out to the board by february 28 2022 and we are currently working with joe camona and his office to make sure that we've included this update at that time so we'll be bringing that later on in the year regarding special education there's a lot of new update new and revised funding for special education the biggest funding we are seeing is the increase of the statewide rates from 625 dollars to 715
061dollars per ada and our increase for that is estimated to be about 2.8 million dollars so our uh previous funding was about um 18 million dollars and we were now going to be about 20.7 for the special at ab602 base funding so this will be ongoing and so we are really extremely grateful for this funding to our district regarding the summer and after school program we are projected to receive about 115 from 790 000 to about 900 000 in funding and these are the programs that will partnership with the y the next new funding is a one-time funding of the a3g completion improvement grant and we are estimated to receive about 5.6 million dollars in this one-time funding to help to increase the number of high school students to graduate with a to g eligibility
062currently um then our numbers from last year is about 52 percent and so then we uh our total um allocation is about 5.6 million dollars for this one time nancy just so that you know folks are paying attention to the i i just don't want everybody to get confused okay watching it is one is i want to pay attention to the top part right the summer and after school programs the additional 115 848 dollars coming to auhsd yes so but we partnership with the y to run those programs for us so because i think a lot of folks when looking at it says 215 million in federal one-time funds used for after-school programs could have the idea that we're getting that amount no let's do our partnership with the y that's right so thank you
063i want to make sure that we're clearing that part when we're making that presentation to highlight that portion of it perfect thank you the next piece of is the unemployment insurance uh initially projected back at may revised the unemployment insurance was at 1.23 percent which was equivalent to about um almost three million dollars and so let me and then so the new rate it will be down to about 1.2 million dollars of savings of about one point um about 1.7 uh million dollars but really the thing i wanted to make sure i bring up is are projected last year to in 2021 school year it was only about 125 000 so imagine our last year's expense was only 125 000 to this year of 1.2 million dollars so that's the number we're dealing with and
064this isn't because of the additional unemployment in california so the state adjusted this number so even though the savings it's not really a savings it's it's an um over a million dollar increase for a budget and is ongoing currently so it is a savings but it's not really a savings and um the purge rate um unfortunately the uh employer pension rate the thirst and purse there was no relief for that um in this budget that was um enacted and we do have some good news regarding the educator investments the government over 2.1 billion dollars have been slated for the educator investments into four different pots the first one is the educator effectiveness block grant and that's the bulk of it about 1.5 billion dollars that will be to help to for coaching and induction standard
065align instruction as well as student well-being and re-engaging pupils and accelerated learning the next piece is the national board certificate certification the third one is a teacher residency grant program to have mentored teachers to support teachers coming through especially in the field of special education bilingual education science teacher as well as other high knee areas and the last one is the other professional learning will include professional learning for literacy as well as lgbtq and online training academic behavior and social emotional learning practices so we're very excited about all these investments that the state is making to our field additional educator investments these are for the classified employees um once again we are very grateful the governor has put in the classified summer school employees summer assistance program we our district have many employees that have
066elected to participate in this program and just this last year the match was actually 99 so we're excited for our employees that have participated in this program there's also the classified school employee teacher credentialing program to help to train classified employees into the teaching field as well and finally this is the although it's not a state program this is the esser number three from the federal government we just received the initial allocation back in june and our district's one-time allocation is estimated to be about 64.5 million dollars and so really this is basically to um safe return to in-person instruction um for our for our school district and now there are also additional of expedited exponential um a plan that we are working on with joe crumo's office as well regarding this regarding this categorical
067program and as you will see here this is the summary of all the additional dollars that we will be receiving the concentration grant as a an adam program about 9.5 million dollars special education 2.8 million dollars the asus funding one time of 115 thousand dollars a to g completion about 5.6 million unemployment uh um insurance this will be a savings on to our district about 1.7 million dollars and the esther one-time funding of 64.5 million dollars so all those a really great news that we're getting a lot of um some ongoing and some one-time dollars to our district however they are measure risk though to this budget at this point there is a potential for overheating of the economy due to the inflation as we can all see um at this point there are supply
068chain issues as we all know uh in different things we're buying or even when building homes workers shortage that is um a problem uh continuously at this point and we have never seen this much money from the federal support and so this is a risk to the budget because we do not know down the road how could this could be there's also the um wall street reaction to the in inflation pressures and then as well as the feds at this point and obviously the one thing that um i know it's all in everyone's minds the coven 19 the new delta variant at this point um so just yesterday the governor announced the vaccine mandate and so obviously we'll be bringing out to the board shirley to give additional information regarding that and so that could
069be part of the risk to the current budget as well and so that concludes my presentation and i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have okay any questions here and marie thank you nancy um i love this this was a very comprehensive on going back to page nine um on the classified school employee summer assistant program can you clarify just as uh our my trustee um did a minute ago with the other the 60 million general fund that's not money coming to us no that's for the entire states for yes thank you for the qualification the 60 million dollars is for the entire state so um it will be our portion will be depending on how much um the employees elect so it's a up to a dollar for dollar match and um
070our our um in districts we have a lot of our classified employees um that elected to have this program and so we're so excited for them um and it just it's they're so grateful to to the board and to the district for making this happen and we're so grateful to do this so just clarify this is a cost to the district this is a program that is matching the employees funds employees who put their funds in a savings throughout the year but it's a at a cost to the district there is um yes there is the statutory um benefits that districts have um that district does have to contribute to that program um but at the end of the day when we did um how much our employees are be able to um get back
071it's it's a lot and we're very happy for them that they have this opportunity to do this and this is our third year already doing this program um in our district and uh we're just really happy that um the board is able to to do this for all for the classified employees who are eligible correct i just wanted to emphasize that this is this is that at a cost and we are uh exceptionally happy for our classified families to to actually have some savings at the end of the day at the end of the year yes so thank you for clarifying that on the on page 11 the fiscal impact projected uh what is the time frame or is there a time frame where we have to spend the money that they uh give us
072so um so the program for the concentration is basically uh for example that one will be current year so we are expecting to put a plan together to how to spend the those money um the goal will be to spend it in current year for the concentration portion okay and then the special education um that's we always make contribution into special education so that will basically reduce the district's contribution into special education so we will be spending all that money in this year as well okay and then the asus funding program since we have a partnership with the y's at one time so we'll be working with the y to come up with the plans um with with that funding and usually it's whatever number of stock that they would be able to increase for
073for the district um adg completion improvement grant i believe that is um i think that is a year and a half or about so i believe it ends in august of 2022. i can i can verify that the adg one okay and then um the um unemployment one that is um the goal is ongoing that we will get that savings and hopefully with economy getting better the number would go back to what it was in in the past so because right now the 0.5 is still much higher than what it was before and the answer on number three is the september 30th of 2024. 20 what september 30th of 2024 24. okay thank you i had another question man our special education funding while we're so grateful for the extra funding um can you tell
074me uh how close this gets us to the actual cost of special ed we're laughing we don't we don't yeah so we we love all our kids um so now we're nowhere near there obviously um so this is something that we continuously working with them there are going to be other one-time funding coming through as well for special education but no we are we are no near what how much we spend on special education and so but it's you know this due to the different program needs so we're nowhere near to that number nowhere near okay thank you mr jabar yeah so if i could give a suggestion because this is a public document and going to be available for folks if you can't identify what comes to auhsd versus what's a general budget uh
075that you're projecting here because there are some numbers big numbers which are shown that are statewide project or statewide allocation so somebody who's looking at it could say like oh you know all this money is coming to a uhsd right so i want to make sure that we're distinguishing that yeah so making sure that auhsd portion is like saying like hey this is what we are receiving for auhsd right perfect well the amount we see for ahsd is in the summary page here right no but i wanted to do it throughout the presentation because i think that's important for us when we are making presentations that folks in the public know i mean i i could know it but i i got solidly confused too when i was right yeah sitting here i watched it
076and said wait wait a second that's a new number for me but then i then i realized that oh that's the state allocation not the uhsd allocation right so i think just putting that by their state allocation so much money right you know clarifies it because i was confused too when i looked at that that's a key part that i wanted to make and then the second part is so on the summary of fundings i know you're mentioning one-time funding for aca scs the concentration grant add-on of 9 million is that ongoing that's ongoing okay so the ongoing will be receiving it and that's going to be part of the lcap process where parents and community members get to be a part of that definitely decision making process yes same thing with special education ongoing
077it's ongoing so any um anything that doesn't have the one time is ongoing okay so i i want to make sure i know that you know parents who are watching and community who are watching this is an opportunity to get involved in the lcap process if you're burning desires to advocate for a program this is the opportunity for you to actually step up and i'm looking right in the back got some parent advocates so the opportunity to actually step up and organize and be a part of the lcap process the other question that i had was regarding the uh insurance so the insurance just explained to me that one more time so that i could i could understand it and also the rest of the folks could understand it okay okay go ahead so in
078may when we projected the budget for 2021-22 our estimate for the unemployment insurance cost was about 2.9 million dollars so um when the budget came through they reduced the rate to 0.5 percent then the total um amount then became 1.2 million dollars okay so we have so we have we do have savings in the budget right so i think what i was trying to figure out is you mentioned it's a savings but it's also not a savings is what you meant because yes so the reason why is because in 2021 just this last year that we finished we spent about only 125 000 oh okay okay so even yes so it's a savings but not a savings from last year yes okay all right i think uh those are it for oh yeah and then
079the uh esser 64 million again that's a one-time funding for us yes and that we have till 2024 to spend yes right and is that is there a process or is that part of the lcap process as well no that's separate so that's separate and so as board members we get an opportunity to weigh in on and obviously you guys are going to recommend to us how you're spending it we've been recommending and also we do take the lcap process into mind because there are a lot of different things go through it and so we meet with um you know joe akumala's office to come up with plans and make it make that recommendation and so whatever plan that we put it's pretty much spending through 2024 and we can't actually plan for anything beyond
0802024. correct for right now yes okay i just want to make sure that i highlight that part yeah thank you and it comes with its own strings right yes okay my only comment is this last page risk to the best budget they should all be flashing red lights for us these are very difficult tenuous times and when you look at a runaway inflation shortages federal spending wall street wall street wall street that is a very very iffy situation so i hope the public is tuning in to the reality of what we're all in thank you nancy thank you nancy it was a good report any other questions or comments thank you and let's hope everything keeps going well you know what i had a question i'm sorry i had a question i was going to
081ask that question but i almost forgot so i know i in the past we've asked to have like an agenda item to kind of give an update on covet a stand a a status or stand-alone agenda item so that we get an opportunity to ask questions i want to see if we could insert that back in even if you don't have a report we could just skip saying that there is no report at least if there is a agenda placeholder we can ask questions based on what's going on with kovid in preparations which leads me to get a update on the state mandate from which came through for teacher covet testing and covet vaccination can we can i don't know if it's you manuel or you nancy but give the boat and the public an
082update in terms of what we have planned i know we already planned for it even before the state came through but i want to make sure that we're transparent in saying what we are doing to pretty much implement that great absolutely mr dubar thank you so as you know and and i think doctor in yen mentioned it that the governor announced that um you know there is there is a mandate or actually a state order to the california department of public health that really is required requiring that we all employees oh well the item is is not specifically agenda so we can do a very short report if as it relates to you know the budget or or we could do it in staffordshire um it could i could tie it to the budget in
083terms that's one of the reasons i was going to ask that question during budget because we do have a an opportunity to ask in terms of allocations for budget in terms of spending so that's how i'm asking the question so i think we're okay with the uh brown act i'm stretching it i think it's not stretching it's actually we have an item in terms of some of these funds are going to be towards spending towards uh testing and uh core with vaccination so we have an opportunity to ask that great thank you mr jabbar for that question i don't think your mic's on tap it hard can you hear me now so again thank you for that question and as miss dr nian mentioned um this was something that was announced by governor newsom yesterday
084and came down to our district as a state order from the california department of public health requiring that all employees in our district show proof of vaccination in our district and again this is for for all employees within the anaheim union high school district and really all districts in california so in terms of our district we do have a plan where we will be asking employees through a system that we have in our district called talent ed that is part of our human resources department where our employees will be asked whether they have current vaccination if they do they will upload proof of that vaccination if they don't they will let us know that they do not and they will go through weekly testing at our sites ongoing until they show proof of vaccination okay
085thank you for that i just wanted to make sure that we had a plan and the public knows about it so although it was just announced yesterday we have been contemplating this so thank you very much for that short report okay that's it we'll move on to public comments this is our open session items this is the opportunity for our public comments at the beginning of each agenda item or at this time for items not on the agenda persons wishing to address the board of trustees should complete a speaker request form which is available on the information table at the back and submit it to the executive assistant as soon as possible each speaker is limited to a maximum of five minutes each topic or item is limited to a total of 20 minutes board
086members cannot immediately respond to public comments as stated on the speaker request form our first speaker this evening will be ron flores mr flores we would ask each of our speakers to state your name and your city of residence yama ronaldo flores ron flores from huntington beach california thank you ron we're never raised except yesterday it's so great to be here tonight with three western principles that have never seen anaheim beat us [Laughter] and it's gonna continue this word means master it means enough i think wrong you just jinxed it and it's not enough we're going to beat them again this year i just texted lou correa to come to the game again because every time we beat him i make him wear our varsity jacket well i'm here tonight for a couple reasons first
087one is good good to see you all again it's been a year and a half i've been locked up i put on 14 pounds so it's good to be back out here first thing is a while ago maybe when anaheim last beat us we were promised a security fence on orange avenue and it's still not there a few years ago a homeless person came right into a classroom because there was no security fence so i'm asking you gentlemen and ladies when is that fence going to go up we should have that up as soon as possible it's a security risk second point is thank you for the improvements that you've done you've really stepped to the plate a lot of things are changing especially out in the football field my question is when are you
088going to finish the field out in the back by the parking lot you did a great job on the parking lot it's excellent a lot of comments on that from the alumni and then lastly is i spoke to mr jabbar the other day it only took me 20 phone calls but i got through i think it was your hat we are interested in having a competition between anaheim school district and santa ana in an event we're planning it would be consists of a spelling bee and talent show between the two district high schools in anaheim versus santa ana each school would pick a winner and then the winner would go to the location where we're going to have the finals and then they would compete and win trophies and other things there might even be
089a scholarship feature that we're going to add to it so who would i talk to in the school district to implement that or begin investigating that mr freed i saw your movie on youtube thank you all very much for your time and continue to do a great job and put western number first and move that thing i can't see western high school okay it gets in the way put it in anaheims over there thank you all very much thank you ron it's good to see you again okay our next speaker will be maritza bermudez good afternoon um superintendent matsuda board members staff and people in the audience and virtually my name is marita bermudez and i'm happy to be here again i'm from anaheim california and i'm a parent of students in the anaheim elementary
090school district and also of anaheim union high school district i have an eighth grader here there oh sorry i have an eighth grader at sycamore junior high school she's here with me today and i'm here also um representing my work i work for orange county congregation community organization and i'm here to speak on kind of celebrating a little bit of the work that we've been doing and i say we because i've i feel that i'm as a parent and also through my work that we have here in collaboration and we're working really i guess um closely in trying to meet everybody's needs and our vision and what we want to see for the students and families of this district i know we just started the school year with the care opening and also the care
091approach which i love that i saw here in the presentation and also being on the school openings committee i thought it was great that they took that approach and that they were keeping not only the students but also the staff in mind right and also working on that um on a restorative opening so that was great so i'm kudos to you know everyone that's been part of that i know our i was at anaheim high school the first day the teachers were back with the ptsa evan east there and so it was nice to see all the teachers everybody like uh mr grant said everybody looked really happy and i know my daughter came really home excited yesterday so that really lifted my spirits too that i made the right decision to send her back
092to school with that a lot of the great things that are happening you know sycamore is looking great but one of the things that i think we are in in line with that we're going um closer into achieving is with their parent involvement we did meet with umuerta miss tanya garcia from the community schools which was great that we had a space with them and talk to them about the upcoming work and the work that's being done with the community schools at sycamore and anaheim and we also talked to um mr carlos hernandez and um miss alas um chavez from the district also they actually came to our workspace and had a meeting with in our anaheim intersections um committee meeting which i think was great because i feel that um doing those connections we
093can move forward because i've come here in the past to speak about you know the parent engagement parent involvement because i always feel like there's that one piece missing of everything that we do we kind of leave our parents and our families you know kind of to the side and not too much involved so i know with these uh meetings that we're having with them and that we are given the space to um work collaboratively together we're going to reach the desirable right of seeing our students um succeed i could say a lot more today i'm sorry i'm really tired i'm just losing my train of thought i have kids going to four different schools and i'm just thinking today was just a wild day just seeing all the families i guess it's still in
094me seeing all the students and um i wish you know that when we see those parents there dropping off their kids on the first days of school right that they'd be more present and so um we want to work together to try to achieve that right and make sure that the kids have what they need um another oh i know what i was going to see the other thing i wanted to speak about was the mental health um i did have an opportunity to meet with them dr um cruz which my respects amazing amazing person we have here we're so blessed to have her in the in in our sp and here in our um district leading the work on mental health i can say i'm probably par um part of the parent ambassador mental
095program that i'm hoping it's going to do its purpose and i'm very excited so in that sense i feel like we are on track and and the fact that we are given the space to collaborate it speaks huge about our district so i really want to thank everybody who's given us a space but there's still a lot of work to do and we're here to work together and see the outcome be great for um not just the students we hear of all these great things i was very inspired by the students here and oh man i wish we could see more students being able to have those opportunities right so you know want to work together to make sure that everybody's getting those opportunities and giving those spaces to just thrive thank you and have
096a good night thank you hey okay our next speaker will be rosa bond hi good evening my name is rosa bond i am a mother of two sons who are in the elementary school district so shout out to them and also a parent organizer with the anaheim intersections initiative you know we've been coming to these meetings because we appreciate the collaborative work and you know like marissa mentioned the celebration of the contributions that the district has offered you know i'm very proud and i don't even come my my kids are not even in the district yet but i'm excited to share with other parents of all these great opportunities that the students have you know compared to when i went to schools like you know uh the dynamics change and you know that that that's
097something to celebrate and looking forward to that and you know like marissa mentioned as a parent you know we represent other parents as well you know this is not things that we're observing these are things that we're hearing as well that parents want to be included in conversations and they want to know what the district is doing and they want to also make decisions you know they want to be part of that because i think it takes and we all know that it takes a village to raise a child and i think the more participation the more opportunities that parents have just to even listen to the great the amazing things that their the district is doing is is making you is making the parents feel part of we understand you know that the the
098parents have limited opportunities because you know we're not able to be present at the school but i think in just knowing that all these great opportunities that the child has you know like for example video games or there's so so much opportunities out there and parents just need to know that so that they're more comfortable in uh supporting their kids when they want to do something you know that it's not a doctor or a lawyer it's you know some things that have not jobs that have not been invented yet that there's an opportunity for that so i think just very motivating and yes you can participate these are the activities that you they're able to um participate in just listening and and also the the student voice you know hearing these students with great talents
099the way they speak the way they uh share it's i'm just blown away and i was like why don't you have a microphone here and and share your thoughts and as a parent i just want to see that you know i just want to be able to uh be part of a a collaborative because it really takes all of us and these conversations that we're starting you know with um selling the community schools i think we want to distribute that through the whole district and say this is a community this is what we're doing for it and this is how you can be part of it as well so i'm just excited looking forward to upcoming conversations this doesn't stop here this is just the beginning and we just want to let you know that
100we're here to support the work that you guys are doing and and to know that you know we're just so so proud of the work that has been done we just want to be part of it and let you guys know that we're here you know so i really appreciate the time and really looking forward to the parent engagement piece and looking forward to that so i appreciate it and hope you guys have a great night thank you very much [Applause] what we need is a lot more gabald parents okay our next speaker will be isaac romero uh good evening everyone i'm isaac romero and i live in the city of anaheim i'm a senior at adelaide high school and i'm a community leader i'm sorry i can't understand you could you speak closer to
101the mic could you start over please good evening everyone my name is isaac romero i live in anaheim and i am a senior that attends anaheim high school i'm also a community leader at oco in the anaheim intersections initiative coming back to school it's been great seeing how my school in particular and i'm sure you know the schools in the district have been handling the culver situation uh before things were not that great but uh seeing all the precautionary measures that my school has been taking and how they uh continue to follow the guidelines it's definitely great to see the same goes for not just the faculty but also the students right you know they keep on their mask uh it's not just uh it's uh not just the faculty that you know tries to
102follow these guidelines but also the students themselves uh in particular i'm part of the anaheim browns and uh we've been helping you know yesterday and today uh we've been handing out massive students that you know may not have one when they're coming in seeing as a anaheim one of anaheim's guidelines is that you need to have a mask when you come in through the gate seeing all the changes that have been made it really calms uh it really gives me a sense of peace you know and you know definitely caused my nerves as well as you know the other nerves of my fellow peers and students because uh all these precautionary precautionary measures definitely make us feel more safe however just like uh things have been going great you know in terms of covid however
103there's still a divide between uh our faculty and students i think one of the biggest things that came up today was uh the assembly bill which definitely helped students with some other grades however my one of my teachers didn't even know that it would tuna you know stop uh i think there's a that's that's something that really needs to be a a gap that needs to be closed because many of our students they don't just struggle with grades they struggle with mental health personal problems and you know i think this gap isn't just for you know the assembly but it's a stat it could be a gap for many other things um however it definitely has calmed down uh many parents that i've spoken to we're definitely happy to see uh many other students involved
104you know i mentioned that i'm part of the night bros and we also have been heavily involved during this time uh during the quarantine and i'm sure that we will continue to be involved helping our school um i'm just i just want to you know show my appreciation for my school and the district for everything that they uh do to ensure that we have a a good school year you know for me it means a lot since it's uh my last year at school and i wouldn't want to spend it you know through distance learning so thank you bravo okay thank you isaac hey isaac can you stay up here for a second i think i'm going to be the first of many of the board members that are going to say we really appreciate
105you coming and talking to us telling us how you feel whether it's a criticism or whether it's a compliment we always want to hear from our students so we really appreciate you coming here and and getting through this i know it's kind of tough for some reason you know we're there's people up here you know we're parents we're we're really uh people of the community where you come from but i don't know it's the microphones or the dice over there somehow we're a little bit intimidating but really honestly we're really we really do listen and we really want to hear what you have to say so i truly salute you for coming up here and doing it because i i know it gets a little tough but as a bro oh my goodness you guys
106did so much work last year every weekend you were out there every weekend and you kind of you know you put yourselves out there um you messed up you you put your your you know gloves on and you took care of our community so we thank you we honor you so thank you for coming and telling us what we really need to do what we need to think about what we need to improve and how we're doing it doing things well but we honestly salute you thank you so much isaac all right [Applause] it's always a pleasure to have our students come and talk for sure and it is tough okay our next speaker will be frida sanchez another one of our students all right hello uh hello superintendent matsuda and and board members um
107like my mom mentioned earlier merza bermudez my name is freda sanchez i'm an eighth grader at sycamore junior high i am really excited to be back at school especially since i didn't really get to experience my seventh grade year so i really appreciate that uh thank you um anyways i'm here this beautiful night um to speak to you about mental health mental illness support and education not only for students but and school staff but for our parents and families so you may be asking why is an 8th grader specifically saying this when there's so many other adults here that could probably speak to you about this um but the thing is i'm fortunate enough to be from a supportive family that understands mental illness and is informed about it and me as someone who suffers
108from multiple mental illnesses i'm really fortunate to have that and when they saw the red flags they reached out for help which if they didn't i most likely would not be able to have the opportunity to speak to you today so i'm grateful for that um but i want to say thank you for all the resources you guys are pushing out to the schools about mental health because it really is a struggle um in many teens today uh and uh just informing the parents since unfortunately uh that's not the case for all families uh although i may come from a very supportive family and informed not that's not the same for every family uh which i wish it would be but unfortunately it isn't uh and therefore i believe we should help educate families as
109well as provide the um the resources necessary necessary sorry because um it could be not only students that can be suffering from mental health illness but it may be apparent as well as sometimes you know you get stressed with kids life struggles adult stuff but i think we should provide those resources to everyone here in the auhsd district um and have you guys probably seen this pandemic has um affected many people including myself and that's why i feel we should keep these resources we have not only have them short term now because of covid but long term because it's not only cova that has impacted people with mental illness or caused mental illness because mental illness is never going to go away but we can make it a lower percentage if we work together and
110i think it's really important that we pay attention to this uh and like henry ford said if everyone is moving forward together then success takes care of itself that's it thank you i would like you i would like to say to you freda and all of your peers and people that spoke here tonight i can't give you a hug but i can give you all a virtual hug to express your thoughts and your feelings and your experiences so eloquently it just brings tears to my eyes and he chokes me up and i just want to say to you thank you thank you thank you a very strong young lady and very well spoken yes it's just i commend you as an eighth grader you said yes all right i expect to hear from you in
111the future [Laughter] all right thank you for speaking up i was going to ask uh who's crying and who's not crying because i think everybody choked up frida i got to tell you i've known you for you know since you were teeny bitty and i could tell you that you just really really i'm so proud of you for standing up and speaking up and you're actually advocating not only for your your peers but you're advocating for your parents uh that is amazing and maritza i'm sure that you're probably proud there and tearing up too uh really to talk about you and your experience and advocate bravo uh you are so strong and i am so proud to say that i know you and you're going to be my future heart surgeon that we talked about
112a long time ago i know that you're going to be the future heart surgeon for me so cardiothoracic surgeon what's that cardiothoracic surgeon there you go cardio thoracic surgeon okay let's just hope that i don't have to go through what i was going to say but either way i just want to say that i'm so proud of you and so proud to know you and i'm honored to know you so thank you and keep it up i know you're going to do great so thank you yeah i have to do what everybody has said so far you showed a lot of bravery standing up there and talking about yourself and issues and obviously it's not just with you it's with many people that that need assistance so thank you for uh bringing it to our
113attention we already had it on our forefront of our minds but it's nice to hear from students and parents also bringing it back to our attentions and keeping it alive thank you so much thank you have a nice evening well frida you know i have to speak to you just to tell you how much i am so proud of you um i think you are the bravest person i i know and this was before you mentioned what you had been suffering and going through i always knew that you were going to get through it and pull through it and i know it's not over and done with but to be to come up here and and reveal what you're going through that sends a bigger message to to everybody than um you know than than
114people just kind of talking about it you are a shining example of why we do what we do and to bring it again as my colleague said to bring this to the forefront it was just so brave of you to do that i was crying up here because it just takes a lot to be honest and to be truthful sometimes but that's really what is necessary to pull through and to move through right but i think that you just set an example for all of us we all need to step up and be honest and truthful you know and again to not only talk about the kids but to talk about the adults and that was part of our care opening the care opening in our districts was not just for the students but it
115was for all of the adults surrounding the students too we reminded ourselves that we all went through this pandemic and reminded ourselves that we need to take care of ourselves and and help ourselves so that we can help the students but we are going to continue with the mental health and thank you for bringing it to the forefront again and you know how much i feel about you thank you so much bravo all right have a nice evening thank you super young lady all right [Applause] okay that is the last of our public speakers thank you all for coming forward this this evening and speaking to us now we will move on to our normal items of business and our first one will be 9.1 which is a rejection of liability claim this is an
116action item second i have a motion and a second any questions or comments okay seeing none all in favor aye opposed motion passes item 9.2 this is the consulting services agreement for john fenton dba fenton or1 i mean point llc action item second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments all right seeing none all in favor aye opposed motion passes item 9.3 this is a revised board policy 7807 independent study first and final reading now i have to say something about this this is a bill that has been passed as an urgency legislation with immediate effect and has significant audit and fiscal impacts if not timely in place at the start of instruction of this 2122 year so it's recommended that we waive the requirement of a second reading in policy
117and adopt this revised policy and administrative regulation on one vote so moved second okay so i have a motion in a second any questions or comments okay seeing none all in favor aye opposed okay we have a revised board policy one one time all right moving on to 9.4 this is new board policy 91302 school connected organizations first reading this is an information item do i have any questions or comments i do yes um so i just wanted to kind of highlight this i know it's the first reading do i know we didn't have a policy so this is a new policy that we're putting in place right i read through it but i you know just wanting to know that the boosters and the other organizations which are part of it how we looked
118at it to see how it will affect them differently if the policy was in place the way that it's operating right now i don't think it's too different is it okay right now with no policy there's um not a lot of there's not a lot of district oversight and with some of these like boosters there's money involved this will allow us to have better controls and and oversight and support of what's happening at the schools also in this case we had a non-profit doing great work he was using our school logos and stuff as part of the work which we weren't part of so this allows us to now have some of that control so that way which i figured was the answer but which leads me to then say what are we doing to
119reach out now and educate these boosters to let them know that this is a policy that the board is looking at and here here here's how it's going to look at look and how you have to pretty much adhere to these policies are we reaching out and doing that yes we will be reaching out it's not just boosters it's parent pta organizations it's any organization that that's that's not necessarily a part of the school structure uh we're gonna be meeting with a lot of these different folks and educating not only the policy but on kind of the policies procedures and practices that we would expect as part of our organization okay are we going to basically send them a copy of this so they can read over it yeah but it's it's more than just
120the here read this it's yeah it's going to be as well yes and i i recommend that we at least have a possibility a forum just so that everybody knows and you know it's out there so that it doesn't become an issue later on saying like hey we did this uh uh you know 15 20 years and now everything is changing and why do we have to do this right so i think we have to take that approach of educating them and then answering the questions and possibly i i know we're going to go ahead and approve this in the second reading but and i don't think we have enough time to discuss that with the organizations but maybe have a mechanism to come back and do what we need to do if there are
121suggestions so thank you any other comments okay that was all right very good all right that's just an information item moving on to 9.5 we have another information item we have another board policy multiple which are multiple policies for first reading now we are going through all of our i just for the public's knowledge we're going through all of our policies and we are following the guideline of the uh orange county school boards association california california you know school boards association and so either revising policies we've had to be more up to date or actually instituting some new policies so we have 9.5.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 and 0.5 are all either totally revised policies or new policies so we have five policies here that have our first reading do i have any comments or questions
122on any one of them nope nope seeing none okay that's just an information item they will be back up again for a second reading okay 9.6 an action item which is a quote instructional materials spanish math textbook for dual language academy so move second i have a motion in a second questions or comments no just uh uh no i don't have a comment but i just want to uh thank you for this on behalf of the dual immersion yes i know this will this will answer uh concern for our dual language academy parents and i want to acknowledge the work that i know carlos did with the math task force but amy quan most recently has been working with the math task force and this specific piece to ensure our dual language program has the
123materials they need to be able to do the work in spanish in this case okay very good that was my comment too so that was going to be my comment right yeah thank you for listening we really appreciate that we listen we lose we do okay any other comments or questions see none all in favor aye opposed motion passes 9.7 action item educational consulting agreement telos educational services so move second i have a motion in a second any questions i do comments yeah i have uh questions okay uh i i read through this and i like it because uh one of it is that we got to look at different modes of delivery of our concepts that we have within au hst to our community i know presentations are good but animation videos are kind
124of the new thing so i'm glad that we are actually looking at it but i do have a question in terms of while looking at this is this something that our current pio or his interns could have done or could do no one well john i don't know if you want to answer that but john is talented and of course but he has so much going on this allows this person to go deep in focus and if you've seen other videos that we have used we've actually used his videos before and this is his area of expertise uh he's worked closely with scott rendell our coordinator of 21st century learning and in career readiness and then also with amanda bean so this is this is something that um we feel is is definitely a worthwhile
125investment i use the word investment because it's not just for our presentations but when we work with our families it's going to be tailored to actually have our message our ed division staff was part of helping to develop the script john did you want to add to that yeah i'll just add a couple more things it's a valid question i i truly appreciate you asking um animation is a whole different medium than um you know live action and that does require a specific type of skill set that quite frankly most peop i don't know anybody in our district um that could do for that long like you know students could do a couple of seconds here there maybe even a minute but it's a very time consuming specialty uh type of video when you're talking
126about 3d animation so that's that's the main reason so i'm glad that you answered that so the second part of it is that um just just based on what you just said i had that as my fourth question but i'll i'll move it up the the fact that you just mentioned that it's a new medium and you know it's something that you need to have more talent i know that we are actually giving 28 000 to get this done is there a way that we could actually ask him to incorporate like we did with e-cadence maybe some of our students were interested to give them that opportunity to work with i don't know if that's an availability but that's something to think about do you wanna i believe that the gentleman that we got into
127agreement with and mr ryan doe maybe uh can speak to it a little bit more he's actually using a third party that's how specialized it is so uh there's actually a third party involved to create the specific animation well i believe that the gentleman you know the thing is too it's very time sensitive we got to get this thing done so we uh it's a good question but i don't think we can uh we have the bandwidth at this point or the time and i just to add to that again it it kind of underscores um the idea of the specialization because within this group there's a script graphics and then the actual animation itself and editing and putting it all together so um my then well let me go through a couple of questions
128first and then i'll come back to that one is that this will be strictly for auhsd auhsc branded right correct so it will be for us where we are using our stories and it would have a uhsd banner on it it would because the part is we're spending this i want to make sure that it's for us and it's not going to be circulating anywhere else with the work that we're asking we actually hope it does circulate with that you know circulate with our it does absolutely that's why we're doing it but i'm saying is that it will have our brand it's going to have our brand it says that as a tool to be used for our branding the district the the the question that i had was i've seen animation uh done where
129i'm actually i went online and i was trying to do something for what a project that i'm working on and there are opportunities to do it where we pay like 9.99 a month and then we get on the app and then we tell the story and then the story actually they they do the everything on the app where we're just giving the script and uh utilizing the characters that's only 9.99 a month so my question to you is 9.99 a month doing that versus 28 000 i just want to see the uh why the disparity yeah the value there so so just um you know addressing the timepiece you know not only the animation the storyboarding as various subcontractors he's using uh the translation is done by voice talent so we have uh it being
130translated with voice talent uh into our our languages here in the district um but the piece i think on the animation um if you watch kevin fleming's videos they're they're very direct to the point with powerful animations that drive a point home and the vision behind this piece is the cpsf the career preparedness systems framework there's there's a lot to it and in four minutes we think he can really drive the message home and help our stakeholders understand it that quickly as opposed to the presentations and things that you referenced thank you yeah with that no questions awesome anyone else have a question or a comment i just um i just really did some research too on this because i questioned that's all that is a lot of money but um i've had the opportunity
131to uh to do uh to view a lot of that over the summer and what he does is it's a specialty um and and he uh really will hone in our our branding a message so um i really recommend um that we do this and of course it's so time consuming out to try to come up with the you know with all of the the script and all of that so i think all of our staff is you know we have they have a lot to do too so the expertise and the time consuming and the quality of the work that i saw when i did the research it's it's valid a valid expense okay anything else anyone else all right seeing none we'll have a vote all those in favor aye opposed all right
132motion carries 9.8 licensing agreement document tracking services this is an action item so move second i have a motion in a second do i have any questions or comments all right seeing none all in favor aye opposed all right 9.9 school-sponsored student organization salute we only have one uh currently considered that's uh orange county an oxford academy cyber security club so any questions or comments seeing none all in favor aye opposed all right motion passes item 9.10 revised board policy 8806 child abuse prevention and reporting first reading this is an information item any questions or comments just the sign of the times we have to have policies for everything so we'll be catching up some of our policies i don't think we have been revised for over 20 years so it's time to update them
133all okay 9.11 new board policy 6219.01 duty to report all employees first reading yes all right no this is an information item also okay no impact of the budget just going to be you know all reporting of misconduct and investigation etc any questions or comments all right we have an action item next 9.12 this is a memorandum of understanding of scaling student success community of practice some move second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments okay i had some questions on this but uh i talked to mike about it and i didn't get a chance to reread this was this all a new explanation i think okay well you kind of explained more to me so i'll hold back on my reservations and um is this what you were going to
134give in the friday letter or is this are you going to be pretty much the friday letter but um just uh we do have amanda bean the director of cpsf implementation to give a little more context behind this agreement with uh and participation in a statewide consortium okay and when you explain us amanda tell us what what outcome do we want from this in other words what's the anticipated outcome absolutely so um so basically this is a consortium of like-minded school districts that are working together to to operationalize processes that authentically evaluate student outcomes and so for us that's the five c's and so how do we create the system and the metrics the key performance indicators for us to demonstrate that students are communicators collaborators create creative so on and so on and so
135um so that's one piece of it also it's just a time to share promising practices seeing what's being done up and down the state work together to um to just help push each other's thinking and to create those systems it's also an opportunity for us to introduce the cpsf statewide and to push our mental model around cohesion around this work of cte pathways dual enrollment um the 5c civic action and to push our model into into the more of the the view statewide and so we get exposure as well as support in developing some of our systems okay i will say one of the things that threw me and confused me was this utilization of the phrase graduate profile and that's and i brought that up with mike and i'm going you know you've made
136it yeah a lot more clear now what they're trying to do but but but this this i guess the graduate profile was what was throwing me and i'm going away what is that right it's uh um so basically uh so well it relates to what we see at savannah high school in the student learning capacities so savannah went through their revisioning process and developed the capacities and then a capstone which is their execution of things that their community values and wants to demonstrate that is exactly what a graduate profile is they're just using a different terminology so we would relate it to the five c's civic action leadership and concepts like that okay it's not super expensive and i mean and like you say it's a consortium of school districts and all but it was
137just at first i'm kind of going ah okay yeah absolutely no problem okay any other questions or comments seeing none all in favor aye opposed all right motion passes okay 9.13 no no we're at 10 point consent calendar do i have any requests to pull items 10.8 uh w and 10.9 anyone else move the balance okay i have a motion and a second and i have a second okay all in favor aye opposed okay item 10.8 hello w wait a minute let me see w 10.8 w okay and 10.9 and 10.9 some moves second all right all in favor aye opposed abstain all right passes okay we are on to let's see eleven superintendent and staff thank you madam chair i do have a quick report uh regarding the fireworks proceeds that benefits uh primarily
138our vapa and athletics and as the board might recall of the city of anaheim supports the six auhst high schools as well as canyon and esperanza so all eight high schools within the city of anaheim with fireworks stands and our we we've been averaging about twenty five thousand dollars net per school yeah so that's a hundred and fifty thousand dollars that's going to our boosters and vapa and our athletics program that we did not have before that's great that is amazing yeah i didn't realize it was that much that's it's been rising every year wow okay staff no report other than happy new year all right happy new year yeah new school year yeah no report no report no report no report no report okay board of trustees reports oh mr colon he wants a
139story no report report okay well you're on that side see i have to remember that okay all right and then moving up to mrs trejo do you have a board of trustees report okay there's some activity it's so exciting to report on on things uh so i uh was asked to speak to some realtors that represented the anaheim community in orange county and uh they were delighted to hear all of the great works that uh that we're doing and um they asked for a repeat you know so ran out of time uh there's so much to tell and so they they um they they want uh another another go at it so i might uh we might bring um one of the cabinet members to come in and speak to them so dr dr freed
140yes so uh you know it's just really it was a great opportunity to to um you know as a as a trustee to to really talk to folks in the community because they're getting misinformation um you've all seen the the the great school report on on some of the the you know when you look to buy a house on zillow or whatever those of those apps are they have scores and they're they're they're not um representative of what all of our schools are doing and i know uh you know the elementary schools um as well as the high schools are are we're really concerned about that and and they were too and so we did uh go ahead dr fred you wanted to speak i'm just i'm happy to go to the next one to
141speak and i know it's you only get a short amount of time but i have a literature to give to them they can give to prospective clients and i was talking with mrs smith earlier about uh ranks and how they use antiquated data um to determine which is not reflective whatsoever the work that we're doing it's unfortunate these these sites are very old and and have bad inaccurate information from what we're really doing and and so they were very uh they're very anxious to to hear all of the information and i did get the little pamphlets hot off the presses to pass them so they asked for another meeting so we can so we can brag and tell them what really is happening in our schools um i listened to the orange county department of
142ed liberty and justice for all colloquium which featured our distinguished superintendent on ethnic studies telling what it is and i really enjoyed that so thank you for representing the school district and and a lot of the other school districts in orange county uh i attended um although it was virtual it was um a csea conference uh it was from sunday to thursday and they have their conference meetings um every day every day it was from like nine to four or something like that so it was very interesting um to to actually it was my first time as a delegate uh for to represent csca i was happy to do it and i learned a lot about their advocacy advocacy for a lot of the things that came through in the governor's budget so very proud
143in my other life i work for anaheim elementary school district and i'm classified employee so i am a csea representative so i was happy to do that i attended a uh cpr training and this time it was actually in person with uh gasalpa and so they had all the staff come and do that and we learned um cpr from a firefighter and this firefighter's approach was uh very very very simple simple you know how you go through the program and then you you wonder afterwards how in the world can i remember all of this stuff well he really made common sense out of out of saving folks lives and taking us step by step and actually explaining really uh important things that that you you think you know about saving someone's life and you think
144you know about cpr but really made it um you know uh comprehensive and so um i am certified now to save everyone's life here um i attended uh our rop board meeting uh last night and uh they had uh really fun in service they always go all out uh rop does um and this year it was a 70s theme and so we had to think back about 70s of course you know i was a really little tiny child but um but they asked us questions about like our favorite tv shows and and things like that and they talked about all the things that happened um in the 70s but uh it's this it's their 50th anniversary so um their anniversary is in the 70s so uh it was a really fun time the board members
145are there for a couple of hours um and then they do their their in-service training very successful attended the white cap ceremony at magnolia high school celebrating our cyber security partnership with cypress college and got to view the the campus um part of the campus the the quad at magnolia and it's just beautiful and i know the kids yesterday when they saw that had to be just blown away and i value our partnership with cyprus [Music] i came to the teacher onboarding and although i had to leave i didn't get to hear the teacher speeches but i was there for a few minutes beforehand and greeted some of our our eager new hired teachers and i was really impressed that you guys gave them the same leadership advanced training so that was pretty pretty cool
146for them to um to get that on boarding and the leadership advance modeling the behavior that i know was demonstrated yesterday at our opening and i'm so grateful um i asked for that as a board member to really um really think and pull back from um you know uh this this idea that there was a learning loss and there was you know wasted time last year and all the negatives and for us to to focus on a care opening i mean our district is just um we're we're we're so compassionate and we really when we say we think about the kids we really honestly think about the kids um because it's not about the scores it's not about you know we're just talking about the realtor numbers it's not about that it's about our health
147and welfare and all of that all of the success comes after that when you take care of the of the needs of the students it'll it that will all come for them and we see that demonstrated tonight with our students and so i wholeheartedly think our leadership team for really envisioning that that that start of the new year with love and concern not only for our kids but for our staff so thank you so much for that and the best for last um as much as i love the the the grown-ups i got to meet with the ambassadors and spent i intended to go in there really quickly i kind of invited myself into a meeting but uh i stayed for a couple of hours uh dr cruz was there giving a presentation but boy
148do we have some amazing ambassadors this year they're gonna keep you all on your toes i promise you um and uh and i wanna publicly thank uh them they sent um they sent uh me a thank you card and i think they said oh you're here thank you thank you so much for the lovely card and the treat on the card i really appreciate it um but it just goes to show how how aware you are of what's happening in our district and i know you've got that onboarding there was a lot thrown at you but you were so eager to to learn and and boy did they have some tough questions for for dr chris i think she was only slated to be there 45 minutes and it was like a almost two hours
149that she stayed there um graciously because the students had question after question for her and i kind of interrupted and kind of asked i kind of said okay and there she go you know gave her kind of an exit strategy because they would you would have kept her there another another hour so but that was a great highlight of my couple of weeks so thank you for that and that's my report thank you mr o'neal thank you well i attended the the cyber security whitecap event at mongolia high school and uh seeing the changes that are going on there but what you didn't uh did you get back to see the the new tennis courts miss ronaldo freyjo you did oh they're fantastic beside the tennis courts but also the quad and it's it's uh
150wasn't quite finished when we had the ceremony but i'm sure the very end is going to be even more fantastic than it was that evening i attended a couple days of the leadership advance and that was uh very well put together and i think the message uh transcended itself as miss randall trejo said on opening day i was fortunate i got to nine schools uh on uh yesterday and i i saw in every classroom i went into and i went into a lot of classrooms that every teacher was was working with the students in getting to know the students and the students getting to know each other which is so great i even heard some teachers said don't worry we're you know we're not going to be hitting you with with assignments the first couple
151weeks we're going to get beginning to know you and and that's exactly that's a verbatim what they said and that was nice to hear um this the campuses are looking good the ones that i i got onto i really like the the number of shades that are out there um i'm looking forward to seeing the next nine campuses and see what kind of shades they have there and i asked some students i said how do you like the shades and a comment they said was the seats the black seats are hot they're too hot to sit on uh direct sunlight just beaten down and i felt it and i said oh i see what you mean they said can we paint them white i said well i will take that to the district because white
152reflects and and black absorbs okay is that the ones with the uh solar power it doesn't make any difference some are solar some are not but they're still black so that's a uh a request from from some students directly sitting on them but they also like the uh the ability to charge their their phones and and pads and whatever they had going on there so overall it was it was a great opening i i loved what i saw and look forward to getting back out in the few days and and seeing the rest of the campuses thank you all right well thank you uh yeah i visited uh anaheim high school i i think i don't know if i mentioned gilbert high school last uh one or not but i visited gilbert and then also
153sycamore i think my highlight was uh dale junior high i had i got to visit with the superintendent and man it looks like a actual campus and i was uh actually quoting about it yesterday at the rop meeting as well and i offered all the board members in the opportunity tour one of the brayer board members said well maybe i suggested maybe we take a picture and send it to their community and say this is what you could have if you have a bond so it was uh it was interesting but i i just i am just so happy for the students i was also i also visited the cva which is adjoining so that was nice to see i think the one part which i was very late with is the science classes where
154you could actually open up and bring up the tables and the chairs and do work outside i think that's amazing for our kids and then my my son enrolled in ymca swimming class i was so proud to take him to anaheim high school and i'm jumping in that pool and taking that first picture that was awesome to see him enjoy the pool community to enjoy the pool i think it's a great opportunity i know that they have only a few sessions there i'm sure we're going to build up to open up more sessions in that school rop 50th year and in service that was great to see there and then the rop meeting yesterday and then i also stopped by our new teacher recruitment or the presentation for them i was fortunate enough to say
155a few words but i was uh loving the fact that they were all very excited and then i was loving the fact that yesterday at anaheim high school in sycamore our students were elated to be on campus but our teachers they were so happy i think grant mentioned it during his remarks but truly the teachers were so happy to be back on campus uh and and doing what they loved doing right so that was nice to see that and nice to see you brad and then renee are a pio extraordinaire who actually takes pictures at every event she does a great job of actually talking about all our programs so thank you for doing that i know you do that besides what we do at pio and i'm so glad to hear that uh the
156fundraising efforts for our boosters are working out really well i know i spoke to an anaheim uh booster president who did the who ran the uh booth and he did mention that they did very well than any other years that they've had maybe it's the covet effect but hey welcome welcome for auhsd right so it's nice to see that they have 120 a 25k averaging but if i could get a breakdown of how anaheim high school uh divide up their funds through boosters i like to have that breakdown thank you i don't have a lot to report i've received calls from some parents whose children have started into our system and some who have been here and they just were elated about the condition of the schools the kids how happy they were to be
157on campus happy with the response uh the openness of the teachers and the principals and it was very gratifying to hear that and i happened to have uh was able to view the orange county department of education a three-hour meeting they had several weeks ago on critical race theory and um the first part of it was uh people could come and speak to the board as they do here and i could understand everything each one said and i thought that the community people spoke eloquently and it was understandable uh where their their feelings were coming from what they think is going on and then when it came to the five panelists the system i just don't think it was operating or it wasn't set up well but i couldn't understand what the panelists said and
158it was very frustrating because they were going giving us the viewer the listeners what their opinions were from their professional work life so i was very dissatisfied the fact that we were put to that for three hours and with no understanding fully of what was going on so they've said that there's going to be a second meeting i think it's the 23rd of this month or 28th and i'm going to try and see that too because this is an issue i think that's elevating in this country and it's not fully understood and i think it's being confused in people's minds what they think is being taught in this nation about these issues related to critical race theory and what we are teaching in our schools which is ethnic studies when i came on the board
159i think i'm telling you this accurately 24 years ago i was given information about all the different related items to this school district and when it came to languages it said we we had 72 languages and dr billings was our superintendent at the time and a wonderful woman and i called her and i was just i couldn't believe that so in a period of time i would say maybe a few years those languages were re-rethought and they changed the number for our school district to 55 and i happened to be in a closed session with the board over at the tiger woods center and we our purpose was to find to select a new superintendent so in the closed section session when it was just the board i made the comment about all these languages
160and there was a state superintendent i believe in south carolina or georgia who was speaking related to that on cnn and she was saying how across the nation they had to revise the languages that were taught because i think it's so unsettling to people at large how does education deal with this issue so it's changed over the years i've seen so many changes and i think it's always something that we have to deal with because we're dealing with human beings and our community is very very diverse and with so many different people from all over the world i live in west anaheim which it was would take in savannah and and dale brooker and brookers and magnolia and just in my community alone i've known throughout the decades that i've lived here i've known so
161many people that have come here from vast areas around the planet and it's made our country our community wonderful and we all get along so the other the issue i just wanted to say that when we get reports from the superintendent and the district about different items related to our schools we are getting the updates of what is going on with the bond and what patty neely is accomplishing with her team it just takes my breath away what that gal and those people have managed to do and when i came on this board i told the superintendent then i did not want my kids to go to school in this school district because the schools were in such terrible condition i walked over at magnolia and i said no and then i walked to savannah
162i said no and i could have put my kids into luera but i just thought no they're not going to go in this district today i would put my children in this district what mike and his team have done all i can tell you is i care deeply and love these people because they are ethical hard-working concerned americans and it's the essence of what makes us a country and i just want to say to all of you that are sitting out here thank you for what you do because i have seen the changes and they've gone from here from down here up there so end of speech okay okay the year is revving up i attended the orange county department of ed's uh ethnic studies colloquium also it was very interesting um that was a
163zoom program i went to the white cat ceremony at magnolia and that was delightful to see the campus and what these kids have accomplished in the four or five years we've had our cyber security program going we had a young man two young men who came back who are already working in tech you know cyber security and making good salaries with just a high school education and certificates earned i went to the week of welcome for the new teachers and counselors and whatever and i counted 126 because we had to add chairs and tables on the side of the thing that was really well done you know it was like i had the opportunity to speak to him i said you know when i started many moons ago teaching we didn't have week of welcome
164they gave me my keys and said good luck it's a different world okay um that was really good it was fun to meet a number of the new teachers and what have you and i i ran into another one i met at the week of welcome just coming in here because he's a teacher at south and i when i was coming in for the board meeting it's just really nice and then i went to the opening i attended the opening of schools task force which you know we have all these teachers that spend time every couple of weeks working together in on issues that are a daily concern for a lot of teachers i also went to the leadership advance and i participated in that and that was interesting and i tried not to give
165too much of my opinion but every time i you know i ended up giving it anyway i was trying to be just there to observe what the you know principles and assistant principles were doing but huh yeah yeah they got me okay then i went to an ambassador's meeting the ambassadors were meeting that same week as week of welcome and what a group of great kids you know of course i helped pick them yeah but that's because we had them i spent an entire day saturday from eight to five uh interviewing these kids which was great and i was at the river doing it you know so i couldn't even go outside i had to stay inside i enjoyed it because it's a great opportunity to meet some absolutely superb kids oh great bunch of
166kids and they got me talking and i gave them a little bit of history about the district oh and then i attended a pancake breakfast at cypress high school the first day of the teachers back to school that was fun i got to see a lot of the teachers and say hi and give them pancakes i'm in the cypress kiwanis so they had cypress kiwanis come and serve breakfast for the teachers it was really nice because they were able to meet outside in the quad there's all these seats now and shade and so they had their initial meeting out there so they didn't have to wear masks and they could eat breakfast then i went to the lexington seventh grade orientation that was on tuesday of this week and they did a really good program
167with the kids they had a meet in the in the gymnasium and then they split them up into two groups and had one group playing games while the other group went around the campus being led by asb students and that was uh it was interesting then i went around in and talked to a few of the teachers and got to see some of the classrooms and then cyprus i went to visit cyprus yesterday oh my heavens i was amazed i hid it at lunchtime oh a sea of kids oh it was great though i loved being in the middle of all these kids and walking around it was just and they were playing music and you know they had a thing going and it was really a nicely thing but it was just amazing how
168many kids are there they got almost 3 000 kids there and we were talking about that and it's sort of like okay nobody eats inside right what do we do if it rains slim chance but you know as we get into winter time you know let's hope we can relax that no eating inside you know because it might pose a problem okay um i visited oxford okay here's okay and then i have a a conundrum with that parking in the front okay i was flabbergasted because i went to pull up in front and it's all red it says buses only and drop off oh okay so then i went around back and i'm going well how do we get in this is the middle of the day yeah okay it's very difficult so i but
169i did find the one gate in the very back by the gym that had the pass so i could get in the side doesn't have it okay but then i caught then i walked in through the campus and i'm going to go to the main office and i i'm not there's no main office door the sign says this way so i'm finding the sign and it just leads me to to leave and i'm going okay so then i tried the work room door it didn't open then i tried the second workroom door and it opened so then i went in that way and i'm going how are you supposed to get into this school okay so i got i talked to the to the ladies in the in the office and i talked but i
170come to find out i guess part of the reason we can't park or have any green uh you know momentary parking is the fire department i guess says they need the whole space in case so it's not wide enough for parking but a lot of the parents don't pay attention to that because that's how you get into the main office but i mean i was ready to bring it up and say we've got to do something about that but i already talked to patty neely about changing that in the front she told me it cost a million dollars to get back to the parking we had before it was torn out and put grass in and i mean we're going to have to face this thing about all that grass that does nothing okay when
171it comes time to talk about water conservation you know whatever we need to go back to concrete and parking and and there's not a lot of parking at that so that's something for the future or another bond you know we'll get a better parking situation okay so much for that and then oh the robotics room beautiful now evidently they've had some problems because if kovid got interfered and they've got all that equipment sitting in there that has to be put together and it has to be done by the you know the company that they bought it from or another company that has the technological knowledge it's nothing our our our you know our guys can do so i was talking to the the teacher and he said you know with with what happened with covet
172and then you know lack of people you know coming out so that's an issue we may have to look into because they're it's going to cost them extra to have that those that equipment for the robotics put together is still in boxes in there but that's a great facility we have 68 million yeah 68 million it's it is super really nice and i love the bench out in front that's made out of the wood that is super and they got a lot of new oh that's the other thing the old benches you know lunch benches the tables they're sitting in a pile yeah at the east end and they're they haven't been picked up yet so we got to get a fire on that one you know get them you know so and then my
173last visit was this morning i went to lexington for coffee with the principal danny did a good job of going over over everything with the parents that were there and then they had about another hundred online plus what they had in in in the auditorium i mean the multi-purpose room and then i took the time after his coffee i went around and introduced myself to about eight new teachers and counselors and what have you because there are a number of them there that i had not had the opportunity to meet that are new since the time i was there and uh and a little bit of it was personal because i wanted to get to meet some of the teachers my grandson would have so because i have warned him i'm going to be around
174you know so you know i warned him if i know your teacher they know me they're not going to be upset if i want to sit in their classroom because they know me as anna not as a board member so but it was i have to tell you this it was cute oh this new teacher leo ramirez is a teaching social studies at lexington it's his first year here at you know in the district but i was impressed because i was standing outside of another teacher's room waiting for the beldering and he brought his class out and he was getting them lined up to take a picture and he knew all their names already and i'm going i was amazed because he's saying come over here you know that so then i i was really
175amazed and i said that is really neat i said it didn't take you any time at all to learn these kids names he said well he'd had him fill out cards and he said he tried to remember he said but he was having trouble on you know on pronouncing some of them but i was impressed that was really neat how and then he got them out there and he wanted to take a picture and then he was going to share the picture with them the next day so i thought that was pretty neat but then i did when i was i stayed talking with him it was quite interesting and then my grandson was supposed to be next door and i thought he'd run away from me but he didn't he saw me standing in
176the classroom and he stopped at the doorway and he just kind of gave me a grin and i went oh i had to go over and hug him and kiss him all right you better do good because grandma's going to be around oh so anyway that was my day at lexington this morning and then um did i go to another school lexington in oxford that was that was it today i was going to try to make it to orangeville but i was tired but it does i'm sorry there's no way i can make nine class schools in a day i talk too much i you know i i cannot go to lexington without talking at least two hours for three of my business what would you please let our teachers teach oh no no i'm
177not interfering with the teachers come on it's not unless they're on conference you know okay but i'm talking to them come on i gotta get to know everybody so so that was it okay moving on enough of that uh we're on to item 13 advanced planning future meeting meeting dates we will be meeting again on tuesday september 14th at 6 pm now i just noticed the tuesday is there uh do we know why we're meeting tuesday uh yes the um unordered actuals has to be presented to the board by september 15th of the year so we'll be bringing you the audit actuals okay for approval on on the 14th okay because of the audit okay very good thank you all righty so that will be our next meeting uh any suggested agenda items just a
178a question uh about when are we slated for an update on uh mental health do you have an idea well we had a double present um i think it was a month until two months ago we can have her present again if you'd like just uh maybe just if it's an update or yeah yeah just uh just i think what particularly would you want um i've had a friday update yeah yeah that's fine what particular information is pretty broad you know maybe uh the the actual numbers of students that we we service you know during during the summer and then and beyond uh during the pandemic um i don't read i don't remember i'm sorry if if that was presented but i don't remember that that being presented um okay well i try to get
179and if you think specifically what you want have them know okay all right anything else see none we will you know i have a motion for you got it second uh motion in a second for all in favor aye we will adjourn at 8 46.