6/17 AUHSD Board Meeting: Open Session (6:00PM)

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002which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all there's a lot of things I could bring up in order for us to give a moment of silence to but I'm going to revert back to our last holiday at Memorial day and hope you know and and shout out to all those men and women who gave service in our country and if you didn't have a chance to think of them on that day please think of them now and be very thankful for all that they have done for us now we will have our Clos session report and the clerk of the Board of Trustees will report the actions that we have taken during close session 4.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 4.2 no reportable action

003taken regarding negotiations 4.3 no reportable action taken regarding Personnel 4.4 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointment James Robinson executive director of fiscal Services 4.5 the Board of Trustees by a vote of 5 to zero approve the settlement agreement in Orange County Superior Court case number 30-25 D 2893 Dash C Das p dash c JC 4.6 the Board of Trustees by a vote of 5 to zero approve the settlement agreement in Orange County Superior Court case number 30- 219-01 64-6 I'm sorry cu- 03- CJC 4.7 the Board of Trustees by a vote of 5 to Zer approve the settlement agreement in oah case number 0454 resolving all issues in students due process complaint by providing compensatory service assessing student and providing reimbursement in the the amount of $8,000 4.8 the Board

004of Trustees by a vote of five to Zer approved the settlement agreement in oah case number 04786 resolving all issues and students do process complaint by providing compensatory services and independent educational evaluation and reimbursement in the amount of $5,500 okay thank you we'll move on to recognitions and our six item 6.1 are classified employees of the year the Board of Trustees would like to recognize the Anaheim Union School District 2021 2020 to 2021 classified employee of the year nominees that are listed on the agenda these 24 classified employees of the year are not were nominated are and were recognized I'm sorry did you recogniz oh is James I was looking James I didn't recognize you I'm sorry new to James okay oh do you want me to do that now or after Well normally right

005it's after okay I'm going say I kept looking and I didn't see okay they omitted that right here I kept looking to see where it was okay I'd like to make the recognition of some of our community stakeholders that are here at our district meeting for attending our board meeting and we want to thank you and each one of you for your participation and contribution as we create an educational environment that graduates socially aware civic-minded students okay and we have James Goran representing AA the vice president of Asa and we have one of our new hires who James robon James all right come he didn't give me his name I'm sorry Robinson James Robinson James it's not here I okay we go oh jam James Robinson okay I'm sorry James okay this is our new

006uh executive director director now wait a minute I got this whole title written down here okay he's our new executive director of fiscal Services would you like to come forward and introduce yourself [Applause] [Music] [Applause] J this one okay sure it threw me a curve and I apologized both of you gentlemen not a problem I understand how these things go and especially just transitioning back to the the physical environment and all the so so we're all evolving in in in together so first of all I want to thank the board for for the vote and the support obviously it means a great deal to me to be able to continue in school business for Anaheim Union I'd also like to thank superintendent Masuda Nancy in and the cabinet and I'm just really looking forward to

007supporting the entire Anaheim Union team as you serve students and families and such a large District large High School Middle School District so really looking forward to getting started next month so thank you guys again for your support and confidence welcome okay welcome [Applause] aboard okay um and besides anybody besides James Gan I don't is do we have any other Representatives any PTA or CSEA uh no okay it this is different we're having some people inside this time rather than just us you know so I apologize okay um let me continue on then about our classified employees we'd like to recognize um the 24 classified employee of the year nominees were recognized during a virtual event on May 13th of 2021 for their Exemplar service to the district the students and the community and the

008Board of Trustees Echoes the statements of appreciation and recognizes the efforts of these dedicated employees and acknowledges the value of their contributions and the Board of Trustees applauds e these employees and their contributions that they have given to the district okay so now we'll back over here to reports of associations and since we have Mr Goran here representing asra would You' like to step up to the mic and give us a report a glowing report I know I felt kind of like I was on the price of right today I had to like come on down from the other room to on my speech today so all right uh good evening board members superintendent mattuda and cabinet members ASA would like to congratulate the district on the completion of another success uccessful lcap stakeholder engagement

009process the association is appreciative of the transparency of the process and for the opportunity for all the stakeholders to meaningfully participate and influence the allocation of District funds on behalf of our students this school year all stakeholder groups prioritized reducing class size as a significant student need post pandemic and the district was supportive of the recommendation for the next two school years our students will benefit socially emotionally and academically from the these lower class sizes ASA is grateful for the investment in smaller classes to better serve our students and their families as is pleaseed to announce that after receiving a $75,000 Community Schools Grant from the National Education Association our national teacher Union affiliate AA leaders have begun the process of meeting with District representatives to coordinate the growth and expansion of the current ahsd

010Community Schools program at Sycamore and Anaheim High School with the shared goal of implementing Community Schools at Dale Junior High and Magnolia in the upcoming school year it is our hope that through this collaborative effort we will establish a model governance structure and best practices for future Community Schools in our district thanks to family and Community engagement face coordinator araseli Chavez and Community Schools coordinators Tanya Garcia and Arelli Hera for being our partners in this project this past school year there were many covid related challenges that impacted the safety of students and employees as intense as these challenges were the covid pandemic created another opportunity for ASA and the district to rise up together to meet these challenges as collaborative problem solvers through various groups and committees we know that there will be different challenges

011this year but we look forward to continuing to problem solve with the district as an equal partner in the collaborative process we thank the board and cabinet for their commitment to our partnership thank you jam okay thank you James um and Sumer James yes uh do we have any other Association members that came in and mod report I don't see any other okay um moving on then to public comments Open Session items this is the opportunity for the public to make comments at the beginning of each agenda item and 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 at on the information table at the back of the room each speaker is limited to a maximum of five

012minutes each topic is limited to a total of 20 minutes board members cannot immediately respond to your public comment as stated on the speaker request form comments may be submitted online as well until noon of well that was today and online submissions will be provided to the trustees prior to the board meeting I have four re request to speak and we will start with Anna Fernandez good evening Anaheim Union High School School District Board of Trustees my name is Anna Fernandez I am a parent of Price Elementary with with Anaheim intersections initiative our group has been meeting on a regular basis since March of 2020 right before our lives changed due to the covid-19 pandemic we are a coalition made up of students parents community members and nonprofit organizations from the city of Anaheim we

013seek to confront institutional racism or any other form of discrimination and strengthen the engagement in local school systems to ensure improve D education outcomes for Anaheim students leaders of today and tomorrow especially our most vulnerable students as well as improve family involvement in students educations and support Equitable resource distribution of Anaheim schools and communities with a mutual goal to develop school systems in achieving the 21st century education in the last year we've held various research meetings with school board members and superintendent vuda on April 22nd we we presented our vision for racially Equitable schools through a restorative restart by presenting a couple of policy briefs and recommendations to ensure the well-being of our students especially the additional funds received from the cares act and American Rescue plan Act of additional 125.95 to auhsd our parents

014participate in the alcap process to have a voice in the Equitable budget decisionmaking process however after participating in in the complete process I still don't fully understand the puzzle as a whole when we only participate in one piece we want transparency to be reflected by understanding the budget distribution process never really been able to fully express my thoughts and it's usually because of the zoom the limitation with the zoom and um the access to some of the features and there's also this time constraint what I would like to see or we would like to see is parents take more of an active role in the decision-making and we really want our parents to advocate for the students and our community thank you okay thank you our next speaker is Aiden Pena P sorry good evening

015Board of Trustees my my name is Adan P I am a student at anim high school and I am a part of a nonprofit or organizing Coalition known as anim intersections we had originally gathered together to help end institutional racism and other forms of discrimination we had gathered together in March of 2020 right before the pandemic in which the lives of our own and those within our communities were impacted tremendously throughout the pandemic our group has gathered together and met with various groups of people parents students community members and board members and District administrative staff through these gatherings We join together to discuss and communicate with each other various over various problems I myself as a student who has experienced the pandemic along with many others have myself experienced mental health issues throughout the pandemic

016has experien mental health issues throughout the pandemic for example sorry I noticed myself feeling more anxious as the pandemic progressed due to the new environment I was placed in while continuing my studies online a big part of the reason why my anxiety worsened was due to the fact that that my camera normally be off because of this it had also led me to feel more disconnected from my classmates I also witnessed friends and family to have experienced similar if not worse mental health issues which is why I stand before you to share the impact and ask you to prioritize our well-being through the adoption of the budget it is necessary that we are able to access and utilize additional 120 5 million to ensure a restorative start for all students our academic success will directly

017be directly connected to our overall well-being the pandemic has impacted everyone in some way but students are affected which is in a different way as it came at Key developmental time during our lives to heal and restore some of the long-term damage these resources are easily accessible to everyone because even if some people say they are okay chances are they are not thank you for your time and having me well done well done thank you Marissa bermudes our next speaker um good evening board trustees um very happy to be here tonight um very happy to see you all and I'm glad we're in this space um which we've missed for a while right um well my name is Marita bmes I am a parent of an eighth grade student at syamore Junior High and right

018now everything just blew off after I heard aan of what I actually wanted to come say um like you said this pandemic really hit us hard I a 92805 resident um I live in the Rose Vine Bush neighborhood which was really highly impacted by the covid I also was working during the pandemic with um a nonprofit organization so I saw firsthand um what the pandemic did especially to my community um try to recollect my thoughts because um we also um went through some hard times with my daughter um and so um I really want to advocate for for the mental health and I'm part of the mental health ambassador program and I'm going to really put more than 100% into it because I firstand lived it so we want to make sure that our families

019you know have that um support and also I want to thank you guys um especially miss anarie Mr Al Jabar that were out there with me miss anarie you were there when we started doing the milk distributions with other parents from manaheim Union and Anaheim elementary that we saw the need and you made the connection with another organization so I thank you for that because my community and the community here not just only in Anaheim but Santa Ana and other cities around were benefited by that connection that you did for us um Mr aljabar been very very key in helping our community and from the bottom of my heart I really thank everything you've done and I thank all of you for the support that you had for um you know not reopening our schools

020cuz I know other parents wanted to open the schools but um you made a good decision overall and I look forward to having all our kids back in August when it is a lot safer to be there um one thing I wanted to touch on um was on the parent involvement I've been a very involved parent I don't like when they say I'm a parent leader because I love my community I am an Anaheim high school graduate I have a 2017 um daughter who graduated from manaheim high school um pra will also had graduated from manaheim high school and three more children of mine will graduate from manaheim high school that is my love for my community and I'm here to let you know that we are Partners we as parents want a seat at

021the table and you have given us that seat at the table but not completely we sometimes are shut out of certain things we're not giving a full voice for example in the elap a lot of our parents don't understand even what the ELC cap is I do have a little bit more understanding of what the El Cap is because I've been a little bit more involved over the years but I see that lack of interest of some parents because they're they are not um they're not fully aware what it is so we need to do a better job to educate and invite our parents to be part of this process and that we are welcomed and that we are willing you are willing to show us you know each step of the process um like

022my um Le parent Anna oranda said you know the the we don't really understand it completely we're kind of only get one piece of the puzzle and we need to be able to know every piece of the puzzle and how to put it together because I believe that the biggest partner that a school district has is a parent it's the family it's where it starts and I'm living proof of it because I was part of the first Cort of the parent leadership academy that um when they started the um in the district and I'm living proof because I have a a University graduate as of a month ago and so being involved I know gives your child a better chance to succeed and I want to really really invite you to look into the parent

023involvement piece because my daughter was going to Sycamore Junior High and she's going to be going next year but that poor face that was the that was her first year which I thank Al Jabar for giving me a seat at the table to be part of the interview process because I feel it's very important that parents have a seat at the table when we're interviewing anything that has to do with family engagement that we are not um left to the side because they will be working with us and I as a parent and being involved know my community and I feel like I can bring that after all these years of experience I can keep on working even harder with the district and with my my schools but during the pandemic yes there was food

024distributions yes there was Co testing I knew it because I worked almost at all the co testing clinics when we were testing over a thousand people but there was no no support for that faces that I saw at sore Junior High right in the 92805 area we needed more support I know our our Direction focused on the testing on the food distributions but we also had parents like myself that wanted to keep on growing even though we were in the middle of a pandemic I wanted to learn more my time almost up okay sorry so I just want to invite you to look more into the parent involvement piece how we can better build more parent involvement parent engagement and parent leaders thank you thank you very much much and our last speaker will be

025Rosa Bond uh good evening everyone yes I am a parent I know I look young um but it's lucky you right um but when it comes to my kids I'm I'm very expressive in that I'm advocating for them even though they're they're still little right now and you know what I'm also part of the Anaheim intersections Initiative for that reason I've experienced it personal experiences from children being discriminated at school and and it hurts so I want to create an atmosphere for my children where they're able to take on that leadership role for the community and in doing so having open conver conversations of what the reality is institutional racism and because of the pandemic I know you you guys are probably going to be tired of hearing that but I I was already aware

026of what was going on because I lived it now most of us are aware of it now even more because there's facts there's there's statistics that is showing that students are not giving the opportunities that they deserve because of a system and we have the ability to change those systems and they're not going to be easy but I want to have dialogues with you guys and the difficulties of students not being able to have the same opportunities for various reasons housing um having opportunities to advance or just it it's frustrating as a parent um my child may have other opportunities but other students are not and parents are trying to figure out why is my student not good enough if they're not studying and their systems that are that are students are falling in the

027cracks and I think we need to address them and the elap is a great opportunity um although you know like most of uh you know Anna mentioned it and Marissa's parents that I want to be engaged in those conversations I want you guys take my word and that I'm sharing my experiences because I live them and also because I'm hearing from the community the community is crying out for us to uh raise those uh voices and say uh students need opportunities and we need to look in the parent engagement as an actual stud uh stakeholder as well in that their opinion matters because they're there with the the the students help us understand that process help us understand that institution because there's something wrong with it otherwise I would not be here if everything was

028fine so I just wanted to say that and sorry I'm all over the place but I just want students to have opportunities and I want us to be want us to be mindful I want us to be open of what is not working so that we can collaborate and find something that is working because the students deserve that and more and I think this is a great opportunity because covid is going to fade off and and we have the opportunity to address those tough issues those con difficult conversations those trainings those um workshops JS that are much needed to address what needs to be addressed because those students are going to be in history and we want to make sure that they're doing history Justice and that they're the ones that are making those changes

029in transparency and uh I want to thank you because I can continue on talking of how much I you know want to be a supportive parent and engaged in in conversations like this and I know they're not easy um but something has to be done and somebody has to address it and if I don't mind being uh me or or my uh fellow um supporters and that we just want to address something that is not easy and it just needs to be done and I hope that you guys uh really consider having that dialogue thank you thank you and thank you to all of our public comment speakers we appreciate you taking the time and coming up and giving us your your concerns and your comments moving on now we will go on to some

030of our presentations this evening 9.1 will be the California school dashboard and local indicators and Dr Fred will be presenting this information great thank you board president Pi I know our our Ed division team is going to be coming on in I do want to say as as Paulina is getting the the power point first of all good evening members of the board president piery cabinet those in the audience and of course those watching tonight can I in a Madam president I just wanted to kind of make sure that the parents who are here and Adan as a student that you guys stick around for the lcap presentation and afterwards so that way you understand the questions and all that so hopefully you guys will stick around thank you right because it will be right

031after this item it is 9.2 as most of you were aware of yes yes and actually what I was just going to say too is um although tonight is going to feel somewhat celebratory and I'll explain why in a second because of the challenges that we went through as a district and how I think we really did a beautiful job of navigating the challenges that we were all presented with uh I also want to acknowledge uh what our parents and our students our students said this evening because uh as you all know the pandemic did exacerbate or heighten a lot of the inequities that were already in place it made it very clear it also I think brought to us a lot of Silver Linings things that we as an educational system can do differently

032to better support students and provide even more um uh promising outcomes for students as they move into a college career in life success so we're going to touch upon that tonight in our presentation both this first one which is the local indicator presentation but then in more depth in our elcap presentation that we'll will'll follow this uh having said that I am incredibly proud of the work that our district has done this school year uh it hasn't been easy and there have been a lot of challenges that that uh we've been faced with but I think our teachers our counselors our classified staff our administrators have done a remarkable job um working closely with our community to really try to close some of those gaps and build the structures and systems that need to be

033built to support our students long term so I'm excited to share this this with you and our team uh tonight tonight's first presentation is really connected to the school California school dashboard and the local indicators um as you know the purpose of this presentation we've been doing this for a few years now we didn't do it last year because it was suspended as a result of the pandemic but we've been doing this the last couple years where really it's it's it's we're going to give you a brief overview of the California dashboard know that the dashboard is very different than the system we used to have the accountability system that was based on a single test now there are multiple measures and um my colleague will share a little more in detail in a moment

034but it's also a chance to share the reflective tools that our district has used to assess um the our progress as it relates to these local indicators just like our local control accountability plan our lcap is all about local control and US internally our community making decisions on how we want to spend our resources and support students these local indicators give us a lot of autonomy to reflect on the things that we're doing as it connects these local indicators to support students in those areas also by doing this presentation we are meeting the requirement that has been established by the California Department of Education which requires us to to hold a presentation at a board meeting to make the board aware of the process the local Education Agency our district went through to meet this

035requirement okay so having said that it is going to be a great pleasure to bring up my colleague who in two weeks will officially become as you know our director of career preparedness systems framework Miss Amanda Bean good evening Board of Trustees um cabinet thank you for having us tonight uh tonight our team is going to be preparing or sharing with you uh the local indicators and the work that we've done um so to talk really quickly about the accountability system just to keep in mind that um this is what we use to share our performance data with the public and how we're compared and majored against other districts and other schools within our state as Dr freed said it is more than a single number and so recognizing that a quality education is defined

036by more than a single test score as we as we will see in some of the um the topics that we'll talk about tonight also it's a measurement of continuous Improvement and so every year a change or a percent is calculated and we're compared to the previous year and and we're measured against our own our own growth and not necessarily compared to the growth of other districts but our own our own growth each year one of the biggest things I think is important to all of us is that it focuses on um addressing the disparities amongst the student groups and so we have a great focus on our students student groups such as English Learners students with disabilities Foster youth mcky Bento and we really have a great emphasis on making sure that we are

037addressing the needs of those particular groups and then also the uh account ability system is integral to the development of our lcap and that local decision making and so we have been given the honor and the privilege of being able to make those decisions for ourself and the data that comes from from the the accountability system and the dashboard and the indicators helps us be able to do that effectively so one thing to keep in mind that this year when we look at the dashboard calculations because of covid-19 and the recent legislation the 2020 dashboard only reported demographic information so the school details the population data and that was about it um otherwise um we uh we didn't report on other things like chronic absenteeism or a through G data or graduation rate like we

038normally would so when we see our results for the 2021 dashboard it's going to be a comparison based from 2019 to 2021 and so we'll have skipped the 2020 school year the dashboard really informs the development of the alcap like I mentioned so the dashboard really helps us identify the areas of strength and the areas of need within our district because of the way um it's reported we can see where we're growing um it's very simple system with a a color coding that helps us see very quickly like our areas of growth and our our areas of need along with our local data and our local priorities such as College and Career Readiness um measure measurements and indicators our new career preparedness systems framework we can use those additional data points to inform our decision

039making and our planning which then creates the LC cap and so the um and the lcap is our vehicle for us to review articulate our plans address our areas of a need decide how we're going to spend our money and um make sure that we're supporting those student groups uh later tonight you will hear a really in-depth presentation about the lcap so leading into the indicators uh as the dashboard makes up 11 um multiple measures and so six of them are State indicators and we're not going to focus so much on those tonight but those six indicators do include the graduation rate academic Performance Suspension rate English learner programs the College and Career indicator which within that includes a through G dual enrollment um AP participation IB participation JROTC participation so there's a lot of

040things that go into that indicator and also chronic absenteeism what we're going to focus on tonight are the five local indicators which are basic conditions implementation of the state standards parent engagement um School climate and then access to a broad course of study to help aid in the presentation tonight as our colleagues are are speaking we did provide a data packet to accompany some of the data points that lead into these indicators so you know you may have questions about you know some of what um is being presented there are some data pieces for you to to look at and then be able to ask about at the end so just a again a reminder that um we are required to use the State Board of Education approved reflection tools to Major our progress on

041these five indicators and so we um we go through and we um do an evaluation on the five indicators and we submit them to the dashboard um in the early fall and that was public information so anybody can go on to the dashboard and see um our narratives and what we have um indicated uh the work that we've done towards meeting the indicator and we are to report our progress at a board meeting which is what's going to happen tonight so with that I would like to uh invite Mr Joe Carmona to speak with us about the local indicator of basic Services thank you good evening board cabinet members and guests uh I'll be speaking tonight uh regarding uh the indicator uh surrounding uh basic services oh sorry sorry Dr so there um while this

042is one area uh there are actually three different components that make up the basic Services indicator uh the first addresses State Priority One which is about appropriately credential teachers uh or Priority One is appropriately credential teachers um are access to um standards aligned instructional materials and cleaning and functional school facilities um these are measured by three defined areas right so that's our credentialing information for our teachers um uh we do a report each year around access to instructional materials and uh you as uh the board approved that resolution each year that we have access to those materials uh and then lastly for school facilities we use What's called the facility inspection tool um and that's a standard which is set by the state and that's reported on our school accountability report card um and so

043uh that Tool uh again it it's very um specific in its scope right and basically it's our facilities in good repair um and there it's a a checklist right of all these different items um that um are reviewed through the Williams review uh and so um you know sometimes people are like well this school is very old yes but we've done a great job of keeping it in good repair right so uh don't want to confuse age with uh you know the tremendous work of our maintenance and uh other staff who maintain our facilities so for uh this indicator we did uh meet um our Targets in these areas in terms of appropriately credentialed and assigned teachers um all of our teachers are appropriately credentialed uh and we had eight misassignments uh those misassignments were

044uh actually in the area of Roc our Roc instructors have the appropriately credential but they do not have an eel authorization which is why they are considered misassigned for when they have students who are English Learners uh and that's why it is only eight because we have eight of those different um instructors across the various programs so that's a tremendous job uh thanks to our human resources department uh for continuing to ensure that we hire qualified folks and it's also a testament to uh really the appeal of working in our school district right we continue to draw quality applicants for all of um the positions we have uh available each year the second component access to um aligned instruction materials so all of our students had access to their materials uh this was a um

045while normally uh we might consider this a pretty easy task right students come to school and we give them their books and their materials uh with the pandemic this really required much more than it has in the past so this was a tremendous effort um on the behalf of our district librarian the library of media technicians our site technicians Eric greenoid in his Department providing devices and access um so whether students had a physical textbook or were accessing an electronic version uh that was really a Monumental effort this year to ensure that our students um had access to all of those necessary materials and then lastly cleaning and functional school facilities so again um all of our facilities met the standard of being in good repair uh and this included uh you know we had

046zero um extreme deficiencies uh so uh again that is based around the use of What's called the facility inspection tool um and so while uh our maintenance department um does a tremendous uh work in maintaining our facilities and obviously we continue to look at uh uh updating and improving our facilities and uh Patty's uh Team under the direction of uh Nancy right continues to do amazing work in that area so uh so for our first IND indicator of basic Services we met each of those areas and with that I'll turn it over to my colleague Jackie counts can I can I ask a a question you absolutely May Mr Jabar the how do we remedy the eight Miss assignment of teachers uh so um Scott uh Jensen and actually uh myself U Mr Hernandez and

047Mrs Bean uh have spent uh a considerable amount of time meeting with the RC instructor instructors um to develop a plan where uh they can earn that appropriate um CR credential over a period of time um right the the uh specific type of credential that uh they have which allows them to be an ROTC instructor it's not the same as a usual teach uh teaching credential right um and so uh we have worked with them to put out a plan in place uh where over uh a period of 2 to three years they can actually complete those additional requirements that the rest of our teachers um have completed so they can um have that uh English learner authorization as well thank you all right thank you and with that I'll turn it over to Jackie

048good evening good evening Board of Trustees and cabinet it's my pleasure to oh let me see here we go it's my pleasure to um present to you local indicator implementation of State Standards State priority two um we use the standard reads the Lea annually measures the progress of implementing state standard um State um academic standards the tool was supplied by the uh California state of California and we used a reflection tool and we rate the ela's progress in providing professional learning for for teaching to the recently adopted academic standards and curriculum framework in in Anaheim Union High School District as you know we have three tools that teachers use to plan their lessons and to implement both the state standards and the and the framework itself the um all F all three of these tools

049are student centered starting with the five C's you have the five C's that are skills the skills that students need to be successful at school in college in career and in life the first best instruction focuses mostly on what we call knowing your student knowing their story knowing their assets and needs and um knowing their names and we we demonstrate this by capturing kids hearts even in this Pand pmic teachers in this in the virtual world know the kids' names they have the kids actually um use thumbs up thumbs down questions and they encourage kids to be part of the class to be actively involved in the class and then the final piece is the career preparedness systems framework this is pulling it all together you notice even in the graphic there the student is

050in the center and this year our professional learning will really focus on a great deal on student voice and purpose and this is also indicated through our soapbox speeches our ahsd talks and um also through our career exploration and dual enrollment and also um definitely with our exclusive career Pathways that we have in all of our high schools and Junior highs so we're going beyond the standards is what we're saying so ahsd shows areas of strength in providing professional learning and instructional materials aligned to the standards Frameworks through a system of support and in this next slide you see there it is the system of the support for professional learning that auhsd has developed starts really with our curricul Specialists who lead the professional learning in uh leading Department chairs lead teachers 5c coaches but

051also our education division directors and coordinators do a great deal too um you've seen the presentations by some of our directors I'm thinking the math taxt Force the ethnic studies also uh Dr Bryant leads the world languages and so it is a system it's all um all of us in this together providing the best type of professional learning to support our teachers and ultimately our students here's some more highlights that do demonstrate the implementation of State Standards our learning management system last summer as you recall we had to do a quick pivot or quick turnaround to get all of our students trained in schoology this was led Again by our curriculum Specialists and I'm very proud to say that about a thousand teachers were trained during the summer to get ready for the fall and

052now starting the spring we're switching to e Cadence and the E and the same thing has happened with the help of the 5c coaches department shairs and other lead teachers our teachers at every site were trained on the basics of the Cadence our learning man our new learning management system and this summer we have multitudes of professional learning going on currently and through the rest of the summer the plan is to continue that training for the learning management system we even have what we call a tech Squad and it's a it's a group of students who are developing videos and other um frequently asked questions they're they um Cambridge Virtual Academy Kids who've had the privilege to be using ecence this whole year so they have a real bead on what really is needed and

053they're working on it as we speak this whole month of June we also have the state seal of Civic engagement we had 19 this is the first year that this was um this was actually implemented by the state we had 1,900 ahsd students who received the Seal of a state seal of Civic engagement and I want to um emphasize that out of the out of the 3,000 Statewide 1900 were Anaheim Union High School District students I think that is that is something to be very very proud of we have California we have 16 16 California democracy schools and this year we had two um schools earn the um highest privilege of Excellence for the State of California uh Civic engagement and we had four others receive the merit award again in the state seal of

054by literacy we had 19 or 131 students receive their seal of biliteracy and this is all during a pandemic Year all of our trainings are purposefully and very focused on these three pillars the pillars of course routine and predictability that's always great for our our our certain student groups such as our students with disability and English learners but it's great for every student to know what is where do I find the the language objective the um the objective for the day where do I find all the resources that I need they need to know this and our teachers are being trained to do that specifically the the second one is teacher presence again I go back to capturing kids Hearts um restorative circles and other pieces like that that really add to the social emotional

055needs of our students and this is with teachers presence okay and third is always so important community building and connection we want the kids to feel they're connected to our schools and our district these three pillars are the basis of our professional learning so what are our areas of growth on our next steps you heard from Carlos Hernandez about the math task force findings which resulted in the adoption of new textbooks in both Junior High and high school not going to go into that too much because you had a very thorough presentation in May um I think something to be uh very highlighted here is that the teachers felt empowered the teachers are ready to take on these new the new Adoption but I will say this professional learning is not going to be focused

056so much on the materials as it is focused on the math Frameworks and the mathematical practices this is very important UCI science project and Next Generation science standards uh lead teachers have been trained by us C on this they are developing a scope and sequence for the junior high courses and the three three courses in high school professional learning will ensue that's based on that that definitely for all science teachers and it will happen this year that's questions I just want I don't know if all board members got this information oh yeah on page seven I know I was to say that's a different language but came out I think it's the same with the presentation to the community too so can you go back to that slide go back to that slide so we

057I I was copying down what it should want me to go back yeah please yeah I I wrot it down I page seven yeah okay there you go what's that far right one curriculum specialist education division directors Department chairs 5c coaches lead teachers teachers and Tech coaches top right top right is um Education Direct division directors professional learnings in the center and then the center is professional learning yeah made it special I guess it's okay they were testing the board members to see if we're paying attention yeah for paying attention right okay and with that um any questions otherwise questions okay it's my pleasure to introduce um Carlos Hernandez well I wanted to know what country that language came from it looks Greek Greece that's on the wrong keys on the keyboard that's Greek oh

058I don't know I don't even know if it is oneish just a slide of hand to the right right on the keyboard or to the left that's all it is yeah that's F ve over the public uh printed copies are um are in English it is it is accurate there it is good evening thank you again for our opportunity uh Carlos Hernandez director of curriculum and instruction and uh I am honored to talk about um this local indicator we uh Define here it says parent engagement but Anaheim Union we Define as as family and Community engagement and so when we look at um how we meet this standard we're going to take a look at uh our families uh and our Community Partnerships so there's two uh significant um areas that we address that we're

059going to be measuring and we've measured uh one is seeking input from parents uh decision Mak uh in the decision- making and the second is promoting parental uh participation in programs uh and so those two areas we've uh used the following tools to take a look at to measure to Monitor and we do um know that we have some successes but we have some work to do we have some areas of growth that we're going to we're going to address and talk through so the tools that we look through and there are three um areas that we're going to be looking through this lens uh in the next slide and one of them is building relationships between the school staff and the families and how important that is starting with a welcoming environment the second

060is building Partnerships for Student Success and that's Partnerships with our families and with our communities ultimately for our students success uh and seeking input is our third uh uh area that we Monitor and we look through uh in those tools to be able to uh make decisions together collectively and uh as part of uh what we do here in Anaheim Union and I I know that um we've talked about that and I appreciate the public comments it's very timely as we talk through family community engagements I want to thank our our parents and our stakeholders for being here um because we we have two slides but we would like to and we are excited and and and with with approval present in August a deeper look at family community engagement what are some areas of

061growth and what are we doing about it and so just a little preview I what I hope to be an August presentation so one of the areas of growth um is ensuring and collaborating on how we measure right the the parental participation and we're going to be taking a look at at at the numbers you have the numbers in front of you uh and we will take a look through that ultimately uh the essential question that we look here is how do we know that the family and Community engagement um structures tools tools uh programs events impact Student Success how do we know and so I love the testimony of you know my student is successful because I got involved early and I have now a university daughter from Miss Bera said so that's the

062kind of how do we know that it's making an impact so we're going to take look through those that lens uh it is my honor to bring up our coordinator for family community engagement to take a look at um some examples in those three areas the tools that that we look at through the local indicator thank you Mr Hernandez good evening board members cabinet members and I want to publicly wish Carlos a happy birthday happy birthday Carlos got another one hey uh yeah thank you for having us here tonight um this is a very um uh a topic that I'd love to talk about family community engagement I'm uh very passionate about the work that we do here here at Anaheim Union and although today you will be looking at data for family community engagement

063there's nothing like hearing directly from parents on the impact that our work has and there's a parent out there sitting out there Juanita Ramirez who just came up to us showed us a picture of her son who just graduated from catella high school who was struggling you know months back and said you know if it wasn't for the work that you all are doing if it wasn't for the Partnerships uh for the support that you you brought to my home I don't know if my son would have been able to graduate and he came back from access and graduated from catella high school so she said this diploma belongs to all of us as a community and that was just you know such a great Testament to the work that we we're all doing and

064so thank you again Marisa for for your comments and all of you parents for being here um so you'll see up in the slide you know the three areas that we look into when um measuring family community engagement um we look at developing relationships between schools and families and we have a full team of family community engagement starting with our family community engagement specialists at every one of our sites and I'm happy to say that next year every single school will have a full-time family community engagement specialist um and you know the role yes yes yay the role of our faces is to do exactly that to develop relationships with our families and so it's so important to develop that trust between our families and our schools and they do such an amazing job of

065doing that you know parents feel welcome coming to the schools um they feel comfortable speaking to our staff ask asking questions and participating and we truly view parents as partners and I heard Mrs bermudes say that and um we truly believe that parents are our best Partners in the education of our children so we do a very good job of you know reaching out to our families anding yes there's work to do and we're working on it we're growing together um we look at building Partnerships um all for student outcomes you know I just spoke about the student graduating from Cella at the end of the day we're all here for a common goal and that is you know Student Success so we do the parent the virtual parent learning walks this year was a

066very challenging year and so although we didn't do our regular activities in person our work didn't stop it never stopped I actually can't think of a time where our faces worked so hard you know that this past year I mean they were there meeting the needs of our families and so we quickly pivoted to develop a virtual a version of our parent learning walks which you know continued to take place during the pandemic we also did the virtual parent leadership academy we continued to offer workshops uh for our families and a variety of topics the coffee chats continued you know all these virtual activities never stopped as well as developing more Community Partnerships um you see in the in the data here um all the activities that we did I I want to highlight um

067the food distributions and along with the um the care packages because if you look at Food distributions we served over 40,000 families during the pandemic you know and again you know when I hear parents coming to us and saying you know if it hadn't been for those food distributions and those care packages I don't know where my family would be right now because youve really helped us stay afloat during these times and so you know you see numbers here but they really don't reflect the work that our family community engagement team did this past year because we focused on things like providing cash assistance we spent you know countless hours helping our families fill out applications so that they could get cash assistance through different organizations like OK capica and Latino Health aess in the

068city of Anaheim um we helped with rental assistance we help with the covid vaccination the covid testing that was held on our campuses I can't tell you how many weekends we've worked this last year and I know Mr Jabar you've been a part of these um vaccine clinics and so our team has been there you know working at 6:00 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays making sure that our families are getting the resources that they need um so it's just been a you know a very challenging year but you know everybody stepped up to the plate and uh they were very responsive to the needs of our community and then lastly seeking seeking input for decision making again that didn't stop this year you know you see a picture there of one of our um deac

069meetings um we continued all our our advisory committees uh virtually uh we had a lot of parents participating in our elcap process Mr cologne did a really good job of uh facilitating an orientation for our family so that they could have more information before we started our elap stakeholder meetings um the superintendent parent advisory committees you know continued uh Mr matsuda met with parents um a fall semester and spring semester uh the School site councils all continued um we had Parents sit on the opening schools task force so they provided input to to our team um and our mental health parent ambassadors um was started um so that parents can bring their input and tell us you know what we need how can we better support our students and our families um in the area

070of mental health so Dr Adela Cruz has been leading that task force meeting with parents on you know how they can become uh leaders in the area of mental health so that they can become resources for other families so again you know um what you know while you see numbers here um there's a lot more that we're we're doing for our families um and we do it with you know um Open Hearts and you our faces uh love the jobs that they do I love the job that I do and we love serving our community so thank you I'll open it up for any questions you may have yes in the listing that you have here we get these reports from our superintendent on uh the Friday report and now referring to the comments that

071we had earlier my question is with all of the activities that are given and go on is it that maybe some people just are not available to attend these gatherings an opportunity so that's my question because this seems always has I have felt we have tremendous offerings for Community School engagements but is impact not occurring from what we're getting Community because they aren't available at the Times question I say yes so we offer ample opportunities for families to participate um there's constant communication through our Aries um Communication System personal phone calls with our faces emails social media um so you know we post things out there um I think it's a variety of thing I think it was a very hard year for our families and maybe their priority was not to attend you know

072a community or a school event rather you know they're just trying to keep their family safe and and that might have been a priority this year and that's why numbers are are lower and that's why I'm saying I think it's not a year to focus to me it's not a year to focus on numbers but really the impact um on a in a bigger picture you know that we had on our community with all the resources that we provided well my the feeling I got from the comments that were given that it's not just this year because of Co it's been an ongoing situation I see nodding of ahead and so those are my concern because it has a longer I'm just waiting y okay do you have a question yeah I I couple of

073things right so um just on this parent engagement part uh I know Carlos and areli and Mike we've had extensive conversations about how to improve and how to engage our parents it's true that you know we have multiple opportunities but we also need to reach to some parents who might be really active but not in this component so bringing them to the table right making sure that they get that opportunity to be a part of the process I personally believe and I I've actually met with parents who are part of other districts and even other board members we've actually had conversations and I don't think there is any other District around us or even in California because I could say that in California because we've been uh what do you call recognized for having a

074good parent engagement uh Team right um or system and I personally believe that we do have the best parent engagement team in all of Southern California if not California but that also means that we also keep track of input that we get from parents when they come in and talk about saying hey I was not available to that's why I texted you to ask about the budget in PE the parent leadership academy right I think Anna mentioned about transparency and understanding the lcap trust me as a board member I've asked that every year because the system sometime changes year to year that we as board members have a hard time keeping up with how to understand the lcap process right so but what I've asked manual this probably every presentation that you made man in

075terms of how do we make the presentation much more easier for our parents to understand right that's why I texted you and asked you in terms of our parent leadership academy we do have a component which talks about budget right but I know that request is to make it more rigorous in so that we have the opportunity to train parent leaders who would understand our budget process from A to Z in a very very easy way so that they could be the messenger to the rest of the parents to talk about the good work that we're doing right Anaheim intersections did a great job in meeting us board members in terms of presenting what they what they want seen from our district right they basically had like eight uh components of questions for uh each

076of their policy areas that they were presenting when I looked at it and I don't know if you guys remember I mentioned that without a doubt I'll tell you that we're doing every single component of this is met by Anaheim Union High School District and I'm going to ask those questions during the lcap so you understand where it is in the lcap process but for those parents they didn't see that in our district they didn't see that part in our presentation right right so it's our job our responsibility to do that reach out and make sure that make it very easy for parents to understand and go to Anaheim intersections when I was invited and I said that you know what to get a greater understanding of this process I asked Manuel to join me

077at the Anaheim intersection meeting so that he could present our what the questions that they had so that he could answer those questions right so we have to as a district go to the places that the parents and organizations are at and be the ambassador to talk about and that's where faces become very very important in this question and that's why we had that discussion not too long ago you me and Mike is that we need to be rigorous in terms of giving the necessary tool to our faces so that they could go to an Anaheim intersection meeting and talk about this in a very very uh easy way that parents could understand so I hope that we take that and go because that's how we become and stay the best in California but asking

078for this input and refining and making sure that there is no blind spots on our end right so I I personally believe that you guys will do that and I know that arel you have a pass for it so my my request is that let's just refine and make sure that we're going that route do we noted thank you any other questions and I know this is you know uh in terms of this local indicator this local IND indicator has been met and we will uh we're excited to talk about this in August in depth about some adjustments uh our our parent leaders across the sites were part of some work around the envisioning envisioning what family community engagement should look like from here to to there and um part of that is ultimately that

079question the essential question is around Student Success how do we know that all this is working and how are the local needs of the communities met um you know and that's that's the local uh challenge so again excited and and thank you for the your time and I'm a transition now to um our uh School climate uh presentation and that is our Dr shaa eagens our director of student Support Services hi good evening I'm excited see you back thank you thank you I'm happy to see Board of Trustees cabinet the community um I'm very glad to be here and I get to present so uh I'm doing school climate which button okay there we go perfect um State priority six so School climate including school safety and school connectedness and this particular um challenge to

080meet during a pandemic um I'm especi I'm especially proud of our district um when it comes to uh the priority six we're looking at the climate survey which we give every other year as a valid measure of perceptions the tools we looked at for um this indicator is the California healthy kids survey um which is given every other year and the elap students survey U which we were able to give this year so I'm going to show you um um our findings and the one thing that I'm really proud of is that uh when it comes to school connectedness and school safety uh it's the same concept that communication decreases chaos and when you have to uh completely pivot into a new way of delivering school to everyone um it's that communication that really uh

081connects the families and our students to what we're trying to do um especially when everyone has multiple layers of things going on with them so I I'm especially proud that um from our school climate survey again the check survey which is given to the seventh 9th and 11th graders um and the lcap student survey under our findings that's the first thing I'll look at so 73% of students know where to get social emotional and mental health support um and that's huge um because we as you know spend um every year um trying to continue to address the needs of our students and their social emotional learning their mental health and to uh have 73% 73% of the students report that they know where to get help um is is a great uh uh task that

082we accomplished when you look at um 85% of students shared that they understood what they needed to do to be successful so go back to communication decreases chaos you're talking complete virtual learning um devices internet and and the internet challenges weren't just ours it was ours based on what the city had to offer as far as even just offerings of Internet that 85% of the students shared they understood what they needed to do to be successful and with our wonderful graduations that I was able to see um I know that uh we did a great job there now 73% of students shared that even during distance learning they had an adult they could approach if needed and and that's what saves lives in our district is that when we hit a wall our students know

083um where they can get help and how to get help so those are um great findings based off our survey from this past uh school year and I also wanted to talk to just the efforts that we've done as a district and we've done so many there's some uh listed on the slide I'm also going to share a few that uh weren't able to fit how ever um when you look at like our student ambassador leads and and and our students being empowered to um connect with their peers and be able to be trained by our our Orange County human relations and holding circles and having difficult conversations in a time that can be anything from racially charged to politically charged that we've taken the time to take those student leaders and train them and

084uh we started um with our group at at Cyprus and we're looking to expand that across the district um the Civic engagement um our district stands for civic engagement I love the data that was shared um by Jackie counts on where we're at as a district um you think about our our California state democracy schools um the first best instruction you get back to the 5c's knowing the kids by name and need I'm excited that you know as we come back we're going to continue to do our capturing kids Hearts um you can see that sort of care and compassion from our teachers as they're dealing with students trying to engage them virtually um capturing kids' Hearts has been an amazing asset to this District um the PBIS and the mtss the the Positive Behavior

085Uh implementation or intervention of supports and the multi-tier systems of supports that we always refer to mtss and PBIS um those are going to continue a huge thing that happened this past semester um the implicit bias trainings that um uh were facilitated by OC human relations for all of our administrators as uh models and and having an awareness and then for our School site teams that are again this is um a great time to bring an awareness and it's going to help both our teachers our students our families and all of us you know have an awareness um and really Implement that that se we so much care about character and compassion as part of our five C's um when we look at what we've done with our social workers and I'm just very grateful

086to have a district where they understand their importance and um been able to expand uh in numbers which expands the support for our students um so in addition to what you see on the slide I don't want to to um leave out our restorative practices and um the trainings and professional development that have happened the fact that as a district we have restorative justice Specialists um on four of our Junior High sites that are that are implementing and training our teachers and setting systems so that when we deal with discipline we deal with it in a different way what we're looking at the why behind the discipline and because we've had an investment in those types of training we've done very well with our discipline as you see on the data sheet that you received

087um our discipline task force that we've come together to have those um talks about our own practices as a district between the atmin the district the teachers our board members and really be able to look at what our system is so that it's Equitable across the board amazing things that we've done um and just as a whole team I I want to acknowledge that when you look at school climate and you see all the presentations it really has taken a village it has taken a village but we've worked together and I'm exceptionally proud that we've also met uh the school climate indicator thank [Applause] you uh with that I'd like to bring back my colleague Carlos hernande quick question yes um the is the California healthy kid survey different from the elcap student survey yes

088yes the lcap survey is our own internal survey I want to make sure I'm speaking correctly to that over 15,000 students completed the survey this year in the P for lcap for what about the uh healthy kids survey the healthy kids survey we do systemically through the state every other year so the only reason that I ask is there are two discrepant numbers right you got 73% of students know where to get social emotional and mental health support based on this right here and then on the lcap survey it says 63% so I'm just trying to reconcile both of them to see how right they T they typically when they looked at the data um pull the questions and the responses that uh address that indicator and then uh come up with the the number

089that represents both responses that's still didn't answer my question no it was given last year that data was given last year current this year californ was last year was last year's data that makes sense yes it's given every other year so world this was our off year okay perfect Dr E before you go um May I address um I just wanted to face to face while you're here thank you so much without you and um preparing the graduation and having that system in place even though you were president with us I just want to tell you um so grateful to you uh graduations were phenomenal and I know you were there in spirit but without you at the helm uh and creating the whole you know we call it the wedding um without that system

090in place I I don't think we could have uh done such a wonderful job and thank your team yes yes they did a great job but you're just tremendous and we're so lucky to have you and I'm glad to see you you back oh thank you thank you very much and I I am greatly appreciative to my team with s Valdez and a system is uh sustainable especially with the right people that are in place so thank you so much absolutely all right and this is the last piece of the local indicators which is on uh course access and as you see on the on the two slides um remaining here um the standard that we're talking about in terms of course access is really we're talking about equity and when we talk about Equity

091we're talking about systems systems approach to ensuring that our students get this experience we in Anaheim un High School District believe in equity and we we show it by these systems that we have in place there are systems that are in place that are monitoring the effectiveness of our you know access to courses um and there are some things that we're still a work in progress uh so again as you see uh we're we are uh looking at annually measuring the equity and course access um by tracking the data we're going to you have the data some data in front of you to to look at that those are the the data pieces that we uh have uh worked on in terms of tools uh longitudal longitudinal data we're not looking at one year we're

092looking at you know how does it look and how are we growing and how are we progressing or not and so we're going to be looking at a3g data we're going to be looking at dual enrollment data we're going to look at graduate uation rates uh CTE pathway completion um you know how are our students uh in English Learners or students with disabilities um ensuring the same access uh in those courses those programs those Pathways and so those are the tools that we look at when we uh Define course access and whether we've met it or not the areas of strength uh as you look at your data you will see uh the a through G completion rate continues to increase right and that means that our students are um ready for that next step

093we're looking at College um entrance and college readiness uh through the a through G uh completion um rate so in three years uh we have increased of more than 8% right uh and that continues to to grow uh and that is across and you'll see additional details in the um following presentation around a through G rates uh CTE Pathways we are very proud of our CTE Pathways amazing uh Pathways that we have in place place and that continues to grow the number of students not only that are in the pathway but that complet it uh we do have some work to do in that area uh World languages again eight languages um that we offer and courses for the Heritage language speakers that we offer here that of course is an area of strength we

094embrace the strengths that our community bring with them um our vapa vapa programs uh we're talking a lot about six uh six-year plans and that is alive and thriving around the vapa programs in the junior high aligned to the what is being offered at the high school and then our broad set of dual enrollment courses and I know you know very exciting we're we're looking at the data we're seeing where we are with our uh dual enrollment numbers but those continue to grow uh thanks to the partnership of our community college local community college is Cypress College and fton college right the areas of growth is we continue and and we again we have systems thinking we've you know with the direction of a few years ago that Manuel colon with English task force and

095our students with disabilities task force those components have been critical within the trenches at the sites bringing the counselor the teachers the case carriers the administrators together to really look at uh in fine detail where are the gaps for our students that are furthest away from opportunity our English learns and our students with a disability uh that is there is uh progress there is significant systems development and um we're going to continue to monitor that the students are placed where they should be especially the English Learners and students with disability to ensure that they get course access of course we're talking about course access not only um at the front end but the completion of programs Pathways um to ensure they're ready for whatever that next post secondary plan is the second piece is monitoring

096the progress and I I mentioned both of them simultaneously so progressing through not only um the front end right we're not getting into um you know ninth grade pathway CT path way as an example we're going to complete it and so there's there's work to be done still uh there our numbers are growing but there are uh still work to be done to to progress towards the completion of the pathway and the program I really want to emphasize what our next steps are because again as we uh continue to to link our work to a systems thinkings approach we are working um vigorously around career preparedness systems framework right that framework is how we're going to ensure that our students voice uh their purpose their interests our 21st century skills that has been mentioned uh

097across the presentations and our technical skills are the experience the Foster and the experience that every student has across the the sites and across the classrooms and with that I'm going to turn it over back over to Jaren a quick question Jaren sorry I know that um a few years back we did no I think you well maybe jar um regarding the a through G completion I know we went ahead and did like a audit to see how many students completed a through G and what were the deficiencies and how we can come up with a strategy I see that I mean obviously we've improved our numbers 8% to 52 but has are we tracking that still and making sure that we have a system in place to capture those yes so so we work

098closely with handovers you know and they each year prepare a a pivot table where we can analyze school by School site the students who have completed and the students who have not and where the students who have not completed their a through G requirements we can pinpoint whether it was a vapa course that they needed or it's because they needed a world language course so that's helping us inform our practice also as you know with the El task force they do um and our counselors uh I know working with with Carlos and Amanda and last year was MJ jerkin this upcoming year it's with Karina Bradford they do count audits of transcripts and when they look at the transcripts they also analyze where students may be falling short with a3g completion so all those things

099take place and then through that learning we make adjustments and make sure to get kids in the right courses as well as working with the grading remember grading has been a long-standing challenge that all districts are working through and we're not um unique to that as well so so we are working with our teachers and our staff on grading I think the one silver lining again with this pandemic is that compassion I think we have far more teachers now that have seen firsthand the experiences our students uh endure day-to-day even without a pandemic and I think that's going to make those conversations a little bit easier even in the fall when we revisit grading again and how we assess our students and what is it that we're looking to do and I know with the

100career preparedness systems framework we're also looking at those key performance indicators which some may be traditional but some are not traditional and how do we factor that into the way that we assess and grade our kids well that's right the key wordss for me to kind of figure out are we capturing it early enough so that we could get the students placed in the right Co right I I I think mer um areli mentioned Wanita is here and Adan was a a perfect example of I I've seen him grow since he was a kid you know trying to speak to community but he's doing a great job in coming and advocating on behalf of students but when I used to speak with Wanita that was one of the questions that she would bring up is

101the deficiency part right how we're supporting so I'm glad that we're working on it and making sure that we we Implement that for our yes and the other big piece is a reminder with the great work that we've been doing with our counselors and this is also a big kudos to our counselors is the six-year plan as they're working with students they should be having that analysis early on where they can make sure that kids are being placed in in the right classes so there's a number of systems the grade level counseling all those things are going to make an impact and making sure kids who um you know were working towards that a through G completion that we can continue to improve those those those efforts I was going to ask that uh what

102year are we with the grade level counseling third year thir third Jo Neil NE this is our third year finishing up our third year third year he's keeping track you get a cookie all right so with that I I do want to First just again give my um my heartfelt appreciation gratitude love to our Ed division our Ed staff family for their leadership uh and helping to build capacity and support our sites and of course I'd be remiss if I didn't also share share that same love for our sites teachers admin counselors classified we making the stuff real right they're the ones in the trenches working with our students and our families to help make the outcomes that we just shared real you know as as you know with the local indicators and this is

103a key piece to understand it's not about meeting a Target it's about a reflection and as a district who thrives on reflection it's about us as a as a district taking time to reflect what are we good at as it compar as it connects to these indicators and what can we do to be better and that's what we we've gone through that Pro process which is what we have met right but but we do take it seriously and the the comments that our parent shared earlier our own internal Reflections are helping to drive making those those changes for the better right whether it's a systemic piece or it's a a professional learning piece um those are all things that we do take seriously so when we say we've met it it's we've gone through that

104reflective process to analyze where we are good and where we can be better so know better do better right so with that I want to thank you for your attention this evening on this piece and I think this was a beautiful segue for our next presentation which will be led by Mr Manan colog our chief academic officer and again other members of our edaff family in terms of the elcap process that we went through and what resulted from that experience so any other questions for me before I shift it over just a comment just really quick I'm just so glad you said that because we don't want to go back to where we were in education where we were looking at that one indicator that one test score it was easy to understand understand but

105uh it wasn't really measuring where we were as a district and I just wanted to thank um everyone for their diligence their hard work I know you've been working so hard and I know this is our this is a snapshot and I know you've already you're already working on the next three years out but thank you so much everyone looking forward to your August presentation yes yes thank you okay very good yes and then moving on from 99.1 we will go to our local control and accountability plan that's the lcap in our annual update M Manuel cologne will be presenting this for us great well thank you so much bard of Tristy uh president piery board members and cabinet uh this is exciting this is always an exciting time where we celebrate the work that

106we have done collectively in our district we celebrate the work that we have done in terms of of our process and we celebrate uh you know our accomplishments and reflect on those areas that we need to obviously improve upon as we move forward the focus is really on ensuring that our students have the best education possible and get the best out of us as part of this process so we're super excited um this year was unprecedented as everybody knows this year was something that none of us really anticipated uh the beauty though was that we were able to take the things that we do well and shift them to a virtual setting and and equally continue to do the great work that we've been doing in our district so I do want to acknowledge that

107um that we have uh shifted and continued and not you know we we know that there there was hiccups but uh really not missed a beat in terms of what we had been accomplishing um I do want to start before I get into the presentation I want to acknowledge the work that uh Mr Joe Carmona has done the director of uh special programs he leads the process he's the one that makes sure that all the the teeth are are crossed and all the eyes are dotted and he's the one that ensures that as these templates keep changing on us that he is on top of making sure that we that we have everything done and I want to also congratulate him because as we submitted our draft of the elcap the Orange County Department of

108Education uh congratulated us on on one of the best in the county as we submitted um for review for them for for um feedback um I also want to thank our entire Ed division um we have an amazing team as you know and uh they facilitate the the small groups they uh all make sure that everybody is engaged um the planning that goes into it requires a lot of time and effort and so I want to acknowledge the entire Ed division from our support staff to our directors and and everybody um I want to acknowledge our association president presidents without our association presidents this process cannot happen they are extremely engaged and involved in in each aspect of the process um both in terms of providing feedback participating and engaging their members uhu so that's

109critical so I want to acknowledge them and also our stakeholders who are part this is why we do what we do when this was enacted back in uh 2013 2014 the the whole plan was really to make sure that stakeholders were involved engaged and had and provided input uh that went into into our lcap so again I want to acknowledge and and thank all of our stakeholders who were part of that um you know we started this process if you remember back in October when the state asked us to create a learning continu and attendance plan I think everybody remembers that um we didn't do an elcap last year because of the pandemic um we were in the process and we stopped right as we were getting into the middle of the stakeholder engagement process

110and so we never completed uh the the lcap last year um at the beginning of the year as we were transitioning and as we we were moving into virtual learning and everything that was going on the state was shifting and and and was trying to figure out what is it that we're going to have the districts do in lie of the lcap um so in came the learning continu and attendance plan which we got and if you remember was a very short time frame for us to to to implement to review the process to get stakeholder input and then to present a a a a a plan for you um so all of that really prepared us for today because I think that the history that we have in our district in doing the lcap

111really allowed us to immediately go into that process immediately bring in our stakeholders go through the process and create a plan that really was very effective at that time um so this was really the beginning of that process so with that um as with every time we engage our stakeholders and as we start the process for the elcap we want to start with the foundation the vision why are we here and what is it that we're trying to do in terms of our stakeholders and our students and so we always start with our vision and our focus and as you know the five C's is what we do right it is at the core of what we do in terms of our instruction in terms of our curricul in terms of our our classrooms and

112in terms of what we expect from our students you know collaboration communication critical thinking creativity character and compassion is at the heart of the skills that we want all of our students to have as they graduate uh and move on to life [Applause] right we also want to ensure that our students have multiple opportunities we want to know we want to make sure that as they go through our system uh 7 through 12th that they are acquiring these skills but as they move on that they have multiple ways to get to their goal and and through our district and the programs that we have we know that they have multiple opportunities and so part of our goal is to ensure that we are providing every possible way that our students can grow personally professionally educationwise

113to ensure that they have a bright future and so this illust ation really allows for for us to see that we are providing all these opportunities the elcap is a reflection of these opportunities this is something that really came to fruition this year um a lot of the work that we've done and I think you've mentioned that we've been recognized um by not only the state but but multiple uh different groups for the work that we have been doing in multiple areas um I think the career preparedness frame systems framework really is a illustration it is a plan that really has put everything together in a very great package it really allows us to see the Civic engagement component the 5c component the dual enrollment component all of the Partnerships that we have all of

114the opportunities that we've been able to provide for our students all of them are Encompass inside the uh the career preparedness systems framework and so as we look towards our work with the lcap we wanted to make sure that our stakeholders had this Vision at the Forefront as a lens uh to ensure that we were providing uh these opportunities for all of our students so I wanted to just briefly review for our stakeholders and obviously everybody in the room um what is the lcap how did this begin because I think it's important to understand historically why this process is so important local control funding formula um was was a historical reform educational fund it was a reform of Educational Funding funding had been the same for 40 years until Governor Brown in 2013 2014 really

115changed that system he believed that that control should go to the local agency we know the community best we understand the needs of our community best and we're able to provide the feedback that we need in terms of how funding should be spent in terms of the needs of the local community there we go a little slow from here but really that that really is is is in terms of of the just uh we wanted to he wanted to make sure that the local control was truly local and that we understand that there's within our community there's special groups special students that have struggled the most that has the largest need and you wanted to ensure that the money went to those specific populations that struggled the most that's that was the key in terms

116of why this uh uh legislation was enacted so the way the the funding broken down and you'll hear a presentation of the budget coming up which will give you all the details of the budget but just in in terms of an illustration uh the budget is divided in this way we get uh per student base fund um in addition to that we get funding based on the grade levels that we serve and then in addition to that we get funding based on student population and so for us is lowi income English Learners and Foster Youth and so when we talk about lcap um we really focus on that bottom right hand corner uh when we're talking about our demographics our low-income English Learners and Foster use so going back to a question that Miss Mr

117Jabar asked in in a previous conversation um we we really focus not only on the on on the funding that we receive from the state but we also focus on other funding sources that we have the beauty of our elcap process is that we take all of the funding that we receive from the state from the federal and we ensure that we are focused and listening to the priorities of our of our stakeholders and based on those priorities we then look to see what funding Source can we best uh use to provide that support and that service and so when we go through that process with our stakeholders it is part of this which is the supplement on concentration but it's also our Title One funding and other funding sources grant funding that we receive

118that allows us to pay for these Services the state requires us that as we're planning and preparing our lcap that we focus on eight State priorities um that is the only requirement that they ask us so through our process we use these in our focus groups to ensure that that's the lens that each of our focus groups uses um but in terms of the eight State priorities they're really organized in three areas conditions for learning pupil outcomes and engagement and So based on that if you look through the descriptors you will see that it really illustrates specifically how the state wants us to to to focus and in what areas and why these are important so these are things that we discuss as we as we go through the lcap process so the lcap now

119the local control accountability plan just going to go through these it's kind of the remote control on television sometimes huh when you're trying to get that all right let me see if I can get through all of them and then I don't know if it needs batteries there we go so the local control accountability plan was really a way for us to hold ourselves accountable uh it's the way that the state holds us accountable the county holds us accountable to ensure that we are spending our our our funding appropriately it is a three-year plan and every year we adjusted we adap Ed based on the current needs of our of our um of our student population we look at data we analyze that data and we make decisions based on that data um the process

120really is for us to tell a story of the needs and to ensure that we're meeting those needs through the process and through the actions of the outc cap um a big requirement of the elcap is that we have stakeholder engagement and you mentioned that we have been recognized by the state we are one of eight districts that was recognized um because of our stakeholder engagement and our involvement uh of our of our community um in terms of the participation for this year you know we didn't know what to expect um because it was virtual and we knew that from the uh learning continue and attendance plan process that our community did uh come out to to participate uh the same thing we invited about 473 stakeholders um many of which had participated in the

121past we opened it up um for anybody who wanted to participate to join and then our our different Association presidents also invited members to participate on average we had about 250 per night who came to to our um stakeholder engagement meetings and so we believe that based on that uh participation we had uh good attendance considering the circumstances were those held on each campus off no they were held virtually oh thank you you're right yeah I'm virtually so we had so this is the process we always start in January and we go through April um we then uh complete the the draft of the lcap that gets submitted for review with the or County Department of Education um but I wanted to highlight January 26 on January 26 and I want to thank uh trustee

122Randall tro this was a suggestion that I think you made maybe three years ago when you asked can we have a workshop for parents to understand the process to understand what the lcap is why we do what we do and so we've been doing this now for 2 years we bring together the parents on the 26 where we unpack the elcam we have a a a handbook that we've created that really talks about the process talks about the budgeting talks about the data talks about understanding the process and what's going to be expected um we asked them to ask questions it's open-ended um and and again it's really meant to help to to to lower the anxiety but also to inform so when they are part of the process um they are informed and engaged

123in terms of the process so that meeting has been very instrumental I think all of our parents that have been uh who have gone through that training or have gone through that Workshop have expressed how how excited they are about the process but also saying you know what I find finally understand I finally understand what elap is I finally understand how the budget is is is broken down and I was able to ask the questions in a very intimate way um to be able to understand what what we're what we're going to be working on and so that really springboards into the process that starts on February the 17th so in terms of this year we always start with the overview we want to make sure that whether you've been part of the process once

124or whether you've been part of the process uh many times that that everybody starts on the same page that everybody understands with why are we here and then what is the vision what are the lenses that we're going to be seeing this through you know the first lens is our vision the next lens is our student needs and our data and then the next lens is is what else are we missing that we want to uh include and provide input for so we can Implement that's really part of why we do that first process um we then break down to FOC groups you know with 250 people or 300 it's hard to have a conversation so we break down into smaller groups into focus groups that are facilitated by our Ed staff to really look

125at the knee Gap analysis where are our gaps uh where do we need to improve what are we currently doing and what should we continue to do stop doing or need to do because we're not doing uh to support our students based on that data we then start to develop priorities um which become the input for our lcap and again uh input in terms of what uh is created in terms of our actions um from there we develop a draft we create consensus to make sure that all of our stakeholders are in agreement um and then we review the draft to make sure that everything that we stated as priorities are now included into the lcap um we allow for questions clarifications um to ensure that all stakeholder voice is is included I want to

126um acknowledge our steering committee um our steering committee is Works alongside our stakeholder engagement process um the steering committee is a representative group of all of our stakeholders it includes all of our association presidents it includes parent representatives from the different uh parent organizations that we have it also includes student representatives and it includes our Ed division facilitators um of the of the process we review the process we review what's working what's not working we review the scripts that go to that we review anything that we believe is important in terms of of of of sharing but uh going back to the transparency piece that's where we review a lot of the things that that that we need to um share but also process in terms of ensuring that we get the best input in

127terms of the timeline um again it's it's a it's it's a year it feels like we we start lcap season in January and we go through um June obviously but lcap really is a year-long process we finish the the lcap now and we present to to you for adoption um but really then that kicks into to the uh uh s single plan for student achievement or the spsa that the schools have to write they take the LC cap that was created by our the stakeholders and then they now have to align it to their school site needs and then they create a School site plan that then gets implemented throughout the year so it's a year process uh that that goes into uh creating the outc cap our lcap goals our lcap is divided into

128three goals um we have been very intentional about the goals our stakeholders have been very critical in a good way in terms of what should be our goals every year we review our goals and we make adjustments uh it might be one word that we change it might be a phrase um it might be uh the whole the whole goal but um we have been very intentional about uh these three goals and they've been pretty consistent now for the last few years so the first goal is all students will demonstrate college career life Readiness and Success Through The implementation of the five C's the second goal is provide meaningful educational engagement opportunities for all parents and families to advocate for all students goal three is provide and nurture a safe reflective responsive and positive School

129culture so all of our actions are embedded into one of these three goals so I wanted to highlight just a few of the actions that are in our lcap if you remember back in the day we used to have outc caps that were what about 120 pages and we've you know the state keeps trying to reduce and reduce I think our lcap diss is around 50 pages which is really nice um but again uh we always have had a planning tool which really condenses it even more to 20 pages so we've been very good about it uh about making it readable accessible to all of our stakeholders um but this is these are the highlights of goal one I want to kind of focus on a couple of items in this goal the first one

130is class size reduction uh we know that that was one of our priorities this year it was something that was discussed almost in every group it was something that was brought up as a priority and when each group brought their priorities to the entire group this was something that that that was pretty prominent in in in uh in each of the groups so class size reduction was critical so you know again as as was stated earlier um this is something that we have implemented and we've reduced class sizes both at the junior high and the senior high the second area that I want to highlight is Technology support replacement and growth we have seen obviously the the need based on the current reality of virtual learning and have seen uh that we need to ensure

131that our schools and our students have the Necessary Technology to be successful so we have um created and made that a priority in our lcap and increased funding for that and then finally the last bullet assessing and monitoring student progress um as was stated before we have seen tremendous growth and you'll see in a minute tremendous growth in the areas of supporting our English Learners our students with disability and Foster youth um and it's because the system that we put in place in terms of monitoring and that takes funding it takes funding to release teachers it takes funding to ensure that we are providing a system and so again this is something that we now have embedded into our outc cap in goal two um our parent are are provide meaningful educational engagement opportunities for

132all parents and families to advocate for all students um I think that uh we all can agree that our family and Community engagement Specialists Have Been instrumental Al and pivotal uh for that uh engagement uh we have expanded services and added uh faces to schools that had a part-time pH will not have full-time faces which we're super excited about in addition we have increased the number of community lasons who have been added support at some of our larger sites um and again all of these uh services that we provided in the past without being W without the pandemic we continued uh through the pandemic and and just moved them to a virtual setting and had seen uh actually pretty good attendance that things like copy with the principal uh we we've implemented and created a

133whole learning Pro parent learning uh uh uh learning walks uh virtually again all of these things were created as part of the process uh I want to also take a moment to acknowledge our faces and the work they've done to make that shift acknowledge the work that areli Chavez and Carlos Hernandez has done and really uh making sure that we have shifted all of the resources that we were doing in person to Virtual to ensure that we didn't miss a beat um in go three I want to highlight um the expansion of Mental Health Services this again was another top priority of our stakeholders uh and embedded here we've increased the number of counselors psychologist and social workers AC Ross our district this was loud and clear and it actually has been something that has

134been a priority uh for pretty much the the you know since we've been doing the outc cap we've increased manal Health Services because it's continues to be a priority for our stakeholders uh and it you know again we heard that loud and clear this year and we've increased uh all those services in these areas I want to stop and celebrate the impact that this work has done for our students and and you'll hear in a minute specific work that has been done but I do want to highlight um the results uh you know a lot of times it's good to do these things but we don't see the results then then why are we doing them and and and it's nice to see that the hard work of all of our stakeholders uh is is

135is showing a positive results so what you see in the first slide is the graduation rate we talk about all of our students and obviously we've seen an increase in the last three years um districtwide of of 6.8% in our graduation rate but we've also seen an increase in our in our special population our English Learners our students with disability Foster Youth and our and our mckin vento or homeless population we have seen uh a larger growth in in these areas but we have seen steady growth and if you remember you know maybe 5 years ago whenever we showed these numbers over time they were flat and you can pretty much go to any District around the state and you will see that the numbers for English learner students with disability over time have been

136flat there isn't any growth what we are seeing now is we're seeing steady growth and so the question becomes is why you'll hear in a minute uh from our our our our our team um what specifically we're doing to impact uh uh these populations um when it comes to our college and indicator which takes a lot of the efforts that we're doing this includes our dual enrollment it includes our CTE Pathways it includes our AP participation Etc we also are seeing tremendous growth um both at the districtwide level and then within each of these populations earlier we talked about um making sure that our that these populations had access to a broad curriculum when you look at our lcap recommendations for English Learners our students with disability and our foster youth we're very intentional about

137saying that our students with disability need to be in CTE Pathways we're very intentional about saying that our English Learners need to be in World languages and and and so we're seeing that that that intentionality is showing not only that our kids are having more access but they're completing these indicators that are showing success our a3g rate this is probably what we're most excited excited about you know as you know the a3g um uh is what the University of California the California State University system requireed for admissions and so it always has been kind of our Benchmark for for our district to ensure not only that our students have access to these classes but that they were being successful uh and and again by them being successful gives them most opportunities for their future and

138so we see that in the last three years we have had tremendous growth uh districtwide uh a growth of 8.4% to 52.8% but we have seen a growth for our English Learners our students with disability Foster Youth and our homeless population now you might say okay well these are great numbers but what do they truly mean the next graphic is probably the most uh excited graphic that we we have but but really it best illustrates the growth that we have made in Anaheim Union okay and I shared with you that in the past these metrics were flat in the past with other districts it's also been flat but this is what has happened in Anaheim Union anticipation there it is okay and you can't see the numbers and I understand that they're pretty small but

139you can see color right on the left hand side is 2015 okay this is what uh again this represents our a through G rate on the the left hand column you see that these are Anaheim unions at the top and then you see listed below that different districts that are in Orange County and and every time we have data we always compare ourselves obviously to ourselves but we also compare ourselves to comparable districts that look like us and then just count uh districts around the county so we do this pretty regularly so back in 2015 um we looked at all of the districts and we compared our house in a3g rate overall how we compared with our English Learners students with disability our students uh low-income students our homeless students and then our foster youth

140if you see the yellow the yellow represents that we either were equal to or higher than those districts in 2015 you see that we were not very comparable to other districts we either below or maybe equal to uh and very few of them we were Above This was that in 2015 skip over to the right hand column or the right hand graphic and you see the yellow you see that most of that graphic is filled in yellow it's highlighted that means that we are equal to or higher than all of those districts and all of those metrics that means that we are equal to or higher than Huntington Beach un uh Union High School District equal to or higher than Orange Unified uh equal to or higher than placenti or Belinda in every single one

141of the metrics when it comes to our a3g rate again it is something to celebrate um you know for our district and again this is a testament to the work that we have done collectively uh districtwide a lot has to do with our partnership with our higher ed our pledge are Anaheim collaborative so many people take credit for this and then finally suspension rates we talk about social emotional Dr Egan talked a little bit about this um you know with suspension rates you want these rates to go down right and here you see very clearly that in the last threee the threeyear trend has has been dramatic in terms of reducing the suspension rates across our district again one of the things that we talk about um with all of the support and services is

142is how are we ensuring that our students are being successful um so with that again we are celebrating this data but we know there's still a gap we know that the that we still have work to do um but we do want to celebrate what where we are now I'm going to turn it over to uh our our Ed staff who will talk a little bit more about specifically what have we done with english Learners what have we done with our students with disability and what have we done with our foster youth that has caused this positive change so with that I'm going to turn it over to Dr Bryant who will talk about what we've done with our English Learners thank you Mr cologne I saw you Fanning yourself so I brought my bottle

143of water just in case all right well board president piy Board of Trustees superintendent matsa executive cabinet uh thank you for this opportunity to highlight the work of it's done all over our district on behalf of our English Learners and multilingual Scholars uh we continue to improve placement instructional practices and monitoring of our English learner and multilingual Scholars by increasing scholar voice 21st century skills and technical skills aligned with the four principles of the El road map that which are assets oriented and needs respons of schools intellectual quality of instruction and meaningful access system conditions that support Effectiveness and alignment and articulation within and across systems that systemness that we talk about so how do we do this so our English leer task force actually meets with our sites two times a year those site

144eel multilingual task force we continue to build staff capacity through our belief modules our e multilingual shadowing teach effect the lead program elel road map toolkits and more we are extremely proud of our El and multilingual success monitoring that we began this year we had received the learning continuity and attendance plan funds you know early or late in the summer and we kind of sat around and we said Mr col asked us if we money wasn't a factor what would you do what would be the thing that you would want to do to help our English Learners and having been Avid Excel teacher Avid teachers Diana fujio Moto Mr colon and myself we all said someone to monitor the students right an individual like a case career like an avid teacher an avid Excel teacher

145so that's exactly what we did so we made sure that our students would be provided with weekly grade check-ins uh checks checkins for the students grade checks and then connect those students with resources like tutoring and counseling more uh so in that conversation is how our El success monitoring began and after almost a full year of implementation teachers at the sipsa meetings at our task force meetings they describe it as a game Cher for our eel students or multilingual students every English learner is partnered with a success monitor that checks the students grades they do weekly check-ins with the students and connect those students again to tutoring and counseling supports and more so kind of an unexpected positive consequence of this or outcome of this is that now where is we would think traditionally of

146el Advocates at the site as our ELD teachers our administrators our counselors now we have a lot of content teachers who were success monitors who are now eel Advocates at the site and we welcome it and are very excited exed about that so these um El Advocates will continue so this is a part of our lcap we're going to continue these El success monitoring um next year and we plan to integrate it into our lcap in the future and um we are very excited that our e Task Force at each site has also grown where we used to have maybe four or five people now we have about seven or eight people as a part of that taskforce made up also of those eel monitors so our sites continue to Monitor and review transcripts and

147in the fall we will be looking at our newcomer transcripts very closely to learn how we can better support our newcomers our 7th through 12th 10th grade parent conferences and one-on-one conferences for any student with less than a 2.0 continue and then our Junior High and high school articulation continues as well um from our recommendations also Saturday Language Academy after school seminar Saturday um summer Language Academy and now you know project learn from our last present presentation last month is also continuing and we continue to increase our enrollment in World languages for our English Learners Our Heritage Spanish courses and um our Arabic and our seven other languages as well as well as our dual language immersion courses and teachers are integrating our ELD standards into the content areas which is very key we have

148our districtwide agreed best practices which include collaboration which we see in our classrooms uh that at least 30% speaking time for our students as well as giving our students a chance to write daily and making sure that our teachers are monitoring and adjusting their instructions so as a result of all that you saw the data so I'm very excited and pleased about that data and we in continue to decrease our dnf rate of our English Learners across the district we increased our a through G rate and uh during we increased our reclassification and during pandemic um I'm very proud to say that we have outperformed our seala by literacy numbers we are at 1,31 and that is an all-time uh high of achievement for our Scholars so we're very proud of that work so with

149that um I would now like to hand it over to Amy Maya our coordinator of special useth services Madam president can I ask a quick yes yes sir um so this is great right I mean I'm looking at numbers and we've increased it for English Learners we've increased the graduation rate by 10% over three years right College and Career indicator by 5% 5 and a half% and even uh a through G by 8% but I pivot back to which is great so we got to celebrate we got to make sure that we are talking about it because that's an achievement then I pivot back to seeing the number of 27% and I see that that's still low for English Learners right so as a district what else can we do I mean we're you said

150everything that we're doing what else could we do to improve is does that mean that we need to put more funding towards uh more people does that mean that we need to strategize in a different direction I know we're doing the right things to move forward but I see that number and I'm still like I I've mentioned this before how do we improve that 27% we're going towards the right direction how can we get there even faster so I think one of the things that we haven't been able to measure yet is the E the effects of the El success monitoring so this last year was the first year that we implemented having one teacher monitoring about 10 to 20 students each at a site this is the first time we've done it all across

151the state monitoring is usually done with paperwork or through the computer it's not done on a one-on-one by basis so we're actually innovating and leading the way way um and by having teachers actually monitor the students our English Learners um we were able to present Diana Fujimoto and I at the California together webinar a couple months ago on this and people were really blown away they're like that's a dream of ours to be able to do that so I think that this will be we will see the effects of this in the next year or two and having teachers monitor our students closely having weekly grade checks because although I may have had my mom look at my grades you know on a weekly basis not every student has that or has the capabilities of

152understanding what's coming through so to actually have a teacher that's advocating for you that can talk to other teachers and find out what else you need to do how you can make up the scores I think that's going to prove dividends and then of course our career systems uh our career preparedness systems framework will make a huge difference for our English Learners and that's something that we're rolling out districtwide so I anticipate that we'll see great achievement for English Learners with the implementation of that and having Amanda Bean as our director of that Mr javar that's that's a great question because as I said um you know there's still work to do one of the things that we're also seeing is what are the best practices we're learning from each other we're seeing that some

153schools are better than others at meeting this goal um and so we're seeing some best practices one of them being that giving our our our English Learners opportunity to remediate courses in the summer to accelerate courses in the summer or even in in in during the year those strategies is what we're seeing is also you know narrowing that Gap so these are the strategies that that again we're bringing districtwide as best practices I'm glad because that that was my Mr Jabar can I add to that because you asked like where can we put our resources we are this is why we're recommending uh continuing ramping up work with teachfx tfx as you know is a tool that allows teachers to monitor the the academic language oral language with in classrooms and we know that there's

154a huge gap still between English Learners and our our regular ed students so these are um these are specific targeted resources that are going to help our teachers do a better job of monitoring because I think when they see the actual data real real data in class we can disaggregate it by gender ethnicity social economics any which way you slice it but we know that there is a huge gap and we're seeing that teachers that you know a lot of them didn't know that information but now that they have it they're doing a much better job of being more intentional and guess what what happens when you start being intentional with ensuring that English Learners have a voice um the engagement goes up the participation goes up the grades go up the a through G

155rates will continue to rise and we have D effects on theend agenda to approve today so and then I wanted sorry go ahead no and I I just wanted to kind of clarify oh lost my train of thought okay go ahead I'll I'll sorry about that worri I'm excited to hear about the weekly check-ins I think that will make a tremendous difference I I wrote that down but also um I think it gets a Buy in like you said from from the the teachers that are now um advocating but integrating the El standards into the content can you uh give me a little bit of an example of what that would look like sure so in 2015 uh California Department of Ed published the framework for ELA English language arts and English language development standards

156together so you have your literacy standards that the teachers were already integrating thanks to the great work of Jackie counts and Carlos Hernandez um and now the idea is that they're taking the eel D standards which we had built the capacity through the belief modules 3 years ago uh where every lesson design coach went through and trained their teachers on how to actually take those ELD standards and align them to their content so that they are not only a Content teacher but they are a language teacher as well so we know that when we're teaching content there's a language to the content there's a language to math there's a language to science and so it's about being able to integrate those D standard so while they're teaching the content they are actually teaching language um

157so for math we have um math objectives and that's a Content objective but then we have a language objective to be able to speak and complete sentences to compare and contrast to be able to write and analyze and so those are the type of ELD standards that can be integrated into mathematics let's say fantastic thank you so much I think that that's that's what I was going to ask ask is our writing Journey that we we talked about a few years back right kind of incorporating that into Math and Science and all that allows English Learners to move up and really grasp it and get a good understanding for Content so okay thank you I agree you had also mentioned in your presentation about seventh graders coming in and changing some processes or procedures for

158the students capturing them early can you elaborate a little bit on that yeah so we were talking about our seventh or I was speaking to our seventh through uh 10th grade parent conferences so making sure that when we capture our seventh graders Sometimes they come to our our schools and their parents and the students our Scholars don't realize that they're still identified as English Learners so that's where those parent conferences and student conferences are imperative so that our students understand that um you know why they're identified as an English learner still and what they they can actually do to goal set and take action to then do their best because sometimes they take that English language proficiency exam and they think ah this horrible test I have to take every year right but they don't

159understand the importance of it that if they can get a proficient score on that of four and meet the other criteria they can reclassify and actually have access to other classes instead of having to take um perhaps an ELD course or another course that's helping them in language that maybe they don't need but because the test they're having to take those courses thank you so I just wanted to add a comment this is another area where ahsd has you know been uh on the road to success um you talk about the El road map uh I've went to a presentation um this year was a zoom uh presentation on the El road map there are districts that don't even haven't even started to think about you implying um implementing the El road map and I

160can't even even imagine without that support and that guidance um you know where they are so uh congratulations on the numbers and thank you for the good work thank you very much thank you and now I'd like to present to you Amy Maya our coordinator of special Youth Services thank you Dr Bryan good evening board president piery Board of Trustees superintendent matuda and our executive cabinet I want to thank you for the opportunity to share with you all of the amazing things that our teams are doing out there for our students with disabilities this year and the work will continue to do throughout the following years so as you may know um we do have S swd site teams that are at every site uh they meet monthly and they also meet with us as

161a district team twice a year this opportunity uh is presented to them for them for them to share with us what current systems and best practices uh that are in place at their site as well as to reflect on their current challenges in addition our district site team identified certain sites that have demonstrated best practices that can and should be implemented districtwide and those are shared with administration at our principal meetings we're continuing our work to implement a districtwide system for cons consistent progress monitoring and this year in particular we focused on having each site develop a common progress monitoring tool for use Department wide this resulted in an increase in communication and collaboration amongst all team members which assisted them in providing specific and much more intentional supports for each student based on individual

162need additionally our amazing School psychologists and our s swd site leaders provided training on appropriate identification and implementation of accommodations for both classrooms and State Testing to all specialed staff at the respective sites we're continuing our focus on intentional lesson design that embeds accommodations modifications and instructional strategies that best support s swd students needs and to support this common conference periods are embedded embeded and built into the master schedule when possible to allow our co-teachers to have time to um lesson plan together one thing that I'm very excited about is our work that we've done with master schedule and we all know that master schedule um definitely impacts School culture and so what we have done is we have developed a team a district team which um consists of myself Amanda bean and our special

163ed uh curriculum specialist Tracy olssen and we have led monthly master schedule plc's they're designed specifically for scheduling special populations and it includes admin counselors department chairs program Specialists and through that process they work through the entire master schedule process together as a unit as one team we also implemented a districtwide system of scheduling and placement for all of our s swds through the use of a common form and tracking system for vertical articulation so from each grd level to the next um the system was then used for individualized course planning for all students and was made accessible to all counselors admin and case carriers who all play key roles in ensuring all of our s swds are scheduled appropriately we're very very proud of our instructional assistance and all of the work that they've

164done this year they've had to step outside their typical roles during virtual learning to support students in a completely different setting um they've done an amazing job they've run small groups individual tutoring sessions they've made parent phone calls text emails um they've just done a tremendous job and we just wanted to give them you know let them know how much they're appreciated we're going to continue the work to ensure that our instructural assistants are prepared to meet the needs of students uh by providing training on accommodations modifications Data Tracking behavioral and academic support we're going to continue our expanded access and enrollment of s swds in World languages and CT Pathways this year um we had a collaborative effort with myself Amanda Bean our North Orange County Roop administrator Gail kyus and our vocational counselors

165Julie ornell Smith and Tom fanda and we uh LED professional development to all of our specialed and CTE teachers as well as our counselors and program Specialists on how to create opportunities for our s swds to become pathway completers and also how to incorporate appropriate accommodations in the CTE setting because as you may or may not know it's very different than the academic setting um I probably will say the most exciting thing we're doing is continuing to work on our workability um opportunities for students with disabilities uh we weren't able to be on site due to co restrictions but this year Anaheim Union has received the second largest workability Grant in the state um which supports pre-employment training and employment placement for all of our s swds and this is under the guidance of Tina

166Carpenter she's our workability coordinator and she's also created new vocational opportunities on campus for our students to access a upon return to iners instruction um within our adult transition program so once those are launched and in place we'd love to have you um visit see what what we're doing and finally we've expanded our engagement of parent and family um parent families of s swds in our parent learning excuse me parent leadership academy and we're continuing to recruit parents um of s swds to participate as well as collaborating with all our faces to develop and provide opportunities for smaller cohorts of parents to come together and um share with each other just best practices and strategies to support their students both um here at school and at home okay good and with that are there any

167questions I did I just want to thank you for acknowledging the instructional assistance they're near and dear to my heart and um uh I just wanted to ask a question um congratulations on the Grant I think that's fantastic is do we have a deficit in in um uh is it a challenge to find Opportunities For Those students um to find those connections or are we doing pretty well in that area um in terms of the workability program and opportunities for employment um uh I will stay humble when I say this but we probably have one of the most robust programs in the in the county if not in the surrounding areas our adult transition program is absolutely amazing um we have hundreds of partners that the kids can you know that we collaborate with um

168and we're just continuing to grow and expand those opportunities so no there's never a deficit in that we we have plenty of opportunities and we're looking for more okay fantastic can I get a list of those um those Partners sure no problem love to see absolutely I I like to say though that the as it's it's tough work uh especially the adult transition piece the the there are gaps not of our doing but because of the the way the funding is it runs out at uh an age 20 22 and uh so you know many of our kids who graduated from places like hope um you know we're able to support them till age 22 and then often times the funding runs out and um you know you know that's it so there there's really

169no federal or state safety net this is a real challenge I think it's been an ongoing Challenge and um as good as our program is it's it's it's heart-wrenching to see you know and uh and what happens next right so we are trying to leverage our aim uh muscles to try to get some big maybe Walmart or Goodwill or something to cut step forward and and pilot something thank you for that thank you congratulations on your numbers very much uh with that I'll go ahead and turn over to my colleague the coordinator of mental health Foster youth mckin vento Dr adill good evening president PC board ofri superintendent muda and cabinet thank you for having me here um even and even though it's really hot I am smiling underneath so I'm just glad to be

170here um I'm here to talk about a couple of things uh first uh Foster Youth and then uh touch on our efforts around mental health so in in the year 2019 2020 we put together a task force consisted of District level administrators um counselor psychologists um social workers um to really develop ELC cap recommendations so that we then rolled out last year um this Academic Year that passed we had a a series of meetings at the sites to roll out the alab recommendations um the first meeting was really uh focused on the the recommendations of the elcab the team efforts and what our expectations were when it comes to um sorry I'm getting nervous when it comes to our foster Youth and then the second one was really following up with that meeting so one

171of the some of the things that we focused on for our foster youth at the beginning of the year we had 220 2 students in our district that were in the foster care system um and when I pull the numbers at the end of the school year we were down to 150 and as you know when it comes to Foster year they're they're constantly um moving and transferring um and going from foster home to foster home so so there's a lot of instability the the the focus of our work with our foster youth is to offer that targeted case management so all of our foster youth are assigned to the site social worker um but but that's not the main work the main work is that each site took a team effort to meet the

172needs of foster Youth and some of the things that we put in place some of the strategies were that every um social worker had to meet with every Foster youth have oneon-one meetings with our foster Youth and every time a new student is enrolled in the school site they need to have a meeting with that Foster Youth and in that meeting we um really want to do a warm welcome to the students kind of let them know what the supports are uh supports available and let them know that we can be a BRI a bridge and communicating with the with Social Services Agency with Orange County department ofed and then within the school system as well one of the things that we do strategically with Foster youth is we want to educate them about their

173rights because often times even our foster parents may not know all of the rights and services that Foster youth have so we're being very strategic and raising that awareness with them so they can advocate for themselves the other thing that we we did was make sure that um each site had a system of monitoring students really being more intentional and making sure that they're enrolled in in a through G courses that we monitor their attendance um that the team really took that team approach so we had counselors School psychologists the social workers and the administrators and as we went out to the meetings we were able to see that everybody on the team really knew the students um story um they were really working hard to meet all of their needs um which are often

174times challenging and um highlighting their strengths as well the the challenges with our foster Youth Of course is the systems that we have to navigate in working with our foster Youth and that's social services and um Orange County Department of Education so but that's the work of the of the social workers that you know they have to navigate those systems um what else do we do with our sorry I'm trying to we also embedded into our task force collaborating and bringing social services and Orange County department event on board so that we can work with them strategically and how to better exchange information the challenge is sometimes with our foster youth is is is getting that upto-date information in terms of who their foster parents are who the current county social worker is so we

175want to bring them on board and really have intentional conversations on how to better document how to I'm sorry how to better identify who our foster youth are um and get that that information as quickly as possible so this last year we really were able to see how each school really took on that work as a team approach um to really support all of our foster Youth and we were able to see um increase in attendance uh Improvement in uh their academics more strategic enrollment in the a through G courses that they needed that were better suited for the students um and the work obviously continues with our foster youth um we also worked strategic in the transitional um the transitions for foster youth from elementary to Junior High from Junior High to high school

176um and making sure that we had that warm handoff for our students as they went from other school of course the challenge is when it when a student is transferring to uh another district and trying to put in place that warm handoff for other districts um so that they don't have to start from scratch and getting to know the student and doing everything all over again with their students so so that's the work that continues for us in terms of our youth in terms of our foster youth um so I don't know if I uh let me move on to the mental health services but before I talk about what our social workers have done around mental health I want to um acknowledge and and really honor the work that um everybody has done to

177respond to the current need of our of our all of our kids who are struggling from our faces to our counselors and psychologists everybody really stepped up um and really uh met the needs of of the times when it comes to our students the challenges are huge when when it comes to you know working with with with the kids that we work with in tier one or tier three but I really want to acknowledge that that we did have a a school Community approach to meeting the needs of our students what our team of uh 19 social workers did did this year they were able to provide services to 2 200 students directly um they serviced 84 homeless families these are families who you know we have families who are doubled up families who are

178living in motels but we had 84 families who were unsheltered um living in a car or living in an emergency shelter or we had youth who are running away even though we were in a pandemic students um um families were still struggling and they still needed us to support them um so we Serv ased 84 families the social workers you know in our conversations with and our team meetings and trying to engage students um who were not engaging because they had virtual fatigue they were just tired we had to find a different way and our social workers really stepped up um they delivered 271 classroom presentations on uh self-care for students and that that topic of self-care really resonated for kids because we often times we talk to kids about coping but the concept of

179self-care for some of them even though they knew it but it was kind of new for us to talk to them about them so they really it really resonated with them during the the pandemic um we did 34 um staff U professional development um 56 workshops for parents a lot of the work that we did um this year was really around self-care it was really around how to respond to the current needs how to support your student during the pandemic how do you take care of yourself you have to take care of yourself if you want to take care of of of your your children um the social workers some of them in combination with the rest of the staff some of them um um in pairs uh facilitated for 160 uh home visits um

180this year we started a mental health parent ambassador program um we we met about four times and one of the the efforts that you know I visited the the student ambassadors a couple of times I met with different parent groups and it kind of wanted to find out what what what do you see us doing more of what what is it that you would love to us do more of in the area of mental health in the area of well-being and as you heard our parents earlier they want to be more involved and more engaged in in everything that we do and the parent ambassador program we have at least two members from each School participating in the parent ambassador program and what we want to do with them is really improve and figure out

181how we can better communicate with parents because even though we hold workshops uh we don't always have the massive turnout with our parents we may have 60 80 or 100 parents show but we know obviously there's more parents so how do we more effectively communicate with parents strategically deliver information and message Mees to parents um so we reaching the masses as opposed to a few um we are going to provide um in August um training for these parents who are going to be a real ambassadors in going out and talking to the community going out to other parent groups around trauma informed parenting um and really un building the community that is trauma informed to respond to what we expect to see and the other area which is as all of you know is close

182to my heart is Suicide Prevention so we want to build our parents to be able to um you know roll out a campaign around Suicide Prevention so parents are pretty excited about that work uh we do plan to meet um excuse me on a monthly basis and continue to roll out our our our efforts around mental health he here's what what else that I want to highlight here's what we um don't see in the numbers um during the pandemic even though we were long distance even though um you know most of our kids were participating and engaging in the classroom we still had to respond to families who are in crisis we still needed to respond um to students who were running away um students who needed that level of um of of Engagement of

183intervention and when we work with a student who has a mental health disorder or has mental illness you really are working with the family you have to work with the family so our work is not directly with the student it's with the family if we don't do that effectively we're not really helping the student our work with that family often times involves working with other agencies so we are strategically working with Social Services sometimes with the police department right sometimes with Community Based manah house sometimes with homeless service providers so we are are strategically sometimes at the same time because we're working with kids who perhaps are dealing with abuse they have a mental health disorder they need food they need housing so sometimes at the same time we're trying to meet the need of

184that student and if we're not working with the family again um we're not really providing effective intervention so that's very intensive work it's work that doesn't stop it hasn't stopped since the school ended um and it's worth that it's it's ongoing work um that continues throughout the the summer even we still have to do that so um and that's you know this year obviously we we have done several um presentations around the work that we did to transition to tella Health everybody transitioned effectively to our teleah health services um towards the end of the school year we did uh social workers team did 31 um pods on coping art therapy self-care so we started to do some of that work already with with in person for our students and that's that's my presentation any there

185questions I have a quick clarification question sure uh you had mentioned did you mention 84 families living in cars or is it motels in so 8 84 families who I call them our tier three homeless families because you have families that are doubled up a lot of families in motels you know they're stable in in the motel but these are families who are either in an emergency shelter so very unstable they're living in cars they're unsheltered or they're in a motel but they're going to they need to exit in a day or two so these are our tier three and have we been collaborating with the county in terms of making sure that they get sheltered like especially the ones who are living in uh vles so so the the community there the homeless service

186provider um Community or system is designed where a family has to enroll into a um into one system and if the beds come available the space comes available sheltered yeah they go they go into if if not they have to wait so one of the challenges that we're having right now is that there's limited housing right rent is going up um so I'm more concerned about like I mean I I know that there are folks living in the motels they're sheltered right if there is somebody who's in a shelter then they're sheltered um I just want to get the numbers for who's living in cars I think you mentioned there's a number living in cars as well do we have a breakdown of how many that they are that's that's very few I'd say about

187the 84 families about maybe 10 of them were out unsheltered um because Orange County has a pretty good system of response we have city net we have our collaboration with illumination Foundation that's very strategic collaboration it's a it's a three-way partnership with anahim City so we're very quick to respond so that families are not on the streets so that that I guess that's my question is like why why are these 10 living in cars when we have a system where we could actually collaborate with lumination Foundation or city net or the county to get get them into a shelter right so that all depends about when we find out that they're out on the streets so the minute that we find out we intervene right the minute that forh for example City finds out they

188intervene so they may come to us and they're already out on the streets some families come to us they know I have to I have to leave what about the 10 that we know know of so they're when when they come to us we make sure that they're off the streets I I'm not quite sure what the question is so so when so you mentioned we have 10 that we had out of the 84 out of the 84 that we serviced yeah so if you know that 10 are those 10 now being sheltered sheltered in either a motel or a shelter setting without in their cars yes I I'd say either with 84 maybe one or two families are are are still struggling if if that family or those parents don't have any income it's

189going to be really hard for them to really move into permanent housing because even the shelter some shelters are six month shelters some of them 18 months but if those those adults in the family unit cannot increase their income or gain employment to pay the rent they're going to have a very difficult time moving into permanent housing they're going to stay in the system all we can do is come in put him in a in a motel if there's a voucher put him back into the emergency shelter system so you have parents and families that are continuously going to struggle the number has decreased because now there's there's greater effort there's more funding around homelessness so from when I started now it's it's the community responds quickly but regardless of our response if that family

190can't increase their income gain employment and maintain it they're going to have a difficult time with housing that's just the fact about what happens and uh just uh quickly I I love the um Team approach with the our foster youth I think that's a fantastic idea and you and I have spoken about uh another approach utilizing um other sta uh to chy to just kind of be a you know Mentor friend uh to to that environment but thank you so much for for your report and I just want to personally thank you for the and all the other social workers you work with the the stuff that no one else you know understands and sees and it's very very difficult and yes we get the reports um and we see them but we don't understand

191and we don't know the hours that you spend in the hospitals or in a home uh waiting for these things waiting for the connections waiting for a police to arrive or waiting for a bed to open and I just want to personally thank you and your staff for all that you've done all that you are going to continue to do um we are so lucky to have you we know that um the county calls on you a lot and and utilizes your expertise um and I just um I I just don't know what we would have done in this last year without you and your team and I hope that um whatever we can do to support you uh and your team um you know that we can do so thank you so much you

192thank you that thank you for everything that you and your girl thank you I appreciate that thank you sir no worries I will do that you know I think that I hope that what you heard from from from all three U team members is intentionality we're doing things with intentionality uh and I think that is why we we are seeing success and we'll continue to to be creative and Innovative to continue to support our students especially our most needy students I think it's important for us to conclude at least the the lcap piece to with the vision of you know our our work really is about making a difference in the world and and ensuring that through the unlimited opportunities that our kids have they are Unlimited in terms of what they contribute and I

193think that's the ultimate goal and I think you saw that in the description of of of the goals and the actions that are embedded into the alc cap so with that I'm going to turn it over to Mr Carmona that will get a little bit more Tech technical about what the lcap um template and process is and the annual update that is required in terms of of the alcap Mr Carona thank you good evening once again uh want to really appreciate my colleagues who preceded me and sharing the amazing work that uh we're doing distri wide uh so this part of the presentation I'm going talk a little bit about the uh different component that make up our uh lcap so the first part of that is the annual update the annual update uh this

194year is a little bit different than in the past uh due to the pandemic we did not complete an lcap during um the 2019 2020 school year so the annual update really asked us to look at both the 201920 school year right we were working off of our actions um from from the previous elcap uh cycle and then also during this uh school year 2021 uh we created The Learning continuity and attendance plan so the LCP not the lcap uh I think someone at the State Department of aded had a sense of humor that they wanted to keep at the same letters practically so uh our annual update this year includes both of those pieces together the 2019 2020 school year and the 2020 21 school year uh as uh what laid out by the

195Learning continuity and attendance plan uh so that's that piece and we'll I know we'll uh probably answer some questions about those sections in a little bit here the template itself was redesigned uh in 1920 uh in preparation for writing the elep at that time again again right the the pandemic um canceled that process we had actually started our stakeholder engagement process uh but then that was um that was halted due the due to covid uh so the the template uh really the changes to the template were to try to make it uh a little easier to understand for stakeholders uh there's a lot of requirements that are included in the instructions so when you look at our lcap and you see the instructions that are at the end those are actually uh legally required to

196be included because the instructions uh lay out some of the um regulations the um different Ed code that governs what we actually have to include the prompts themselves are um were simplified to be more straightforward but then the technical pieces of what we need to address that's included in the instructions and so that's they are much more detailed um for that section uh and so for us um looking at the next three years you saw um the different data pieces and a lot of uh work that uh we are very proud of uh but also acknowledging uh that we still haven't reached um all of the goals that we've set for ourselves and so uh in in looking at those next three years we did redesign all of our actions right so there are uh

197subactions under each goal so we have uh nine actions in goal one three actions in goal two five actions in goal three and uh those actions uh look different than they have in the past and the reason is during our stakeholder engagement process we asked our groups to answer four questions who is going to do what for whom and why and so when you look at those subactions uh you'll see uh different uh positions are called out more specifically um right different student groups are called out more specifically because we wanted to be intentional uh around the design and delivery of the services and activities um for our students and particularly for those student groups that the elcap is designed to address our lowincome our English Learners and our foster youth one other uh required

198section of the lcap and this was introduced uh just a couple years ago was the budget overview for parents again uh this was uh an attempt uh by the state to try to simplify some of the financial information um that is included uh so this is a a brief I believe it ended up being four pages at the beginning of the lcap this year um so again just these are the broad Strokes of the budget what are the overall expenditures how much of that will be lcff how much of that lcff is budgeted for uh in this template they call them high needs students which we know to mean the unduplicated student groups lowincome English Learners and Foster youth uh and so this gives the the sort of big picture um around the budget the

199actual l cap itself right all through all the actions and services you see the various amounts right that are tied to uh those various actions and services so that is the different uh required components of the lcap the budget overview the annual update the actual lcap template itself uh and so with that uh that concludes our presentation and I believe we're going to open it for questions now and uh I think we're all ready to respond to any questions uh that the board may have I just had a you said unduplicated uh for those students of low income etc etc I thought those students were actually counted in each group so unduplicated is the term that the state uses for uh to to count them so they are counted across the groups so a student

200can be lowincome and an English learner and a foster youth student um and so they can be counted in each of the different groups but uh unduplicated is the term that they use for those three different groups yeah that's the boring technical stuff that Mr Carmona gets to do uh sometimes so so um but yes they a student can fall within multiple of those groups okay thank you for clarifying that and in reality they do right very very often especially um in our communities okay no I'm sorry I'm ready for questions Anna if you're ready I don't have any questions right now all right well I I have a few questions I think uh Manuel is ready and ready to go right there so um so bear with me I know the reason that I'm

201going to ask these questions is because of our folks and friends from Anaheim inov uh intersection initiatives who are here I think they went through a process so I want to thank uh I want to thank Rosa Anna Marissa I know uh uh Wanita is back there and Karen Alvarado with OK OKO and also especially Adan uh like I think I mentioned it to you before he has been one of those students that I've seen grow and he uh really uh coming out here and advocating on behalf of other students I am uh so proud of him for being up here and speaking in front of all of us so I want to do that thank you and then just kind of dive into a little bit more um I do have breakdown in terms

202of asking questions related to our lcap I will do that but overall General I wanted to kind of uh establish some uh I guess broad uh uh context of how our funds are being used and what we are doing in terms of these questions so the first question is with the lcap how are we centering the relationship between families students and Educators right especially with home visits and um having this one-on-one uh with families so we're doing all that work but I want you to kind of give a little bit of a breakdown of where it is on our lcap how we are spending those funds so that some of our parents who are listening could also learn from it so I I'll I'll start to answer that question and uh I actually think that

203um that question touches upon the the work of many of our different directors right so uh Dr Cruz could answer that Mr Hernandez could answer that uh so when we talk about uh family and Community engagement obviously in goal two is where we see uh some of those resources coming into play uh right that's where we see um our family and Community engagement Specialists um and the funding right to support them that's where we see our uh uh translator um and um and uh in so you see that support there but then you'll also see that in goal one as it relates to our English learner families right so we have our language assessment center staff we have um our instructional support staff at the sites our bilingual instructional AIDS you'll see that within uh

204goal one again related to the achievement of our English learners uh and when we talk about um centering around our students uh I think that's really one of the beautiful aspects of our lcap is when you look at goal one and when we say uh the end of that goal talks about through the implementation of the five C's um so I think we could argue that any of the Seas help center that relationship but when we call out compassion as an instit institution within our lcap and the work that goes into developing compassionate relationships building those skills and resiliency within our students uh and then ultimately when our families and students need additional support when uh you know the skilled work of Dr Cruz and her Department come in uh right the there's no sort

205of one lane that um that that lives in for our students um and our families right so we see it in goal one in goal two in goal three where we have our social workers uh and so that I think is really um it it is uh you know I'm a little bit nerdy that a plan can be beautiful but uh I do think we have a beautiful plan right and because that sets Our intention to accomplish everything that we want for our students so uh I don't know if Dr Cruz or Mr colone you want to add anything to that I I think Mr Carmona you you actually actually hit most of the points that I wanted to make sure that our parents get because at at the end of the day uh the

206the emotional mental health and academic needs of every student is also met with the funding allocation that goes back to our home visits from social workers to you know making sure that our El students are getting the necessary Outlook so I I think you broadly captured that uh I I wanted to go into a little bit more into after school program uh and Manuel we talked about a little bit can you kind of hit on some programs that we are identifying for our students including our Saturday acmy right that we're having and actually Mr car would talk to that he okay yeah I I do I do so uh right so we we are very fortunate to have a long-standing partnership with the Anaheim YMCA uh and through that partnership uh we offer an after

207school program uh affectionately known as Anaheim achieves uh and so that program has been in existence for uh for quite a while right and uh that is uh supported with a state Grant um and those uh programs really address three things right again we want to uh right they call it expanded learning that's its technical name right because we're going to expand the learning after school right that time after school so we have academic support so that's when they have tutoring uh right they sit down with the students help them complete their homework and their assignments there's physical engagement right because we know that physical activity is really essential so they have uh Sports um you know they they get outside they they do different activities uh and then lastly um there's the component of

208student Choice what are they interested in what are the kinds of things that that are fun for them and so that's where the after school program develops um what they call clubs right and so each School asks the student what are the things you're interested in and then they design the clubs to meet the students needs um right so one of the the biggest successes there has been Esports um the students were hungry to experience that in an organized manner right uh not a student sitting at home by themselves right but really uh looking at what are the the cognitive benefits of engaging in uh Esports and how do you develop a sort of uh Team mentality maybe you've never been on a sports team right maybe you've never played a uh you know soccer

209or football or basketball but Esports you still develop that team mentality right how you support your fellow teammate uh and so that's one example um of some of the the clubs and the student driven interests um that we have in our after school programs additionally uh we work with a number of partner organizations uh okapa Girls Inc um Dr crew started a student organization around mental health all of these organizations um meet after school uh so that's uh another uh aspect of our after school programs and then lastly the own academic Tut ing that we've provided as school sites right where our teachers and our staff um are providing that tutoring and even during the pandemic that was provided virtually right um hiring college students from our local communities uh to support our students in

210uh achieving academically so uh that's right Athletics that's a whole another component of maybe what you would consider an after school program right our intermal programs at the junior highs which is a very unique program um that we're actually running during the summer for the first time as an enrichment program it's was just out at a few schools um this week it's been amazing to see the students out there participating big smiles on their faces uh you know literally the sun is shining on them and it's like everything is right right our students are are healthy and successful out at our sites during the summer so uh so that's a I think that was a quick a quick snapshot of our after school activities it's a quick long snapshot can I just add a caveat

211to the Anaheim Chiefs program we've we've um really re revamped the Anaheim achieves program in the last couple of years um it's not just an after school program when we hand the kids over we've actually really teamed uh up with them and and they're actually um trained in the content area yeah the the tutors are are are trained by uh Diana Fujimoto in Avid strategies right so they're not just helping the students one-on-one they're actually using research-based uh tutoring strategies um they are trained by Dr Cruz on recognizing social emotional issues and our proper protocols uh for doing that uh you know we're we are adding um we added professional development days for our own staff right heading into next school year our Anaheim Chief staff will participate in those days as well so they're

212getting the same training as all the rest of our staff so it's very seamless right when a student walks out of the um walks out of the school doors and into the after school program that those staff are just as uh competent and well trained as our own staff and how many sites are we in uh we are at um six of our eight comprehensive Junior Highs but with our one-time funds we will be opening those programs at Walker and Lexington in the fall uh and we are at five of our eight five five of our eight high schools have Anaheim achieves six of the eight have um a partnership through the Anaheim YMCA with a program called avanza uh which is their version of like a career development so we have one additional site

213that is also supported through that program perfect so uh with that I I wanted to kind of reiterate that with this lcap we are also this goes back to our Anaheim uh um intersection questions where they were asking for increase the number of District staff dedicated to a metal Heth and I think we've done that at at our sites to make sure that we do that uh continuously increasing support for parents I think you saw the robust parent uh um activities that we do and the investment that we have in that uh increasing the occurrence of uh Universal mental health screening I know that we partnered to get a menal mental health screening uh program do you want to talk a little bit about it pull out my numbers so we we um piloted at

214one of our high schools at Cypress high school we we uh finally were able to roll out a screener it's called heads up checkup and it's an online screener takes under minutes um and it was developed by a psychiatrist pediatrician based on our um current um understanding of mental health disorders so it's pretty comprehensive so as the students answer the questions it really takes them in a path based on how they're answering the questions so here are the results of just one screener for 704 7th grade students out the the student has to volunteer this is volunteer so out of 704 students 340 completed the screener out of 340 there were 113 students we had no concerns for 25 you know minimal mental health um issues 81 uh students met the criteria for a DSM

215diagnosis we have about 20 students who were in a crisis in that day in that day so four students with severe crisis and in our response we had to hospitalize one of them so that was just in one day we were able to find students who had already the full spectrum of mental health kids that were doing all well I'm sorry kids that were that were doing well which is the major of our kids which pretty much aligns with the current data and then you know smaller number of students who are in need of intensive interventions can I have a clarification you said this was in Cyprus and did I hear you say Cyprus High School seventh graders I'm sorry did I say seventh ninth graders okay that's why I saying wait a minute I

216thought this was SE ciphers okay I'm just not having a good day today to present to you guys I'm sorry so my question is when are we when are we going to expand that over I know it's a brand new one that we just got when are we starting to expand it to the rest of the sites so we had a little bit of challenge rolling out getting approved and in all of those good things right so we our goal is to screen all of the seventh graders to roll it out to all seventh grade classes next year and all ninth grade classes okay because it does cost per student um the what what what what I have to highlight about this I presented it to our parent mental health ambassadors at our meeting in

217May and the parents were not only grateful that we did this that we're doing this but a lot of them offer to give us money to pay for it that this is incredible one of the parents you know gave us a story that she her her personal story that you know she's struggling with her daughter and has to pay so much money to get her help and had she known how we done this for her she would have been able to find her months earlier and kind of gotten her so by the time sometimes we get these kids you know that have like 125 who have minimal mental health issues sometimes because we can't find them we get them when they're already in crisis so what the screener can do for us is really prevent

218that suffering and when we looking at children who have a mental health disorder and we provide that that intervention the treatment the healing you're also healing the family it goes back to our parents right it's it's not just the child but the whole family unit that we're providing an intervention for because you have a child that's hurting the whole family is hurting as well that is phenomenal now when was this administered you said this was a voluntary thing for the ninth graders it we we did the classes Ona 17th on all of our English classes so prior to that pray to that day we we we we had a parent information meeting we piloted in one class you know um we we informed the teachers um okay yeah it it was that's that is just

219phenomenal and then you ended up actually intervening with one of these and getting I mean that phenomen I have to give credit to Dr hon because he did an amazing job he was supportive he did an amazing job with this and really was was on board and really took owned it right he he wanted to talk to the teachers he was there at the parent um uh informational meeting and it was part of the whole process him so I really want to make sure that I highlight his his his buying into this and his support for this so what's the cost for student again a little bit under $5 per student okay so I for one screener and have we allocated funds uh Mike have we allocated funds to roll it out for all the

220schools we we've allocated funds to allocate it for for the seventh and nth graders for all of our schools all of our schools okay yes all right perfect um increasing the use of peer-to-peer support I think that's something that we are beginning to right yes we're we're we're continuing to work on that and we had a little bit of challenge during virtual learning and what that looks like cuz we you know some dists are doing that with kids and they're more focused on them responding to Suicide we have to be very careful with the peer-to-peer counseling so we're we're we're partnering with latino Health Access delber yes yes and then convening parent and student Forums on mental heal I think we've done it but we just need to continue to do it because I see

221that there is a need and I one of the things that I get asked a lot is from parents wanting to know more and more about mental health so for us to kind of focus on that and move forward in expanding those type of forums at different times of the day uh even if we can possibly do it during a weekend to attract more parents and kids uh it's a it's a great great component that I want to add vate for um this is a very important I I I commend them for actually uh looking at this is the aligning of menahal support policies between our district and the the feeder districts of you know Anaheim elementary Magnolia Centralia and so on and so forth so that way we have a they know what to

222expect from us and we know what to expect from them right how are we going down that part I know that brought this up long time ago but we never had the opportunity to really DW dwell into it right right that is something that we need to start looking at so so I I did meet a couple of times with with um representatives from all of our five elementary school districts so we had the homeless leas on there the Foster youth leas on and the person that's in charged of social emotional not all schools have that sometimes it's just just one person like myself um but what what came out of that meeting was that that desire for us to partner and align our practices around mental health and social emotional learning around tancy just

223to support each other so the buying is there we did meet we're going to we're going to try to meet on a quarterly basis to start because of you know the work that has to happen and the the the main reason why we set up that meeting was to look at the transitions we want to be more and more intentional with with transitions with our kids who have a mental health disorder Foster Youth and homeless youth that warm hand off and they they they Agreed 100% all five um um Feer districts so so the work the the buying for the work is there now we just have to have the system of of communicating and meeting so that we can right move on with that work so the uh increasing the utilization of community- based

224Mental Health Services to provide support for students in need and we partner a lot with different organizations but increasing to do that and creating that continuity I think helps so so here's what's great about having a mental health professional within the educational system and when it comes to Community Partnerships what what's great about that is that you have you have a we're creating a system where we with the with the training of the teachers and staff where we're identifying students who have a need and in our assessment we have we determine what that need is because in mental health and mental illness it varies right it varies in terms of what their mental health needs are so what what the social worker does then is that targeted case management where we're intentional and and sorry

225I want to get closer to you guys we're intentional on what community agency they partner with if it's trauma focused if it's a homeless service provider if it's a mental health provider that focuses on anxiety disorders right it depends so we do have strategic Partners like okapa and Western new Services they service our regions they get funding from the healthcare agency and they are our providers in the community so they service but we also partner with other Child Guidance Center um way makers um OC lgbtq we just put them through we've always referred and connected with those agencies based on the need of the student so that's ongoing work that doesn't stop that has never stopped um but but but I want to highlight that our work with the community is really centered on the

226need of the student need of the student and which is what which is why it's great to have that that mental health provider on campus Because we can do that individual assessment and meet the student perfect and the families as well thank you so all in all um I mean that's like pretty much what I wanted to cover for the benefit of our anahim intersection Partners but I think their main ask is we have all this money that has come into the system right are we being intentional about utilizing that money to kind of transform the system which we are right as a district we intention intentionally looking at how to utilize those funds and that's one of the reasons that I say that at the end of the day our we can talk about

227it here and crow about it because we are proud of it but we got to take it out and talk with parents and community members and give them a short synopsis of what we are doing in order do that the other part is I think we as a district also need to show it goes back to transparency right we as board members can identify where the money is at and how we're spending it but for the community and parents maybe to break it down and show like okay this is the amount that we get from elcap and this is the amount we got from uh covid uh related this is the amount that we got from ARP right and break down those funding and show where those fundings are going in a short format even

228throw it on the website and maybe if that allows them to click on it and deep dive into where those funds are going so be it but we got to do that to be transer uh uh transparent right Mike you you stood up you wanted to say something yeah I'm glad the parents did stay because um as I mean people need to be clear we have to manage expectations moving forward this money is one most of it is one time money it's going to be gone in two years plus we're faced with declining enrollment 1650 students uh that were were losing and so this is we're going to need you parents to be to participate uh as we move forward because we're going to have to make some tough decisions we're not going to have

229this money's going to be gone in 2 years so we it's great that we were in a position to spend the money strategically but again in terms of expectations moving forward uh we're we're going to we're going to probably we can't sustain a lot of this stuff so that's the challenge and we need your involvement to help us make priorities in future lcap thank you and I think Mike you're making a good point which I think some of us even from the county perspective you know that because I'm involved in the county part we get a lot of these comments about hey the county is flushed with money or the district is flushed with money but what we don't understand is that these are shorttime funding where is there for like one year two year

230and then we're done so we can't really create a new program because then what we're doing is establishing false expectation that you know four five years down the line that this program is going to go and robustly and but we don't have the money to do that so at that point we have to cut those programs which then is going to create more issues because now people are going to say like hey you're cutting a program which helped the student right so we got an intentionally look at that and that's where communication and transparency come in we can actually have this communication uh two-way to have that uh pretty pretty well uh in terms of understanding right um and then I think I mentioned it to you I have a lot of notes which I

231will talk to you um mon all I know we're running late too but I I just wanted to kind of clarify that one portion about um the the uh statement about uh facilities uh I I think you clarified it to me but I want to put it on on record is that one of the areas right here which I I just missed the page which talked about uh facility funding and then we go into saying that hey we had facility funding and measure funding and then the next sentence talks about we didn't get to do much with the facilities and then we utilize most of the funding to help support uh uh our food service program for our folks that might be a false narrative so maybe we were uh uh uh rephrase that language

232or put that sentence somewhere else because people might think that we're using measure H money uh to support uh uh what do you call uh supporting a food service program right and that needs to be distinguished and make sure that that's in in in the final draft of the document uh that we want to make sure that the community knows that we're not using measur funds to uh support our forood program right um and then the other part that I wanted to talk about which you and I talked about is that in the budgeting at one point it shows that metah Health at the actual was like at 1.9 million but we are not I'm sorry the the the assess was at 1.9 million but we spent less right that's again with the expectation that

233we are actually not using lcap funds but we are using other funds to support uh uh metal heal so that's something that I wanted somebody to clarify sure so uh I'll talk a little bit about that the budget piece just briefly so uh um there there are two pieces there so one is uh when you look at the the learning continuity and attendance plan the LCP right so uh in that plan that that were was uh you know the cares act money or the covid money as people kind of generally refer to it all right so we uh budgeted for uh many different Services there additional counselors additional social workers additional Community Liaisons translators right a number of positions so there's two columns there's what we budgeted what we thought right um it might cost

234to deliver some of these services and then what we actually spent there uh and so one of the things uh to keep in mind is all of those were on top of what we were already providing on a year-to-year basis from the lcap right so we already had uh 15 or 16 social workers that added additional social workers right we already had counselors at all of our sites that added additional um uh additional counselors so uh initially right all that money was supposed to be spent by December 31st right we only had one semester uh to expend those funds one of the challenges with that is if you are a uh a mental health professional um you really want to ensure you have a job for a year um and so uh as um the

235federal government made a late decision to extend those funds until the end of the school year that happened in December right so we were able to extend those folks um through the entire course of the year um but the challenge was many folks did not want to accept a job for just a semester initially right so we did add additional folks and we had budgeted to potentially add more uh but uh at we were not the only District right looking to add folks on right and so uh there was a definitely uh a scarcity in human resource right um and I know that was very frustrating for for Dr Cruz um additionally um I will say that we have a very rigorous process um and our social workers um really have to meet the highest

236level of qualification um and so right we we don't there are different levels of qualification that Dr Cruz could speak to but we don't take the lower level right like our folks are very well qualified um and that's why we in uh Trust trust them um to do you know the amazing work that they're doing so uh so again just a little clarification um around that piece and and again what you see there with the LCP is that was on top of what we're already providing right at all of our sites well finally I just want to thank you guys I think you guys put a lot of every year you you put in a tremendous amount of work into this elcap planning process Manel I know you lead this uh with passion a I

237love your passion for it so thank you very much I know uh all of all of the teams which probably put a lot of time and effort into this uh so I want to thank you on behalf of uh not only our parents and students but the community so thank you very much last point is if you can I I know that every year after graduation I I see all these great numbers for us right graduation rates and uh uh numbers for our a through G at Le I'm sure all the board members would like like it is to give like a short synopsis of how many people graduated how many we used to get those if we could do that for this year too that'll be great thank you thank you and I know

238again I want to congratulate and thank our counselors who did an amazing job with our seniors this year so we'll get that for you thank you thank you very much okay great present thank okay okay that was n .2 and 9.3 this is the public hearing local control and accountability plan or the LC cap and the annual update open the public hearing is there anyone else who wishes to speak on this item 7% how the hell's that okay seeing none close the public hearing and good night community okay 9.4 public hearing 2021-22 proposed budget open the public hearing do I have anyone who re uh would like to speak to the proposed budget seeing none close the public hearing 9 point no that's then wait a minute we have I think there a presentation right

239yeah we have another presentation but it wasn't put in here I'm looking turning the page to find it but okay we have a presentation on the budget yes perfect thank you so much Madame President Board of Trustees superintendent mauda cabinet and members of the public well before I start my presentation I do have a um special appreciation uh tonight for our um Director of Business operations Jerry chenaran who will be retiring so just want to say a few words so thank you so much for your amazing service of 21 years to the inam UN High School District this is your last budget um and hey Jerry and um just the um the the amazing numbers that you have uh provided me since I've been here and just your um hard work for the district I

240truly sincerely thank you for your service and I'm sure we'll see you around but uh congratulations um for all you have done for the district and thank you all right all right we get a few more balloons there so what a difference a year has um a year makes a year ago we were faced with a 10% deficit as you have seen across the board with our budget but now a year later California is rolling um roolling back from the dark days of the um Health pandemic that we have all faced for nearly a year and a half the governor was able to um produce a budget that's actually balanced with over $24 billion in um Reserve at the state level which includes a deposit into the public education reigning day fund which will now

241then trigger the district's uh Reserve cap so the requirements say with the cap um you will go in effect when the reigning day fund is at least 3% of the total K12 share of defunding so now with that trigger this means that uh District in uh year 2223 cannot have more than a 10% um Reserve in those year in the starting that year so however with the significant investment of um in the May Revis proposed by the governor and additional federal onetime dollars that we have seen quite a bit this will create a mon year um risk risk for our districts and districts across California even though we're hearing a lot of really great news but not all um California bank account are experienced at the same level as you will see here the national

242and the California employment rate so um just um just um in March of 20 um in March of 2021 California's unemployment rate was at 8.5% compared to the 6 2% across um the us but if you have seen during the pandemic when first initial number that we saw was La last April 2020 the unemployment rate in California was at 16% so just to see even 16% that was extremely high as you will see even currently at 8.5% that is extremely significant in the unemployment rate if you're looking at the um some of the healthing um prices this is a good index to see what are some of the affordability um within our state so only a year ago in February of 2020 the medium single housee um detached single housee homes was at about $580,000

243this has in a matter of literally a year later the um number in March of 2021 has increased over 30% 330% to $758,000 as a medium medium uh single family home so with that increase that really pushed the um affordability of housing as we have um heard to a really extreme level as you will see um I'm sure people are hearing about these housing crisis as well in California and that is extremely significant if you look at 30% increase in literally amount of um 13 months I will now go through some of the um proposals um by the um Governor so these all these proposal um came back um in middle of May and so the biggest um adjustment we're seeing right now is the um cost of living adjustment for the lcff base so

244this is called the Mega um Cola at this point it's 5.07% and this will be applied to just the L C FF base the next you will see is the um special education instead of applying the mega Cola um it's it's getting the compound Cola from last year which we did not get a cola of 2.31% to the current year Cola of proposal 1.7 that's called a compound Cola of 4.05% now the other categories which is the other categor programs will be only getting the 1.7% Cola that will include some of the mandated cost after school um education program the Asis program that uh we we have as well as the drug Alcohol Tobacco programs and so there are um a lot of um what we're hearing is some of these things are being proposed

245could change but this is the current numbers that we have the governor also is proposing a new concentration Grant so this is in addition to the um the one we currently have so with this the governor is proposing to increase the concentration portion from 50% to 65% and these are for the unduplicated pupil um which you um heard earlier um that are above 55% and this will be extremely significant um income as well however um the legislators already on June 2nd rejected this proposal and I'm going to talk about what they're proposing next so these are just so are this objected to the proposal they already objected yes so they voted already that this is not something that they're interested in at this point so right now we are not putting the dollar amount in

246our budget since there's a lot of risk to these type of um proposal at this point next one is the Community Schools um thank you to um Carlos as we have uh currently the two Community Schools as more and anahim high school and our district um is continuing to apply for even more Community School Grants so Governor is proposing a $3 billion dollar of onetime um over several years to expand Community Schools which would um increase additional um Mental Health and Social Services for our students and the idea is they will have a u proposed a wraparound services for our students and Families Governor is also proposing this is yes what's the definition of community school so it's basically is um so the model that we currently have is we would have um a school

247within a school right so you would have a separate like the ones I we have seen so far would be we would have the services on on campus and parents can come in during a certain um time and to provide that that piece of it but the idea is really having the school to family engagement piece so that's how um currently that's that's the model that um we're looking at I mean that what the governor is proposing right now and there were also the um we we have also actually applied for additional Federal community school as well so that's a great question U Mr O'Neal about the definition of Community Schools um we still that's still being um clarified by the state of California but the concept is that schools become hubs of services for

248communities even beyond the uh parent and student community so um and that's as you heard from Adela when we're dealing with mental health for example there's all these other issues and currently uh because well even prior to covid schools were more and more uh the sources of food right the basic needs for families and the the again this is the governor's proposal is only for 3 years so these are um we have to as as Nancy saying we have to be very careful with how if we were a if we were able to secure a community school Grant you know we have to be very careful in how we spend that money the next proposal is the imperson instruction health and safety Grant and this is also a one-time proposal to provide $2 billion for

249inperson instruction Grant so uh that will include U sanitation cleaning Co testing additional spaces for social distancing as well and this will be allocated based on the proportion of the district's lcff entitlement the next one is the expanded learning Opportunity Grant and this um is part of the ab86 and this would um basically provide uh supplemental instruction as well as for support for social emotional well-being and meals and snacks and 85% of this grant would have to be used for inperson services and then at least 10% used to hire um PA of professionals or if you are not able to hire them you can um backfill using um your current expenditure as well the next proposal is the targeted intervention Grant which actually um that this is to supplement the uh expanded learning um Opportunity

250Grant and this would increase additional tutoring intensive re-engagement of students and staff and to close achievement Gap as well as increase instructional time and this is um about $2.6 billion proposal that will be allocated based on the lcff entitlement as well and regarding to distance learning in 20 uh 2122 so may revise basically that's a quick question clarification on that so you're talking about the assembly Bill 86 right mhm so that 4.6 billion will be fion based on lcff numbers yes and and then that $1,000 for each homeless student is that in addition to or is that so this is all you'll be on our location this will be part of it already Okay yes so this is um yes so there's a there's a formula like there's a projected numbers yes that they will

251be um giving to us if okay okay perfect and regarding distance learning in 2122 the assumption is that the um inperson um education it will be the default for um all students however if families do not feel comfortable they are allowed to um dis would have to provide some type of um instruction so done um two ways so either um we basically will be an a program based on independent study now in our district we do have Polaris as well as catella independent study and the canedy independence program and additionally we do have our Cambridge Virtual Academy um um that would be another option but it's more of a course based so it's not independent uh program but we do have options for our students if they um choose to um be be um work

252independently at home um for the next school year as well no we just did a survey we received the results of that survey yet the survey for the parents yes I believe so yes attendance for next year and what they plan on doing next year yes I got okay she gave us a preliminary report when a few of the results that come in but now that it's over yeah we had about um 250 families that expressed interest in CVA and somewhere around 150 that express interest in poers so both schools have been given the list of families to recruit um otherwise everyone else um either chose in person learning or did not respond to the okay so you're saying 400 people responded for other than in person correct yes okay and what percentage about yeah

25395% of the uh families um are selecting the inperson option so right we you know that was the percentage with when you had the first you know number of them but how many responded just yeah what 8 about 8,500 families or students respond only 8,500 yeah so it is unclear right in terms of the exact numbers we're going to get in the fall um because only 8,500 uh responded to the but then you you know but the option was e respond but if you don't assume you're in person so a lot of people just oh okay correct that was what was shared is that if you do not respond that just means that your default will be in person so there could be a lot of families who just chose not to respond because they're

254planning to come back right and as as we approach you know families um are reaching out to ask if they want to change their mind but most families are asking to be in person if they chose the other option so we're not seeing very many people asking to go the other way to um to CVA or to Polaris okay thank you Thank you regarding cash flow and deferral so the uh current proposal um is still on for the uh for current year from February through June 2021 that is still being deferred through from July through November of 21 so that is still a deferral but the governor is proposing to eliminate the deferrals for next year um from the febrary portion to the May however the June 22 uh 20 to uh deferral will be

255to the July um 2022 so that's the only uh cash deferral that they're proposing for next year at this point that are affect our cash flow no we we are in good standing and then the July portion they try to um have it by J July 15th so it's about two weeks period so it's not as bad but we we we we we have a um right now we um our cash flow is solid so we are good right now but we are always monitoring cash flow just to make you know we wanted to ensure but this um it's basically they're basically not paying us and we're not making the interest right as well so it's like you know when you are allocated this dollar amount you're expecting this cash flow but they're saying I'm

256going to I you I'm going to pay you down the road and so um we are the iou's um it's coming uh for current year uh apportionment as well so that's not um ideal and so we're hoping that maybe the legislative version of the budget could possibly change that no interest on the IOU no interest on the ilu and and I'm going to show you about the interest rate is really low still right now but it's it's you know it's it's our money right so we we do our owe that money so so um so I'm going to go into our um our District's U proposed budget for the 2122 um year and these are some of the um highlight highlights um for the the assumptions that we have for our budget so as you

257will see we do have a split on the uh Cola for um for current year lcff is at 5.07% as you all saw special education of 4.05 and other categoricals at 1.7 but the outy years assumptions are the all the um uh cost of living adjustments are the same 2.48 for next year then 3.11 for 2324 and 3.54% for um the fourth year out but you will see the stores uh continue to go up from uh 16.92% to the 19.1 at this point and the purse amount will go up from 22 91% to uh 26% and I'm going to have a slide to show you how much that will actually cost the district that point the state unemployment insurance right now um for current um for next year is actually got increased significantly to the

2581.23% um um as well and the interest rate right now we're projecting uh right now is only still at 0.9% that's the current um orange County Treasury rate that we are um receiving and depending what happens um you know when they set the rates then we will adjust that when we U receive those numbers as well as you guys have seen this enrollment projection um chart we are uh continuing to decline and this is one of a major uh problem that we have so in if you can start if you can see from 20145 to even current year at 2021 we have a loss about 2500 students already in a matter um of that time and just even in the um from 201920 to what we're projecting even for current year um we are are

259losing about 1650 so 1650 students is our projected um loss which is very very significant regarding the um so we um we have the enrollment now this P next piece is the average daily attendance this is how we're being paid for um um for funding as you will see the state basically Safe Harbor The District in year 20 uh 2021 so basically that ADA will help us um into our budget for the 2122 but which means that we will have a significant drop um in the following year with our budgets since we there's no longer a Safe Harbor and as you will um see this is the duplicated people count for the threeyear ruling average well we have to take um the unduplicated for um um the three years in order to um have this

260number as part of part of our of our lcff as you have seen um with every uh everyone's hard work we are um the our numbers are actually going up so next year projected to be at 77% and then even higher to about 79% the following year but as you know if the economy does improve and so that number could actually then will come down because then families will not be qualified for the um for that piece of it and as you will see the next slide here this is the S and Pur District contribution so if you will see back in 201516 the stir amount was about $5.6 million and if you will see what are projected already in 202 um the 20 um in 2122 we are we are going to be at

261at $29 million that's literally double already and then it is projected to go up to $32 million for stores just um in another year from that so literally with the stirs even going back about six years it doubl already at this point with the district contribution the next piece of it is The Purge that's um for the classified employees um in 20156 it was about $6.3 million for that year um and um for our projection in 2122 it's already more than double to about $14 million at that this point and it's projected to go up to about $17 million um in 20 um 324 so that's literally almost um three times as amount as um per sport has the authority to make those adjustments and this is It's a significant increase to our District budget

262so the 2122 general fund Revenue um this would include our um unrestricted and restricted budget we are looking at a total of um about $429 million as you will see the book of it is from the lcff base we also have the um supplemental and concentration portion which um the LC cap focused on about $73 million then we look at the expenditures for 2122 you will see the book of our expenditures continues to be on Staffing um with um certificate staff salaries at about 38% classified salaries about 14% and our total benefits employee benefits which includes the stir and purs is in there about 28% total for our total expenditures and you and if we looking at the M projection you can clear clearly see in um 2122 budget um we are spending more than

263what we're taking in but just be very aware that there were a lot of onetime dollars that came in this year in 2021 so basically we're carrying those dollars into the 2122 so it's going to make like we are deficit spending more than what we are so just be kind of mindful about that the one time revenues really when you do a mon you have to be extremely careful about that piece of it so looking at our proposed budget we are deficient by about um $ 45.6 million for 2122 and the following year we're defici in by about $31 million and then continuing to be about the $21 million deficit in 23 24 and about 20 million in the 2425 um fiscal year so this is what happens when when we have a Continuum of

264declining enrollment factor that comes in here and this so the trend really is to look at what how much are we defici um in our projected budget and this is something that we absolutely have to address at this point um so that we can be balanced in the multi-year out so I do want to review the timelines for the board so uh on May 14th um Governor New presented his May revision from his uh proposed budget back in January and on June 14th which is only a couple days ago the legislature actually passed the 2122 state budget of their version I do want to point out some key um Investments that the legislator um that they adopted versus what the governor so it's a priority a difference so the um first one is to increase

265the supplemental from the 20% to 23.3% so they don't did not like the idea of the concentration portion of that piece because a lot of districts may not have the um con concentration uh amount which but we do so um for us it's it's it's we'll have to figure out the difference if that would happen uh next one the is a $28 billion to reduce the person employer pension rates so this will be welcoming to our district if they would be able to put these $2.8 billion into those programs so that will basically reduce our expenditure on our St and purse and the do we have an average of if that were to pass what that means to ahsd um I I I I know um no I don't have that number at hand right

266now Jerry do you I don't think they have circulated that number but um if depending how allocation I can I can kind of give you some guess later on but um yes yeah I do have like a number in mind I think so okay and then we regarding the unemployment r you saw that unemployment insurance is extremely high right now so they are proposing to do some some type of um the state unemployment insurance support so these will be extremely welcoming um if it would pass at this this way as well and then um the next one is the four re full retirement of the k12 and Community College deferrals so all the deferrals you saw the the idea is to eliminate all of them and that will be super welcoming for a cash flow

267purpose because then we're not getting those IUS and then lastly will be to um um increase the U cost of living adjustment of 4.05% um to U versus the 1.7% for the non lcf portion of our budgets so basically tonight we're presenting the uh what we have based on the governor May revise and um the board um we hope the board will adopt the our um the lcap obviously and then our 2122 budget next Thursday um and then after that we know there will be fairly significant changes that will be coming and we will continue to monitor those those changes and then bring them to the board as soon as we get those information and so but I think these are really good proposals that they have on the table and so we're really excited

268and looking forward to see what will get passed at the end of the day so that concludes my presentation and I am happy to answer any more questions that you may have yeah on page 130 of the budget mhm uh we're increasing our our uh management supervisor confidential employees from 176 to 190 so we're increasing our head count in management by 14 who are those positions what are those positions those are employees that are Hing from the onetime funding such as your school psychologist okay and that's so they're they're considered management yes the ad admin okay all right thank you that's why you see the large increase and the two years later you see it go down okay thank you good question that's it you usually have more so uh Nancy thank you for your

269presentation um two questions are we still uh doing the um what they call the summer saver for the classifi summer assistance program absolutely so we are doing that okay thank you and and uh don't want to put you on the spot but uh are we looking at um we looking at plans to uh you know to really look at the stirs and purse um and trying to combat that irregardless if we get those fundings um or not looking at ways to stabilize that yes so absolutely that's something that um the um that we are looking at and so we will come be coming with um some recommendations uh very shortly M so there are ways to that we can combat that thank you the of Community Schools there's no real definition with finite material information

270for us because they're talking here on the second line provide Integrated Health Mental Health and Social Services as someone told me that they're talking about dental services Dental Services yes so in so um in some of the community schools that I've seen they do have offer different health services including dental vision um you know Health checkup so there's different ways that I know that we um there is um that we do partnership with um some of these um services that they do have a van that they bring up to the campus and so basically um our families can't have those services on our campuses so we have we are looking at different options as well so I think the goal is to not just I mean including the additional support but just the mental health

271as well as well as some of these health services that we can also provide I I need more clarity in my understanding because it's one time um investment so if it's one time then so that's the yes I'm I'm just telling you when I came on this board there was a dental facility here and the problem was we didn't have enough room for classes and we had a dentist that was coming on Saturdays or what I don't remember but the cost of putting in a dental facility is huge the plumbing and the instruments and all of the technology is beyond the pale and I so it was discontinued and they removed everything and we got that bus out there and that bus was to go into the community and have a library a moving library

272and it sits out there so my concern is from my understanding of History what I have witness that just doesn't look good to me and when they say one time three billion you know I just it'll be interesting to see the finite material of ideas yeah as you keep in mind too as a board we've brought in a lot of different partners and agencies where there is no cost to the district it's part of nonprofits it's it's just linking these services to families and as you may recall we have a partnership with Healthy Smiles and they are providing dental work at no cost to the district they bring in their own equipment so you're right I wasn't I don't recall the the program you were referring to but I think that's back in the day

273when probably the product and the services were a little different than what they have now now they're able to bring in their equipment in it's all sanitized it's all done above water um and they're able to support students that model it's mobile technology yeah and I I when I was at ball I had was just leaving and they were beginning to bring some of that stuff in and it was pretty remarkable and our kids were getting served and for some of them parents didn't have access to bring them to a dentist and this was a way for them and their families to get that support at no cost of the families so when we talk about Community Schools it's not always going to come with the cost some of this money is seed money like

274gearup right where the money is going to go but if we can build sustainable systems and structures and develop these Partnerships then the then the services can last when once the money leaves so it's also being strategic with how we use this funds to build that Community School concept and that's where the two Community School cordin coordinators uh T Tanya um and Elli uh have been really strategic in helping to build that at syore and Anaheim as we look to begin expanding like potentially with the farm at Magnolia and other other other schools that's where we want to be really thoughtful and strategic about how we proceed but to that example with Healthy Smiles there is no cost to the district it's a partnership with a nonprofit yeah thank you Nancy and I just wanted

275to address Jerry happy 21 that's a good number and thank you so much for all your dedication and um and service and uh we know you've worked long long hours and and stayed um many many days and nights to to complete our budgets and we owe you um a debt of service and that's that's a kind of a pun there but a debt of service to our district and we wish you all the happiness and now you can go see all the shows that you want to see spend more time with my grand there you go there you go enjoy retirement oh I will trust me best wishes first week I had a day off in over two months oh wow goodness oh yeah okay well thank you and congratulations Jerry congratulations Jerry [Music] yes

276thank you thank you Nancy are there any other questions before she leaves entirely okay okay so we had our public hearing and our presentation now we go on okay so that was okay a little difference in numbering here 10.1 is next I know but I was just looking at the different numbering that I got on one page and then on the other okay it's a little harder now that we're back in the person here okay we're moving on to 10 number 10 items of business our first one is 10.1 agency membership California Association of school transportation officials I'll move second I have a motion in a second any questions or comments hearing none okay do we have to do no we're open are we open now can we just Vote or do we have to

277go name doesn't have to be name call okay because it doesn't say name call but I wanted to check okay all in favor I I opposed okay item 10.2 new board policy 7607 Esports second reading come move second I have a motion in a second any questions or comments I just wanted to uh know if we can get an estimation of the numbers of students involved in eorts you don't have to give it to me right now just kind of we can get you a a more specific number but I know there's hundreds if not a th thousands of kids across the district that are participating in some shape or form with Esports it's growing much oh yeah just like to hear I read through the policy I know that we're putting some really good

278uh uh catch pieces to make sure that the this is not going out of control but my only concern that I've had from parents is that hey you know kids are doing this at home now we're kind of establishing this at at school sites and what I told them was that this allows them to be in a more controlled environment than at home right it does and if you look at Esports when it's done with intention it's connected to the 5c's they're they're collaborating so they're not isolated like you might see at home but when they're doing this here under a controlled environment one we're making sure the games are appropriate and they're beded through the different agencies but then also it's connected to the skills and in the collaboration right that that they're working

279in partnership with other kids playing with whatever the task of the game is developing interpersonal skills yeah yeah and this this as you know it's now a CIF recognized sport it does Target students who may not obviously be served by the traditional Athletics or even other extracurricular activities so it serves a unique purpose in connecting even those students to school in ways that they may not normally connect and we're actually with at Magnolia we're we're integrating uh cyber Esports into some of the classes as well so it's again high high interest for students but connected to the content so that's something we're looking to do as well perfect thank you thank you okay any other questions or comments seeing none those in favor I I oppos okay item 10.3 Grant award fuse science technology engineering

280art and Mathematics or steam Grant second I have a motion in a second any questions or comments yeah I have a question um I I know I asked this question as to why didn't other schools apply and I think I got the answer that Dale was the only one who received the email my my my question and suggestion is can we establish a system when there's a good program like this that when one one school gets it that we have a system to share it with everyone so that everybody gets an opportunity to apply yes absolutely absolutely absolutely all right thank you okay any other comments questions but there could be a downfall to that right there that's what I was the school that initiated it may not get it in some other school get

281it because of well but I think this has like uh what was I'm not I'm not I'm not saying that what you I agree with you but I'm just saying there is somebody might not want to share it or you know exactly well and then what one of the points made was that they are usually sent to a school that you know fits the criteria of what they want so in other words Dale was offered this but then if they were to tell let's say Lexington and they aren't the the the Target so I mean there's there's two ways to handle it in other words but it never hurts to share information I think you know there opportunities and opportunities right this was an exclusive Grant there were only two schools in the county that

282received it d being one in an elementary school in Irvine that received it all the other schools are LA county or outside of the area yeah okay any other questions or comments seeing none all in favor I opposed motion passes 10.4 group booking agreement T mecula Creek in gear up conference move second I have a motion and a second any questions or comments seeing none all in favor I opposed no Mo passes 10.5 educational Consulting agreement NextGen science Innovations Jim Clark I move second I have a motion in a second any questions or comments seeing none all in favor I opposed seeing all motion passes 10.6 cooperation agreement road trip Nation moved second I have a motion a second any questions or comments seeing none all in favor I I opposed all right 10.7 educational

283Consulting agreement Crisis Prevention Institute I'll move second I have a motion in the second any questions or comments uh I just uh wanted to know if uh we could also expand this to our safety officers I think this is a a great uh tool uh because it involves deescalation things that they do all the time so do we have any plans to um involve them or I can ask um I know that for those who recall Pro proact this is the the old proact training that that um trains our staff on how to deescalate I can ask and see if this is something officers are allowed to participate in as well well I know you're there uh you're getting permission to be to have trainers of trainers and so yes maybe after that initial um

284yeah we can just we can start implementing that I think that would be a great tool for them okay I can work with Celeste Amy and even shaa to to see if we can make that happen perfect thank you okay any other questions comments all right seeing none all in favor I I opposed motion passes 10 point8 memorandum of understanding with the city of Cyprus school resource officer program I have a motion do I have a second second a motion in a second any questions or comments I'd like to make a comment this is really nice to hear this is uh really good I mean I I was already jealous of Lama they had their own and now Cyprus will have one that's really good so anytime we get that type of of an Outreach

285and a support it's really appreciated so Madam president I just wanted to point out to um those who uh I don't want to say oppose this but just to uh add clarification to this program um that that the officer doesn't involve um is not involved in the discipline of a student um it actually says you know in this agreement um uh disciplinary matters shall remain the responsibility of the teacher and administrators not the SRO and um well he's there also to provide tobacco related education correct enforcement and Outreach he's not there as a disciplinary disciplinarian or whatever well and if it's criminal of course of and we have that liaison and this is supposed to be more of a team approach partnership um it's not supposed to be um you know um punitive to develop

286and building trust amongst the students and the um police force and the police force correct he's a resource officer not a policeman on campus he's you in other words little bit different so correct hope they all understand wanted to point that out okay any other comments questions see none all in favor I opposed motion passes 10.9 educ educational Consulting agreement Ernie T grusi empowerment comedian and Ted X speaker so moved I don't know I have a second second all right any questions or comments uh I just wanted to know if um Adela has vetted this person or if we can make sure that Adella has vetted this person it's kind of a um sensitive nature so I just wanted to make sure yeah I don't know if Adel has vetted this person but I think

287this came out of I think Kata the ASB uh for all the ASB directors when they go uh get trained in the spring so there's a grouping of national motivational speakers who come and speak with schools across the country and that's where I think this ball was given this this person's contact because they're vetted through that organization but I don't know if they've connected with I again I would just like to make sure that we vetted the content and to be said this since this is very sens POS of course thank you okay any other questions or comments seeing none all in favor I opposed motion passes 10.10 quote and near pod Inc so move second I have a motion a second any questions or comments yeah I did uh I know that I asked

288this question because U I think we pulled this item from May 6th and we're bringing it back because of teachers input uh might my related qu or suggestion is I know we're flushed with money and we're trying out different programs which work but I want to have a system that we actually vet the programs that are necessary and have a way to really hold it accountable for what we need and then use those funds appropriately because I know that we might have 25 teachers who like one system another 25 who like a different system but if they're all having something similar why not get it and get a bang big bang for the buck right but by not investing too much funds in different direction so that was my point when I brought it up

289so that's and I will add to that because I was involved in that discussion uh in the committee meeting when it was discussed and the difference between PIR deck and um near pod nearpod and it sounds well you know and I think we need to do a little work with our teachers too because P deck does what near pod does but near pod does it better and has more options that they can use so if but a lot of teachers are using pure deck because they started using it first and it's easier or they they're just used to it so if we can get a little bit of communication between the teachers as well and let hope maybe some of them will start using near pod more or whatever it's a little bit more expensive

290but it does more exactly that's my point right so so during this year we need to get the teachers to cooperate to to look into it and make that decision between the two so so so that's why it came back all right CU there was an outcry of no let's do so okay any other questions comments seeing none all in favor I opposed okay motion passes 101 School sponsored student organizations still move for all of them all right I have a second second okay any questions or comments yes on 10 114 for um I could not find what uh k i Ka stands for ta you're not alone so trusty Smith also asked the same question and I was looking up I have a call out to Dr hodin at at Cyprus but it's a

291National Organ it's a it's a pretty large organization and nothing I found had any acronym for what K stood for it's just a large organization that does this kind of work and this club isn't the organization it's a club that brings awareness to the same con Concepts and service okay Manuel is this the organization that I that one yes okay so that it's actually a uh organization that that uh brings awareness to uh uh actually raise funds for Guatemala but yes uh and they do a lot of fundraising and supporting of families uh over there and they do it by fundraising here so that's why we had some concerns about it but then we worked it out yes okay okay I just I couldn't find anything you know cuz sometimes you just never know and

292I couldn't find anything online it's an established organization but I could not find anything that defined what K Ika stood for if any got it all right okay any other questions comments seeing none all in favor I opposed motion passes okay item 10.2 20 21-22 AA salary schedule move second Motion in a second any questions or comments all right seeing none all in favor I opposed motion passes 10.13 public hearing disclosure of collective bargaining agreement with CSEA open the public hearing do I have any in the audience that wishes to make a comment seeing none close the public hearing item 1014 adoption of the 2021 collective bargaining agreement with cssea so I have a motion in a second sure any questions or comments I'm glad it's here all right any other no all right those

293in favor I opposed motion passes 10:15 public hearing disclosure of collecting bargaining agreement with asme open the public hearing do I have anyone that wishes to speak to this item seeing none close the public hearing 10.16 adoption of the 2021 collective bargaining 20 to 2020-21 collective bargaining agreement with half move second Motion in a second any questions or comments seeing none all in favor I I opposed motion passes item 11 consent calendar do I have any items that the board wishes to pull yes y starting with M tro three four and five three four and five that can be all together uh 11:36 and okay all right 11:29 11:30 11:29 and 11:30 11:21 1125 11:21 and 11:25 anybody else let's see move for the balance okay wait a minute wait a minute here okay move

294the balance do I have a second second all right all in favor I I opposed okay starting with items 113 four and five moved second I have a motion in a second okay any questions comments just wanted to comment uh to the public that we contract for audit Services uh in you know the um the interest of transparency uh for our uh budgets for our bond monies and and uh school facility programs I just wanted to point that out very good right because we are closely monitored believe me you know and U this is a firm which is we have worked with with quite a while but they have changed their names and so it's a little little harder to figure out ID Bailey but anyway any other comments or questions okay see none all

295in favor I opposed okay on to item 11.21 so I actually asked the cost uh in terms of repair I'm just curious to know I know cost uh is about 105,000 if you already spent $122,000 on one and the $166,000 on another one if if it if it's not hurting our budget would it be appropriate for us to actually purchase another one and maybe get a discount uh buy two items and get a bigger discount yeah that was kind of like not get I make a motion so we can discuss it oh I okay good evening uh uh Board of trust is good to see you in person so regarding the question these two mes are old and our staff have done a lot of work actually repairing them in-house before we send them outside

296the two repairs that we found uh that we presented there those were repairs that we actually had to send them outside for repairs and they were um 12,000 and 16,000 I tried to group together all the information about when we uh did the repair ourselves and the parts and unfortunately a lot of the parts we buy on a a blanket purchase order so it's really difficult for us to bring all of those no I get that I'm trying to make your case in terms of we're spending $105,000 right so we need two more right we're purchasing one my question is if you purchase another one since if it's not going to burden our uh budget purchase the other one too and get a discount for both because it looks like we spent 12,000 or actually

29713,000 on one and 16,000 on the other one and more right so if we have the opportunity to purchase two and get a bigger discount so that we save more money in the long run than just purchasing one and then the next one next year so I guess that's a question you have yes it's h it's under a Cass contract so there a re negotiated rate so it's for um so if you buy two is the same price because that's the lowest price already under the re M so that's yes so um that's what we're thinking we you know buy one now and then one for um the following Year's budget that's kind of how we were trying to gauge it because the price is the same again go through another one and hit another

298bum for and spend another $166,000 I I'm just thinking that's a waste of money right so that's why maybe when the next when the one we don't replace breaks again just kill it and buy a new one yeah I think that's what our our intent was if it just yeah and and actually there would be a benefit to purchasing both of them at the same time because there's a lead time for a few months before we get the new one uh so it is beneficial in a way to actually buy both of them at the same time so that way um because the moment we send the purchase there's again few months before receive the new one so there's a few months where there's that chance we might have to send some spend some repair

299costs on that bring it back again next month next month BR the other one thank you appreciate it okay okay that's the first time board members asking to buy something yeah beyond what you're asking for so be happy yeah okay um any other questions or comments seeing none all in favor I okay next item is 11.25 move second sorry um the the the reason that I I brought that up is kind of a more of a policy question I think it goes to the board and and I'm looking at it more and more uh looking at not only the county but also other the cities with the pandemic going on we're looking to give opportunities more for our small businesses in our own District or in our own tax base right so I know it

300really is not related to this because I got the answer for this question but it's more of a policy related question I know Brad's here uh I asked the question if we in our procurement process in our bidding process if we do give an opportunity to add uh a certain number of points like the county does in terms of giving the ability for small businesses to have the opportunity to bid and get a contract right and I know that based on your answer you were saying that there might be some legal issues that we got to take a look at and also the federal guidelines that we have uh so my question is if the board entertains it maybe you and the team could take a look at and look at other uh jurisdictions which

301have similar proposals and come up with a program which the board could look at where which gives opportunity for small businesses and organizations who are living in Orange count or at least in Anaheim Union High School District uh boundaries or in Orange County so that they get an opportunity would that violate the lowest respon responsive abiding yes or no so that's so depending on the type of procurement that we're going to be doing first of all it's great to see you guys you know it's great to see you it's been a while um but yeah depending on uh what we're going to be procuring and the type of procurement we're going to do uh we'll determine what type of uh program we can we can Implement and use the this type of uh process for

302so um I'll just throw out code public contract code 201111 basically states that you award to the lowest most responsible responsive bidder you know as you're saying Mr O'Neal um but when you're looking at things that are potentially under that limit you're looking at what we call an RFP under another government code 53060 which is more subjective um there's ways you can look at um doing a you know a program such as Mr jabbar's um suggesting um it's going to take a lot one we have to kind of determine what what are we trying to accomplish you know as a district as a board you know you you mentioned the small business program and for local businesses um we can we can look at that but again there's legal ramifications behind what we do and

303it's going to take quite a bit of research for us to really look into it um larger organizations such as the County of Los Angeles the state um like uh city of sanana they have large yeah and the County of Orange they have large resources and those are cities I mean La unified obviously has their own rules that pertain to them as well so um it's possible maybe uh we really have to look into it before we we you know take a deep dive into it before we actually really do something but is it possible yeah potentially it could be so if the board I mean I mean obviously I'm just one person asking but if the board does desire maybe it's an opportunity to take a look at our surrounding districts and see or

304or even jurisdictions like Orange County I can facilitate to get some information out to to see if we have a model program that we could Implement so yeah so the first steps obviously to do some research to figure out what's out there what we can do and then you know for the board I guess to take a direction on what are we trying to accomplish with this program you know we set goals you know we have to look at systems how are we going to track this program can our systems actually do this um what is it going to entail how many resources are we going to take for us to be able to do this because it adds an extra burden you know is it going to be vendors is it going to be

305contractors subcontractors and would you have to go through all that for every time you make a purchase potentially yes that's so it affects our procedures for procurement so that's why I'm saying there's effects that are that that we're going to feel you know there could there could be a cost associated with it that we have to really dive into and look at and what is that going to be how what is it going to look like for a district you know I think it's a it's a great approach and I think it's a great thought really H that's we got a deep dive into this to really see what we can do to for this program to to even accommodate a program like this but my concern though you know I because these are the

306larger businesses that are supplying a large amount we have a large food dispersion you know our food department and I I agree with you wanting to give our small local businesses business but I sometimes wonder if they could even handle this particular one yeah for this particular item you probably couldn't because they're mostly out of Orange County and out of right they're large that's what I'm saying this is the concern that you know when you are wanting to supply you know support a local business is for some food items they may not have enough or or be capable of supplying enough you know so I I hear what you're saying but I think it poses additional problems not not related to this particular item but I'm talking about about in general as a policy for

307our district um so again that might take a little bit of time for you to take a look at I'll I'll find out and get you some information too as much as possible uh we can take a look at it and see evaluate to see if there is a cost benefit to it that's right I mean there's simple things we can do is just like Outreach you know trying to outreach the community and let them know hey this is how you do business with our district um this is what we can do to help you you know that could come out of it yeah absolutely because I think the key is there are a lot of local businesses which are hurting and if there is something that we purchase that the local business could do

308it and they could get a l up why not right so that's it thank you okay so any other questions or comments hearing none all in favor I oppose all right motion passes 11.3 three no 29 and three and 3 so moved second I have a motion in a second any questions or comments all in favor I I opposed sub abstain I okay motion passes okay 11.36 I'll move second so I just wanted to um bring this out it was you know it's buried in our consent um this is another wonderful part partnership that we have and um if I can get someone to uh speak briefly about this program um I think it's exciting we're working with a um famous actors organization and you know here in Anaheim so yes so hi again this

309is uh the Whitaker peace development initiative which was um initially prior at ball that went very well and what it does it embeds um basically lessons on social emotional learning and I I say that but it's really um a peach initiative right conflict social conflict uh is geared toward Junior High School students where you might have more of the bullying aspect or um and it embeds through the core uh content uh it stays with the California state standards but uh the cont content is kind is tailored and embedded with conflict resolution or if you're looking at um in science and you may say well there's a lot of pollution and there's the you know it's harming the turtles it's harming you know different aspects of uh of ocean life and within that standard they would

310address well what could we do what could you do um to help that without being being accusatory or blaming others or saying it's your fault CU you're not using a a a plastic straw um and and really uh using the content to tailor how you can address problems of the world or personal it just depends on the content um in a peaceful Manner and the the staff um amazingly from their interactions with ball they actually went outside of the core content and now have embedded lessons through their work with ball through PE vappa and so they're going to be able to expand that um at Walker Junior High School and uh the staff is um on board they're very excited um it's part of it's going to be part of their professional development days when

311the teachers come back okay um and the principal I mean the principal was was trying to get it the first time but ball got it so now they are they are exceptionally excited to move forward so and I'm excited to see even how when we talk about the school climate uh the impact that has when you have your staff on board as well so I love it thank you so much for explaining that and and I love the idea you know it's it's trying to empower our students in a proper way in a civil way in a civil way yes absolutely thank you thank you very much all right any other questions questions or comments seeing none all in favor I I opposed okay and 11 let's see what was the next one 12 no

312I was trying to see which yeah it's the next one oh 113 oh there's no more is that the last of the 1137 that's what I thought I had I was looking for my back page I on top of it all right 1137 AG second I have a motion in a second so I just wanted to point out in the interest of the parents that were here uh if we look at exhibit uh Triple C all of the um uh well our Partnership of course with um North Orange County Community College District but looking at all of the content area of our um dual enrollment uh uh programs uh the list is just amazingly long and uh I just didn't want that to kind of get buried in in uh in in our agenda uh

313it's it's fabulous and um to to provide all of our students with an array of classes that they can take there was just from vapa to science to it just uh language it's just a a plethora of opportunity for our students to um to enrich their their their schooling and get college credit so um Bravo that's just a body of work and I know that's just been compounding and compounding in in and uh I'm really proud to uh to point that out so thank you um yes absolutely take credit because it's just an amazing amount of uh opportunity for students okay any other comments or questions seeing none all in favor I I oppose okay so that is the consent calendar okay oh good grief okay wa 11 okay 12 item 12 superintendent and staff

314report report no report no report Brad where'd he go no report [Laughter] okay he better not have one all right item 13 Board of Trustees report we'll start with Mrs tro uh I just wanted to say that I was so thankful this year and so grateful to the team uh to um in a fast turnaround having to coordinate our graduations um and uh uh all that uh handle and uh it was they were just all fantastic um I want to thank our um assistant principls who led um you know the uh the the wedding and uh and again um Dr eagin without your Without You revamping the whole graduation ceremony and getting the systems in place and getting you know our contacts with photographers and all of that but I also want to thank um

315uh your team um and and uh they did a tremendous job and it was a tremendous honor I can say that I attended every single graduation this year and uh it was a treat um it's a culmination of of what we do uh why we're here uh every day to make sure that those students can um you know take that walk and and um advance that that my milestone in their life and um our families were absolutely uh cooperative and wonderful and I think most of them were grateful uh for uh the opportunity uh to to be there and and and watch their their child and um uh I just want to I just have a tremendous heart fill filled with gratitude uh for our district I know this has just been everybody has all

316their um adjectives for what kind of year it was it was just the word to me this now is weird it's just weird uh year um and with all of the um you know the the the sorrow and the sadness and anxiety um we did end our year I think on on a very very high note and um everybody in this room all of the teachers and staff and uh classified from from the span of the district I am so incredibly grateful and honored to be a trustee so thank you thank you okay Mr O'Neal nothing more okay it okay well I attended the classified employee of the year recognition online which was a nice event to have and I uh he wasn't we pulled it the evening but um Adrien PTO the as me

317president who received the recognition uh in the state so I I think that we should recognize him eventually he will be recognized um I visited eight schools before graduation and I I ran out of time to visit more so that'll be in the future uh I attended the u a confusing OCS ocba budget presentation yeah uh very complicated and um um thank you Nancy for your presentation this evening it helps to uh give us a little bit more clarity of mind and it is a complicated situation and and uh yes we have a lot of money but at the same time we don't have a lot of money going going forward so something to be mindful of I attended a a Lama ku's meeting where they recognize uh Mna Wix who's the faes from Kennedy

318who retired thanking her for the um all the effort that she put into helping the families there at Kennedy so that was a nice event I didn't uh attend all the graduations as my colleague here to the left did but I did attend four graduations and they all went very well I was um not surprised but just it was very pleasant to see the outcome of them so at um under the circumstances everything went very well and I didn't hear any issues at all uh I attended a sister city meeting we're still talking about what are we going to do for this next year this coming year in the way of exchanges if any and um and on the on the sad note i' like to close the meeting with uh remembering Chuck darington our

319Personnel commissioner who who passed away just recently thank you Mr javar yeah I'll keep it short um I I attended the graduation again congratulations to our team which put it together I think we did a fantastic job not being at uh Glover Stadium uh and saving money and on top of it uh putting on a great wedding for our students which allowed us to see our parents it was uh it's kind of like synchronized uh swimming you had all the parents just lined up really nice so congratulations to the entire team for putting it together I appreciate that I had the opportunity to uh participated in uh uh all of them except for two graduations so that was a record for me so uh thank you again and I attended our Roop meeting which is

320uh always very informative thank you and Mrs i' just like to Express gratitude to all you wonderful people that do what you do under Beyond difficult times and I think of you all often with a heart of just wonderful people and I feel grateful to just know you people and Mr Robinson I want to recognize you as a new member of this family and thank you so much for joining us and wishing you well thank you okay um I I attended the graduations most of them I think I was all but a couple I love the know graduations and I have to say I think they went really well we did an amazing job um and we kept talking about know this is what we should do next year this venue worked out beautifully there

321will be some additional things we have to do but like you uh Al you looked up at the stands and people were just you know where they were supposed to be and they did what they were supposed to because they were so happy to be there you know was just great the one thing I have to say though I was surprised at all the graduations none of them threw their hats in the air after they graduated like they've done before but I didn't at the ones I was at The Graduate huh one was one I think there was one there was one one okay and it was like we shall not be named no okay I that's okay I mean that's to me that's normal but at least we didn't have any bouncing balls or

322anything like that so um but I I I just was really pleased with the with the whole setup and and I think we've we've found another way to do our graduations um then I also attended the retirement tea and I was a little sad that we weren't able to do a little bit more than have an online thing for our retirees because every year I look forward to that you know and saying goodbye to them because I worked with a lot of them and and uh So Good Old Co really ruined a lot of things and the same thing with friends of Education because we had to do our friends of education online and uh that's too bad because I always enjoy that uh ceremony and and the fact that we get our Culinary Arts

323students out there supplying the meal and showing off their skills but at least we acknowledge them um and then um I attended the Avid panel that was held at Orange View and those kids did a really good job they it's amazing sometimes what junior high school kids can accomplish at it's phenomenal um and then I also attended a couple of opening of schools task force and we'll be meeting again during the summer uh and I have to say this a lot of these teachers are devoting an hour every week to discuss all these issues and whatever and I think it's great I I really am am glad to hear the involvement and the teachers in giving their ideas and this was where the issue of P deck and uh near pod came up so uh

324and then I did attend that ocba school Services budget thing it you know a little tough but there's more I'll be attending getting a few more of them online but I I have to say this about online I think there is going to be a value to some of our meetings being online in during the regular year because for instance opening a school's task force the teachers can be wherever they are in all the different campuses throughout our district spend that hour before school starts on a Tuesday morning and you know whereas if they had to drive they couldn't do it but you know so there's going to be a place for online meetings still and we're going to have our next board meeting online because it's going to be a short one and that

325relieves the you know need for us to drive in for that because it would be like 15 minutes instead of five hours or so at any rate okay let's move on to Advanced plan planning our future meeting dates our next one will be held Thursday June 24th at 4 p.m. that is going to be our lcap meeting that's next week and after that our next one will be Thursday July 15 uh item 14.2 suggested agenda items do I have any suggestions or okay seeing none do I have a motion for adjournment all right do I have a second second all right